Halo
Prologue: Don't Let Me Get Me
Summary: Clare Edwards is slowly breaking. The worst part is...she doesn't know how to stop it.
A/N: These are my thoughts on what's going on with Clare in the Degrassi promo for this fall.
Pairings: EClare, Misfit friendship. Clare/Alli friendship. Some Parcy.
Clare Edwards stared solemnly at her best female friend's retreating back. She couldn't believe it. First Darcy left her for Kenya, then she got an amazing boyfriend in KC Guthrie in grade nine and he ended up leaving her a few weeks later for some blonde girl who was supposed to be her friend. KC had used her to cheat on a test after his girlfriend(the one he'd left her for) convinced him to. Grade ten came around and Alli left her for Jenna and popularity. Her parents were fighting non-stop and it was getting worse and worse. And now, Alli Bhandari was leaving Degrassi
Her boyfriend, Eli Goldsworthy and her friend, Adam Torres seemed to be the best things in her life at the moment. But she'd almost lost Eli a few weeks ago. If Mark Fitzgerald hadn't just been trying to scare him. If he'd really stabbed Eli-Clare would've lost one of the most important people in her life. Eli was the one person she could count on, beyond a shadow of a doubt. She didn't know how she'd have dealt with losing him like that.
Nothing in her life was going the way that it was supposed to. Her parents were supposed to care about her. They were supposed to worry about her and talk to her about her day at school over the dinner table. They weren't supposed to never be home, leaving her in an empty house all alone. When they were home they weren't supposed to be yelling and screaming and throwing things at one another while they ignored their youngest daughter. She just wished they'd stop it. The only time they paid attention to her anymore was when they wanted something from her or were using her against the other parent. She remembered what it used to be like before everything went so wrong. Before Darcy was was raped and before she tried to kill herself because of it. Before KC decided that she wasn't good enough, before her parents started having problems and before Alli left. Before the dance. Before everything. She just wanted something that she could depend on. Something that wouldn't change so quickly on her. She was always there for everyone else, and yet no one seemed to notice how she was slowly breaking apart inside. The worst part was, she didn't know how to stop it. She didn't know how to save herself.
To be continued: The worst part about watching someone you love break, is not knowing how to fix them.