"Thanks." Emma mumbled when he pulled into her driveway and he watched her closely as she unbuckled her seatbelt.
He pierced his lips together and nodded, but kept staring.
She looked up, and they connected eyes and she felt hot and nervous and she looked around uncomfortably until he coughed seeing he was caught staring.
What the fuck was up with him lately!? He couldn't understand it.
"I kinda need.. the trunk open." she said, a slow smile spreading and he smirked, hitting the botton to pop the trunk then turned to her, his smirk turning to a grin.
"There you go princess." he teased.
"Please, you're the princess out of us." Emma taunted back and opening the door.
He chuckled, watching her go and usually he'd leave it at that but he found himself getting out and helping her.
"I got it." Emma declared but she barely did as she had her bag stacked on 5 books and the top book fell with her purse onto the ground.
She gasped a bit and dropped all of her books, seeing what fell out of her purse with the fall and went to grab it but Jay already curiously bent down and took it, staring at it with an unreadable but some confusion in his eyes.
Emma tried grabbing it from him and he stood up, moving his hand back and looking quite angry at her now, "Where the fuck did you get this?!"
Emma yelped a bit when he threw it at his car so hard the little coke bottle smashed to pieces and then he stomped his foot on it.
"Jay!" Emma yelled.
He grabbed her chin and she tried to yank her head back but he held sternly and stared intensely into her eyes.
She wasn't high, least of right now.
"Are you a fucking idiot, Emma!? You're smarter than this!" he yelled, and stepped even closer, making her jump back.
She'd never seen him so mad, least at her, not since the day he found out she slept with Aaron. He even had a small dent in his precious orange civic..wasn't that his baby?
"Don't tell me what I am! You wouldn't know." she shot back, feeling very small right now and some tears trying to fight their way down her cheeks but she fought them in.
He laughed so sarcastically, "Are you kidding me? I'd know more than anyone." he snapped back at her, "I'm the one who you've always stuck rights and rules down my throat to."
"That was a long time ago." Emma declared.
He looked at her like she was insane, and then cursed when Mr Simpson came into the driveway and Jay glared at Emma madly.
"If I find this again? I'll tell him." Jay assured her, glancing at Mr Simpson in his car and Emma's mouth dropped but she slowly closed it, knowing she wouldn't EVER want them finding out.
She looked him dead in the eye and she finally opened her mouth just before Snake got out, "I hate you." she confirmed.
"I hate you too, baby." Jay said right back, looking straight into her eyes as well.
Jay had went straight back to school, and Alex was out in the parking lot, one of the last people to leave as she shared a smoke with Towerz and Amy.
"What're you doing back here?" Alex asked him as he just charged by and put her hands out, "Helloooo?" she sang.
Jay charged down the hall towards Mrs H's office and when he stopped by the door, just seeing her packing up to leave for the summer, he swallowed hard and opened his mouth to pause.
"Mr Hogart?" Mrs H said, stopping and putting her purse down when she saw him, "How can I help you?"
Jay looked away and coughed, looking back at her quite seriously, "I pushed Rick to the final point, I did the prank with the feathers and paint. I'm the reason he brought a gun to school and the reason Jimmy Brookes is in a wheelchair."
Mrs H couldn't help but stare, her mouth hanging.
"How was your day?" Spike asked Emma at dinner and Emma played with her food sadly at the dinner table.
God she wanted it so bad.
Why did Jay have to smash her last bottle?
And would he really tell..
Besides..when was drugs too good for him? She heard rumors, he got caught smoking weed in the bathrooms a bunch of time. Sean use to say he drank a lot too.
"Em?"
Emma snapped out of it and said, "Oh.. it was fine. Last day and all.. not very important."
Snake nodded on the other side of the table, agreeing with her and feeding Jack in his high chair. Emma went back to playing with her food.
She wanted to just kill Jay Hogart!
Suddenly her house phone rang, and Spike went to pick it up and turned to Snake, "Hun, it's for you."
"Oh." Snake got up and walked over, and Emma watched him greet the person on the other end, "This is Archie."
Silence.
But the look on Snake's face didn't look good when he looked at Emma, and his face was in shock, a bit angry, and then in shock again.
He hung up and Emma even curiously asked, "What's wrong?"
"Uh.." he cleared his throat, glancing at Spike, "Jay Hogart was expelled from school today.. he had something to do with the prank of Rick Murry before the shooting."
Emma looked away, not shocked Jay bullied Rick..he'd done it before, everyone did. Even she wasn't innocent.. but a bit shocked someone found out he did the prank.. and she was sure he had help do it so why weren't those cowards speaking up?
"Jay confessed to it." Snake suddenly explained.
Now Emma was even more shocked and her fork even fell down onto her plate with a ding.
No.
No! Jay was mean, and had bad temper, bad attitude and made BAD choices, why was he trying to play good guy? Why was she suddenly the bad? This wasn't right..
She had to go see him, yell at him, do anything! He deserved it!
Emma stormed into the Dot and looked around, seeing Spinner and charged over and he looked up to do a double take and even stepped back when she stormed infront of him, even if there was a counter between them.
"Emma, what can I do for you?" he asks.
Emma squinted her eyes madly, leaning on the counter and grabbed the front of Spinners shirt, "Where does Jay live?"
"I-I don't know if I'm suppose to tell you-"
"You think I don't know who helped Jay with his prank on Rick? Who else get kicks out of it like he does?" Emma taunted.
Spinners mouth fell and his eyes widened, "Y-you know?" he stuttered again.
"Everyone does now, just that you werent there too." Emma slowly let go of him and softened, shrugging slowly, "Jay confessed."
"He did?" Spinner was beyond blown away.
"Now tell me where he is, because you do owe me at least that." snapped Emma.
He nodded, looking a bit bewildered.
Jay heard his front door knocking and he groaned, scratching the top of his head and opened the door to the one and only.
God she'd drive him crazy wouldn't she?
"How dare you!" Emma shoved him and came inside, slamming the door, "I heard what you did!"
Jay looked away, biting the end of his tounge and clenched his jaw. He nodded, feeling she meant she knew he did it and that he was now a monster. He put his arms out, waiting for another shot from her.
She glared madly, "Who put you up to it?"
"It my own idea, buy paint..get feathers-"
"To tell the principle!" Emma yelled at him and he gave her an insane look.
"You're mad I told? Emma you should be hitting my in the face, *I* was the reason you almost died that day! I'M the reason Rick came after you. . I'm going to be punished and you can move on. I'm expelled." Jay said it like it was such good news and Emma's stomach just wanted to turn
"You idiot!" she fumed, going to hit him again and he grabbed her wrists, pulling her up against him.
"What do you need from me, Emma!?" he shouted down at her and she bursted into tears.
"I never asked for anything!" she yelled back and shook her head frantically as she cried, "And you think YOU put the gun in Ricks hand or something? Sooner or later anybody else could of made him snap and you know what?!" Emma let the tears slide down and calmed down a little, staring off, "It was me. I was the reason he snapped okay? Not the dumb prank! H-he said I led him on, and I was just like everyone else..I shoved him off when he tried to kiss me. I was the last person to make him mad, *I* made him snap."
Emma had never told anyone that, and she watched the shock expression run over his face as he looked stone cold.
He tried to pick up his jaw, slowly letting her go and getting lost in thought, "So.." he drifted off, still staring at her insanely, "why are you mad I told Mrs H?"
"Cause you're not the good guy! I am.. I will tell Mrs H what really happened." she declared and turned for him to grab her back.
"You don't need to ! It's over, they can all blame me" he insisted
Hey, he was use to it. She wouldn't be. She was loved and if not loved, depended on to make something of herself.. she couldn't live with this on her shoulders.
Emma sniffed and shook her head, "No I'm going to tell her."
"If you tell her!" Yelled Jay, stopping Emma from opening the door, "I'll tell Snake about the cocain."
Emma's mouth dropped, whipping back to him, "You don't understand! Just stay out of it!"
"I don't understand what?! The effect cocaine has on people? The shit they get into!? The part of watching someone like my Dad snort so much, his nose bled and overdosed at least seven times before it killed him!? Ask my mom about it, she moved on to bigger things, heroine, it's really somethin! Maybe that'll be your next thrilled ride and you'll be next sitting on the side of a street corner!"
"I did it for the feeling!" Emma yelled and shut her mouth, distraught that she told him.
He even seemed to soften. Wow.. Jay Hogart softening. She really did drive him into insanity.. he felt like he was changing into another person and it was all her fault.
"Emma it makes you feel numb, and not realise shit going on around you. My parents even forgot they had two kids"
"Then you can understand the goodness of it." Emma muttered, feeling bad for saying it but showing him she didn't want to realise the things goin on around her
"You're more damaged then I thought." he snapped and slammed the door closed when she madly opened it and tried to leave but he grabbed her and leaned her on the door and she panted, as he madly glared down at her.
Emma moaned when his hands held the sides of her delicate beautiful face and leaned his lips down to hers, kissing hungerily and groaned himself when she kissed back and though both shocked, they deepend it and she let his hands run through her hair, tangling his fingers in and loving the way it felt. Alex always smelt of smoke, and sometimes her hair was greasy.. and it was short...god he loved Emma's hair..he never noticed just how much.
Emma loved the way he kissed her, not even Chris or Sean kissed this way, like he was marking her as his.. like he'd never kissed a girl like this before either..so deep and real it was scary.
"Jay." Emma whimpered between the kiss, trying to shove him off but he kissed her once more before tearing apart, breathing heavily and cupping her face slowly in his fingers again.
Their eyes were shut still, maybe a little scared to open them.
She bit her lower lip, and slowly opened them, seeing him already staring right back at her and a determined look upon his face.
Determined for what?
Her heart pounded and she felt her lips a bit swollen after that big kiss and she nervously avoided his eyes, "I-I gotta go."
"You just came here." he said in a mere whisper and she opened the door with some rattled trouble and tossed him one more glance before going out the door, and not turning back.
He took one step out of his apartment, and watched her til out of site and leaned on his doorframe, inhaling a deep breath.
Well, that was something.