Celest sat on the steps of degrassi listening to music. She wondered about the secret of admire who she was suppose to meet this morning. Since Adrian's been sick Celest had been late. She hated the fact that missed him, it sucked she was actually hopping for someone specific. Clare walked down the steps and sat next to the brunette. She tapped her shoulder and Celest looked up.

"Hey clare-bear...", celest said smiling.

"Why does everyone call me that?", Clare said.

"It ryhmes and it's the first thing that comes to mind.", she said smiling.

"Did you hear about Adam flirting with Bianca?", Clare said taking out her lunch.

Celest's grey eyes became sad as she looked down. Forcing herself to laugh and listen to Clare talk. She listened but found herself drifting. After awhile celest made an excuse to leave.

"I'm gonna call you later okay?", celest said grabbing her bag.

Celest rushed back to her locker and opened it and pulled out one of her notebooks and tore the front page out. She crumbled it and threw it into her bag. Celest sat down on the floor, and fumbled with her phone. She took in a deep breath and sighed peacefully. She got up and picked up her messenger bag. She closed her her bag and walked as she walked down the hall she saw Eli and Adam laughing. She walked past as if he never existed to her.

"Hey celest!", adam said.

"Don't talk to me...", she said walking past him.

"Talk about a cold shoulder...", Eli joked.

"Shut up eli!", adam said walking off.

Eli shrugged his shoulders and followed Adam as he walked outside. They found Clare going over homework while she ate lunch.

"Hey guys.", clare said.

"Do you know what's wrong with Celest?", Adam asked while sitting down.

"She found out about you flirting with Bianca.", Clare said looking down.

"What? Oh man!", adam yelled.

"So you didn't mean to flirt with Bianca...?", Eli asked.

"No I was, but...", he said sighing and laying back.

Celest walked to the front office to pay for the next week of daycare.

"May I help you?", a woman said.

"Um, yea I'm here to pay for daycare for next week.", she said pulling her wallet out.

"Oh yes...hmm, that's weird.", the one said looking at the computer.

"What's wrong?", Celest said.

"It the computer isn't allowing me to input a payment for the daycare...hold on for a second.", she said walking to the back.

Celest stood there attempting to look at the computer to no office worker got up and went to grab some flyer's and pamphlets. She walked back over and handed them to Celest.

"What are these?", celest asked.

"These are flyer's for nearby daycare services.", the woman said smiling.

"I don't need a new daycare I need to know why I can't pay for this one!", Celest said while raising her voice.

"It seems that the degrassi daycare is temporarily suspended to awaiting a board meeting to discuss it's continuity.", she tried to explain to the teen.

"I'm not understanding...", celest said putting her head down.

"Well it's pretty clear...some parents don't want the program to be here.", she said with a smile.

Celest rolled her eyes and grabbed the papers. She walked to the bathroom and stuffed them in the trash. It was in the bathroom she saw it. I flyer, the one thing that can make her life completely unbearable. 'Support pep-squad! Meeting next Friday for the pep-squad vs. daycare debate.' it read. The grey eyed mother's face turned red with frustration. She pulled the flyer down and left the bathroom and went to her literature class. She sat in her seat and slammed her head on the desk.

"Celest...look clare told me what she said and...what's wrong?", adam said turning around.

"They may get rid of the daycare...", Celest said in an almost monotone voice muffled with her own arms.

"Oh wow...but what would they do with the extra money and space?", he asked.

"Pep-squad related stuff", she said never looking up.

She finally looked up and a tear rolled down her cheek. Celest the girl who prided herself on controlling her emotions was now falling apart by the seams.

"I don't know what I'm going to do...the only reason I chose to come here was because of the damn daycare program, if they get rid of it for something as stupid as pep-squad I don't know what I'm going to do!", she said.

"What about your mom?", Adam asked.

"Her work is sporadic I could never plan my schedule around her...", she said looking down.

While they talked Clare and Eli walked in seeing Celest crying with her head down. Eli looked at Adam and mouthed 'what's wrong?'. Adam gently pulled the paper from under Celest's arms and handed it to Clare. They read it and looked up.

"This is wrong!", clare said.

"Yea this is totally screwed up...doesn't the pep-squad have like fundraisers for this kind of stuff who steals from teen mothers it's sick.", Eli said in a jokingly tone.

"Eli!", Clare said as Celest looked up with daggers in her eyes.

"Sorry to soon I get it another time.", he said sitting down.

"I'm not standing for this...", Celest said sitting up.

"What are gonna do?", Clare asked.

Celest leaned back and pulled out her note book. She looked down and wrote for the other three to see. 'wait and see.', then she pointed up to the teacher who had begun teaching. Her said face had began to harden as she soon realized she was stressing over Adam when she had a new enemy to worry about. Obviously there was someone out there who was determined to take away something important to her and this was happening over her dead body.


AN: Hey I'm back this is what happens when school gets hectic...anyway I promise up-date's from now on my break is now over! Seriously college sucks.

Anyway if you were waiting for this chapter sorry for the wait...if you just stumbled on to this story then welcome and enjoy.

To clear up the biggest confusion Zane is not the biological father of Celest's child, he is what you would consider the adoptive father. The real father will make an appearance soon...so wait for that chapter.