Emma sat in her room 2 days after the trial. Her mother wouldn't let her out of the house yesterday because she was afraid of Jordan's friend's hurting Emma. And now Emma was too afraid to go out because her mom made such a big deal about the day before. So instead of going out the day before, Jay came over. They had what you would call a movie marathon, well more of a make out session on Emma's couch before her mother came home from work. Today, however, Jay was still there, but Craig and Ellie were coming over. Ellie and Craig were offically together. Well, actually they were offically together since the night of the party. They decided to come over t make sure Jay didn't try anything with how vulnerable Emma was at the moment. Emma told Ellie about how good Jay was about what she now calls the shower experience. Jay had slept over the night before and Emma's mother didn't even say anything. She trusted her daughter and she also knew that she wouldn't have sex with any guy after all what Jordan had done to her. Jay and Emma were making out on the couch when the door bell rang. Emma jumped up to answer it, leaving Jay with his eyes closed and his face still in the kissyyy position. (lol) It was Ellie and Craig. They argued for a moment, the Ellie said, "If you really want to go then just ask her""Emma, darling, I know you are like terrified to go out or whatever but there is like, this really big party tonight and if you come out tonight everyone will know you aren't afraid of him." Craig said quickly. Emma stood there for a moment. Ellie jumped in. "I told him not to ask you , it's too soon, your not ready, it's okay.." Emma stopped her there, and grabbed her hand pulling her towards her room. "Come help me pick out an outfit!" Ellie looked at her confussed but Craig understood and gave Emma a big hug before she went downstairs.

In Emma's room Ellie and Emma were talking and Craig and Jay were being evin and listing in on their conversation."With the shower experience thing I knew that Jay obviously didn't want me. I mean, I'm used, no wonder he doesn't want to have sex with me"
"Maybe Jay just doesn't want to ruin your good relationship. He's soo happy with you I can tell. He came home the day of the trial he was smiling from ear to ear. It was soo cute"
"But I don't get it. I WANT to have sex with him and he's like being prude. He's acting like I used to act." From the stairs Craig giggled at Jay being a prude. Jay punched him in the arm. "Shut up man. I can hear." They continued to listen.
"Well Craig is not like that at all. It's like constant sex! Don't get me wrong, it's amazing. But it's not how it used to be. We don't talk as much, all he wants to do is make out or have sex. Some times I just want to talk to him. I love talking to him"
"See, that's how Jay is. Can we please just switch boyfriends"
"Umm, eww, that's my brother"
Emma laughed. "Sorry, but ya know what's wierd"
"What's that?" Ellie asked. "I never thought I would love someone as much as I love Jay after what happened with Jordan"
"Wait, LOVE?!?!" Ellie's chin dropped to the ground.
Emma looked at her. "Yeah Ellie. I love him"
Jay couldn't control himself, he blurted out "oh sh!t." Craig covered his mouth hopping that the girls didn't hear him. Emma looked toward the door to her stairs and saw two dark figures and motioned to Ellie that the boys were there. So Ellie and Emma decided to teach them a lesson.
"But let's not talk about how much me love the boys Ellie. This is our together time, we never get to see each other anymore." Emma winked.
"I don't know Em. The guys are right upstairs. What if they come down and see us"
"They won't come down. They know that girls take hours to get ready." "True True." Emma leaned towards Ellie smiling. Jay and Craig edged up to get a closer look and Just when Emma's lips touched Ellie's the fells fell over through the door. The girls started cracking up. Jay jumped up from the floor. "You two were totally just about to hook up!" Emma laughed and walked over toward him and gave him a kiss on the lips.
"No, we knew that you were there. I heard your big mouth.
Jay blushed "oh." Then she pushed Jay and Craig back up the stairs and told them they really needed to get ready. Ellie and Emma chatted as the got ready. Emma wore low rise jeans with a shirt that said 'I'm hot. Get over it.' She wore her black converse shoes with duck laces. She had on the ring that Jay bought her, her heart necklace and a pair of silver hoop earings. For her make up, she had on lots of eyeliner and mascara with grayish color eye shadow and light pick lip gloss.
Ellie wore a pair of jeans with one of Emma's green tank tops with her black leather jacket on top and her converse shoes. She wore her normal smoky makeup. She had on her hoop circle necklace and a pair of Emma's studded duck earings'. They walked up the stairs about an hour later ready to leave. Jay and Craig both did their 'wow you look amazing' speech and then they left.


They sat in the car once they arrived at the party. Emma couldn't really move out the moment."We could just go back to your house. It's not a problem Emma." Craig said suddenly realizing that he had sort of pressured Emma to come.

"No! If I don't get back into the loop now, I never will." Emma pulled out a cig from the pack in her pocket book. Jay took out and lighter and light it for her. Ellie suddenly spoke up.
"I can't believe you are encouraging her to smoke"
As she said this Jay light up his own cig.
"I'm not encouraging her. It's her choice." He simply stated "It calms me down El. And Jay's not encouraging me. If he didn't light it, I would have lit it myself"
Ellie nodded. "Okay. Can we go then"
Emma took one long hard pull then let it out. She opened the car door. "Let's do this"
When they got into the house the first thing Emma did was take a beer. She drank it fast. jay grabbed her another beer and pulled her to a couch in the corner. Ellie and Craig went off to do their own thing.
"I'm proud of you Emma." Jay said as soon as they sat down on the couch.
"What?" She asked.
"I'm proud of you." He repeated. "For what"
"For standing up to.. ya know. For getting back out so soon. For being you again"
"Oh." She blushed.
"I have a confession to make"
"Oh, and what's that?" Emma asked.
"I heard what you said in your room before"
"Oh." She blushed again.
"I just don't want to pressure you to have s$x with me just because you think it's all I want from you"
"I know Jay." She stated simply looking into his eyes.
"But i also have another confession to make"
Emma laughed "Oh yeah, and what's this one"
"You are real to me"
"What"
"Every girl before you, I have just hook up with, ya know. I had s$x with random girls that meant nothing to me. I mean, I guess Ales was different, but I never really loved her. And this..." He motioned to her and back at himself. "Us...it scares me so much. Because I don't want to loose the girl that I truly..." He stuttered. He bit his lip then looked around the room for a moment to search for the right words. "I guess what I'm trying to say is that I love you." He waited for her response. Emma's jaw dropped to the ground.
"WHAT?" she sort of screamed, not realizing it. Most of the crowd turned to look at them and the music suddenly shut off. He blushed, the looked into her eyes and repeated once again. "I love you Emma." He smiled his cute, adorable, sexy Jay smile. The crowd went "awww" in unison when he said it but all Emma could do was smile. Smile like she never smiled before. "Now would be a good time to say something." Jay asked nervously.
"I wasn't expecting that"
The music started again and they were once again left alone in the cowed room.
Jay laughed. "I just, I had to say it"
"Well I'm glad you said it because I love you too"
He pulled her in for a passionate kiss witch eventually turned into a full on make-out session.