plotted. // @thrillor
to say emma had been a mess lately would be an understatement. she felt entirely directionless, and her recent behavior only left her feeling worse about herself. emma had really started to face the events that had landed her here, or tried to at least. it was understandably difficult for her to think back to that day, to what had almost happened. a realization had come to her, however. she didn’t actually have to face this entirely alone. sean may have left town, but they hadn’t been the only people in the hallway that day, and it occurred to emma finally that she’d been subconsciously avoiding toby, at least to some degree, since the incident, and it hadn’t been fair to either of them. emma had been absent with everyone lately, and her emotional distance from toby had never crossed her mind much, until now. “toby!” she called, catching sight of the boy as he exited the front doors of degrassi alone. the blonde weaved between students to catch up to him, most of them moving out of her way when they saw her approaching, a reminder of her current pariah status courtesy of her recent tryst with jay hogart. “can we talk?” she asked, when she reached him, pausing to wait for an answer.