Sean woke up first, with the smell of vanilla filling his nostrils and he sighed in heaven, eyes still closed.

Em.

Sean's eyes widened awake and then he shut his eyes just as fast when the sun from his window was glaring in and he glared at it back. He then softened, and looked down. Emma was right there, sleeping the way she use to, him sleeping the way he use to, with his arm around her.

Oh fuck oh fuck this isn't good. He tried to carefully sit up but she stirred and moaned a bit in her sleep, her hand on his chest moving slightly to get comfy against him again. He melted, then froze, and gazed back down at her, loving the feel of her body once again on his and he tensed with that soft hand upon his chest. His heart beated against it, he was then afraid that would wake her up. It was pounding so irregularly.

No, no, this wasn't reality. Him and Emma weren't this lucky, not in this life..maybe in a fairy tale but sadly they were in a world of pain, judgement and heart break, and flaws, and weakness'.. . They were too complicated and it always ended badly. He couldn't go through the pain again nor wanted to put her through any more...

She though, clearly wasn't the one with a speeding heart rate right now. He looked guilty.

He sadly glanced back at her and finally sat up, carefully watching her whimper and then turn a little til her back faced him. He sighed, running a frustrated hand through his hair and got up. He wore just his jeans, and walked around the bed, looking for a clear shirt

He stopped on Emma's side, and slipped on a grey shirt. He then caught a glimpse of her again. She had her hand beside her head on the same pillow she laid on, and it was the hand with the ring on it. Her blonde hair flowed back around the pillow and her shoulders.. and the ring shined in the light from off her pretty little finger and she had a little smile on her lips as she slept.

It was one of the most beautiful sites he's ever seen.. he just wanted to climb right back in-

Sean jumped, his cellphone went off and Emma stirred awake too.

"Sean, your phoone." she whined sleepily and dug into his covers as he chuckled and nodded, grabbing it.

"No way," he teased, opening the phone, "How'd you know?" he watched her just fall back to sleep and chuckled into the phone while he answered, "Hello?"

"It's Victoria."

Sean's eyes widened, and darted to Emma sleeping on his bed and then he rushed to his bathroom. He panicked, wondering where the door was to slam then remembered it was a sliding the door. He finally pushed it closed. Every damn door in this place slided!

"Vic, heyyy." he said sing song like and even cringed himself. That wasn't suspicious. When did he ever call her Vic or speak in a tone like that?

Jesus, he got himself into a fucking mess here..

"What are you doing?" she sounded rather suspicious.

She couldn't know though..

"Ummm.." he trailed off, scratching the top of his head, "Just waking up..."

"You wanna see me today?"

Sean swallowed hard, "Plans actually, with the mother." he cringed again. Jesus, he sounded like a momma's boy.

"Right." she paused, "Well I miss you... do you miss me?"

Outside the bathroom, Emma stirred awake and sat up, "Sean?" she looked around. He didn't hear her, but she then turned her head towards the door and sat up a bit more, hearing him talking to somebody.

Must be on the phone.

She could hear his voice, "Yea, yeah. Ofcourse I miss you." he spoke. Emma's shoulders dropped and she got out of bed slowly and noticed herself, upset.

Must of been his girl friend he was talking to.

Why is it hurting her after all this time to know Sean was with another girl? She thought about it before, plus he had to be with someone else. Guys like Sean were never single, way too good looking and lucky enough for Sean, he was also a good guy.

She changed, and then slowly sat on Sean's bed with a frown and twisted the ring on her finger. Only been two days and she was regretting this whole damn thing.

Back in the bathroom, Sean was quickly pacing back and forth, trying to say everything Victoria would wanna hear so she wouldn't ask questions. He was definitely in a pickle, here

"fine." she told Sean, "But I wanna see you tomorrow at least."

"Sure." he said, glancing out the door and heard movement. His breath stopped, Emma was up, "I gotta go though."

"Bye babe." she said and he hung up and finally let out that breath he was holding. He went to walk out to meet up with Emma and stopped.

His eyes narrowed to the mirror in the bathroom and saw his wavy hair not styled or anything. Bed head. Fuck... He looked around and grabbed his black tuke and shoved it on, his hair peaking out on the sides behind his ears and at the bottom.

Emma looked over as Sean came out, "hey." he greeted.

She just kept looking through her bag and muttered, "Hey." back

He eyed her strangely. Was she okay? He then noticed her new outfit, little summer dress. It was yellow, pretty, but too short.

But...he didn't have say in that anymore did he?

"Ready?" he asked her.

She looked up at him questionably.

"Shopping right?" he rolled his eyes, "Hurry before I say no." he taunted but smirked as she grinned and grabbed her little white flip flops out and put them on.

He teasingly held her back when she went to run by him in the tight hall and she yelped but laughed, "Sean!" they then froze against the wall with Sean's back to it, but holding his arms tightly around her waist when the door across opened.

Linda raised an eyebrow at the two, and smirked, walking by to go to the kitchen, "Mornninggg." she sang.

Sean coughed, letting Emma go quite quickly and she also backed away and fixed her dress til she blushed madly and walked off after Linda.

Sean stood there and blinked, trying to recover from that.

"I'm gonna have bingo night with the girls tomorrow." Linda told them at the breakfast table.

Emma was happy there was some eggs, all the rest was meat. Sean must of not of told her she was vegetarian and she didn't want to bring it up.. could of been a memory loss thing from the cancer treatment.

Sean was by the toaster when he chuckled. The 'girls' were old women, but quite the characters he had to admit. He's seen them once playing on the beach when him and Tyler use to surf board and the ladies were so mouthy, the towns gossipers, his mom just as guilty, but still a riot.

"Oh you should come." Linda told Emma as Sean walked around them then laid a plate infront of Emma.

Emma paused and looked down before answering Linda and her heart skipped. He made her toast, with her favorite dill pickle cream on top.

He sat down like it didn't matter, eyes on his bacon and sticked a fork roughly into them before he showed down.

She swallowed the butterflies down and then giggled a bit shyly to Linda, "I'm not very good." plus, a night out with old ladies? Then again.. who else did Emma have to hang with?

"You don't need to me." joked Sean, finally looking up, "they just usually sit there and gossip anyways."

"No we don't." Linda swatted his arm then leaned back with a soft smile, "What are you two doing today?" she said it with such glee in her eye.

Both Sean and Emma tensed

"Shopping." Emma chimed in.

Sean nodded

Linda rolled her eyes, "Sean, take the girl out for dinner or something." she shared a smile with Emma, "This girl is not the type to be bought."

Emma kicked Seans leg from under the table when he laughed at the irony and he jumped a bit to glare slightly.

Ok, so maybe she was SORT OF a girl to be bought, but NOT if they were together. Emma shook her head a bit and began to eat her toast. Which they weren't, together, that is. Ugh, Emma shut her brain up.

"Do you need anything while were out?" Sean asked Linda.

Linda grabbed her purse, "Yes actually sweetie, can you refill my medication." she got out not 1, not 2, but three empty pills of her treatment medication.

Emma swallowed the rest of her food in her throat down. Her shoulders fell a bit, seeing Sean's eyes go a little numb as he looked at the bottles she needed filled.

"And please don't forget to tell Doctor Gibney that the orange pills aren't the ones I want this time, they just make me sick to my stomach.." as she spoke, Emma could tell Sean wasn't really listening. He was nodding slowly but his eyes still looked glazed over, and Emma could tell he wasn't taking it in well.

Emma remembered the note for Gibney for him and grabbed the pill bottles from Linda, "We'll get them." she said with a sweet assuring smile and put them in her purse.

Linda looked to Emma and softened, "Thankyou." she said, whispered like. Emma locked eyes with her and tried to lock her tears away

Why did the kindest people get diagnosed with this kind of stuff? First with Snake, and even Spinner had got it too before, now Linda. .the most harmless people Emma had ever met, the sweetest people. They didn't deserve it. It was so bad to go through and just as tough for familys and Emma had to get up before she began to cry as that hit home.

"Be right back." she said quickly, walking fast to the bathroom.

She leaned on the sink in there and whipped her tears, crying silently and then took a deep big breath. It was painful to also know Sean was taking care of his mom on his own now. She remembered just her and Spike struggling together with Snake. Emma promised right there that she would help Sean with Linda, even if it meant more than a few weeks.

"Emma?" she heard Lindas voice.

"Coming!" she called back and whipped her tears once more, sniffing and trying to fix herself.

Later on, Sean and Emma were walking back to his truck with bags all in his hands. They walked back from the big mall, which was shockingly big for such a small town!

"Jesus." Sean said, throwing all the bags in the back of his truck on Emma's side and then opened the door for her, "Please tell me that's all you need."

She giggled and nodded, "It is."

He gave her a look of disbelief with a slight smirk.

"I needed beach clothes!" Emma exclaimed while shrugging her shoulder, "Not everyone lives right next to a beach." she reminded quite jealously.

He nodded and looked down with a shrug himself, "Wasaga's great but, it's..no Degrassi."

"Yea but Degrassi's over, right?" Emma asked him.

He looked up and had an unreadable look, "right." he nodded.

"Plus...Wasaga has to be better if you didn't.." she awkwardly played with her hands and finished, "come back."

Sean looked straight at her now. It wasn't at all like that, that wasn't the reason he didn't come back.

"Yea." he looked away and motioned for to hop in, which she did, and he closed the door behind her. As he walked to his side, he bit the end of his tounge.

As they drove, Emma noticed they weren't going in the direction of his house- erm, household.

"Where we going?"

He didn't look at her as he mumbled, "Are you hungry or not?"

Emma reminded herself of Lindas words from this morning, taunting Sean to take her out for Dinner. He didn't HAVE to? They could just SAY they did..

She smiled kinda sweetly and nodded.

He glanced over and nodded back, trying not to smile back and tightened his hands on the wheel.

His stomach felt like fireworks exploding inside him. Sounded morbid, but it was actually nice. . he felt giddy. It was good you know, to feel that way again? Like a school boy with a crush again- He shook his head. He couldn't have a crush, he couldn't anything with Emma.

Dinner would be harmless. Just friends. Simple.

He turned into the nicest restaurant in Wasaga.

REVIEEWWS! What would you guys like to see happen during dinner together? And why is Sean trying to pretend so hard there's nothing between him and Emma anymore? Why can't he even SLIGHTLY admit it? Is there something bugging him deep down?