Emma Nelson was the teenager that every parent wished they could have. She had gotten good grades, she cared about the environment, and was an overall genuinely good person. That is, until now. Now she's barely getting by with her grades, she lost all interest in the things she cared about, and is no longer that "perfect" teenager.

Emma woke up at 7:00 and had to be in school in about 30 minutes. This was the usual way things went. She would go to bed late and then probably be late to school. She had already received a Saturday detention for her tardiness.

Things hadn't changed. She had lost Manny over something stupid and Sean was ignoring her as usual. She walked into Ms. Kwan's class and bumped right into Sean and couldn't help but notice the hickey on his neck. She stopped staring and brought herself back to reality. As she sat at her desk listening to Kwan babble on about something she had gotten lost in her own thoughts.

She didn't want to be here. School wasn't fun anymore and being stuck at home was even worse. The only thing she looked forward to was spending time at the Rave with Chris. Chris had become her, best friend/almost boyfriend and she was thankful that he came into her life. Chris made her forget about her problems and made them almost disappear even for a short amount of time. Just then she looked behind her to see Chris walk into class and smiled. She didn't realize what she was doing until she looked over to Sean, who was just giving her that "what the hell" look. She just ignored him and went back to listening to Kwan.

When the bell rang, she began to pack up when Chris came over to her. "Emma, what class do you have now?" She couldn't help but smile. There was just something about him that made her happy. "Biology, my most annoying class of the day, what do you have?" She couldn't help being curious. "I have Media Immersion." He replied quickly. Before Emma could say something he cut her off. "I was wondering…do you maybe want to ditch the rest of the day and just hang out?" She was going to say no but then it dawned on her that she only had Biology and lunch left. "Sure I have only 2 classes left anyway." They both had to run to their lockers before they left and get their stuff.

As Emma was walking to the main doors she saw Sean sitting with his new friends and Manny sitting with hers. She only glanced over for a second and caught eyes with Sean. "Screw him, I don't owe him anything" she thought to herself. She crossed the street, sat down on the bench and waited for Chris.

She kept staring at the ground because she felt someone's eyes on her. She looked up and Sean was looking at her as he crossed the street. "Great! What the hell does he want?" she knew this was going to be an argument but she didn't care. "What do you want Sean?" she almost yelled with a mix of anger and sadness in her voice and Sean picked up on it. "I just wanted to see how things were going. You don't need to rip my head off."

She didn't want to have this conversation and decided to end it when she saw Chris coming down the steps. "Well I got to go. Bye" She crossed the street and walked away with Chris.

Sean stood there dumbfounded and didn't know what to do. He had been noticing that she was becoming very distant and very angry. He knew she was angry at Manny and himself, but now it seemed as if she was mad at the world.

As soon as Sean crossed the street Manny came over. "Is she okay?" Sean knew Manny cared and so did he. He just didn't understand why she had to be so difficult and not let them in again. "I'm really starting to think she's not." Sean said, as he watched her walk away down the sidewalk.