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Queen Latifah-Missy Elliott14: There's alot of Patrick in this chapter so I hope you like it! Thanks for reviewing!

fluffymello: Yes I liked 505 even though I have heard alot of complaints. But as a Cranny shipper I loved the end! I am not going to give away the pairings in this story but like I said I think Cranny rocks! Thanks for the review!

Chapter 2

It had been a week since Manny's life was turned inside out. One week since she time warped back to high school with just one glance at the attractive, brown haired love of her life. But she was doing her best to ignore this fact.

Her life was normal on the outside. She went to work, had dinner with Patrick, shopped with friends. But inside she was filled with questions. What did Craig want in Toronto? Did he want her? She had no idea. For all she knew, he had not thought about her in years. In fact, he could have been planning to avoid her althogether if Emma had not showed up at his doorstep last Saturday. She just didn't know. And she was too scared to call Emma and ask. If she did call Em then she was afraidthat she might have to admit to her best friend that deep down inside she did miss Craig Manning.

But just as a friend….she thought. They had been through a lot together and there was no reason why she couldn't miss Craig as a friend. That was healthy and only natural.

"Manny!" Patrick's shout from the open front door startled her out of her thoughts.

"In the kitchen! I'm making dinner!" It was unusual for Patrick to raise his voice. He had an extra key to her place and after work he usually quietly entered and snuck up behind her with a big hug, and soft kiss.

Something must be wrong, Manny thought, as her stomach dropped. Suddenly her boyfriend appeared in the kitchen doorframe with a deep frown across his face.

"Hi hun. How was work?" Manny braced herself for the worse. Patrick was rarely angry but when he was he could be so cold. He usually shut her out for hours, even days and she always worried he would leave her. I use to be strong, she though suddenly, until Craig and Terence left me. Now I just want somebody to stay. The thought scared her. What had she become? But I love him so much. Her thoughts were interrupted by Patrick.

"I can't believe you. I don't know what is going on…." Patrick was struggling to find the right words. He wasn't by nature a good communicator. Manny was the one who did most of the talking in the relationship, and Patrick usually nodded along silently. Sometimes she wondered if he really listened to her. But then, just when she thought he wasn't, he would say something insightful and she would realize that he was just quiet but completely attentive when it came to her.

"What is it? Did something happen at work?" Manny put down the spoon she was using to stir the sauce she was cooking on the stove, and walked over to her boyfriend.

"Pat, tell me what it is…" Manny tried to reach for his hand. If she could just hold it then she knew it truly wasn't that bad, but he quickly snatched it away and walked towards the bedroom with Manny following close behind.

Patrick began to grab a shirt and tie from the closet he shared with Manny. He spent most of his nights over her apartment though he had refused to officially move in. Manny had been hinting at the idea for months, but ultimately it was Patrick's decision if he wanted to leave his own apartment for hers. He told her it wasn't time yet, that he didn't want to rush things and spoil what they had but that someday soon it would happen. Manny wondered when.

"I need this shirt for tomorrow. I'm going to my place to think. I just don't want to be around you right now." Patrick's words were jumpy, and the coldness of them stung Manny.

"Pat-this isn't fair. You have to tell me what's going on!" Manny was desperate. She often felt like that when Pat and her fought. He was so good at just cutting himself off from his emotions and walking away from her while she was left to deal with the pain alone.

"CRAIG MANNING." He said the words with hatred and Manny knew instantly that he knew-he knew she had not been telling him everything, that she had left out huge gaps of her life from him and somehow someone had filled in those gaps.

"I told you- I've known him for a long time. He's Joey's son. You know Emma's mom's friend Joey. And we all use to be friends in high school. It was so long ago…." Manny didn't know where to start. How much should she reveal? For some reason she wanted to keep a piece of Craig and her secret from everyone-she wanted some of their memories to just be hers. Plus she knew that Patrick didn't like to hear about her past. He liked to believe that he was the only man she had ever truly loved, because she was the first woman he loved. To be fair, Manny hated to hear about his ex girlfriends and they were only one or two month relationships, how would she feel to learn about his first love?

"I know all about him. I know ever detail that you keep from me." Patrick turned to her with an icy glare, "I forgot to tell you that we got a new accountant last week. She's a real nice girl and I've been training her all week. I took her out to lunch to celebrate her training sessions being over today."

"That's nice…"Manny braced herself for the worse. She was puzzeled but she knew this story could not end well.

"Yes, it was nice. It was also interesting. I told her all about my lovely girlfriend and when I told her your name she just flipped! Apparently you two were old high school pals! You were spirit squad buddies. Well, actually she was the captain and didn't she kick you off the squad?"

Paige! How in the world had she managed to find her way back into Manny's life? Manny knew she stayed close to home and went to school in Toronto to study business. It figured that she would find her way into Patrick's accounting firm, it was one of the top firms in the country and Paige always wanted to be the best. But what did this have to do with Craig? Was Paige really so evil that she would spend one lunch filling in Patrick on every detail of Manny's mistakes? Luckily, Manny had already told Pat about the video tape disaster from Junior year. He had been upset but mostly at Peter and they had put that issue behind them. She was glad she had been honest.

"Paige. She and I weren't exactly tight. We kind of bumped heads a lot….she could be a real witch…"

"I thought she was really sweet." Patrick's words dripped with anger. He never said words like "sweet" unless they were for effect. In other words, Piage is sweet and I'm the devil, Manny thought.

"And I happened to mention that you had stayed in contact with Emma. And that just last weekend I had met another old friend of yours but that you really didn't seem too close to him. Paige of course wanted to know who it was and after calling him a few wrong names…Carl…Keith…Paige was shocked to hear that it was Craig. And even more shocked to hear that I thought you guys had little history. She filled me in on…EVERYHTING." Patrick shook his head in disguist, "it's not what happened in the past-it's that you didn't tell me. It's that you hid it from me even after we saw him! I was with that guy for over an hour and afterwards you didn't say a word. You lied to me when you said he was JUST an old FRIEND." Patrick moved towards the front door.

"Pat, I'm so sorry. It was all so long ago and I've moved on from it. I just thought there was no point in talking about it. It's not like we ever have to see him again." And at that moment Manny realized she would do anything to keep Patrick with her, to keep her heart whole, and not be left alone for a sleepless night of crying. She would even agree to never see Craig. She just needed Patrick to stay.

"I don't want to be near you. I don't want to listen to what you have to say. I want to be alone and far away from you." Patrick said the words clearer then any he had ever spoken "You make me sick right now." And with that he slammed the door behind him.

"Emma, I really think you would like my friend John. He plays the piano at this club downtown. I'm not usually into that stuff but he's great. Besides, what have you go to lose?" Craig had shown up spontaneously on Emma's doorstep that evening. They had been talking all week. Well, mostly Emma had done the talking. She realized that Craig was lonely now that he had returned after so long and he would call her or drop by just to have some company. But he rarely opened up about himself. So she had filled the gaps of silence by talking about her college days, old boyfriends, and her lack of a love life at present.

"Not tonight Craig. I'm beat from this new job. How about tomorrow? I promise I'll get all dressed up and we'll hit the town? But first…"

"Uh-oh. What evil bargain do I have to strike with you?" Craig jokingly asked as he and Emma sat on her couch.

"You have to tell me why you came back. I mean all the details of your past life!"

Craig rolled his eyes.

"That's so boring Em. I mean, I'm a washed up rock and roller at the old age of twenty five. Do you really need the gory details?"

Emma nodded, "No details. No piano bar!"

"Fine but only cause I'm desperate for a night out and you and John are my only Toronto friends so I'd be stoked to have us all hang out. Basically, after Downtown Sashquatch bombed in front of that agent, he asked me to join another new band in Montreal. I did as you know and I left Toronto behind. I got my G.E.D while on the road, and we toured everywhere. I mean, Canada, the U.S., and even Europe. But we never rose above mediocre fame. Let's face it, we weren't the next Rolling Stones. We settled in Cali for a while and had a steady local fan base that paid the bills. Then Roger, my bassist, got hooked on coke and he went to rehab. Lewis, our drummer, got hitched and took off for St. Louis. And the band just died. I didn't feel like searching around for another group of guys just to play the same tired clubs. So Joey told me to come home. And I did. It felt right. I missed it here. This is the only place I've felt at home in my life. Archie thinks he can get me into Degrassi as a music teacher as long as I start picking up some college credits next semester. So that's it…"

"Wow. Seven years condensed into two minutes." Emma smiled.

"I'm nothing if not concise."

Suddenly Emma's apartment phone began ringing.

"Let it ring. I'm too tired to talk…" Emma began looking through her DVD'S "What movie do you want to watch? I figure I'm not going to get rid of you anytime soon so we might as well watch a film." Emma teased.

"Eternal Sunshine." Craig suggested.

Emma raised an eyebrow, "You know that's Manny's favorite movie."

Craig coughed , "I didn't know that." He stammered and Emma was sure he did.

It's Emma, leave a message Emma's machine's clicked on.

"Em, it's Manny please call me back. I'm pretty sure Pat and I are over. He knows about Craig. He said I make him sick and he can't be around me. Call me back."

Craig got up from the couch.

"I think I have to go…"

"I better call her back."

"Ok, yeah. You call Manny. I'll see you tomorrow…." Craig quickly opened the door.

"Invite her."

"Excuse me?"

Craig closed the door, "Invite Manny tomorrow, ok? Just say you will."

Emma nodded, "I will but I don't think she'll come. I mean her and Pat fight and…"

"Just invite her-that's all I ask Em." Craig's face was blank but Emma knew that it was hard for him to be begging her like this. Craig had issues when it came to women and it was hard for him to admit his feeling about anyone. This was a step of some kind but Emma just didn't know what it meant.

Either way she knew it was no use to argue.

"I will," she promised.

Chapter 3: What will a Saturday night out bring? And what big plans will Patrick suggest?