Disclaimer: I don't own Degrassi
A/N: This is a one-shot.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU GOT DRUNK?" The young Eli had just confessed to Clare that he was at an end of semester party where he drank a little too much and ended up kissing a 22 year old college girl from his floor.
"I'm sorry Clare. Really. It's just-" He was cut off from a flying picture frame lunged at him. He bent down to retrieve the cracked frame, it was a picture of them in from of the Hollywood sign on their first vacation together.
"DID THAT NIGHT MEAN NOTHING TO YOU?" She flung another frame at him, they were unfortunately, in her bedroom where there were at least a dozen more of those frames. "DID MY LOVE MEAN NOTHING TO YOU? DID YOUR PROMISE OF NOT FALLING FOR ANOTHER GIRL MEAN NOTHING?" She started at him, pure rage in her blue eyes, she was so angry that her eyes even seemed a darker shade of blue.
"Of course it mean something. YOU mean something. I love you." He cautiously started to walk towards her.
"Not. Another. Step. Elijah."
"Clare, babe, you're overreacting. It was just one kiss." As soon as those words left his mouth he instantly regretted them.
"JUST A KISS? JUST A KISS? I'M OVERREACTING? Do you not remember you wanted to poison Fitz because he said he wanted to have sex with me? News flash Elijah! He wasn't actually going to do it! BUT YOU! YOU KISSED ANOTHER GIRL!"
"DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS FOR ME? NOT HAVING YOU BY MY SIDE. GOING TO COLLEGE PARTIES AND HAVING TO EXPLAIN TO GIRLS THAT I HAVE SOMEONE? THAT I'M IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE? DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS KNOWING YOU'RE HERE AND I'M THERE AND YOU ARE 1126 MILES AWAY AND YOU COULD BE HAVING A COFFEE WITH SOMEONE AND I WONT KNOW ABOUT IT AND BEFORE I KNOW IT... you're calling to break up with me," he finished quietly looking at the pictures of them all around her room.
"I LOVE YOU! I gave everything to you. I gave myself to you. Unlike you, I. Don't. Cheat!" The red head then bursted it out crying. "Maybe, maybe this just isn't meant to work out. Maybe it's too hard. the distance. It's barely been a semester and look at us. Look at me. Look at you! You can't handle it. The long-distance, it's too much." She sat down on the floor, picking up the shattered frames around her.
Eli went to her and bent down, they were now looking at each other in the eye.
He started to speak, "I love you. I need you. Please-"
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Three strikes you're out Eli." She started to slowly get up. "You're out." With that she grabbed his jacket from her bed and handed it to him.
"Clare. Are you... are you sure?"
" I should've known. Once a cheater. Always a cheater. " She held her ground, she was not going to take him back just because of another drunken night. She didn't deserve this.
Eli gulped and tried not to show how broken he was, "If that's what you want. Who am I to stop you? Looks like you've made up your mind."
"I have. We're done." Clare turned her back on him, not wanting him to see the tears staring to fall down her face.
"Bye. I... love you." With that Eli Goldsworthy stepped out of Clare Edwards life with just three regrets.
