Hey! Here's chapter 2. I don't own Degrassi. Enjoy!
It was a bright, Monday morning when Clare found herself pulling into a parking space at the library.
Today was some sort of student holiday, so she took advantage of the possibility of some extra hours at work. She made her way into the quiet store and walked into the back room to shed her jacket and put her purse into her employee cubby.
She was the first one to arrive, and she relished in the alone time it provided her. About an hour later her manager, Jodie walked in, Clare went to greet her, but stopped dead in her tracks when she saw that she wasn't alone.
Trailing in behind her, looking peeved as ever, was Eli Goldsworthy.
What. The. Hell.
"Clare! Great to see you in so early, this is actually perfect, as it looks like you'll be in charge of training our newest employee!"
Clare was shocked, and also a bit scared of the prospect of having to tell Eli Goldsworthy what to do...
Because he just lovesss authority.
"Uh.. O-okay, sounds fine.." Her whole face felt like it would burst into flames.
"Thanks a bunch Clare, now, I need to call in some new shipments, so I'll be in the back if you need me. You two have fun, alright?"
Finally, Eli spoke.
" Don't worry Jode, we'll have tons of fun, but relax, we'll keep it PG."
Jodie let out a modest laugh, and then proceeded to the back room.
What in the world was going on? Clare thought to herself. His sarcastic tone mixed with the innuendo left Clare all kinds of confused.
She finally met his eyes, and immediately wished she hadn't.
He smirked the devil's smirk, and then winked at her.
If Clare was red before, now she must have resembled a fire truck.
"Uh, okay, so why don't I show you how to clock in first?"
Eli, seemingly deciding to ignore her question, walked past Clare and proceeded to jump onto the counter of the register.
"Eh, maybe later, it's way too early in the morning for my cute self to absorb information, but you wouldn't happen to have anything to eat would ya?"
Clare couldn't believe her own ears.. was he always so.. full of himself?
"No actually, I don't.. but um, we should really get st-tarted.."
"Clare was it? I would love to, don't get me wrong.. but this machine can't run on an empty stomach. Tell you what, I'm gonna run out and get myself some grub, and you can explain to little miss Jodie that there was an emergency at home that I just had to attend to. Thanks, you're the greatest."
Clare most likely resembled a fish at this point. She didn't think her mouth could open any further.
"But, you.. you can't just leave!"
"Course I can, because you're not going to rat me out. Now if I were you I would close your mouth.. Unless of course, that's an invitation.."
Oh, and he was disgusting.
Without another glance at Clare, he jumped off the counter top, and was out the door before she could say another word.
What just happened?
Clare couldn't believe it.. he was just so.. rude. And to top it off, he thought he could do whatever he wanted. The question was, what the hell was he doing working here of all places? It just didn't make sense.
Carefully, she made her way to the back room. She knocked, and then opened it to reveal Jodie looking intently over some paper work.
"Um, Jodie?"
"Hey Clare, how are things going with our newest recruit?"
This would be tricky.. Should she just rat him out? It would sure as hell give her some of her dignity back. Eli had run over most of it a couple minutes ago..
Shit, who has she kidding? She was probably the most gutless person in the world. She would end up doing exactly as he wanted. Simply out of fear of retaliation.
"Well, you see Jodie, Eli.. he, uh, just received a very important phone call from.. his mom! And there was an emergency.. and.. he said he'd be back as soon as can.."
"Oh dear! That sounds terrible, well then. That's fine of course. Poor boy. First he's almost arrested, and now trouble at home.."
What?
"What! I.. I mean, he was almost arrested?"
Jodie started to vigorously nod her head before continuing. " Oh yes! It was just terrible. Apparently the poor child was accused of stealing a vehicle!Well I don't believe it for a second! Oh no, he seems just too sweet if you ask me. Well anyway, as part of his probation and community service hours, he is now working here. So lets try and make him feel right at home, I'm sure he's just so traumatized.."
Clare could not believe her ears. Was he actually making people believe that he was innocent? This was the first time Clare was hearing about Eli and a stolen car. But let's be real, who would have told her in the first place? She didn't exactly have throngs of friends calling her up every time a piece of juicy gossip started going around.
Well great, now she could add dangerous felon, and dirty liar to her 'words that describe Eli Goldsworthy' list.
Jodie snapped her back to the present.
"Did you hear me Clare?"
"I'm sorry, what was that?"
Jodie cleared her throat, " Just make sure you're extra nice to Mr. Goldsworthy, alright?" She said smiling. " It just looks like nothing is going right in the poor boys life."
As much as Clare wanted to start shaking the crap out of Jodie, she refrained. Instead, she smiled and nodded her head.
"Whatever you say Jodie."
"Good girl! Now what are you still doing standing here? Get your little self back out front and get to work."
As she walked out of the back room, Clare had one simple thought.
Kill. Me. Now.
Author's note/ Hello! I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Please review if you have the chance! I'd like to her your thoughts. Again, I don't own Degrassi, I just love me some Eli. Thanks for reading. :)