AN: Hey everyone.

That was pretty awkward seeing that I had like 20 reviews on one chapter. That probably sounds really lame to a lot of you, but it was pretty surprising for me-makes me feel loved. Ha-ha.

Bel1011: I read and reviewed your story…pretty good (thumbs up)

Lizi: I totally agree with you, I love the idea of Jay and Emma getting together! Especially since in the episode Secret part 1 and 2 they somewhat kind of get together, which like made my heart almost stop beating so…yeah.

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Thank you everyone for the reviews and here is Chapter 2!

R&R!

Lotsa love,

degrassichick92

OH AND MY MOST IMPORTANT NOTE: I am so frickin sorry for the long wait for the update of this story! I had such a big writers block, SO SORRY!

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Chapter 2

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"Back so soon?" Emma asked, arms crossed over her chest.

"Yeah, yeah," Jay said and let himself inside, brushing past her.

"Let's just get this over with," he said and sat down at her kitchen table.

"Mind if I ask what you're doing back?" Emma asked.

"I just wanna graduate okay?" Jay asked, staring at the table.

"Okay…" Emma said and sat down across from him, pulling out her English textbook, "Is the only class you need tutoring with?" she asked.

Jay scoffed, "I wish, Math, History, English, even Media Immersion,"

"So I guess the only class you're good at is Auto Shop right?"

Jay nodded, "Yeah whatever, let's just do this,"

Emma sighed, this would take a while.

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"Em!" Manny Santos called out, running up the Degrassi school steps to meet up with Emma who was just about to open the door.

"What?" Emma asked, spinning around.

"Where were you last night? I called you after school but nobody picked up," Manny said, straightening her white muscle tank.

Emma looked over Manny's not so revealing outfit. She was wearing a white muscle tank with a hot pink leather jacket over it and a pair of faded flare blue jeans. Her dark hair was pulled into a ponytail and her white messenger bag was hanging to her waist.

"Did you try my cell?" Emma asked as they walked into the school.

"Yeah, it rang a lot, you must have had it on silent or something, where were you?"

"Library," Emma said, not wanting to get into details about what she was doing at the library.

"That explains it," Manny said with a laugh.

Emma returned the laugh and then saw Jay walking down the hallway with his arm around Alex.

"I can't believe she's even still dating that skeeze, I mean after what he did to her and to Amy and to you, it's disgusting," Manny said, "I am so lucky you're not doing that anymore, Em,"

"Do we even have to talk about all the crap that happened last year?" Emma asked, turning to her friend.

"No, sorry," Manny said looking at the ground.

It didn't matter anymore, now the remembrance of the Gonorrhea and what happened with Jay in the van was struck in her head.

"I wonder if he even thinks about any of that anymore," Manny questioned.

"Doubt it. Alex forgave him, Amy forgave him,"

"You probably forgave him," Manny chimed in.

"As if Santos," Emma said with a scoff.

"So you're going to tell me you haven't said a single word to him, of love or hate since last year?" Manny asked.

Well actually...

"Not hate and definitely not love,"

Manny nodded, "Which is a good thing, Jay's nothing but trouble, I mean he practically got expelled last year because of the whole Rick thing! Spinner did get expelled though," Manny said, solemnly looking at the ground.

"Forget about Spin and Jay, Manny. They're back now." Emma said.

Manny glanced up and saw Spinner walking down the hallway, "I know." She said, "I have to go though…I'll see you." She said and ran off, past Spinner, brushing against his shoulder.

Spinner glanced at her sadly before walking off.

Emma watched him before she felt something press against her palm and Jay walk off in front of her.

Emma glanced around and pulled the piece of paper off of her palm, unfolding it and reading it:

Emma-

Where are we tutoring today? I need to know where we're supposed to meet.

-Jay

P.S. Just slip a reply into my locker, I don't want to have everybody seeing Green Peace passing me note, especially not notes about me getting tutored.

Emma rolled her eyes at the ending note before tucking it into her pocket and walking down the hallway.

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Jay twirled in his locker combination and beat on it as it wouldn't open on him…again.

"Stupid peace of…" he drifted off once he kicked it and it popped open.

He saw a slip of paper tumble down with the name Jay across the top of the folded note, he knew it was from Emma.

He snagged it and unfolded it.

Jay

As if giving it to you in public was what I was going to do in the FIRST place. Anyways, we might as well just tutor at my house tonight. But not right after school I have to do some stuff, so just come over at like six or something.

-Emma

Jay rolled his eyes.

Six? That means I have to be at her house until late…damn that sucks.

"What are you looking at?" he heard a voice behind him.

Jay turned around and saw Alex staring at him.

"Nothing." Jay said and crumpled up the paper, tossing it into the nearby trashcan.

"What are we doing after school today?" Alex asked.

"Uh…I don't know?"

"There's a party at Amy's tonight, starts at seven." Alex stated.

"Awesome I'll pick you up at-" Jay stopped when he saw Emma walking down the hallway, giving him a reminder that he had to be tutored tonight.

"When?" Alex asked, stuffing her hands into the pockets of her black cargo pants.

"Actually, never mind. I can't. I got other plans, besides don't you have to work or something?" Jay asked.

"I asked Paige to take over my shift." Alex answered, "What do you have planned that I can't be a part of?"

"Just stuff. Don't worry about it." Jay said as the bell rang.

He gave Alex a kiss on her forehead, "I'll see you later." He said and walked off down the hallway.

Alex rolled her eyes and stared at Jay's open locker. She kicked it shut and stalked off down the hallway.

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Emma thanked Manny for the ride home and got out of the car, racing up her porch steps and going inside.

"Dad?" she called out for Snake.

She saw Snake come down the hallway with a baseball cap over his forehead, "Hey Emma." He said with a smile.

"Hey…heading out for your checkups?" she asked.

Snake nodded regretfully, "But of course. Your mom and I are going out to dinner however after she gets off work so would it be okay if you watched Jack tonight? We'll be back around midnight at the latest, we're meeting Joey and Caitlin for drinks after so…"

"Sure…I guess." Emma said with a shrug.

"Alright, thanks Em. Here's my cell and here's the number of the restaurant we'll be at. You know that if you have any trouble with anything just call, we'll pick up." He said and handed her over a piece of paper with phone numbers scribble on it.

Emma nodded, "Okay."

"Thanks Em…see you later." Snake said, planting a kiss on his forehead and then walking over to Jack who was sitting on his little tricycle.

"See you later kiddo." Snake said, raking his hands through what little of brown curls he had.

"See you guys." He said with a wave and walked out the door.

"Bye." She said to the closed door and then glanced over at Jack who was staring at her with his dopey gray eyes.

She crumpled up the paper and tossed it to the floor before walking over to her brother.

She glanced at him with a smile before swooping him up, "You tired?"

Jack nodded slightly, "Yes."

Ever since Jack's first word was "Snake" which everybody found quite humorous, it's seemed as if he learned five words a day, which they thought was very good.

"Then come on, let's lay you down." She said with a smile and walked him into his bedroom.

He still had a crib but Spike and Snake were planning on getting him a real bed as soon as he hit his third birthday in a few weeks. She wasn't sure if it would really happen however, they barely had any money anymore with Snake's hospital bills and him no longer working at Degrassi.

Spike took every open shift she possibly could and was working another job every other night as a bartender, the thought of her mom working in a bar drove Emma crazy but it paid the bills so she couldn't really complain.

Jack lay down and grabbed his blue blanket, covering himself up with it and closing his eyes.

"Night, Buddy…I love you."

"Night Emmy." Jack said.

She knew it wouldn't be goodnight though, he'd be up in an hour, hungry for food.

This whole, going out to dinner and then out for drinks thing really screwed up Emma's plans.

She was expecting her mom to be home at six o'clock so that she could watch Jack and then Emma would be able to tutor Jay without any distractions but now that wouldn't happen.

Now she would have to baby-sit Jack and tutor Jay at the same time!

She walked out of Jack's bedroom and down the hallway; her bag was sitting on the floor, with her textbooks for her homework in it.

She pulled out her books and decided to get a start on her homework since Jay would be there at six and she wouldn't be able to do her homework then because he would be at her house until probably midnight!

She scribbled down her math rapidly, working each problem as best as she could before moving onto her English.

It was gonna be a long night.

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By the time six o'clock rolled around, she had finished her homework, fed Jack, bathed Jack, and fallen asleep.

Jay rolled his eyes as he pounded on her door for a fifth time before he finally just stepped in.

"You can't just answer the door like a normal person, can you Green Peace?" he asked as he walked into the living room.

He saw Jack sitting on the floor watching a videotape and Emma laying on the couch with a blanket draped over her shoulders.

"I put the blankey on her." Jack beamed.

Jay smiled weakly at him, "How long has she been asleep?" he asked.

"Since um…I don't know time." Jack said with a shrug.

Jay let out a laugh; it was stupid of him to have asked a toddler about time.

Emma had her head tilted to the side with a book open in her hand.

He walked over to her and pulled the blanket over her more so she wasn't freezing.

He watched for a second as Jack giggled to the cartoon he was watching before he grabbed the Math textbook off of the table and turned to a page, reading the problems and seeing if he could figure them out for himself.

Each time he saw an E in the book though, for some reason he always would stare at Emma.

E…Jay stopped and glanced at Emma before shaking his head and glancing back at the problem, EFxY+3-7xA…what the hell is that supposed to mean!

Jay sighed, if he couldn't understand a thing written in the book, how was he ever going to graduate?

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Okay, I know it was kind of crappy…sorry!

R&R and I'll be sure to have the next chapter up WAY sooner than it took to get this one up…I PROMISE!

Lotsa love, degrassichick