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Chapter 10 Getting Rid of Chester

"How could I have been so stupid?" Emma said pacing across her livingroom. "He's been acting so strange lately. Blowing me off at lunch, not wanting a ride and being completely jealous of you."

"Em, calm down. He's not worth it. Come on sit down." Jay said pulling her over to the couch. "You need to relax. All this stress is going to make you tense."

"Okay. I'll be right back, I'm gonna change. Grab a soda if you want." Emma said before heading downstairs.

She's so cute when she's upset. Jay thought.

When Emma came back upstairs Jay was on the couch watching TV. Emma had put on black lounge pants and a white t-shirt. "Watcha watching?" she said sitting down on the couch next to Jay.

"Not sure yet. You pick."Jay said tossing her the remote. Emma put the tv on MuchMusic. The two sat in silence watching the video's for about 10 minutes when Emma noticed Jay pretending to yawn and stretch his arms.

He's actually doing the stretch and reach? That's adorable! Emma thought. "Jay if you want to put your arm around me you don't have to pretend to stretch." Emma said putting Jay's arm around her.

"Okay." Jay said with a laugh.

"Jay?"

"Yeah?"

"What do I do tomorrow? How can I let Chester humilate me with all those lies.?"

"They don't have to be lies, Em." Jay said with a smirk.

"You're funny. I can't prove them right, Jay. Don't get me wrong I do want to be with you. I think I always have, I was just trying to tell myself that it wasn't the right thing to do."

"Why? Why fight the way you feel, Em? And why Chester?"

"I don't know. I think I was stuck on last year and what happened. Honestly, I didn't want to end up like you and Alex did. So I tried to move on. Chester just happened to be the first one there. I know that isn't fair to him, but now I really don't care. What am I gonna do?"

"Okay, here's what we do. We know Chester is planning on humiliating you at lunch in the cafeteria tomorrow. So, you do it first. Humiliate him before he has the chance to do it to you."

"How?"

"Well, Chester has probably been getting some tips from Alex, which means he is probably going to make a big show out of the whole thing. So, when he gets up, at the perfect moment stop him in his tracks and spill everything."

"I don't know. That's not really something that I would do."

"Emma, you can do this. Think of as a protest against cheaters. I'll be there in case he tries something stupid."

"Okay."Emma said as Jay leaned into kiss her. They were an inch apart when the phone rang. "I have to get that."

"You really don't have to"

"It may be my parents I have to. I'm sorry." Emma got up and answered the phone. "Hello?" she said into the handset, "Oh, hi Chester. How was work?" Emma asked trying not to cry. "That's good. Me? I left the dance early wasn't that great, now I'm just watching some TV. Of course I'm by myself. Who would be here with me? Jay? Chester you really need to let this go." Jay gave Emma a smile to say good one. " Okay I can pick you up tomorrow, 8? Ok see you then, night." Emma hung up the phone and started to cry. Jay ran over and caught her before she hit the floor. "He didn't even know that I saw him in the gym tonight, or if he did he is refusing to acknowledge it."

"It's okay. We will deal with him tomorrow. Right now we need to go get your car." Jay said comfortingly.

"Alright, let's go." They walked to the ravine and drove back in silence. When they got back Jay said good night on the porch and went to leave. Emma stopped him and asked him to stay the night.

"But you said.."

"Just because I said no sex, doesn't mean that I don't want you in my bed, to sleep." Emm explained. "Please, Jay I reallydon't want to be alone tonight."

"Okay." Jay followed Emma downstairs and the two got into bed and fell asleep in each others arms.

The next day at lunch.

Emma walked into the cafeteria with a not in her stomach, she glanced around the cafeteria and found Jay, Paige and Spinner. Earlier Emma and Jay had explained everything Chester had done and the plan to get rid of him. Emma looked over to where Chester was. He was alone at a table in the middle of the cafeteria. Figures he would pick the one table where everyone can see us. Emma thought. Relax, Emma.You can do this. He cheated on you and wantsto humiliate you. Don't give him that chance. Emma told herself as she walked over to thetable.

"Hey, sweety." Chester said as she sat down. "How's your day been?"

"So-so. I have a math test tomorrow. You?"

"The usual, pretty boring, but I'm sure it's gonna get better now that you're here."

Emma forced a smile, at the comment that she knew wasn't a good one. Emma had just started eating her salad when Chester started his rant.

"En, there's something I need to say to you. It's important so I need you to listen carefully. Actually," Chester said getting up on to his chair.

Here we go. Thought Emma.

"This is something everyone here needs to listen to." he yelled as everyone turned to see what was going on.

"Chester what are you doing?" Emma said pretending to be shocked.

"Telling everyone the truth about you."

Emma looked over to Ellie's table where, with the exception of Marco, everyone was laughing.

"Most of you know Emma Nelson, Green peace, Nature Freak, Cause Girl or any other cute nicknames you have given her. What you don't know about her is---"

"Hold on there Chester." Emma cut him off getting up on her own chair. "Before you spill your lies about me they deserve to know the truth about you. Okay, so thanks to Alex, most of you know what I did last year. So what! I've moved on, now it's your turn. But what Chester wants to tell you that is that he is a paranoid, delusional, jealous boyfriend. Chester thought that I was cheating on him with Jay and instead of asking me, he took Ellie's word and decided that she would be a better girlfriend than me. I won't stand here and tell you that I am innocent because I'm not. Yes I kissed Jay, but I told Chester and he forgave me. I was honest, Chester was a liar and a cheater. Last night at the dance I saw him and Ellie together. Ellie and I used to be friends, but she couldn't handle the friendship that I have with our ex, Sean Cameron. Lately it seems that Ellie wants whatever I have and if she can't get it, she destroys it. Be careful Ellie, if Chester gets bored with you he may move on to Seans other ex-girlfriend, Amy. But a word of warning, Chester, she tends to have gonnorhea. I hope you and Ellie are happy together." Emma jumped off of her chair, picked up her stuff and walked over to Paige and Jay.

"You bitch!" Chester yelled right before everyone in the cafeteria started laughing at him.

Emma just smiled and blew him a kiss goodbye right before walking out of the cafeteria with Jay, Spinner and Paige.

"That was so cool, Em! Did you see his face? Priceless." exclaimed Spinner.

"Thanks, Spin. It felt pretty great too. I couldn't have done it without you, thank you." Emma said reaching for Jay's hand and smiling.

"So, Em. What are you gonna do now?" Paige asked.

"This!" Jay said as he pulled Emma into a deep kiss.

"Hey, Spin. I was just coming to meet you. Emma what are you doing!" Manny said as she came around the corner, "What about Chester?"

"Chester is history!" Paige answered for Emma who was obviously busy.

"He cheated on em, with Ellie and just broke up with him in front of the entire cafeteria."Spinner explained before giving Manny a kiss.

"Okay, if she just broke up with Chester, why is she kissing Jay? Doesn't she need like a morning period or something? I don't get it!" Manny exclaimed.

"Let me clear it up for you Manny." Chester said coming out of the cafeteria with Ellie, Alex, Craig and Marco. "Emma is a little skank. Who couldn't just be happy with one guy, she needed Jay too. But of course Emma is never at fault, so I was the one who got humiliated for her actions. This infront of you is proof that she is cheating with Jay!"

Emma stared at Chester as if a cartoon anvil had fallen on his head. "Wait a minute!" Emma started. "Did you not hear me in there? Because I'm sure that everyone else did. We're over, finished, done, not together anymore. So, I can kiss whoever I want. Jay and I haven't been together until right now."

"But you cheated!" Chester protested.

"No YOU cheated. Yes I kissed Jay, but I told you. You chose to forgive me for that. You cheated on me deliberatly with Ellie. You assumed I was cheating, you were actually cheating. Yes I am with Jay now, I don't cheat." Emma said before walking away.

"That was fun!" Jay said.

"I know and now I can do this whenever I want." Emma said pulling him into another kiss.

"Guys, not that I'm not happy for you or anything, but could you at learst wait until we're not here?" Spinner pleaded.

Emma and Jay looked at Spinner and said in unison, "No!" and kissed again.

Manny, Spinner and Paige burstout laughing, happy for their friends.

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"Can you believe that she just did that?" Chester said in frustration.

"Not really, but who cares? She's gone." Alex said.

"Yeah, she's gone, and we don't have to worry about her anymore. We can be together and not have to deal with her." Ellie said putting her arms around Chesters waist.

"Yeah I guess you're right." He said putting an arm around Ellie.

"Look at it this way, man. She chose Jay. It won't be long before he screws up and she dumps him and is miserable." Alex said with a laugh.

"Guys can we please stop obsessing about Emma and Jay, I for one do not care. Let's go back." Craig said pulling Alex with him.

"Okay, coming Marco?" Ellie asked.

"Yeah I gotta grab something from my locker." Marco replied.

"Okay cool, see ya later." Ellie said heading into the cafeteria.

Marco stared down the hallway at the girl he felt that he owed an apology. Here goes nothing. He thought as he headed down the hallway toward Emma.

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"So what do you guys want to do tonight?" Paige asked.

"I don't know, I really don't feel like going out tonight. We could do something at someones house." Emma replied.

"Well what and where? My place is out, my grandparents are visiting and they hate teenagers." Spinner said.

"Well my parents are away, we could have a movie night." Emma suggested.

"Yeah! We need to invite Hazel and Jimmy too. Oh and Matt!" Paige squealed.

"Wait how is Jimmy gonna get up the steps?" Spinner wondered out loud.

"What steps do I have to get up?" Jimmy said from behind Spinner with Hazel on his lap.

"Oh, Holy shit!" Manny said jumping three feet in the air. "Emma's. We're having a movie night." Manny explained after she caught her breath.

"That's cool, I have a lift in the van, it's no problem. What time should we come over?" Jimmy asked.

"Well do we want to have dinner to?" Emma asked.

"Sure anything but pizza." Jay piped in.

"Okay, Chinese?" Emma suggested.

"But your a veggie." Spinner said.

"Spin, they make vegetarian meals too." Emma replied.

"Yeah, chinese food sounds good." Paige agreed.

"Okay so I will order and we can all pitch in, and you guys can bring some movies." Emma said. "So let's say around 4:30?"

"Cool." Jay said.

"Okay, sounds good. I have to run to my locker so I will see you later hun." Paige said running down the hall.

"Yeah were gonna head out too, see ya later Em." Manny said leaving with Spinner, Hazel and Jimmy.

"So, how you doing?" Jay asked pulling Emma close.

"I'm perfect, just perfect." Emma said placing a kiss on Jay's lips.

"Excuse me, Emma. I don't mean to interrupt." Marco said quietly.

"Then don't." Jay said.

"Jay, be nice." Emma said with a laugh. "What is it Marco? Did Chester send you to spy?"

"No one sent me. I just came toapologize."

"Apologize? Marco you have nothing to apologize for. You're not the one who cheated on me, Chester is."

"I know, but I knew about it. I also knew about the plan for the caf and that they would be at the dance together. I should've told you." Marco stared at the ground afraid to look into Emma's eyes.

"That's why you were acting so weird before the dance!" Jay stated. "Why didn't you just tell me Del Rossi?"

"You weren't the one that I needed to tell, Emma was. I didn't know how to tell you and I am sorry that you had to find out the way that you did. I really wanted to tell you but I couldn't, Ellie was my friend and she had been through so much and I wanted her to be happy. At first I thought it was cool but then I realized that she was doing to you what Dylan did to me and I remember what that felt like. Now I have to tell Ellie that we aren't friends any more. I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner,Emma." Marco explained.

"It's okay Marco. You and I have never been that close. You and Ellie were friends for a long time and I'm sorry that you feel that you have to let her go." Emma said.

"I do Emma. Ellie knew how I felt when I caught Dylan with that other guy and she told me that she never wanted that to happen to anyone, then she does it to you because of a petty thing like your friendship with Sean."

"Thank you Marco." Emma said giving Marco a hug. "Listen, I'm having a movie night tonight with a few friends, you want to come?"

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, you're an alright guy, Del Rossi." Jay said.

"Okay, who's gonna be there?" Marco asked.

"The usual, Paige, Spin, Manny, Jimmy, Hazel and Matt. Oh and of course Jay and me. We're having dinner too, so you can come over at like 4:30." Emma explained.

"Yeah I will totally be there. I'll see you later, I gotta talk to Ellie." Marco headed back down the hallway to the cafeteria. Emma and Jay headed to their lockers for next period.

"Are you sure everyone will be cool with this?" Jay asked.

"Yeah, Marco never stopped being friends with Paige and everyone, he just started hanging out with Ellie more thats all. He didn't have anything to do with the Chester mess."

"Okay but just in case I think we need to explain it to the guys, for safety."

"Okay fine, now will you please shut up?" Emma said as she pulled Jay into a long kiss.