"so how was the date?" Manny asked the next Monday after the weekend.
"Cruel." Emma scowled, knowing what she was talking about, "Manny I can't believe you set me up like that!" she said, totally embarrassed
"What!?" Manny shrugged innocently.
Emma rolled her eyes, opening her locker, "It was you who told me to meet you at the Dot for lunch on Friday..not Peter."
"well, was he annoying?" she questions.
"No." Emma said.
"Too pushy?" she asked.
"no." Emma informed, shrugging and pulled out her class books.
Manny rolled her eyes, "So he was a gentleman?"
"Yes.." drifted Emma, not seeing the point and closed her locker
"Then what's the problem?" groaned Manny, walking along beside her.
Emma sighed, "Manny, he's not what I'm looking for okay?" she asked. Ever since Manny's small blow up at Jay in class, she'd been working harder to get Emma with Peter.
"No because he's not some bad boy with attitude, or have a smirk like Clint Eastwood.. .Emma, Jay is totally bad news." Manny insists.
"You don't think I don't know that?" Emma huffed, looking around and thanking God nobody heard Manny say that.
Manny passed Emma small smile, that's true.. Emma was smart but you couldn't help who you fell for. Manny looked down the hall at Craig. She knew the feeling of being pulled towards people you shouldn't love, but did
Meanwhile, Emma got to class and Manny went to hers. Emma sat alone as she opened up her homework until someone sat beside her.
Emma glanced over to do a double take, "your sitting up front for class today?" she taunts Jay.
"Haha." Jay joked a laugh and looked completely not happy. He got down to the point rather quickly and nodded at her curiously, "How was your little date with Poin Dexter?"
Emma rolled her eyes to Peter's nickname Jay gave him but heard her thoughts laughing
"Good." she taunts back but lied. She hated being there the whole time. . even worse when she saw Jay was near too.
"Oh yeah? Talk about his mommy dearest and his car his Daddy bought for him?" Jay shot back, knowing Peter was a rich boy and his mommy was the principle.
"He doesn't have a car." Emma taunted back but couldn't pass the part of his mom.. Peter did talk about her alot
Jay snickered as the bell rang, "Even better..does he talk about the new iphone his Daddy bought for him then?"
"We talked about everything." Emma declared, sending him daggers, "We even kissed and he DIDN'T tell me to stay away from him."
Jay's face fell, looking at her quite.. sadly yet still jealous.
"Ahem." someone coughed and he looked up to see Toby Issacs who pushed up his glasses and coughed lightly again, "S-sorry Jay, it's just that..well, this is my seat." he explains, pointing at the desk.
Jay ignored him easily and looked back at Emma who just raised an eyebrow at him and looked back down at her work. Jay got up and went to walk off but when he walked behind her, he turned and bent down so he leaned behind her, his breath on the back of her neck.
It made shivers run up Emma's spine and tingles went throughout her body, her heart stopping.
"Ofcourse he doesn't tell you to stay away." whispered Jay in her ear, "He has nothing to fear, but me? I care about you way more than any stupid boys like him."
Emma's eyes slowly trailed up, staring forward in shock Jay said he cared about her. Sure his intentions showed it but hearing it made her heart pound harder.
Emma closed her eyes, feeling his warm breath go from the back of her neck to the side..and how badly she wanted him to just ki-
"Ok class." Kwan cut them apart, and Jay didn't even go to the back seat, he just left the class.
Emma blinked a lot, and tried to focus during the class, and Liberty came in late, sitting behind her and poked her.
"What?" Emma whispered, turning her head slightly.
"You, Manny and Toby. My locker. 10 minutes." Liberty said, and raised her hand, excusing herself to go to the 'bathroom'.
Emma looked confused, but about 2 minutes later, asked the same.
Emma got out of class and Toby and Manny were already there and Liberty was pacing back and forth.
"Aren't we missing J.T?" Manny asked, wondering what this is about.. J.t was Liberty's boyfriend so shouldn't he be here?
"We don't miss him!" Liberty said, "We can do fine without him!" she bursted into tears, "We are STRONG."
"Lib.." Emma said with a small pout and put her hand on the girls' shoulder, "Did you guys break up?"
Liberty looked at her, she seemed so torn about and she choked on a cry, nodding.
"Well.. you have us." Manny insisted, "It'll be okay."
"We'll be fine." insisted Liberty, whispering it to herself over and over. Emma and Manny shared odd looks.
Toby tilted his head confused, "Whose 'we'?"
Silence.
Manny, Toby and Emma curiously looked at Liberty who swallowed hard.
"I'm pregnant." she revealed.
The girls eyes widened, and Toby even fainted.
"How can you be pregnant!?" Manny exclaimed, waving her hand infront of Toby's face and bending over his body so he'd wake up.
"Please don't tell J.T yet!" begged Liberty, "I want to tell him when I'm ready.. I dumped him cause he scared me, he's so immature.. we can't raise a baby!"
"Well maybe when you tell him, he'll grow up. He needs to know." Emma said.
"You don't think I know that!" hissed Liberty, "These things are tough to handle and I'm trying to make the right decisions."
"Liberty I'm here for you more than anything, I know what it's like. I'm behind you every step of the way." assured Manny.
"Mom?" Toby asked, waking up, "Is that you?"
The girls gave him looks