You're My Future
Summary: It's been twenty years since Clare Edwards graduated from Degrassi. Fifteen since she last saw KC. Now a high-powered, well respected lawyer and writing novels in her spare time, thirty seven year old Clare is stuck in a loveless marriage with two kids that she adores, fourteen year old Savannah Kate and six year old Christian Michael. What happens when Clare travels back to Degrassi for her highschool reunion and is reunited with her ex-boyfriend and first love, KC Guthrie? What happens when she crosses a line she never wanted to?
Prologue
Clare Edwards-Laurence sighed and looked through her review mirror at her two kids asleep in the backseat. Fourteen year old Savannah Kate and little six year old, Christian Michael and their pet dog, a Scottish Terrier that Chris had insisted on naming Cujo. The best things in her life really. There was nothing and noone that she loved more than them. They were everything to her, even though she and her husband, Nathan were having had been going on for a few years, really. It didn't seem that there was a time where she and Nathan didn't have problems. It was just like another piece of the puzzle that was their relationship. She honestly wished that she could wave a magical wand and fix her and Nathan's relationship even if it wasn't particularly what she wanted. She wished that she and Nathan could love eachother as they had when they'd first met almost twelve years ago, if not for themselves, then for their kids. Savannah and Christian deserved to have that in their life.
"Mommy?" Savannah ask in a soft huff, yawning and stretching her slender arms up above her head. She sounded much younger than her fourteen years and Clare's heart utterly ached at that. Her baby girl was growing up so fast and she'd soon be a woman. It seemed like just yesterday that she'd found out she was pregnant with her.
"Yes baby?" Clare uttered softly, locking eyes with her daughter through the rearview mirror.
"Are Uncle Declan, Aunt Holly J and Aunt Alli, Uncle Dave, and Uncle Connor gonna be at your reunion too?" Savannah asked her mother hopefully.
Clare laughed at that. It was sort of ironic how life worked out. Declan and Holly J Coyne had helped her out more than she'd ever thought possible. When she'd found out she was pregnant with Savannah shortly after going back to her home just outside of New York. Declan and Holly J were their next door neighbors, oddly enough. "Honey, you know that Declan and Holly J are gonna be there. And you heard me talking to Alli and Dave last night on the phone.
Savannah had the good graces to blush in embarrassment. Her wild tangle of sandy brown hair hung around her to the middle of her back, falling in her big blue-green eyes. Her hands move down to tug down her Supernatural shirt-the one that she'd inherited from her mother, so that it covered the smooth, pale skin of her flat stomach. "I kind of forgot." She murmured softly before saying , "Hopefully Caleb, Danielle, Michael, and Avery will be there too."
Clare grinned at her daughter in through the mirror and brushed her hair from her eyes as they stopped at a stoplight. "Why? You don't want to hang out with a bunch of grown ups?" She asked kind of playfully as she took in her surroundings. They were almost back to her hometown. They'd probably be there in about an hour now.
Her daughter smiled back and curled up into the seat resting her head on the window as she yawned. "Can we eat at "The Dot" for dinner tonight?" She asked with a pair of pleading eyes.
Her mother laughed as she began to drive again. We'll see. Perhaps Declan, Holly J, Dave, Connor, All, Caleb, Danielle, Micael, and Avery would like to join us there as well."
Savannah muttered her agreement and burrowed farther into her seat, closing her eyes. She was intent on getting a little more sleep before they arrived at their hotel and the had to go to the Degrassi Community School.
To be continued...
Next Chapter: Clare and the kids arrive at Degrassi, KC meets Clare's children and notices something suspicious about Savannah, talks and discoveries.