A/N: The prologue is over and now the story begins. This story is kind of like a time fic, as it goes back and forth between Ryan and Justin's time period. I will try to announce which time zone the chapter will be in, such as this one, which will be in J.J and Ryan's time. Read and enjoy!

Chapter One: The Twins

"Ryan! J.J! Get up!" the annoyed teen shouted.

Ryan groaned in his bed, his brown hair going in multiple uncombed ways. He eyed his twin sleeping. Ryan, twelve, looked at the doorway to see his fifteen years old uncle, Jack.

"Jack, what time is it?" Ryan asked tiredly.

"Time for school," Jack replied sarcastically. Ryan chose not to give Jack his infamous left middle finger. "Come on, we have to get a move on."

"The school is down the road. How late can we be?" Ryan asked getting out of the bed."

"You mean next to having a grandfather that runs the place and you're already ten minutes behind schedule? A lot." Jack said. "Besides, you missed Izzy."

"Oh man." Ryan said before going to his twin, Justin. "Hey, J.J, get up." No response. "Fine, when Mom comes home and sees that you missed the first day of school, don't be pissed at me."

"Ryan, go back to bed. Jack's just pulling your leg. School doesn't start for another hour." Justin mumbled.

"No stupid. That's what happened an hour ago! We're late." Ryan replied.

Justin sighed heavily before throwing the covers off of himself. He eyed his identical twin before getting up. To the normal person, the two looked completely identical, but to the Simpson/Nelson- Cameron family, everyone could tell them apart. Justin was a bit taller and Ryan, strangely, wore glasses. Plus, the two wrote with different hands, Ryan a lefty and Justin a righty.

"Let's hurry up. I have to meet up with someone." Jack said.

"Kissy Izzy?" Justin teased, using Isabella Jones's childhood nickname.

Jack's face reddened. "No. And stop calling her that. You know she hates that."

"I'm just saying." Justin said in a mocking tone.

"Let's go, nephew." Jack said.

Justin and Ryan snickered as Jack walked out heatedly. They exchanged hand-fives.

"Good one." Ryan said.

Justin shrugged. "The best of what I do. And now, we take over Degrassi. Cameron-style."

"Right." Ryan said.

The school had not changed much as the trio made their way to the front steps. Ryan now sporting his glasses.

"Look, your classes would be over there with the other middle school classes." Jack said. "I'm going to be in the high school section, got it?"

"It's just a school." Justin said shoving his hands in his pockets. "I'm going to go check it out."

"We're already late!" Jack scolded.

Justin shrugged. "Point? It's not like they can do much. I'll just say, 'Gee, I got lost,' and then what? It's the first day."

With that, Justin walked into the building.

"Ryan, tell me why your brother is annoying." Jack said.

"I don't know. I guess it comes with being the youngest." Ryan answered. "Well, I'm off to class. See you later."

"Alright." Jack said as the two walked off. "The things I do for my sister…"

Ryan skidded to a stop before colliding with a female student. Both of them were thrown onto the ground.

"That hurt…" Ryan muttered before looking at the girl. "Oh I'm so sorry! I was in a hurry and-"

"It's not problem." the girl said trying to pick up the pieces of paper that scattered in the hallway. Ryan began helping her. "Thanks, though I really shouldn't be thanking you since it is your fault."

Ryan chuckled nervously. "Yeah, I'm a bit of a klutz sometimes." The girl stopped and held something in front of Ryan. He narrowed his eyes until he realized that they were his glasses. "Oh, thanks."

"Don't mention it." the girl said. The girl successfully gathered all her papers and stood up. "Now I'm even later." Ryan stood up and studied the girl. Petite, blonde curls, green eyes, and a beauty mole on her right cheek. "This stinks."

"Well, I'll see you around." Ryan said reaching for a doorknob. He closed his eyes. Justin was clearly the womanizer between the two. "Say, what is your name?"

"Stacy." the girl said walking down the hallway. "Thanks again…"

"Ryan!" Ryan called at her. Ryan smiled before stepping in the classroom. He froze once all eyes turned on him. "…"

"And you are?" the teacher asked.

"Ryan Cameron." Ryan said moving to the first empty seat he saw.

"Ah, Mr. Cameron." the man said. "I'm Mr. Douglas. I'll be your homeroom teacher for the year. Welcome to Degrassi."

"Thanks." Ryan said.

Justin walked into his classroom and sat down in a seat near the back.

"And you are?" the female teacher asked her most-recent tardy student.

"Justin Cameron, but I prefer J.J." Justin answered.

"Uh-huh. Do you have a note?" Justin shook his head negatively. "Well, don't let this happen again. I'm Ms. Vasquez, your homeroom teacher. I don't tolerate tardiness, but since it is the first day, I'm giving you a break. Just this once."

"Yes ma'am." Justin said, though everyone knew he did not mean it.

"Hey," Justin looked beside him to see a blonde girl. "How'd you get here so fast? And where're your glasses?"

Justin frowned. "My what? And do I know you?"

Stacy glared. "It's me, Stacy! You just bumped into me in the hallway!"

"Oh brother…" Justin said palming his forehead. He removed his hand and smiled. "Stacy, you ran into my twin, Ryan." Stacy's eyes widened. "Yeah, we get that a lot. Though this is the first time a girl has every mistaken me for him. It's usually vice versa."

"I'm sorry." Stacy said with flushed cheeks. "I didn't know."

"No one knows until we tell them. We kind of like being different. The nerd and the jock. Sort of." Justin replied. "And I'm sorry for him bumping into you. He's a klutz."

"That's what he said." Stacy said.

Justin grinned. "I bet he did. Now, let's talk about you…"

After homeroom, Justin and Ryan were both annoyed to find that their lockers were next to one another.

"This again? It's worse than that time we were in first grade and had to share cubby holes." Ryan said.

"Please, don't ever say that again. I have a reputation to build and maintain." Justin responded. "Speaking of which, Stacy is cute. Not drop-dead gorgeous, but no where near ugly." Ryan eyed his brother in confusion. "What? Wondering how I met her?"

"Yeah."

"We have homeroom together." Justin explained. "And like always, there was a case of mistaken identity. But only this time, she thought I was you. I straightened that out."

"So…" Ryan said as the two began to walk towards their first period class. "Do you think she's like dating material or whatever?"

"You?" Justin countered.

"I'm not you, Casanova." Ryan said. Justin gave a small frown causing Ryan to sigh. "Giovanni Jacopo? It was a- Never mind. You date more than I do. That's what I'm saying."

"Uh-huh. And Romeo couldn't have been compared to me because…?" Justin questioned.

"Romeo only dated one girl and died for her. You wouldn't die for any of these girls. You'd just find someone else." Ryan replied. "So, what do you say? Dating material?"

"Hmm… I'd say yeah." Justin said. "She obviously has a thing for twins and I'm obviously the better of the two." Ryan scoffed at the statement. "So… Yeah. I could date her. Give me a day or two to know her."

"Yeah." Ryan said quietly as the two walked into their Media Immersion class. They sat beside one another, Justin to Ryan's right. "You know this year, I might want to do something big, you know? Make an impact during our first year."

"Run for president." Justin said deadpanned. Justin looked to see the surprised look on Ryan's face. "What? With your mouth, you'd be perfect for class, or even school, president."

"I might try it." Ryan said before the teacher walked into the room.

"Good morning class. I am your teacher, Ms. Oh." the elderly woman said. "Welcome to Media Immersion."

"Boy, I wonder how boring she can make this class." Justin whispered to his brother, though Ryan was not looking at him.

Although it appeared that Ryan was paying attention to Ms. Oh, he was actually thinking about Stacy. She was attractive, no doubt, and he wanted to be the quicker of the two and ask her out first. However, Ryan was no idiot. For some reason, girls always chose Justin over him. He had, at one point, thought it was the glasses but that changed when Justin got a girl's number while wearing Ryan's glasses.

"Hey, Ryan, are you going to just sit there or are you going to respond to the lady?" Justin's voice broke Ryan out of his trance.

"Oh, here." Ryan said, gaining a few snickers from the class.

"Embarrassing…" Justin muttered.

"Shut up." Ryan retorted.

"Hey, no point in getting mad at me because you're spacing out over some girl." Justin said. "It's just your natural thing. Over-thinking simple situations."

"Better than failing." Ryan replied, gaining a small shrug from his younger twin brother. "Do you even care?"

"Some times." Justin said.

Ryan did not reply to Justin. Ryan knew that his brother did not care as much about his grades as Ryan did. Justin cared more about athletics and girls. Ryan, though athletic, did not have such luck with the opposite sex.

"I bet Grandpa is going to show up soon." Justin commented. "He did teach Media Immersion and here we are. Media Immersion. In his former classroom. In his school. As his grandsons."

"I get it." Ryan said. "But why do you care?"

Justin looked at Ryan. "Do you know what people will think if Granddad checks in on us everyday?" Ryan lazily rolled his eyes. "There goes all hopes of being anything in this school. Anything."

"Whatever J.J." Ryan said.

"Ryan, you of all should know what I'm talking about." Justin said. "Just think about it. What would Stacy think if your granddad checked on you every single day?" Seeing Ryan's face actually strike a thinking pose, Justin smirked. "You see what I mean?"

Ryan shook his head. "That's not important, and what does she have to do with that anyway?"

"I'm just saying." Justin said.

Ryan sighed at before logging onto the computer in front of him. If there was one thing Justin would always be good at is getting under someone's skin. Ryan used to try and come back with witty phrases, but Justin always outdid him. Now, Ryan doesn't even try.

"Hey," Justin said. "I wonder what Mom by, 'I hope you do better than me'."

Ryan shrugged. "Maybe she did badly in school."

"Mom with bad grades? Hardly." Justin said. "I'm going to find out though, one way or the other."

"Have fun." Ryan replied.

Before lunch, Ryan put his morning books away to avoid carrying them any longer. Justin waited for his brother, though Ryan knew that this was probably a one-time thing. Justin usually went ahead with his friends.

"Well look who has finally reach the big league." the voice of Isabella Jones reached the twins causing them to turn to see their uncle's friend. She smiled at them. "How's your first day?"

"It's fine Kissy Izzy, how is yours?" Justin remarked.

Isabella's face went from amused to anger in seconds.

"If you say that cursed nickname again I'll make sure that today is your last day here, got it?" Isabella threatened. Justin nodded with a smirk. "Good. So how are you Ryan?"

"Fine." Ryan said.

Isabella threw her arm around Ryan's neck.

"I'm so glad you're not like your brother. He's so annoying." Isabella said.

"He's standing right beside you." Justin commented.

"If only you were a bit older." Isabella said playfully, though Ryan still blushed. "Ah… I can see it now."

"What about Jack?" Justin asked.

"No one is talking to you or about Jack. Stop breaking up my daydream about your brother." Isabella said. "Now, where was I? Oh yeah, the future. Or what could have been the future had you been older. Or the present."

Justin snorted in laughter. "That's a laugh. I'll see you around Ryan, I got some friends to catch up to."

"Sure." Ryan said a bit hoarse as he was picturing what it would be like to wake up beside Isabella.

Justin walked off while Isabella and Ryan watched for a moment. Then Isabella began to pull Ryan with her.

"Come on Ryan, you can hang out with Jack and our friends." Isabella said. "But I warn you. They are all annoying, especially your uncle."

"Sure." Ryan said. "But… Are you only doing this because-"

"Yep." Isabella cut Ryan off. "You are the nerdy one and we are the helpful ones. You teach us and we'll protect you. That's how it goes."

"Oh. Okay." Ryan said.

"Although," Isabella stated. "If you want me to hook you up with one of the girls I can."

"That's, that's okay." Ryan said before Isabella led him to a table outside of the cafeteria. Ryan saw two boys that he did not know, a girl he also did not know, and Jack.

"You weren't kidding." Jack stated.

"Nope." Isabella said as she sat in-between one of the unknown boys and the other girl. "Friends, this is Ryan Cameron, Jack's nephew. Ryan, these are our weird, annoying friends. This is Kevin, Cassidy, and Dylan."

"'Sup?" the boy beside Isabella, Kevin, said.

"Nothing." Ryan said sitting beside Jack.

"To whom it may concern, Ryan is the nerd of the twins." Jack said, resulting in a frown from the youngest boy.

"And also the cutest." Isabella said with a smile and a wink, gaining another blush from Ryan.

"Never knew you were a pedophile Bella." Dylan said.

Isabella rolled her eyes. "Whatever."

"I don't know Dill," Cassidy stated. "If he's free, I might have to teach him a thing or two myself."

"First day, two girls. I have to say Ryan, I'm impressed." Jack said before sipping a soda from the can. "Give it a day or two and you might be like me."

"I think he has you beat, Jack." Dylan said. "Bella and Cassidy? That's two that you don't have."

"I'm friends with them. That makes up for that." Jack replied before turning to Ryan. "And where's the troublemaker?"

Ryan shrugged. "I don't know. Cafeteria I guess."

"Let's hope so." Jack said.

Justin sat at a table with four friends that he had met earlier: Desmond, Ronald, Brittany, and Zoey. The five of them were currently talking about a party that was to take place Saturday.

"You know," Zoey said moving a piece of red hair out of her face. "We can also go out later on today, if everyone is free."

"I'm free." Ronald said. "What about you two?"

Desmond shrugged. "I don't know… My parents seem to make me do things when I least expect it."

"That's true." Ronald said. "You J.J? You free?"

"Should be." Justin replied. "Yeah, I'm sure I can do whatever."

"Great. We should meet up somewhere." Zoey said.

"Hey Ry- J.J," the voice of Stacy said coming to the table, palming her head. "Ryan wears glasses, J.J doesn't, I need to remember that."

Justin frowned. "Is there something I can help you with Stacy?"

"I was looking for your brother. Do you know where he is?" Stacy asked.

"Uh, he's probably with our uncle, Jack." Justin answered. "Check outside. Nine times out of ten, Izzy is playing with him."

"Izzy…?" Stacy repeated.

"Some friend of Jack's. She likes messing with Ryan." Justin said. "I don't hang around her because she's a bit aggravating. Cute, but aggravating."

"Oh." Stacy said. "Thanks. I'll go find him now."

As Stacy walked away, the blonde Brittany leaned on her elbows on the table to get closer to Justin, who sat across from her.

"Do you think she has a thing for your brother?" Brittany whispered.

"I hope not." Justin muttered.

Ronald's eyebrow quickly twitched in mischief as he smirked.

"Oh I get it. You have a thing for Stacy." Ronald said. Justin tried to say something- anything- but nothing came out. "I can talk to her for you if you want."

"Nah, I've never needed anyone's help. Besides, I don't think she's looking for Ryan for that. Probably some math problem that I wouldn't understand." Justin said. "So, about Saturday?"

Brittany and Ronald exchanged glances before Brittany sat up straight.

"Yeah, Saturday." Ronald said.

Ryan laughed with the others at the table.

"That's why we don't go to many parties anymore." Jack concluded, though Ryan was hardly paying attention. "We wouldn't want any of us to have, uh, stomach problems."

"I still say it could've happened to any of us." Dylan said.

"New girl at seven o'clock." Cassidy announced.

The group saw Stacy walk timidly up to them. She eyed the older teens before looking at Ryan.

"I was looking for you. You said that you were going to talk about Media Immersion. Tips for the class and all." Stacy said.

Isabella smiled. "Well aren't you in luck? Ryan here," Ryan groaned at Isabella's tone. "Can do almost anything on a computer, even find the best music."

"Oh. That's good." Stacy replied. "You must be Isabella, right?"

"Yes I am. What can I do for you?" Isabella asked with a small frown.

"Oh! Nothing! J.J just said that you would be, well, messing with him." Stacy responded.

Now it was Ryan's turn to frown. "Messing with me? What does he mean by that?"

"I don't know. That's just what he said." Stacy said.

"Go and help your friend. And stay out of trouble." Jack stated.

"Sometimes I think you're my dad and not my mother's younger brother." Ryan murmured as he stood up.

Jack and his friends watched Ryan and Stacy walk away together, talking amongst themselves.

"You know that she used that as an excuse right?" Isabella said to Jack.

Jack nodded. "I know. But I'm happy that he found a girl that actually seems to be interested in him."

"Who said that I was playing?" Cassidy asked, gaining a laugh from Isabella.

"Sadly, I believe her." Kevin said.

"As long as she doesn't hurt him." Isabella said. "If she does that, then I'm going to rip her-"

"No you're not. Let it go." Jack interrupted. Jack then smirked. "Besides, wouldn't you just love to see where this goes? We could have so much fun with this."

Cassidy frowned. "Why are you picking on your nephew?"

"Because those two brats deserve it." Jack said.

After their first day of school, Justin and Ryan returned home to find their mother in the kitchen humming and cooking.

"Hey Mom." the two said in unison.

Emma smiled. "Hey. How was your first day?"

"Good except we never learned why you said what you said yesterday." Justin responded.

"Oh. About hoping your first year is better than my last?" both boys nodded. Emma giggled. "Well, I can tell you now, it's not what you're thinking."

"What did you do?" Ryan asked.

"Was Grandma mad?" Justin added.

"Did you get bad grades?"

"Suspended for fighting?"

"Say something bad in front of Granddad?"

"Shoot someone?"

Emma and Ryan stared at Justin after he said the last statement. He looked at both of them and shrugged.

"It could happen." Justin said.

"You know," Emma said. "I'll do you a favor. Everyday after school, I'll tell you a piece of what happened to me during my last year. Is that a deal?"

"What's the other part?" Ryan asked.

"You be honest and tell me what happened to you if you are uncertain about something. Okay?" Emma asked. Ryan and Justin nodded. "Good. So, where should I begin?"

"The first day." Ryan answered.

"And don't skip anything." Justin added.

"Alright," Emma said. "Well, during my first day of my senior year, I was already in serious trouble. I was pregnant with you two." Justin's and Ryan's eyes widened. "Yeah and your dad was away in the army. So I went through a task."

"This is already good." Justin said.

"Trust me. It gets better." Emma stated.

A/N: So next chapter will be in Emma's time during her pregnancy. It kind of starts where the prologue ended. Thanks and keep reading.