Sorry if my format changes. I realized that where I said Sean was walking in with Ellie it just sort of jumped down.

Lunch time on the first day school...

It was lunch time. Emma, Jay, Manny and Craig all waked in together. They found an empty table after grabbing their food and sat down. When they say J.T. and Liberty walk in Emma called them over to sit with them. At first J.T. had a dumb founded look on his face, because he didn't know Craig and Manny were back together or that Emma and Jay were close friends. He had spent the summer with Liberty and her family in Montreal. They had only got back a few days, with no time to talk to friends because they had to get school supplies and unpack.

"Hey, Liberty. Hey, J.T. How was Montreal?" Manny looked at them trying to figure out if they had a 'hot and heavy' summer.

"It was great!" J.T. and Liberty answered at the same time. They were the only two to laugh at that. They got close and J.T. was whispering into Liberty's ear. He wanted to go find a place to make out before lunch was over.

"Not now, J.T. After school." Liberty was kind of annoyed at him. She hated P.D.A.'s.

J.T. kind of pouted and said "OK, Lib." He glanced over at Emma and Jay, "So, Emma, Jay...What's going on with the two of you?"

Emma and Jay looked at each other. Both didn't know how to answer. Emma quickly said "We're friends, I guess. We've been hanging out a lot. He needed tutoring help, and had asked me. We just get along so well. So, yeah we're friends." Every time she said 'friends' she seemed kind of nervous and Jay would get a knot in his stomach. He didn't want to be friends.

Jay saw Sean and Ellie. He called them over trying to distract himself from his thoughts. "YO! Cameron! Nash!" He was glad when they both walked over to their table that was starting to fill up.

"Hey, guys. Have a good summer?" Ellie asked. She didn't think all of them liked her. They never really hung around. She could tell Jay was a different person since Alex and him broke up.

Everyone answered her question with a yeah, or a 'it was the best summer ever'. She sat down between Sean and Emma. She turned to Emma "Hey, Emma. Do you think we could talk after school?"

Emma was kind of shocked that she wanted to talk to her, but she replied with "Yeah, of course. Just meet me at Jay's car and we can talk."

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A few tables over from where Emma, Jay, Manny, Craig, J.T., Liberty, Sean and Ellie were sitting, Paige, Spinner, Hazel, Marco, and Terri were eating their lunch. Paige was kind of eavesdropping. She couldn't help it. She liked to know everything.

"Ugh, I can't believe Craig is actually going out with Manny." She looked at Spinner who shifted uncomfortable in his seat. "Oh, sorry Honey-bee. No offense to you. You learned your lesson and Craig should have to. Manny is just a slut. I swear she says she's pregnant just for the attention. She probably tried to get pregnant, she must think having a baby will give her loads of attention and pity." She shakes her head and turned to Hazel. "So, have you heard from Jimmy lately?"

Hazel rolled her eyes at the question. "If I did, don't you think I would have told you?" She hated when Paige would ask that. She knew the answer. She got up and walked over to the table Manny was sitting at and passed a small note to Manny and whispered for her to read it after lunch. Then Hazel walked out of the cafeteria.

Marco looked over at Terri who was staring at Toby who was now seated next Liberty. "Hey, Ter, see anything good?" He laughed.

Terri snapped out of it. "Actually Marco I do. Toby Isaacs. He's grown up a lot." She was debating walking over to him. All of sudden she found herself standing behind him and tapping him on the shoulder. "Hey Toby, can I talk to you for a minute?" He nodded.

"What's up Terri?"

"I was wondering if you would want to go to the movies with me on Saturday? Kind of like a date?"

Toby didn't know what to say. Terri looked really hot this year and he had always like her personality. "Sure. Sounds great. Do you want to meet there or do you want me to pick you up?"

"If you could pick me up that would be good. Do you have a car?"

"Yeah, I do. So how does 6 sound? We can go to The Dot before the movie?"

"6 is good, and The Dot is a good idea. See you then." Terri walked away with a smile on her face.

The bell rang and everyone got up to go to class, except Jay and Emma. Jay had lightly pulled her back down. He couldn't wait to tell her how he felt about her. It was killing him.

"What's up, Jay?"

"Well, I know we're friends, but do you ever think we could be more than that?"

Emma smiled. She was trying to relax so she wouldn't scream YES! at the top of her lungs. "Actually, Jay I wonder that all the time."

Jay was pleased with her answer. He then got up the courage to ask her to be his girlfriend. "Em, do you want to be my girlfriend?" He couldn't believe how corny he sounded.

Emma turned red and had a huge smile on her face. "Yes, Jay. I would love that." She leaned into kiss him. Finally, they got a kiss without being interrupted.

The kiss was so good. They had kissed before, but that was before they had got close. It was just a hook up before. Now, it was real. They got up and both hurried to their classes.

'This is going to be good. I can't believe we're finally a couple. I'm glad a finally asked her. Man, that kiss was amazing. She does something to me...I just can't figure out what.' Jay thought to himself.

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Emma was leaning against Jay's car waiting for Ellie. She had no clue what she wanted to talk about. Jay was waiting impatiently in the drivers seat.

Ellie spotted Emma and walked over to her. "Hey, Emma. I was wondering, um...Have you talked to Sean lately? He's been kind of spacey ever since we came into school this morning. It was weird when he kissed my cheek. We haven't been together for weeks."

Emma looked at her, and began to worry. "Maybe it's just being back in this school? The whole Rick thing was hard for him. He probably just didn't realize that coming back meant facing everything that happened. With the whole kiss thing, maybe he still loves you?"

Ellie smiled at the last part. "I think you're right. Thanks so much. Um, do you want to hang out sometime?"

Emma was surprised she had asked if she wanted to hang out. They never hung out. "Yeah, that would be cool. We'll talk tomorrow? Jay's waiting and I know he wants to get out of here. I'll find you before classes start tomorrow. Our lockers are close to each other. Bye, El." She gave Ellie a small hug, just to assure her that Sean was fine.

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Emma got back in Jay's car. They drove to his house to go over some notes. They had a few classes together now. Emma's house was pretty loud lately because of her brother Jack and because of Snake always yelling for people to be quiet.

Emma sat down on Jay's floor. He walked over to his mini-fridge and grabbed some soda. Emma noticed that ever since she's been going over there, his room has been getting cleaner and cleaner.

"OK, Let's get started. Which class do you want to go over first, Jay?"

He wasn't paying attention to her, her was too busy staring at her. "Oh, um...what?"

She pushed him playfully. "Which class do you want to go over first?"

"Oh, you wanna fight do you?" He punched her lightly in the arm.

She retaliated by grabbing a pillow off his bed and hitting him in the face causing him to fall backwards. "Ha! Ha! I win."

"Oh no you don't!" Jay got up and started tickling her. He stopped when he started to stare in her eyes. He leaned in for a kiss...