Authors note: Hello! You all blew me away with how many people wanted me to continue this so that's what I'll be doing. So you all better be excited... Or not that's entirely up to you. Also forgive me for how long it takes to get an update, my cousin take 12 years to edit it, so sorry. Not much to say other than that so read and review! It always makes my day to see a new review.

Disclaimer: Degrassi is still pretty shit, so I would never want to take any credit for the show.

Summary: They agreed to be friends… With benefits. No feelings, just sex. However, everything changes in more way than one.


You And I And A Plus Sign

Chapter Two


Clare waited nervously in the room by herself. It was exactly two weeks after Eli had told her to go to go see a doctor and Clare didn't know why she came alone. She was terrified but she didn't want to bother Eli with her doctor's appointments again, nor did she want to bother Bianca with her shop being so busy with only a few staff. She most definitely did not want to bother her parents and see them worry and cry over the fact that maybe they'll have to bury their daughter. She didn't want to bother anyone, she never even told anyone that she had an appointment that day, but now she sat on the examination bed as her nerves got the better of her, shaking lightly. She bit her lip and tasted blood.

The doctor had just gone to grab something from the other room. She seemed to be taking an agonizingly long time however and clare just wanted her to come back and for all of this to be over with. The anticipation was the worst part of it all. Clare's nerves often made her zone out, but perhaps her nervousness is what dragged out the time.

Clare felt as if an hour had gone by in the time the doctor took to grab the mystery thing. She walked back into the small room and Clare glanced up at the much older lady. She was completely comfortable with her as she had been her doctor for her entire life.

Clare mustered up a small greeting smile once again and glanced at what she held in her hand. It was a small portable something.

"Sorry I took a bit." Doctor Maria said placing the rectangular case on the table that pulled out from the bed.

"It's fine." Clare said, but her nerves were heard in her shaky voice.

"I'm going to get you to lie down, okay, Clare?" The lady said and then gave her a small smile, "And I don't believe you should be so nervous."

Clare nodded and did what the doctor said. She turned her head to watched her open the case and her eyes widened a bit. An ultrasound machine. The doctor moved Clare's shirt up as she pressed a few buttons on the small portable machine. Clare held her breath and she moved her hands to hold the shirt so the doctor wasn't setting up the machine one handedly.

Doctor Maria took the small transducer from it and squeezed some blue gel from a small bottle onto Clare's lower stomach. It wasn't as cold as Clare thought it would be, kind of warm. Clare closed her eyes then, she didn't want to see. She didn't want to see whatever the doctor was trying to show her if it was bad. She didn't even know what the doctor was looking for but if it were a tumour or anything life threating, she would rather be told and not see it because then that would make it all the more real.

Clare felt Doctor Maria move the transducer around and around, pressing buttons, but then she stopped and Clare still didn't open her eyes.

"Clare?"

"Hmm?" Clare managed to get out.

"I told you that you had nothing to worry about."

"What?" Clare said confusion laced through her voice. She opened her eyes looked over at the small screen and a small gasp fell from her lips.

"Miss. Edwards… You're pregnant. "

"No." Clare shook her head, but a smile was growing on her face. "No, I can't believe that. I can't have kids…. The chemo..." Clare said in complete disbelief.

"Sometimes doctors are right, Clare, and sometime we're wrong." She said. "You are indeed pregnant." She pointed to the small screen, even though Clare could tell already. "That's your baby."

Then her eyes filled with tears. Happy tears, as she realized she expected the worst walking into this room. She thought the cancer was back and she was going to be spending lots of time in the hospital again, she thought she was going to have to relive the darkest time in her life. She never considered the possibility of walking in and being told she was expecting her first child.

"Really?" She said trying to hold back her tears "I'm really pregnant?" She cried.

"Really, really."

About a week later…

Clare was a few minutes later to Bianca's coffee shop than usual. As Clare pushed the door open she hoped the tall dark haired girl hadn't noticed. But Clare came every weekday at the same time and there was usually no one in the shop yet so Bianca was sure to notice her coming in late, though she still hoped she wouldn't.

She had a shower the night before giving Clare time to sit down and read this morning before leaving her apartment. She lost track of time as her nose was buried in one of the 10 pregnancy books she bought.

Clare slid up on to her usual chair and Bianca raised an eyebrow at her. "Eli keep you busy this morning?" She asks in a teasing tone.

"No, not Eli." Clare answered. "Oh! And remember decafè."

Bianca nodded and started to put the coffee together for Clare. "What was it then?"

Clare sighed, Bianca noticed her being late. " I.. I was reading." Clare shrugged.

"Don't you do enough of that at work?"

"I like to read." Clare replied, chewing on her bottom lip.

Bianca made a face and passed her the coffee. "The book was that wonderful, huh?"

Clare held the coffee with both hands, absorbing its heat. "It was educational." She replied simply.

"And what did it teach you." Bianca laughed slightly.

"Um… It taught me that my baby is about 4 inches long… And about as big as my fist." Clare said putting her hand into a fist and holding it up to look at it. Clare smiled slightly and she glanced at Bianca who had the biggest confused look on her face that Clare had ever seen up to date.

"You said 'My baby'" Bianca said.

"I know what I said." Clare said trying to hold back a smile.

"You're pregnant?!" Bianca asked in disbelief.

"14 weeks and counting."

"Oh my god, Clare!" Bianca said happily. The girl came around from the other side of the counter and threw her arms around Clare. Clare let out a giggle as she held her best friend for a moment or two.

"I can't believe this." Bianca said pulling back from the hug. "I'm going to be an auntie!" She said jumping a bit before sitting down in the chair beside Clare.

"Here." Clare said pulling out her small over the shoulder bag. She unzipped one pouch and pulled out the small sonogram photo. Clare passed it to her and Bianca took it, a hand flying to her mouth to try and contain her happiness.

"This is so great, Clare." Bianca said her eyes never leaving the photo.

"I just hope Eli thinks that too." Clare mumbled.

"You haven't told him?"

Clare shook her head. "I'm going to… tonight."

That afternoon…

Clare pushed away from her desk and stood up from the chair. It was time for lunch and Clare was ecstatic that Eli had called earlier inviting her to grab lunch with him. Eli worked only a few blocks away at CanadianBuzz, where he produces youtube videos. Clare had been there a few times with Eli to be in a few of his episodes and while she was there she could tell just how happy that job made Eli. Clare was surprised how well it played too.

The pregnant girl grabbed her purse and left her office, shutting the door behind her.

"Ms. Edwards!" The voice of the new assistant called.

Clare stopped and turned in the direction of the voice and she smiled slightly.

"…I have all the letters filled out and ready."

"Great, Alice, just give them to Steve and tell him to deliver them."

She nodded and turned away but quickly turned back. " Oh.. And congratulations."

Clare made a face, laughing slightly, "For what?" She asked confused.

"I saw you reading 'What to expect when you're expecting'… so I assumed that you were pregnant or at least thinking about it.."

Clare nodded now with a nod of her head. "Right... I am... So thank you."

"I think you'll be a lovely mother." Alice said with a happy expression on her face.

"Finger crossed." Clare laughed quietly, backing away.

Alice crossed her fingers and Clare turned around the right way. She got off the elevator and exited the building a few minutes later.

As she began her short walk to the quiet lunch restaurant Eli and her enjoyed she wondered if she should tell Eli at lunch. It would be just the two of them; she could show him the sonogram while they eat. Then they could talk about things since there is a lot to talk about. They could make decisions on the little things and most importantly she'd be able to see his reaction.

But as she got closer to the restaurant she decided she could wait for tonight, where they could be alone instead of in public. She'd call him later and ask him to come over if he already hadn't made his way over since most days he did without her asking him to.

Clare could practically smell her favourite chicken bean salad from where she stood at the cross walk just across the street from the restaurant. She waited for the small white man to appear on the sign before she crossed the street.

She wore a goofy grin on her face as she knew she'd see Eli in a matter of moments, but as she came to the front of the restaurant and could see through the window, her grin dropped and she felt like she was being crushed by a thousand rocks.

There he was, sitting at their favourite table, looking as handsome as ever, sitting with someone who wasn't her. A pretty girl, prettier than her, with blonde hair and a perfect little body with her perfect little lips pressed to his. Clare felt like all the air in her lungs escaped her and a tear fell down her face. She whipped it away quickly, turning around and walking back to her office, refusing to look back.

Later that night…

"What do you mean you didn't tell him!?" Bianca said through the phone.

"I mean actually what I said, I said I didn't tell him and that's it." Clare spat at her friend on the verge of tears.

"Clare, he's the father of your baby! You have to."

"No, I'm not telling him, not ever." Clare said, shaking her head as she struggled with the phone between her ear and shoulder and holding a glass full of water.

"Well why not?"

Then the tears fell from her sad blue eyes and the glass fell from her hand at the same time. The glass shattering as it landed on the floor, glass and water all over the place.

"What was that? Clare? Are you crying?"

Clare just sobbed harder and harder, but not because glass was on the floor and she ruined her favourite cup but because Eli broke her heart and he didn't even know it.

"I'm coming over." Bianca said quickly and the phone line went dead.

Clare slid her phone onto the counter of her kitchen and tried to calm her crying. She knew it was ridiculous to be this upset to the point where she could barely breathe from the amount of crying. They weren't together anyways, there wasn't supposed to be feelings, just sex, just fun between two friends. But here she was completely in love with him and pregnant with his child and everything was so messed up but he still didn't know anything was different.

The sad crying girl didn't know how much time passed by the time Bianca was opening her door, but she spent the entire time crying. And she spent every minute after that crying too, every minute until Bianca had lead her away from the glass to her room and left to clean up the mess Clare had made and returned to her bedroom.

By that time the tears stopped, there seemed to be nothing left in her to cry anymore. She just lay under her covers with sad, tired eyes as her best friend snuggled in next to her. Bianca didn't say anything and Clare didn't mind the silence, her head hurt from all the crying anyways. But she knew Bianca wanted to know, so staring up at her white ceiling she decided to speak up.

"You're right…" She said quietly, Bianca looked over at her. "I'm completely in love with him…"

Bianca smiled at her sadly knowing Clare wasn't finished speaking.

"And it took seeing him... kissing some other girl to realize that."


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