"She's so hot." Toby drooled over Manny and a few cheerleaders as they past.
Rick looked up from his work on the bench outside of Degrassi, "Emma's hotter." He went back to work.
Him and Toby were playing this wierd game, seeing who could get a kiss from a certain girl before the other.
"Fine, raise the bet." Toby confirms.
"What's the stake, my friend?" Rick asked, adjusting his glasses.
Toby smiled and nodded to a blonde on the stairs, "Emma."
Rick turned and admired the girl who was studying for their upcoming English quiz as well from a far. But frowned as he saw Jay watching her too from his group of friends.
"Deal." He said.
Toby laughed and asked, "You think it's going to be easy?"
"I have a feeling she may like me back, why else would she stick up for me?" Rick asked Toby.
"Because that's Emma." Toby seriously confirmed and then smiled getting up, "Watch and learn, Emma loves me. I'm about to win this competition."
He went running over to the stairs as the bell rang.
"Emma!" he called.
Emma was getting up and called over to him, "Sorry Toby, I'm late for science!" but on her way she bumped into a hard body.
"Watch it Greenpeace." Came a husky reply and she went red as she balanced herself with his hands on her waist.
That was until he coughed awkwardly and let go. Personal space Hogart, come on now.
"Get out of my way then." Emma teased back and left.
Toby rolled his eyes, he needed ONE thing and she didn't have time for him, but ohhh lets give Jay Hogart all the time in the world!
"They make me sick." Rick sneered coming up beside him as Jay left, "Jay doesn't deserve her."
"Their not dating." Toby told him, walking towards class inside.
Rick explained, "The drooling, the staring... it's obvious he wants her in bed, and she wants it to. I thought she was better than that."
"Just cause you like someone doesn't mean you want them just for in bed." Toby said giving him a wierd look.
"You wouldn't know, ." Rick shot back.
"They kind of make sense." Toby insisted, "You'd think a nice girl Emma would need a nice guy but there would be no passion from a nice guy, Emma needs passion. Jay seems to have much luck with the woman, and he keeps her on her feet. She's make him good and he'd give her a taste of the bad side. . it levels out. In the end, perfect match."
"He wouldn't know how to handle her." Rick said, staring off.
Toby raised and eyebrow and asked, "And you would? You've only had Terri and look how that turned out."
"Thankyou." Rick said with a spit and stormed off.
"Rick! Wait... I didn't mean it." Called Toby. Great. Now he felt bad.
He waited for the next bell to ring and when it finally did he ran to the next room to catch up with his old friend.
"Hey Toby." Emma greeted as he caught up with her.
Toby asked, "Emma, can I ask you a big favour?"
"You want me to kiss Rick?" Emma asked, standing at her locker after Toby explained the whole thing.
"I'll give you 20 bucks." Toby offered.
Emma rolled her eyes. She didn't like Rick. Then again, it was harmful right? Just a silly game between tow dorks with no girl friends.
"Cheek." Emma offered.
"Fine." Toby agreed and shook her hand.
Meanwhile, Sean and Spinner sat with Jay at a table infront of a hallway.
"you and Emma seem... closer again." Sean said to Jay who shrugged but was doing snoopy dances inside his head.
"She's forgiven me." Jay informed.
Spinner laughed and said, "You talk to her about... other things?" like your totally whipped and wrapped around her finger, Spinner silently added.
"No, and I won't."
Sean asked, "Why? You're still into her. I haven't seen one girl over you since you admitted it."
"It's complicated." Jay sighed and then saw Emma around the hall they were at, he could see her through the windows.
"She seeing someone?" Spinner questioned.
"No."
"Then what's complicated?" Spinner asked and spotted something, "...or is she dating Rick now?"
"What the hell makes you think Emma would date that loser?" Jay asked, his blood starting to boil until Sean pointed back towards Emma.
Jay turned to see Emma kissing Rick on the cheek and then going toward the exit to get home.
Jay snapped.
"I won." Rick said, over on the other side, walking over near the front where Jay was coming from.
Toby snickered, "You sure did." And you'll never know she did it for money and carelessness!
Out of nowhere, Rick felt his chest hit oh so very hard, and he was whipped back into a locker. He doubled back twice and then fell to the ground.
WHAM!
"MR HOGART!" Raditch yelled, seeing that as Jay stormed by and just shoved Rick on his way past towards Emma.
But Jay didn't stop, he slammed the exit door open and went after Emma. Luckily she didn't too far and was texting out front, probably waiting for Manny.
"What the hell was that?" he yelled at her, storming infront.
Emma jumped to then laugh, "Jesus, you scared me. What?" she asked, noticing how pissed off he looked.
Wow. She's never seen him like this. Frankly, no one knew Jay could get this rattled.
Jay shouted again, "What do you mean WHAT? You just go around kissing randoms or what?"
Emma was confused, and then remembered she just kissed Rick's cheek. God, Jay had to see that?
"That was just a joke..." Emma drifted trying to explain. Wait. Why explain!
Jay wasn't her boy friend nor was material for it. He liked to hurt people, like girls, and break hearts.
"Joke my ass. I told you to stay away from him!"
"You don't tell me what to do!"
"If you don't listen to me, Ill- I'll."
"You'll what, huh!" Emma was finally yelling back and Jay didn't know how to handle it. She stood inches from him and threw her arms out, "It was just a lousy silly stupid kiss!"
She stopped abruptly when his lips suddenly crashed onto hers. Emma shut her eyes and he cupped her face as she rested her hands on his shoulders. Finally, she kissed back and fireworks exploded! They kissed until breathless and finally tore apart with his forehead resting on hers.
They kept their eyes closed, thinking if they opened them... it wouldn't be real. And god, they really wanted this to be real.
Now that?
That was a kiss.