Author's Note: Hey guys...I was playing with ideas and thought of this...i need to know what you think...
Disclamer: I dont own Degrassi or it'c characters...just Violet and this story!
Chapter One: Since You've Been Gone
I walked to The Dot from my parents home in the brisk wintery mid-December air. It was going to snow today, I could feel it.
"Mommy, come on!" Yelled my very impatient six year old daughter Violet. Her green eyes shone in the afternoon sun, and the light bounced off of her shoulder length curly red-brown hair.
"Come here silly." I said bending down to her level as she ran to give me a hug. I picked her up and walked with her in my arms to The Dot.
"Hey Clare." Peter greeted me with a kiss on the cheek, and then bent down to say hi to Violet.
"Hi Peter." She smiled hugging my leg.
He stood back up to my height. "She still hates me?" he sighed.
"Not hate…she's shy." I said.
"Uncle Adam!" Violet yelled practically jumping into Adam's arms.
"So much for shy." Peter said going back to work behind the counter.
"Hey Violet." Adam said giving her a hug. I walked over to them and joined Adam at his table. Violet jumped off of him and ran into my lap. She kissed my cheek.
"Adam, have you heard from you-know-who lately?" I asked.
"Eli?" he asked me.
"Yes." I said. I missed Eli with every fiber of my being, but he had dumped me seven years ago when he left unexpectedly, before I could even tell him about Violet.
"He's coming into town today, visiting his parents. You know they still live up here? Then he's going to hang out with me." he said.
"Good for Eli." I sighed.
"Do you want to…" Adam trailed off his gaze falling on Violet.
"Vi, why don't you go and talk to Peter, he'll give you the biggest cookie you've ever seen." I suggested. She screamed cookie, cookie, and she ran over to Peter. I shook my head.
"Clare, Eli has a right to know!" Adam protested.
"And, she's mine! I have the right for her to see who I deem fit!" I exclaimed doing my best to keep my voice low.
"You are forgetting one thing." He told me.
"What?" I asked.
"She's Eli's too." He said.
"I know, I know, it's just I don't want her to be hurt like I was." I sighed. Adam's eyes switched from fight mode to understanding.
"Just think about it okay." He said.
"Mommy, look at this cookie!" Violet shouted as she jumped back into my lap. She held in her hands a cookie the size of her head. Boy do I owe Peter! I thought.
"He'll be over at my house until early tomorrow." Adam reminded me. "Bye Violet."
She smiled at Adam as he walked out of the Dot.
"Now are you going to be able to finish that cookie all by yourself?" I asked her. She nodded her head and bit down on the cookie. She accidentally bit off about half of the cookie. I laughed as she offered me a severed piece of cookie. I took it and ate it, but I could only focus on what Adam had just said 'He has a right to know, She's Eli's too.' In that moment I decided it was time to face my fears, and go to Adam's tonight.
~~~~~~~~~SEVEN O'CLOCK PM~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I held Violet's hand as I rang the door bell to Adam's apartment for the third time.
"Hello." His voice crackled through the intercom.
"Adam can I come up?" I asked.
"Is that who I think that is?" I heard a voice ask in the background.
"Sure Clare come on up." Adam made sure to emphasize my name. I heard the door buzz and I walked up with Violet in my arms.
"Mommy, where are we going?" she asked, sleepily.
"Uncle Adam's." I said as we reached his door. I knocked on the door and Adam answered. I walked in and placed Violet down on his couch, because she was beginning to fall asleep. I turned around and saw Eli standing in the background. "Hi Eli."
"Clare." Eli replied coldly, staring at Violet. Still the same old Eli—even after almost eight years this twenty four year old copy was the same—his eyes still the purest emerald green I have seen, and a smirk plastered onto his face.
"I'll go tuck her into my bed, you two can catch up." Adam said picking up Violet, and talking her into his room, smiling at me as he closed the door.
"Who is that?" Eli asked.
"Adam?" I replied.
"Not funny Clare, that kid has my eyes!" Eli said, about to boil over.
"Yes, she does, she also has your taste in music which is regretful, and your favorite color black." I explained.
"What aren't you telling me?" Eli asked making his way over to me.
"She has those things because she's your—our kid." I stated, looking up at him innocently.
"Why am I just learning of this now?" he asked, steaming.
"Like you contacted me?" I said.
"Clare, we have a kid, in the past seven years you couldn't call to tell me that?" he asked.
"Eight years, her seventh birthday is this Christmas." I informed him.
"You haven't answered my question!" Eli exclaimed.
"Yeah, like you've ever answered any of mine, like for one, why did you move your senior year?" I asked.
"Family problems." He answered.
"Eli! I was your girlfriend." I screamed.
"And I'm that kid's father!" He yelled right back.
"She has a name." I told him.
"What is it?" he asked.
"Violet." I answered.
"You had a right to tell me!" he said.
"And I'm telling you now!" I yelled.
"You should have told me sooner, see how I felt about this, it, her!" he screamed at me.
"You should've told me why you left!" I yelled back.
"I told you now." He yelled.
Before either of us could get another word out a crying Violet ran out of Adam's room, and into my arms. Adam chased out after her, panting.
"I'm sorry, she heard you guys fighting, I tried to stop her, but she's strong for her age. Must get that from Eli." He said. I bent down to wipe away Violet's tears. She looked at me her eyes full of newly formed questions.
"Mommy, what's wrong?" she asked.
"I, uh, nothing sweetie." I covered up the fight.
"But I heard screaming, like when we stay at grandma and grandpa's house." She started to cry all over again, and buried her face into my shoulder.
"It's okay, nothing is wrong." I said rubbing her back.
"That's what they always say." She said in between sobs.
"Come on, let's get you home." I said picking her up into my arms. I looked toward Adam who had an apologetic look on his face. He walked up and kissed Violet's forehead. "Adam, it isn't your fault, you got me to come." I kissed his check and left going to my own old home.
Author's Note: So should i continue...or not?
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