Hey guys so I've posted links to the outfits for the girls for the dance even though the dance is a few chapters away I just wanted to put the outfits up now.
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Disclaimer: I don't own Degrassi or any of its characters.
Eli's POV
I woke up and tried to stretch my arms out but then I noticed my arms were wrapped tightly around Clare. I was slightly confused because I remember turning away from her last night after kissing her on the cheek. I poked my head up and looked at the clock hanging on the wall and saw it was 9:39am. I then looked around at everyone else and saw I was the first one up, I also saw that Adam was holding Alli so tight it's like she'd slip away if he let go. I chuckled at the thought and layed back down tightening my grip on Clare and staring at the ceiling. After a few more minutes she started to stir and when she tried to stretch she looked down and noticed my arms. I closed my eyes pretending to be asleep and she tried to break free but I tightened my grip again.
"Elijah I know you're awake." She giggled.
"Don't call me Elijah you know the conciquence." I told her letting her go and tickling her. She was laughing so hard I thought for sure everyone else would wake up but the only one who did was Alli.
"Eli let her go." Alli said laughing. I let go and sat up helping Clare sit up too while she was still laughing. Alli smiled at us shaking her head until she noticed Adam's arms.
"How did this happen?" She asked mostly to herself confused.
"I don't know you tell us." Clare said crossing her eyes and raising a brow.
"I don't know." She said looking at the clock. She then pried his hands off her and sat up stretching. Adam then woke up and sat up looking around and rubbing his eyes.
"Wow Adam I almost had to call the jaws of life to get up." Alli said laughing which made him blush. I chuckled but received a glare from Clare.
"That would have been a good idea when I was trying to get up, don't ya think Eli?" She said raising both her eyebrows and staring at me.
"You know you loved waking up in my arms." I said smirking at her which caused her to blush a deep red.
"You wish." She said trying to hide her blush.
"The blush on your face says different!" Adam called out from the couch.
"Morning." Imogen said sitting up and staring at us all. I didn't even know she was up.
"Oh hey." Clare said smiling. A few minutes later Bianca and Jake woke up and sat up rubbing their eyes.
"Well since Drew is the last one up we should do somthing to him." Adam said getting up and going to the kitchen coming out with a can of whip cream.
"Kinda childish don't you think?" Jake asked, while Adam shrugged.
"Well why not?" He said giving me the can.
"Clare you can do the honors." I said handing it to her, she smiled and took it out of my hand and walked right up near Drew.
"What should I do?" She asked looking at us for suggestions.
"Draw a beard." Bianca said giggling.
"Adam get a cherry out of your fridge." I told him watching as he ran to the kitchen and back in a few minutes. How did I know he had cherrys, you ask. Adam's favorite food is cherrys he always has some, in his lunch box, movie night, everywhere.
"Clare put it on his nose I'm gonna get the camera." Adam said walking upstairs. Once he was back down stairs Clare started shaking the can and was just about to spray it when,
"DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!" Drew yelled making everyone jump but mostly Clare who landed on top of me.
"Hi." I said smirking as she stood up and blushed.
"Sorry." She whispered helping me up off the floor.
"It's ok." I said then looked at Drew.
"How long have you been up?" Jake asked looking at him wide eyed still in shock of his outburst.
"Since Bianca got out of my arms." He said laughing. "I scared the crap out of you guys, you should have seen the looks on your faces." He said in hysterics. Soon we were all laughing pretty hard but stopped when Drew stopped.
"So what should we do today?" Alli asked from her spot on the couch.
"Wanna go to the mall?" Drew asked.
"Sure." We all agreed. After we ate breakfast we all agreed to go home and 'freshen up' as Alli called it and meet at the mall at 2:30. Once I was home I took a quick shower and changed noticing it was about 2:00, before heading over to Clare's house.
"Hey Eli." Clare greeted me while gesturing me inside. I walked inside and took off my shoes before following her upstairs into her bedroom. I sat on her bed and faced her while she sat at her desk.
"What's wrong, you can sit over here I don't bite." I said laughing and noticing a light pink blush cover her cheeks.
"I'm good over here." She said motioning at the area she was sitting at.
"Wanna play truth or dare."
"Sure."
"One pass I'll start, truth or dare?" I asked thinking of the dare or question I'd give her.
"Truth." She said after a few moments.
"Who do you like?" I asked after she avoided it last night.
"Pass." She said giggling.
"Come on Clare Bear." I said in a baby voice.
"I skipped it last night and I'll skip it now." She said laughing and crossing her arms. "Truth or dare?" She asked with a smirk.
"Truth." I said smirking back.
"Who do you like?" She said smiling knowing I'd pass too.
"Pass." I said looking out the window. "Truth or dare?"
"Dare."
"I dare you to tell me who you like." I said knowing she'd have some excuse.
"Ok that is not fair." She said shaking her head.
"You already used your pass." I said smirking, again.
"Ok fine I like-" Was all she said when we were interuppted by her mom.
"Eli, Clare I'll take you to the mall now!" She called from downstairs making Clare jump up and race to the door.
"Thank god!" She shouted running down the stairs and putting on her flats. I chuckled at her happiness and put my converse on. We both walked out to the car and sat in the back. Once we got to the mall we saw Alli and Bianca laughing outside the food court. Clare and I went to join them on the bench and we all started talking about random things until Adam and Drew came and started talking about the dance and all that sort of thing. Finally Jake and Imogen got out of Jake's dad's black truck and walked over to us.
"Ready?" Jake asked.
"Yup." We all replied while getting up and walking inside.
Clare's POV
Surprisingly my mom gave me $100 to shop with which never happens so she must have been in a good mood or somthing. Alli insisted that all the girls go dress shopping while the boys shopped for video games and things like that. Which also meant being dragged around a store by Alli and Bianca making me try on dress after dress until I looked just perfect.
"Guy's we don't even know the theme of the dance yet." I told them after trying on my 3rd dress.
"So what Sav said it was gonna be a formal dance and why not be prepared so it's not last minute." Alli said throwing another dress at me.
"Ok ok jeez." I said trying on a short white and blue flowery strapless dress. "Not for me but I think it would look good on you Imogen." I said giving it to her and trying on a light blue strapless dress with sequins all over the top and a small bow on the waist. I liked it and I'm sure Alli did too by the way she shreiked.
"Clare, you have to get that it is absolutly perfect on you." Alli shreiked, Imogen and Bianca both looked at me and smiled. Imogen then looked back in the mirror at the dress she was wearing and turned toward us.
"What do you think?" She asked folding her hands in front of her and swaying from side to side.
"You look really nice." I said smiling.
"I love it." Bianca said while Alli nodded in approval. Eventually Alli settled on a strapless bright orange dress with sparkels all over and a small silver gem on the top. While Bianca decided on a dark magenta strapless dress with sequins all over the top. Alli then insisted we look at shoes so after about another hour we all picked simple heels except Imogen who picked white sandles. Finally we got to leave and we walked outside the store and to the food court where we saw the guys talking and stuffing their faces. We lugged out bags over to them and pulled up four more chairs.
"Hey." Alli said smiling and taking a sip of Adam's soda. She always did this to him because he always did it to her so they shared everything.
"It's about freaking time!" Drew said eating a fry and staring at us all like we head 3 heads.
"We had to dress shop." Bianca said smiling and taking a fry.
"Do we get a sneak peak?" Jake asked taking a bite of his pizza.
"Nope." Imogen said putting her head on his shoulder.
"Not even a little one?" Eli asked giving me puppy dog eyes.
"Not happening." I said taking a fry from his plate and popping it into my mouth.
"Hey isn't that Fitz?" Alli said pointing toward the front doors where we all looked and saw the one and only Fitz talking to his friends who he high fived then they left. Except Fitz. We didn't exactly like Fitz becuase last year he picked on Adam all the time for absolutly no reason so Eli,Jake,and Drew got into a big fight with him and got detention for a week. Then a few weeks later Fitz hit on Alli, Bianca, and I just to get on everyone's nerves. It worked.
"Yeah, I haven't seen him in a few months." Jake said clenching his hands into fists. I looked at Eli and noticed his hands were clutching the table so hard his knuckles were turning white. Drew looked about ready to charge him. Adam surprisingly looked very calm.
"Ok guys calm down." I said putting my hand over Eli's causing him to let go of the table.
"After everything he did last year I can't just calm down." Eli hissed next to me squirming in his seat.
"Try, he's coming over." I said while everyone shut up and waited for him to come over to us. Once he finally got over he winked at me and smiled.
"Clare, long time no see, huh?" He said putting his hand over mine.
"Watch it." Drew seethed. I quickly removed my hand from under Fitz's and he frowned.
"You watch it Torres." He said pointing at Drew angirly. "So Clare that dance everyone is talking about for next week, wanna be my date?" He asked brushing the hair on my cheek behind my ear and keeping his hand cupping my cheek. Jake growled at him and stood up.
"No thanks Fitz." I said swatting his hand away and looking at Alli and giving her a look saying 'help me'. She smacked Eli on the shoulder and told him to do somthing.
"Why not?" Fitz asked mocking hurt.
"I-" Was all I said before Adam stepped in.
"Look jack-ass she just can't go with you, leave her alone." Adam said standing up.
"And why is that, does she already have a date?" He asked with amusment on his face.
"Yeah." Eli said causing everyone to look at him in shock. "She's going with me." Eli said standing up also, soon we were all standing up and looking at eachother.
"Really?" Fitz asked looking at me.
"Yes, we should get going, nice talking to you Fitz." I said walking toward the door.
"This isn't over Goldsworthy." I heard Fitz say to Eli as we were walking out the door with our bags in hand.
"Wait are you really going to the dance together?" Jake asked looking at us confused.
"We are now." Eli said giving me a apologetic look.
"Yeah." I said feeling the blush coming to my cheeks.
"Well alright then." Alli said laughing. Soon our rides came and we all went home. As soon as I got home I ran into my room and told Darcy everything.
"Aww he so likes you Clare Bear." She said smiling. "Show me the dress." She said noticing the bag on the floor. I pulled out the dress and held it up for her and she smiled and nodded approvingly. "Perfect." She said smiling and going back to texting. A few hours later Darcy's friend came and picked her up for a sleep over. So I went back to my room and hung my dress up and stared at it for a while wondering if Eli would like it. It was about 11 when I heard somthing hitting my window. I slowly walked over and opened it to reveal Eli.
"What are you doing here?" I called down to him and saw him shrug.
"Open the door." He said turning to walk to my front door. I ran downstairs and opened the door pulling him inside and up to my room. "Hi Eli would have worked too." He said smirking and sitting on my bed.
"Shh." I said sitting next to him and turning my light on. "Now what are you doing here?" I asked again.
"Just got bored at home wanted to hang with my date." He said putting emphasis on the date part.
"Ok date what should we do?" I asked.
"We never finished our game." He stated laying back on my bed.
"No way." I said laying next to him.
"Come on." He said with a pouty face.
"No." I said then I remembered my dress was hanging right behind him, I didn't want him to see it yet so I thought quick. I shut the light off and ran and grabbed my dress and threw it in my closet. The light turned on behind me and I turned to see Eli staring at me with confusment and amusment.
"What are you hiding Edwards." He said standing and walking over so he was right in front of me.
"My dress." I said pushing him backwards until he eventually fell back on the bed. "Eli I think you should probably get home before my parents catch you." I said walking to my door and opening it.
"Come on Clare let's have a sleep over." He said like a girl jumping on my bed. I shook my head and smiled.
"Fine." I said closing the door and turning the light off. I layed down on the bed next to Eli and pulled the blankets over me. "You have to be gone by 9:00am sharp." I told him sighing.
"Fine." He said wrapping his arm around me and pulling me closer. I snuggled closer to him before closing my eyes and falling asleep. I found myself dreaming of Eli and I dancing under the stars swaying to the music when eventually my mothers voice woke me up.
"Clare time to get ready for church." She said knocking on my door, I opened my eyes to see that Eli was gone.
"Okay." I called out. I looked at my dresser and saw a note with my name on it.
Clare
I woke up around 7:00 so I just decided to leave you this note
for when you wake up without me. Did I ever tell you, you look
cute when you sleep.
-Eli
I smiled and blushed while changing into my church dress and going downstairs.
This was a longer chapter then I expected but I enjoyed writing it. I hope you enjoyed reading it. Like I said the dresses are on my profile.
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