A/N: Sorry that was so long until I updated! I started the chapter then it got deleted and I didn't get around to starting it again!
"Hey Ryan" Nicole said as she walked up to her boyfriend on the first day of school.
"Hey Nicole" He said smiling as he hugged her.
"Who's your homeroom teacher?"
"Um, Mr. Mitchell" Ryan said looking off in the distance. A girl was walking up to them. She had long black hair and was wearing a miniskirt and tank top.
"Hey Ryan" the girl said smiling.
"K-Kayla! I didn't know you were coming to Degrassi" Ryan said nervously.
"Yeah, I guess my parents decide this was better than Bardell" She said shrugging.
"Oh"
"Anyway, I have to go to the office and get my schedule" she said walking away.
"Who was that?" Nicole asked crossing her arms.
"A friend I made over the summer at work"
"I never met her. You never said anything about her" Nicole said suspiciously.
"We hung out mostly at work"
"Work?"
"Yeah, stop it Nicole, I love you"
"Oh I love you too" Nicole said smiling as she kissed him on the lips.
"Hey can I ask you something?" Nicole whispered to Stacey during class.
"What?" Stacey asked turning around in her seat.
"This girl named Kayla came up to Ryan before school. She worked at the mall with him, but he never told me about her. He got kind of nervous when she came up to us. Should I be worried?"
"No way. Ryan's so trustworthy" Stacey said with a reassuring smile and then turned to face the teacher.
"So what colleges are you thinking of applying to?" Lindsay asked Cassie and Brianne.
"It's way too early to be thinking about college" Brianne said laughing.
"No. We're in our senior year. We have to apply to college in at least three months" Lindsay protested.
"I don't know if I want to go to a big university. A couple years at community college will do it for me" Cassie said shrugging.
"What are you going to do for work then?" Brianne asked.
"I want to be a hairdresser. I'll probably go to beauty school"
"Beauty school?" Lindsay repeated in a judgmental voice.
"Yeah"
"You can do better than that"
It's later that day. Ryan is alone behind the school. He looks like he's waiting for someone. Kayla walks up to him.
"You wanted to talk to me, Ryan?"
"You know that girl I was with this morning? She's my girlfriend" He explained trying to distance himself from her.
"So we have to keep us a secret?" Kayla asked in a disappointed tone.
"There's no 'us'" Ryan said defensively.
"We had so much fun this summer"
"I know, but we need to stop. Nicole already suspects something is going on because I never told her about you"
"Can't you keep a secret?" She asked taking a step closer to him.
"What if someone finds out?" He asked.
"Trust me, no-one will find out. When you're ready you can break it off with her"
"Kayla, it's almost our five month anniversary. I can't dump her"
"You don't have to. Not yet anyway. Come on It'll be fun" Kayla said seductively wrapping her arms around his waist.
"Meet me at the movie theater tonight" Ryan said before walking off. Kayla just smiled to herself and went off in the other direction.
"Hey, Nolan, do you want to play basketball with me and some other guys?" Tucker asked.
"Don't ever mention basketball around me again" Nolan said in an annoyed tone.
"What do you have against basketball?" Tucker asked confused.
"My dad won't stop obsessing over me being a big basketball star like he was"
"Can't you tell him you don't want to?"
"It's not that easy"
"You should at least try" Tucker said shrugging and walking off.
Stacey, Lindsay, Brandon, and Tucker walked into their house after the first day of school.
"Mom?" Stacey called.
"We're home" Tucker added.
"That's strange she said she would be home" Lindsay commented.
The kids walked up the stairs to their rooms. They heard some odd noises coming from their parent's room.
"What is that?" Tucker asked making a face. The four siblings walked into their parent's bathroom. They gasped at the sight of what they saw.
Their mom was barfing into the toilet. She looked at them. Her face was tomato red and she had a look of pain. She tried to say something but fainted on the bathroom floor instead.
A/N: Sorry that was so short…….and bad! Hopefully the next chapter will be better. Sorry for the excruciatingly long time until I updated! Aside from Complete and total writer's block, my computer got all messed up. I guess this chapter was kind of supposed to foreshadow what will happen.