Hey everyone! As usual I have to say, thank you so much for the reviews! Here are my shout outs:
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Idontknowanything: I'm glad you liked the Jay/Manny fight, I figured someone had to get mad at him for what he said, so why not Manny? Ha-ha…I definitely wish Jay was in the show more but sadly, he's not. Hopefully in Season 5 he'll be like a real main character though and have a place on the theme song and then he'll realize that he really likes Emma and…(okay now is the part where I make my predictions about them getting together…so I won't!) yeah, you get the point! Anyways, thanks for the review!
sethsduck17: Glad you liked the Jay/Manny fight; she definitely did always have a flare! Plus, she's never really liked Jay that much so…yeah. I definitely made sure I tried to keep JT in character because he's just so…JT-like! Definition: Dorky, funny, cool, adorable! (My friend is absolutely in love with Ryan Cooley and she was over when I was writing the chapter and she was like "Put JT in it!" so I did, it kind of fit with the whole being mad at Jay thing so yeah.) I agree Jay is an asshole but I'd probably date him any day, lol. So anyways, thanks for the review! And you're welcome for the one I left on your story, it's really good!
Icantstopthinkingofyou: Yay Emma and Manny, lol. I want her to get back with him too…but will it happen in this chapter? Hmm…lol. Yep, you can't really get hotter than Jay (well actually Johnny Depp is hotter than Mike Lobel but still, Mike Lobel is absolutely gorgeous/fine/adorable/cute/hot! My background on my computer is actually like this strip of pictures of Jay and Emma so yeah, it's so cute…I also have one of just Mike, he's so cute in the pictures…lol)! He-he, thanks for the review!
Dfreak: Yes, Emma and Jay have to be together! They do! (lol) Don't worry, they won't hate each other for too long, thanks for the review!
Thengrl13: Yeah, I don't want them to stay mad at each other for long either! And you're right, he wasn't about to tell the whole school "I love this girl!" so yeah, lol. Thanks for the review!
Plastic Strawberries: Yeah, Manny's cool. Thanks for the review; I'm glad you liked it!
Saraofthedead: Yeah, that was cool that Manny stuck up for Emma…I wish my friends would stick up for me! (Nah, jk…they do…lol :p) Thanks for the review!
Blondenhot: Well here's Chapter 19! Thanks for the review!
Allie: Well that was a bit of a different reaction for Manny, lol. But that's cool, I agree she shouldn't meddle but she was sticking for her friend, but hopefully it won't ruin their chances of getting together. Thanks for the review! Hope you like this chapter! XD!
PrudencePiperHalliwell: (Ponders for a minute) this chapter kind of has a few fluffy moments in it, lol. Thanks for the review!
Afamily123: My biggest problem in writing for people was that I was usually way too descriptive (I would put every single detail in it and it drove people nuts), so that's cool that you liked the fact that it was descriptive. Thanks for the review! Glad you liked it!
Cutechica: Thanks for the review! I figured Emma should tell someone that they were dating so it was either I would have Emma tell Manny and then the fight or I would have Emma leave and then Manny get in the fight with Jay and he wound up telling her but I decided to do it this way instead, hope you like this chapter!
xXmannyXx: You're reviews always me feel good! He-he…I'm glad you like the story! And I agree that Jay is possible like the hottest jackass ever, lol. Thanks for the review!
PhantomPunkEvo: I love stories where Manny and Emma are friends too. And you love Dramione? Draco and Hermione? Me too! (Hehe) Thanks for the review!
BlackOwl892006: Okay, I'll post more (lol), if you insist…hehe. The way you put the conversation for them getting back together actually gave me a good idea so thanks for that! Anyways, thanks for the review!
Linzer-B: You'll see who Emma winds up going to the dance with in this chapter. Good update on your story, by the way. So here's my part of the deal: a new chapter! Thanks for the review!
Alchemy Dream: Your boyfriend dumped you for pot? Damn, Manny should have been there…that is wrong! Yeah, I'm glad you liked the less mushy part of my story, lol. Thanks for the review! And you're welcome for me reading your story, it's really good!
JeSsTeR: Yep, Jay is being an ass. And yep, that is what we love about Jay, lol. Thanks for the review!
Redkisses4yoo: "I think your stories are better than the show hun!" Wow…seriously? That made me feel good! Thanks!
Tazitz: Is he going to go over? Um…you'll see! Thanks for the review!
Mickey Mouse Gloves: Hey, good to see you again! Lol…thanks for the review!
Stephanie: Yep, always good to have friends! Thanks for the review!
And to everyone else: chealsea, knightsgurl, queenie12, Miss Elisa Tenant, be11011, Anigen, Courtney, Jessica, Jadalynn, Lena Le2006, Chels, and yalissa. Thank you!
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And now I'm in a really good mood! (Partly from all of your awesome reviews plus I'm listening to one of my fave songs, Just the Girl by The Click Five…anyone else like it?)
Anyways, thank you so much for the reviews everyone!
So here's Chapter 19…it's a bit different than my other chapters in my opinion but yeah, hope you like it!
R&R and please, no flames!
Lotsa love, degrassichick
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Chapter 19
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"Well, that was fun." JT sighed sarcastically, pressing stop on the remote.
"Oh don't even." Manny said, turning to look at him, "You were crying!"
JT shook his head, his eyes glossy, "I did not."
They got up from their positions and dumped both empty tubs in the trash can and placed their cups in the sink.
"So, another movie anyone?" JT asked, looking at all the cases.
"Footloose!" Manny exclaimed.
"Girly." JT replied.
"It is not!"
"Is too."
Emma left the two to their bickering as she walked into the kitchen and helped Toby clean up the cups.
"So, heard about the whole Jay thing…" Toby mentioned.
"Yeah." Emma replied quietly.
Toby turned to look at her, "You okay?"
Emma nodded, "Yeah, I'll be fine. It's just Jay being Jay."
"Yeah, he is a jerk…I mean after what he did to Rick and everything."
Emma sighed; she knew that Toby and Rick had become somewhat friends the year before.
"So…" Emma drifted, placing a clean and wet cup into the other half of the sink where the dish drainer was.
"About the dance…do you want to go together? As friends, of course." Toby questioned.
Emma looked down at the sink in thought.
It's not like Jay's going to be going anyway.
Like I'd go with him!
I would, we're technically still together…
Say yes!
Say…er…fine just say yes.
"Okay." Emma concluded.
Toby smiled slightly before JT's voice yelled.
"She's trying to kill me!" JT exclaimed.
Emma sat down her cup and walked into the living room, where Manny had JT pinned to the couch.
"Guys what are you doing?" Emma asked confusingly.
"Nothing." Manny said, hopping off of JT and landing on the floor.
JT scoffed and sat up, "Tell that to my stomach, I think it's bruised."
"They were just play-fighting." Liberty said with an eye roll, "Toby how are the cups coming?"
"They're done." Toby said and walked into the living room.
Manny placed her hands on her hips before turning to Emma, "Can I talk to you for a second?"
"Sure." She said and Manny looped her arm through hers and pulled her off through the kitchen and towards the basement door before the two walked downstairs and into Emma's bedroom.
"What's up?" Emma asked.
Manny glanced at her out of the corner of her eye, "How come you didn't tell me sooner that you were with Jay?"
"It was supposed to be kept a secret." Emma said, "We weren't going to tell anyone until we both thought the timing was right."
"That's what Jay said." Manny said with a sigh.
"Jay said?" Emma asked confusingly, "You talked to Jay?"
"More like yelled at him but yeah."
Emma glanced at her in confusion.
"We got into a big argument in the hall during lunch. I told him that you deserved better and that he was a jerk for what he said to you, stuff like that."
"And what'd he say?" Emma asked nervously.
Manny sighed, "He just kept on saying how he didn't mean anything that he said and that you would know that. Then I told him that you took it seriously…"
Emma nodded, "Yeah, I did."
"Then I told him to find a new tutor." Manny said, "I was pretty close to saying that you were going to go to the dance with Toby but I figured that'd be kind of unfair since you're not and all…"
"Actually I told Toby that I would go to the dance with him."
Manny's mouth dropped open, "Seriously?"
Emma nodded, "Just as friends, though."
Manny grinned, "Cool, well you can hang out with me and JT and Liberty then."
"What about Spinner? Aren't you going with him?"
Manny shook her head, "We-"
"Broke up?"
Manny nodded, "Yeah, I was going to tell you today at our lockers but then all of that stuff with Jay happened so…"
Emma nodded in understanding, "Why did you guys break up?"
"I dumped him." Manny stated, "Seriously, he would not shut up about Paige and quit whining about his job, it drove me crazy!"
"He was still talking about Paige?"
Manny nodded, "All too much…especially for an ex. I mean, anytime that he would see her with Mr. Oleander he would be like, 'He thinks he's so cool because he gets to date someone like Paige and he's really as old as her brother…' it drove me insane! "
Emma laughed.
"So now I'm going to the dance with JT and Liberty, which would now be JT, Liberty, Toby, and you." Manny said.
Emma smirked and nodded.
The two walked back upstairs and saw that Toby, Liberty, and JT were all sitting on the floor next to the coffee table, writing stuff on a notebook.
"Guys, what are you doing?" Emma asked.
"We've come up with a proposition." JT stated, trying to sound professional.
"For what…?" Manny questioned.
Liberty glanced over at them, "Normally this would not be my style but the guys thought it sounded fun."
"What sounded fun?" Manny and Emma both asked in unison.
"Well…" JT said, "Since you're parents are out for a few more days, we've decided that we would throw-"
"-a house party." Liberty finished.
Emma's eyes widened, "No…no way…no way can we have a party here."
"Em, it'll be fun!" Manny exclaimed, bumping her shoulder against Emma's.
"It'll be trouble is what it'll be." Emma corrected.
"Emma, you never do anything fun." JT pouted.
"Haha." She said to him sarcastically.
Toby glanced at her with a questioning look in his eyes, "What if we just invited a few grade eleven's over and just had a pizza party or something."
Manny scoffed, "A pizza party? What grade are we in? Five?"
"I can't throw a party you guys, I would get in way to much trouble."
"Em." Manny said, turning to look at her, "Today is Tuesday, you're parents won't be home until like Saturday, that gives us time to have the party on Friday."
"We just can't you guys." Emma said.
JT and Liberty looked at each other before turning back towards her, "Yes we can."
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"This is all right?" Emma asked, glancing over at them, the notebook in her hand.
"Yep." JT replied, "That's the guest list."
Emma ran over it one more time, Manny Santos, JT Yorke, Toby Isaacs, Liberty Van Zandt, Chester Monroe, Darcy Douglass, Chante Davis, Danny Van Zandt, Craig Manning, Ashley Kerwin ("Because of Craig." Liberty stated), Chad Monroe, Chuck Monroe, Amy Clark, Danielle Fargo.
"So counting you that's fifteen people." Manny stated, "Of course I don't see why you would invite Craig and Ashley."
Emma rolled her eyes, "So I think we should make flier like invitations and hand one out to each person." Emma said.
"Well aren't you professional?" Toby asked with a laugh.
"So Manny you'll be in charge of invites, Toby and Liberty you guys are on snacks and JT you'll do party supplies." Emma said.
"What about you?" Liberty asked.
Emma scoffed, "I didn't even want to throw my party so I won't be in charge of it."
Her four friend's mouths all dropped open.
"Kidding!" Emma exclaimed, "I'm going to help decorate."
The five went over a few more plans before the four left the house and left Emma to her lonesome once more…only now she was a bit more occupied.'
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Manny walked into school early the next day with eight fliers in her hand, each paper a different bright color. She would have had fifteen but Chester's counted for three and Emma, JT, Toby, Liberty, and she didn't need one.
She walked down the hallways and pulled out some tape, ripping it off and sticking one invitation to each of the guest's locker.
She smiled with accomplishment as the final flier, a bright pink one, was taped onto the locker of Chante Davis.
She tossed the tape into her purse before hurrying off down the hallway as the students began to walk through the hallways.
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Jay walked down the hall, noticing a few students were all reading over these neon colored papers.
He noticed one taped onto the locker of Ashley Kerwin, who was out sick for the day, and decided to look at it:
PARTY! PARTY! PARTY!
You have been invited to the Nelson and Company House Party!
It will be held at Emma Nelson's house on Friday January 20 around 6 PM.
807 Crestwood Circle
Be There or Be Square!
Jay read over it once more before a few more students gathered around, all reading the message on the locker.
He heard people talking about it as they walked away from the locker saying things like "I know where I'll be on Friday" "Manny Santos is gonna be there!" "I'll have to have my brother pick up a few cases of beer."
He shrugged slightly before turning and walking off down the hallway.
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Emma paced around her house on Friday one hour before the party started.
"My parents are going to kill me…why did I agree to this?" she asked.
Manny rolled her eyes as she examined her fingernails on Emma's couch, "Because you knew it would be fun. Besides it's only like 14 people, nobody is going to kill you." She said, glancing around the room.
They put streamers up along the walls, filled the dining room table with chips, sodas, cookies, pretzels, punch, and slices of store bought chocolate cake sitting on small plates.
JT had brought over one of his old stereos and it was now sitting on the coffee table with a stack of CD's beside it.
"And we'll help you clean up after the party is over." Liberty stated, walking into the living room from where she had been upstairs.
Emma sighed and flopped onto the couch beside Manny, "So everything will be fine?"
"Yes!" both girls exclaimed in unison for what felt like the fifth time in the past fifteen minutes.
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"This is not fine!" Emma shouted over the loud music blasting from the stereo, "Manny!" she shouted for her best friend but couldn't see her through the swarm of people that was way more than fourteen.
She saw people she didn't even know and people that looked way to old to be going to Degrassi.
"This is a disaster." She stated, running a hand through her blonde hair.
"We'll figure something out." JT said from behind her.
Emma turned to face him, "Well it better be fast, I think I saw Mr. Oleander walking through here a second ago!"
"Uh yeah, he's here with Paige." JT said.
"Paige is here!" Emma exclaimed, "Oh my God." she said, tilting her head back and groaning, "This is horrible on so many levels."
"I'll catch up with you later." JT said, "I think people are starting to believe that that vase that your mom loves is a beach ball."
As he began to walk away he turned back towards her once more, "Oh, and don't drink any punch…" he said before turning and walking off towards the main foyer where there was a big circle of people tossing around a vase.
I knew I shouldn't have trusted Manny with the invites.
Yeah, I mean she posted them out in the open on people's lockers, she should have known everybody would read them!
Maybe that was her plan all along…
Doubtable.
Emma continued to wander around the living room and til she felt her body press against something.
She backed away and glanced up, seeing Jay Hogart's eyes looking right into hers.
"Oh my God…" she sighed, running a hand through her hair.
"Some party." He stated.
Emma rolled her eyes, "Yeah, just what I was thinking." She said sarcastically before walking away from him.
"Emma!" Jay called after her.
"Will you go away!" She yelled over the music.
She walked towards the door that led her to the basement; she began to walk down the stairs, hoping that Jay wouldn't follow after her.
Yeah, right.
"Emma…" Jay said as she opened the door to the basement, only to see a couple making out on her bed.
Her mouth dropped open, "Get off!" she yelled.
The couple broke away and she noticed that it was Chester and Darcy.
"Whoa…uh…sorry Emma." Chester said, getting up off the bed.
Darcy got up as well, wiping her mouth.
"You might wanna fix up the hickey." Jay pointed out.
Darcy's hand slapped over her neck.
"I was talking about Chester." Jay finished.
Chester's eyes widened, "Uh…we're just going to go back upstairs…"
"Right." Darcy replied, "So we'll uh…see you later Emma, nice party by the way." She said before the two of them hurried up the stairs.
Emma sighed and collapsed on the bed, "This is a disaster." She muttered to herself.
"Actually people are having a pretty good time…" Jay said.
"What are you even doing here?" Emma asked, sitting up and staring at him.
Jay backed away slightly and shrugged, "Well-"
"We're not together anymore and I don't want to see you." She said.
Jay glanced at her confusingly, "Since when did we break up?" Jay asked
"What are you talking about? Since the hallway incident!" Emma exclaimed.
"You're not serious…" Jay said, "Emma, you knew I was just kidding."
"No, I didn't. And I can't believe you would say anything like that to me…ever!"
"Emma…" Jay said, walking closer to her.
Emma pushed his chest back, "Don't even!"
"I was just kidding when I said that, you didn't have to go and say 'Jay Hogart' like I was some-"
"It doesn't matter, Jay! I was just saying that to Manny to not make anything look obvious, then you had to go and say that!"
"Well it obviously didn't stop you from telling Manny that we were together does it!"
"She called you a jerk for saying that so I just told her that you were my boyfriend."
"So you stuck up for me?" Jay asked.
"NO!" Emma exclaimed.
"Sounds like it." Jay stated.
"Well it was...wasn't, it wasn't, okay?"
Jay rolled his eyes and smirked at her, "Yeah…okay. So am I or am I not your boyfriend?"
"Just get out of my house, Hogart." Emma stated.
Hogart…yeah, I'd say she hates you. Jay's conscience told him.
"Fine." Jay said, backing away from her before turning and walking up the stairs.
Emma sighed and flopped back onto her bed, closing her eyes and sighing.
Just then she heard a sound from upstairs.
"EMMA!" a voice screamed.
Emma shot up and hurried up the stairs and hurried into the living room.
"What?" Emma asked, quickly.
"I swear to God that I tried to tell them to quit messing around with it." Liberty said.
Emma glanced over and saw a huge mess of glass on the floor.
"Is that…?"
"Your mom's vase…" Liberty stated, biting her lip.
Emma sucked in a quick breath, that had been her grandma's vase before she died, passed onto Spike, Spike loved it more than any piece of furniture in the entire house.
"Party is over!" Manny called out, turning off the music, receiving many groans.
Emma noticed groups of people all walking out of the house, making it slightly less crowded.
Just then she heard another big boom coming from Jack's room.
"Oh my God." She said and hurried off down the hallway towards Jack's room where she saw a guy sitting on the floor, two guys standing close by him laughing, and large pieces of wood surrounding the guy on the floor's body.
She didn't know any of the three guys, but right now she hated them.
"That's my brother's bed you jerks!" She screeched, "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!" she screamed.
The guy's eyes widened and they walked out of the room, followed closely behind the guy who had been sitting on the floor.
Emma leaned against the wall of Jack's room and sunk to the floor, pulling her knees up to her chest and resting her chin on the top of her right knee.
"Did I just hear you guys broke Jack's bed?" a voice asked from another room, Jay's.
"What does it matter, Jay?" one of the guys asked.
Emma shot up from the floor and hurried towards the laundry room, where Jay was standing with the other three.
"He probably wishes he could have done it. I mean, why else would he go to a party held by Green Peace Nelson?" another asked, with a laugh.
"Yeah, especially since he bashed her in the hallway earlier this week."
"She's such a basket case, you were right calling Green Peace that Jay, we wish we could have."
Jay slammed the guy up against the wall and held his arm under his chin, holding him up, "Call her that again, and you'll be six feet under the ground by Sunday."
"Jay, dude…it was just a joke." The other guy said as Jay broke his grip from the guy pressed against the wall.
"That isn't a joke." Jay said, turning towards him.
"It's not like the kid is probably that special anyway." One of the guys chuckled, "Shit, he's related to Mr. Simpson and Emma Nelson, he's going to be a natural loser just from that!"
Jay punched the guy right in the stomach for that, "You're just pulling for that death aren't you? You don't ever talk about Jack Simpson-Nelson like that, especially not when I'm around."
Emma's eyes widened at the sound of that.
"So if you guys don't get your asses out of this house right now-"
He didn't have to finish, the three guys broke away from where he was and bolted out of the room and out the front door.
Emma gave a slight smile as tears filled her eyes; Jay had stood up for her brother.
"Hey JT Dork and Toby I-Suck!" he called out.
JT and Toby made their way towards the laundry room and glanced at him confusingly, "What?" JT asked.
"Get some more people and meet me in Jack's room." Jay said.
"Why?" Toby asked confusingly.
"Just do it." Jay said before stalking off out of the room and down the hallway, bumping right into Emma.
"Oh…hey." Jay said, stuffing his hands in his pockets.
"Thank you." She said quietly, glancing up at him with half lidded eyes.
Jay gave her a small smirk, "Don't mention it." He said in a husky almost whisper, before walking off towards Jack's room.
Emma felt her stomach flutter up as she watched him walk away before turning and walking off towards the living room.
She noticed JT and Toby walking off towards Jack's room with Chester and his brothers, Craig, Marco, and Spinner all behind them.
As soon as she entered the living room she saw Liberty sweeping up the remains of the vase into a dustpan before handing them to Manny who threw them into a large black trash bag.
"I'm not sure what we're gonna do about the vase…" Manny said, "But at least a lot of people are gone. JT and Toby just came in here and got a group of guys for some reason."
"Some guys broke Jack's crib." Emma said.
Manny's mouth dropped open, "Oh my God…"
"They wouldn't happen to be those three grade twelve's that ran out of here practically screaming, were they?" Liberty asked with a slight laugh.
Emma nodded, "Jay threatened to hurt them if they didn't leave."
Manny smirked slightly at that, "Just like a true b-"
Emma shot her look that immediately cut her off.
"A true what?" Liberty asked, glancing up at the two.
"Nothing." Emma and Manny both replied in unison.
Liberty shrugged before glancing around, "This is going to take a lot of cleaning up…"
"Hey, Emma?" a voice asked.
Emma turned around and saw Chester's brother Chad.
"Yeah?" Emma asked.
"Does your dad keep his tools in a shed or in the garage or what?" he asked.
"We have a shed in our backyard." Emma said.
Chad nodded, "Okay, thanks." He said before walking off.
"Why?" Emma called after him but didn't get an answer.
Just then two girls came walking into the living room, Darcy and Chante.
"Hey, will you guys help us clean up?" Manny asked.
Chante nodded, "Sure. Where do you guys keep the trash bags?"
"Under the sink in the kitchen." Manny answered before Emma could even speak up.
Both nodded and walked off towards the kitchen.
Liberty walked over towards the coffee table which had chip crumbs, wadded up napkins, soda cans, and pieces of cookies, chips, crackers, pretzels and other things that Emma didn't recognize as even bringing for the party, including pieces of watermelon.
Liberty put her hand on the other side of the table and pushed the remains into the bag.
"I think JT's going to be slightly mad…" Manny stated.
"Why?" Emma asked, turning towards her.
"I don't see any of his CD's."
Emma's eyes widened, "Oh my God."
"It doesn't go there you idiot!" the girls all heard a voice holler from Jack's room.
"OW!" undoubtedly JT's voice howled.
"JT?" Liberty called out.
"I'm fine…" JT said with a slight whimper, "Just Toby being…a…idiot!"
"JT!" Toby howled.
The three laughed and then Emma turned and saw that Chante was picking up things in the kitchen while Darcy was wiping up counters.
Emma smiled slightly before walking off towards the coat closet and pulling out the vacuum and walking back into the living room.
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Pretty soon, the living room was entirely clean, looking pretty much just as it had before her parents left.
The three girls walked into the living room and helped Darcy and Chante.
Manny wandered off to where Darcy was and started to wash off the table while Emma helped Chante do dishes and Liberty swept the floor.
Darcy and Manny began to put the placemats back on the table and smiled in accomplishment at the fact that the kitchen looked perfectly normal, except for the fact that there were tons of dirty dishes.
"Good as new!" a voice hollered from Jack's room.
Emma handed the plate she was washing and the sponge over to Manny before walking off towards Jack's room.
She saw the nine boys all standing up and Chad, Craig, and Marco were putting tools back in the box.
Emma glanced over and saw Jack's crib looking perfectly fine.
Her mouth dropped open and tears filled her eyes.
"You're welcome." JT said with a smile.
"Thanks you guys." Emma said with a teary grin on her face.
"Uh…Em?" Darcy's voice called out.
Emma stuck her head out the door, "What?"
"You said your parents weren't supposed to be back until tomorrow right?"
Emma nodded, "Right."
Darcy bit her lip, "Then they're kind of early..."
"What?" Emma asked confusingly.
"They're here."
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Dun, dun, dun! Haha, jk.
Well…I hope you guys liked the chapter! I know it was a bit weird with the whole party thing but yeah…
R&R and please, no flames!
Lotsa love, degrassichick