"Shit." K.C. cursed to himself as Principal Simpson handed him the detention slip. How he got caught throwing footballs in the hallway and Drew didn't was beyond him.

Drew just laughed his ass off and walked away with his arm around that freshman girl Jess.

Not that that bothered K.C., he was with Jenna again. Jenna…

She really was gonna have the baby, which meant he would be a dad….

Don't think about that. You love Jenna and that's all that matters. K.C. thought to himself as he walked down the hall to the classroom where he'd be serving detention.

He really did love Jenna; she was the best relationship he'd ever been in. Better than any of the girls before he came to Degrassi, and better than Clare.

K.C. felt a pang of guilt every time he thought of Clare. He knew it was wrong to let Jenna steal him away so easily, but he couldn't help himself. He wondered if Clare still thought about him; he really hadn't seen or talked to her that much this year.

He turned the last corner before the classroom and there she was.

Her uniform looked very flattering on her, and her curly red hair had a butterfly clip in it. Clare always dressed so modestly, but he couldn't deny that she was very pretty.

Her electric blue eyes were stunning without her glasses, and the way she looked in the sunlight was…

Stop it. You're with Jenna now. K.C. thought to himself as he proceeded toward Clare. Then a weird thought came to him.

"Clare, do you have detention?" He asked before he could stop himself.

She looked in his direction and blushed a little when she saw him. He was her ex, so of course she would feel a little weird talking to him.

"Oh, um…no. I was just talking to someone."

K.C. nodded awkwardly and walked toward the classroom that Clare was standing in the doorway of.

"Well, see you." She said to him as she began to walk away. She turned to look back into the classroom and she smiled sweetly and waved at someone, but K.C. couldn't see who.

He walked into the room and sat down in an empty desk near the back.

There were only three other kids in the room besides him.

Heather Poulette, who he couldn't imagine getting a detention since she was such a smart goody two shoes, some freshman that he didn't recognize, and a junior that looked vaguely familiar.

As he suspected, Heather didn't really have detention, she was there to help the teacher sort out papers. Typical goody two shoes.

She left after a little bit and then the freshman started complaining that he was sick, so the teacher grudgingly agreed to take him to the nurse's office.

"You two stay here. I need to drop him off and then go copy some papers, but I'll be back in fifteen minutes and you two better still be here." She said, and exited the room.

K.C. just nodded and then let out a long sigh. He turned to look at the only other kid still in the room, the junior.

The junior caught his glance and gave him a lopsided smirk, then looked back down at his binder.

K.C. felt awkward just sitting there in silence so he looked for something to make conversation. He noticed the junior's bag on the floor had a pin about this huge multi-band tour from about two years ago, that it was nearly impossible to buy tickets for.

"Wow, how'd you manage to score that concert?" K.C. asked.

The junior looked up at him, a little shocked that he was proposing conversation, but answered all the same.

"Well my dad is a DJ on the radio so he was able to pull some strings."

"Really? Cool. Have I heard of him?"

"He goes by Bullfrog."

"Bullfrog? No way! That's sweet bro." K.C. said animatedly. Why hadn't he talked with this guy before?

"Yeah…so, what are you in for?" The boy asked K.C.

"Oh, I was playing football in the hallway. You know how it is." K.C. said.

The boy smirked. "Not really. Sports aren't really my thing."

"Oh." K.C. said, bummed that they didn't have that in common. "Well what are you in for?"

"Dress code violations." He muttered. "Honestly, this stupid uniform conspiracy violates my freedom of expression."

"Eh, it's not so bad." K.C. reasoned.

The boy cracked another smirk. "It is when you dress as uniquely as I do. You could say my style's a little different. My English teacher referred to it as 'mortician'" He put air quotes around the word and rolled his eyes.

That's when K.C. recognized him.

"Oh! You're the guy who got in that fight with Fitz! Eli, right?" K.C. said, remembering all the drama at Vegas Night.

The boy just smirked and nodded. "That's me. The emo boy who almost got stabbed." He said sarcastically.

K.C chuckled a little. "That guy was crazy bro."

"Yup. Honestly, I wish I hadn't gone to Vegas Night at all." Eli said.

"Me too. I mean, obviously my night wasn't as bad as yours, but it wasn't fun for me. I was having issues with my girlfriend at the time so it was just weird."

Eli nodded knowingly. "Yeah, my girlfriend and I were having some issues that night too."

"They couldn't have been as crazy as what I was dealing with. My girlfriend, Jenna, is pregnant." K.C. said, sighing. "It sucks."

Eli whistled lowly. "That's heavy stuff."

K.C nodded. "Tell me about it. I hope you and your girlfriend use condoms every time." K.C said, laughing a little.

Eli smirked. "Wouldn't have to worry about it."

"Dude, trust me, even if she's on the pill-…"

"I mean we don't have sex."

"Oh. Really?" K.C. asked, somewhat bewildered that a junior that wasn't really bad-looking wasn't getting any.

"Yeah. She took a vow of abstinence and well, I don't wanna push her."

"Sounds like my ex girlfriend." K.C said, rolling his eyes. "Honestly, she's such a prude it's ridiculous. I wonder if she's still like that." K.C wondered out loud.

"Who is your ex?" Eli asked curiously.

K.C shook his head. "Clare Edwards. She's in my grade, you probably don't know her."

Eli's eyes turned stone cold.

"No, I know her. She's in my English class." Was all Eli replied. But K.C. could've sworn he'd felt a change in the atmosphere, like Eli was pissed off at him.

"What do you think of her?" K.C. asked.

Eli looked him dead in the eyes. "I think you're an idiot for breaking up with her." He said bluntly.

K.C. just stared at him, astonished. "Really? But dude…"

"But what? Clare's kind, smart, and beautiful. She has a good head on her shoulders and doesn't let anything influence her. And so what if she doesn't have sex? Having sex isn't always a good thing as you now know, and it's definitely not something you base your relationship off of." Eli said, never breaking eye contact.

His abrupt statement and total confidence made K.C a little uneasy. How did he know Clare so well, and why was he so adamantly defending her? Unless…

"She's your girlfriend, isn't she?" K.C. asked.

Eli just nodded.

That would explain what she was doing standing outside the classroom. K.C. thought to himself.

"I'm sorry dude. I didn't mean to insult her or anything. She's a… great girl." K.C. said, trying to make things right.

"Oh I know." Eli said, smirking.

K.C. could tell he was still irritated and kept talking. "Seriously though. You're right, she's pretty, smart, and nice. You're a lucky guy."

"Trust me, I know." Eli said seriously. "So why did you break up with her? Not that I wish you hadn't, I mean your mistake saved my life." He said.

This caught K.C. off-guard. Saved his life? He was really serious about Clare, wasn't he?

"Well, I don't know if it was a mistake. I mean, I love Jenna. Maybe I was wrong to leave Clare so easily for her but... what's done is done. And anyway, Clare has you now, so it's really no harm."

Eli nodded.

"I'm sure you guys are a great couple."

"That's what people say." Eli said, smirking and rolling his eyes. He did that A LOT K.C noticed.

K.C. just smiled. He couldn't quite tell how he felt about Clare having a new boyfriend, but he supposed that was just natural.

"Okay, you guys can go now." The teacher said to Eli and K.C.

The boys got up and exited the room to find Clare waiting outside.

"Hi." She walked up to Eli and took his hands in hers. K.C. felt a pang of jealously flash through him as Clare kissed Eli softly on the lips.

"Well…it was nice talking to you K.C." Eli said, smirking as he slung his arm around Clare's shoulder, somewhat possessively. K.C cracked a smirk of his own.

"Yeah uh…same to you. See ya." He said, and then waved awkwardly at Clare. Clare awkwardly smiled back and then looked at Eli, slightly confused.

"Don't worry." Eli said, cupping Clare's face in his hands. "We said nothing but good things about you."

Clare blushed and whispered questions to Eli as they walked away down the hall, hand in hand.

K.C. shook his head to clear it and then walked in the other direction.

Clare had found a really good guy, and he should be glad, he told himself.

But damn it, he couldn't keep himself from wondering…

Oh well, he had Jenna now. And Clare seemed happier with Eli then she had ever been with him.

They really are a cute couple. K.C. thought, and then pushed the two out of his mind and went home.