Mending Hearts
Author's Note: Alright, the first Eclare uploaded on this account! :DD I'm so totally psyched! XD This is a collab story between me and my bestie Lizzie ^^ We hope to get some good reviews on it, so let us now :) But if criticism is needed, please be nice about it. We worked really hard on it. So, this takes place after the episode where Eli leaves Degrassi for his little medication vacation (because that's when we started). So, before he comes back and makes amends. That never happened in here! LOL
Oh, and remember: I do Clare's part, except for Chapter 8 and Chapter 10 (Lizzie was having some writers block, poor girl, so I came into to rescue LOL), and Lizzie does Eli.
ANYWHO, enough of my jabbering, enjoy the story! :D
Warning: This is for Eclare fans and defiantly not for Jake/Cake fans! Just thought I'd let you know XD
Summary: Eli will do anything to get Clare away from Jake and by his side again, Clare's torn between Jake and her feelings for Eli. Who will she end up with? (don't worry, he's not crazy Eli, he's back to sarcastic/sweet Eli that we all love ^^)
Chapter One
"Where could it be, where could it be?" I was rustling through my stuff on the desk, 'causing papers to fly to the ground. Jake would be here any minute, and for some reason I couldn't find my cross necklace! I began pulling out drawers and reached in the back, just in case. Suddenly my hand stopped on something soft, but hard on the back. "What on earth...?" I mumbled and pulled it out and received quite a shock.
It was the black headphones Eli had given me a long time ago, when mom and dad were still fighting. He had given them to me to help drown out the noise. I had forgotten all about them.
Eli. I hadn't thought about him since he left after the night of the play. I've been too busy doing other things, but yet I knew something was nagging at the back of my mind.
I remembered that day so well, for some reason. The witty banter and his sarcastic remarks. I couldn't help but smile to myself. Even though he was sarcastic, when I looked into his deep green eyes I knew he meant it a lot. I knew that I meant a lot to him...
Suddenly there was a knock on the door, snapping me out of my trance. "Clare?" It was Jake. "Are you ready?"
"Uh, coming!" I yelled back, trying to clear my thoughts. I gently put back the headphones in the drawer and looked back up at my desk, to see the necklace peeking out of a stack of papers. Seriously? I groaned, fastened it around my neck, and opened the door.
"You look great" Jake complimented. I grinned back at him, closing the door behind me. "So what movie do you wanna see?" he inquired.
"Anything that's not horror. So you can't do that guy thing where you put your arm around us when we're scared." He laughed. I looked back down at my necklace and then back at the bedroom door. For reasons unknown, I couldn't stop thinking about those headphones in the drawer, gathering dust. And about the boy who gave them to me. Jake looked down at me and followed my gaze. "What? Forget something?"
"Um, no. I'm fine. Let's just go and enjoy the movie". I forced a smile and looked back up at him, and something dawned on me, I couldn't help it.
Why wasn't he Eli?
