Summary: Clare's life begins to fall apart, just as she thinks it's going to get better. Her mom is getting remarried, and she can't help but be bitter with her new step-sister, Lilly. Things don't seem right with her new boyfriend, even though everything is going perfectly. And she still can't shed the pain her break-up with Eli caused her. Can she handle the stress her new school year will bring?

Lilly, on the other hand, just moved away from the only place she's ever known. Her new step-sister, Clare, wants nothing to do with her, and marks her as a bad person with out even knowing her. She takes her moving as a fresh start. But, she soon realizes that she can't run from her past forever.

Author's Note: The summary isn't that great. I have the first few chapters written, and they aren't that good, but I promise you, they will get better. It will get a lot better. The first few chapters won't have that much drama in them, but as the story goes on it will start to unfold. One last thing: This isn't a story only about Clare, this is also gonna be about Lilly and her times at Degrassi. I lied, this is the last thing: The story starts at the end of the summer, right before Clare's junior year. And Lilly won't be in the first few chapters.

I sat in my room, in the dark, with my laptop open. I was cleaning out my files. It was about time. My hard drive was over flowing. I had all these random writings that I never finished, old homework assignments that I didn't need, and far too many blurry photos that were filling up my memory. If I didn't clean my hard drive out soon, my computer space would probably have been filled.

It took me a while to get through all my word documents, and it was going to take me even longer to go through the photos. I just had so many of them. Why had I taken so many photos in the last four months? It's not like there was much to take pictures of. Yes, I had gotten a new boyfriend, and I reconnected with Alli, but I never took so many pictures in my life. If anything, I should have taken fewer photos than normal. I didn't hang out with as many people after Spring Break, and by that I mean, Adam and Eli. There was also less things to take pictures of during the summer. I love taking photos in Spring, and not as much Summer. Everything seems so fresh and new in Spring.

I began looking through my photos, one by one, deleting the ones that were blurry, or came out really badly. After looking through over 400 photos, I got to older ones. From before Alli had returned to Degrassi. The first one was a picture of me and Adam. I had taken one day, just for the fun of it. We were at the church, and we were leaning against one of the walls. It wasn't anything special, just us two, smiling at the camera. But I loved that picture.

I went through a few more pictures, mostly of me and Adam, or of just random things I saw that I thought would make a good picture, but I stopped at one that caught my eye. It was at the church. Adam had taken it. Eli was standing in the middle of the church, and he had me slung over his shoulder. A genuine smile plastered on both our faces. Eli was wearing his trademark skinny jeans and Dead Hand t-shirt. I was wearing skinny jeans, and a floral blouse. It was a perfect picture. The way Eli was laughing, and the way I hanging over his shoulder, yelling at him to put me down, while laughing my head off. Then there was the way the wind blew Eli's bangs out of his face. And the way streaks of sunlight peeked through the trees. And most of all, the sparkle in Eli's eyes. They were glowing. You could see how happy he was, just by looking at his eyes and the way they shined, it was just beautiful. It was the perfect photo.

A numbness filled my body, the only place I could feel was my chest. It started as an ache that slowly grew more painful, then became a stabbing sensation. It had been so long since Eli and I had broken up, but it still hurt like it had happened yesterday. To this day, I still don't know why it hurt so much. Eli had manipulated me, and scared me. He was so unpredictable. I should have been relieved to be out a relationship with him. But I wasn't. I had every reason to bounce back from that break up faster than the speed of light. Soon after Spring Break, an old friend, Jake, returned to Degrassi and we soon got together. With Alli back, things could have been like they were before Eli was in my life. My life was finally beginning to stabilize. No mysterious boyfriend with a bunch of surprises, or scary past. My parent's divorce was finally becoming okay with me. My best friend was here to stay. Everything was going great, so why did everything feel so wrong?

I just stared at the photo. I was so happy then. How? Nothing was going right for me then. The pain in my chest continued to grow. It grew to he point where I almost couldn't breathe. I couldn't look at the photo any longer. I clicked to the next picture. It was another picture of Eli. It was of him laughing. It was taken the same day as the other photo. The pain began to radiate, as a knot formed in my stomach. I couldn't handle it. The pain was unbearable. My eyes filled with tears, and I closed my laptop, as sobs escaped form my throat. It hurt that I was still crying over Eli after 4 months. It hurt that I didn't know why I was crying over him. It hurt that I was still crying over Eli, despite me having a boyfriend. It hurt that I couldn't stop crying. Everything hurts.

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~Andy