Clare and Eli a love story

Clare was walking though the halls of Degrassi, she saw Eli turn the corner. She stopped walking and let out a sigh. Clare and Eli were best friends, but they got in a huge fight because Clare liked him but he didn't feel the same way… so he says. So ever since then they were avoiding each other. Allie came behind Clare and said

"hey Clare, what's up?" Clare looked at Allie and sighed.

"Eli." Allie rolled her eyes.

"how can you even like that guy? He is such a jerk, and he treated you horribly. If I were you I would get over him." Clare shook her head.

"its not that easy Allie, we were really close, I thought he liked me, its hard to forget about someone you share so much in common with." Clare looked down. Allie touched her shoulder.

"hey, don't be upset, its his loss. He's missing out big time." Allie flashed a smile which made Clare smile a little.

"I guess your right, why stress over a guy that doesn't feel the same way." Clare said while walking towards her locker which happened to be somewhat near Eli's.

"exactly, see I knew you would understand." Clare laughed a little. But she stopped when she saw Eli go to his locker. Allie noticed and rolled her eyes.

"okay so anyways, tell me about your date for the dance." Clare looked at Allie confused. Then Allie whispered.

"play along." Clare quickly understood.

"Well he is really cute and sweet, and actually likes me." that probably wasn't a good thing to add. Eli came over by them.

"I get it, your mad I don't like you, that doesn't mean you have to make up dates." he said with his famous smirk that made Clare weak. But she tried her best not to show it.

"actually Eli I'm not mad, you actually made me realize how stupid it was to even think I liked you, your not boyfriend material and you don't know how to treat girls, me liking you was just a momentary laps of judgment, don't worry, I wont make that mistake again. But as much as I would love to finish this conversation I have to go. Bye." and with that Clare and Allie walked away laughing leaving a very speechless Eli behind. And right after that Adam came up.

"wow, that was kind of harsh." Eli gave him a dirty look. And walked away.

Later on…

Clare was getting her books from her locker and happened to look over and saw Eli coming towards her.

"you know I would think you would actually have the decency to actually say how you feel instead of trying to look cool in front of Allie." that made Clare mad. She turned towards Eli.

"I wasn't trying to act cool Eli, that's how I feel, and shouldn't you be happy? You dodge a bullet." she said while looking him in the eyes.

"what are you talking about?" he asked confused.

"you should be happy I don't like you." she said sounding more like a question.

"why would that make me happy?" Clare had enough of his games.

"ok you can stop stringing me along alright. I don't like you, you don't like me so lets just forget about each other because your already forgotten in my mind. Goodbye Eli." and with that she closed her locker and walked away. Eli just stood there and watched her walk away. Then Allie came up.

"why don't you do both of you guys a favor and stop talking to her." Eli gave her a look.

"some best friend you are." he said while turning around. Allie stopped him.

"hey, I am doing her a favor, she will just get hurt if she's with you, and you don't even like her so why do you care." she said almost yelling.

"you don't know one thing about how I feel about her!" he yelled. Allie didn't expect that. If he liked her then why did he turn her down? Allie just looked at him and walked away slowly. Adam came from around the corner.

"why don't you just tell Clare the truth." Eli looked at him.

"its too late now." he said and walked away with his head down.

The next day…

Eli walked into English even more pouty then usual. He sat right in front of Clare so it made things even more awkward, and they were English partners, which made it even worse. The teacher began talking.

"alright class, I want you to get with your partners and think of a topic you would like to write about." Eli didn't budge. He didn't turn around or anything so Clare spoke up.

"so what do you want to write about?"

"wow your actually talking, I thought you said forget about each other." Clare hated it when Eli was a smart ass.

"I meant outside of class." she said in a duh kind of tone. Eli turned around.

"fine, what would you like to write about. Oh I know how about bipolar, cause one minute your totally fun and awesome and make me like you then your all like I hate you blah blah blah." Clare gave him a dirty look.

"ok 1st I don't talk like that and 2nd you never liked me so that's a lie. And 3rd I am not bipolar!" Clare said a little loud. Eli put his hands up in defense.

"alright my bad, jeez take a chill pill Clare." he smirked. That made Clare smile a little. She loved his smirk, it was so cute and fit his face perfectly. Then she realized what she was thinking and quickly shook it off.

"anyways, for real now, what should we write about?" Eli got a little closer to her which made Clare nervous. Then he whispered

"anything you want." he was inches away from her face. All she wanted to do was kiss him but she knew that would defeat the purpose of not liking him. She backed away a little.

"um I don't care, whatever works." Clare quickly looked down at her paper. She was never going to get over Eli if she had to spend all this time with him. Eli smiled.

"fine, relationships." Clare looked up and just nodded her head. Eli smiled a little.

"so you do know this means we have to see each other outside of school." Clare didn't think of that. Now she really wont get over him. Great.

"I do now." Eli smiled a little.

"so my house after school? I can give you a ride." Clare smiled a little and nodded her head. She was falling harder for him and she didn't even know it.

At lunch…

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME!" Allie yelled.

"its not my fault Allie!" Clare yelled back just not as loud.

"the whole point of telling him you didn't like him was to get him to stay away from you and now your going over to his house! I thought u hated him?" Clare was about to answer when she saw Eli starring at them.

"Allie, you need to calm down. Its just a English assignment. Ok chill." Allie took a big breath and let it out.

"your right, its your choice. Just don't fall for him again ok." she simply nodded her head. Its hard to fall for someone you already have fallen for. Clare turned her head and saw Eli and Adam coming towards them.

"hey ladies." Eli said, Allie rolled her eyes.

"kill me now." Clare shot her a look.

"what do you want Eli." Clare asked.

"to hang." he said while sitting down next to Clare and smiling. Clare smiled a little.

"look we have to go, and get the message clear, Clare wants nothing to do with you. Lets go." Allie said and grabbed Clare's arm and dragged her away. Eli watched her.

"dude, you so like her. Why don't you just tell her." Adam asked.

"its not that easy, I mean we are best friends, well were best friends. It would just be weird." Eli explained.

"yeah but by pretending that you don't like her you lost her as a friend too. Either you tell her or I will." Eli knew Adam was right, he just didn't know how to tell Clare