At school the next day, Emma's mind was not in the classroom. She sat at her desk talking to Alexa until the bell rang. "I think my mom is suspicious since I came home late last night."

"How late was it?" Alexa asked.

"Umm… 2 maybe 3." Emma thought back. She knew it was late. "What are we doing today?"

"Dunno… I'm not going anywhere I have to go Christmas shopping with mom." Alexa whined. "I think Trish brought some-"

"Alexa! Emma… stop talking and get your work done." Mr. Clayton yelled. Ms. Guilty was a lot more reasonable than he was. They sat in their chairs doodling on their pages.

"Ok everyone… test time!" Ms. Guilty called during block 4. "Binders away, pen or pencils out."

Everyone moaned. Emma pulled out a scrap piece of paper. They were given 30 minutes for the test. Emma quickly scribbled her answers and pulled out her piece of paper.

'What is Trish bringing?' Emma crumpled up the paper and threw the ball at Alexa. Alexa jotted something down

'dugs you idiot what else?' Emma laughed and quickly wrote her reply.

'Drugs… learn how to spell dumbass.' Alexa laughed at herself and was sent to the front of the room. Emma looked across the room to Cameron.

She threw the paper at him and it bounced off his head. Emma giggled. 'Wanna go to the park after school?'

Cameron threw it back. Emma caught it and opened it up. 'Sure… we'll go after school 3'

'Cool… luv yeah...pce.' Emma wrote back.

After school Emma found Cameron outside. She ran up to him and grabbed his hand. "Hey!" She kissed him on the lips and they walked across the street to the park.

They sat on a bench together for a long time. "So… Wednesday you're having a party?"

"Yes… you can thank my parents. Hey! Maybe you can come!" Emma said excitedly.

"That'd be cool… who's going?" Cameron asked Emma. Emma sat on his lap and took a sip of the beer they had.

"My aunt and Uncle, my parents friend's Phoebe and Mike, their children Sophia and Mike… umm… a few others to."

"Great… how old are Sophia and Mike?" Cameron asked.

"Uh… 13 and 11? I think…" Emma answered.

They spent a long time talking until the sun went down. Cameron walked Emma to her apartment and Emma walked through the doors mildly sober. "Hey…" Emma said.

"How was your day hunny?" Rachel asked.

"Meh…" Emma answered her. She walked into her room and didn't come out.

"Ross… come here for a second." Rachel called. Ross came out of his bedroom and sat next to Rachel on the couch. "I'm worried about her Ross."

"It'll be ok. She's a smart kid and gets good grades." Ross replied.

"I'm talking about Emma!" Rachel said.

"Oh… what about her?"

"I'm just scared that she's going to go down the path I went down. More so even. I know what happens. First she just comes home late, then she talks back, her grades slip, and her eyes grow redder and redder by the day." Rachel leaned into Ross's shoulder.

"She'll be ok… I know she will."

Yeah right….

The next day at school Emma wore her mini skirt and tube top. She met her gang early in the morning on the field. She spent the whole time on Cameron's lap. Ricky had brought some more drugs, which Emma was quite happy to see.

After school Emma and Cameron were making out on the field when Alexa ran up to them. "Stop it lovers you are disgusting me!" Alexa pulled Emma away and cupped her hands.

"Ricky just asked me out!" Emma dropped her jaw.

She grabbed Alexa's ear. "You gonna do anything?"

"I don't know…"

"Eww you freeze!" Emma laughed.

"You shouldn't be talking." Alexa said back. She ran away to find Ricky. Emma thought of what Alexa just said. The bad part was she was right.

Cameron invited Emma to his house at lunch (they skipped school) because no one was home. Pretty self-explanatory, and Emma had something to brag about the next morning to Alexa.

But they had a party to go to first.