Chapter 3: Party of three
"And he just threw you out?" Alex asked as Manny took another tissue & blew into it.
"Yeah. He had hit her too." Jimmy said quietly. Alex's eyes widened & she stood up.
"No…I'm going to kick his ass." Alex said as her fist tightened, but Jimmy put his hand on her now perfectly balled up fist.
"Not now. Manny doesn't need that right now." Jimmy said as Manny looked at her with bloodshot, pain stricken eyes.
"Fine then. Your problem, not mine." Alex sat back down on the couch, but still had her hand in a ball, which Jimmy was still holding onto. She quickly broke from the grip & shook her hand.
"I didn't mean for all this to happen…this is my entire fault. How can I go to school tomorrow?" Manny took the bow of tissues & threw it across the room.
"Look, just start hanging with us. Everyone else is just going to judge you anyhow, right? That's what they do to me…" Jimmy pointed to his legs. "…Thanks to Spinner. That's what they do to Alex…" He points to Alex, & she points to herself. "…Thanks to Jay. Moreover, everyone has been judging you, thanks to Craig. So let's just start over with just the three of us." Jimmy finished as Alex started clapping.
"You should be a motivational speaker." Alex chuckled, and then Jimmy hit her in the face playfully with a pillow.
"Ouch! You're gonna let Brooks punk you like that?" Manny said in a ghetto voice & she rolled her head & snapped her fingers.
"Girl no, It's about to get crunk in here!" Alex started in her ghetto voice, and then hit Jimmy in the face with another pillow.
"Now look here, lil' mama…" Jimmy had a thug voice as he took his Yankee hat off the couch & put it on sideways. "…Don't be frontin with a playa, because you know you love ya boy."
"PLEASE!" Manny & Alex both yelled as they both hit Jimmy in the head with pillows. They both fell on the couch laughing, & he laughed too.
"I can't play with ya'll anymore. You women will kill me." Jimmy said as he rolled to the restroom, leaving Manny & Alex still laughing.
"Look, its degrassi's new porn star!" Some girl whispered as Manny, Jimmy, & Alex passed by a group of girls. Manny hung her head low as Alex leaned into her ear.
"Keep you're head high. Don't let them know that you're hurt." Alex whispered as Paige & Hazel came up to the three.
"Manny, I knew that you were loose, but I'd never think you would stoop so low!" Hazel said in a hurt & angry voice as Manny kept a steady glare at her.
"And you." Hazel looked dead at Jimmy as he crossed her arms. "I guess you've found a new taste for sluts, huh Jim?" Paige laughed lightly as Manny stepped up to her.
"Look, you leave him alone! He didn't want to be with you, & he's not going with me. So you better step down before I make you. You don't know who you're dealing with." Manny was inches away from Hazel's face. For some reason, she hated people bashing Jimmy, but when it came to her, she didn't care. She felt it was her true gesture of friendship to defend him.
"OOH. I'm so scared. What are you gonna do? Flash me to death?" Hazel said as she & Paige walked away laughing.
"Stupid stuck-up princess bitch!" Alex said as they started walking again. "Wow Santos, you really stepped up in the guts category. I mean it, for the both of you."
"Aww…whatever Alex." Manny & Jimmy said simultaneously sa they walked into homeroom.