Everyone seemed to have calmed down after the little brawl between Jay and Sean. Emma had just finished about her eighth drink and she felt like the rooming was spinning right under her feet. She loved this feeling. It was good to have an escape from her problems for a night although some new ones were formed about a half hour ago. Manny and Craig were over on the other side of the room were talking as Emma started on her next drink.

"Craig, we should really get her out of here. That is like the tenth one's she had!" said Manny

"She's not going to listen to us. After the fight over there she has found pleasure in alcohol." Replied Craig

"We can at least try!" Manny said as she started dragging Craig towards Emma

"Hey Em! I think you've had enough." Said Manny grabbing the cup from Emma's hand.

"Stop it Manny!" she snapped pushing Manny's hand away. "Don't tell me what to do; I can take care of myself."

"Yeah, because you've really proven that recently."

Craig looked down to the floor after Manny said this knowing that it was a mistake on her part.

"You know what Manny. We all make mistakes some times, you of all people should know that! Just leave me alone! I didn't have a problem! You just went running to my mom and blabbing your big mouth because you wanted to be Miss "Save the World!"" Emma yelled. "Just leave me alone okay!" and then she walked away towards the stairs and made her way up to the second floor of the house.

"She didn't mean it, it's just the alcohol speaking." Said Craig, who noticed that Manny was really hurt by that comment.

"Yeah." Said Manny as she watched Emma go upstairs

"Let's go get some fresh air." Craig said leading Manny out through the front door.

When they got outside they saw Sean sitting on the curb still looking very angry. They both looked and each other, took a deep breath, and walked towards him.

"Hey, Sean!" said Craig

"Oh, hey Craig." Said Sean, not getting up to say hello.

"I saw what happened in there. Is your hand okay?" asked Craig pointing to his hand which was red and swollen.

"Yeah, it's probably just bruised."

"Where did Jay go?" asked Manny

"Don't know, don't care." Said Sean gritting his teeth.

"Listen man. Don't be mad at Emma okay." Said Craig trying his best to fix things.

"You're kidding right? My ex-girlfriend hooked up with one of my friends in the back of a van. I think I have every right to be mad."

"Yeah, Emma made a mistake. You've made mistakes and so have I. But she was going through a really hard time. It was just after the shooting, the school was going through a lot, you left and her parent's were acting like she was 5 again, holding her hand wherever she went." Said Craig

"That's not an excuse." Said Sean looking towards the ground.

"Yeah, I know. I would say go talk to her. But she's not in the best condition right now."

"What do you mean?" asked Sean all of a sudden lifting his head up.

"Let's just say she's had one too many drinks!"

"Where is she now?" asked Sean all of a sudden growing very worried.

"Upstairs." Replied Craig

"She went upstairs! You let her go upstairs, drunk, in a fraternity house?" asked Sean angrily.

"Oh crap! I didn't even think about that." Said Craig

"Guys I think we better go find Emma." Interrupted Manny, who now also got worried hearing them talk.

All three of them got up and made their way into the house. Meanwhile, upstairs, Emma was walking down the hallway looking for the bathroom. She was feeling really sick to her stomach and didn't want to make a fool of herself in front of everyone by getting sick. She was stumbling as she walked and she couldn't see straight. She was going to round the corner when she ran into a guy coming from the opposite direction.

"Whoa!" he said, stopping Emma from falling over. "You okay?" he said taking her arms and holding her up straight.

"Yeah, not feeling too well. I just need to find the bathroom." She said

"Come on, I'll show you. My names Matt, what's your name?" he asked

"Emma."

"Nice to meet you, Emma."

He led her down the hallway. He opened a door at the end of the hallway. He led her inside and closed the door and locked it. Emma realized that it wasn't a bathroom. It was a bedroom.

"Hey, this isn't the bathroom." She said, as she stumbled again.

"Yeah, I know. I just thought you'd be more comfortable here." He said grabbing her and sitting her on the bed.

"I think I should go." Said Emma attempting to stand up.

"I don't think so!" he said pushing her up against the wall. "Time to have a little fun!" he said as he starting kissing her neck.

"Stop it!" she yelled trying her best to push him away.

"Oh come on. Don't play hard to get. You come here in your cute little mini-skirt and your blue tank top and expect guys not to drool over you. Well, you're just crazy." He said stroking her thigh. He then leaned in and kissed her hard and aggressively. While this was going on, Sean, Craig and Manny were making their way up the stairs.

"Emma?" yelled Manny down the hallway. "I don't think she's up here guys!" she said

They made their way down the hallway to the outside of the room where Emma and Matt were.

"Emma?" yelled Manny again.

Matt put his hand over Emma's mouth and told her not to say a word. He waited a couple of seconds to see if they called her name again, they didn't. Matt removed his hand and Emma decided to scream anyway.

"Guys! I'm in here! Help!" she screamed as loud as she could.

Matt punched her across the face and Emma fell to the ground.

"Emma!' screamed Sean as he slammed his body against the door attempting to open it.

Finally, Sean gave it one hard kick and it burst open.

"Get the hell away from her!" said Sean pushing the guy against the wall. "Manny get her out of here. Take her outside." Demanded Sean

Manny ran to Emma's side and helped her up. They walked out of the room and made their way downstairs.

"What the hell is your problem!" said Craig now taking his turn at shoving him.

"It's okay Craig, I can take care of this." Said Sean pushing him out of the way. Sean was so mad he felt like flames were coming out of his ears.

"Dude, she asked for it!" replied Matt.

"Oh really? Said Sean pretending he was going to walk away but then turned around and punched him square in the nose. "You better pray she's okay! Because if she's not, you better believe I'll be back up here to do some more damage!" said Sean shoving him with his foot.

Sean walked away, Craig went to go follow but before he did, he gave Matt a quick kick in the stomach.

"The same goes for me!" said Craig.

Manny sat with Emma on the curb where Sean sat just a little while ago. Emma was crying and Manny was stroking her back trying to calm her down.

"I'm so stupid." Said Emma. "I should have never trusted some random guy like that."

"It's not your fault Emma. You're not in a good state of mind right now." Said Manny who was choked up by the whole situation.

"I never should have come." Said Emma, attempting to stop herself from crying so much.

"None of us should have come. This isn't the place for us."

"Manny, I'm really sorry about what I said before. I didn't mean it."

"I know you didn't. Don't worry about it okay." She said as Emma laid her head on Manny's shoulder and began to cry again.

Sean and Craig walked over to them and knelt down in front of Emma.

"Are you okay?" asked Craig

"I'm fine." She replied without lifting her head. She didn't want them to see her this way. She could feel her face bruising where Matt had punched her.

"Emma, look at me. I need to make sure you're okay." Said Sean putting his hand on her knee.

Emma lifted her head and looked at him. Sean's heart sank. Her eye makeup was running from crying and a big bruise was forming under her left eye.

"We have to get ice nm your eye Emma." Said Sean

"It's fine. It doesn't really hurt that bad." She lied." I just really want to go home." She said. As the tears started flowing really hard this time,

She attempted to stand up but stumbled, yet again. Manny grabbed her arm. Manny helped her to the car and laid Emma on the back seat. Craig told Sean that he could stay at his house for the night since Sean was originally planning on staying at Jay's. Emma lay on Manny's knee on the back seat. No one talked on the way home, everyone was in shock about all the events that took place that night. Being locked in the room with Matt was the second scariest thing that ever happened to her, number one being, Rick pointing the gun at her head. Emma felt like she was losing control again. And she only knew one way to not feel that way, and this time she wasn't going to get caught.