Author's Note: Thanks for all the reviews! Please, please, please keep reviewing because I am totally addicted! I'm still tyring to figure out the reply to reviews thing so if I'm supposed to respond to your review and I don't than I'm sorry! By the way Adam is a boy and hasn't had surgery but I will tackle the whole swimming issue in a latter chapter. I hope you guys like it!

Clare's POV

"I can't believe this! We don't have rain for weeks and then we come to the beach and it pours!" Ali whined. The five of us had decided to walk to the boardwalk for dinner but it started pouring the moment we got there. We were all huddle under the small overhang of a closed coffee shop. All the stores were closing and there was nowhere to get out of the rain.

"Adam, can you call your parents and ask them to pick us up?" I asked. Ali's whining was not going to help us.

"I would if I had my cell phone. I'm guessing none of you guys brought yours," he replied. All of us shook our heads. I looked up at the sky, but the rain showed no signs of letting up. Ali used this pathetic moment to move closer to Drew, who wrapped his arms around her. Adam made gagging noises.

"You're just jealous," Drew hissed. This shut Adam up. I shivered, feeling completely soaked, inside and out. Eli sighed, rolled his eyes and took off his leather jacket.

"Here," he said offering it to me. I took one look at the jacket and shook my head.

"No way," I said stubbornly. He looked down at the jacket and back at me. He was completely clueless.

"Why not? It's just a jacket," he said. He began to understand and that stupid smirk of his came back.

"Do I look like the silly little girls in movies?" I asked giving him the meanest glare I could muster. Granted, I wasn't very good at looking mean.

"Jesus, Clare, It's just a stupid jacket. You look like you're freezing," he said mockingly. I was cold, and it was tempting but I knew he was going to hold it against me for the rest of my life.

"Not happening," I said. I shivered again and Eli smirked yet again. I wanted nothing more than to wipe that arrogant, haughty, overconfident and completely heart-wrenching smirk off his face. Eli shrugged and started to put his jacket back on in slow motion.

"Your loss," she said. Screw it, I thought and grabbed the jacket from his hands and threw it over my shoulders. He smirked.

"You guys make me sick," Adam said in disgust. Ali gave me a strange look and Drew looked downright confused. Eli's smirk just grew bigger.

"Hey Clare," he whispered, mocking me further and moving his body even close to mine. I crossed my arms, but made no response. "You're wearing my jacket." I smacked his arm as hard as I could.

"Well unless you guys have any genius ideas, it looks like we're going to have to run back through the rain," I said. I don't think I could have lasted another second, crowed in the tight space. Everyone's faces dropped, especially Ali's.

"Why don't some of you go back and come back with a car for the rest of us?" Ali asked. No one even bothered to respond. Either we all went or we all stayed here, getting more impatient by the second.

"I say we all go," Adam said. We all nodded except for Ali, who just pouted. Drew noticed and was about to give in, when Adam grabbed his arm and Ali's and pulled them into the rain.

"It's so wet!" Ali screamed. Adam gestured at us to follow him and Eli and I cracked up. He took my hand in his and pulled me into the rain too. We all sprinted to the beach, screaming with laughter. No one could remember why we were doing this or why it was so funny, but it just was. Eli and I ran ahead from the rest and found a life guard chair that was still upright. We ducked underneath it hoping to catch our breathe for a moment. I hadn't realized how small the space under the chair was until I noticed how close my body was to Eli's.

I wanted to move away or run back into the rain but my feet were glued to ground. His eyes were locked on mine and it was if he was searching for something. I froze with panic when I realized his lips and mine were less than an inch apart. I wanted to close that gap so badly but I couldn't move. I opened my mouth to speak but for once I could find no words. His hand reached up to my face and I could hear my breath hitch. He gently pushed a strand of my wet hair out of my face. We heard Ali's shrieking coming closer and both of us fell out of the moment, crashing back into reality. I wasn't relieved, as I had hoped, but disappointed. His smirk came back and I felt myself melt. Then he grabbed me and pulled me into the rain and I was just as annoyed as I had been before.

Except now I was annoyed and confused.

Holly J's POV

"I'm completely soaked," Fiona moaned. We had been shopping on the boardwalk and got caught in the rain.

"I can relate," I snapped. I felt guilty immediately after I said it. She didn't deserve my bad attitude, but seeing Declan again brought back all these bad feelings. It also made me think about Sav who I had left behind at Degrassi. He was doing an internship at some engineering company over Spring Break. Why did boys always have to cause problems for me?

"Well, call first shower!" Fiona yelled, running towards the bathroom.

"No fair!" I called after her. There were other showers in the house but there was no way I was using Fiona's parent's bathroom, or even worse, Declan's. I walked into our bedroom and began to undress.

"Hey Fiona, can I borrow-" Declan walked into the room just as I was only in my soaking wet and completely see-through white tank top and my underwear. "Oh, shit, sorry." He said closing the door again. I threw on a t-shirt and shorts and fast as I could and yelled that he could come back in. Mentally, I wanted to shoot myself. Being in the same house as him for two weeks was not going to be easy.

"Sorry about that," I mumbled. I could feel my face growing red from embarrassment. Why did this have to happen to me?

"Um, yeah, I probably should have knocked," he said. I really wanted to crawl under a rock. Or hit myself on the head with one.

"Listen, I think-" We both said at the same time. I laughed nervously and gestured for him to go first.

"I was thinking, and I think that it's probably best if we try to be friends. You know, for Fiona's sake," he said, bending his head to the bathroom door. We could hear Fiona singing some Katy Perry song, way off key.

"I was thinking the same thing." I tried to smile but it came out like an awkward grin. He sighed with relief.

"Good," he said. "I just needed to borrow Fiona's phone charger." I pulled her charger out of the wall socket and handed it to him. When his hand accidently touched mine I swooned. He gave me a strange wave and left the room.

How was I ever going to be able to survive this?

Ali's POV

"What?" I screamed, practically at the top of my lungs. Clare shushed me and tried to get me to calm down. "Don't try to shush me Clare Edwards! And I will not calm down!" Clare rolled her eyes at my dramatics.

"Technically nothing happened!" Clare whisper-shouted. Yeah right, nothing happened! How could she not see how big of a deal this was!

"Yeah, but something almost happened! He obviously likes you," I said.

"Then why didn't he kiss me?" she asked biting her nails. It was an old nervous habit of hers.

"I don't know, because he's scared? No offense Clare but you're kind of hard to please sometimes," I said. She scoffed and threw a pillow at me.

"And I still have to figure out some sort of revenge for the ocean thing," she added. This girl was way over her head in Eli.

"Better think fast."