"Linda!" a kind gentlemen in his 60's greeted Sean's mother as she walked into the small grocery store.

Sean's mother smiled just as politely and carried her small shopping basket, running her hand through her highlighted dark blonde hair with small greys here and there. The town Wasaga was so small and had cute little shops and it was a town everyone knew everybody.

"Hello Martin." she greeted back, and stopped at the counter he was behind, it was a big meet stand, "Can I get a turkey?"

"Turkey?" he teased, "It's not thanksgiving or Christmas." he pointed out to the summer sky and she laughed, giving him a playful glare.

"It's for a specail dinner, Martin."

"How specail?" he teased, turning around and getting the small turkey ready for her.

She grinned in delight, "My sons getting married special. He's bringing the girl home tonight."

"Ah." he came back with the Turkey wrapped and ready to go, "That is specail! Sean huh? Never pegged the boy to be a one woman type of man." he winked at her.

She laughed, "With his charms, he could of gotten away with it.. but this girl had him locked in since he was 13."

The man looked blown away, until somebody stepped in.

"I'm sorry, did you say your son is getting married?"

Linda turned to Victoria, whose eyes looked on fire.

Sean was getting closer to home as he sped down the country road highway and passed the sign that read Wasaga, 30 more miles. He glanced at Emma with hands on the wheel, glanced at the road, then looked back at the blonde who slept to his right.

She was passed right out, facing him and curled up a bit on the seat, guess it was pretty cold for the size of shorts she was wearing. She was looking pretty peaceful for how loud the wind was that coming through the open window and how the music from the stereo somewhat blasted. She was always such an easy sleeper, he remembered forcing her to watch a horror movie a long time ago and had thought he could trick her into holding onto him and having a bit of a make out session, but it turned into her just passing out even through the bloody screams of the movie..least he did get her to cling onto him though that time.

"hey." he snapped himself out of it and also her out of sleep.

She bolted a little and sat up, blushing a bit. She hated sleeping. Sometimes she snored if tired enough. She looked around confused, then remembered they were on their way to Wasaga.

"Almost there." he said as she turned to him, eyes still so focused on the road.

"Great." she muttered and he snuck a glance over to see her bend forward to the cup holders between them and grab her sprite, opening it.

As she gulped it down slowly, she moved her long hair off one side of her shoulders from all the summer heat, and tossed it to the right side, then crossed her long leg over the other. She leaned back in the seat more, and Sean gulped as well, seeing her bare neck and perfectly smooth skin, especially when she leaned back and her tank top rised a bit, showing off the toned stomach between her jean bottons and her belly botton. Then those long tanned legs were another story-

"SEAN!" Emma yelped.

He jumped and his eyes widened, looking to the road and swerved a bit to shout, "FUCK!" Thank god for being a good driver, he drifted a little around in a circle, and they were safely on the side of the road.

Sean panted heavily, eyes wildly looking around, wondering why Emma had freaked out. Slowly, from the middle of the road, a racoon made its way safely to the other side of the road without being run over.

Emma was frightened too, but watched the little creature walk off unharmed and smiled happily to then catch Sean's not so happy glare.

"Are you kidding me?!" he shouted at her. Almost a car crash for THAT?!

"Well were you even WATCHING?!" Emma snapped at him, getting angry too, "How could you not see him crossing the road!?"

Sean went to snap at her, to grit his teeth and shut his mouth, starting the truck up again. He couldn't answer that. He was doing something he shouldn't of been doing. "Whatever." he snapped.

After a few minutes of driving again, Emma snuck glances at him and nervously played with her hands.

After 10 minutes, she finally spoke up, "Lets just pretend it didn't happen and you didn't almost murder a harmless little racoon..."

"Emma! You-" he stopped, noticing her smirking at him and took another glance at her

She was playing with him. She smiled now, and understood it was silly she just almost killed them over a racoon, but it was classic her.

He shook his head but laughed a little and muttered teasingly, "You're fucking crazy."

She leaned her head back on the seat, "Hey, you're the one who proposed to me." she giggled a bit to the look he shot her.

When he suddenly stepped on the breaks, it was Emma this time to gasp in shock and thank god she was wearing a seat belt.

She looked at him this time like HE was crazy and his eyes widened, and his hands went through his pockets antsy like and then through his backseat.

Luckily, this road didn't have much cars going through it.

"What are you doing!?" she yelled at him and looked at him like he grew another head.

She yelped a little, moving her body up straighter when his arm leaned over her into the glove department. She swallowed nervously, until he grabbed something too tiny for her to see in his hand.

He started the truck again, and silence filled the air as they drove down the road. He had one hand on the wheel, and the other hand holding something else and he looked like he was struggling to say something.

"Put this on." he finally said, pushing something in her hand and not looking at her. He put both his hands on the wheel now.

Emma looked down and opened her hand up. A ring. It was honestly..so beautiful. She bit her lower lip, eyeing the pearls on the side of the big diamond ring.

Sean took Emma's silence for being confused and mumbled, "Was my grandmas."

Emma looked at him softly, and back at the ring. She swallowed a lump in her throat. Maybe this was a bad idea... it was bringing back bad memories of when she was a little girl and use to day dream with Manny about a wedding with Sean one day.

"I can't.." Emma drifted.

Sean looked at her, baffled and then worriedly, "what's wrong?"

Emma tried to take a deep breath and tried to give him back the ring but he wouldn't take it, "Sean, can't I just wear some other ring?" she couldn't wear this one, it meant to much, and this thing...this wasn't real, right?

"You have to." Sean honestly said, shrugging his shoulder and eyes back on the road, "My mom will expect it."

Emma closed her eyes for a second before getting the courage to finally to put the ring near her wedding finger. Her heart started to pound. This wasn't good..

She put it on fast, like there was a bomb that would explode if she ddn't. She then raised an eyebrow, "Wow." she said amazed.

"What?" he glanced back and doubled back at the ring on her hand and he swallowed a lump in his throat also.

"Fits perfectly." she admitted, kind of amazed and adoring the ring on her.

He snickered and teased, "Don't get use to it."

Emma felt a bit of a sting to that, but tried to ignore it. He then coughed awkwardly. . did he SERIOUSLY just say that?

"So what's she like?" Emma asked him.

Sean looked at Emma a bit wierdly. Who? He eyed Emma. She? Another girl? Oh. Shit. . .did she mean Victoria?

His breath stopped.

"...your mom?" Emma questioned, egging him on, "You said SOME things about her, but not much..and that's when you were an angry juvenile kid." she teased him

He tried not to smile, then got serious "Things are different now.. .she's not what she use to be. Remember when I told you my family were all alcoholics?"

Emma nodded a little, eyeing him sadly. She remembered HIM having bad effects with alcohol too once upon a time, she was so glad he never drank again after that.

He went on, "Only the guys of the family were. My mom never touched the stuff, she's actually pretty religious but my Dad was a beer-holic." he joked.

Emma saddened though, knowing he joked so he didn't show his pain.

Sean kept going, "But uh, a year before he died, he actually sobered up. Was actually becoming the old good husband he use to be.. was never much a father but he was also turning back into that mechanic he use to be.. "

Emma eyed Sean... wow.. for the first time she could see Sean may of idolized his father once upon a time. That was the last thing she would of ever guessed...

"the guy who use to teach me everything I know.."

Emma's heart then clenched, "I didn't know.." she admitted with a crack in her voice, and couldn't believe she didn't know Sean's father had died. She didn't even hear it from Jay. . she had sworn once she had known Sean more than anybody.. .it hurt to know she didn't anymore.

Her heart swelled up.

Sean shrugged his shoulders but wouldn't look at her and she saw his jaw clenching left to right as he drove and he sniffed a bit but showed no tears. He was always so good at keeping them in, but it would only lash out if he didn't talk about it.

Emma knew that.

"What'd he die of?"

"Liver failure." he answered kind of quickly and bitterly with a laugh that Emma got a little concerned about and he snickered, "When the guy finally fuckin sobers up.." he shook his head.

Emma could see the anger in his eyes, and his fists clenched the wheel.

She wanted to cry herself, and tried to keep strong, for him. That wasn't fair. Things were finally going good for Sean, and that was ripped away from him. She knew she needed to change the subject again, or Sean would snap.

"why didn't you come to Manny and Jay's wedding?" she asked him.

Sean was quiet for a moment before he muttered, "Just couldn't. Army wouldn't let me."

Emma eyed him suspiciously. He would of been the best man, like she had been the maid of honor. The army WOULD of let him go.. they let Manny's cousin go who was also in the army during that time. So why'd he ditch? Was it cause of her? Did he hate her that much now? Or just didn't care for his Degrassi old friends anymore.. no, that couldn't be it. Him and Jay were like boyfriends for life.

She giggled a bit.

He glanced over, knowing something was on her mind, "What?" he taunted.

She shrugged innocently, glancing out the window and looked happy to see the ocean finally. They were almost there!

He smirked and shook his head.

Meanwhile..

"Thanks for the coffee dear, so sweet of you." Linda told Victoria, sitting on a patio outside a diner and sharing coffee with Sean's... thing? Linda had no idea who she was either, just thought she was a random girl at the grocery store who had an interest in her sons wedding for some reason.

"Sorry so many questions.." drifted Victory slowly, "I myself am engaged and still so young, so I wonder a lot if I'm even ready." she eyed Linda.

Linda had told her Sean was 1) engaged. Victoria wanted to go find him and go scream at him... but then again she didn't want to jump to conclusions and lose him. She knew Linda was sick. Maybe she was just confused.

But then two) Linda had said Sean was engaged to some Emma girl. Who the hell was Emma? She did not know ONE Emma who crossed this entire beach or town. She was pretty curious.

"Oh dear, if you know with every inch of you, no doubts, that it's right? then it's meant to be." Linda insisted.

Victoria snickered bitterly, "And it's meant to be with Sean and this Emma chick?" she coughed lightly, "I mean, how do you know this girl is even the one for him if you hadn't met her?"

"Oh I don't need to meet her, I see it in his eyes." smiled Linda softly, "A mom knows best."

Victoria was livid and clenched the coffee mug in her hands and tried to regain her posture, "You said he's been away in the army for a few years? How do you know she's been faithful all this time? Or even loves him or that he still loves her? What if he grew out of her?"

Linda looked at Victoria oddly for the strange questions but stuttered a bit, wondering what question to answer first.

"Well he's bringing her over tonight." she seemed so sure.

Victoria COULDN'T believe it. There was another girl, wasn't there?! She always felt like he had dark secrets and something was..missing.

"And I'm sure a girl would stay faithful to a boy like my son, he's such a gorgeous boy, it's from his father! And.." she seemed to even sigh romantically herself, "He had literally stepped infront of a bullet for this girl... minus all the other thousands of bullets he later encountered when he went to the army for her, to better himself."

Linda didn't even realise Victoria put her head into her hands, sinking this all in. She had competition. She had to win Sean over from this stupid girl. She swore she was going to win this, this girl would regret ever trying to take Sean from her.

Linda kept going on, sipping her coffee, "And she's gotta be lovely if she caught my Sean's eye. She's gotta be just wonderful."

Victoria just plastered on a fake smile.

"We're here." Sean finally said, hopping out of the truck with Emma and the sun was just about to go down and it looked beautiful out on the ocean.

Sean smirked to the fact Emma wasn't even judging his trailer home, she hadn't even the first time he brought her here. She looked out at the ocean and sun with such a calm and peaceful look on her face.

"I'm starvin." he finally confesses and went to put his hand in hers and shot it back. Thank god she was looking the other way. He blinked, and cursed bad old habits. He walked to the door and slid it open, "come on." he teased, whistling a bit.

Emma glared over but giggled a bit and went over. She glanced over her shoulder, "My bags.."

"I'll get them in a bit." he promised and closed the door behind her, "Mom!" he called and then clenched Emma's arm softly.

Emma gasped a little, and felt the sparks fly through her. Oh no... she stared down almost fearfully at his hand on her arm and his mouth went by her ear, his hot breath tingling down her neck as he spoke.

"She's gonna freak. Just smile and bare it," he half joked, "Just be yourself. Your a mother in laws wet dream."

Emma shot him a look but smiled and rolled her eyes until an older woman came sprinting down towards them from the kitchen.

she gasped when she laid eyes on Emma, and covered her mouth, tears forming to her eyes.

Emma nervously laughed, sharing a look with Sean who smirked and itched the back of his neck. His heart pounded hard and nervously.