She drives the hearse, he wears the purity ring.
"I hardly even recognize you anymore, man," Adam said as we crossed the parking lot.
"Everyone else's hardly noticed." I dug around in my backpack and pulled out my glasses. "This whole thing seems kinda pointless. Maybe I should just go back to the old me, you know?"
"No way, dude!" Adam tried swiping my glasses out of my hands. They landed under someone's wheels and the lenses broke with an audible crunch.
"My glasses!" I buried my face in my hand.
The guy slowed to a stop a couple feet away from Adam. He got out of the car and I realized that he was actually a she. A very pretty she who tried to hide it with black clothes and heavy metal music.
She scooped up my glasses from under her tire. "I think they're dead."
Her nails brushed my palm when she gave them back to me. I forgot how to talk.
"It's okay. I uh...I don't need them anymore. I got-" Her eyes were the most vivid blue I'd ever seen and I found it hard to swallow. "I got laser surgery."
The music from her car echoed in the space around us and I tried to smile.
She smiled back. "You have pretty eyes."
I smiled for real now and looked away, caught off guard. "Thanks..."
"So uh...I'll see you around?" My words were like water; fluid, cool. Random surge of confidence.
She smirked and murmured, "I guess you will."
Then she got back into her car - a hearse, really - and drove off for what I was guessing could only be Batman's mansion. Adam saw the smile on my face before I realized it was there, but before I could wipe it away he was already grinning, smug.
"I've seen that look, before."
I laughed, tried to downplay it. "I don't know what you're talking about."
We passed by a trash can and I shrugged, threw my glasses in.
To clarify: Eli and Clare's pasts and personalities are switched. Eli's the one with the purity ring and the sister in Africa, and Clare's the one with the hearse and the dead girlfriend.
I'm not going to follow Degrassi's plot from this point on, but I might add little snippets of things that Eli/Clare actually said in the show here and there.
Anyway! See you next chapter?