a/n: this is a note for all the people that read my story "flipped". i do have an update to make on that however, i left my disk at my friends house and have yet to go get it. so don't forget about it b/c sooner or later i will update it! but meanwhile, you can read this for your amusement. hehe

Chapter Six- Walls come crumbling down

Emma lay in bed that night and stared at the ceiling. This would be fifth night in a row that she could barely sleep. Her mind started to drift back to that afternoon when she had just ditched class to hang out with Jay. She rolled her eyes. What was wrong with her…skipping class to hang out with a person like him? Granted they actually had fun and talked and stuff…but still. They went to a park and just walked around. He dropped the little badass act and just talked to her like a normal person. He told her about his parents and she told him about her internet stalker way back in the day. A few hours later he had dropped her off at home and drove off into the sunset. Now here she was, sleepless with Jay Hogart on her mind. What was wrong with her? People like Jay aren't the kind of people that she should be thinking about! Suddenly she felt like her lunch was going to make an appearance so she ran to her bathroom that she thankfully had and emptied her stomach. She leaned against the toilet after and just put her head in her arms. She couldn't sleep, she was starting to get sick…and for some reason she wanted Cheetoes. She made a face…if this was being pregnant, she didn't like it! She jerked upright when a noise came from the other room, like something had been knocked over.

"What the hell was that?" she muttered to herself as she stood up slowly and looked around for something to grab in case this was a bad intruder. She settled on some shampoo, she would squirt it in whoever it was eyes. She opened the door slowly and a hand covered her mouth. She held up the bottle and made a move to squeeze it but something stopped her.

"Emma!"

She knew that voice. What the hell was that voice doing in her room at 2 am? She opened her eyes and saw Jay standing in front of her with a little smirk on him.

"What, are you gonna wash my hair for me?" he joked as he gently took the bottle from him.

"Jesus!" she yelled and hit him at the same time. "You scared the shit out of me!"

He shielded himself from her and backed away. "Sorry! But I just didn't think that ringing the doorbell was an option!"

She glared at him. "What are you doing here?"

He grinned what he hoped was an innocent smile. "Have I told you how cool you are lately Em?"

She rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. "Alex threw you out didn't she?"

He scowled and looked away.

"How the hell can she do that? It's your house!"

"I know! But they both have keys…the only way I can do it is if I get my locks changed."

Emma shook her head. "I can't believe that you have to change your locks so you can get back in your damn house."

"Yeah no shit," he said sitting down on her bed.

"So let me guess….you want to stay here?" she asked amused.

He attempted to give her puppy dog eyes. "I have nowhere else to go….." he trailed off trying his best to sound helpless.

She laughed. "Fine. But get off my bed…that's my area."

"Emma, we both know that we've slept together before…"

"Yeah and look what happened!" she yelled at him pointing to her stomach.

He winced. "So I take the floor then?"

She handed him a blanket and a pillow and crawled back into bed. "Pretty much."

He sighed and lied down. "Hey Emma?"

"What?"

"Thanks," he said quietly.

She grew quiet and smiled a small smile. For some reason she was able to drop off to sleep now with Jay there qausi-beside her. Like for some reason she couldn't sleep without knowing what was going to happen with them. But now he was here, sleeping on her floor. She looked back up at her ceiling and smiled and then dropped off to sleep.


"Emma!" a voice called down the stairs that next morning as the door opened.

Emma rolled over and her eyes twitched open. Jay….was there. Laying next to her….

She shoved him a little and he woke up slowly.

"What?" he asked groggily.

"What the hell are you doing in my bed?" she hissed at him.

He looked around. "Oh. I got lonely?" he asked a little smile coming across his face.

Footsteps came down the stairs slowly and he didn't realize it until Emma shoved him out of the bed.

"What the-"

"Em, who's down here?" Spike asked.

Jay's eyes grew wide and he flattened himself against the floor.

"No one…" Emma said getting out of bed.

Spike just raised an eyebrow at her and crossed her arms as if she knew she were lying. Jay quietly found his shirt and shoes and threw them on over his jeans he slept in. He stood up slowly.

"Sorry Spike. I was giving her a ride to school…I didn't know she'd still be asleep," he said offering a smile to her.

"Why are you a-giving her a ride and b-in her room? Most people knock on the door Jay," she said. Spike never quite forgave the boy for messing up her daughters life the previous year. She had no idea that they had gotten together after that either.

"Mom, all my friends come through my window. And it's my fault that I wasn't up," Emma said trying to get her mom out of her room.

"Fine. Then why were you beside her bed?"

The two froze for a second and then Jay leaned down quickly. "Dropped the hat," he said sheepishly and jammed it on his head.

Spike just looked at the two of them. "Both of us upstairs. Now," she said retreating.

Emma just sighed and got out of bed. "Great. What the hell were you doing?" she asked glaring at him.

He shrugged. "I'm sorry! I'm used to sleeping with someone…."

Emma suddenly put her hand over her mouth and ran to the bathroom leaving Jay standing there. He followed and found her throwing up in the toilet.

"You ok?" he asked as he leaned against the door jam a little uncomfortably.

She nodded. "Benefits of being pregnant huh?"

He walked in the door a little bit and found a washcloth hanging up and handed it to her. "Here."

"Thanks," she said quietly taking it from him. She got up and sighed. "Guess it's time to face the music?"

He nodded and touched her arm softly.

"Hey I'm going under it too you know."

She glanced surprisingly at his hand on her arm and then looked back at him. She took a step closer to him and his hand slid down to her waist slowly.

"Emma! Jay! NOW!"

Jay looked up the stairs, the spell broken and sighed. He put his arm gingerly around Emma. "You ok?" he asked again.

She rolled her eyes. "Yes Jay I'm fine. And why are you so concerned?" she asked as she followed him.

"Emma," he said in a no nonsense tone.

She averted her eyes. "Right."


Jay slammed the door to his car and leaned his head back against the seat. So much for Emma being the girl he thought she was. Spike and Snake grilling them both and she just kept her mouth shut. Even when they started firing questions at him and he tried to ask for help, nothing. If that's how Emma Nelson expected to get through life she was sorely mistaken. He started the car and turned the music up loud to drown out any lasting thoughts of her and peeled away from the curb to go to school. The worst thing about the whole ordeal though, was that at the end Spike asked him why he was talking to her daughter now all the sudden and he opted for the truth. He told them both that he liked her and he thought that she liked him too. Instead she just avoided their glare and got up and just stalked downstairs slamming the door behind her. Perhaps he was wrong then? But, they had almost kissed downstairs, so he knew there was something there right?

"Whatever. If she wants to fuck around with me, she can do it later. I'm tired of her shit," he muttered. This would be the last time Emma Nelson would enter his thoughts as a relationship prospect. He was stupid for even thinking that way in the first place. He had it made with Alex and he gave it all up for a girl that couldn't even acknowledge his existence. Well that was over now.


"And you just sat there? You didn't do anything?"

Emma shook her head and looked down. "I didn't say anything."

"Emma! What the hell is wrong with you!" the redhead jarred her by shaking her arm.

Over the past few days Ellie and Emma had begun to hang out sometimes as friends do. Ellie knew that Emma liked Jay; even though Emma never said anything about it. She didn't have to.

"Ellie!" she said sharply taking her arm back.

"Sorry. It's just…I know you like him Em! And we all know he likes you…so I don't get it. What's the deal?"

Emma sighed. If only she knew what was going on inside of her, she would tell her friend. But the truth was that she was so messed up it wasn't even funny. She liked Jay…a lot. But the practical side of her told her that earlier that had only gotten her in some serious shit and not to go there again. She felt like she was arguing with herself all the time and let's be serious, it was exhausting.

"Hello…" Manny called waving her hand in front of her friends face.

"What?"

"You were like…all dazed out there for a second," Manny said glancing at Ellie. Manny never really got why the two of them were hanging out and she didn't exactly like the way that Ellie knew things that only she knew about Emma. Or at least she thought only she knew. "What's going on?" she asked.

"Nothing," she replied shaking her head to rid herself of the daydream.

Ellie just sighed. "She likes Jay and pretty much didn't do shit about it when her parent yelled at them both this morning after finding him in her bedroom."

"Emma likes Jay? Oh yeah right. Just because she's pregnant with his kid, doesn't meant that she likes him ok? Listen Ellie, I know her a hell of a lot better than you do and trust me, she would have told me," Manny said smugly crossing her arms.

"She didn't tell me. She didn't have to. And a real friend would see how obvious it is…"

Emma toned them out for the umpteenth time as the droned on and on. Suddenly something caught her eye at the end of the hallway. It was Jay. Emma smiled a little bit hoping that she could talk to him. She took a step towards him and then saw who he had with him. Tricia Metcalf. Tricia was in 12 grade and she was…experienced. She cast her eyes upon Emma and rolled them as she realized that she was staring at them. Jay also looked at her but it was fleeting as he grabbed Tricia and kissed her hard right in front of Emma. He smirked and then walked on down the hall with his arm around her. Emma eyes grew cloudy. How stupid could she have been? She thought that Jay Hogart actually wanted to be with her and liked her? What a joke that was! Apparently girls like Tricia were more his speed anyways. And besides, it's not like she liked him back right? But if that was the case then why did she feel as though she couldn't move for the life of her. She finally found her legs and ran off the bathroom to clear her head, leaving her two friends behind that were just staring at her. Manny was looking after Jay confused and Ellie had a satisfied smirk on her face.

"When I say that Emma likes Jay, I mean that Emma likes Jay. Believe me yet?" she asked as she pushed past and walked in the direction that Emma went.