Emma wouldn't answer his calls.

He's been trying all week, and he was leaving for his business trip soon.

He'd even gone to her window, and she had gone out of her way just to buy curtains, just to put them up so she can close them so he couldn't see if she was in her or not.

Emma! For the last time, I did not do a thing with any other girl this summer, please believe me. That girl was a customer at the shop, tyler knew her, went to her party, I got too drunk- fuck I missed you Emma, what was I suppose to do! But I didn't do anything! She just helped me out and yeah she put moves on me but I left! I didn't-

Emma clicked and deleted the message from Jay off her phone and threw it on her bed. She angrily paced the room, staring at her phone.

How was she suppose to believe him? Not like he was the most trustful guy, I mean, he did cheat on Alex with her.

Another few days had gone by.

Knockknock

Snake slowly went over to the door that Saturday morning, reading a newspaper. The knocker knocked again desperately and he opened it.

"Sorry about this sir."

"Jay she doesn't-" Snake was cut off when Jay just barged in. That must of been what the 'sorry about this' part was about.

"Jay!" spike exclaimed as he ran past the kitchen, she stood at the stove and went after him.

She liked him, but what Emma said he did, she respected her daughters wishes to keep him away. But that was hard when Jay got to Emma's door and then locked in shut behind him.

Emma popped her head from below the stairs when Jay came down them, "What the heck are you doing!" Emma exclaimed.

"You know what I love about you?" Jay asked, getting to the point, "You want to know why I want you so much all the time? Why your everything to me?"

Emma took a deep breath, crossing her arms.

"Cause you're everything I'm not." He revealed.

Emma tried to avoid his eyes, "I told you I can't do this. Espashally now." She says quietly, and looks back at him, "Your leaving this week, maybe this is for the best."

"No, I don't want to leave like this." Jay begged, shaking his head.

Emma shut her eyes, "Jay." She gave him a pleading look, "Let's just use this space." She looked down, "You hurt me."

"Emma I didn't do it, why can't you trust me?" Jay bittered, but cupped her face, tilting his head to try and make her look at him.

Emma put her hands on his and slowly removed them, "How can I?" she asked, furrowing her eyebrows

He was always with one girl, then another one the next day, cheated on Amy with Alex, Alex with her, and now her with this slutty girl. Once a cheater always a cheater, she guessed. It broke her heart. What made her different from other girls?

Probably nothing.

Jay clenched his jaw, "You just going to give up on us so easily?" he asked.

Emma sighed, it wasn't like that, but, she spoke out loud, "how can you build a relationship without trust?"

Jay bit his tounge and turned to the stairs and then back to her, "Fine. Have your 'space' when I'm gone, when I'm back at Degrassi, things will go back to normal. You live in your world, I'll live in mine."

Emma swallowed hard looking around, she didn't want that much space.. god, what we're they doing!

Are you a heartbreaker?

Maybe you want me for the ride.

Am I fallin' for a heartbreaker?

Is everything just a lie

I won't be leavin' here alive.

I won't be leavin' here alive, no.

Jay stormed halfway upstairs but then came rushing back down and bittered loudly, "You may of loved me, but you never trusted me did you?" he asked.

Emma's mouth opened but there were no words that came out.

How can you build a relationship without trust?

You never trusted him in the first place, did you?

Is this my fault?

Jay reached in his pocket and whipped a necklace on the ground before storming up the stairs, "Happy one year." He snapped and slammed the door closed behind him.

Emma slowly bent down, picking up the silver necklace, with a silver silhouette of a tree. It was beautiful.

Greenpeace, treehugger.. nicknames of his for Emma she couldn't help but giggle over, but for the moment, she only sadly smiled and ran a hand through her hair before frowning.

She flipped it to the back, 'E+J' graved in it.

Emma closed her eyes, and opened them to reveal tears.

So maybe I'll sit back and just enjoy this for now

Watch it all play out, see if you really stick around!

It's been a week now, Emma now sat with Manny in front of a pool, tanning on beach chairs. This exact song was playing, and reminding her of Jay.

Manny looked over and smirked, "Em, don't be nervous, school will be great. Just 3 more days!" she exclaimed, putting her sunglasses on her head to feel the sun.

"That's not what I'm thinking about.." drifts Emma out loud and blinked, god, was she so out of it she just admitted that to Manny?

Manny looked over sadly, "Jay?" she guessed it! Emma sighed. Manny reminded, "He was the one who cheated on you!"

Silence.

"Em." Manny said and the blonde looked at her sadly, "You even got prove." She said.

Emma bit her tounge, yeah, sorta, I mean.. them holding hands leaving a party.. but maybe that WAS it? Or maybe she was just hoping for that.

Emma changed the subject, well sort of, "Are you listening to this song? Can I change it?" she looked at the radio between them blasting HEARTBREAKER.

"Em, you love P!ink." Manny insisted.

Emma muttered, "Not when it reminds me of him."

Manny eyed her, "Did you always think he was going to cheat on you or something?"

"I always had a feeling he'd break my heart." Emma sadly admitted, she was in love with him, how could she not think that?

"Not feeling.. you were expecting." Corrected Manny.

Emma frowned, "What's the difference?"

Manny sat up, "Em, trust is an important thing in a relationship! You said so yourself, but if you gave the impression you never really trusted him in the first place.. how are you going to get by being paranoid all the time? One mistake and you'll be running from him screaming bloody murder. People make mistakes."

Emma bit her lip and sadly looked down, "It's hard Manny, girls watch him, I see it."

"Em, guys watch you too." Manny confirmed and Emma gave her a 'yeah right' look, Manny rolled her eyes, "Look behind you." she said.

Emma gave her a wierd look til looking towards the pool, some guy was playing with his camera around the pool with some friends, and kept glancing at her.

His name was Peter, he's been coming to the city's pool since the beginning of the week.

Emma couldn't help but sadly look away though.

Theres always just this one question, that keeps me up at night

Are you my greatest love or disappointment in my life?

Are you a heart breaker, am i just here for the ride?

Am I fallin' for a heart breaker?

Was Manny right?

I mean, she was right about her EXPECTING him to screw up, so maybe she was using an excuse to run, just so she wouldn't get TOO hurt. But she was sure she couldn't hurt this much.. maybe she should go find that slut- I mean, girl that supposedly had a thing with Jay.

"He's kinda hot." Manny admitted, eyeing Peter and smirked to Emma who gave her an obvious look, "hey! We're both single girls."

They laughed.

When school finally came, Emma and Manny happily walked around, at least something they missed was back, even if Degrassi was a lot of Drama, it was good be back.

Manny gasped before turning a corner, "Em, it's the guy!" Emma looked and saw Peter.

"Are you going to go talk to him?" Emma asked and Manny smirked to then cough.

"Yeah. Come with me?" she asked and Emma rolled her eyes but smiled and nodded until Manny tricked her and shoved her forward.

Emma yelped until being pushed into Peter who caught her, and then smirked seeing the girl from the pool.

"Emma right?" he asked.

Emma eyed him, "How'd YOU know?" she asks.

He smirked, and that made Emma have a flash back to Jay's incredible smirks, Peter defiantly didn't amount up to Jay's smirks.

Emma shook her head and tried to focus on Peter.

"Seen you around, had to ask someone." He declared, "Too shy to talk to a pretty girl like you."

Huh, pretty bold like Jay too for quite the skinny guy.

Emma snickered a bit, "right." She went to leave and he blocked her way.

"I'm having a party, wana come?" he asked and she was not at all interested.

"Party already? You just got here." She joked and he shrugged smiling before putting a piece of yellow paper in her hand.

"info on the where abouts. Please come. Numbers in there too." He said with a wink and left.

Emma shook her head, unbelievable! Manny came over and asked, "What'd he give you?"

"Party info, here." Emma said, giving it to her, she would give it more use than she would.

The night of his party, Emma stayed home, didn't even text him or add his number, but she did stare at Jay's number on her cell phone while she laid in bed depressed.

Meanwhile, Manny had gotten drunk at Peter's party, and he led her up the stairs. She was the blonde's best friend, and he was pissed Emma rejected him, time for payback.

And later on that night, Emma couldn't sleep, she stared up at her lamp where she placed her necklace on, and tree swung back and forth a little as she watched it hopelessly.

He hasn't even called.

.. was it time to move on?

Did he move on from her?