Degrassi: The Third Generation
By: Ithurtssogood
Episode. 6
"Let's Dance"
Named After The Song by David Bowie.
Jim-oh, sorry-James Brooks wheeled himself into the dining room. His wife, Ashley, and one of his twin daughters, Miranda, both sat at the wood table eating. He gave Ashley a quick kiss on the cheek.
"Ash, you all packed?" James asked, pulling himself up to the table.
"Yup, I'm all set. You?" Ashley replied, finishing her plate of pancakes. James nodded as Madison walked in with two plates in her hands; she set one down in front of her father and then sat down with the other.
"Where are you going?" Madison questioned after chewing on a strip of bacon.
"To comic convention, over in Los Angeles." James said, cutting up his pancakes and popping one into his mouth. Madison's eyes lit up.
"LA? You're going and you're not taking us!" Madison shouted. Miranda, who still wasn't speaking to her twin, rolled her brown eyes and continued eating her eggs. Madison noticed this but ignored it.
"Of course not, you two have school," Ashley said, picking up her plate and carrying it into the kitchen. "You're old enough to stay home alone, right?" Ashley called from the kitchen, her voice echoing.
"Yeah, of course. But we're going to be in freezing Canada, while you two live it up in sunny SoCal." Madison said, angrily stuffing pancakes into her mouth. James giggled and rolled his eyes.
"We're leaving tomorrow morning," James said, finishing his breakfast. "Just make sure you two behave yourselves."
"But tomorrow's Halloween, we're going to have to stay home?" Miranda asked.
"You still want to trick-or-treat?" Madison said icily to her sister. She knew that her sister was extremely jealous of her going out with Tucker. They went on their first date last week at The Dot Grill, it was fun and Tucker had asked her on a second date.
Miranda ignored her sister's comment, "So I guess we're going to have to give out candy tomorrow night?" Ashley came back into the dining room and snatched up James' empty plate.
"Yup, we have some in the front hall closet." Ashley said, going to wash the plate.
"Some?" James laughed. "There are three bags full of all different kinds of candies." The twins erupted in giggles and then glared at one another.
Ooh, so icy and it isn't even winter yet.
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Madison sat in History class and found she couldn't focus on the Mesopotamians. To the surprise of many, Madison's best class was History. She loves learning about ancient cultures and how much they have changed over the centuries. It's extremely fascinating to her.
But today, she just couldn't pay attention. A thought had been running through her head. It's been there since a few hours ago at breakfast when her parents said they'd be away. Why not have a Halloween party? She kept asking herself.
Well, Miranda would be pissed.
How many people would come?
Halloween's tomorrow, isn't it a little too late?
She thought of all of those too. But then you know what else she thought…who the hell cares? She was going to have the party and everyone was going to go.
Well…not everyone.
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It was fourth period Science and Miranda found herself glaring at Tucker and Madison again. Before, she and her sister sat together at the middle table, but now that she and Tucker are together, they moved up to the front and sat with each other. Miranda narrowed her brown eyes, hoping that they'd produce laser beams to disintegrate her twin.
She's that angry.
Miranda noticed Madison's hand snake over the table and wrap around Tucker's. Miranda desperately hoped that Ms. Humphrey caught the two canoodling, it was disgusting. PDA just shouldn't be outlawed in schools, it should be illegal.
And Miranda would lock Madison up in jail for life…and have Tucker all to herself.
The phone on the wall rang and Ms. Humphrey dashed as quickly as her stubby legs would carry her. She picked up the receiver and a loud voice blasted through. Ms. Humphrey frowned and propped her hand up on her hip. She mumbled a quick goodbye and hung up the receiver.
"Class, I will be right back. Apparently, two girls have gotten into a physical fight in one of the upstairs bathroom," Mrs. Humphrey stated. "Ms. Kennedy has requested some teachers to help break them up."
"Who is it?" A student asked.
"Heather Sinclair and some poor tiny girl," Ms. Humphrey said, bowing her head and shaking it. "So I will be out of the class for a few minutes, you all stay still and be quiet while I'm gone."
"Yes, m'am!" The class lied. The old woman wobbled out of the class and instantly everyone began a conversation. Miranda began chatting with Angela Jackson, but out of the corner of her eye, she saw Tucker sneak a kiss onto Madison's cheek. Miranda's cheeks turned cherry red just as Madison's did.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, Madison got out of her chair and stood up on her desk, "Okay! Okay! Everybody listen up!" The class quieted down as the brunette girl called for their attention.
"Tomorrow night, there's going to be a Halloween party at my place," Madison said, the class erupted in cheers. "Show up around eight o'clock, the party'll end…whenever."
"So we can all go?" Angela shouted.
"Yea, everyone in this class is cool," Madison said, she shot a quick look at her sister who sat with her arms folded across her chest. "So why not. Spread the word, but only to other cool kids."
Just as Madison finished, the bell to pass to lunch blared in all of the student's ears and they dashed out of the room. Almost instantly, the word had spread about Madison's Halloween party.
Miranda pushed her way through a group of football players who were deciding what to dress up as. She rolled her eyes and approached her locker; unfortunately, her sister was at her own locker.
"They'll find out you know." Miranda said coldly, rotating the lock on her locker and pulling it open.
"What, you're going to tell on me?" Madison said, digging through her locker, not even looking at her sister.
"Of course not, but they will find out." Miranda said, stuffing her Science book in her locker. She slammed the door shut and stared at her sister.
Madison crossed her arms and stared into her sister's identical eyes, "How?"
"Karma's a bitch, Madison. Karma's a bitch." Miranda said, smiling and strolling off to lunch. She could feel her sister staring her down as she walked away, but she didn't care. Her sister knew she liked Tucker and screwed her over…and she was going to get what's coming to her.
She had to.
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It was finally Halloween. Degrassi Community School had been buzzing about Madison's party since yesterday and everyone couldn't wait for the first party of the year. Madison and Miranda entered their home after a long day at school. Everyone kept asking them about the party and had gotten pretty annoying.
"Are you going to help?" Madison asked, grabbing some decorations out of the front hall closet.
"With what?" Miranda questioned, plopping down on the couch in the living room.
"Decorating, what else?"
"…Why would I?" Miranda said. Madison scoffed and began to hang black and orange streamers all through the house. At four o'clock, after two hours of decorating, the house was ready. Madison had brought down her stereo and set it up in the front hall, she had set up a few strobe lights, and just to make it feel a little like Halloween, she stuck up some fake spider webs in some of the corners.
"How does it look?" Madison questioned. Miranda looked up from her Vogue magazine and peered around the house.
"Good, I guess…"Miranda mumbled.
"Thanks," Madison squealed, she sat down on the couch next to her lounging twin. Miranda looked up at her coldly. "So you still don't want to talk?"
Miranda sat her magazine down and sat upright, "No, Madison! You really hurt me! You knew I liked Tucker and you still accepted his request for a date! I wrote that note he liked! That date was for me!" Madison slid down the couch a little and pursed her lips.
"I'm sorry…"
"Madison, sorry just doesn't cut it right now."
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It was eleven-thirty and the house was packed. Costumed teens danced to everything from ear-splitting metal to bumping house music. It was a great party.
Madison swirled her hips and threw her arms into the air as her favourite techno song played, her white angel wings on her sexy angel costume bounced up and down as she did the same. She jumped a little as a hand was placed on her shoulder. She wheeled around and saw Tucker in his normal clothes smiling at her.
"You're not in costume!" She shouted over the music.
"I didn't know what to wear! I didn't want to come in an actual costume." Tucker screamed back. A guy in a pink Power Ranger outfit skipped passed them and the two erupted into laughter. Tucker looped his arm through hers and carried her over to the snack table. Madison noticed Miranda in her sexy nun costume walk away from the table.
Tucker grabbed a handful of Cheetos and stuffed them into his mouth, "This is great!" He said after swallowing.
"Thanks, it took forever to get ready." Madison said, nibbling on a potato chip. Her eyes narrowed when she saw the crowd parting and a trio entered, wearing nothing but black. Madison instantly recognized the blonde in front as Eve Mason. Tucker wrapped his arm around her but she threw it off, she held up her index finger to him and stomped off towards Eve and her friends.
"What the hell, Eve! Why are you here?"
Eve pretended she didn't hear, smoothed out the skirt of her black lace dress, and then fingered the large gold cross on her chain, "Excuse me? It's a party right?"
"Yeah, dear, but you weren't invited." Madison spat. Eve rolled her grey eyes and crossed her arms.
"I'm not leaving. People are supposed to come to a party…and we're people right?"
"Barely, no one invited you Emos," Madison said, staring Eve down. "Leave my house!"
"No!" Eve shouted. Madison looked around and noticed a crowd had formed, Miranda stood right next to her, her face cold.
"Get the hell out or else."
"You're kidding? You just said 'or else'." Eve giggled. Madison bit her bottom lip and pushed Eve to the ground. Stephanie and Josh instantly sprang into action, stepping between the two girls as Eve brought herself up. The blonde pushed passed her friends and slapped Madison in the face.
Madison's face turned bright red and she launched a punch at Eve, her balled up fist connected with Eve's stomach and the girl heaved over, "Get the hell out!" The crowd of people erupted in cheers, Eve, with the help of her friends was led out of the house. Tucker ran up to Madison and wrapped his arm around her.
"Hey, calm down!" Tucker said, rubbing his hand up and down her arm. Madison smiled but she could still her heart beating in her ears. No one invited her; this party was only for the coolest kids at DCS.
No Emos, nerds, geeks, none of those were allowed.
"Sorry." Madison giggled as Tucker led her away from the crowd and up the stairs.
"I have something to calm your nerves." Tucker said, a smile spread across his face as he led her into the bathroom. Madison looked down the stairs and then down the hall and then she followed Tucker into the bathroom.
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Miranda was shocked. Extremely shocked. She just watched her sister punch the crap out of Eve Mason and then follow Tucker Yorke upstairs. She couldn't believe it. What happened to her sister, she was a completely different person now!
A guy in a Power Ranger costume asked her to dance to an old Nelly Furtado song called Do It, but Miranda declined. She couldn't get her mind off of her sister's actions tonight.
What the hell is going on up there? Miranda wondered.
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Ashley Brooks sighed as she waited for the red light to change. Her husband, James, sat next to her in the passenger's seat.
"I can't believe there was a bomb threat at the convention centre." James said, as their car turned onto Degrassi Street.
"I know, it was really scary. Lucky we got a flight out." Ashley replied. James looked down the street and noticed their house looked different. Rainbow coloured lights spilled out of the windows and music blared through the open door.
"Do you see what I see?" James asked. Ashley nodded in response and pulled into the parking lot.
"They're having a party!" Ashley exclaimed, aghast that her precious twins would do such a thing when they weren't home.
"Not for long." James said.
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Madison could hear people screaming and yelling downstairs but she ignored it. Tucker sure did have something to calm her down, that cocaine sure does wonders. Tucker arranged three lines of cocaine on the hand mirror they had placed on the floor and handed Madison a rolled up dollar bill.
Smiling, Madison snorted up the white powder and sighed as she felt the burning sensation in the back of her mouth. Tucker smiled and then snorted up his line. The pair giggled and Madison crawled over to him, she pushed him to the tiled floor and climbed on top of him. She lowered her full lips to his and they began to make out.
Tucker pulled Madison's lips off of his and then peeled off her shirt. She then struggled to get his t-shirt off, but eventually revealed his lean abdomen. Now half-naked, the two began to kiss again.
"Madison!"
At first the voice didn't register in her head but then she turned around and saw her mother in the doorway. Madison smiled at her through her drugged haze.
"Tucker Yorke," Ashley screeched, recognizing the boy beneath her daughter. "Out! Get out!" Her eyes then travelled to the floor where she noticed the hand mirror with cocaine on it and the bag full of it right beside the mirror. Ashley's eyes got even wider.
Tucker quickly hopped off of the floor and raced home. Madison smiled and lied back in her lacy black bra.
"Hey, Mom!" She giggled, her voice high and animated. Miranda and James both appeared in the doorway behind Ashley.
"She was doing cocaine!" Ashley said, tears welling up in her eyes. She felt her knees wobble and she braced the doorframe for support. James narrowed his eyes and wheeled into the bathroom, he grabbed his daughter's arm and pulled her to her feet.
"Get to your room, now!" Madison nodded and ran off down the hallway into her room. James pointed to Miranda and she too dashed off to her room.
"I-I can't believe this." James said, shaking his head.
"What're we going to do?" Ashley said, tears freely spilling from her eyes like a faucet.
"I don't know…rehab?" James asked, wheeling himself into the hallway, Ashley followed behind him.
"No, I don't think she's addicted…yet. But if she does, we'll send her off." Ashley said.
"You sure that's safe?"
"I don't know, it's her first time trying it."
"You can get hooked on your first time."
"Like I said, Jimmy. Let's just wait."
Note: I finished! I'm not sure when I'll be able to post Episode. 7 because I won't have internet at first at my new house. But maybe I'll go to the library on the weekends and post maybe. Keep your eyes peeled for Episode. 7- Time For Me To Fly! Only 12 episodes left of the first season! Keep reading and reviewing! Thanks!