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Part four

Craig

On the way to Jimmy's, Emma and I were mostly silent. I let her hear a couple songs I had been working on while I was gone, trying to get an unbiased opinion. When all the songs were finished playing, I asked what she thought.

"Honestly, I thought that both of them were great. The last one a little better than the first. The second one was definitely my fav."

"Really?"

"Yeah. Kinds of reminds me of my life. Cold, empty, lonely..."

"Oh my God, you just did not say that. Emma, you're neither of those things, and you might feel like you are right now, but that's just your broken heart speaking. I promise, pretty soon, you'll be back to normal."

She looked at me weird then.

"And you're not lonely...you have me." My eyes got wide, and Em sat straight up in her seat. "And Manny..You have me and Manny." Yeah, your girlfriend you big loser!

Thank goodness I happened to be out in front of Jimmy's house at that very moment.

Em jumped out of the car, and I followed. I knew no one would be here but us, and probably Spin. He was at Jimmy's enough to be a member of the family.

An hour later that changed, and the party was officially underway. Most kids were downstairs in Jim's rec room, or in the backyard, where there was a DJ spinning. I stood up against the wall with Spin, watching Jimmy drag Emma out into the crowd for a dance.

"So, where's Manny?"

"Huh?"

"Earth to Craig. Uh, Manny? Your girlfriend. Where is she?"

"Oh, uh, she's still at try-outs. Might not make it." "Oh. Dude, I swear, Em is too hot to let a prick like Ms. H's kid get her down. She looks awesome tonight." I looked Emma down again. Spin spoke the truth, she did look hot. And whatever jokes Jimmy was telling her was working, because he had her laughing and giggling.

All of a sudden, I wanted to be there. Dancing with her, arms around her, nose buried in her hair. This is almost the same feeling I had when I was with Ash, cheating on her with Manny. And I knew I couldn't act on it this time. This is way different. Manny and Ashley never spoke, but Em and Manny are best friends, sisters, who share a home, a family. If I got between them, what would happen? It would never be the same.

"Uh, dude, what's with you tonight?"

"What?"

"You were totally gone there, again. I said, let's go get the pizzas, the delivery guy's here."

"Oh. What are you waiting for then?'

I walked away, leaving a puzzled looking Spinner behind me.

Emma

I was having a blast. All my friends had done a excellent job cheering me up.

I sat down on one of the plastic patio chairs outside, taking a break from dancingwhen Ellie came up to me.

"Hey Emma."

"Ellie. Hi. How haveyou been?"

"Great. Listen, I just wanted to know if you've seen..." She trailed off, Ashley came up and was grabbing her by the arm, taking her away.

"Sorry Em! I just need her for a minute!" Ash laughed and ran off. "Okay!" I laughed too. But I was still wondering what she was about to tell me.

I stood up, to get another drink, and I knew exactly what it was. Cause right in front of my face was Sean Cameron.

"What are you doing here?" I asked with a little more attitudethan I would have liked to.

"I'm back..."

"To stay?"

"Yup. And, of course, to claim something I left behind."

Hesitantly, I asked, "And what's that?"

"You." And with that, he kissed me, hard. I got dizzy for a minute, and then all I saw in my head was Craig. Craig laughing. Craig strumming his guitar. Craig being there for me today, every other day this past summer, and Craig being there with me when I went to find Shane, instead of Sean.

"Sean!" I yelled, pushing away. I started to back up, then turned to walk away.

I had so many mixed emotions at that moment. Anger, because he was here, kissing me now, instead of when I needed him a year ago, sadness, because even though I still love Sean, when he kissed me all I could think of was Craig, and hurt, because I knew someone knew he was coming, and they didn't even tell me first.

I kept walking, and walking, until I was halfway down the street, when I heard footsteps approach. "Go away Sean. I just need to be alone right now." The footsteps kept coming.

I turned around, and opened my mouth to yell again, but when I did, the person wrapped their arms around me, and put their mouth on mine for a long, deep kiss.

I pulled away, and saw that the person was Craig.

A/N- Sorry if you guys feel like the Cremmais sort of rushed. Let me know what you think.