As Clare walked out of the front door to Degrassi, she noticed him out of the corner of her eye. Of course, she knew exactly who it was. And she couldn't keep herself from staring. But she did it at the wrong moment. Because just then, Jake Martin turned to face her. He watched her as she glided down the stairs and she quickly turned her head when her blue eyes met his. He still could not take his eyes off of her. To him, Clare Edwards was charming, adorable, and perfect. And even though that was his stepsister, he was completely and unfortunately in love with her.

He watched her cross the parking lot until someone came up and tapped his arm. "Ready to leave Jakey?" He turned around and moved his eyes to meet the annoying voice of Katie Matlin. On the inside, he wanted so bad to tell her to go and walk away, but he knew, that being with someone else might be the only way to get over Clare.

He nodded to Katie and put her book bag in the truck bed along with his. She giggled like an idiotic schoolgirl and got into the passenger seat of his cherry red truck. As he started to walk to the driver's side door, He caught a glance of Clare. But instead of seeing her walking towards the bus stop, he saw her talking to a guy. The boy's back was turned to Jake, and he had no relocation of who he could be, but then he turned around and gestured towards the car behind him.

Jake hadn't seen Eli since the little cabin party in the end of summer, he had heard he'd been suspended for a while because of some mishap, but he wasn't expecting the return to be so quickly. Jake watched as Clare giggled and laughed at everything Eli had to say. He knew about the two's history, and he started to become angry. His thoughts, plummeted of Eli and Clare being together, and how Eli had tried to destroy what Clare and him had. He thought their ship was done, but could he possibly be wrong? Jake suddenly was interrupted from his thoughts when he heard Katie cough, gesturing it was time to go.

"And then Fiona and I thought it would be hilarious to act like James Bond for a bit, and then Dawes walked in and that my dear Clarebear is how I, got in trouble for bringing a nerf gun to school". Eli finished his story with laughter as Clare giggled along side of him. She was actually enjoying Eli's presence. It was a nice change from what used to be.

Clare heard a car door slam and looked across the parking lot as Eli went on to talk about his new car. She looked to see Jake stare right at her, almost piercing right into her with his eyes. She quickly returned her eyes to Eli, and continued with the conversation, but secretly wondered what Jake had to say.

"What should I care? He wants to be with Katie, that's fine with me." Clare thought to herself. Suddenly she realized Eli was talking to her.

"Clare, are you okay?"

"Oh..umm yeah Eli, it's nothing." She looked for Jake's truck, but watched it pull out of the driveway.

"Want a ride? I'm going to the Dot anyways, Hazel Latte, My treat?" Eli carefully opened the passenger door to Clare. Without any hesitation, Clare jumped in. As Eli started to drive towards the dot, memories of Jake crossed her mind. She then decided to just forget about Jake Martin like he did to her.

Just then, Clare's phone went off in her pocket, she fished it out and opened it to find a text from an unknown number that she'd never seen before. She scrolled down the screen to read

"If ur not bsy, Meet me the park. 7 PM. Don't b late ;) "

Clare closed it. She had no idea who it could be, the number was sure as hell not Jake's, and no one else she knew either. But with being Clare, she had a taste of curiosity on who it might be. She decided that night, she'd find out just who this person was, and what they wanted to do with Clare.

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