"OK… you're waking up now Adam," his mother says and dumps the water over his head.

"Mom!" Adam whined and his mother looked at him innocently. She sets the bucket down.

"Adam… you're up. School… let's get ready now!"

"Can't I just not and say I did,"

"15 minutes or I'm getting Drew's water-gun."

"Fine," he muttered. Sometime's he's scared of his stepmother and this was one of those times.

"Just try and fly under the radar," his mom tried and Adam looked at her like she grew two heads and a tail.

"Really… you want me to do that in high school Mom? I'll be chewed alive in three seconds flat."

"Well, your Dad said you'd say that."

"It's true! I can't helped but be noticed!"

His mother kissed his head. "Just don't die," she whispered and Adam looked at her and laughed.

He slammed the car door and headed into Degrassi the same way he hoped to come out.

Alive…

*Adam's POV*

"Uh, why do you have tampons?" the girl said and I mentally cursed myself.

"I have a sister…and she uses me as a storage closet."

'Liar, I'm a liar.' I thought guiltily.

The girl eyed the comic that I hid in my history book.

"You too? Ugh, my English partner is a total nerd when it comes to this."

"Really?"

Then a dark-haired black-wearing teenager walked up to her. "Oh my god, Clare's looking for her glasses." He says and Clare, I assume, shoved him.

"Speak of the devil, he killed them." she muttered to me and I laughed. She picked up my comic book.

"Look," she handed him the comic. I didn't protest. Mostly because the boy held it like it was gold encrusted with diamonds.

He looked down at me as his face widens in extreme surprise and worship. "You are… God! This is the newest addition of my favorite comic. Why would you take it to school? No wonder Clare's on her knees for you."

She looked at him with mock-hatred in her eyes and he raised his eyebrows.

I looked at him. "My dad, he is friends with the editor of the guy who does them."

He looks at me and gets on his knees besides Clare. "You are God, I am not worthy."

"He's Eli Goldsworthy, and he's too close to me." She said and pushed him away as she kindly picked up my books and stood up.

"Hey Adam, you want to sit with us?" Clare said. "We're supposed to work on our writing—"

"I'm helping her overcome her writer's block,"

"His hobbies also include annoying me beyond belief,"

"And… I really don't care if we don't work on our writing, we'll do it later."

She rolled her eyes as he was still on the floor. Clare pulled him up.

"He's getting an A and I'm getting a C." she grumbled.

"Because I'm awesome and she's…" Eli looked at Clare and she punched his shoulder.

"There better be a good end to that sentence," she said and he shrugged.

"She's just Clare,"

Clare rolled her eyes and looked at me."So what do you say?"

I smiled, knowing that not everyone in Degrassi will be like this. "Sure, you guys are… entertaining."

The warning bell rang.

"Bye," Eli says and halfway Clare stops him.

"Eli…" she says, in a warning voice and he turns back around, grinning.

"Yes, Ms. Edwards." He says and she gently pries the comic I didn't know he still had out of his hands while looking up in his eyes and biting her lip. He's still grinning at her.

Their hands stayed together too long before Clare snapped out of it.

"Here… Adam," she says and then she walks away with Eli almost purposely bumping into her.

I raise my eyebrows at him and he looked back.

"What?" he asked innocently.

I rolled my eyes and laughed. I walked away with him, running after me.

"What!" he yelled and I laughed some more.