Hey everyone…thanks for the reviews! Here are my shout outs!
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Icantstopthinkingofyou: So all in all…Yay! He-he. I'm in love with Jay too, lol. Can't wait for this Friday's episode since well, it pretty much revolves all around Jay and Spinner! (I've already seen the episode cuz I couldn't contain myself to not watch it-hello, Mike Lobel! But still…can't wait!) So, A) Here's my update, B) Uh…to hold myself from saying anything about that…read the chapter! Lol…thanks for the review!
Saraofthedead: Yes, there is hope! Yeah…Chad and Chuck (I think those were their names…Chad, Chuck, and Chester, right?) are immature but oh well, everybody has their moments:p, thanks for the review!
Sethsduck: Yeah, I was kind of on this like big writing thing when I was writing that chapter and I was like "Oh, let's have Jay get really pissed off for some guys doing something to something that has to do with Jack!" and so the bed broke, lol. Helpless fan girl: Me too! (Waves hand frantically, haha) He definitely needs those brownie points, lol…not really but that just made me picture Mike in a girl scout uniform (places hand on head and shakes head in disbelief)…that's what I thought of when I read 'brownie-points' lol…yes, I am weird. Oh and yeah, I've seen Mike's hair and I SO hope he doesn't join the SHL with Shane, one guy with bad hair is bad enough! Thanks for the review!
XxAnGeL02xX: I hope they make up too, lol. Thanks for the review, glad you like the story! Jemma lives on! Hehe…
Queenie12: Thanks for the review!
Chealsea: Thanks for the review! I like the song too (okay, obviously…lol), can't wait for their CD to come out…
DegrassiGirlx3: Thanks!
Plastic Strawberries: Thanks for the review! I'm glad you like it so far! Oh, and I read your review on Unpredictably Predictable and then I read over my story and you were right, everybody was so out-of-character and everything…anyways, thanks for the review!
antiIRONY: Yeah, some people definitely aren't that lucky (thinks back to friend's party back in May…lol, it happened to me, real life story! Haha, it was bad…)…you're going to Toronto? Take me with you! Hehe, just kidding, I would love to go to Toronto sometime though! Thanks for the review!
PrudencePiperHalliwell: Thanks! XD!
Allie: Yeah…you're right. And I had to have someway for everybody to find out about the party so I just had her post them like that, I could have had her lose one and someone found it and showed it to everyone but…oh well, lol. Yeah, she better work things out with him! Thanks for the review!
Dfreak: Yep, parents just don't understand…always ruin fun, haha. Yeah, Jay's a sweetie, lol…I just adore his smirk (hehe…)! Toby is a total nerd! But no, he broke up with Kendra in the first episode of Season 4 when they were all walking up the school steps and they were like this,
Emma: Chris and I broke up back in June.
Toby: Kendra and I broke up in August.
Liberty: It seems that I was abducted by aliens over the holiday…oh and Towerz and I broke up.
Emma and Toby: Sorry.
Or something like that! Thanks for the review! XD!
Afamily123: Thanks!
Cutechica: Yeah, I hope they work things out too! Yep, he's a good boyfriend (not that I would actually know but in my story…lol). Not gonna give anything away about an 'escape-plan' lol…thanks for the review!
Sandy-Pandy: Yeah…I love long chapters! Hehe…the dance chapter is in this scene so you'll see how that all works out. But yeah, Toby is somewhat of a…freak, lol. I saw this movie on ABC Family called I Do, They Don't and it had Ephraim Ellis (Rick on Degrassi) in it and they showed this one scene at a bowling alley and I saw Jake Goldsbie (Toby) walking up to one of the characters and talking and I was like "Oh my God, it's Toby! And without glasses!" and my friends all stared at me like I was nuts, lol. Yeah, Chester's brothers are only in one episode but they were cute and I needed party guests (lol, no jk!). Thanks for the review!
Bridget N: Thanks for the review!
Courtney: Thanks for the review! I wasn't really sure if that would be like Jay to say JT Dork since it was more of a Liberty line (in Shout Part 2) but oh well, lol. Thanks!
Christii X: Hey, thanks!
Trace: Thanks!
OneTreeHillGirl: Yeah, I hope they get together! Lol…thanks!
BlackOwl892006: Okay, I'll post more! They're not back together…yet. But yeah, they are very cute together. Like in the episode Secret when they kissed in the van my heart sped up and I was like "Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God! STAY TOGETHER!" but they didn't make it even to the end of part 2! Sigh…maybe Season 5! Thanks for the review!
xXmannyXx: Jemma forever! Lol…I like her with Jay out of all other pairings, A) Sean was okay but…nah…I like him better with Ellie and B) Chris is such a jackass! I hate him! Ugh…he made me so mad in that episode when he was like "Maybe the ravine." and "Gonorrhea" from that point on, Chris Sharpe was so dead to me, lol. So yeah, Jay and Emma! Thanks for saying that this is better than the show, I got all fuzzy inside! Thank you for the review! XD!
Idontknowanything: Thank you! They're replacing three scenes in the opening? (Crosses fingers and whispers, "Mike Lobel, Mike Lobel" lol) I wonder which characters aren't going to be in Season 5? Hmm…Ashley maybe (since she went to London), possibly Caitlin (she left too…) and maybe…uh…I dunno. But wouldn't that be weird if like Heather Sinclair got a part on the show other than being talked about? Lol…maybe Chester will be on the theme song…okay, I'm gonna shut up now! Hehe…yeah, I doubt we've seen the last of Jemma either! Thanks for the review!
GirlGoneCrazy: Thanks!
Linzer-B: Yep, at least the house is cleaned! Awesome about your update, and thanks for the review!
And to all you other fantabulous (I love that word, lol) people: thengrl13, xcrazibabii69x, chavela2, be11011, Blondenhot, redkisses4yoo, yalissa, spikegothicchick, and Stephanie…thanks a million! I love you guys!
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I was just looking on this message board and there was this pregnancy spoiler for an episode in Season 5, a character is supposed to be pregnant and it was confirmed by some Degrassi site who it was, I'm not sure if it's true but just incase it is true and you don't like spoilers, don't read this! (Note: Spoiler here, don't read if you don't like them! Like I said, not totally sure it's true but…) But it says that it's Liberty…which technically means that JT would be the dad but like I said not exactly sure if it's true. But the people on the site said that it was even said by Sarah Barrable-Tishaeur…but once again, not entirely sure if it's true!
So anyways, here's the next chapter.
Hope you like!
R&R and please, no flames!
Lotsa love, degrassichick
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Chapter 20
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Emma's eyes widened, "They're here!"
Darcy nodded.
"Who's here?" Craig asked.
"My parents." Emma said, turning to the guys.
Marco's eyes widened.
"Okay…uh…you guys just go downstairs and go to my window and open it and crawl out." Emma stated.
"You want us to crawl out of a window?" Spinner asked.
Emma rolled her eyes, "Well you can't very well go out the front door, can you?"
"What about a back door?" Chuck asked.
"Whatever, just go!" she exclaimed.
The guys nodded and all scampered out the door.
Emma watched as Chad, Chuck, and Craig all hurried off towards the back of the house while Marco and Spinner hurried towards Emma's bedroom door and JT, Toby, and Chester all hurried towards the living room.
She saw Darcy and Chante hurry off towards her bedroom as well followed closely by Chester.
Emma glanced up at Jay slightly, "Thank you…again."
"It was nothing." Jay said, walking towards her.
Emma backed up against Jack's door and sucked in a breath as he came even closer towards her and leaned his face by hers, their breath mingling.
"Emma, what are you doing? Hurry up! They're unloading stuff right now, you don't have much time!" Manny yelled.
Emma broke away from Jay and hurried off down the hallway.
Jay flipped off the light switch in Jack's room before following her.
Manny turned off the light in the living room and flopped on to the couch, turning on the television and then the DVD player, pressing play to whatever DVD was in there, which happened to be Footloose from when Emma's friends had been over a few days before.
Manny fast forwarded it until it was close to the end before she closed her eyes quickly, everybody followed her actions.
JT and Toby sat on the floor and closed their eyes as well; Liberty rested her head against JT's shoulder.
Emma sat on the floor as well, Jay sitting close by.
She glanced up at him in the dark, barely able to make out his facial features before sliding her hand down close to his.
His hand lightly touched hers, his fingers lacing around hers, making her heart race.
Suddenly they all heard the door open.
"Emma?" Spike's voice asked.
Snake turned on the light in the living room and noticed the large group of kids all in the living room.
Manny played dumb and opened her eyes, glancing at the two, "Oh…hey Mr. and Mrs. Simpson." She said with a smile.
"Hey." JT stated.
"What are you all doing?" Spike asked.
Emma broke her hand away from Jay's and got up off of the floor, "Sorry, some friends came over for a movie night…"
Spike smiled slightly, "That's alright…"
"Jay!" Jack squealed from where he was in Spike's arms.
Spike sat him down and he waddled over to Jay who picked him up and hugged him, "Hey Jack Attack!"
Snake yawned, "Man, I'm tired." He said, "I think I'm gonna head off to bed. Don't stay up too late." Snake said, kissing the top of Emma's head before walking up the stairs.
Spike nodded as well, "Me too…are you girls staying the night?"
"I am." Manny stated.
"We're gonna head out…" Liberty said, getting up from the floor and pulling JT up with you, "See you Monday, guys. Bye Spike." She said before grabbing JT's hand and the two walked off towards the foyer.
Spike smiled at Emma before telling her goodnight and walking off towards her bedroom.
"See you Emma." Toby said, getting up as well and walking off.
Emma heard the door shut one last time before turning to Manny who flipped off the television and glanced at Emma and Jay, "I'm going to go downstairs…" she said before walking off towards the kitchen and to the basement.
"Jay…" Emma said, glancing at him.
"What?" Jay asked.
"Thanks…again."
Jay laughed, "Its fine, Emma. I owed you an apology anyway."
So where is it?
Don't be mean! He saved your butt back there!
Emma smiled at him slightly.
"I'm sorry, Em." Jay said quietly.
Emma nodded, "Me too."
Jay smiled and pulled her into a slight hug, Emma hugged back and he kissed her hair before the two broke out of the embrace.
"So, I'll see you on Monday…?" Jay asked.
Emma nodded, "And be here after school, we'll have a lot of tutoring to catch up on."
Jay smirked, "You're still going to tutor me?"
"Good pay." Emma said sarcastically before grinning at him.
Jay laughed slightly, "Okay, I'll see you."
"Bye Jay!" Jack exclaimed.
Jay turned to Jack and pulled him into a little hug, "I'll see you around, Jack Man."
"Bye." Jay said, turning towards Emma.
"Bye…" she said as she watched him walk off and then she heard the front door shut.
She could feel a blush creep up to her cheeks before she flopped onto the couch and smiled.
"Emma? I'm tired." Jack stated.
Emma nodded and got up, grabbing her brother and walking off towards his bedroom.
She got him changed into his pajamas before placing him into his recently rebuilt crib.
"Love you Emmy." Jack said tiredly.
"Love you too, Jack." Emma said before blowing him a kiss and walking out the door, turning off the light and closing the door.
She made her way into her bedroom and glanced at her clock which read 1:51.
"That was some party." Manny said from where she was sitting cross legged on Emma's bed, now in her pajamas which consisted of a white spaghetti strap tank top that fell to her belly button and a pair of sky blue pajama pants with clouds on them, Emma recognized them as her own.
"Yeah, definitely." Emma said with a sigh before sitting down next to Manny.
"So did you and Jay make up?" Manny asked, glancing down at her pink painted toe nails.
Emma nodded, "Yeah…"
"So you're back together?" Manny questioned, looking up at her.
Emma shrugged, "I don't know…"
"How could you forgive him after he said that?" Manny asked.
"The same way you could forgive Craig after everything he put you through." Emma snapped.
Manny glanced down at Emma's comforter, "I guess you're right…but I mean…are you still mad at him?"
"I'm still upset with him for what he said, I mean it still hurts but I forgave him."
"Did you kiss?" Manny asked, glancing up at her with a twinkle in her chocolate eyes.
Emma shook her head.
"Emma!" Manny exclaimed, nudging her best friend in the shoulder.
Emma laughed, "We almost did in Jack's bedroom though."
Manny laughed right back, "I guess that's a bit better."
Emma smiled at Manny, happy that she wasn't too upset about the fact that she had made up with Jay before Manny changed the subject to something about the party and got the girls wound up into an hour long conversation.
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Days went by and turned into weeks, pretty soon it was only one day before the Valentines Dance and Emma could be found in her living room on the couch sitting next to Jay.
They still weren't the same; especially in the sense that they hadn't kissed since the day before the insulting rally in the hallway, technically they weren't even together anymore, just friends, and not really even that around people…they weren't insulting each other around people, they just didn't really talk or acknowledge each other around people.
"You're getting better at this, you know." Emma said as she glanced up at Jay from where the two were working on his math assignment.
"I know, I got a B on a quiz yesterday."
Emma's mouth dropped open, "Jay that's great!"
"At least I'll get to graduate." He said with a soft smile.
Emma smirked up at him, "Okay well, it's a really good improvement."
"Thanks."
"So…are you going to that dance tomorrow?" Emma asked.
Jay shook his head, "Dances aren't really my thing; you are though right?"
Emma nodded, "With JT, Liberty, Manny and Toby."
"I bet that'll be fun." He noted sarcastically.
Emma jokingly slugged his chest, "Be nice."
Jay rolled his eyes, "So are we still tutoring tomorrow or what?" Jay asked.
Emma shook her head, "I'm supposed to go over to Manny's house with Darcy, Chante, and Liberty to get ready for the dance…sorry."
Jay shrugged, "No problem."
He glanced up at the clock and noticed that it was almost five, "We better go get Jack."
Emma nodded and he helped her up from the couch before the two walked out of the house together.
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"Em, you look great, don't worry!" Manny exclaimed, glancing at her best friend.
Emma looked at herself in the mirror; she was wearing a light pink asymmetrical spaghetti strap dress that cascaded around her knees and a pair of light pink kitten heels. Her hair was pulled up into a bun with a silver bun cap over it and silver chopsticks coming out of each end.
"You think?" she asked, spinning around.
Darcy smiled at her, "Totally." She smoothed down her red cocktail dress that fell right above her knees.
"What time is it?" Liberty asked, smoothing some clear gloss over her lips.
"Six." Manny replied, "The dance doesn't start for another hour."
Emma glanced at what her best friend was wearing, a pink cocktail dress with red swirls that cascaded around her knees and flipped out when she spun around, along with a pair of strappy red heels. Her hair was straightened and pieces of her hair were spiral curled and pulled together with a clip on each side of her head.
"Well I better get going then." Darcy said, getting up and grabbing her black handbag from Manny's dresser, "I'm supposed to meet Chester at my house at 6:30 so I'll see you guys later." She said with a wave.
"Oh, I need a ride." Chante said, getting up from where she was seated on Manny's bed and hurrying towards her as fast as she could in her white high heels, she was wearing a white dress with diagonal pink stripes on it that fell to her knees, "See you guys at the dance." She said with a smile before following Darcy outside of Manny's room.
The girls listened as they heard them walking down the stairs, clacking across the tile, and walking out the front door.
"We're all getting picked up here, right?" Emma asked, glancing over at Manny.
Manny nodded, "Around 6:45."
"So what are we supposed to do for forty five minutes?" Liberty asked.
"You're hair is not even done yet." Manny said and walked over to Liberty who was in the process of straightening her hair, "It's going to look so cool; I don't think I've ever seen you with straight hair."
"You better hope it doesn't turn out disastrous." Emma noted, remembering her parent's wedding incident with her hair.
Manny handed Liberty the straightening iron after going over the details of how to do it.
"I've got it!" Liberty exclaimed as Manny explained the details once again.
"Okay, okay, just making sure. Now don't over do it, and try not to get it stuck to your hair because it will burn…and get insanely frizzy." Manny stated.
Liberty rolled her eyes before taking the iron and walking out of the bedroom and into the bathroom.
"This is going to be so much fun." Emma said with a smile as she walked over to Manny's bed and sat down, turning on the television.
"Have you done your makeup yet?" Manny asked.
Emma nodded without glancing away from the television where a show on MTV was on.
Manny glanced at her face, "You sure?"
Emma nodded again, "Yeah, some light eye shadow and lip gloss."
"It's barely noticeable!" Manny exclaimed before grabbing her makeup kit and sitting down in front off Emma, beginning to put blush on Emma's cheeks.
"Manny I don't need that much makeup."
"Makeup just enhances your greatest assets Em, so quit complaining!" Manny said as she finished with the blush and reached for the lipstick.
Ten minutes went by and Emma now was wearing a light pink lipstick with a clear cherry flavored lip gloss over it, light blush on her cheeks and a silvery-white eye shadow on her eyelids.
"That's better." Manny said with a smile of satisfaction.
"GUYS!" Liberty exclaimed.
Manny and Emma both turned towards the door to Manny's bedroom.
"What's wrong?" Emma asked.
Liberty ran out of the bathroom and into the bedroom and Manny and Emma had to restrain from laughing.
"Oh my God…" Emma said, her hand covering her mouth.
One side of Liberty's hair was sticking out like a bush.
"Liberty, what did you do!" Manny exclaimed, shooting up from the bed and running over to her.
"Well the iron kind of got stuck to part of my hair so when I finally got it off I realized I had burned my hair and now half of it is like a giant bush and the other half is curly." Liberty said.
Manny's mouth dropped open, "Oh my God…"
"What are we going to do?" Liberty asked.
Emma began to giggle.
"What is so funny?" Liberty and Manny both exclaimed in unison, turning to her.
Emma shook her head, "Nothing…it's nothing, just…it reminds me of my parent's wedding."
"You should call Lucy and Caitlin." Manny stated, glancing back at Liberty's head with a pitiful expression on her face.
"What if you braided it?" Emma suggested.
"Braided it?" Liberty asked.
Emma nodded, "It's probably your best bet."
"Emma do you see my hair right now! How do you think it's going to braid!" Liberty exclaimed.
Emma shrugged.
Liberty sighed, "Okay, do you have any Vaseline?"
Manny nodded.
"Okay, go get me some so I can fix this."
Manny nodded once again and hurried out of her bedroom and into the bathroom, returning a few moments later with a tube.
She handed it to Liberty and Liberty thanked her before walking out of the bedroom once again.
"Her hair is a disaster." Manny sighed, "We should have just pulled it into a ponytail."
Emma shrugged, "Hopefully that Vaseline stuff will help."
"Maybe I should have just straightened it."
"Manny!" Emma exclaimed, "It'll be fine, relax."
Manny sighed before turning her attention back to the television.
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Liberty walked back into the bedroom a few minutes before 6:45; her hair was now all in little braids.
"Wow…" Emma stated, "I don't think I've ever seen you with braided hair before…it looks kind of longer."
Manny nodded in agreement, "It looks good."
Liberty smiled at the two before glancing at herself in the mirror, she was wearing a light pink cocktail dress somewhat similar to Emma's only hers had white hearts on it and it fell slightly below her knees and she was wearing a pair of white high heeled sandals.
Just then there was a knock at the door.
"That's our cue." Manny said, getting up from the bed and walking off out of the room, followed closely by Emma and Liberty.
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Jay sighed as he sat on the couch in his house; his parents weren't home so it was just him, his dog, and his television for company.
Maybe I should just go to the dance.
Emma will be there, I do want to see her.
Dances aren't really my style though.
Eh hem, once again, Emma will be there.
Jay jumped up from the couch before jogging up the stairs to find something more acceptable to wear…he was going to the dance.
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The friends all stepped into the gym and immediately saw tons of students all dancing alone, in couples, or in large groups.
"This is going to be so much fun!" Manny exclaimed with a grin on her face.
JT turned to Liberty and held out his arm to her, "May I have this dance?" he asked jokingly.
Liberty grinned and took his hand, tossing her purse over towards Manny before walking off with JT to the dance floor.
Toby, Manny, and Emma all found a table for six and sat down, glancing around at everyone.
Just then somebody approached the table, Emma and Manny both glanced up and saw Danny Van Zandt.
"Manny…" he stated.
"Uh…yeah?" she asked with a slight laugh.
"Wanna dance?" he asked, holding out his hand.
Emma smirked at her and mouthed 'Aww'.
Manny rolled her eyes before glancing back over at Danny and shrugging, "Yeah I guess, but if your hand even comes close to my butt I will break it." She said before getting up and grabbing his hand, hauling him off towards the dance floor.
Emma and Toby laughed before Toby tapped Emma on the shoulder, "Do you want to dance?"
Emma nodded, "Okay." She said before grabbing his hand and letting him lead her towards the dance floor.
She gently placed her hands on his shoulders and he let his find themselves on her waist before they began to sway together to the music.
She glanced around the room and at all the people and suddenly her eyes settled on a certain person walking into the gym.
Jay.
Oh my God…he came!
That's so sweet!
She saw what he was wearing, a pair of khaki pants and a white wife beater with a black shirt over it buttoned up halfway.
He looked absolutely adorable.
She smiled slightly at him before turning her attention back to Toby as they continued their dance.
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Jay ran a hand through his hair as he noticed Emma dancing with Toby.
What did I even come here for?
It's obvious she's with Toby.
God, who would go for him?
The song ended and Emma smiled at Toby before breaking away from him and walking off back towards her table while Toby walked over towards Liberty and JT.
Jay sighed as another song came on through the speakers; he recognized it as Listen to Your Heart by some band called DHT.
Emma glanced over at him and gave him a slight smile, and that did him over.
He walked towards her and held out his hand.
Emma glanced at him wide eyed as if to say are you serious?
Jay nodded and Emma took his hand shyly as he led her over towards the dance floor.
Emma noticed that everybody's attention was turned towards the couple, who were most definitely an unlikely site for the students of Degrassi.
"You realize everybody is watching us right?" Emma whispered.
Jay shrugged, "So? Let them watch."
Emma's eyes widened, "What are you talking about? You didn't even want to let people know we were dating…"
"I don't care Emma…" Jay murmured, glancing down into her eyes and saying something very quietly that she couldn't comprehend.
"What?" she asked quietly.
"I don't care what they're thinking. I don't care what they will be talking about on Monday. I don't care if they think that the two of us dancing is insane."
"Then what do you care about, Jay?" Emma asked.
"You…" Jay said huskily.
Emma's eyes widened.
"I love you Emma." Jay said.
Emma practically choked up, tears filled her eyes and she knew that her mascara would soon be running down her cheeks.
"I love you too…" she whispered, staring down at her feet.
Jay placed a few of his fingers under her chin and lifted it before the two's faces inched closer and closer towards each other.
And then it happened, their lips met.
Emma's hands slid up around his neck as his tightened around her waist, pulling her closer towards him as his tongue pressed against her lips.
She allowed him to enter and their tongues began to slowly massage against each other as they kissed deeply, not caring what a single person in the room was thinking.
Listen to your heart…
When he's calling for you
Listen to your heart…
There's nothing else you can do…
I don't know where you're going,
And I don't know why,
Listen to your heart,
Before,
You tell him goodbye…
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"Oh my God…" Toby said, as he watched Jay and Emma kissing in the middle of the dance floor.
"They've been together." Manny stated.
"What?" JT and Toby both asked, turning towards her in confusion.
Manny shrugged, "They were together when they were in the hallway back in January, they just didn't tell anyone."
"So they've been together for awhile now?" Toby asked.
Manny shook her hair, "They kind of broke up in between."
"I think it's romantic…wrong…but romantic." Liberty said with a smile as she watched the two kissing.
Manny glanced across the room and saw Alex rolling her eyes before turning and stalking out of the room, followed closely by Amy and Towerz.
Manny smirked.
Ha-ha, she thought to herself.
She noticed that the whole entire room had their attention completely fixed on Emma and Jay.
Manny sighed before grabbing onto Toby's hand –since Danny was nowhere in site- and leading him towards the dance floor and looping her arms around his neck, beginning to sway to the music.
Darcy followed, hoping to get all the eyes away from Jay and Emma, she held onto Chester's hand and began to dance with him as well.
Liberty smiled at JT and slid her arms around his neck and they began to dance.
Soon the attention was all turned away from the couple and to their dates and dance partners.
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Emma and Jay broke away and pressed their foreheads against each other's.
Emma turned and looked over at Manny and mouthed 'thank you' to her.
Manny smiled in return before turning back towards Toby.
"Did you really mean that?" Emma asked as the song changed to some song by Bowling for Soup.
"Mean what?" Jay asked.
"That you loved me…" Emma stated.
Jay smirked at her, "Did I stutter?"
Emma grinned and shook her head before pressing her lips against his once again.
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Sigh…they're you have it!
They're together! (Blows horns and throws confetti—lol)
Well I hope you liked the chapter!
R&R and please, no flames!
Lotsa love, degrassichick