Chapter 15- Information and Vertigo
"Ellie? Aren't you supposed to be in school?" Spike greeted her daughters redheaded friend. One of the woman in the beauty chairs clucked her tongue at this, the sight of a young girl just throwing education down the tubes to wander around the town.
"Spike…Emma's gone into labor, " Ellie gasped for breath after running there.
Spike dropped the bowl of highlighting formula she was using, much to the customers dismay.
"Excuse me?" she asked rudely.
Spike in turn looked at the woman. "Jenny will have to finish you up, I have to go."
"Who is Jenny and where is she? I don't see anyone named Jenny here…only you," the woman persisted.
"Hey lady, her daughter just went into labor. So you can complain all you want, or you can sit there and hang out for a couple of minutes for Jenny, who I'm sure is on her way. Either way, Spike is leaving," Ellie said firmly.
The woman's mouth opened to say something else but at the exact moment in time a young girl breezed through the door.
"Go Spike!" she urged as she walked over to the woman. "I have it from here."
Spike let out a breath she didn't realize she has been holding and rushed out the door with Ellie.
"Where is she? Tell me she's not at Degrassi," she urged with her eyes shut as if she didn't want to think about that.
"Oh no, Alex actually found her and took care of it. She's at the hospital with Manny."
"And dare I ask about the father of the child?"
Ellie sighed. "Oh he knows, he was woke up this morning."
"And…"
"He's trying Spike," Ellie said softly.
Jay sat there with his head in his hands. He had no way of getting to Emma, no way of seeing his daughter being born. He sighed and sat back on the couch and took off his hat and threw it across the room in frustration.
"What's going on?" a sleepy looking Dan asked as he came out of the room.
Jay sighed. "Emma's going into labor," he said, his voice barely audible.
"So go up there," Dan said in a duh voice.
"And how do you propose I do that? Rob a bank?" Jay asked sarcastically.
Dan cracked a smile. "Yeah that'd be great. Standing in line, 'Excuse me sir, how do you spell shoot you in the fucking face?' "
Jay snorted as his phone rang. "Asshole."
"Your love for me is overwhelming. But I'm sorry I'm not gay like you," Dan replied as he picked up his hat and threw it back at his friend.
"Hello?" Jay asked tiredly.
"Jayson."
Jay froze. "Dad…"
"Go to the airport."
Jay was silent. "What the hell are you doing?" he finally asked.
"Making it so you can go see the woman you love and your daughter."
"Dad-"
"I'm not doing this to make you like me Jayson. You need to be there."
His voice caught in his throat. "How did you know?"
His dad actually laughed. "Emma actually called me and begged me to help. She said that I was the only way you could come up. And if you couldn't be there, she wasn't having that baby."
"Emma called you?"
"Don't be mad at her son. She was doing what she thought she needed to do. Besides, this is my grandchild. Now go to the airport. I did everything I could."
Jay just sat there in disbelief. The very man he wanted nothing to do with, that he thought ruined his childhood…was moving heaven and earth for him.
"I don't…know…" he trailed off, his eyes actually becoming clouded with tears.
"I know. I know Jay," his dad said softly, using his nickname for the first time.
"Thank you," Jay finally got out, unable to say anything else.
They hung up a few minutes later and he sat back in disbelief. He never took anything from him before. In fact, he always swore he would rather die than take anything from the man that thought he was better than them. So why was he now ready to take this from him? And for the love of God, why the fuck was he crying!
"Okay…maybe you need moment?" Dan said jokingly as he came back in the room with a bowl of cereal to see his roommate crying.
"Shut the fuck up. And get dressed. We're going to the airport," he said getting up to pack a bag.
"Can I eat first?"
"No."
"Emma!"
"Hi Mom," Emma said, smiling as she laid in her bed.
"How are you feeling baby?" she asked as she smoothed her hair back.
Emma sighed. "I guess I'm alright. The nurse said I still have a long way to go. So apparently I can't just get it over with."
Spike just laughed. "Oh honey I wish it was that easy. I was in labor with you for 10 hours."
"Oh Lord please not that," Emma moaned.
"Any word?" Ellie asked.
Emma nodded. "I actually called his father. I told him what happened and I threatened not to have this child until he's here," she giggled.
"You called his father?" Ellie asked in disbelief.
The blonde just shrugged. "Last option. I knew he would help. It is his grandchild after all."
"So he's coming after all?" Spike asked. "Well do we know when he comes in?"
Emma rolled her eyes and sighed. "Tonight at like 5:30. By the way… I feel like I should thank Alex or something. I mean if it wasn't for her…"
Ellie shook her head. "She would hate you more if you reminded her she was nice to you. Although I will admit, it was odd that she was the one that had to take care of you…."
"Well now I can't say she never did anything nice for me."
"You're at hospital, in labor and you never thought of calling me? Are you shitting me?" JT demanded, somewhat pissed off.
"Well I've been here since like 8 am…." Emma trailed off, bracing herself for the angry outburst that was bound to come. Instead all she got was dial tone. She took the phone away from her ear and looked at it and made a face.
"What happened?"
"He hung up on me!"
"Well it is like three o'clock…" Manny pointed out.
"Wait a minute…schools out now?" Ellie asked looking up from her Cosmo. "You know everyone and their mom is going to coming here right?"
Sure enough, they started to hear an argument in the waiting room.
"Why did you bring me here again? I mean if Emma wants to have this child and keep it…that's her thing. I don't want any part in it. I still say it's wrong in the first place."
"You know what else is wrong Liberty?" a pissed off JT asked.
"What?" she replied sounding bored.
"The fact that she is one of your oldest friends and you are just being a bitch to her! The least you could do is fucking support her! Oh and…this relationship thing….it's gotta stop," he said as an afterthought.
Manny was in the room laughing as Ellie rolled her eyes. "Mom do you think he could get in here?"
"You can't have everyone in here Em."
"Yeah I know. But Ellie and Manny came in here with me and you. Plus you know he would never, and I do mean NEVER forgive me."
Spike sighed and went out the waiting room.
"Sir I'm sorry. Visiting hours aren't open right now. Family only," the nurse was saying.
"It's alright ma'am. He's my son," Spike replied as she JT walked into the room.
"Alright, they're here before me?" he asked raising an eyebrow.
"I came with her in the ambulance and Ellie came with Spike. So yes…we're here before you. Now sit down and be thankful you just became her brother, otherwise you'd still be outside in the waiting room with the bitch of the century. By the way, kudos for dumping her," Manny said as she went back to channel surfing.
JT just rolled his eyes as he kissed Emma on the cheek. "So you ready for this?"
"Does it look like I'm ready for this?" she shot back.
"Well apparently you didn't get a sense of humor…"
"Right because if I was going to get one thing out of pregnancy, it wouldn't be a child; it'd be a sense of humor," she said rolling her eyes.
JT turned to Ellie. "When did she turn into you?"
Ellie grinned and shrugged. "I'm quite proud actually."
"You would be," he snorted.
"Oh God," Emma gasped.
"Another one?"
She just nodded as her face screwed up in pain.
"That wasn't that long…what like a hour apart or something?"
"I am not having this baby for another two hours!" Emma yelled out.
"Should I ask…or this is just an Emma thing?" JT asked the room at large.
"Jay's coming in at like 5:30," Ellie said shortly.
"Oh how nice."
Emma gave her friend a look. "JT…"
He raised his hands in mock surrender. "Fine…I'll play nice."
Jay fiddled with the tray on the seat in front of him. Just another hour and he'd be fine. He had somehow managed to forget his vertigo until actually boarding the plane that morning. But now here it was…and he was dying. Suddenly the plane dipped down and his stomach lurched. Why was the plane doing that? It can't be going down…he had to get to the hospital; he had to get to his girlfriend. Oh God…it's going down. The one time I'm actually on a fucking plane and it's going to go down. This figures…Oh God…it did it again. Well this fucking blows… he thought to himself as he exhaled and gripped the armrests.
"Ladies and gentlemen we have reached our destination early today…" that's all that he heard before he tuned out. So they weren't going down…they just got there early. Jay laughed a nervous laugh and attempted to stop his heart from beating out of his chest as he looked around convinced someone had seen him almost wet his pants but no one was paying him any attention to his relief.
"Hey, I'm early," he said ten minutes later as walked through the airport to get his stuff.
"Wait…early. Meaning now?"
"No meaning in five hours. Yeah now. What hospital, I'll take a cab," he said as he put the phone between his shoulder and his ear.
"Don't bother. We'll be there in twenty minutes."
"Ellie-"
All he got was a click. He sighed and rolled his eyes as he hung up. It would have been much easier for both of them if he just got a cab but count on a woman to be difficult.
A/N: well this is drawing toa close rather quickly. but it's not done yet! so review review! also, i did look up the price to go to Canada and the timing is actually pretty acurate, so no flames on the time frame not being true! lol. and if anyone can catch the dane cook reference i put in there...extra bonus points. hugs nikki
