This is my very first story. Ever. So remember you were forewarned. Its a Degrassi fic, where Eli and Clare are in that new love, butterflies in your stomach, can't get enough if that one special person stage in a relationship that's amazing when it happens to you and slightly nauseating when you see people in it. But will Eli's temper and fighting be to much for Clare? And what will happen when Clare's ex and first love K.C starts causing problems between her and Eli when he thinks maybe he made a mistake when he choose Jenna and her drama over sweet innocent Clare. And is Clare even the same girl she was last year.

Chapter 1

"Eli&Clare "

Clare loved the way their names looked next to each other in the margins of her worksheet, maybe it was because they both had a "L" as the second letter in their names or more likely it was because she was just plain crazy about Eli. Since they had finally gotten together after weeks of dancing around the subject they had been virtually inseparable. Lunches in the library giggling about nothing at all behind the Reference section, coffee after school at The Dot, spending all weekend wandering through the local bookstore. No one had ever looked at her the way he did, like he had never seen anything so fascinating in his whole life and if he looked away she would disappear and he would wake up to find it had all been merely a dream.

Snapping out of her daydreams, she stole a glance at the clock, scribbled down her last few answers and quickly erased her and Eli's names from her paper and turned it in a few seconds before the bell rang and the whole class made a mad dash for the hallway. Clare wove through the clusters of students, until she reached her locker. She was just starting to spin the dial towards the first number of her combination when a pair of hands snaked around her waist. For a split second her heart raced and she panicked, then she inhaled the distinct smell of Eli's body spray and his mint gum, and her heart sped up again, but this time for a whole new reason.

"Hiii", Clare silently cursed her voice for sounding so nervous and squeaky, before she spun around and locked eyes with Eli. He was smirking down at , undoubtedly he hadn't missed her jittery reaction and Clare immediately blushed, which only made him grin more. "Hey" he whispered their faces only inches from each other. Their romantic moment was shattered by the warning bell and Clare broke away from Eli's embrace, suddenly aware that people throughout the hallway had been watching them.

"We should get to...to uhhhh" Clare stammered losing her train of thought as Eli intertwined their hands together.

"English class maybe?" Eli finished for her sarcastically. Clare shot him a scathing playful look.

"Yeah that's the one" Clare retorted curtly, before her poor attempt at malice faded and she couldn't help but smile at how absurdly happy she was in that moment.

"Eli, we're going to be late"

"Oh yes one tardy, that's definitely going to have a severe impact upon your whole future and keep you from attending any kind of higher education"

"Well sorry we can't all be nonconformist like you"

"Hey I'm a rebel by nature, someone has to challenge the system"

"And by the system you're referring to the Degrassi bell schedule?"

"You see it as a merely a schedule , I see a violation of our human rights!" the last part of Eli's sentence was cut off by the the late bell.

"Whatever you say Braveheart" Clare giggled as they slid into their seats. Adam shot Clare a confused and slightly amused glance 'what?' she mouthed, Adam just smiled and shook his head.

K.C was laughing with some of the guys from the team in between classes when Clare slipped past him and walked up to her locker. She looked different in a good way, she had always looked good but now she seemed more grown up or something. Yeah he felt bad for about ditching her for Jenna, but he couldn't help how things happened. Being with Jenna was just so fun and easy, it was carefree, exactly what he wanted. He saw that emo new kid, Ian or something, come up behind her and Clare beam up at him as they walked off holding hands. K.C didn't really like the look of that kid , and he especially wasn't crazy about him and Clare being together.

His train of thought was interrupted by Jenna walking up to him. She didn't look that great, like she'd been crying or something.

"Hey babe, whats up?"

"K.C we need to talk, right now."