Chapter 5: Electric Blue

"Just one more day until Monday, man and we'll be on our way to the sunny Hampton's," Jimmy said to Craig while unpacking a bag from his dad's car.

"Are you sure this car of your's is equipped for driving Jimmy around?" Mr. Brooks asked Craig.

"Umm..yeah it is..ummm..kind of," Craig hesitantly replied.

"Just what exactly does kind of mean young man?" Mr Brooks asked. "Because kind of isn't good enough it's a wonder I even allowed you to drive 500 or so miles to the Hampton's even though you haven't been on the road that long. My stupid baby brother and his hair brain ideas, I can't believe he just up and gave you the keys to the family cottage. Why would mom leave the place to him and not to me, I'm older and much more responsible, who cares if he makes more money and has a new model girlfriend every week and fixed up the place with his multi-millionaire dollar job and has a mansion in."

"Dad," Jimmy interrupted. "I'll be fine and Uncle Issac just wanted me to have a little bit of fun before school begins you know enjoy a normal summer away from all the therapy and medical talk about my condition. Craig can drive us he's been driving for a while now and he helps sells car for Joey so if he's good enough to sell cars then he's good enough to drive one."

"OK, I get the point." Mr. Brooks agreed. " Craig can you show us this van you're going to be driving my son in." Mr. Brooks stared at Craig. Craig walked slowly to the garage while Mr. Brooks rambled off to Jimmy. " It's just I hate how my brother tries to buy your affection he's just doing this to make me look bad. You know I was going to surprise you with a trip to Paris, remember how you always talked about going there someday."

"That was Mom,Dad, I wanted to go to Japan," Jimmy replied before following Craig to his garage with his dad trailing behind still rambling on.

"I hope he's not going to flip when he see's this pile of junk," Craig thought to himself while walking to the garage door. Jimmy and his dad followed. "Jimmy,the car may not be what I promised," Craig apologized. "Joey assured me that it's in working condition although it doesn't look like it is and I'm sorry it only goes 80 miles, but Joey said we shouldn't be going over 80 anyway."

"We'll that makes sense Mr. Jeremiah is a smart man," Mr Brooks stated.

"Umm, yeah," Craig mumbled. He opened up the garage door and turned around quickly to see the disappointed looks on Jimmy and his dad faces when they looked at the van from hell.

"Wow," Jimmy and Mr. Brooks said simultaneously.

"I know it's awful Jimmy but." Craig apologized.

"What are you talking about man?" Jimmy interrupted. "This van is amazing."

"What?" Craig turned around and couldn't believe his eyes. The horrible white van was now a shiny blue van the hubcaps had been replaced or at least it looked that way until Craig realized that they had been cleaned and the windows that were once dirty and covered with bird poop was now cleaned and tinted just a little. "Oh my God!"

"You look more amazed then my dad and me, you act like you never seen the car before today," Jimmy chuckled. "Joey seriously pimped your ride. Can we see the inside?"

"Ummm..yeah." Craig hesitated before digging in his pocket trying to find the keys.

"Young man." Mr. Brooks replied. "The keys are inside the car."

"What," Craig exclaimed. "I mean I forgot," Craig hesitantly opened the car door which was unlocked. He took the keys out of the ignition and walked to the back. He didn't even notice the customer job in the inside until he opened the back door. Craig couldn't believe his eyes the puke green shag carpet had been replaced with a royal blue carpet. The plastic seats had been reupholstered with cushy blue seats which were once facing the driver it had now been moved to face the sides of the van so now there was more walking room .

"This car is nice really," Mr. Brooks said. " I remember driving around in one of these during my college years but It still doesn't have enough room for Jimmy's wheelchair to fit in you can't carry Jimmy in and out of the car.

"Dad," Jimmy sourly uttered.

"It's true." Mr. Brooks replied. "I just can't allow you to drive in this no matter how nice it is."

"Uhh.. I'm sure there's something in here." Craig walked around inside the van not sure what he was looking for but since his luck had been going so well this far there was bound to be something in here that could make Mr. Brooks change his mind. And as if the car had read his mind he noticed a small note with the words Push Me written on it. Craig didn't understand what that meant until he noticed the note was by a small button on the side of one of the seats. Craig pushed the button and heard a loud click the seat had folded down and he notice it was removable."Uhh Mr. Brooks, I think this is where Jimmy is suppose to sit."

"Oh, that's great." Mr. Brooks said unconvincingly pleased.

"See dad. there's room for me and my wheel chair." Jimmy replied. "Don't forget you promised to give Craig the van wheel chair ramp for the car if you liked it, I don't see any reason not too .

"I'll just go get the ramp then." Mr Brooks grumbled before walking to his car.

"Man this car is hot." Jimmy exclaimed. "How did you talk Joey into lending you this car?"

"Your guess is as good as mine." Craig replied.

"Huh?"

"Oh, I mean, I just pulled out the old Manning charm." Craig jokingly answered.

"Sorry we didn't make it in time for the spa." Hazel apologized.

"Haze, It's OK," Paige assured her. "I just wish I could've made it sooner."

"Yeah, I really wanted to surprise Jimmy with a new Hazel look this weekend but I guess he'll just have to see me on Monday."

"Hazel, Jimmy doesn't care how you look he just wants to see you."

"Yeah I know but I still want to surprise him he's going to flip when he finds out I came back early. I just want him to see a new and improved Hazel when we reunite."

"So what time is our appointment for the spa tomorrow?"

"First thing Monday morning and then I'm off to surprise Jimmy."

"OK wait," Alex screamed after waking to the sound of someone banging at her door. Although it was twelve o' clock in the afternoon it was the summer and she liked staying up all night and sleeping all day. So it kind of took her by surprise to hear loud banging when the only one that would have the audacity to awake her at this time of the day was sleeping soundly on the living room couch. "Man you could sleep through a nuclear war," Alex said to Ellie before opening the door. "Yeah," Alex exclaimed. Sean stared at her, he looked like he hadn't slept a wink all night. "Hey Sean I don't remember ordering any pizza's today," Alex joked.

"I don't have time for jokes, Alex," Sean peeked over Alex's shoulder before she closed the door.

"Yeah she's in there. What do you want? If you came here to beg for Ellie's forgiveness your a little too late."

"I didn't come here for Ellie."

"Typical male," Alex rolled her eye's. "So what exactly did you come here for?"

"I did some thinking last night and I remember Spinner saying something about Jay and Emma and yesterday you said a nasty remark about her and Jay too.

"And?"

"And what exactly happened between those two after I left?"

Alex chuckled. "Oh nothing much, my scum bag of an ex boyfriend decided to give Cause Girl a different cause to work on. I always wondered why she wanted to keep the Ravine so clean since she had no problem trashing it up last year."

"The Ravine, you're not making sense, Emma wouldn't go there. Not unless?"

"Yep your ex-girlfriend decided to get a pretty pretty bracelet from my scum bag ex-boyfriend, by the way Shawn she really likes the color green."

"Can you believe my mom," Emma shouted."She gave us two tickets to Madame Helga's Spa for a full makeover tomorrow."

"Yeah your mom is the greatest." Manny replied.

"I can't believe I didn't notice the note until today. She's such a..." Emma paused after she noticed someone staring inside her window. "Manny do you see what I see?"

"What?"

"I thought I saw a shadow," Emma walked closer to the living room window before peeking through the blinds.

"Emma, your not having hallucinations again yesterday you thought the pizza guy was Sean. Who is it this time, Chris...D"

"Shhh," Emma hushed Manny before closing the blinds. "There's nothing outside but I swore I saw someone out there and before you say a word I'm not hallucinating OK maybe I was yesterday but he really looked liked Sean,you even thought it was Sean for a moment."

"But it wasn't Sean, we found that out after you snatched the guys hat off, you nearly made him drop the pizza."

Emma rolled her eyes. "Don't remind me Manny, I know I looked like a crazy loon but I just have a feeling Sean is close by."

"Well he is in Wasaga it's not that far away," Manny snickered.

"Ha Ha, Manny," Emma said. "Let's not talk about Sean anymore let's just try to convince your mom to let you spend the next week with me, my mom said it was cool just as long as we don't have any wild parties."

"That's not going to happen there's no one around around to invite anyways," Manny got up from sitting on the couch and grabbed the cordless phone which was nearby. "I'm just going to go in the kitchen call my mom and beg her to allow me to stay here until your mom gets back.

Emma waited until Manny was deep into the conversation with her mom. Emma looked out the window and saw rustling coming from the bushes separating Chester and her house. "I know I'm not crazy," Emma said to herself before walking out of the front door. Emma walked to the rustling bushes."OK, Chester I know it's you, I should have known you wouldn't leave for Cali.." Emma paused before realizing Chester and his family were gone for the summer. "Who ever you are, I'm calling the police" The rustling from the bushes stopped. "I mean it!" Emma stared at the bush. "Hello,ahh," Emma screamed before noticing a squirrel running away from the bushes.

"Emma are you OK?" Manny peeked through the front door.

"Yeah," Emma laughed. "I thought I saw someone in the bushes but.." Emma stared at Manny whose eyes looked like they were going to pop out of her head. "Manny what's wrong did your mom say no?" Manny didn't respond she only stared at Emma with a blank expression and her mouth open wide. "Manny what is it? You look like you just saw a ghost. I hope it's not another squir.." Emma turned around. But it wasn't a squirrel it wasn't even an animal, it was a guy dressed in all black with his head hanging down. The guy looked up and Emma couldn't believe her eyes. "Sean..I can't believe.."

Sean interrupted Emma mid-sentence. "Emma we need to talk." He looked at Manny who still had the blank expression on her face. "Alone!"

Note: Thanks for all the reviews. Unleashmysoul after reading this chapter we now know Sean wasn't delivering pizza's at Emma's house only Alex's. I hope this clears things up a bit. : ) In the next chapter It will explain which house Sean spent the night at. I guess you guys kinda figured out after this chapter that it wasn't at Emma's sorry ScaryChick but there will be more Eman or Semma(As I call them) later on with a couple of other couples(old and new) but you have to read to find out. ; ) LOL, PrettyGirl05 I don't have writers block yet I pretty much finished up this story along with Part Three: The Wedding a month ago but I keep polishing it up and I only release two chapters every week or so that way I keep the anticipation going.