If You Really Knew Me

Chapter 1 : Come One Come All

Disclaimer: I do not own Degrassi (If I did, it would be all Eli all the time) or If You Really Knew Me.

Eli's POV

I walked through the doors of Degrassi, smirk ever present on my face, begging the next poor soul to challenge me. I was just about to turn down the hall when I saw Fitz beating on another kid half his size with his cronies at his side. I picked up my pace to teach him yet another lesson when Principle Simpson stepped in front of me, eye brows raised.

"Wait here." He instructed and he headed over to break up the fight. Oh crap what could I have possibly done now? I hadn't skipped in over a week and because Mr. Simpson stepped in, I haven't even looked at Fitz since our little mishap with his fake ID.

He sent the kid to the nurse, he was bleeding and Fitz to his office. He walked back towards me and said, "Eli, I know you're new here and since you've been having some trouble fitting in," Whoa, whoa, hold the phone; he thought I had trouble fitting in? I had Clare and I had Adam, I didn't need to fit in anymore than that, "and I thought you would like to attend this year's Challenge Day." He handed me a ticket.

"Uhm, Mr. Simpson, what's Challenge Day and why would you think I needed to attend?"

"Well, Eli, it's very simple The Challenge Day is to provide youth and their communities with experiential programs that demonstrate the possibility of love and connection through the celebration of diversity, truth, and full expression. Basically you tell your classmates who you really are."

I scoffed, "So you're telling me that you want me to spill my secrets. To the entire school?"

"In layman's terms, yes."

"But, Mr. Simpson, I—"

"No buts Eli. You're going." Mr. Simpson gave him a stern look and headed back to his office. I groaned and hit my head against the lockers. This would be Hell.

Clare's POV

I took my seat in the Media Immersion room and logged into my account, class had just started when Sav and Holly J came on the T.V screens.

"What goes on Degrassi? President Sav here telling you all to get your tickets to this year's Challenge Day."

Holly J took over, " For those of you who are new to Degrassi, Challenge Day is the one day a year you answer the question 'If you really knew me'."

Sav finished the announcement with, "Tickets go on sale this Friday. Later Degrassi!"

Ms. Oh continued talking about blogs and the effects their messages have on readers. Alli turned to me, "So, are you going to get a ticket this year?"

"I don't know." Truth is, I really didn't want to. This year I actually had problems to share and I wasn't sure if I was ready to share them with anyone other than my English partner.

"Well, I know I am." She gave 'that' look. The one where you know she's up to something.

"Hmm..." I trailed off, I should ask Eli if he plans on going . Nah, it's probably 'not his scene'.

Adam's POV

Well this week just keeps getting better and better! First, [A/N SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't watched "My Body is a Cage" part 1 or 2 than you may want to stop reading here and go watch it, links in the end note!] Bianca tells the whole school that I'm a girl, then I get thrown into a door by Owen, then Drew gets beat up by Fitz trying to defend me (Which I told him not to do!), then the LGTB teacher supervisor has to follow me around the school "looking out" for me for God knows how long! Now, Simpson wants me to go to Challenge Day? Hell no!

Everyone already knows my secret, what's the point? It's not like they're suddenly going to accept me because I listen to them whine about how "awful" their lives are. Why don't they try being an FTM, having people beat up on you because you are the way you are, having everyone excluded you because they think you're a freak; well, almost everyone. Eli and Clare seemed very open to the fact that I am what I am. I guess it pays to hang out with the misfits...if that is what we are.

I guess I'll just have to pull through it. I just hope I don't lose anymore friends because of it.

Okay, so I wanted to end it on a dramatic note, but I hope to update soon. I have first-draft-itis (I hate all of the stories I write after the first chapter) so let's hope that I can pull through and finish this story. It was originally going to be a one-shot but then I was like 'I REALLY need to get this out there!' And if you hadn't guessed it was inspired by "If You Really Knew Me" on MTV

So here are the links to Degrassi episodes : .com/tv/degrassi/episodes/

Watch what you've missed and then for awesome captions (Kind of like LOLcats...so I guess you could call them DegrassiLoLs?) and episode recaps go here: .com/degrassi-episode-16-its-a-family-affair/ that is the recap for the latest episode, there are links to the others at the end of the post.

Review please! Best Wishes!

-NDC