Lunch rolled around pretty quickly. I was walking down the hall towards the cafeteria and as I entered, I was startled by how many people were just walking around like it ain't shit, talking, and loudly if I might add. I looked around for a bit, hoping to find Adam. But since I couldn't, I shrugged and walked over to the lunch line.

As I came to a stop behind some guy in the lunch line, I heard some more footsteps behind me. I didn't really pay much mind to it until I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around, and was disappointed to who I was encountered with.

Clare.

"Hi Laila! I'm Clare. I'm sure you saw me in English class earlier today." She said, in a bubbly manner. She stuck her hand out and I shook it.

"Hey Clare." I said in a mono tone voice.

"I just thought I should introduce myself, you know, since your Adam's partner and well a friend of Adam's is a friend of mine!" She said.

Uhmmm no thanks. I'll just stick to Adam and Eli for now. I felt like saying, but held it in. I had a feeling that if I pissed her off, she wouldn't act so innocent. Something about the way she acted seemed fake.

The line scooted on up and we started getting our lunches.

"So Clare… where's Adam?" I asked.

"They're…." she stretched out, looking around to find them, "Ah! Right there!"

So pointed to the far right corner and my heart jumped. Adam and Eli were sitting and chatting. "Great, let's go." I said.

We walked on over to them, and they looked up.

"Well hellloooo there Clare. Sup Laila." Adam greeted, slouching in his chair.

"Heeey!" I said, a little sing-songy. I heard Clare giggle behind me and I fought the urge to roll my eyes.

We took our seats, and the whole time my heart was pounding out of my chest. I tried to act cool in front of Eli, and not like a total freak like usual. But I wasn't sure which type of girl he liked. We all ate and carried along quite well. And I would've enjoyed it if it wasn't for Clare.

I looked over to Eli for a second and immediately blushed and looked away, because he was looking at me like I was the most beautiful girl in the world. My mind raced to places it shouldn't race to if I didn't want my heart broken. What if he liked me? Does he think I'm cute? Does he like Clare? What if we went out? And… kissed? But my thoughts were broken by the sound of Clare.

"Laila…Laila?" I heard her call, and I came back to reality.

"Huh? I'm sorry, what?" I mumbled.

"Woooow. First day at Degrassi and you're already zoning out. Eh…Magic of this dumbass school." Adam observed. And I narrowed my eyes at him and let out a little chuckle.

"Yeah, anyways, I was asking you where you went to before here." Clare said.

"Oh, um, I've lived in America all my life. But my family moved here because of a, um, wrongdoing of mine. I do regret it. But it's not something I tell many people. Anyways, I went to a school called Washington High. It was an okay school I guess. I miss America and my friends back at home. But people here are pretty welcoming, so it's all good." I explained.

"What'd you do?" I heard a smooth voice ask… Eli. My heart pounded faster.

"Huh?" I asked. Stupid. God Dammit. Pay attention.

"You said you moved here because of a wrongdoing… what'd you do?" He asked, sitting up in his chair.

"It's um, uh…" I stuttered. "It's not really something I want to talk about …sorry."

"It's cool, I was just wondering." He said, leaning back into his chair. But I looked up into his eyes for a second, and he looked back into mine. He gave me a little smile, and I blushed and looked down.

Suddenly, I felt water spill all over my shirt. I gasped at the coldness of it and looked up. Clare… that bitch. She got up, "Oh my gosh! Laila, I'm so so sorry! My water bottle spilled! I'm sorry!"

I got up, "It's ok, I'll just go to the restroom, and uh try to dry off…" I said, and walked off. As soon as I was out of the cafeteria I looked back and saw her sitting back down in MY seat. Next to Eli. She scooched in and started talking and smiling and giggling. She was looking longingly at Eli. Worst part? Eli moved in closer to her, too.

You've gotta be kidding me. That fucking bitch. I huffed and walked over to the ladies room. I opened the door and jogged inside over to the mirrors.

Some of the water got in my hair, and my make up, but mostly my shirt and tie. Luckily, it was only water, and I was wearing black. Not very see-through. I grabbed some paper towels and dabbed off the most of it. I cleaned the most I could of it. I fixed up my make up, but most of it washed off because of the stupid water. I left the remaining of it on, but took the smudges away.

I let out a frustrated groan, and walked out. I stopped when I realized there was someone waiting for me.

Eli? I felt my heart pound again. He walked towards me and smirked, "Sorry, you took a while, thought I should come and check on you."

"Oh, thanks. I'm fine. It's just water." I giggled.

"Yeah, I know. But I hope you know, Clare didn't mean to do it. You seemed pretty mad when you walked out of there." He walked just a bit closer to me.

"No, no. Ha I'm okay, thanks." I mumbled.

"Okay," He replied, "… Can I ask you something?"

"Of course."

He opened his mouth, but before the words could come out, I saw a bouncy haired devil appear, "You guys, come on! Adam and I are waiting." Damn Clare and her peppiness.

Eli looked back at me and smiled, "C'mon."

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The bell rang and school was out. I couldn't believe that was just ONE day. What the hell can happen in a whole school year?

I was walking out of school when I felt a hand on my shoulder. I flipped around and before me was Eli.

"Oh, hey." I welcomed with a smile.

"Hey, so I was wondering if you wanted to come along with Adam, Clare, and I to the Dot…" He proposed.

"The Dot?" I asked, confused.

"It's a little restaurant down the street." He informed me.

"Oh, cool. Yeah, I'd love to come." I grinned. We walked on to his car until I remembered… I have a car.

"Oh shit. Eli, after the Dot, do you think you can um, drive me back here? My car is parked over there." I said, pointing to my car across the lot.

He opened the car door for me, "Yeah 'course."

"Thank you." He was so kind and cute and…. SNAP OUT OF IT DAMMIT. I sat down and he shut the door, going to the driver's seat and jumping in.

"Hey, Eli… What were you gonna ask me back in the hallway?" I asked. He looked somewhat nervous.

"Oh uh, forget it. It's nothing important." He stuttered a bit.

"C'mon you can tell me! I'm human friendly!" I giggled.

"No, I can't. Please just drop it?" He pleaded. I gave in, "Fiiiine."

"Adam and Clare should be here soon. In the meantime, what's up?" He smiled.

"Oohhh, not much. Chillin' in Canada. In a fucking hearse, with this freak of a dude... you know no big deal…" I joked, laughing.

"Laila, why would you say that?" He said, with a complete serious face. I thought I actually hurt his feelings, and was about to apologize when he busted up laughing. I giggled along, playfully punching his arm several times, which meant I had to stretch across and get closer to him,

"Ouch!" He sarcastically said as I "punched" him in the gut. He chuckled, and once I calmed down I realized how close we were to each other. We both looked into each other's eyes and just stayed like that for a while, my heart beating fast.

I don't know why, but I started leaning…closer…closer…aaannnnn- KNOCK KNOCK. I quickly jumped back to my seat. Coming back to reality. Damn.

Adam and Clare was standing outside my side of the car, knocking on the glass. Adam waved and I shyly waved back. I heard Eli unlock the car door and they got it. Clare didn't look too happy to sit in the back and I mentally laughed at her. But I still couldn't help but feel a bit awkward considering I've only known Eli for a day and I was about to kiss him right there.

It didn't take long to get to the Dot. It really was right down the street and it was kinda small. I didn't mind though. We all got out of the car and walked on over to the entrance. One step in Adam yelled, "AHHHH COLDDD! THANK GOD."

I rolled my eyes and smiled, as Eli and Clare laughed.

"You know I was actually thinking about getting a seat outside buuuut-"I started.

"No. Hell no." Adam stated.

I put my hands up in surrender and giggled. A waiter came up to us and gave us a seat. He gave us some menus and left. Silence fell over our table as we looked over the menus.

"So!" Eli yelled, making us all jump. Adam crumpled up some napkins and threw them at Eli.

Eli just laughed it off, "So what are you guys getting?"

"I'm probably gonna get a salad or something." Clare mumbled.

"I'm getting a cheeseburger." I said, grinning.

"I'm getting food." Adam said. Eli narrowed his eyes at him, "No way I thought you're gonna eat a hamster."

"You know, Eli, maybe I actually do have a craving that only hamsters can satisfy!" Adam defended himself, sitting up in his chair trying to look tough.

"Uh huh…" Eli laugh to himself and looked down.

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It was just me and Eli in the car now, he already dropped off Adam and Clare. He was taking me back to Degrassi because I left my car there. There was complete silence, except for the car's noise on the street. It wasn't a bad silence though. Not awkward.

Since we just dropped off Clare, the drive back to Degrassi would be a bit longer, so I had to talk to Eli if I didn't want it to actually become awkward.

"Hey, Eli, are you sure you can't tell me what you were going to ask me back there?" I questioned.

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure." He replied.

"Can you at least tell me why you can't?"

It took him a while to reply, "Too soon I guess."

Too soon… for what? I thought.

"Well alright then. But just know, I will find out one day!" I giggled.

"You sure will, Laila." He laughed. He pulled up to my car in the Degrassi student parking area. I opened the car door, got out and shut it. I turned back around and looked through the window that Eli was lowering.

I smiled, "Thanks for the ride, Eli."

"Well I wasn't going to let a pretty girl walk now would I?" He said with a really cute smirk. I blushed and looked down.

"I'll see you tomorrow." I said shyly, and backed away from the car.

He rolled the window back up and I gave him a quick wave before turning back to me car.

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I was lying down in my bed, at night. Staring up into the ceiling. Just thinking. The Dot was a real fun place to hang with friends. We already have a few inside jokes. But, what if the kiss happened in the car? Would the whole time at the Dot been uncomfortable? Would he have regretted it and say it was just in the heat of the moment? What was he about to ask me? I groaned and rolled over.

What the fuck was I supposed to do? Clare obviously hates me because she likes Eli and I happen to be attracting all his attention. It's only been a day! I can't imagine how this year will go…