Pov jumps around quite a bit, sorry but lots to cover from different perspectives. Even though it's a fairly short chapter but remember this was supposed to be a one shot, it only got cut in half because tax season was crazy.

Anyway enjoy!

Ch. 2 Running From you and Running to You

(OWEN)

"You know," I pant breathlessly as Clare rolls off of me, "angry sex with you is more of a workout than football practice. Who knew behind that quiet, brainy girl there was such a wild animal in bed?"

"I'm pissed because the boy I want doesn't want me. Being so angry made the sex more athletic than usual," she replies rolling onto her back and fixing her dark wig.

"I wouldn't know what regular sex with you is like but angry sex with you is fun. Drew has no idea what he's missing," I comment and Clare looks over at me twisting her face. "Hey I have no complaints about being used until he comes around," I tell her and now she sits up very quickly.

"I'm using you," she gasps I guess she hadn't realized that before now. "I'm using you, what am I doing? I'm sorry Owen I didn't m…"

"Clare stop it's fine, I wasn't complaining. If you want Drew that badly why don't you just talk to him and confess your feelings?"

"I tried, I wanted to do that today only after seeing him with Zoe on his lap and the two of them kissing I told Drew the kiss was a mistake. Then I ran here for angry sex with you only I shouldn't be doing this. I'm running from my problems, breaking down again and hiding instead of facing them or dealing with them," Clare says jumping out of bed.

"Clare I d…" I try but she's already getting dressed and she's still rambling so she doesn't even hear me.

"I mean it did make me feel better and the sex was great but I shouldn't be doing this, I'm just making things worse and hurting you. I can't believe I actually stooped to using a boy I barely know for angry sex. Not that the sex wasn't good because it was awesome but you and I would never ever work we have nothing in common. And even if we did have something more in common than just you know really great angry sex I'm kind of hopelessly in love with Drew. Even if he doesn't want me I can't do this anymore. Sorry about everything Owen," she says grabbing her purse and fleeing from my room like she's on fire.

"I'm not," I say to the empty room before getting out of bed and getting dressed.

I have homework to do but I can't really concentrate on it, so I give up and drive to my parent's house. Tris is in the living room doing homework with Zig, Maya and a girl with dark hair that she's dyed partly blue.

"What are you doing home?" Tris asks.

"Nice to see you too little bro," I shoot back in a sarcastic and slightly offended voice.

"Grace my brother Owen," Tris introduces me to the new girl and I nod to her. "You never come home except to have mom do your laundry or to eat," Tris says.

"What's been going on at DeGrassi?" I question sitting in the armchair and ignoring his last comment.

"You want high school gossip?" Tris asks with a disbelieving tone.

"No not really but I've been entirely out of the loop, I didn't even know Bianca broke off the engagement and they're two of my best friends."

"Yeah poor Drew but now he's hooking up with Zoe gross!" Maya says.

"And Clare and Eli are history?" I question even though I've had sex with her twice now and I know that they are.

"Yeah such a tragedy I love them together," Tris says.

"Pretty sure they're done for good Clare doesn't seem the type to forgive cheating," Maya comments.

"And she's in love with someone else," I muse to myself but don't share this information.

Tris and Maya go on to tell me everything else that's happened since school began. I stay for dinner and so do all of Tristan's friends. After dinner I go back to my house and I'm up until nearly one doing homework. I only have one class today and when it's out I go to DeGrassi, it's almost lunch time and I get in after saying I'm here for my brother. Clare sees me when she gets out of class and she runs but I'm not here for her.

"Hey Adam," I call and he looks at me, "we need to talk."

(ADAM)

"I get that you're heartbroken after Bianca but Zoe really?" I scold my brother as he drives us home from school.

"She's just fun," Drew responds with a shrug.

"She's in grade ten and she's a bitch," I remind him.

"What happened to Clare? She wasn't in third period," Drew comments changing the subject.

"I have no idea she's ignoring my calls and texts. Still hurting after Eli cheated on her I guess, she'll do something a little crazy and then she'll come around, she always does," I reply as Drew parks at the house and we get out.

"How crazy?" My brother asks while we walk into the basement.

"Well she won't crash her car or anything but she yelled at Eli at Above the Dot once remember that? When Jake broke up with her and he had Jenna over Clare moved in with pot dealers for a couple of nights."

"She did what?!" Drew exclaims

"Yeah and almost got arrested," I tell him getting out my homework.

"She always seemed so…innocent," Drew says slowly as he looks into nowhere and I know some memory or other is playing in his mind.

"Fairly certain she hasn't been innocent since maybe ten with all that she's been through. She does everything she can to keep it together and then it boils over and she breaks down temporarily. I've tried to talking to her about, tried to convince her to talk to me or Alli instead of breaking down. Even when she did talk to Alli about Asher she still almost went over the edge by posting naked pictures of herself on his computer. She didn't b…"

"Wait there's naked pictures of Clare?" Drew interrupts me and I glower at him.

"No she deleted them my point is she has a way of temporarily breaking down and thinking she can handle things. She should be better in a couple of days, all back together like nothing happened."

"Yeah 'cause the kiss was a mistake," Drew mutters to himself but I hear him.

"What kiss?"

"Nothing," he replies hopping up.

"Andrew what kiss? Wait is that why she ran out of the dinner? You kissed her!"

"No she kissed me and then we were sort of making out," he admits.

"At the dinner?"

"I found her crying, she told me Eli cheated, I told her about Bianca and the next thing I know we're making out on the sofa. It was getting hot and then she ran out. I liked it Adam, a lot and not just because it was a kiss with a hot girl, I liked it because it was Clare."

"Holy crap you like my best friend."

"Yeah and she hates me, she ran out and didn't take my calls on Monday, she barely even looked at me at school."

"Maybe if you didn't have Zoe hanging off of you Clare might actually talk to you," I advise my brother.

"What's the use? Clare will never go for a guy like me, she goes for guys like Eli. You said yourself she has a way of temporarily breaking down, she kissed me out of spite for Eli. Just don't tell her I said anything about the kiss, I doubt she wants anyone to know it ever happened," Drew says leaning back on the sofa and starting his homework.

I know my brother very well, I know Zoe means nothing to him and yet he'll stay with her, it's not one of his better traits, it's something I wish he would stop but we all have our faults. I can also tell he really truly likes Clare, unrequited love is not something Drew is used to, I'm an expert at it now but I don't think it's ever been a problem for Drew. I have no idea how Clare feels about him but at least now I'm sure she's been avoiding me not because of Eli but because of the kiss with Drew.

Drew won't talk about the kiss with Clare or how he feels about her for the rest of the night. The next day at school Clare still won't look at him, she barely talks to me and anytime I even mention Drew's name she changes the subject.

"Hey Adam we need to talk," Owen calls to me when classes let out for lunch and I'm very surprised to see him at DeGrassi and that he wants to talk to me.

"What about?" I inquire cautiously. I know he won't throw me into a door again or anything but still Owen and I have never actually had a conversation.

"Come on let's grab some lunch," he says and I leave with him. "It's about Clare and Drew," he says after we've ordered pizza and sat down at the pizza place he took us to.

"How did you know?"

"She was at a party on the U of T campus Sunday evening and she was smashed. I had to stop a guy from taking her into a bedroom. I took her back to my place and let her sleep it off and when she was sober she finally told me about her kiss with Drew. When I got back to my apartment after classes yesterday she was in my room. She told me that Drew was kissing Zoe and that she really likes him but he doesn't want her."

"But he does want her," I tell him. "He told me last night, confessed about the kiss and told me he likes her but he thinks she'll never like him."

"We have to get the two of them together, you do realize that," Owen says.

"Call Drew, invite him out I'll get Clare to come over after school. We'll trap them in the basement together and make them talk," I reply just as the pizza comes.

"I'll call him after we eat just don't tell him we were talking or he might get suspicious."

(CLARE)

"Why don't you come do homework at my house," Adam suggests when we head to our lockers at the end of the day.

"I don't think…" I begin because I don't want to be near Drew right now. I don't want to be near him because when I'm near him I want to kiss him, and more.

"Drew won't be there he's got other plans," Adam interrupts me. "Unless you really are mad at me and that's why you won't come over," he says and I feel guilty.

"I'm not mad at you Adam I'm mad at myself," I confess.

"You want to talk about it?" Adam questions.

"No," I shake my head because talking about it means confessing that I like his brother, and what I did with Owen. "I'll hang out for a couple of hours I can do homework later," I tell him and Adam grins.

"Come on we have the car," he says as we close our lockers and leave school. "I'll go make us something to eat you can put on a movie," Adam tells me when we reach his house. Before I start combing through the hundreds of DVDs and Blu-Rays the Torres family owns I use the washroom. When I come out I find Drew not Adam in the basement. I try to run past him and go upstairs but the door to the first is locked.

"Adam open the door," I command banging on it.

"He won't you two need to talk," Owen says and I turn around to see him standing at the bottom of the stairs.

"We do not. And I can't believe you of all people are a part of this, I thought you liked having angry sex with me," I reply to Owen crossing my arms.

"You had sex with her?!" Drew snarls and rushes over sucker punching Owen in the jaw.

"Andrew!" I shriek in a shocked and scolding tone as I run down the stairs to Owen. The punch was not enough to knock Owen down but he did stumble a bit.

"I'm fine, I probably deserved it anyway," Owen says holding his jaw.

"No you didn't you saved me from that guy and I'm the one that wanted to have angry revenge sex."

"You ran out after kissing me and then went and had sex with Owen," Drew says in a voice that's a mix of an angry snarl, shock and hurt.

"That's not exactly what happened and you're the one with Zoe fawning all over you," I spit back at him as Owen runs out the sliding glass door. I try to follow but he shuts the door and puts a stick down to keep it from opening.

"Zoe came onto me and I was trying to forget my kiss with you," Drew replies.

"I didn't think it was that bad," I huff turning around and crossing my arms again.

"The problem isn't that it was bad the problem is it was good, really good and even though I still love Bianca, and a part of me will always love her, I've liked you for a long time. Then you ran out after we kissed and called it a mistake, I didn't think you'd run to Owen for angry revenge sex, I didn't think you'd ever run to anyone for angry revenge sex."

"That's not exactly what happened," I reply uncrossing my arms.

Drew takes my hand and turns me to look at him, "Then what did happen?" I look out the glass door to see Adam and Owen watching us, Drew looks over his shoulder and sees them too, keeping hold of my hand we walk into what was Dallas' part of the basement. The bed and everything are still down here but no one uses it anymore. We sit on the bed and I bite my lip, he still has hold of my hand but I like that he's holding my hand, I feel good with his touch.

"The kiss scared me because I've been falling for you since summer. But I was with Eli and you were with Bianca, and it was just a crush from a developing friendship. I really liked the kiss with you, so much that I wanted more, I was ready to have sex with you right then and there."

"So you ran out and had sex with Owen instead," Drew says before I can continue.

"That's not what happened," I snap pulling my hand back to cross my arms again.

"I ran out and after walking a few blocks went into a store to get some water. These guys were there and they invited me to a party at U of T and offered me a ride so I went with them. I wasn't exactly thinking clearly and since I didn't want to think about the kiss I started drinking. I don't even know what I was drinking but I got pretty drunk. This guy was trying to convince me to go into a bedroom and have sex with him. I was telling him no and he wasn't really listening and then Owen showed up. He punched the guy and took me to his apartment. I wasn't going to have sex with some guy I didn't know but I do know Owen, sort of anyway. I told him I wanted to have sex and he thought I was nuts, or really drunk which I was. But since I had wanted to have sex with you and ran out scared and was extremely angry at Eli for cheating I…I needed an outlet, and revenge and maybe try to forget about you. Owen said no, he said he wouldn't sleep with me while I was drunk but if I still wanted it when I was sober he was all mine. And when I woke up the next morning sober and still wanting angry sex we did. Then yesterday I tried to talk to you, I almost told you how I felt but I found Zoe kissing you, fawning over you and flirting with you and it hurt. It hurt so much I went back to Owen for another round of angry sex, then I felt terribly guilty for using him and stupid for running from my problems so I was avoiding you both."

"Zoe means nothing to me Clare. She was a distraction, a stupid one I know but I'm not that smart. I never thought you'd like me that way and Zoe did, and she stroked my ego so I went with it but kissing her was terrible, I don't even like her. I couldn't talk to Adam and you wouldn't talk to me and Zoe was an easy way to try and forget. I'm an idiot for being with a girl just because she strokes my ego I know.'

"I can't really throw stones I went to a party with guys I don't know and had sex with Owen twice," I say looking at him again and uncrossing my arms.

"So we both screwed up," Drew grins and it makes me grin. "I'm sorry Eli hurt you, I'm sorry I hurt you," Drew says taking my hand again.

"Me too, I'm sorry I ran instead of talking. So what happens now?"

"Now I ask you to be my girlfriend," he tells me turning toward me more and brushing his fingertips along my jawline and into my hair. "Clare Edwards will you be my girlfriend whom I will love, cherish and spoil. Will you take me to be your boyfriend even though I can be a complete idiot sometimes?"

"I will," I giggle and Drew grins before capturing my lips for a blissful kiss. "Only if you'll take me as your girlfriend even though I can be terribly stubborn and don't always think when I'm angry," I add and Drew simply responds by kissing me again. "I think maybe we should go out and tell the conspirators that we're dating now," I comment after several minutes when our lips finally part.

"Yeah probably," Drew smiles and we stand. He keeps hold of my hand and interlaces our fingers. "That was a dirty trick but it worked, we're dating now," Drew informs them.

"It's about damn time. But hey if you ever need to have angry sex again you know where to find me," Owen says in a joking tone.

Drew growls and begins to advance like he's going to punch Owen again. I pull Drew back to me and step in front of him, my other arm goes around his neck and I seize his lips. Giving my boyfriend a sizzling and passionate kiss.