We Belong Together
Summary: Sean's back, and he wants Ellie, Manny and Craig broke up and he wants Ellie, and Jimmy, well he wants Ellie too. What's a girl to do? (sellie, crellie, jellie).
Info: follows the show mainly, plays off some of the scenes from the show too, Jimmy is not in a wheelchair! Just so you know so it's not confusing if I say, "jimmy walks" or something.
Ellie sat in Craig's garage all by herself, waiting for Craig to get there so that they could start her "lesson." Ever since she joined the band her drumming hadn't been all that great so she arranged to have lessons with Craig. This was her first one she was waiting on right now and she was kind of worried about how it was going to be.
Sure she and Craig had hung out before, and she actually kind of liked him but he had been dating Manny back then. A few days ago Craig and Manny broke up and since then they hadn't really talked at all. In fact she wasn't even sure he was going to show up. Maybe he was still pining over the loss of his precious Manny. Ellie didn't really like Manny that much, probably because she liked Craig and Manny had been in the way for so long; but Ellie didn't want to admit that even to herself. Her thoughts were interrupted by Craig walking in.
"Uh, hi." Ellie said standing up off the couch because she felt awkward sitting there while Craig was still standing.
"hey." Craig said sort of solemnly, he hadn't really been himself for the few days that he and Manny had broken up.
An awkward silence came up.
"Look, if you don't want to do this right now that's fine, I can just go." Ellie said grabbing her coat and heading for the door but Craig grabbed her hand and pulled her back.
"It's ok Ellie; I'd rather be with you than by myself." Craig said smiling at her.
"Alright." Ellie said looking at her hand that was still inside his. "Um let's get started then." She said taking the opportunity to slip her hand away and walk over to the drums.
"Right." Craig said to the wall and then turned around and pulled up a chair next to Ellie by the drums.
"So, where do we begin?" Ellie asked him.
"Why don't you just play the opening to our untitled song?" He asked her.
"Which untitled song? We have so many." She said smiling, there band wasn't exactly the most together band ever.
"The one about the moon and sun and stuff." Craig said.
"Oh right, ok. Here goes." Ellie said and she started to play the beginning to one of the songs but she was going way to fast.
"Stop, Stop!" He yelled because she couldn't hear him.
"Sorry." She said gloomily, she didn't know if she'd ever get the hang of this.
"It wasn't that bad, just a few things here and there but the main thing is that it was too fast." He said "try slowing it down… a lot." Craig said.
"Ok, I'll try." She said and then began to play again but this time it was way too slow.
"Ellie, Ellie. Here let the master teach you." Craig said sliding his chair closer to her so that their knees were touching and he wrapped one arm around her waist and took hold of her hand and with his other hand he took hold of her other hand.
"Now just follow my lead." He said smiling at her as if asking her if that was ok.
She nodded and they started playing together. The song slowly sped up as they got more and more into it and both Ellie and Craig were forgetting about everything else at the moment. They got to the end and were both out of breath, but Craig didn't remove his hand from around her waist. Their heads turned towards each other with their breath hitting each other. Their eyes got locked in a stare for a few seconds before Craig felt like he was about to kiss her so he quickly backed away and removed his arm.
"You try it now." He said trying to sound nonchalant.
"Oh, ok." Ellie said, she felt weird after the moment, if you could call it that, which they just shared.
She regained her composure and started playing again. She got to the point where she and Craig had stopped and looked over at him for approval, or more likely disapproval.
"Um, well…" Craig couldn't find the right words "it was better then the first two tries, but not quite as good as with me." He said, and then realized that what he said sounded very conceited. "I mean…" But Ellie cut him off by standing up from her chair quickly and walking over to the couch.
"Oh my god." She said and the plopped down onto the couch "I hate drums." She whined.
"Ellie…" Craig said getting up and sitting down next to her on the couch "you're not that bad." Craig said.
"I'm terrible; I should just save you the trouble and quit the band now so that you can find someone better." She said looking away from Craig.
"Aww Ellie." Craig said putting his arm around her shoulders and pulling her over to him so that her head was resting in his shoulder "you can't quit the band." He said.
"Why not? You guys could find someone so much better than me." She said.
"First of all no we couldn't, and second of all two maybe three more lessons with me and you'll be perfect." Craig said smiling down at her. Ellie returned the smile gratefully, and again they were caught in a stare where Craig felt like something was pulling his lips towards hers only this time he didn't need to pull away because something else distracted them.
"Sorry to interrupt." Manny said as she walked into the room quickly.
"Manny what are you doing here?" Craig asked her taking his arm away from Ellie and walking over to Manny who was opening a drawer in a table.
"I left some stuff here, from back when we dated, you know?" She said coldly, grabbing a shirt, a necklace and a thong from the drawer.
"You can't just barge in whenever you feel like it." Craig said shoving the drawer closed.
"why, because your in here with Ellie? Yeah you moved on pretty quickly there Craig." Manny said walking to the door.
"I'm not with Ellie." Craig sort of defensively, and Ellie definitely heard that tone in his voice, was all this flirting just in her head?
"Not yet anyway, whatever I'll get out of your way. By the way Ellie he spends more time in the bathroom than me and he snores." And with that Manny left, slamming the door behind her.
"I'm sorry about that." Craig said feeling a little embarrassed.
"It's fine Craig." Ellie said.
Craig slowly walked over to the couch and sat down next to Ellie again.
"We kind of had a bad break up." Craig said.
"I'm sorry; we can talk about it if you want to. I mean I've had experience with that kind of stuff before." Ellie said.
"I don't want to dump my problems on you Ellie." Craig said.
"In the past, I don't know how many problems I've dumped on you. I think I owe to one… or five." She said smiling.
"There's really not that much to say, we just had an argument which brought up stuff from the past and then we realized we weren't compatible." Craig said.
"You really liked her didn't you?" Ellie asked him.
"Yeah, I loved Ashley too but Manny and I had something more, but I guess we didn't really have something after all since we broke up." Craig said.
"If Ashley were here, would you date her?" Ellie asked him.
Craig thought about this for a moment "I don't think so; Ash and I were over long before she left. But I still love her." Craig said.
"Yeah, I still love Sean too." Ellie said.
"Let me ask you a question, if Sean was here would you date him?" Craig asked her.
"Um, it depends. He hurt me so much when he left me and it would take a lot to take him back, but he was the only guy I've ever loved." Ellie said.
"I'm sorry he left you, I don't think you deserve that." Craig said placing a hand on her thigh.
Ellie glanced at his hand and then at him "thanks, I always enjoy our little talks Craig Manning."
Craig laughed a little "yeah, me too." He said right as Jimmy and Marco walked into the garage.
"Hey guys." Marco said both him and Jimmy noticing Craig's hand on Ellie's leg and how close they were sitting. Jimmy wasn't too fond of this picture.
"What are you guys doing here?" Craig asked them getting up.
"Um we have band practice Craig." Jimmy said looking at him like he was out of his mind.
"It's four already?" Craig asked aloud.
"Yep, let's get started." Marco said taking his guitar out.
"Hold on let me get ready and stuff." Craig said walking over to the other side of the garage to get his guitar.
Marco walked over to Ellie and got close to her and whispered "you and Craig were looking pretty close there." He smiled.
"Marco!" Ellie said hitting him playfully "shh." She said smiling; Jimmy eavesdropped but tried to make it look like he wasn't. He didn't really like this conversation.
"It's not a bad thing; you and Craig would be cute tog…" Marco was cut off by Jimmy turning around and saying "Ellie how'd your lesson go?"
"Um it was ok… no actually I lied it was terrible." She said.
"It wasn't that bad." Craig said from the other side of the room.
"Play us something." Jimmy said.
"Don't make fun of me." She said seriously.
"Ok, we won't." Jimmy said and Ellie played all that she had done in her short lesson with Craig. She messed up only once or twice.
"God Ellie that sucked." Jimmy said sarcastically.
"Hey!" She said grabbing her jacket that was next to her and throwing it at Jimmy "You said you wouldn't make fun of me." She said.
"Ellie, you just threw a jacket at me." He said trying to make it sound very dramatic.
"That's what you get for making fun of me." She said.
"Oh yeah?" He said throwing the jacket back at her, and when she got it she threw it back at him.
"Oh you're getting it now." Jimmy said walking over to her and placing the jacket over her head so she couldn't see.
"Jimmy, stop." She said laughing at the same time because Jimmy was tickling her.
"I'm going to fall off the chair." She said.
"Sucks for you." Jimmy said the two of them were laughing hysterically as Ellie was trying to push Jimmy away from her.
"Ok guys stop kidding around we need to work here." Craig said sternly, causing everyone to look at him. Jimmy backed away from Ellie and slowly took the jacket off her head.
"Sorry, dad." Jimmy said walking over to his guitar as Ellie laughed a little at his comment.
Jimmy turned around and started laughing at Ellie.
"What?" She asked him.
"Sorry, your hair is just going crazy." Jimmy said.
"It's from the stupid jacket." Ellie said trying to smooth it out.
"That's better." Marco said.
"Thanks Marco, my true friend." She said smiling as she shot that remark right to Jimmy.
"Ouch." Jimmy said.
"If you guys are done can we start?" Craig asked them, he didn't like this interaction between Jimmy and Ellie.
"Yes, sorry." Ellie said grabbing her drumsticks.
"Let's take it from the top of 'the ride'" Craig said.
"Five, six…five six, seven eight." Jimmy called out and they started playing.
Ellie and Marco were sitting outside Degrassi School the next day on the steps.
"So, Miss Nash, care to tell me about your current thing with Craig Manning and Jimmy Brooks?" Marco asked her.
"What thing? There's no thing Marco." Ellie said looking away from him.
"Oh sure." He said sarcastically "ellie there's obviously a thing, with both of them too." Marco said.
"Marco, I think you're imagining things." Ellie said.
"Ellie I know what I've been seeing lately, now the real question is which one do you want?" He asked her.
"I like both of them… as friends." Ellie said.
"Just a piece of info from me to you, they both have more than friends in mind." Marco said leaning back against the steps behind him.
"They told you that." Ellie said trying to hide a smile.
"Not exactly, but I can tell. And I saw that smile Ellie." Marco said sitting up and smiling back at her.
"I just think it's weird that either of them would actually like me in that way." Ellie said.
"Why, you're cute." Marco said "and I have high standards for girls"
"Marco!" Ellie said hitting him playfully "you don't date girls." Ellie said.
"Yeah I know, but I can still think they're cute, and you are." Marco said.
"Sean used to call me cute." Ellie said.
"Oh, is that why you won't give in to Craig or Jimmy? Sean's still in your mind?" Marco asked her.
"Of course he is. It wasn't just some dumb high school fling with him, we really understood each other." Ellie said.
"Well forgive me for saying this, but I think that there is more than one person out there for everyone in the world. Maybe you should give someone else a chance because you can't stay hung up on Sean forever." Marco said.
"I wouldn't say that I'm hung up on him, I just miss him. I guess." She said.
"See now that's why you need someone to get your mind off of him." Marco said.
"Oh like Jimmy or Craig right?" She asked Marco, knowing that's what he meant.
"Well yeah." Marco said.
"We'll see about that Marco." Ellie said leaning back against the steps behind her as well.
"Hey guys." Craig said sitting down in between Ellie and Marco.
"Hi Craig." Marco and Ellie said at the same time.
"So uh Ellie I was thinking about going to the Dot after school, want to come with?" He asked her.
Ellie glanced at Marco who was smiling to himself "um yeah sure." She said looking back over at Craig, now trying to ignore Marco.
"You're welcome to come too Marco." Craig said.
"Uhh, umm I can't. See my mom needs me to do some... things for her." Marco said trying to make something up quickly.
"Ok, well we'll be there if you want to join us." Craig said, even though he kind of wanted to be alone with Ellie.
"Thanks, look I gotta get to class. See you guys later." Marco said.
"Bye Marco." Ellie said and Craig sort of waved bye to him.
Craig moved down a step so that he was right next to Ellie.
"Now I have you all to myself." He said jokingly.
"Wow, that wasn't creepy at all." Ellie said sarcastically.
"Oh shut up." Craig said laughing.
Jimmy walked in the entry hall of the school and was getting ready to go outside but then he saw Ellie and Craig together, laughing and flirting so he decided to take the back route. As much as he liked Ellie he didn't want to barge in one whatever fun they were having. But he really did like Ellie.
After School Ellie and Craig were finishing up eating at the Dot.
"Hey thanks for inviting me, it's been awhile since we've like hung out in someplace public." Ellie said.
"Yeah, I know." Craig said. "But this whole hanging out thing wouldn't be complete without a game of air hockey."
"Oh you're so on." Ellie said hopping up from the table and heading over to the air hockey table.
"I guess I'll pay." Craig said putting in four quarters.
"Gosh, such a gentleman." Ellie said putting her hand over her heart, in sarcasm.
"Just play the game." Craig said as he starting hitting the puck.
A few minutes later the score was 4-4.
"Game point." Ellie said smiling at Craig because she knew she'd win.
"Whatever." Craig said as Ellie hit the puck over to Craig who instead of hitting it back picked it up and ran over to Ellie's side of the table.
"Craig what are you doing?" She asked him confused. He put one arm around her so that she was pinned against the table and placed the puck on the table.
"Don't you dare!" Ellie said trying to get her hand free but then he pushed the puck into her side so that he won.
"Cheater, you are such a cheater Craig." Ellie said hitting his arm that was around her.
"No need to get violent." Craig said putting one of his hands on each of Ellie's arms so that she wouldn't hit him.
"Oh well what do you want me to do then kiss you?" She asked him in a joking fury, but then the joking tone faded.
"Actually that wouldn't be so bad…" Craig said getting ready to lean towards her but then Ellie heard a voice from inside the restaurant.
"Ellie, hey."
"What?" She said looking over Craig's shoulder, only to see Sean Cameron.
"Oh my god, Sean."
k so that was the first chapter, please please review and tell me what you think, and also this one was mainly craig/ellie and like no seana little jimmy but there will be more of the other two later. Um tell me if you want the other characters in the show, cause i'd be happy to write about them too, but if you only want mainly sean, jimmy, craig and ellie then tell me in reviews. thanks bye