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"Still wanna know what was going on earlier?" Manny hissed.

Spinner was poking and prodding the fire with sticks, Sean was sat slumped at the table with headphones in his ears, and Jay was seemingly sulking in his car still.

Emma considered this for a minute. She was pretty sure she knew. "I think I know."

"Oh." Manny said, stumped.

"Why are you being so pissy to Jay? He's done nothing to you, quit treating him like crap!" Emma requested, sounding like she cared a little more than she was supposed to.

"No, you're right, but are you forgetting he forced you into sucking him off, and giving you gonorrhea no less?"

Emma stared back at her so called 'best friend' and found herself speechless. For one, outspoken and over opinionated Emma Nelson was lost for words.

"What's the matter, Em? Cat got your tongue? Or would that be a certain Mr. Hogart?"

Emma continued to stand before Manny completely dumbstruck, until the only comeback she could think of sprung into her mind. "Shut the fuck up Manny!"

She barged past her former friend and stormed back to the Civic, not even caring that Jay was smoking in there, with the windows shut.

Emma was furious. Who the hell did Manny think she was? With her private life's track record, she was in absolutely no position to be judging anyone. Who helped Craig cheat on Ashley? Manny. Who got pregnant by said boy at age fifteen? Manny. Who got drunk and showed their boobs to Peter? Manny!

Manny was furious. Couldn't Emma see that she was just trying to look out for her? She was her best friend – all she wanted to do was stop her from making the same stupid mistakes that she had. Manny was a walking advert for showing girls how to fuck up their lives.

"Uh, what's up Greenpeace?" Jay was panic stricken just by her presence. It was crazy him getting so flustered by a girl, in fact it was almost unheard of.

Emma toyed with idea of telling him. But as soon as she opened her mouth to speak, she changed her mind. They had another week of this trip that would make it way too awkward to live with if she opened her big mouth. "Uh, nothing don't worry." Emma turned and let herself out of the car just a few seconds after she'd let herself in. "Sorry."

Jay watched her walk away and clutched his head in his hands wearily. He'd never experienced this kinda trouble getting a girl before. He'd never had a conscience telling him to do it properly, and he'd never had this weird electrical field stopping him from functioning like a proper person. He pictured some crazy little skit of himself in his head, sat in Ms. Sauve's office being told it's "subliminal feelings of resentment toward Alex" or something insane like that.

Spinner was enjoying this trip probably the most out of everyone so far. He too wondered why both Jay and Sean were here though. Emma had changed since the whole thing was Rick, but bringing your ex and the guy you gave head to behind his back on the same road trip was playing with fire. Even Spinner knew that and he was hardly Stephen Hawking when it came to knowledge.

"Yo, Sean. What's the deal with you and Em then? I take it she invited you on this trip."

"I don't know dude." Sean sighed sadly. He too was in a quandary that he didn't intend on revealing to Spinner. Or anyone for that matter.

"I think she's into you, dude. You just gotta bite the bullet and go for it." Spinner's advice was more than left field.

"I dunno..." Was all Sean could muster.

After the ruckus with Emma, Manny decided to retire to their dorm. She was hardly surprised that they were the only ones staying here. It was a dump, in the middle of nowhere, with faulty electrics and sparse lighting. Inside the cabin, it was more muggy and stuffy than it was outside. She flicked on the light, and stood under the flickering yellow light bulb as it sputtered and blinked, trying to make its mind up whether to stay alight or fizzle out.

Sitting on her bed alone, like solitary confinement, was boring. She had her cell on charge, but every few seconds it kept lighting up to say Battery Low, so Manny guessed that this electrical plug was faulty too, much like the other seven that she tried.

A knock on the window behind her scared the crap out of her. She spun around to see Sean's face peering back at her. He looked at her as if to say "fancy company?"

Manny nodded and motioned for him to come in. His face darted out of sight and a few seconds later popped around the door. He looked stressed.

"Hey Sean." Manny smiled, but her heart was still hammering in her chest from the fright he gave her just a moment ago.

"Hey Manny."

After that, the conversation began to become stagnate. Sean focused on a spot of mildew on the wall and didn't take his eyes off it, like his life depended on it. Manny smiled and looked around, feeling ferociously embarrassed with herself.

"Emma... " Sean suddenly penetrated the silence, testing the sound of her name out on his tongue.

"What about her?" Manny asked, her interest piqued.

"Her and Jay, is... is there something going on?" Sean had sincerity written all over his face.

Manny considered this for a moment. She and Emma had fallen out, but it was still salvageable. Was she ready to throw away a lifetime of friendship with Emma and reveal the truth about Jay and Emma to Sean? "No..."

"Tell me the truth, Manny. I can handle it."

I don't think you can. "That is the truth." Manny lied, finding it difficult to retain eye contact with Sean. "There's nothing going on." Anymore, there isn't. Her thoughts were disturbing her. She had horrible thoughts that Sean was zoning into her thoughts and could hear all that popped into her head.

"I know what Jay's like. Alex dumped him for cheating, didn't she?"

"Yeah..." Manny admitted in whispered tones. She was thankful Sean only knew half that story.

"Emma's gonna get sucked into his nasty life. She doesn't deserve that."

Manny couldn't help but marvel at the irony of Sean's words. You don't know how right you are. "There's nothing going on between Jay and Emma." Manny reiterated.

"I care for her. I want to make sure she's OK. We've been through so much together, it's pretty tough for me not to care about her."

"I care about her too." Manny pointed out. She wondered what was going on in Sean's head. She knew he still loved Emma, but she was off limits. Manny wondered why-

Bam! He kissed her. Just like that, things had done a total 180 and were facing the complete other direction.

Kinda weak I know, but I had to introduce Seanny! Please review!

And thanks to KagSanlover for beta'ing.