This story is AU. Eli and Fitz have been best friends since they were 5. Adam is not transgendered, but he's still Drew's stepbrother. Owen is friends with all of the guys. Clare just moved to Toronto from Wasaga Beach and is a new sophomore at Degrassi. Drew is with Alli and K.C. is with Jenna. This is a Clowen, Parcy, Adrianca, and more story
Welcome to Degrassi
Clare's POV
Today is my first day at Degrassi. I don't really know too much about this school, but my dad just moved here for work, so here it goes. After my morning shower, I put on a blue dress and a white sweater. I put on my new school shoes, these black flats my mom got me and I do my makeup. Time for breakfast which is sunny side up eggs and toast. I'm careful not to get any on my dress, and my mom drives me to school, since we just got to Toronto, and I don't know where my school is. It wasn't very far. I can probably walk from now on. I kiss her goodbye and go into class. I get my schedule from Simpson's secretary. He's dealing with a teacher's dispute over pay right now or else he would be explaining to me what the schedule means and welcoming me on my first day. I'm in the hallway and lost when I bump into a boy with a baby cute face. "Sorry, I didn't see you."
"Well, you won't see anyone if you try and read your schedule and walk at the same time. Let me guess, you're new and no one bothered to explain to you how to read your schedule or where any of your classes are."
"I guess I'm that obvious. I'm Clare."
"Adam." He takes my schedule and says we both have the same English class. He takes me with him where the only open seat is between him and this green-eyed boy with too long hair. Tell me he's not a Belieber. He smirks at me. "Are you always late?"
"Only when no one tells me where my class is."
"So you'll be late all day."
I sigh. Yep!
"Miss. Edwards, you will be partnered with Mr. Goldsworthy." Miss Dawes teaches advanced English. I know nothing about her. I was just in advanced English in Wasaga Beach. They didn't give me any placement tests or anything.
"Who's that?" I ask her. Everyone looks at me like I'm nuts.
"That's me," the green-eyed boy says. I smile. He's kind of cute.
"You will switch assignments and critique each other, starting now."
He gives me his assignment. "I don't have anything for you. No one told me to write for today."
"Did you write anything? Maybe something not for English."
I blush. "Promise not to laugh."
"I'll try, but if you wrote a love letter to Justin Bieber, I'm getting a new partner."
"Ew! You're the one with his haircut."
"Take that back!"
"No! Anyway, I write vampire fiction stories." Luckily, the one in my backpack isn't particularly sexual. I have other, racier ones at home.
This one is about a vampire boy, who doesn't understand why he can't go out in the sun like all of the other kids. He doesn't live around other vampires and doesn't realize that he's different from the other children. I call it The Boy with a View.
I read his story, which is about two guys who travel from Toronto to Florida, just to meet Chuck Palahniuk. I like him too, but I couldn't drive all that way if my flight got cancelled. First of all, I have no license and eventually, I'd get too carsick.
His story is a bit too wordy. The premise is interesting and I like the characters, but the guy based off Eli, I'm guessing, gets too far off track. He kind of derails his own story. This isn't Kafka. It's okay to understand what's going on.
He reads my story, and he says that he likes the boy, but it's too flat. I should have him actually interact with someone other than just daydream. I plan on bringing the boy back as an adult. "This is kind of like a prologue," I tell him. "He comes back as an adult vampire."
"That makes more sense. What does he do as a grownup?"
I blush. That's the racy part.
"Is this like Twilight?" He looks at me.
"More like True Blood, but I'd like to think I have fewer plot holes and silly gimmicks." I know I have a better plot line.
"You watch it, why?" He raises a brow like a fake detective
"I have hormones like everyone else, despite my purity ring." Why lie about it? I like smutty stories okay.
He laughs when I say that. "Well as long as you know what they're trying to sell you is just sex masquerading as a show."
"People use sex to sell everything. Some products are just more transparent than others." Then the bell rings. Time for me to go.
I get lost again, and this girl stops me. "I'll show you where your class is." She's tall and has curly hair. She's pretty. "I'm Clare."
"Bianca." She takes my schedule and shows me to my next class. "Advanced Math. Have fun with the dweebs. It's too bad. You're pretty cute."
I sit next to an Indian girl with a pretty face, but too much makeup one. "I'm Alli and you are…."
"Clare. I just moved here."
"From where?"
"Wasaga Beach."
"Miss. Edwards," my teacher calls on me. "Since you're so chatty, perhaps you can solve this problem."
It was an easy problem. I said 6, no explanation and went back to my fiction. My school covered this two weeks ago. I don't have to do anything for a while.
After class, Alli said, our teacher's a dick and it was nice to see me do so well after being called out like that. She asks me to sit with her at lunch. She eats with Jenna, Marisol and Katie. I join the table. Alli introduced me.
"I like your hair," Katie says.
"Thanks."
"What's your last name?" Marisol asks me
"Edwards."
"Like any boys yet." Jenna asked me.
"Not yet. It didn't work so well with my last boyfriend. I'm not looking to rush into anything yet."
"When you're ready, there are plenty of cuties here," Marisol tells me. "Like the football team."
"Except QB1, Drew Torres, he's mine," Alli says.
"And K.C. Guthrie, the running back, he's mine" says Jenna.
"Noted." They're both cute, but neither of them do it for me. I like older guys, one that give a manlier vibe.
After school, Jenna and Marisol have Power Squad. I don't know why it's not just called cheerleading, but I don't want to insult them, so I don't ask. Alli and I go to the Dot, the hangout spot for Degrassi kids. I get there and the voice I hear is too familiar. "Peter, Peter Stone."
He comes out and looks at me quizzically. "Do I know you from somewhere?"
"It's Clare Edwards, Darcy's little …." Before I can say sister he hops over the counter and hugs me.
"Clare, you grew up so much. How are you?"
"I'm good, just moved here this weekend. I didn't realize you moved to Toronto. I thought you went to NYU."
"I did, but it sucked. I came back home (Canada) and bought this place since they were gonna close it, and it had a big fan base already. How's Darcy?" She's his ex and my big sister. She went to Oxford for college.
"She's doing well. She's gonna graduate this year and hopefully come back home. I miss her."
"Well, order whatever you want, on me. You're practically family."
"Thanks Peter."
I get a milkshake and fries. I barely ate my lunch. It was gross.
"How are you so close to the owner?" Alli asked me.
"My sister dated him in high school. His Dad was an ass, so my parents helped him get emancipated, so he could get his own apartment and be free of him. They broke up when she left for England, but they were always good together."
"He seems fond of you, and he's cute." she says.
"I could never, also, I think he maybe still likes Darcy. He did give me a free meal." I think Darcy should come home and see if they still got it. I always thought he'd be my brother someday.
I go home and tell my mom about my day and running into Peter, and she isn't really listening. I can tell. I don't push it, but I just go to my room and write for English. I'm writing something not about vampires.
I become a regular at the Dot and a few weeks later, I go after school and Peter's new employee tried to charge me. I had to get his other employee to come out and say I eat for free. He apologizes for doubting me, and tells me his name is Fitz.
We start chatting, and he's a new hire. He also goes to Degrassi, but I've never seen him at lunch or in the school. He smirks and says sometimes he ditches because the regular classes are boring. He hangs out with Bianca, and Owen who I don't know. I tell him he should try going to school and then maybe I'd see him around. I wink at him and then go to my usual table.
I end up at the Dot every day that week. My parents haven't really been home a lot and without Darcy in the house it's just me. Sometimes, I go with Alli or Adam and other times I just chat with Fitz for a while. It's nice to have somewhere that's familiar to me and Fitz is fun to talk to. Peter comes back, eventually, and he says he was making business arrangements. He then asks me if Darcy is seeing anyone.
"She just broke up with someone a few weeks ago, Alistair. He wanted to get married."
"And she didn't?" he quizzed me.
"Not to him. She didn't want to stay in England. She's coming back home, not necessarily our house, but …."
"So she wants to return. So I wouldn't have to move to England."
"You were gonna move to England. Is that where you were, seeing if you could sell the Dot?"
He blushes and says, "I haven't even talked to her yet. What if she doesn't want me back?"
"What if she's been waiting for you all along? I always thought she left part of her heart when she moved away, and I think you still have it."
He looks nervous. I jot down her Skype name and her phone number. "Just try. You won't know otherwise."
His hand shakes when he takes the paper, but he says he'll contact her.
The next week
Eli's POV
I really like Clare. She's much more than a girl who has a thing for vampires. She's funny, very smart and has the most beautiful eyes. I hadn't seen my buddy Fitz in a while, so I go to the Dot on Saturday and tell him about her.
"Hey dude!" We do our secret handshake.
"Eli, my man, what's going on?"
"I met this girl and she's out of sight. I'm really into her."
"From where?"
"She's in my English class and we were assigned as partners, so we get to work together a bunch. I go to her house like 3 times a week."
"Nice, have you made your move yet?"
"I want to, but she makes me nervous. She just has a way of looking at you like she's staring at your soul."
"I know that feeling. I met a girl too. She comes here a lot and she's sweet, and she manages to make me excited and uneasy all at once."
"Maybe we can help each other," I tell him.
"How?"
"Well, your girl comes here a lot and I meet with mine a lot, so maybe I'll meet my girl here and you'll be here with your girl and we can talk each other up, you know, wing man for each other."
"That's brilliant"
"I'll bring her by on Monday, after school."
"Awesome!"
Another secret handshake and I get a shake, strawberry!
Clare's POV
I'm having a sleepover at Alli's tonight. The other girls will be there too! They're probably going to go on about their boyfriends which is fine, but I don't like talking about my dating past. My first real boyfriend was a total jerk to me and I spent way too long crying over him. I don't want to have to repeat to them what happened and the next guy was technically just a hookup, well a repeated hookup, but I fell for him too, so I ended up crying after that as well. I don't want to look like a crybaby. I got a chance to reinvent myself in Toronto. I don't want to bring my past from Wasaga beach with me.
I get my bag ready and Sav, Alli's brother, comes to pick me up. He's a bit early but it's because he has a date with Anya afterwards. I thank him for the ride and he brings me to his house. He's cute, but he and Anya are some kind of power couple or something. Also, Alli would kill me if she knew I was into her brother, well at least physically. I get my bag and head inside.
"You're here," Alli hugs me. The others arrived already. It's time for pizza and gossip. They have plenty to talk about, the new boy Jake Martin, who is cute, but Katie's way into him. There's Mo, who Marisol talks about a lot, but she acts like she doesn't like him. I know he's no Brad Pitt, but I think she needs to get over herself and give him a chance, but I'm not going to tell her all of that. Alli and Jenna go on about how their boys are perfect, and then they all ask me who I like.
"No one's caught my eye yet," I tell them.
"Really?" Alli is shocked.
"There must be someone," Jenna pressed.
Honestly, there hasn't been. Every since Declan, I've been trying to keep myself out of trouble with boys.
"I've made some friends who are guys, but I don't see them that way, and I don't think they see me that way either."
"You do like guys right?" Katie asks me.
"Yes and I've had a boyfriend before, I just don't like one like one right now."
"What was your last boyfriend like?" Jenna asks. I knew this would happen. They're going to keep pestering me, so I may as well tell them.
"When I was in grade 9, I fell for this senior at my school, Johnny DiMarco. We were dating, but he didn't want to tell people he was my boyfriend at first because he was older. I didn't like being a secret girlfriend, and I insisted he tell people we were together if he wanted to see me. He did, but he also told them we were having sex when we weren't. Rumors started flying like wildfire, and I got upset, so I broke up with him. Guys hit on me left and right, saying awful things when I turned them down. 'I gave it up for Johnny. Why not them too? Beggars can't be choosers.' I was crying like every day for a while.
My best friend Sean, a junior, confronted Johnny and insisted he set the record straight. He wouldn't, and they fought after school, so badly that Sean knocked out part of the hearing in Johnny's ear, permanently." Everyone gasped when I got to this part of the story. They always do. "The guys left me alone at that point, but the damage had been done. I didn't know how to trust a guy with my heart after that. Sean ended up going to the military, so I was down a boyfriend and a best friend. I write to him sometimes, but it's not the same. Anyway, I haven't had a boyfriend since." I leave out the hookup. I really don't want to tell them about my dalliances with Declan Coyne.
I think I scared everyone. Jenna puts her hand on my shoulder and says it's time to get back on the horse. I'll find someone better here. They know all of the guys. They can make sure I don't end up with a creep again.
We go one to make up and movies which is much easier for me to deal with than romance. Then, it's time for bed. I get in my sleeping bag, and I pass out.
Monday
Sav announces that Vegas Night the theme of the upcoming formal. People are in party mood now, looking for dresses, suits, dates and all of that mess. I'm not looking for a date, well not a romantic one. I might ask Adam if he wants to go as friends. I know he has a crush on Bianca, but I don't think he's brave enough to ask her. I'll give him time and take him if he doesn't. Who knows. Maybe he'll surprise me.
Of course, Katie is angling to get an invitation from Jake. Marisol wants one from Mo. I think they should just ask the boys, but Jenna scoffed at that idea. Apparently, that's not how Degrassi works. I didn't know I was in the 1950s. I don't tell them that I might ask Adam.
After school, Eli asks if we can work at the Dot today. I say sure, since I would have been there anyway, and I want to see if Peter manned up and called Darcy. We go over together, and Fitz is working.
He gave Eli a weird look. I don't know why. I order my usual and Eli tried to pay and Fitz said it was on the house. Eli walks away and then Fitz says. "Clare's on the house. You have to pay."
Eli whispers something in a hissing voice, but I don't understand what he said.
Eli's POV
"Why are you being a dick in front of my girl?"
"She's my girl you idiot. What the hell are you thinking," Fitz answers.
SHIT! This is the Dot girl. "She's a writer, like me, we should be together."
"Opposites attract, duh!" We feud and the next thing I know, she's not even there.
Peter's POV
I had a great phone conversation with Darcy. She said she missed my voice, and she was coming home after graduation. I ask her if she'd like to have dinner with me when she returns and she said "it's a date." We have a Skype date tonight actually, where we can catch up face to face. I miss her pretty face.
Her cute sister just came in, and she's walking towards me. "So did you call her?"
"I did?"
"And?" She inquires.
"And, we have a Skype date tonight."
She squeals and hugs me. "I just knew she was waiting for you."
Eli and Fitz are glaring at me now.
"Why are you hugging her?" Fitz snarls.
"I'm just a family friend, calm down!" I release her and say, "I'm interested in an older Edwards."
They look puzzled.
"He means my sister," she says. "So what's with you two? You've both been pissy since I got here."
They both mumble excuses, but I get it. They both want this blue eyed babe.
Clare sits down to do English with Eli and Fitz's eyes never leave her. This is gonna be bad! Well, I'm going to talk to Darcy. I tell Spinner he's in charge for the rest of the night and I head out the back.
Clare's POV
Eli offers to take me home in his car and Fitz says he'll drive me when his shift is over. I say I can walk. I do that everyday anyway, and I say goodnight to both boys.
I hope they get over their testosterone trip because I do not want any more fighting in my life. I'm sick of boys fighting because of me.
I get home and my parents are out, so I go to do my homework upstairs and then I watch a movie. I like American Beauty. I've seen it twice before, but it doesn't get old for me.
Tuesday
Fitz's POV
I can't believe Eli likes the same girl. He needs to back off. He's had better luck with girls than I have and this is my chance. I get to school, and I'm actually going to go to class, so I can try and see Clare.
Eli's there with Adam and he says we need to talk. I stop in front of his car, and he says that of course I have a crush on Clare. She's cute, but he needs to get over Julia and she's the only girl who can take his mind off her. I say she's not a memory wipe and he gets pissy. "Just lay off." He barks
"You lay off."
"What she want with a school skipper who works at the Dot. You can't even comp her food cause Peter does that for her."
I got pissed and yanked the hood ornament off the front of his car and threw it at him. He punched me, and we started to fight.
Adam tried to separate us but he can't. I just get Eli to the ground when I feel these big hands pull me away. "The fuck is wrong with you."
It's Owen and he's not happy.
"He's trying to steal my girl," I say.
"She's my girl," Eli says.
"Stop fighting over some pussy. Don't be dumb." He sends us to our separate corners. "Eli, see if Jay can get the ornament back on your car for you and leave Fitz be. Fitz, lay off Eli, and his car. Now what girl caused all this trouble."
Neither of us say. Adam does. "Clare Edwards. She's my friend, and they both like her."
"She flirts with me at the Dot," I say.
"She flirts with me in English," Eli adds.
Owen shakes his head and tells us both to beat it.
Owen's POV
I hate drama over sluts. What girl is gonna flirt with a dude and his best friend? I need to meet this bitch. I have Adam point her out to me, and I'm gonna find her at lunch.
I see her then and she's pretty cute. Of course, she sits with Marisol and company. No wonder she's being bitchy. I pull up a seat next to her and ask her what the hell's going on?
"Excuse me," she says. "I don't know what you're talking about." She looks at me like I'm nuts.
"I mean why are Fitz and Eli fighting over you?"
"They were fighting?"
"I had to pull Fitz off Eli this morning. They were pummeling each other because they both think you want them."
"I don't want either of them," she says. "I only see them as friends."
"Then why lead them on? They're best friends!" I'm annoyed with her now.
"I didn't lead them anywhere. Eli's my English partner, and Fitz works at the Dot, which my sister's guy owns, so I hang out there a lot since he comps my food."
"Fitz comps your food?"
"No, Peter. My sister's guy."
"I didn't know Peter had a girl."
"She's in England. She's at Oxford."
"Well, anyway. This fighting needs to stop."
"I hate fighting. I don't want them to fight over me."
"Really?"
"You sound surprised."
"I just thought girls loved that kind of shit."
"Well, I've been there, done that, and it ended horribly, so I don't want a repeat."
"Fine, then can you let them down both easy cause I can't babysit those idiots forever?"
"I'll talk to them both after school."
I get up and leave.
Clare's POV
What an abrasive man. He's not a boy. He's too big and authoritative to be a boy. He's blunt and harsh and pretty judgmental. I think he's a jerk, but why is my heart racing right now. Why am I feeling something inside me that I haven't felt for someone in months, not since Declan. I'm aroused. I can't stop staring in his direction.
"Earth to Clare," Alli calls.
"You got two guys fighting over you," Jenna says. "This is great."
"How?"
"You have your pick, either brooding writer Eli or bad boy Fitz."
"I just like them as friends, and I hate fighting. It only hurts people."
"Don't be dumb," Marisol says. "Go with one of them to Vegas Night. See if there's romance." I can't go with either of them. It will be a massacre. They fought before I agreed to anything in the first place. Maybe Adam can take me.
After school, I told both Eli and Fitz that I didn't want them fighting over me. I don't date fighters, and as of now, I see them both as friends. It could change, potentially, but not if they keep beating each other up. Then I say goodbye to both of them, end of story. They agree to be patient and stop fighting, and I head home for the day. I'll find out about Peter's Skype date tomorrow.
I'm home alone, and I get out the vibrator I'm not supposed to have. My mom caught me with it over the summer, and my dad threw it away, but I dug it out do the trash before the trash man came and washed it like three times. I don't know why but neither of them can accept that I have sexual urges. What do they think puberty does to people?
I close my eyes and imagine one of my favorite fantasies, one I memorialized in a story. Harris is the vampire prince. He grew up an innocent boy who didn't understand his legacy, but now his dad is dying and he's going to be king soon. He needs to assert his dominance which means lots of pillaging and bloody murder. He gets to one house and is about to slaughter a family when a beautiful girl begs him to leave her family alone and take her instead. He grants her request, but when he goes to drink her blood, her eyes stop him.
He didn't know it at first, but he eventually realized she was the little girl who would always come up to his window. He wasn't allowed outside but she would come to his window and smile at him, like she wanted to take him with her, to let him join in on all of the fun. She was the only one who saw him as he saw himself, a normal little boy and now she was all grown up, voluptuous and much taller, but those same blue eyes. He decides to keep her as his hostage and he chains her instead of killing her.
He actually takes good care of her. He bathes her, gingerly washing her hair. He brings her food, human food, and he keeps her in a secret room, so none of the other vampires will kill her. He tells her he'll kill her, and her family if she tries to escape, but she doesn't. She instead becomes his lover and eventually his vampire queen after he sires her.
I close my eyes and imagine Owen is the man keeping me trapped, ravishing me as I am weak and defenseless. I moan loudly as my vibrator massages my clit. I'm quite eager and I imagine Owen's strong hands on my body, his teeth on my nipples his fingers seeking entrance into my wetness and I growl "FUCK!" I buck my hips as a familiar feeling of pleasure builds up inside me. I need to feel his touch. His lips, his fingertips, his hot breath, anything that can set me over the edge. He's not here, so I pinch my own nipple hard and when I tug on it, imagining it's Owen's teeth, that's enough and I cum, "OH GOD FUCK!" gushing all over my sheets as I writhe in ecstasy.
I shower quickly and wash and hide my toy. I get dressed and my parents are home. Time for dinner.
The next few days are pretty normal. It's not until Movie Night on Friday that they have a problem. Clare goes to see Adam like she usually does and Eli comes over which is normal. Fitz however, comes to "hang out with Drew" even though he's on a date with Alli, like every Friday. Fitz says he'll stay for the movie and Eli's pissed. They both try to sit next to Clare, but she sits between the armrest and Adam. They start to bicker and she says she's leaving if they don't behave. They stay quiet through the movie which is Man on Wire.
After the movie, both of them try to drive her home, but she doesn't want to pick between them. Drew's back, and she has him drive her home.
Drew's POV
"Why don't you just pick one? They'll keep fighting until you do."
"I can't pick," she says. "They both want more than I can give them."
"You don't want either of them?"
She shrugs.
"Do you like any guys?" I can't believe she has two fighting over her, and she's totally disinterested.
She blushes. "He only sees me as that girl who causes guys to fight over them."
"Maybe he doesn't. You should at least try, and if he's into you, then Eli and Fitz can stop hating each other."
She says she'll think about it, but she sounds like she's too chicken to go for this guy, whoever he is. She thanks me for the ride and then goes inside her house.
Saturday
Alli's POV
I'm going dress shopping with the girls. We find the perfect dress for Clare, red sleeveless, show's off her ta-tas and will send FItz and Eli to the hospital by giving them heart attacks. She gets white gloves, heels and a cigarette case and a long cigarette holder from an antique store. She also gets a fake, light up cigarette. She'll totally look like a classy mole.
We try and get her to tell us if she likes Eli or Fitz and she denies liking either of them, but I think she likes someone. She's been whistling to herself and blushing randomly and all giddy about some guy. Maybe she's into someone else altogether. Man this girl's love life is complicated.
We break for lunch and I see Owen at the mall with Bianca. Clare looks like her heart skipped a beat. Owen Milligan? Maybe that's her mystery crush. I ask her about it in the bathroom and she says she's being silly. Why would he want her when he has Bianca.
"He's not with her," I tell her.
"They're always together," she counters.
"You and Adam are together a lot. You're not with him. Trust me. He's not with her."
"Even if he isn't. Why would he want me?"
"Why wouldn't he?"
"Cause he's a sex god, and I have a purity ring."
"A sex god. You got it bad girl. Just try."
She sighs. We go back to the others.