Based off the promos. If you haven't seen already, CLARE AND ELI KISS! Anyways, Eli reveals his dark past and takes back the kiss (it seems) before the dance, where if you also haven't seen the promos, will be where the school goes into lockdown. BUM BUM BUMMMMM

"Hello JT." I said to the plaque.

JT had a crush on Darcy, so to impress her he would babysit me. I was already a teenager… kinda. There was no reason to. He would always be so cheerful, happy. I had the biggest crush on him. The last time we talked, he told me to smile more. I did, that night he went to a dance at Degrassi. He died. I didn't smile so much anymore.

Looking at the plaque now I think of what just happened. Eli had taken me to the spot where he had crashed his car, his girlfriend dying in the process. The mixed signals make sense now. He thinks I don't understand what its like to lose someone you care about, and maybe I don't to his extent. After all, JT was just a crush.

I laid myself down on the bench next to the plaque, everyone was in class, I had a good hour to talk.

"I'm sorry I've never talked to you before. I've passed by this memorial so many times. I feel like its not right for me to miss you, I never really knew you… I wish you were here to give me advice again. I have someone I care about; I mean really care about, who lost someone. So he pushed me away."

At that moment, an angry Eli Goldsworthy turned the corner of the hall after skipping class, when he heard a voice. "So he pushed me away." Eli leaned against the wall, knowing Clare's voice; he sat down and peeked around the corner, seeing Clare on her back talking to nobody.

"I feel selfish for being hurt, after what he went through. And I honestly hate that he told me, I wish it could all go back to yesterday. Or maybe that last day we talked together before you left. I wish I had asked you about this then. Not that I would have known. Its funny, I'm your age now… I wonder if you're getting older up there."

Eli was now convinced she was talking to someone who had died, he spied the plaque above the bench Clare was on, James T. York.

"I would really appreciate some advice now, a sign maybe. Or how about we get past the whole dead thing and you just come back, how about everyone goes back to the way they were years ago. You would be alive, Darcy would have never been raped, left for Kenya, even Eli would be happy, his girlfriend would still be alive. Everything would be okay." Clare whispered the last part.

Eli was now leaning his head back, it hitting the wall, while he stared at the ceiling. Clare had lost someone too, was the only thought going through his mind.

"I feel horrible, everyone I care about has either been hurt or lost someone, you even died. Only Alli is still okay, I don't think anything could make it through that thick skin of hers. I just need an answer. My problem is, I don't know what the question is." Clare smiled a little to herself, thinking of something funny. "You know what, I think you would hate Eli. Your personalities would clash, your both way to smug. But you always did learn to get along with everyone. I wish you could meet him. Huh, that's stupid of me, according to him were not anything to each other."

At the first mentioning of his name, Eli had began to listen again.

"Tonight's the big dance, I'd like to think you'll be watching over us all. I'm sorry you can't come yourself." At that point silent tears had begun to cascade down Clare's cheeks. "I'm sorry." She whispered. At that, Clare sat up and started to wipe her face clean, she looked towards the plaque once more, before continuing down the hallway.

When Clare was out of sight, Eli sat up and walked over to the plaque.

"Wish me luck on making things better, hopefully I won't screw up again. Watch my back at the dance tonight, kay? I have a lot of making up to do. Hopefully it will be worth it." Eli looks down the hallway to where Clare had disappeared. "It will definitely be worth it."

Little did he know that JT York would indeed be watching over him, and that that very fact would save his and Clare's life tonight.

In the empty hallway of Degrassi, two echoing words were heard by no one. They had no source, but off the lockers bounced the words,

"Good Luck."

Just a filler between the Eclare fight and the dance, I hate wondering what happens in between. REVIEW!