Chapter Six

Never Fear

Same day, October 5, Spinner's P.O.V.

Spinner sat the Toronto train depot. He's been sitting there for a little over an hour. He was contemplating on who to see first, what he would say to his friends. He got up and walked across the street to a car rental place. He got a car for the weekend and took off. He drove towards DCS. It's been awhile since he's seen that place. He parked at The Dot and walked towards the school.

'Man. It's been awhile.' Spin thought to himself. It's been about 4 years since he was last here. After high school him and Paige moved to Massachusetts. They never ended up getting married. It was just an empty promise. Spinner wanted more from life. He wanted Manny. Paige just wasn't Manny. Paige was happy to see him though. It meant that she could be with Matt.

While he was walking towards the school, he walked past a auto shop.

"CHM Auto? When did this place get here?" He decided to go check it out. Something was telling him to. He stopped quickly though, when he saw her. Manny. It was Manny. He stood there speechless. She didn't even notice him. She looked like she was in a hurry.

"Man, I need a drink."

Spinner walked back to the rental car and drove to some bar. He walked into the bar, to see none other than Craig Manning. He avoided sitting near him at the bar. He just walked to the end of the bar and tried to make sure Craig didn't see him. But Spinner wanted to know about Craig. He wanted to know if he was with Manny. If they were happy...If they were married. Then he saw the wedding ring on Craig's finger. He was snapped from his thoughts by Craig's faint slurring words.

"Yuh. Muh wie is ust 'o..." (Sorry but he's really drunk.)

Spinner stopped listening when he saw someone slam open the door. It was Jay.

"CRAIG!"

Craig slowly turned around. Almost falling out his chair, "JAY! How are ya!"

"How am I? How am I? Well, I was having a great day until Manny came to the shop telling Sean and me that you started drinking again...Oh and to make things even fucking better, she showed us her lovely bruises."

Spinner was hanging on to every word Jay was saying. The anger was building up in him.

"HOW COULD YOU! SHE'S YOUR WIFE CRAIG!"

"WHY THE HELL DO YOU CARE!" Craig got up and walked towards Jay.

"BECAUSE SHE'S LIKE A SISTER TO ME!" Jay grabbed Craig and pushed him into the door. Craig quickly lost balance and fell through the door.

Spinner got up and followed Jay and everyone else out of the bar. They found Craig, talking to Manny and Sean.

'Whoa. This is one hell of a reunion.' Spin thought to himself.

"Hey Manny. Hey Sean. What's going on?" Craig walked up to Manny trying to kiss her. Sean stepped in the way.

"Stay away from her Craig."

"Come on, Manny. You know I'm sorry. I love you. I love our kids. I can't help help myself. You just get me all fired up!" Craig pushed Sean out of the way and grabbed Manny by her hair. Jay and everyone stepped foward. Craig pushed Manny to the ground and was about to kick her. Spinner had enough and ran up behind Craig and grabbed her.

"What the fuck, man!"

"You're not going to hurt her anymore." Spinner never heard himself sound so forceful. Spinner turned Craig around to face the crowd. He could see Jay's mouth hanging open. Sean helped Manny up and they joined Jay.

Manny stared at him. She was so beautiful. Even more than she was in high school. She finally spoke, "Spin?"

"Yeah. How you doing?" He let Craig fall to the ground when he heard the sirens.

"I'm good. Thank you. For helping."

"No problem."

"Yo, Spin. What the hell is up?" Jay hugged Spinner.

"Yeah. Where the hell have you been?" Sean said, shaking Spinner's hand.

"I've been in the states."

Manny hugged Spinner. She finally got over the shock of her ex-boyfriend saving her from her husband.She whispered in his ear, "I've missed you."

"I missed you."

A cop walked up to the crowd, another one was handcuffing Craig, "Mrs. Manning?"

"Yeah. That's me."

"Could you or one of your friend's explain to me what happened here?"

Manny told her side of the story. Then Jay and Sean told theirs. Then Spinner told his. Craig was taken into custody for domestic abuse. Jay didn't get in trouble because the owner of the bar said Jay didn't do anything wrong.

After the cops left Jay turned to Manny who was being comforted by Spinner, "Well, I think we should get back to my house and fill in Emma and Ellie. I'm sure they'll be glad to see you, Spin." Spinner smiled at Jay, "Oh and a lot has happened since high school."

"Oh, really like what?" Spinner laughed. He didn't think a lot could have happened.

Manny smiled, "I'll fill you in on the drive back. Well, I got pregnant, I believe you knew that. Craig almost killed Elizabeth. She's fine now. Perfectly healthy. Craig and I got married. Then Emma and Jay got married. Then Ellie and Sean got married. Emma got pregnant. Then Ellie got pregnant. Jay got shot trying to protect Alex who was pregnant by J.T. After giving birth Alex died and gave custody to Emma and Jay. Emma had the baby, Lilly. Lilly had a tumor on her heart but they removed it. They thought she was fine, but they found another one on her lung. She died while they were removing it." Manny noticed Jay shifting in his seat, "Sorry Jay. I'm just filling him in. Emma left a few months after the funeral. Ellie had a boy, Andrew. I got pregnant again with Christoper. Ellie found out she was pregnant. Emma came home after a year and a half. She's pregnant again. Craig started drinking again, and that leads us to here."

Sean turned around and looked at Manny, "Geez, listen to Miss Gossip Queen over here."

"Shut up, Sean."

They arrived at the Hogart house and explained everything to Emma and Ellie. Manny told Spinner he could sleep in her guest room. So, that was it.

(a/n I know, not that good of a chapter. Sorry. I'm working on it. You try writing with a 3 year old running around you screaming random things.)