Note: This is the second part of the three part trilogy Living Inside Myself. If you haven't read the first story some stuff might not make sense but it's not necessary to read the first half. This story will also contain spoilers up till the season 4 finale Going Down The Road. If you haven't seen the whole season you might want to read something else and come back in a couple of months. Other then that Enjoy.

Chapter 1: Cruel Summer

Remember wash and wax all the cars not just the ones in the front. "Joey yelled to Craig.

"Don't worry I will." Craig answered. Craig had been washing cars at Joey's lot for two weeks now as part of his punishment and part time job after the stunt he pulled a two months ago. He never would have thought he would be punished for it but he never thought he would go off his med's, but he had. Ashley had left him, his guitar was stolen, and he had less then a month to write a song for Kevin even though he hadn't even started. Jimmy let him borrow his guitar but it just wasn't the same, when that scammer Skinny stole his guitar it was almost like he stole his creativity as well. He just couldn't think of anything to write about, he had serious blockage not to mention he was tired beyond belief spending eight hours six days a week at the dealership took a lot out of him. Craig even thought about going off his med's again that way he could stay up all night and maybe his creative juices would start running again, he wrote seventeen songs when he stop using them even though most of the songs didn't make any sense it was better then nothing at all. But Joey made sure every night that he took his med's, he even did a full dental check and after that Joey closed himself in his room and balled his eyes out before going to bed.

So there they were two guys without a girl, and the nice weather with all the couples coming in the lot to check out the cars only depressed them even more. Joey was really cranky one minute but who could blame him Craig wasn't exactly the greatest to hang around with either. Angela was spending a few weeks at her grandma's so they were all alone in that big house eating leftover pizza and frozen dinners while watching reruns on TV. This summer wasn't exactly what he had planned right now he could've been in London seeing the sights, taking pictures of them with his camera, jamming on his guitar with other musicians at school and just having a wonderful summer with his girlfriend but things didn't turn out that way. Now he was washing cars when he wasn't selling a car and watching late night TV with his step-dad. The only good thing about this summer was that he spent his off days with Jimmy when he could since Marco was in Caribbean with Caitlin nonetheless and he finally got his drivers license but other then that his summer was a bust.

"Hey man." Jimmy came into the lot. "You look busy are you working overtime tonight?"

"Yeah, probably." Craig said while washing a used Chrysler.

"Hey Jimmy!" Joey exclaimed. "Can I help you with anything?"

"Not today Mr. Jeremiah, I'm just here to see Craig." Jimmy replied.

"Well he doesn't have a break until..." Joey glanced at his watched. "Two hours so if you want to look around till then be my guest but if not you should come back later."

"Can I have just a few minutes with Craig?" Jimmy asked. "I promise it won't take too long."

"Umm..OK." Joey answered. " But only fifteen minutes he's still on the clock."

"Thanks." Jimmy replied before Joey walked off.

"What's up?" Craig asked.

"This." Jimmy handed Craig a letter.

"This summer is soo boring, it blows." Emma whined. "I swear if it gets any worse I'm seriously going to think about going camping with my mom and Snake at his parents cottage. Gotta love the fresh outdoors especially when were the only people there for miles and miles.

"Well your always welcome to stay with me and my mom." Manny answered while painting her nails. "We can have tons of fun going to church every Sunday, Wednesday and my personal favorite Saturday Midnight Mass.

"I thought you were going on a vacation to British Columbia?" Emma asked.

"We couldn't, since the filming took longer then expected we didn't have enough time to plan for reservations for a hotel room, now it's booked solid for the whole summer."

"So no annual summer trip to B.C. this year, well at least I won't be alone, since Darcy and Chante are away I thought I was going to have no one to speak too but..."

"Emaaaaaline!" Chester screamed from next door.

"Oh great." Emma rolled her eyes.

"Wish you were going with us?" Chester asked while put a surfing board into his parents station wagon.

"No!" Emma exclaimed.

"Where are you going?" Manny asked.

"We're going to California." Chester brothers Chuck and Chad said simultaneously.

"Is there any room for me?" Manny asked.

"Sorry no girls invited." Chad replied.

"Let's go guys." Chester's dad yelled. All three of the guys got into the car and rode off. Chester stuck his head out of the open window. He and his brothers stuck out their tongue's while making rock roll gestures with their hands.

"First Darcy mom wins an all expenses paid family trip to Mexico, Chante goes to visit relatives in Jamaica and now the three hotties aka major eye candy next door are heading off to sunny California." Manny sulked. " While we're stuck here in crummy Degrassi at least your parents are leaving for a couple of weeks so you'll have the house to yourself, I on the other hand have to spend my days and possibly nights singing hymns at St. Mary's, your right Emma this summer blows, big time."

"I'm sorry but there's no way I could offer you your job back." Mary replied.

"Please, please Mary my leg's getting a whole lot better any day now their going to remove the cast." Paige stuck her cast out and wiggled it around as best as she could. "See any day now it'll be as good as new."

"Paige, no." Mary said while checking the straw dispensers to see if they needed to be replaced. " I already have a replacement for you for the summer and there's no way you could walk on that leg quickly especially during crowded days."

"What if I just take orders at the cash register at the ticket booth or rip tickets at the entrance that doesn't require running or even walking."

"Those positions have been filled already, most of the positions have been filled this is the theater busiest months. You should take this time to enjoy your summer the bonus you received in the mail for your hard work although it's not a lot it should tie you over for a while, I'm sure you have savings account."

"Yeah." Paige mumbled. "I need to work, I feel like I'm going insane. My best friend Hazel left for a month to visit family, my boyfriend is gone, my friend Marco went to Africa or the Caribbean or something and even my friend Ashley went to London, I'm all alone."

"I really wish I could help." Mary said sympathetically. "But our company policy wouldn't allow you to work on a injured leg, if you were hurt even more then you already are, we could be liable for that."

"What, you'll think I'll sue?"

"It's not that, I just couldn't give you your job back until your officially well. Paige, you can have your job back once the cast is removed and you give me a doctors approval note but until then I'm sorry I can't offer you your job back."

"Thanks anyway." Paige replied before walking out of the Mult-plex."My summer is officially ruined."

"I'm free!" Alex exclaimed while running out of the Multi-plex to meet up with Ellie. "I'm so glad I did overtime this spring so I have more then enough vacation time not two mention enough cash to splurge. Two whole weeks of doing absolutely nothing, no job, no school and even better no mom for one whole month."

"Uggh, no mom if only some of us could be so lucky." Ellie replied. "I swear that woman is going to drive me nuts if you see men dressed in white taking me out of my house in a straitjacket, you'll know why."

"You can always stay with me while I'm on vacation, I could use the company."

"As good as that sounds I don't think I could do it. My mom wants to know were I'm going and who I'm with at all times and even though she won't mind it, I could just see her stopping by with a game of twister and a bottle of non alcoholic wine for a spontaneous girls night out."

"Sounds like fun." Paige said. "I'm in."

"Trying to get your job back, you do know Mary isn't going to allow it." Alex replied.

"No, of course not." Paige answered. " Movie stars don't work in the movie theater especially when we're on the screen, right Ellie."

"Ummm." Ellie responded.

"Yeah try saying that after your leg heals." Alex replied.

"Why aren't you at work anyway?" Paige asked.

"Not that it's any of your business." Alex replied "I'm on vacation, no thanks to you but at least I got time off so this summer won't be a complete disappointment although it kind of has been for a while."

"No argument there." Ellie responded. "I can't wait for summer to end."

"Join the club." Paige said. "Hey you guys up for watching a movie. Just say it's a peace offering for what I did to you last year in school Alex, my treat."

"Are you OK man?" Jay asked. " You opened a window last night, didn't you?Sometimes it can get really stuffy here in the garage, not that I ever spent the night here. I got to go to work, I'll be back soon, do you want me to bring back anything or are you cool ma..?"

"Now that's a first." Spinner interrupted while giving Jay a suspicious look. "I never thought I would ever see a man talking to his car. Word of advice the car doesn't talk back and it defiantly can't open a window."

"I wasn't talking to my car you bonehead I was talking to..." Jay paused.

"Who?" Spinner asked before looking around the garage. "The empty oil can in the corner over there, the wrench over by the tool shed or maybe a lonely mouse."

"I was talking to no one." Jay said while pulling on Spinner's arm. "Let's just go Spin, OK."

"Now I'm really suspicious. Whoo hooo" Spinner yelled while looking around the garage. "Who's in here, maybe a girl perhaps. Alex, Amy or gasp Emma."

"C'mon man get out of here before I pound you." Jay said. "You're going to..."

"Ow" Someone yelped after a can dropped on the floor from a shelf.

Spinner noticed a shoe peeking out of a dirty blanket piled on the floor in a corner in the garage. "Hey, who's in here." Spinner pulled the sheet from the ground. "No way!"