Disclaimer: I don't own Degrassi

Adam's Big Idea

They were about to go on the air, but Dave Turner couldn't find it in him to care.

Ever since the play only one thing had been on his mind: I have a crush on Tristan Milligan.

With that one thought a million others formed to the point where he was getting insomnia and having trouble paying attention to anything anymore.

With that one thought everything he ever thought he knew about himself had changed. Questions like: Am I gay? Bi? Is this a silly phase that I will get over in time? ran through his mind on a constant loop with no answers.

He didn't know what he was; all he knew was that he had ironically fallen for his Jules.

Apart of him wanted to strangle Eli for giving the part of Juliet to a boy. If he hadn't been so self-righteous, trying to spread a message of love and acceptance Dave wouldn't be so confused and he'd still be happily dating Alli, the girl of his dreams. But the more logical side of him knew this wasn't Eli's fault. Hell, it wasn't even his fault for falling for the freshman boy.

"Dave," Adam said snapping his fingers in front of Dave's nose. "Dave, c'mon, we're live in two seconds!"

"Oh, right." Dave said, putting his headphones on as the music cut out.

"Okay, ladies and gents," Adam began, "its story time. We all know all is fair in love and war, but we want to know how far you would go to get that special guy or girl. The person with the best story will win a cd of the music done in Romeo and Jules and two tickets to the basketball game. Just text, tweet, or FaceRange us your stories and we'll announce the winner at the end of lunch tomorrow."

With that announcement Adam turned on the music and removed his headphones.

"Okay what gives? You have been moping around this place for days and don't deny it, I can hear you sigh every three minutes."

Dave glared. "Nothing's wrong, Adam."

"Is it about the Against Romeo and Jules page? Dude, those people are just ignorant jerks, and they're to cowardly to hurt either you or Tristan, so stop worrying about it."

Dave's stomach clenched at the thought of the forum page dedicated to bashing Romeo and Jules. At first people only posted homophobic slurs, but then more and more people threatened to beat, run over, and even kill Dave and Tristan.

Sure, his father and Simpson tried to shut it down, but they had no names since it was all done anonymously on a widely used site.

That page scared him, reading it made him paranoid of every person who past him in the halls that could be the one who threatened his murder.

"No, it's not about that." Dave said, shuddering at the thought of the page. "I actually have other things on my mind."

"Like what?" Adam asked, crossing his arms and raising an eyebrow.

Dave swallowed. He could trust Adam, and he did want to talk to someone about his predicament.

"Okay, if I tell you swear it stays between us," Dave said.

"I swear."

"Okay. The thing is – and don't laugh – I think I might have a crush on Tristan."

Adam's jaw dropped. The boy was too stunned to say anything.

"Are you sure?" Adam asked, cautiously easing into the topic. The last thing he needed was his friend to shut down and default to his temper like he usually did.

"Am I sure? Of course I'm sure! For crying out loud, Adam, the kid is all I ever think about and it's driving me insane." Dave shouted, as he got up from his chain and began to pace the tiny room.

"Wow to think you'd be the one to get a guy crush." Adam said, snorting.

"Oh shut the hell up!" Dave snapped.

"You have to admit it's pretty funny." Adam teased.

"I knew I shouldn't have told you! This isn't funny, Adam! I like a dude, and I know that for you and Eli that's not a big deal, but to me it is!" Dave snarled, banging his fists against the table.

"Well what are you going to do? I mean you can't just let Tristan go because you're scared of what a couple of people will say."

"Those people aren't the reason why I haven't told Tristan, Adam. Tristan doesn't like me back." Dave sighed, admitting his ultimate defeat.

"Are you –" but stopped the question once Dave shot him a withering stare. "How do you know that? I mean that kiss was really good the opening night."

"That was acting, moron. Didn't you see the rehearsals? I mean every time we were supposed to kiss he avoided it like it was the plague." Dave whined, sitting back down into his chair.

Adam was about to respond when the music cut off, they were back on the air.

"I have an idea." Adam said, once they were off the air for good.

"What are you talking about?" Dave asked, removing the headphones and grabbing his bag.

"For winning Tristan's heart, of course," Adam exclaimed, rolling his eyes at how stupid his friend could be.

Dave looked at him as if he'd sprouted three heads. "You're joking right? Did the whole one-sided crush part go in one ear and out the other?"

"No, but all you have to do is win his heart. It can't be that hard, he does like you as a friend, right?"

"Yeah as my friend, friend being the keyword in that sentence," Dave snapped.

"For now, but my plan is full proof, especially because we're going to have some help." Adam said with a broad smile.

"Help?" Dave asked worriedly. "What do you mean by help?"

He was going to kill Adam.

Five people.

That was how many people Adam had rounded up to help them.

"So why exactly are we here?" Tori asked crossing her arms across her chest.

"And why exactly are we on the roof?" Maya asked. "Are we even allowed to be up here?"

"We're here because our friend needs our help and the roof is the most private place in the entire school." Adam replied, as if this was the most obvious thing in the world.

"So we're not allowed on the roof?" Connor asked.

"Not exactly," Adam admitted. "But we should be fine, I mean who goes on the roof anyway?"

"But we're on the roof." Connor pointed out.

"Yeah, but who goes on the roof besides us?" Adam shrugged.

"Aren't there cameras up here?" Wesley asked.

"No, the budget didn't cover the roof." Connor said.

"Can we please stop talking about the roof?" Adam snapped.

"So what kind of help does Dave need us for?" Wesley asked.

"Take it away Dave." Adam said, stepping aside so Dave could stand in the middle of his friends.

Dave thought he was going to be sick.

Send a final glare at Adam he faced his friends and sighed.

Here goes nothing.

"Okay the thing is, Adam here invited you all to help me get Tristan to like me back."

"You like Tristan?" Tori squealed.

"Isn't Tristan a guy?" Connor asked.

"Yes, Connor, he's a guy. But Adam here thinks that with your help I can get him to like me back." Dave said, pulling on the collar of his shirt.

"And how are we going to get Tristan to fall for you? He's been in a dating funk since he caught Fab making out with another guy."

"Well we are going to plan the perfect date," Adam butted in. "And you will all have a special part to play in making this work."

Author's Note: So I guess this is like a prologue to a new, but quite short story. Please tell me how you liked it, I am quite new to writing male/male and I never even made an attempt to write Dave before so I really, really want to know how you guys like this.