A/N: wow. i am soooo sorry that i like put this story on the back burner. i was actually living in FL for a while but now i'm home and determined to do this. b/c this story is my baby. so dont' give up on me! i will finish it...i promise. again, sorry for waiting so damn long and thank you for the people that stuck with me! muchas loooove to y'all


Chapter 11- The Blowout part one

Jay pulled up to a stereotypical blue house with a front porch and shut off the car.

"Umm…where are we?" Emma asked confused.

"My house," he said as he got out.

"What?"
He shot an amused look at her. "Not what you expected huh?"

She shook her head slowly. "Not at all."

"Trailer?"

She grew kind of red in the face and looked down as he shrugged. "Hey most people think that. I figure why not let them. Rachel?" he called out as they entered the house. Getting no answer Jay threw his keys down on the table and started towards the back room leaving Emma in the living area. She walked around slowly, admiring the photos from when Jay was younger. He was a happy child she realized with surprise. In almost every photo he was smiling or doing something goofy. She came to one that must have been taken when Jay was fifteen or so, she guessed with his blonde hair, and looked over an attractive girl standing next to him, about to push his face in some birthday cake. She laughed lowly to herself. She had never seen him that happy…what happened?

"What's so funny?"

She turned around to smile at him. "Cute photos Jay."

He smiled softly as he came up to the one that she was looking at. "I still haven't gotten her back for that."

"So what happened?"

He looked at her.

"I mean you used to be so happy. I've never seen you smile so much!"

Jay just shoved his hands in his pocket and looked away uncomfortably as a door down the hall opened.

"Jay?"

"What are you doing?" he walked towards her. "I thought I told you to stay in bed."

She made a face. "Well gee Dad I'm sorry. I thought I was allowed to go the bathroom and feed myself but apparently I was wrong. Is a grounding in order here?" she mocked.

"I hope you fucking leg breaks," he muttered as Emma laughed behind him at Rachel's comment.

"Who's the chick?" Rachel asked sitting gingerly back down on the bed.

Jay took a deep breath. "This is Emma. She's…my girlfriend."

Emma offered a smile but quickly retracted it as Rachel started to laugh. "Girlfriend? You?"

"I'm sorry…did I miss something?" Emma spoke up, hurt and a little confused.

"Jay never brings home girlfriends. Girls, yes. Friends, yes. Girlfriend, no."

"I brought home Alex," he defended himself.

Rachel just rolled her eyes. "Oops, must have slipped my mind," she said sarcastically.

"Anyway, she wanted to come meet you. So you met her, we're leaving now," Jay said as he grabbed Emma's hand and started dragging her to the front door.

"So how far along is she?"

They both stopped dead and stared at the girl who was leaning against the door frame.

"Excuse me?" Emma finally got out.

Jay shot her a look but his sister ignored it and kept going. "Well that's cute that Jay's calling you his girlfriend and all…but I'm betting he's only doing it for one reason. You're pregnant and he doesn't want you to get hurt. Isn't that right baby brother?"

Emma's eyes filled with tears slowly as she stood there and listened to Jay's sister go on and Jay was growing visibly uncomfortable and angry.

"You don't know what the fuck you're talking about ok?" he snapped at her.

"So how many beers did you have to give her before she touched you?" Rachel shot back as Emma tore out of the house. She collapsed on the stairs, sobbing her eyes out. She knew that people thought of her a slut now because she had screwed up with Jay and was now pregnant but no one had ever been that out right about their feelings. And to be honest…it stung. A lot. She could hear Jay and Rachel inside arguing but she didn't care. She wanted to get the hell out of there, as fast as she could. She got up and started to walk down the driveway as the door slammed shut and Jay came outside, visibly pissed off now. She just looked at him as he approached her.

"Are you getting in or what?" he asked as he opened the car.

Silently, she walked around and got in as Jay peeled out, music blaring. He lit up a cigarette and started huffing away. Emma's stomach lurched but she didn't say anything. After he actually made the effort to stop smoking for her sake, she figured out that he only chain smoked now when he was angry. So once in a while, she let it slide. Slide…much like her stomach was doing as he drove fast and the smoke infiltrated the car.

"Jay it's ok, I'm fine," she said softly as he pulled up to her house.

He rolled his eyes. "It's not fine Emma. My sister just called you a slut to your face and it's fine? I don't think so. Plus she involved my father because she can't fucking walk around the damn house," he said anger seeping into every word.

"Wait, what?" she said confused.

He just shook his head and kissed her quick and hard. "I'll just see you later ok?"

She nodded slowly as she got out and he drove away. She watched the car go and then turned to go inside but instead found JT sitting there.

"JT…hi."

He just looked at her and got up, shaking his head.

"Hello…JT?" she asked as she moved in his way."

"What?" he asked.

"You're the one sitting at my house," she pointed out.

He sighed and looked down. "I needed to see that she was lying."

"Excuse me?"

"Liberty. She said you were pregnant. And it was Jay's kid. I thought she was lying. I mean she was talking about you. I've known you forever Em. I thought you were better than this…" he said as he started to walk away.

"So that's it? You're going to disown me now because I'm pregnant? Did it occur to you JT that I don't want to be pregnant? That I didn't ask for any of this? And that now, more than ever, I actually need my friends?" she asked, her voice wavering.

He stayed silent, just looking at her.

"Fine. You know what, go. If you're going to stand there and be a little shit about this instead of being the JT that I know you can be then fine. I don't want you around. A real friend wouldn't care," she said softly as she turned to go. A hand caught her arm and she turned back around to see him standing there. She didn't say anything and waited for him to speak. Instead he brushed the hair out of her eyes and just looked at her, again.

"Ok, you're kind of starting to freak me out here JT. What are you doing? I think I liked you better when you were yelling at me," Emma said nervously.
JT cast his eyes down at the sidewalk and then just took a step in and kissed her. On the lips. And it wasn't a peck either. She pushed him away, surprise written all over her features.

"What the fuck are you doing!" she yelled at him.

"We've been friends our whole life Em. And for Jay to come in and fuck it up like this…it's not right. This whole thing ruined your life! And I just wanted to say…I'm here for you."

She looked at him like he was insane. "What about Liberty?"

He shook his head. "It's not really working out anyway. You know she gets really demanding and bitchy?" he asked taking another step towards Emma as she backed up.

"Gee that's a shame. 'Cause you see, Jay didn't ruin my life. I love him. And we're going out. The end."

"He doesn't know you like I do!" JT said clasping onto her arm.

"Let go!" she yelled at him.

He dropped her arm and just stared at her.

"JT, you're one of my oldest friends. You're like a brother to me and besides Manny I think you're one of the closest friends I have. But if you think I'm going to dump Jay for you…." She shook her head as she walked inside. JT stood there for a second, watching her go.

"He doesn't deserve you…" he mumbled as he walked away.


"Hold up, he did what?" Manny asked as she lied upside down on Emma's bed.

"I know," Emma groaned.

"Well…what did you do?"

She shrugged. "Told him to shove off. I can't believe he said that Jay ruined my life!"

As if on cue, her phone started to ring and she jumped up to answer it. She made a face at the unknown number and answered it.

"Hello?"

"Yeah, is this Emma?"

"Who is this?" she asked, putting a hand on her hip.

Manny sat up in the bed and looked at her confused. "Who is it?"

Emma just shrugged.

"Mike Hogart. Jayson's father."

Emma almost dropped the phone out of surprise. "How…how do you know who I am?"

"My daughter told me what happened this afternoon. I'm in town to help take care of her while her ankle heals," he explained.

"Ok…well how did you get my number?"

"Rachel gave it to me."

Manny was practically going nuts on the bed waving her arms for Emma to answer her question about who she was talking to.

"Well what can I do for you Mr. Hogart?" she asked, directly looking at Manny who almost fell off the bed.

"Jay's father?"

Emma nodded and Manny scooted over so Emma could sit down and she could hear the conversation as well.

"Please, call me Mike. And I was wondering if you would possibly like to get together for coffee. I mean if you are bringing in my grandchild, I figure I should try and get to know you right?" he laughed slightly as Emma chuckled uncomfortably.

"Emma….don't do it! Jay would freak out!" Manny hissed.

"Does Jay know that you're here?" Emma asked suddenly.

The man on the other line sighed heavily. "He has an idea but he hasn't been home since this afternoon. If he finds out I'm here, he'd probably sleep on the streets then come inside. But what do you say about meeting? I'd love to meet the girl that tamed my son," he joked.

Emma looked around helplessly, ignoring Manny who was vehemently shaking her head no, and then a gleam came into her eye and she looked straight at Manny. She grabbed her arm and answered the man. "I might be able to. What time?"

Manny looked at her arm and then at her friend and her eyes grew huge.

"Sure, see you then," she said as she hung up the phone and closed her eyes, waiting for the explosion.

"Are you insane? Agreeing to meet with him? Jay would have your head for this and you know it! And you're seriously dragging me into this…why would you do that? Have I betrayed you lately? Because I've been keeping track and I think I've been a golden child lately-"

"Will you just suck it up already?" Emma asked her finally.

Manny shut her mouth and glared at her. "You're the devil and I hate you," she muttered.

Emma put her arms around her friend. "And that's why you're my best friend. Now come on, we have to go."

"I'm your best friend because I thought you were smart! You made me look good!" Manny called up to her friend, getting no response she groaned and followed her.


"So where's Emma?"

Jay turned around and saw Spinner standing there with a towel over his shoulder and he shrugged.

"Did you guys have another fight?" he asked shaking his head.

Jay made a face. "No we didn't have another fight. Nothing happened. She's at her house. I'm here. We don't live with each other," he said defensively.

Spinner held up his hands up in the air. "Woah, chill dude. I was just asking. Spazz," he joked as he went back to work.

"Whatever, I'm out," Jay called over to him.

Spinner just raised a hand in acknowledgement as he took some dishes to the back. He stepped out into the air and walked over to his car. He was bored. He didn't want to go home and he figured he'd let Emma have some Emma time. He reluctantly got into his car and started it up, driving to somewhere he didn't know yet. Fifteen minutes later he passed a Starbucks and a blonde walking in with a brunette. He slowed down as he recognized Emma and the reluctant Manny. They walked over to a table with an older man seated there and he got up and shook hands with them.

"What the hell?" he mumbled, confused.

The man came around and pulled out the chair for Emma and Jay got a good look at his facial structure and stopped dead in the middle of the street. There was only one man who looked like that and would be meeting his girlfriend. And now he knew why Manny looked so uncomfortable. He set his jaw and backed up, once again in the middle of the street, and pulled into a parking spot.

"So Emma, tell me about yourself," Mike said congenially as the two girls sat down.

Emma cleared her throat nervously. "Well I go to Degrassi Community School, I'm a junior, I live with my family and generally I'm a vegetarian," the words just came out of her mouth with her having no idea of what she was saying.

Manny was just looking at her, trying not to laugh.

"And you're her best friend right?" he asked turning to Manny.

Manny nodded. "Yeah, I'm Manny. And…Jay has no idea you're here?"

Mike shook his head. "I think my daughter said something this afternoon but no, he has no idea I'm physically here."

Manny just nodded, not wanting to get involved with matters that weren't her own. Whenever that happened in the past…things just got worse.

"So how long have you and my son been dating?"

Emma shrugged. "I think about two months…"

"Now I hope you don't mind me being so forthright, but you've only been dating two months and you're pregnant?"

Emma just sighed. "It's a long story…"

"One of which you have no business of knowing," a voice laced with bitterness and anger came from behind them.

"Jay," Emma started.