Degrassi: The Third Generation
By: Ithurtssogood
Episode. 5
"Send Her My Love"
Part Two
Named After The Song by Journey.
Toby Isaacs parked his Mazda Miata in front of the Degrassi Community School. The last bell of the day rang and students spilled out. Toby couldn't believe it had been so long since he went to school there and now he has a daughter attending. Not just any daughter though, Kylie was gorgeous like her mother, Hazel, who was on of the most popular kids at DCS in Toby's time.
Toby instantly spotted Kylie out of the group of teens. She was taller and thinner than most girls so she was easy to seek out in a crowd. Kylie waved to her father and skipped down the stone steps. She pulled open the door to her father's sports car and hopped in.
Kylie leaned over and gave her father a quick kiss on the cheek, "How was your day?"
"Kylie…my day doesn't matter right now," Toby said, pushing his foot on the gas. "What's going on?" Kylie looked down into her lap and then looked up at her father, his brown eyes were locked on the road ahead of him, but she stared at him anyways.
"Papa, it's just I don't know," Kylie said, folding her hands in her lap and then wringing them. "It started off innocent enough…but now I'm just scared." The black sports car came to a red light and Toby turned and looked at his daughter. He smiled and placed his hand on her shoulder.
"That's why your mom and I decided that she'd drop you off in the morning and I'd pick you up in the afternoon," Toby said, launching the car out as the light switched back to green. "The police called us and told us we should be careful. Stalkers could be dangerous."
Stalker. Weird. Kylie just couldn't believe she had a stalker; her life suddenly seemed to be turning into a Lifetime movie.
"Papa, where are we going?" Kylie said, realizing that they were downtown.
"I got out of work early, so I decided, why not take my daughter shopping?" Toby said, turning off of a busy street and onto a quiet back street.
"Really?" Kylie said, perking up all of a sudden.
"Why not? I mean a lot is going on in your life right now trust me, when I went to Degrassi, I knew exactly how you feel-so why not let you go stress shopping?"
"…Do I get the credit card?" Kylie asked, looking up at her father with hopeful brown eyes. Toby smiled, looked at his daughter and nodded. A smile quickly spread across her face and she squealed in delight.
Maybe this stalker thing isn't so bad after all.
xxx
Hours later, Toby and Kylie finally made it back home, the tiny sports car overflowing with bags. Hazel came out of the house to help bring some of them in.
"Wow, you really let her splurge." Hazel giggled, struggling with bags up to her chin.
"Once she got started, I couldn't stop her." Toby said, pushing open the front door with his butt. Sighing, Toby and Hazel dropped the pile of bags in the front hallway. Kylie entered the house with a tiny bag in her hand.
Hazel crossed her arms and pursed her lips jokingly. Kylie giggled when her mother playfully hit her with one of the shopping bags. The family burst into laughter just as the phone began to ring.
"I got it, it's probably Nicole." Kylie called, skipping over to the wall-mounted phone in the hall. She looked at the caller ID and saw that the number was blocked. Weird, she thought. Nicole never blocked her number.
She picked up the receiver, "Hello?" Nothing. No reply. No noise. Just nothing.
"Hello?" She called out again. Kylie shrugged and hung up the receiver.
"Who was that?" Toby asked, piling up Kylie's bags in a corner.
"I don't know, no one answered," Kylie replied. "Wait…you don't expect me to bring those upstairs do you?" Toby smiled and simply nodded his reply. Kylie rolled her eyes and watched her father join her mother in the living room.
Sighing, Kylie gathered up the bags in her arms and proceeded towards the steps. The phone rang again so she dashed off for it again.
"Hello? Who's this?" Kylie shouted into the receiver. Nothing again. She clenched her teeth, her stalker couldn't have found out her number? Could he? Then if he had her number, then he knew where she lived.
"HELLO?" Kylie called out. This time, the person on the other line hung up. Kylie pressed the end button and then stared at the phone quizzically. She picked it up again and dialled 69 and waited for someone to pick up. Unfortunately, Kylie stood there, the sound of the phone ringing in her ear over and over again. Finally, she hung up.
"Mom! Papa," Kylie called from the hallway. Hazel and Toby rushed out of the living room and to their daughter. "I-I think he has our number." Toby and Hazel looked at one another, their eyes full of worry.
"It's okay, 'Ky." Toby said, rubbing his daughter's arm.
"I-I just wanna stay inside for awhile," Kylie said, looking to the hardwood floor. "Y-you know, until this guy is caught." She could feel tears welling up in her chocolate eyes. She was terrified. Absolutely terrified.
And she couldn't do anything about it.
xxx
"No, I don't want to go to the movies tomorrow now," Kylie sighed, walking into her room, her cell phone pushed up to her ear by her shoulder. Nicole was desperately trying to persuade her friend into going to see Clown Academy: The Graduates. "I'm just really scared, you know?"
"I understand, 'Ky, but why can't Toby or Hazel drive you?" Nicole asked, she was able to call Kylie's parents by their first names since her parents were and still kind of are close to Kylie's.
"Because…they have to work." Kylie sighed, plopping down on her bed. She grabbed Lulu the Turtle and squeezed her tight. Kylie smiled when she heard Nicole scoff.
"Fine! I give up! Stay home," Nicole giggled. The two girls giggled over the phone animatedly, but suddenly Kylie stopped. "What? What's wrong?"
Kylie turned her head to the window opposite her bed. The curtains were open and blowing in the autumn breeze from the slightly opened window. A long dark branch from the Weeping Willow tree in their back yard moved in the breeze. That branch always terrified Kylie when she was younger because from her window, she could only see that branch and it looked like a disfigured arm.
"N-nothing." Kylie finally responded.
But then she heard something. Some sort of scraping. Silently, Kylie rose from her bed and tiptoed over to the window. Her eyes widened when she saw a dark figure climbing up the tree! It was too dark outside to see who it was.
"Oh my God. Oh my God." Kylie said into the phone.
"What?"
"Someone's climbing up the tree in my back yard!" Kylie screamed. She looked back at the tree and noticed the figure descending and running off.
"Oh my God, 'Ky," Nicole said. "Do you want me to come over?"
"Can you? Will Emma take you at eleven o'clock at night?" Kylie questioned, her breathing speeding up.
"Under these circumstances? Definitely."
Fifteen minutes later, Kylie was downstairs in the living room with Nicole, chatting on the couch. Even though it was only October 20th, they each had steaming mugs of hot cocoa on the coffee table in front of them.
"I'm tired!" Nicole yawned, draining her mug of hot cocoa.
"Me too." Kylie said, finishing her hot cocoa. The two girls dumped their mugs in the sink in the kitchen and padded silently up the stairs. They entered Kylie's room where Nicole instantly closed the curtains. Kylie climbed into her bed wearing her big vintage Madonna concert tee and Nicole climbed in next to her wearing the same thing.
"Good night, Nickles." Kylie giggled, kissing Nicole on the forehead. Nicole grunted, she hated when Kylie kissed her.
"Good night…Kyles…?" Nicole said. Kylie cracked up.
"Ya, can't really do that with my name." Kylie leaned over and switched off the light. She felt much more safe with her best friend by her side.
Literally.
xxx
A terrifying week went by disturbingly slow. It was filled with silent phone calls, creepy noises outside her window, and now everyone in school knew about Kylie's stalker. People would come up to her asking her if she had any clue as to whom it was.
Kylie would just roll her eyes and continue on her way. Some people she didn't even know tried to help her discover who her stalker was! But today was the day Kylie was waiting for, the Toronto PD was going to give her the results of the handwriting analysis and Kylie was extremely giddy.
But only one problem stood in her way, her English teacher Mr. Williams had asked her to stay after school today. He wanted to discuss her Shizuko's Daughter essay, Kylie had desperately tried to tell him about her situation, she couldn't walk home with a stalker loose, but he didn't listen.
She crossed her legs and corrected the spelling errors in her essay. Kylie stood up and brought the paper to Mr. William's desk, "Here, Mr. Williams, I finished." Mr. Williams quickly looked over the corrections and nodded.
"Good, so now you understand about semicolons?"
"Yes, sir."
"Well good, you can be on your way now Ms. Isaacs."
"Goodbye Mr. Williams."
Sighing, Kylie exited her English classroom and skipped down the stairs. She had to walk home today. Her mother had to stay late and her father was off on business in Vancouver. Her fears suddenly took over her as she stepped outside in the crisp autumn air. Kylie fastened another button on her black wool peacoat.
Kylie skipped down the stairs and headed on up Degrassi Street. She kept her eyes open for anything suspicious looking: any shady figures, any weird sounds, and any mysterious vehicles. A sound startled Kylie and she looked up quickly. She turned all around and then noticed where the sound was; Aaron Michalchuck was across the street raking leaves.
The blonde boy waved and Kylie smiled back. He's so cute, Kylie thought. She kept her head down as she kept on her way home, the sun was already setting before she was anywhere near her home. The only sound on the street was Aaron raking and footsteps…footsteps! They weren't just hers, but someone else's.
Kylie turned around and saw a large man following her. The collar of his black trench coat were turned up, oversized dark sunglasses covered his eyes and a black fedora was on his bowed head to conceal the rest of his face. Kylie's heart began to beat quickly and she could feel sweat bead on her brow.
This had to be the guy.
Kylie picked up the pace and so did the man. She ran and ducked behind someone's tall wood fence, hoping her stalker didn't see her. Kylie tried to be as quiet as possible, but her breathing was heavy and heart was booming in her ears. Kylie leaned over and peered down the sidewalk. Her stalker was gone!
Sighing, Kylie leapt up from the ground and continued to walk home. Then all of sudden, out of the blue, someone lunged at her from behind. Screaming, she rolled over onto her back and saw that it was her stalker. His face was still concealed by his dark clothing, but Kylie stared in disgust at his double chin.
He pushed his weight down on her to keep her from squirming. Kylie lay motionless under the man, praying for someone to arrive. And then suddenly she felt the man being pushed off of her, she looked up and saw Aaron pinning the man to the ground.
"Call the police! Hurry!" Aaron shouted, struggling to hold down the squirming man. Kylie immediately whipped out her cellular phone and called the police.
"Hi, this is Kylie Isaacs, I was working with the police on finding my stalker. Well, I think we've caught him." Three minutes later, the police had arrived and pulled Kylie's stalker up from the ground. The man still struggled to get free.
"Who is it?" Kylie questioned an officer.
"Well, we analyzed the handwriting and if we got it right it should be…" Officer Dennis said, he took off the man's hat and Aaron and Kylie instantly recognized him.
"Mr. Mayer! My history teacher?" Kylie shouted. She couldn't believe it. All this time she expected a hot ninth grade boy, not her balding, middle-aged History teacher. It was disgusting. Another officer handed Kylie and sheet of paper, which she read over quickly. The handwriting had been analyzed and it was indeed Mr. Mayer's handwriting.
"That's gross." Aaron said, as the cops handcuffed Mr. Mayer. Kylie folded her arms across her chest and watched her History teacher struggle to get free from the cops. He squirmed, screamed, yelled, and tried to fight back, but his hands were restrained. The officers stuffed the middle-aged man into the back of the car and then they both hopped in. Kylie and Aaron waved to them as they started up the car.
"I can't believe it…" Kylie sighed, leaning against a tree as the police drove off with Mr. Mayer in the backseat. Aaron wrapped his arm around Kylie and walked her over to her house.
"You okay?" Aaron asked as they reached her doorstep.
"Mhm." Kylie said, quietly. She licked her lips and looked down.
"Hey, I know this is a weird time, Kylie…but I always wanted to ask you this," Aaron questioned, folding his hands behind his back. "Do you want to go out sometime?" A huge smile spread on Kylie's face and then on Aaron's too.
"Definitely."
Note: Whoo! That was exciting! This episode was weird for me since it really just revolved around Kylie; all the other episodes involved other characters too. Did you get her stalker right? I had to update quickly because I'm going through some family problems and I'm moving too, so…it might be a while for episode seven…I'm not sure yet. Just keep an eye out for Episode. 6! It may come out soon, though. We're not really sure when we're moving yet. But Episode. 6- Let's Dance will be great…it'll be Halloween time!