AN: Thank you so much for your reviews :)

Radical Bella, no i don't think so, i might cry if she does!

Amy RM, there will definitely be more angst and I'm glad you think it's believable.

ChristyZ, yup hate the glee writers sometimes, but eventually it will be worth it when they do end up together (at least it better be :P)

Once again I do not own Glee or any of the characters, not even the amazing Sue Sylvester who will be making an appearance in this chapter and I hope I do her justice.

Emma couldn't help feeling guilty for lying to Will, but she knew it was the right thing to do. Now they could both move on, and deep down she knew that if he kept fighting for her she might not be able to resist, so it was better for her to push him away now. Still, the look on his face haunted her, he had been so hurt. She couldn't blame him, after all she had chickened out of it with him, but then she had supposedly just fallen into bed with Carl without any trouble at all. Now the question in her mind was, when was she actually going to do just that. It wasn't like she hadn't had plenty of opportunities during the summer, and Carl had been completely understanding and respectful, so why had she backed out at the last minute, every single time? It was a question she really didn't want to answer, to Carl or to herself.

Meanwhile, Will walked along the corridor, barely seeing or caring where he was going. That was, until he bumped into a familiar blonde cheerleading coach. He groaned inwardly, he really didn't need this today.

"Well Will, I came back to school preparing for another year of battle, but it looks like you've already surrendered. I mean your hair is so out of control, that any minute now it's going to sprout mini,cheap imitation Sue Sylvesters and start insulting itself"

She paused for a moment, to bask in her own wit, then continued.

"Don't tell me this is about that red-head and her new "boyfriend"..", Will looked up, surprised, as she continued.

"I saw them in the parking lot yesterday. What a waste of a perfectly good man, I mean really, she would barely even hold his hand. Not surprising, considering she has all the sex drive of a castrated house-cat. Now Sue Sylvester could show him a thing or two.."

"Wait, what?", Will cut her off.

Sue frowned, "William, I don't repeat myself, I find it takes too much of my time away from more important things, like winning trophies, and insulting your hair", and with that she stalked off down the hall, leaving him open-mouthed.

Sue's words echoed in his head 'would barely even hold his hand', but if Emma was reluctant to do that, then there's no way she would possibly have gone any further. She had lied to him, but why would she do that? He could only think of two possible reasons. Either she had just wanted to hurt him, which, although completely understandable given what had happened between them before, he knew was not in her nature, or she had wanted to push him away because she was afraid of admitting her true feelings for him. That must be it. Will sighed. It was so frustrating, he knew that she still had feelings for him, and he kept trying to get her to admit it, but she was just too stubborn to forgive him after the stupid mistakes he had made with Shelby and April. He understood that he had hurt her, but he was running out of ideas to get her back.

Hardly realising what he was doing, he was walking in the direction of her office again. They had both wanted to be with each other for such a long time, but somehow, things always went wrong, something always kept them apart.

He wanted to confront her, ask her why she lied to him. Sometimes he felt if he pushed her enough, maybe she would stop pretending to him and to herself that it was over between them, but then, he didn't want to force her into saying those things. He wanted her to mean them. He ran a hand through his curly hair anxiously. Why was everything so complicated?

Emma was hurrying out of her office to meet Carl in the parking lot, she didn't even see Will standing there, trying to think what he could possibly say to her at this stage to fix things, to make everything the way it should be.

"Oomph", she crashed into him, and they both jumped back instantly.

Will opened his mouth to apologise, but Emma got in first,

"Will, what are you doing?", her voice was harsh and accusing, and Will felt his heart sink a little. He felt nostalgic for the times when she used to bump into him 'accidentally on purpose' and brighten up his whole day.

"Why did you lie to me earlier Emma?", he asked sadly, still remembering various past encounters between them.

Emma's mouth fell open. She panicked. She couldn't have this conversation with him, she just couldn't. She attempted to walk around him, but he moved to block her way.

"Will," there was a warning tone in her voice, "get out of my way".

"Why? Because you know I'm right? You know that even if you won't admit it, that no matter who else you're with, it's supposed to be you and me."

"NO", she tried to walk away again, but he caught her arm and stopped her.

She turned around to face him, and he stepped back involuntarily, seeing the anger in her eyes.

"Stop it. Just stop it Will. No more surprise kisses. No more declarations of love, and no more telling me how i feel about youl", she drew her breath in sharply, briefly taking in his shocked face.

"I gave you a chance, remember, and you screwed it up"

He dropped his eyes to the floor, unable to look at the anger and hurt he was obviously still causing her even after all this time, because of his stupid mistakes.

"Now I'm giving Carl a chance, and if you can't stop yourself from complicating my life even more than you already have, then just stay away from me", she was shouting at the top of her voice now.

She glanced at his face, then had to look away, afraid the pain and sadness in his eyes would weaken her resolve.

"I mean it. If you can't just be my friend, then you can't be my anything", and with that she stormed off down the corridor.

AN: Yay I got this chapter finished before the weekend.

I have a vague plan of how the story is going to go from now on. I'm away until Monday evening but if I come back to some more nice reviews I might be motivated to update Tuesday or Wednesday :)