A/N: Enjoy!

After a few minutes if tearful kisses, a figure appeared in the stairwell. Clare and Drew looked up to see Bianca standing there watching with a very worried look. Sorry that she had interrupted their moment, she said,
"Sorry, I just... I was waiting for you guys to come back and when you didn't, i got worried..."
Truthfully, Bianca was expecting at the least to go up to the roof and see Drew looking down at the ground at his girlfriend who had plunged to her death on the concrete. But thank God that wasn't the case. Otherwise, she would have felt guilty for not chasing Clare up to the roof herself.
But there Drew and her were, holding one another in their arms with tearful eyes.
She had to ask.
"Were you just gonna...?", she began to ask Clare hesitantly. But she couldn't finish that question. How do you just ask someone if they were about to kill them self?
There was silence. Drew and Clare looked at each other hesitantly, knowing what Bianca was inquiring.
But she quickly piped up, "You know, it's really none of my business.. So, Never mind..." Clare was silent. So was Drew.

Bianca continued as she began to walk slowly toward them while looking directly at Clare, "But if you were.. I can relate. I've been there"
Clare finally looked up at Bianca as she approached her.
"I've tried ending it all, thinking it would be like some kind of...escape for me."
Clare looked at Bianca directly in the face, seeing the understanding and caring expression she wore. She had never seen this side of her. She'd only seen the side of her that treated Adam like crap and the side of her that had that conflict with Alli.
But for this side of her to come out, she must have really understood how Clare was feeling.

And the escape thing. She seemed to really understand that.

How has this whole thing with Alli's suicide affected Bianca, she couldn't help but wonder.
Bianca continued,
"But, it's not worth it. Trust me, it's really not."
Drew met Clare's eyes for her to see him nodding his head in agreement.

Bianca realized how this must have been affecting Drew, also.
"And all it does is hurt the people who love you. Even the people who barely know you... are affected by it."

Clare looked down, tears forming in her eyes realizing how right Bianca was.
Before she knew it, Bianca and Drew were both standing there with their arms around her while she cried every last tear she had yet to shed.

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Clare, Drew and Bianca sat at a small round table in the Dot. Clare looked down at the cup of coffee that Drew had ordered for her after she insisted she didn't want anything.
She couldn't believe what she had attempted at doing today. Was she crazy?
Probably.

Drew saw that Clare was upset with herself. She was silent, of course. But he just knew.
He knew Clare.
And even though he did not know her as the happy girl she used to be, this still wasn't her.
"Hey", he said softly, while taking her hand in his, "Don't beat yourself up about it."
Bianca piped up, "Yeah, we totally understand. Just...don't ever do that again, okay?" Bianca smiled softly at her.
Bianca's smile caused a small smile to spread on Clare's face, also. It was kind of strange seeing such a sincere smile on a bad girl.
She nodded and replied, "Trust me i won't".
Drew tightened his grasp on her hand.
He still couldn't believe how strongly he felt for this girl after knowing her just under a month.
Heck, their first kiss was only yesterday!
She just put him under this spell that he couldn't control. And she didn't even realize that she did it. All she knew was that he was the first real person she'd met in a while.
Why couldn't more guys be like him?, she thought. But it obviously didn't matter because he was all hers.
She smiled to herself at the thought.
He noticed this and wondered what she was thinking about. But before he could ask, the waiter came and plopped a couple of trays of food down on the table.
As Drew let go of Clare's hand he said to her, "You should eat something."
Clare sighed, while looking at the burger that was screaming her name, debating whether she should eat it or not. She was just so angry with herself, but mostly just shocked at her breakdown just a couple of hours ago.
"Yeah", Bianca added, "Everyone knows, fast food is comfort food"

Clare let out a weak laugh. She looked up at them hesitantly before picking up the burger and taking an extra large bite out of it for humor effect.
Bianca and Drew laughed and Clare smiled, beginning to come back to her usual flow again. Of course she wouldn't just forget about the pain that she had woken up to this morning, but who needs pain when your with people who care about you and make you feel happy?

They began joking and laughing about random stuff that came to mind. Drew showed the girls some funny videos on his phone. And they were just generally having a good time.

Clare and Bianca talked about hot actors from sappy chick flicks while Drew sat there pretending to care. Clare and Bianca really started connecting. They had even switched numbers and gotten into some pretty deep, personal conversations about their messed-up families.
Bianca made sure to stay clear of any conversation that could lead to Alli, though.

Around 3:00pm, they left the Dot and started to head home. But then Bianca mentioned that it'd be kind of weird of them to go straight home when they'd usually just be getting out of school at that time. So, in fear of their parents getting suspicious of them skipping school, they decided to hang out at the park for a bit.

Clare, Bianca and Drew were walking through the park, when Clare and Bianca saw an enpty set of swings, looked at each other and shouted, "Swingset!"
They both laughed and ran to each grab a swing, followed by ordering Drew to push them.

He mock-frustratedly sighed and got behind them and pushed.

Then him and Clare began getting all cutsie and flirty. Drew then began pushing just Clare as she said, "Higher, higher!", imitating a little kid. So Drew kept pushing her higher.
And higher.
And higher.
And-

CRASH

Drew accidently pushed too hard and the swing sent her flying to never-land...
And by that, I mean a huge leave pile a few feat away.

Drew and Bianca looked at each other with worried expressions before hurrying over to the leaf pile.

They saw a hand flare up above the leaves and heard a shout saying, "Im okay!" Drew then spotted his girlfriend and laughed seeing her hair filled with leaves.
He laughed, "Well you did say higher"

She rolled her eyes and laughed.

Then before Clare could get up, Drew ran too her and threw himself into the leaf-pile with her.

"You two are just too much", Bianca laughed while taking out ger phone to film the cute moment.

Drew grabbed his girlfriend and yelled "Tickle attack!"

"Ah, no!", Clare shrieked and began laughing uncontrollably as he tickled her. But the tickle attack slowly turned into a kiss attack as he kissed her face and her neck playfully while still attempting to tickle her.

Bianca stood in the sidelines, laughing while she continued recording the oblivious couple.
They're just so cute, she thought.

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