Author's Note: This idea came to me while I was watching Jesus Etc this morning and when Sav was looking for drummers my mom was like, "Why didnt he just call Spinner?" So low and behold, another spinneli fanfiction.
BTW FIXATION IS GONNA BE ON A SMALL HIATUS BECAUSE OF PERSONAL REASONS.
"Attention, Degrassi, your president, Sav Bhandari, is looking for a new drummer. Please audition after school in the cafe if you think you have what it takes!" Sav's energetic voice echoed throughout the silent classroom, and Eli pondered it over. With all the tension between him and Clare, and Fitz out of juvie, being in Sav's band would give him a healthy distraction.
But would he be willing to leave Clare alone for a few hours everyday with Fitz stalking her? Clare was a lot more important to him than some band, but he needed an outlet and this might be the perfect thing to keep him busy. Clare was a big girl, right? She could handle herself. So far, Fitz hadn't done anything.
"Mr. Goldsworthy, please get with us," Mrs. Dawes snapped in his face and Eli broke out of his daze. He glanced over at Clare to see her worried expression. He gave her a meek smile, and turned back to the bored.
Sav sighed as the brunette banged on the drums. She had no idea what she was doing. "Alright, alright, thank you - that's enough,"
The girl stopped suddenly and left, obviously sad. Sav had seen over twenty kids audition and none of them had what it takes. His future was riding on this, he needed a good drummer or he could kiss a music program goodbye.
Pulling out his phone, he started scrolling through his contacts, one by one, trying to find someone at this school who could play the drums. Peter, Riley, Spinner...
Sav stopped scrolling and smiled. Perfect! How did he not think of this before. Praying Spinner still had the same number, he hit send and put the phone to his ear.
Eli took a deep breath and walked into The Dot. Clare was sitting at the table in the far right, her face buried in a book and her hand wrapped around a hot chocolate. Eli walked over to the table, and sat down. Clare looked up, surprised, and smiled at him. "Hey, what are you doing here?"
"I was just coming to ask you something," When Clare didn't respond, Eli kept going. "Do you think Fitz is dangerous?"
Clare raised an eyebrow at the unusual question. "Not right now, no. I think he's just confused,"
"So if I were to not watch out for you for a little bit, you wouldn't be worried?"
Clare closed her book. "Eli, you never have to watch out for me. What's going on?"
"Well, I was just gonna audition for Sav's drumming role, but I didn't want to leave you alone if you didn't feel safe,"
"Eli," Clare laughed, and reached over the table to take his hand. "You don't have to worry about me. You need this. You need to spend time with your friends and have fun. Go, audition,"
"Thanks, Clare. I'll call you later," He leaned over and kissed her on the cheek, before walking to the door.
One of the employees was at the door and he opened the door for Eli, following him out and going around back to the employee parking lot.
When Eli arrived back to Degrassi, the same Dot employee had arrived as well. The paranoid part of Eli thought he was being followed and panicked for a minute, but he was near his school where there were a million cops and tons of people.
That feeling stayed, though, when the employee followed Eli to the Cafe.
Sav saw them both enter and smiled. "Spinner, you made it, awesome!" He gave Spinner a quick hug and then looked at Eli. "What are you doing here?"
"Well, I wanna audition to be your drummer," Eli said.
Spinner glanced at Sav. "I thought you didn't have anyone,"
"I didn't. Eli, I didn't know you could drum," Sav felt awkward.
"I've only been drumming for a couple years, but I'm not too bad. If you already found someone, though, that's fine," He looked at Spinner and wondered why he would be associating with Sav. The dude looked twenty years old.
"No, man, it's okay. You should at least get a fair audition," Spinner said and stepped away from the drums. "How about we make it a contest? Sav can judge, and let the better drummer win,"
Eli's eyes narrowed. He didn't know how good this Spinner guy was, but he knew he was good. And he needed this if he was gonna keep things healthy with Clare. He needed a distraction.
"You're on," Eli challenged.
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