Chapter 7
A/N we do NOT own degrassi...
"C'mon Korie! We need to get to The Dot!" Caley yelled at her sister.
"'Kay!" Korie said back, as she finished texting Eli to tell him they wouldn't be at lunch. They both raced to The Dot to meet Drew.
"Why couldn't he just text you his terms of the agreement of whatever?" Korie asked, out of breath.
"His mom took away his phone."
"Ugh. I hate running."
"Korie. You go in first, sit in a one-person table and be discreet!"
"O-kay! I can be discreet!"
"Sure."
Caley waited outside for Korie to get seated and then calmly walked inside. However, on the inside, her stomach churned and tumbled. She sat down across from Drew and ordered a hot chocolate.
"You know, I'm really not a bad guy, Caley."
"Yeah. 'Cause all good guys blackmail their brothers-"
"Exactly. My brother's what? He has a girlfriend, and it's not you. So, I'm doing this so the girl I love, Fiona, doesn't get hurt."
"Adam didn't explain it that way..."
"Adam? Adam barely told you anything about his life. He's been lying to you. And if he really loved you, he wouldn't still be dating Fiona." Caley's heart was crushed. Korie saw what was happening and reached for her phone.
Caley-
remember who ur speaking 2! this is drew! hed do anything 2 get back at adam! hes lying!
~Korie
Caley read it and sighed. Korie was right, what was she thinking trusting him? "That's not what we came here to discuss." she said in her most assertive tone.
"Yes. Here are my terms. One, you break up with Adam. Two, you date me. Three, you never mention this conversation to anyone. Four, you do not speak to Adam ever. If you don't follow these terms, I will tell Fiona about your and Adam's little 'get-together'." Caley thought about how she would feel dating this bastard. Letting him rule her life. How much she would miss Adam. How much she loved him. How much it would hurt him if Fiona found out. She knew her decision. "I'm sorry, Drew. I just can't accept your terms."
"Too bad. I was starting to think you were kinda cute." Drew raced out the door and into his car. Korie rushed over to Caley and asked her what happened. But Caley was just sitting there, feverishly typing away on her cell phone.
Adam-
Tell Fiona. now. or else drew will. quick! he's already on his way.
~Caley
C-
I cant hurt her like that.
-A
A-
ur gonna hurt her anyway.
C-
C-
fine.
-A
Caley sighed. Everything was okay now. Adam was all hers. They would finally be a couple. Finally.
"Fiona," Adam said to his girlfriend, "We... we can't... be together anymore. I'm sorry"
"What do you mean, Adam?" Fiona asked, shocked.
"Well, you said you didn't want anything serious-" Drew arrived out of breath and wheezing.
"Fiona. I have to tell you... Adam... cheated on you... with... Caley..." He coughed out.
"Adam! How could you? Just 'cause I didn't want something serious, didn't mean you could cheat on me!"
"It's gonna be okay." Drew comforted.
"Thanks Drew, that was so nice of you to do that." She walked away with Drew still comforting her.
Adam sighed. He knew he made the best choice.
The boys were supposed to arrive at 5:00. This gave the twins around 2 hours to finish the pizza and garlic bread. "How hard can pizza and garlic bread be?" Korie asked. Caley shrugged, "Judging us...it could be a disaster." the twins looked at each other, "Nah." Korie turned on the radio, "We always need music." And with that, they started to cook.
Everything was going great, Teenage Dream by, Katy Perry was on-which they both hated, but sang along with the lyrics anyway-until Caley just had to trip with the flour in her hands. Korie slowly turned, "Did you just throw flour at me?"
"I'm so sorry Korie! But, yeah..." Caley said, with a smirk on her face. Korie smiled an innocent smile-this couldn't mean anything good-and put her hand into the flour bag, grabbed a handful and threw it at her twin. "Korie!" Caley exclaimed,with a smile on her face. Korie frowned "Woops!" She smiled, "Silly me!" With that, a food fight started between the twins. Caley took one egg, and threw it directly at her sister's shirt. Her twin gasped, taking the handle to the water spout and aiming at her twin, drenching her with water.
Pretty soon, 5:00 rolled around, and the boys heard screaming coming from inside. Immediately, they opened the door, only to find Korie, drenched in egg and flour, and Caley, covered in water and flour. Both were screaming and finding whatever food item was around to throw at the other sister. Both girls turned toward each other and burst out laughing. "You look," Korie stopped to laugh, "so stupid Caley!"
"You do too!" Eventually their laughter turned into small giggles as they turned to see Adam and Eli watching them. "Uh..." Caley said, "Hi guys! How about we order pizza?" Korie nodded saying, "Hi Eli!" She looked at herself, "I'm going to go change." Caley nodded and the two ran upstairs.
When they came downstairs, Caley was wearing a long t-shirt and shorts and Korie was wearing a rainbow tank top, rainbow socks, and jeans. "You look gorgeous!" Adam said.
"Thanks!" Korie said. Caley just blushed a deep purple-ish red.
"Um... I was kinda talking to Caley, but you look good too..." Adam said, embarrassed.
DING-DONG! OPEN UP THE DOOR! the door rang
"I'll get it, it's probably the pizza." Korie said. As she left, Eli remarked "That's a weird doorbell!"
"Yeah, my dad recorded it. He didn't want our doorbell to be cliche." Caley explained.
"I see..." Eli said, weirded out.
As they ate their pizza, Korie and Eli kept talking about Rent, their favorite movie/play. Caley and Adam decided not to go to Rent and just stay at home because they had both had enough drama for the day.
"Bye!" Eli and Korie yelled as they waved to Adam and Caley.
"Bye! Have fun!"
"We will. Caley, I have my cell phone. So does Eli." Korie said as she walked out holding hands with Eli.
"'Kay." As soon as they left, Adam and Caley wandered upstairs to her room. As they plopped down on Caley's bed, she said "So you still never told me your secret. I told you mine."
"But I liked your secret so much better," Adam said, " Mine isn't... a happy secret."
"I don't care." Caley reassured.
"No. I don't want you to judge me. I've had too many judge me because of it. Drew for instance."
"I thought he was your brother..." Caley said, worried that she had somehow missed something.
"Stepbrother. That's why he doesn't look like me"
"Or act like you..." Caley said thinking of the cold-hearted person who had threatened to expose her and Adam's relationship.
"Yeah... Our parent's married when I was... different."
"How so?" Caley asked.
"Well I was-"
knock... knock... knock...
When Eli and Korie entered the theatre, they were amazed at the elegance of it. It was amazing.
"Wow." Eli said in awe. He looked at the paintings on the wall, the sculptures of Greek gods and goddesses. The entire amphitheater was beautiful.
"Have you ever been to a theatre Eli? They are really fancy, but this is the prettiest I've seen, except for the ones on Broadway, of course" Korie said.
"You've been to Broadway? It's so far away!" Eli said in amazement.
"Dude, I used to live there. Remember?" Korie asked.
"Oh. Yeah." Eli said as they took their seats. The lights dimmed. Eli put his arm around Korie. The red velvet curtains started to open. All of a sudden, the lights went on and a loud voice said "We're sorry everyone but this theatre is closed for a police search. Please find your way to an exit as soon as possible. Thank you."
"Man... I love Rent." Korie pouted.
"We'll go another time. Now, we should probably leave before they start gassing us." Eli joked. Korie nodded, shuffling out of the theatre, Eli following behind her.
"How 'bout we go somewhere else?" Eli suggested, "We don't want to interrupt Caley and Adam..." Korie laughed, "Let's go to the park," she said before linking arms with Eli and skipping out of the theatre, dragging Eli behind her.
When they got to the park, it was dark and they were alone. They sat on the swings and talked. "So..." Korie said awkwardly, "What do you want to talk about?"
"I dunno. I've only had two girlfriends before. One I got killed and the other went psycho on me and used me to make her parents hate her."
"Fun," Korie said, "Hmmm... what to do, what to do?"
"Have you had any other boyfriends. Not to be nosy, just seeing the competition." Korie smirked, "Nah," She looked at the moon, "Unless you count my pet pig, Jim. We 'dated' when I was three. My parents used to tell me how I 'stole' him from his old girlfriend, Jayde. Apparently I used to tell them about our dates and how he brought me flowers. Anyway, us circus people either love only circus people or don't, and they aren't really my type." Korie explained.
"So my only competition is a dirty pig..."
"He was not dirty!" Korie said, slightly offended, "But at least Jim gave me flowers." Korie joked.
"Are you sure you're over him?" Eli joked.
"Yes," Korie sighed, but turned to smile at Eli, "But the flowers smelled nice." She joked. Eli reached down and picked up some pretty, white, wildflowers and got down on one knee in front of Korie, kissed her hand, handed her the flowers, and got back on the swing, smiling. Korie laughed, "You are such a weirdo," She kissed his cheek, "But it's sweet."
"Why don't we go back to your house before it gets so dark we can't find the car." Eli suggested.
"Sure. Your car is," Korie broke off to yawn, "awesome by the way."
"Thanks. I love my car. And I hate Fitz."
"Your car is awesome," She yawned again, "Even if it is a Hearse." They both walked to the car and got in.
When Caley got to the door, there was a large package on the doorstep addressed to Caley and Korie Afia. Adam helped her lift it up to their room. "I'll open it when she's here." Caley said, not wanting Korie to miss out on this huge box.
"Good idea." Adam said, approvingly.
"So... where were we?" Caley said trying to get back to their conversation.
"Um... we were talking about who was... going to clean up the mess in the kitchen." He started to get up but Caley pushed him back down.
"Not so fast... we were talking about your secret..."
"Really?"
"Really. Now tell me. Please?"
"Fine... I'm a female to male transgender." Adam mumbled.
"What?" Caley asked, "Louder!" Adam sighed. "I'm a female to male transgender. I was born a girl and my parents named me Gracie. But I was always a boy inside so I switched schools and became Adam Torres. The kids at my old school found out and I switched. Now everyone here knew except you guys, 'cause you were new. I still like girls, and it's not lesbian because I'm a guy inside."
"'Ello people! We are home!" Korie announced from downstairs, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes from falling asleep on the car ride home.
"It's okay Adam. I still like you." Caley kissed Adam quickly before heading downstairs to greet her sister and Eli.
"You guys are home early!" Caley said, surprised.
"The theatre closed down for a police search. Eli and I went to the park," Korie said before yawning and falling on the couch, "So, what's new?"
"Nothin' much. I think it's bedtime, Korie. Guys, I think you should get some beauty sleep too."
"Sure. I'll drive you home" Eli told Adam.
"Why?" Korie whined, "I'm bored, no offense Caley, but its just the two of us and... I'm not sure where I'm going with this... I'm tired!" Korie exclaimed.
"Sorry, guys. She gets like this when she's tired. She doesn't make sense.
"I am not! I want a vanilla cupcake!" Korie said, rubbing her eyes. The guys smiled and left, leaving Caley to help Korie up the stairs. "Caley... you're hiding something..." Korie said.
"It's nothing. I'll tell you in the morning. There's a package from us but we'll open that up tomorrow too. It's a Saturday tomorrow, so you can sleep late."
"Fine..." Korie frowned, "Fame" rang through the air. Korie flipped open her phone and smiled, "Well I'm sleeping. G'night Caley!"
"Wait! Korie!" Caley ran to her sister and pointed her in the right direction, "Your bed is this way, remember?"
"Right! Silly me!" Korie exclaimed, "You know what I like?"
"What?" Caley asked, just hoping her sister would get to bed.
"Flowers..." Korie said before closing her eyes. Caley smiled and closed her eyes. Soon they were fast asleep...
A/N Yay! Eli and Korie with flowers! Caley and Adam with no more secrets! But, what is in the package? Hmmm... Please Review! Send us your ideas! Send us your comments! Send us anything except hateful messages-or chocolate cupcakes! :)
