Exclaimer: I still own nothing.

A/N: So, my updates will hopefully becoming more frequently (maybe multiple a day) from now on, due to U Don't Know giving me mad scientist ideas on all fronts. All I'll say is Kallie's dad may or may not be a redhead… =x

Timeline: After Cry Me A River/Dirt Off Your Shoulder


The next few days passed almost too quickly, as if they had intentionally been shortened to contrast Kallie's first two days, which had seemed all but endless. Of course, even though she'd been at Degrassi less than a week, she knew by now the different between short and uneventful; the previous days had been proof to that. As if Adam being called a tranny over Degrassi's airwaves hadn't been enough (and she still held a grudge against Dave for that, even if Adam had eventually forgiven him), Clare had also come practically begging Kallie to talk to Katie and get her a second chance to prove herself, though the athlete could hardly be called more than Kallie's acquaintance. Then of course, to top it all off, the crazy chick- also known as Imogen- somehow weaselled her way into Eli's life and convinced him to stop taking his medication.

It hadn't been all bad though, for one thing, she became much closer to Katie, Adam, and Fiona those days, and if Eli was more himself she was sure he would have called it 'wizardry!'. It wasn't lost on her that it was unlikely at best for anyone to befriend three people who were so different, and nearly impossible to actually get them to talk and become more or less friends. However, she did, and she had.

Kallie meandered into the Zen Garden, smiling at Adam whom had already arrived. It had quickly become a routine for she and Adam to meet during their spares along with Eli, but due to recent events his place had been taken by Fiona and Katie, who conveniently also shared a spare with them. Kallie had made sure of this in Fiona's case by quickly glancing at her schedule one day, she felt strangely protective of the other girl, and the last thing she wanted was Fiona to have to stay at Degrassi longer than she already had to due to skipping.

The brunette took a seat next to Adam, noticing he was doing some Math homework, and seemingly having trouble with one question. She nudged him lightly with her elbow, causing him to start as he hadn't noticed her arrival.

"You forgot to do exponents before division and multiplication." Adam's gaze shot up at her, then down to his homework in a double take before lightly slamming the heel of his hand into his forehead. He flipped his pencil around, erasing his work and quickly redid it.

"Thanks, I'm such a ditz when it comes to math sometimes." Kallie smirked, noticing from the corner of her eye Katie had just entered the garden.

"Oh, don't thank me. Thank Katie. If not for her, I would fall asleep in half of my math periods." the new arrival quickly clued in to what they were talking about, likely largely due to Adam's still-open math textbook.

"Damn straight she would, her elementary school math teachers must have told her to count sheep instead of birds on a fence." Katie said this with such a straight face, and with so little humour in her voice, it was hard not to crack up. It was something that happened quite frequently, even when Katie said things that weren't at all funny. It was sort of like how you can't help but grin when someone's talking to you about something really very serious. You shouldn't be smiling, but you did anyways.

Katie huffed at them, and took a seat next to Kallie, causing Adam to secretly grin at her and get a half-glare half-eyeroll in return. It was no secret between the two that they were both mildly crushing on the soccer player, and they both used it to embarrass each other at any chance they got. Needless to say, Kallie was glad Adam didn't know she knew his history- or most of it- with Fiona, or about her crush on her, that although no bigger than her one on Katie, was much different in it's intensity and the way it manifested itself.

While her crush on Katie was the usual kind that involved ogling her when she wasn't looking, an inability to do anything less than grin in her presence, and getting more than a little nervous when she talked to her, her crush on Fiona was completely different. Instead, she found herself much bolder when she was around her, going so far as to flirt in a completely blatant way that she supposed was so obvious no one guessed at it. Not only that, but she found that at times when she became really bold, which was mostly when it was just the two of them, Fiona's flustered nature suggested that her feelings may very well be reciprocated.

Quite loudly, Fiona burst into the garden, instantly turning it's name oxymoronic. "Sorry I'm late, I had this thing with the thing in the thing and it couldn't really wait because it's a bitch-" Katie interjected dryly, her monotone the perfect contrast to Fiona's nervous and rushed speech.

"You mean your period?" the girl's flush answered that question, and Kallie swatted the other girl's arm, a faint smirk threatening to burst to the surface.

"It's okay Fi." Kallie said.

"Yeah, we know how it is. We're all females here." Adam helpfully offered, though the both strange and amused looks on all their faces told him it hadn't exactly supplied it's intended comforting affect. He quietly added after a few long moments, "Well it's true."

Fiona stood there for a few more moments before quickly sitting down next to Katie, looking over at the girl to the other side of her. "Hey Kal, we still on for this weekend?"

"Of course, as if I could miss mass monster movie might." It took her a few seconds to realize her mistake, which she then embarrassedly corrected, "Erm, night. Too many 'M's. I blame the english language."

"Happens to the best of us, believe me, that's not as embarrassing as half my flubs. Are you sure you can't come though, Katie?" The brunette shook her head.

"Doubtful, I have practice on Sunday, and need to write an editorial on Saturday for next week's paper. One runs late, one runs early, so unless you guys know how to warp time so I can stop working at eleven, watch five hours worth of monster movies, get up at six, and still get seven hours of sleep, no way it'll happen."

"Well, what if you do the editorial sooner, or later?" Adam piped in, though it was half-hearted.

"Homework and helping Marisol with homework on Friday, volunteering at the animal shelter on Sunday afternoon, and I have to revise everything Clare's done so far on Monday morning in order to publish everything by Monday at lunch." Kallie chewed on her lip thoughtfully, rolling an idea over in her head. She knew it was doubtful, but…

"What if I write your editorial? I know I'm not on the paper, and it's usually done by the editor, but if we turn the mass monster movie night into a mass movie monster matinee, you'd be able to get more sleep than you would be able to alternatively. I'll write the editorial on Friday, and have it to you by then."

"You're insane, but alright. I swear though, if you mess up the editorial, so help me…"

"I won't. Scout's honour!"

"You were a girl scout?" Fiona questioned.

"Not a chance, but I'm a sucker for the cookies."

"Who isn't? Those things taste like angels danced on them barefoot."

"You're an odd one, Adam." Fiona screwed up her face as she was undoubtedly bombarded with the mental picture.

"That's what makes me so undeniably fantastic, Miss Coyne."

"Of course you are. So I guess mass movie monster matinee is a go. Ten o'clock, my place?" the other two girls and Adam agreed, with Katie quickly briefing Kallie on what would be required in the editorial, pausing every few seconds to remind her the various things that would happen to her if she screwed it up. Finally, Katie finished her speech, her blue eyes narrowed as if to tell Kallie she was serious, though the junior didn't much need the reminder.

The rest of the day slipped by with relative ease, for once, drama seemed to be lacking within Degrassi's halls. Though she had bumped into Clare at the end of the day, worriedly holding an empty bottle of pills which she had revealed to be Eli's, which more than worried both of them. Kallie comforted Clare and told her she'd keep an eye on Eli the next few days, before they parted ways.