Emma's POV:

As I walk off stage I see Jay running towards me, he then quickly embraces me into a hug and gives me a kiss.

"You did great Emma, and I knew you would." Jay compliments, and then gives me another kiss.

"Thanks, I felt so alive out there in the stage. I think I have an idea of what I'd like to be when I am an adult." I explain. Being a singer would be such a great experience; even a songwriter would be better. It feels that after the shooting I am back to normal, ever since I am with Jay. He certainly gives me the will and courage to try new things, and be myself.

"Let me guess a singer?" Jay asks, as he wraps his arms around my shoulders.

"Are you a mind reader?" I ask.

"When I want to." Jay states.

All of the sudden as we are walking outside of the auditorium, you can hear the voices of JT and Manny running up towards us. Jay and I turn around and take a look on what are they doing. Manny walks up to me and gives me a huge hug, and then JT does the same.

"Emma, you were awesome!" Manny exclaims.

"Yeah, it felt like watching a concert." JT adds.

I smile and give Jay, Manny, and JT a hug at the same time. "Thanks you guys, without your support I would of never been able to do it." I explain as I pull apart from them.

All of the sudden I hear Manny, JT, and Jay singing. "I don't know where the next road goes, but I feel the wheels going down below me." They sing as I start to giggle. Then all of the sudden I add to their singing. "Take my sweet time, I am getting it back again." I sing, but then I stop and smile at them.

"You guys what time is it?" Manny asks. She looks as if she's losing track of time.

"It is 8:00, hey do you know where Craig and the band are?" I ask. I really wanted to thank them for backing up the song; they are really good at what they do.

"Hmm, I think they are packing up." JT says.

After our small get together in front of the auditorium, we all head back to our places. Manny and I are being dropped off by Jay at her house. Once we are there we get out of the car and head inside. Then Jay leaves and says he'll pick me up for school tomorrow. This is defiantly like living a fantasy, but now I should start thinking about the sleepover.

"Emma, I owe you an apology. Jay really is a nice guy, once you get to know him." She explains. Manny then continues on painting my toenails sky blue, and then I give her a smile.

"Apology accepted, now should I paint yours red?" I ask. I take out red nail polish from my makeup back. Manny nods in approval and then I start her pedicure.

"Hey do you have any idea of who's coming back to Degrassi?" I ask. The thought of seeing someone back at Degrassi makes me feel so curious. Who could it be?

"I really don't know. I am positive that it is not Sean cause he's still in Wassaga beach." Manny says.

Certainly Sean couldn't be coming back, he said he needed to be with his parents after the shooting until he gets better. Wait until he gets better. He might have said something about coming back, but I don't think so. I continue painting Manny's nails until they are finally done. There, now they all look crimson red I have finally finished my masterpiece.

"Emma, what are you planning on doing for your 16th birthday?" Manny asks.

I give her a clueless look. I never really thought of my sweet 16. What am I going to do?

My birthday is on March 15th. I definitely need to start thinking of what I am planning on doing, considering the fact that it is November 30. It only gives me 3 1/2 months of planning a party; I am going to end up needing help. I then look up at Manny. "I don't really know, maybe we can have a pool party." I say.

"We could, that might actually be fun. Since you don't have a pool, we could use mine. I don't think my parents are going to get pissed off at the idea since you are my best friend." Manny explains. She then picks up her diet coke and take a sip from it.

"Then it's settled we'll have the party here, I don't think my mom is going to get mad or anything." I say, as I too take a sip from my frozen soda.

"Let's see who we can invite?" Manny asks.

"I know: You, Jay, JT, Darcy, Craig, Jimmy, Marco, Ellie, Toby and maybe Ashley. What do you think?" I ask. What am I thinking? Ashley and Manny could cause a huge catastrophe if I ever invited her.

"Do you have to invite Ashley?" Manny asks. Her smile slowly decreases.

"No, that's why I said maybe. But I think I won't if you don't want me to." I add to our conversation.

"Thanks you are a good friend." Manny says.

"Well, I am tired. I think I am going to hit the sack." I say as I try to pull my self together towards my sleeping bag. Manny then gives me the look as if she's going to say something funny yet wrong.

"Emma, Jay isn't even here for you to do that." Manny says jokingly. She then starts to giggle and then falls on the ground laughing.

I laugh and then throw a pillow at her, and then we both start to giggle. "I think it's time for us to go to sleep." I add. We then stand up and go to our sleeping bags. Manny never sleeps on her bed when I sleep over, that's why we both always go to our sleeping bags so it's fair.

As I close my eyes, my mined starts to float in a sea of nightmares. I am walking to scene of the shooting. I see Rick pointing the gun towards my face, and my blood feels like it is turning into ice. Then all of the sudden Sean comes up in front of me. Then everything changes quickly. Jay is now at the other end of the hallway

and looks as if he's going to say something.

"Emma! I need to tell why this is happening!" Jay shouts.

Then all of the sudden Rick turns around and shoots Jay; Jay then falls onto the ground. Sean runs up to Rick and all you can hear is the sound of the gun go off. Rick then falls onto the ground, and Sean's hand is covered in Rick's blood. Then suddenly I start to scream, and cry like crazy. But for no reason I feel something moving me around, that's when I wake up.

"JAY!" I shout from my sleep. Manny was by my side trying to wake me up. I look up at her noticing that it is only a dream. "Manny?" I ask.

"Emma, what happened?" Manny asks.

I slowly get myself to face her. "I had a nightmare that's all, nothing much." I lie. It was something to worry about. What if Jay really had something to say to me? I need to find out, but wait. This is only a dream; nothing in it can be true. Except for the shooting, but what if Jay is hiding something from me? Should I ask him? I think I'll wait a while until I decide to ask him. I then notice that Manny is starring at me.

"Ok, now why don't we try to get some sleep?" Manny suggests. She then gets back inside her sleeping back, and tries to fall asleep.

I on the other hand lie down but try to not even think of sleeping, having another dream like that won't help me at all. All I need to think of is how happy Jay and I are, and that he isn't hiding something from me. I just have to think of happy thoughts and how much fun I had today. Yeah, that's it. I have to calm myself down since it was only a nightmare.

"Yes Emma?" The math teacher asks.

"Is the answer negative 4?" I ask. I really enjoy this class, but I haven't had a good grade ever since that stupid shooting. I wonder I Rick had the whole thing planned out. But then again someone played a prank on him, which I think caused him to act like that.

I wish I knew who that jerk was. But that's the past, now I must focus on the present.

"Yes, that's right good job Emma." The teacher confirms.

The bell rings all of the sudden, second hour is over. I pick up my book bag and wait for Manny this time. Since she is still putting everything away, she then comes up to me and we head for lunch.

"Emma do you understand any of this junk that the teacher gave us?" Manny asks.

We were now heading for our lockers and it seemed that once again she wasn't paying any attention. "Manny, you have to stat focusing in your class work. Your academics are going to end up falling down. In other words you're going to end up flunking." I manage to say. We finally reached the locker and I am trying to get mine to actually work. Manny on the other hand is putting her books away and is getting her English books that are for her class after lunch.

"Whatever, hey can you come to the mall with me after school?" Manny asks.

"Sure, I have been wanting to buy new clothing." I add.

"Okay, then come over to my house after school." Manny remarks as we are now walking to lunch.

All of the sudden I feel someone bump into me; my books fall to the ground and my backpack falls open.

"Sorry, I'll pick it up." The guy with the short blonde hair, which is curly on the tips. He is wearing a black hoodie and a black jacket. He is also wearing a pair of dark blue jeans, and his eyes are very bright. He starts to pick up my books, all of the sudden he looks up at me. "Emma?" He asks.

Okay, now I just feel plain weird. A guy who I can't even exactly recognize knows my name. Manny then comes from behind and stares at the guy like if he was a ghost. Wait a second his voice sounds familiar. Wait a second I think it's… SEAN! "I can't believe this, Sean?" I ask.

"Yeah, Sean Cameron. Wow, you look different." He adds. He finally hands me my books and my backpack.

"What are you doing here?" I ask. What is he doing here? He said he was going to stay with his parents, but why did he decide to come back now? When everything in my life is going perfect. Sure I missed him, but Jay might get jealous even though he considers him like a brother. He then looks up at me, and licks his lips.

"Well, I decided that I was ready to come back to Degrassi." He explains. Then he looks at Manny then he looks up at me again. "Now, what's with the look?" He asks.

I can feel his eyes tracing my body up and down, it feels uncomfortable. Sure I used to have a lot of feelings for him. But they have all demolished in the last couple of months. Now having him in front of me, gives me the chills. I decide to answer him, before the bell rings or else he won't stop starring at me. "I changed, as you can see. By the way when you were gone, a lot of things happened and I am not the same Emma." I explain. He just stares at me, as if he never seen me in his whole entire life; Manny on the other hand just keeps looking at us.

"I can see that." He remarks.

All of the sudden I can hear Jay's footsteps from behind. Jay then wraps his arms around my stomach and gives me a kiss on the cheek.

"Hi, Emma." Jay says.

"Hi, Jay." I say, as I give him a kiss on the lips. Sean just stares clueless, as if he never thought this was coming up.

"I can see that you have surely changed." Sean adds.

Sean's POV:

What is going on here? Emma and Jay? Together? This has to be a joke, right? Am I being punked right now? Maybe they hooked up when I left but that doesn't make sense.

But anyways she looks so damn hot right now; this isn't going to be pretty. Have I lost her? Can I possibly have her back? All of the sudden, I stop zoning off and hear her calm voice penetrate my head.

Emma's POV:

"Jay, look who's back." I state. Jay still keeps his arm around my waste, but now looks up at Sean.

"Sean, my man. You came back." Jay says. Though there is something about his voice, that sounds like its' going to blow up with jealousy.

"Yeah, I have." Sean states. "Well, I have to go to lunch just like everyone else." He says as he tightens his backpack on his shoulder, and starts walking to the lunchroom.

"Sean, want to come and sit with Emma and me?" Jay asks.

Sean then looks back, "no that's ok, maybe tomorrow I promised to sit with Alex and her friends." He says, and then he leaves for sure.

I then look up at Jay, and remember that Manny was still behind us. "Well wasn't that interesting?" I ask sarcastically. Jay just laughs.

"I think he has the hotts for Alex, no shall we go eat lunch?" Jay asks.

I nod, and then Manny, Jay, and I head for lunch. But I still can't get rid of what just happened in my mined. So Sean was the student who was coming back. Well as long as he doesn't evolve feelings for me again everything will be cool. As I keep thinking of all of this, we 3 keep on walking to the lunchroom. It feels as if something bad is going to happen in a while, but then again I might be exaggerating. Shortly we enter the lunchroom, and sit down on our table.