Sean laid in his bed for the first time in four years. He had a lot of memories in this bedroom. Memories of a time when things were a lot less complicated. He got under the covers and within minutes he was asleep and off in dream land.

"Want a drink?" Emma asked as she handed Sean a canteen of water. Sean sat down on the ground taking a break from picking up the garbage in the ravine. Emma sat down beside him.

"Thanks for helping. I know this isn't exactly your idea of fun." Emma said putting an arm around Sean's shoulder. She leaned in and gave him a quick kiss on the lips.

"Only half an hour left…so…" she said as she started to get up. Sean pulled her back down and leaned in to kiss her again.

"Sean..we have to.." she said trying to resist. He smiled chuckling at her.


"The garbage isn't going anywhere." he said as he pulled her in for another kiss. This time she didn't resist and kissed him back.

"Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm……" Sean moaned out loud in his sleep.

"Well sorry that I care about stupid things like the environment." Emma yelled at him. They had just been in the ravine making out seconds earlier and now Sean found himself standing in front of Emma at her locker in the middle of an argument.

"That's all you care about!" Sean heard himself yelling back at her. It was almost as if he was a bystander watching the scene play out before him. "Emma Nelson! Environmental Cruisader….a babysitter…A NURSE!"

"Snake has cancer Sean." Emma retorted.

"Yeah! I heard." Sean exclaimed.


"Fine! Tomorrow you spend lunch with those losers!"

"You know what, I will. Cause at least their fun."

"Fun? And you…" Emma said as she gave him a dirty look. "You're just pathetic."

Sean slammed the locker and walked away without looking back. He watched the rest of the scene play out and for the first time saw the hurt in her eyes.

Sean fidgeted in his bed but his mind was still in dream mode.

He saw Emma sitting on the bench in front of the school signing her school picture for him. To Sean Love Emma it read. He saw Jay's car approach. Him and Jay got out of it and headed to the trunk to unload some stuff.

"Sean?" Emma said approaching the group. "Can I talk to you a minute? Alone?"

"No."

Emma looked around and decided that she was going to say what she needed to say even if she had an audience. "It's about yesterday…we both said a lot and I was hoping we could talk…really talk….about everything."

"Got nothing to say." Sean replied cruelly.

Emma turned around and walked away scrunching up the photo of herself for Sean as she walked. She started walking up the front steps of Degrassi where out of nowhere Rick appeared.

He turned her around, grabbed Emma by the neck and put a gun to her head. The screams sounded of other students who ran as far away from him as they could.

"Let her go!" Sean yelled rushing towards the front steps of Degrassi.

"No." Rick said.


"Please let her go. She doesn't deserve this." Sean pleaded.

"You're right….she doesn't deserve this." Rick said agreeing with Sean. He loosened the grip a bit around Emma's neck before continuing. "She doesn't deserve this just like she didn't deserve to be dumped publicly in front of your friends. She didn't deserve to be yelled at by her locker yesterday. She didn't deserve her step-dad's laptop to get stolen just so you could get back at her. But after all, you should know better than anyone Sean, you don't always get what you deserve."


Rick tightened the grip around Emma's neck once again. She trembled in fear.

"Just let her go. Take me instead."

"It's too late Sean." Rick said as he cocked the gun. "I might have brought the gun but you were the one that pulled the trigger."

"Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Sean screamed as he heard the gun go off and he lunged forward to try to stop Rick. But it was too late. Emma's body slumped to the ground. "Noooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he screamed.


"Sean! Sean! Wake up!" Emma said as she sat beside him on his bed trying to shake him out of dream.

'What? What happened?" Sean asked confused.

"You had a nightmare." Emma replied.

"Oh." Sean said quietly. He felt his face turn red with embarrassment. He hadn't meant for Emma to see him like this.

Emma sensed Sean's embarrassment and decided to change the subject. "Want to get out of here? Go get an ice cream or something?"

"Sure." Sean said.

Ten minutes later they were sitting on a park bench each licking a cone of ice cream. Sean had chocolate and Emma had vanilla.

"So what was your dream about?" Emma asked breaking the silence.

"I don't remember." Sean lied. Explaining the dream was just too painful for him and in some way he felt responsible for what had happened with Rick. If he hadn't of dumped Emma then she may not have befriended him and he may not have tried to shoot her. "Have you had any nightmares yet?"

"Not yet….but I guess you'd have to sleep in order to have one."

"You haven't been sleeping?"

"Barely at all since the shooting."

"Me either." The two looked at each other and realized that they shared a common bond. It was sad that they had to go through something like the shooting to bring them back together.

"Oops!" Emma said as the top of her ice cream cone fell on to Sean's lap.

"Oops? That's all you have to say about that?" Sean said teasing her as he tried to pick up the ice cream but ended up just getting it all over his hands. "You did that on purpose."

"No, I didn't. I swear." She touched the spot on his leg where the ice cream had fallen. She got ice cream on the palm of her hand and smeared it across Sean's face. "Now that I did on purpose."

Sean grinned at Emma. "You're so going to get it!" he said trying to grab her arm so he could smear some ice cream on her. She was too fast for him though and got up quickly off the park bench and started running down the street. In seconds he caught up, grabbed her hand and turned her around.

The shock of electricity he felt when he touched her hand surprised him. He could tell by the look in her eyes that it had surprised her too. It was as if time stood still and everything else around them had stopped. He pulled her close, drawn to her by an unknown force. He leaned down to bring his lips to hers when he heard a voice from behind them bring them back in to reality.

"Sean Cameron? Is that really you?"

They turned to see a pretty girl with long brown hair about their age rushing up to them.

"Jamie?" Sean asked aloud looking at the girl in amazement.