“Secret (2)”
Season 4, Episode 15
Information
Can. Airdate	December 7, 2004
U.S. Airdate	July 1, 2005
Prod. Code	415
Episode Guide
Previous	“Secret (1)”
Next	“Eye of the Tiger”

"Secret (2)" is the fifteenth episode of Season 4 of the Canadian television series, Degrassi:The Next Generation. It originally aired on December 7, 2004 on CTV Television and on July 1, 2005 on The N.

SummaryEdit

After the night in the ravine, Emma finds herself becoming a different person a person she doesn't want to be when she realizes the consequences of a few minutes in the van are worse than she ever thought.

Extended OverviewEdit

After sneaking out, having oral sex with Jay, and playing her mom and dad, Emma has never felt alive. She goes to school the next day, and walks pass Alex, Amy and Jay, who is picking up Alex and twirling her around. Alex tells him that she has to go to the doctor for something... When Jay catches Emma staring at them, he pulls Alex close to him, and kisses her, trying to make her jealous. Nate walks by, trying to talk to Emma, and she abruptly kisses him. Snake and Manny happened to have been walking by, and along with Jay, they were stunned. Nate tells Emma that he has had more conversations with the Janitor, than he's had with her! Emma says she was just practicing, but she'll wait till the play next time. She walks away, feeling sassy, and has a Manny completely surprised. 

Later at dress rehearsel, Alex has found out she has Gonorrhea, and learns that Jay has had oral and intercoursal sex with many different girls, including her bestfriend; Amy. Alex walks onstage, and asks J.T. if he wants a scene, and that she'll give him a scene. She then punches Amy in the face, and asks her about all the times her and Jay have hooked-up. Manny, who was talking to Emma about her little smooch in the hallway, notices that Emma gets suspicious when Alex talks about Jay. When Alex asks Amy about the sex-wristbands, Emma tries and slips them off before Alex sees, but Manny sees, and reads-between-the-lines. 

When everyone leaves, Manny tries to talk some sense into Emma about what she's doing with Jay and how it's wrong, and how he's "using her to serial-cheat on his girlfriend" along with calling him a bottom-feeder. Emma tells her their not having real sex, and Manny says its close enough. Emma than blurts out, she's not getting pregnant though. Manny, is sad from this remark (referring to her being 14 and getting pregnant) and asks her why she's trying to hurt her. Emma wants Manny to leave her alone. Manny tries to tell her she's better than this, but Emma thinks Manny doesn't know who she is. 

Later, Emma finds Jay sitting in his car. She starts to flirt with him, and tells him that she wants to have more oral sex with him, and that maybe she needs another bracelet. Jay stops her, and tells her that Alex is sick with some social infection (or something). 

The next day, Emma has a very sore voice. her and Jay are talking, and J.T. comes over and gives Emma raw egg and lemon to drink. Emma takes a sip, and says it tastes so rude. Jay giggles at how formal Emma is. 

In health class, there is a sexual health teacher there, when she points at Gonorrhea, Manny blurts it out. She reveals she is there to tell everyone, that there may be a Gonorrhea out-break at Degrassi. She tells everyone the symptons, such as genital warts, fever, and/or sore throat. J.T. willingly jokes about Emma having it, but Emma tells him to shut up, and begins to recall was Jay said about Alex. The sexual health teacher than says some may not experince no symptoms, lucky? No. Gonorrhea can lead to HIV, AIDS, cancer or even death. 

That night at the play, Nate totally throws off the kiss in front of the whole crowd, leaving everyone stunned. Once their scene is over, Emma tells him he totally screwed that up, but Nate says he's not gonna kiss a diseased chick, and who knows what he got from that kiss in the hallway. Jay says who needs him. Emma puls away from Jay and asks why he did this to her. Why he gave her a social disease. 

That night, after the play at home. Emma's mom and dad tell her that the old Emma is back, and that she did great. Emma begins to cry, and says she might be sick. Spike thinks she might have a cold, but Emma knows it is far-more worse. Snake catches Emma's drift, and tells Spike there is a bad infection going around. Emma pleads them to take her to the clinic to get help. Her parents are very supportive, and they take her to the clinic. 

SubplotEdit

Jimmy has been in the hospital forever now, it seems like, and is tired of being treated with sympathy and wants to continue his daily life. He decides to do that by planning to get as far away as possible from the rehab center with the help of Craig and Marco to see his all-time favorite band, Kid Elrick.

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