Disclaimer= I do not own Degrassi.
The editor-in-chief of The Degrassi Daily paced down the halls, books tucked underneath her arm as she headed towards the room to check up on her staff- the latest issue was purported to be the best one yet. She wanted to make sure that everything was in line before they "put it to bed," which is newspaper slang for ready for print.
"How's everything, all ready to be put to bed?"
"All on schedule boss, this is our best one yet!"
"Good, put it to bed. Take care everyone." Katie Matlin walked out of the room with a curt smile. Everything was under control, something that she prided herself on making sure of. She saw her best friend Marisol Lewis at her locker and opted to head there to say hello and ask her if she wanted to grab a bite to eat at The Dot before she headed to soccer practice.
"Love to, but I have Powersquad right now, and then work afterwards. I'm busy like you are bestie."
"That's good; it should always be like that." Katie lightly punched Marisol's shoulder as she said her goodbye.
"Hold up Katie," Marisol said, catching up to the soccer player, "is it true that the paper is already online?" Katie nodded yes as she continued on her path to soccer practice.
"But how did you do this if we barely got clubs back?" Katie calmly told her how it went down.
Katie was headed towards the girl's locker room to take a shower after her soccer practice had ended. Her legs were throbbing with soreness and splinting pain after practicing exclusively on free kicks, corners, and penalty kicks. She put the shower as hot as she could tolerate it so she could massage her legs. Tired and mind spinning from all the kicks and sprints, Katie's eyes were focused solely on that door to get in the locker room… that is, until she noticed two boys with a pair of panties, attitude joyous. That got Katie on high alert as she shouted at the two, who froze in their tracks.
"Excuse me, but what the hell are you doing with panties in your hand, coming out my locker room?"
"We… took some panties?"
"Connor!" Wesley was near pant peeing because of the edge in Katie's voice signaled that she was in no mood for their explanation. He tried to apologize for both him and Connor, but she wasn't having it.
"Do you realize what you two have done? Do you realize that you can get expelled from Degrassi?"
"Please don't tell on us, we'll do anything,"
"Give me those panties first off." Connor tossed the panties to Katie as she was still tapping her foot. Wesley begged for leniency for him and Connor, talking about how they will never steal panties again.
"That will be good enough. "
"Trust us, we will not be anywhere near here again, promise. We'll really do anything you say." Wesley and Connor were both on their knees, saying over and over that they'll do anything for Katie.
"Get up, you two are behaving cowardly, which is pissing me off." Katie had an idea formulating, but decided that she will play around with the two perverts in front of her, trembling in fear of her mighty voice.
"Are you aware of the new paper?"
"The Degrassi Daily?"
"I'm the editor-in-chief of The Degrassi Daily. How good are you two with computers?"
"I love computers, I play my games everyday."
"Great to hear," Katie replied with her eyes rolled, "have you two ever build a website before?"
"It's not difficult; both of us have Faceranges and twitters. Website building is a snap." Wesley shook Connor's shoulders in exasperation, not wanting to believe what they were going to have to do.
"Here's the deal you two- I want The Degrassi Daily to shine so here's what I want from you… I won't tell Simpson about what you two have done IF… you build me a full website for The Degrassi Daily, complete with a comments application, logos, etc."
"No problem,"
"Yeah I want it up in three days. So get moving please."
"Yes mam!" Connor and Wesley scurried off to MI to start building the website for The Degrassi Daily. Katie was happy because she knew that with the way she handled the situation, the fast-created website will be up and running in no time.
"So that's how it started?"
"Yep, don't tell ANYONE about this you hear?" Katie's voice had that edge to it once again, and Marisol knew better than to act against it. She promised with their usual handshake.
Another day at Vanderbilt Prep was finished, and Declan opted to order a pizza instead of having dinner at a swank restaurant with some friends. He took the pizza to his room, set it on his desk next to his laptop and dressed down to his undershirt and boxers. Opening up his mini-fridge, he grabbed a couple of bottles of water as he took them also to his desk. Firing up his laptop, he got pensive in his rolling chair, not at that stage of disbelief that next year, he would be at an Ivy League university. Declan busied himself with logging on to the internet rather than think of the last thing. He did not want to think about her; even though they were still friends on Facerange, the thought of commenting on her page and/or sending a private message was just too much right now. Usually at this time, he would be at a fancy restaurant with friends, cavorting and hopping to different places, but Declan wanted to stay in, eat pizza washed down with water, and watch a movie on his laptop. He once again gave a consideration to comment on Holly J's page, but decided against it when he saw that there was a link to something called The Degrassi Daily.
"Huh, Fi did tell me that they got their clubs and newspaper back, I think I'll read something from this Degrassi Daily." Declan click on the logo which takes him to the paper's official website. Not bad, he notes as he clicks on the first story that he sees.
"Oh, this is the only story thus far, whatever." Declan reads the initial article posted by some girl named Katie Matlin, her avi in the usual spot online writers have it. Silently complimenting Katie on her looks, he reads the initial post.
The goal of The Degrassi Daily is to provide readers with quality and fair reporting of issues that they will identify and care about. Enjoy!
Declan was scratching his head in confusion as there is a box with a "post your comment" button. Declan types a comment and clicks post, and then closes the window to watch the quickly-loaded Fast Five movie.
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Katie is at home as she logs on her laptop after her long bath, still in her robe with the towel wrapped around her head. Cosmetics wise, she put on enough makeup to get everyday "you look pretty" comments and nothing more because although she was single, she did not want to have a boyfriend yet. Her life was too busy to have the extra responsibility of maintaining a relationship with a boy. Her subconscious thought differently, and made sure she knew about it.
Is that how you really think about it? Come on girl, CEOs would kill to have your time management skills. You are not even 18 years old, and you already possess the ability to have a lot of items on your plate. You don't have time for a boyfriend? That's fair, but you never know when love will appear for you. Keep your heart open, never close it.
"Yeah I don't think so." Katie went on the internet to The Degrassi Daily's official Facerange page. Katie had Connor and Wesley also create a Facerange for the newspaper, and it already had over 200 fans. Smiling, she skimmed through the comments, which consisted mainly of well-wishes for the success of the paper and compliments. She recognized many of her friends in the comments as they were friends on her own Facerange, but one person in particular that had left a comment was a boy she had never seen before.
"I don't go to your school anymore, but I just wanted to let you know that this paper is going to do special things, keep up the good work everyone involved- Declan Coyne."
"Declan Coyne, he must be the brother of Fiona Coyne. He's cute, wait what am I talking about?" Katie could not believe that she was, in her eyes, gushing over a guy. Marisol would never live it down if she found out, but she could not seem to stop looking at Declan. She looked at his profile page and it was private. Non-chalant, she added him as a friend, to which a short time later he accepts and sends a courtesy message.
"Hey Katie! Declan Coyne here, thanks for adding me and I wish you great success as editor-in-chief of your newspaper."
Katie smiles from ear to ear as she starts typing her reply.
Katie Matlin, smitten over Declan, Vandy Prep's very own…