AN: Hey everyone…wow, all of your reviews make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, you guys are awesome! Thanks a million! XD!
So here are some shout outs:
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ScaryChick: Well, I can already tell you she doesn't say it wasa mistake, but what she does say, she slightly regrets (I've said too much, but there's a spoiler!). Thanks for the review!
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PhantomPunkEvo: Yeah, I could see her getting pissed off too, but will she? Just wait and read! Thanks for the review!
Emdee8907: Oh thank you! That was such a sweet review! It made me feel all tingly inside, lol…thank you! I'm such a dork…lol.
Dfreak: Emma is totally lucky! I'm not sure if I would want to get gonorrhea from Jay, but I would so love to kiss him! He-he…thanks for the review and thanks for congratulating me!
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Allie: Glad you like the mind arguing, I actually have real arguments with my mind like that so yeah…lol I know, so dorky. Thanks for the review!
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Thank you so much everyone and I hope you like Chapter 14!
R&R and please, no flames!
Lotsa love, degrassichick
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Chapter 14
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Emma walked down the hallways of Degrassi the following Monday morning, not a single person in the school looked happy to be there.
"Hey Emma." A voice said from behind her.
She spun around and saw JT and Liberty.
"Oh…hey JT, Liberty…how was your vacation?" she asked.
"Mine was good, yours?" Liberty asked.
Emma shrugged, "Pretty good, went to Joey and Caitlin's wedding…" Emma said.
"Anyb-I mean anything fancy there?" JT asked.
Emma rolled her eyes, "I doubt Joey got Fancy."
"Who's Fancy?" Liberty asked, completely out of it.
"Never mind." Both answered in unison as the three began to walk down the hallway together.
"Those two are just disgusting, I mean I really don't mind Jay but that's just…way too much PDA." Liberty said.
"What are you talking about?" Emma asked, suddenly becoming interested in what Liberty was saying at the sound of the name 'Jay'.
"I think she's talking about that." JT said, pointing.
Emma followed his finger towards Alex and Jay who were standing very close to one another with their arms wrapped around each other…making out.
Emma could feel her pulse rising at the look of them and she could feel her cheeks burning with both anger and jealousy.
That should be me up there.
You're right.
Emma glanced around before she noticed Chester walking down the hallway, somewhat close by where Alex and Jay were.
Oh my God, don't do it.
We've been over this before, don't even think about it.
Too late for that!
Emma glanced back and forth between Chester and Alex and Jay.
Chester was her neighbor, neighbors did other neighbors favors…or they could at least.
"What's with that look on Emma's face?" Liberty asked JT confusingly.
JT shrugged.
Emma felt her legs beginning to move towards Chester.
Chester glanced up at the blonde and smiled, "Oh, hey Emma what's-"
He got cut short when Emma slammed him against a locker, pressing her lips up against his.
"Oh my God…" Liberty said, watching the two.
"Where's my camera?" JT exclaimed, digging through his messenger bag, only to get a slug from Liberty.
Jay and Alex broke away from their kiss at the sound of the commotion going on in the hallway.
"Go Nature Freak." Alex laughed.
Jay had no idea what Alex was talking about, but he was almost positive that 'Nature Freak' was referring to Emma.
Jay glanced over towards where Alex was looking and almost felt his heart stop beating at the site of Chester slammed against a locker with Emma arms on either side of him and his hands holding onto her arms with their lips pressed against one another.
Emma broke away and removed her arms.
Chester stared at her wide eyed, "Whoa, Emma. I had no idea you felt that way…" he said with a small smirk.
Emma gulped and backed away.
Good job…
We told you not to do it…
"I'm uh…I'm r-really sorry Chester." Emma said before turning and running off down the hallway.
"Well, she's not always innocent apparently." Alex said with a laugh, "I gotta go." She said and gave a quick kiss to Jay before walking off down the hallway.
Jay didn't move, he stayed standing as everybody that was crowded around the hallway slowly disappeared.
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Emma ran into the girl's washroom and made sure nobody else was in there before leaning against one of the walls and crying.
"Why did I do that? I'm so stupid…" she cried.
She had no feelings for Chester; that was for sure, he was just a friend…and a next door neighbor…and the only person that was walking down the hallway at that time that she: A. Recognized and B. Knew wasn't already dating someone else.
"Why did I kiss him!" she exclaimed aloud.
She didn't even know why she bothered asking that, she already knew the answer; she hated the fact that Jay was kissing Alex, even though she was his girlfriend, she hated that the girl he was kissing wasn't her, she figured it would possibly cover even for a second all the feelings that she had for Jay, she wanted to make him jealous and she thought it would make him stop kissing Alex.
Just then the washroom door swung open, "Em?" Manny's familiar voice questioned.
Emma looked up at her best friend with her teary eyes.
"Are you okay?" she asked, walking over towards her.
Emma shook her head, "No…I'm not okay."
"I heard about your kiss with Chester…"
"How? You weren't in the hallway when it happened…"
"Two letters." Manny said.
"JT." They both said in unison.
Manny nodded, "He and Liberty were talking about it and I know that he mentioned that first you guys saw Jay and Alex making out so I'm guessing that that had something to do with it."
"Why would you guess that?" Emma asked.
"It's obvious that you like Jay, Em." Manny said, "I mean, you just slammed Chester against a locker and kissed him…that took guts."
"It's not the first time that I've done that, Manny."
"Trust me, I know." Manny said, thinking back to tenth grade, just then a thought came to her mind, "Wait a second…last time you kissed someone like that, it was in front of Jay and Alex too! You really do like him!"
"What?" Emma asked dumbly.
"Don't even try it Emma Lorraine Nelson, you like Jay Hogart! It's so insanely and completely obvious!"
"Could you keep it down?" Emma asked.
Manny smirked, "You do, don't you?"
Emma shook her head, "No…"
"Which is why you kissed him at New Years too, right? Because you 'don't like him'?"
Emma rolled her eyes, "He was the first person that I saw, okay?"
Manny rolled her dark eyes right back at her, "You can say whatever you want, but I know it's true. Why else would you put up with him?"
"Because I'm his tutor, it's practically my job to put up with him."
Manny rolled her eyes once again as the bell rung, "We better get going, class is about to start." She said before turning and walking out of the bathroom.
Well now that Manny knows about your little secret.
Emma sighed and followed after her.
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Emma walked home after school that day, snowflakes falling all around her.
She still regretted the fact that she kissed Chester, and she was seriously embarrassed about it.
As soon as she made it to her main walk, she glanced over towards Chester's porch, only to see him and his brothers all getting out of his mom's car.
He turned over towards Emma and smiled slightly, "Hey, Emma."
Emma waved back, "Hi Chester…could I talk to you for a sec?"
Chester nodded and ignored the comments about 'Hey Chester, your girlfriend wants to talk…' that his brothers were giving him and jogged over towards her, "What's up?"
"I wanted to talk to you about this morning…"
"Oh?"
Emma nodded, "Yeah…see…I don't really…uh…I don't really actually have…feelings for you like that."
Chester let out a small laugh, "I kind of figured that out when you apologized and took off running down the hallway."
Emma laughed slightly, "Sorry about that."
Chester shrugged, "Its okay…I kind of have a crush on someone else anyway."
"Who?"
"Darcy…" Chester said.
"Darcy Douglass? The tenth grader?"
He nodded, "She's really nice…and cute."
Emma laughed, "Good to know, but I just wanted to say I'm sorry…I hope you didn't get really, really embarrassed or anything by that…"
Chester laughed, "Who gets embarrassed by a kiss?"
Emma shrugged.
"Chester! Phone call!" his mom called out their front door.
"Well I better get going…I'll see you tomorrow Emma."
Emma nodded, "Okay…bye Chester." Emma said and watched as he jogged off through the snowy grass, she noticed he began to go a little big faster once he hit the driveway.
She glanced over towards the driveway and saw a red Civic pulling in.
She sucked in a deep breath and watched as he got out of the car and walked towards her.
"So…you looked pretty cozy just a bit ago with your boyfriend, just like you did this morning when you two were kissing." Jay noted.
Emma shook her head, "It wasn't-"
"Doesn't matter, let's just get in there and get to tutoring." Jay said and nudged against her shoulder, walking off towards the house.
Emma titled her head back and let out a small groan of frustration before following Jay into the house.
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The two hours that they had spent in Emma's house so far were absolutely full of tension.
Emma would ask questions; Jay would reply with short one lines like, "Yes" "No" "America" "Toronto" "57" and so on.
Okay, I can't take this anymore.
Good me neither…
"How come you were kissing Alex?" Emma suddenly asked.
Jay glanced at her confusingly, "She's my girlfriend…"
But you kissed me!
You don't really love her!
"Well, yeah but…" Emma drifted.
"Is this about what happened at New Years?" Jay asked.
Emma shrugged, "No, not really…it's just that uh…I didn't think that you would still be with Alex. I mean, you know, after telling me that you don't love her and all…"
"Well I haven't broken up with her or anything, she's still my girlfriend."
Well dump her ass!
Here, here!
"You're unbelievable." Emma murmured, shaking her head in disbelief.
"What do you mean by that?" Jay asked.
"I mean, you don't really love her, so why are you dating her? Good sex every now and then? I mean hey, you've done stuff like that before, last year for example."
"Shut up about that Emma! It's none of your God damn business why I'm dating Alex!" Jay yelled.
Emma got off the couch and backed away, even though they would occasionally argue about stupid things, he had never yelled at her.
"It's not like I can actually have the girl that I want anyway!" he continued to yell.
"Yes you can!" Emma yelled right back.
"How would you know!" Jay asked, getting up from the couch and walking towards her.
Emma could feel tears starting to form in her eyes, "Because I want you too!"
Jay's eyes widened at the sound of that, she wanted him? She actually liked him?
That was a shocker.
"I…" Jay said, almost at a loss of words. He simply thought of the only logical thing he could do at them moment, "I gotta go."
He backed away from her, grabbing his bag off of the floor and swinging it over his shoulder before walking out of the living room and out the front door.
Emma listened as his car started and slowly backed out of the driveway before she leaned her back against the wall and sunk to the floor, beginning to cry.
Maybe I shouldn't have said that.
He does like me though.
I don't know that.
I could tell from the kiss at New Years.
Well he was kissing Alex today.
She's his girlfriend.
Now you're starting to act like Jay, "She's my girlfriend" blah-blah, who cares?
I just think he likes me, I mean…
He left as soon as I said that, what does that prove?
That he's dumbfounded, obviously.
I spilled my heart out to him and what I get is a "I gotta go…" what kind of crap is that!
Maybe I wasn't the one he wanted.
Who else has he ever even shown any interest in?
Uh…
Exactly, he likes me, it's obvious.
But he never said that.
He didn't have to, he said "The girl I want" and then did you see the look on his face once I said "I want you too"?
That doesn't matter anymore, Jay hates me now.
But I love him…
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She likes me…Emma "Green Peace" Nelson likes me…
Jay knew that she had almost read his mind, she was the girl that he wanted, but he couldn't have her, even though people at school were okay with her being his tutor, it would be absolute insanity if people found out they were dating.
But now he knew that she liked him probably just as much as he liked her, and he couldn't change that.
He knew what he had to do.
He had to break up with Alex.
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Feelings have been revealed! Ha-ha!
Okay, so there was Chapter 14 and I hope you guys liked it!
R&R and please, no flames!
Lotsa love, degrassichick
Next chapter: What happens when Jay gets to Alex's house? Just wait and read!