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Disclaimer: I don't own Degrassi or any of the characters…even though I do wish I owned Mike Lobel…lol j/k…
(Jay's Point of View)
I woke up and remembered that I was suppose to take Layla to school so I got a quick shower and threw on whatever clothes I could find. Which was basically a pair of jeans and a black shirt. I walked down the hallway banging on Layla's door. "Hurry up or we're going to be late. And don't you forget to invite Andy over for dinner."
"I'm already ready Dad" She stepped out of the room in a little tiny black skirt and white wife beater. Okay so I know she's just like Alex only she's way skimpier… "This outfit is fine dad"
"Layla I can basically see your ass" She rolled her eyes at me and pulled her skirt down maybe an inch at the most.
"Happy now?" That attitude of hers… "Let's go now" before I could say anything else she walked down the stairs and out the door. I grabbed my keys off the kitchen table and I followed her outside. I climbed in to the same car that I've had for almost 17 years and drove to Degrassi Community School. It looked the exact same, from the same big letters in the front to the stairs leading to the doors.
"Bye Layla. And I expect Andy to be at the house at 5:30. Love ya kid" I said as she got out and I drove off. I just could not wait for tonight…
"Hey Sean" I said as I got into work and put on my uniform. Sean and I had bought a mechanic shop about 10 years ago and we had been doing pretty well with it. Since there weren't that many in Toronto we got a lot of business and made pretty good money. .
"Hey man. You're ten minutes late."
"Sorry I'm late. I had to take Layla to school because apparently her and her boyfriend Andy have been skipping… 'To spend time together'. So now I'm driving her to school to make sure she doesn't skip." I looked over at Sean who had the doofy smile of his on his face. "What's that smile for?"
"She's turning out to be more and more like her old man every day. Dude you have to see Cody's girlfriend though…I just want to wring her neck, she's got that high pitched voice and laugh that just make you want to kill yourself. She's little miss perfect, never does anything wrong, and now she's trying to get Cody to be like that. Get this she told him that he should stop hanging out with Jared and Layla because Jared drank to much and Layla dresses to slutty and they're a bad influence on him. And then she comes over to the house in a tube top that barely covered her and a pair of shorts that looked like they were shoved up her ass." Jared was Towerz and Amy's son; he's only a couple months younger than Cody and Layla. Cody was born two days after Alex's funeral, which makes him about a week younger than Layla. Even though Layla was the oldest out of the three of them the boys were always over protective of her.
"I've got Andy coming over for dinner today and trust me I plan on scaring the living shit out of this kid. How about tomorrow we have a dinner with everyone? It could be very entertaining to me and you…we could have us, El, Layla, Andy, Cody, his girlfriend, and Roxy." Roxy was born a year after Cody and Layla…Sean and Ellie couldn't keep themselves busy enough I guess. But even though she's younger her and Layla are like best friends.
"Roxy will definitely enjoy watching this dinner. Alright we better get to work and I want to hear about your dinner with Andy tomorrow." I laughed a little and went ahead to work on the cars that I had left over from yesterday. For me the day went pretty quickly since I couldn't wait until tonight.
(Layla's Point of View)
I felt like such a loser, having my dad drop me off at school. I mean honestly who gets dropped off by their parents? I went to my locker really quick to get my stuff then I went to Roxy's locker to go meet up with her. "Hey Rox"
"Hey. What happened…you look sad" Roxy could always tell if I was upset I don't know how though. Ever since we were younger I could usually hide what I was feeling from everyone except her.
"Dad is making me have Andy over for dinner tonight. And he found out about all those times that we skipped school…but thank god I'm good with lying or else he would know about everything else me and Andy have done." I was so scared about tonight. I swear to god if Andy tells Dad anything I'm going to be screwed.
"That sucks."
"Yea tell me about it. I gotta get to class though. I'll see you in lunch" I started to make my way to first period/media immersions. I never liked computers and I hated the class but unfortunately it was a requirement in order to pass for the year. As I was walking into the room I felt an around my waist and I looked over to see Andy. I loved him so much…we've been together now for about a year but dad only knows about the past couple weeks.
"Hey babe" I gave him a quick kiss on his lips and I looked over to see Mr. Simpson giving me an extremely dirty look. I don't know why but he never did seem to like me.
"Miss Hogart you now have a detention after school today."
"Are you kidding me? what for?" I hated when teachers gave detentions especially when they were for such stupid reasons. But if I didn't keep my cool I could get in a lot more trouble.
"For public displays of affection. Now go to your seat before I make it two weeks of detention." I groaned and took my seat next to Andy.
"Andy…my dad found out about us skipping…he says you have to come over for dinner tonight…" I sort of whispered the last thing I said because I really didn't want him to have to meet my dad.
"that's okay. I promise I won't make your dad hate me" He leaned over and gave me a kiss on my cheek, which made me smile a little.
"Now both of you have detention everyday after school for a week." I don't understand at all why Mr. Simpson always seems to find a reason to give me detention or send me to the office.
"Whatever" I said and turned my attention to my computer. As if having Andy over for dinner wasn't enough now I have a week of detentions. I sat through the rest of the class not saying a word, I wasn't about to try and get another detention…
"I can't believe him" Andy muttered as we walked out. I just shook my head I didn't want to take my anger out on Andy especially right now.
"Sorry baby I have to go to class but you have to be at my house by 5:30 tonight okay? And please don't be late." I waited until we were out of Simpson's sight and I kissed him.
"don't worry I won't be late…I promise" We both went our separate ways and were unfortunately going to have to have dinner later.
(Jay's Point of View)
I got off work a little earlier than I usually do and decided to go home and clean up a little bit. It was already 4:30 and Layla still wasn't home from school yet and I was wondering if she skipped yet again. About five minutes later I heard the door open and slam shut. Layla walked into the kitchen where I was wiping off the counters and she looked furious.
"what happened?"
"I don't even want to talk about it" Instead of grilling her about it now I decided to wait until later to bring it up. So I just nodded my head and went back to what I was doing. "Oh yea and Andy said he'll be here. I'm going to go get changed. Let me know when he gets here"
"Alright" I watched her walk up the stairs and into her room. Only 45 more minutes until the fun begins. I had basically made the room as clean as it was going to get so I went to watch TV to hopefully make the time go by faster.
(Flash Back)
"really?" It took a minute for the fact that Alex was pregnant to register in my mind but when I did it brought a smile to my face. I picked her up and started swinging her around. I set her down after a few minutes and she dragged me into Sean and Ellie's room.
"Jay. I love you" I had waited for her to say it for so long now and it sounded so great to hear it. "I think that I might be ready to trust you again. But if you so much as mess up once I'm done and this is your last chance."
"Lexxi I promise I won't cheat on you again. From now on I want what's best for you and this baby. And I want you to know that I really do love you and Amy and Emma meant nothing to me." I wrapped my arms around her waist and leaned in and gently kissed her. When we were really starting to get into it I thought I heard giggling coming from the doorway. WE each pulled away for a second and noticed Sean and Ellie standing in the doorway. Alex walked over and whispered something into Ellie's ear and they left…I wonder what she said.
"now where were we?" I asked when she walked back over to me. Slowly I leaned in and we started kissing again. We tried to move towards the bed but instead ended up tripping over the bottom and I fell on top of her. "did I hurt you? Are you okay? What about the baby?" I rolled off her as fast as I could. I hope that I didn't hurt the baby…
"relax babe you don't weigh that much. I'm fine don't worry about it." This time she kissed me and started to take my shirt off. It took all I had but I pulled away from the kiss
"is it okay for the baby?" she shrugged her shoulders and I just gave her this look. "we aren't having sex until we know if its going to hurt the baby or not." I can't believe that I just did that…
"Jay?" She looked me in the eye, her mouth sort of dropped open from my seriousness "your serious aren't you?"
"yea I really am Alex. I told you I'm putting you and this baby first and I mean it. That means no sex until we know for sure."
(End Flash back)
I remembered that day like it was yesterday. That was one of the only times that I ever turned down sex from Alex. The only other time was when we were both really drunk and hadn't had sex yet. I was snapped out of my reminiscing by a knock on the door. That must be Andy…when I opened the door I saw a guy that looked a lot like a did in high school, he had the back wards hat on, the baggy jeans, and the signature big hoody.
"You must be Andy." I extended my hand to him and he shook it. So far he seems nice enough…
"Nice to meet you Mr. Hogart." Okay this kid seems way to polite. But I know in his head he's freaking out and doesn't know what to do.
"you can call me Jay" I walked over towards the stairs and yelled for Layla to come down. Then I led Andy into the kitchen and sat down at the table. "so Andy what's your last name?" I didn't crack a smile once…and it looked like it was kind of scared.
"It's Deloise…so umm Jay…what do you do for a living?" He was already starting to crack…this kid was going to be easy to scare.
"I'm a mechanic." I stared him dead in the eye the whole time we were talking. I noticed that he looked like he was starting to back down. Layla came down the stairs in a pair of jeans and a black wife beater and I was happy that she didn't wear her little skimpy skirts and tight shirts.
"Hey dad" She gave me a look telling me not to grill Andy which made me laugh on the inside. It was amazing how she could tell me something with just one look. "so when are we eating?"
"I just have to call the pizza place and then we'll be ready. I'll go do that now…you two can talk" I walked out of the room and stood by the door listening to what they were saying.
"Andy…you know I love you right?" I guess he nodded his head because she continued talking. "I sort of have something that we need to talk about…"
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…Taryn…