"Clare wanna hang out later?" KC asked her

"Sure!" she said "I have got no plans." Clare opened her locker. It had been 2 weeks since there heart to heart and now they were hanging out all time.

"What do you want to do? Break room?" KC suggested

"Um no. that is all Eli and I do."
"Ok then the Dot?"

"Great!" just then a guy's hand covered her eyes

"Guess who?"
"Um Nick Jonas?" then she turned around and saw Eli. "Oh darn! Its you. Well I guess you will be fine for now." she laughed and Eli playfully put his hand over his heart

"Ouch. Beautiful and sassy. Careful Ms. Edwards, that is a dangerous combo." he kissed her

"I know!" she said and they kissed again. KC tried not to gag.

"So wanna go to the movies?" Eli said "Ladies choice?"
"Can't. KC and I are gonna hang out." she said.

"Again?" Eli couldn't help but be upset

"Yeah. Why is that a problem?"

"Oh no." he added silently 'I love hanging out by myself while my girlfriend hangs with another guy' but he didn't say it.

"Ok well I promised Alli I'd meet her." she kissed Eli's cheek and waved bye to KC.

"So you and my girlfriend are getting pretty close." Eli said to KC

"Yeah. Well we are best friends"

"Well we will see about that."

…...

"Let me get this straight. You are mad at me because?" Alli said to Drew

"Your are getting pretty annoying." Drew said "And getting a little clingy."
"Your a jerk."

"Fine we are done!" he said

"Good!" Alli said. Dave shook his head and walked over to Alli.

"You OK?" Dave put his arm around Alli

"Yeah." she wiped a tear from her brown eyes "He just makes me want to ahhhh" she said

"Hey its OK. You always got me." Dave said

"Thanks Dave. God what would I do without you." she said

"Just doing my job." he said she looked at him confused "As you guy friend."

"Oh right."she said

"Hey Alli, sorry I was just making plans to hang with KC." she came up and Dave took his arm off of Alli

"KC again? Eli OK with that?" Alli asked

"Why wouldn't he be?"
"Well it is Friday. Wouldn't you be hanging out with Eli? After all he is your boyfriend."

"Eli isn't my whole life." Clare said

"Oh so KC is." Alli said

"No. no guy, boyfriend or just friend is my whole life." Clare said

"Whatever Clare." Alli said and they walked to class.

…...

"How lame is Alli man. She is such a bitch." Drew said to Eli

"Yeah lame."

"Why are spacy?" Drew asked as they were at their lockers

"You think there is something going on?" Eli asked

"Going with what?"

"Clare and KC?" he asked

"I don't know. Why?" he said

"Its just. This is the second Friday in a row, she has ditched me to hang out with KC." he said

"Wow that sucks." Drew said

"Thanks for being so helpful." he said sarcastically. They walked into English

"Ok class. We are going to reading Comedy of Errors." Ms. Kwan said "Now we are going to presenting scenes next week. I have paired you up already." she said "Drew and Alex." then she rattled off a few other names then she got to Eli "Eli and Bianca." she said and the finished the list "Ok site next to your partners." just the Bianca came over to sit next to Eli

"Hi Eli." she was pretty. No guy could deny that.

"Hi. So when do want to get started?"
"How about to tonight." she starred at him. He would have said he couldn't tonight, because he was gonna be with his girlfriend, but she bailed on him so he said

"Sure."

…...

"That's so funny." Clare said as she laughed uncontrollable at something KC had said

"you OK?" he said laughing at how much she laughing

"Yeah." she finally calmed down "Man have you ever had one those laughs that aren't even that funny but just get you laughing so hard?"
"Yeah." he said

"I haven't laughed like that in a long time." she said

"What, Eli isn't as funny as me?"

"No, he is great, it just, I don't know. I guess we don't laugh at stupid stuff." she shrugged

"Why?" KC asked

"Well when I am not cheering, I am hanging out with friends and /or doing homework."
"Oh. I was gonna have a little talk with him." KC joked

"No. you don't have too." Just then Eli walked in with Bianca

"Hey Clare. KC." he said Clare's jaw dropped to the floor.

"Eli." she said and he surprisingly kissed her cheek "what are you doing here?"

"Working on our project." he said "Since you are hanging KC, I thought I would do some homework." he said

"Oh great." Clare said. they walked away and Clare looked down

"What's wrong?"
"What's wrong? He is hanging out with Bianca."

"Yeah I know. She is hot!" Clare looked disgusted "Not that I like her." KC said "Look Clare, Eli really cares about you. It's probably nothing."

"After what happened last year, I just I cant compete with Bianca." Clare said

"What does she have that you don't?" KC asked

"Everything. Like you said. She is hot."

"And your not?" KC said "Listen I'll talk to him. Tell him it bothers you."

"Thanks K." she said

…...

"You gotta stop hanging out with Bianca without Clare. It makes her uncomfortable" KC told Eli the next day at their group home

"What she is a friend." Eli said.

"Just next time invite Clare. OK?"
"Sure." KC left. Eli smiled. Now Clare would get what it was like to see what it felt like.

…...

Eli walked over to Clare's locker on Monday.

"Hi." she said coldly

"What's wrong?"
"You hung out with Bianca with out me." Clare said

"Ok so?" Eli said

"So? Bianca has a reputation of stealing boyfriends." she said "I don't like you hanging out with her."

"Well, well, well, if we are telling things we don't like, I hate that you ditch me to hang out with KC. So I told Bianca that after we were done with practicing our scene for English we could hang." he said

"Woah! Did you hang out with her to spite me?" she asked

"Maybe I did. Come on Clare, its so obvious KC still likes you. And I am not convinced that you don't like him."

"Hold on, are trying to imply that I have feelings for KC?" she said

"Do you?" Eli asked

"No! I can't believe you would even ask." Clare shook her head

"Look, here its is, I don't want to have to share you with KC, or any other guy!" Eli said

"Well I am sorry, but if you are so insecure that you can't handle the fact that KC is my best friend, then I don't know. I gotta go" Clare said storming off

"Fine!" Eli shouted

…...

Clare was crying in the Zen garden, and KC saw her and came in

"Hey what happened?" KC said

"Eli and I just got a huge fight!" she said

"I am sorry." he said "Wanna go fro lunch.?" he said

"No." Clare snapped

"Wow, just cause you are mad at Eli, don't get all pissy at me" KC said

"Look KC maybe Eli and everyone is right. Maybe we do hang out too much"
"And here I thought we were friends."

"We are. But I cant be all you need all the time." Clare said "I need to be with my boyfriend. Or another girl is just gonna take him."

"Wow!" KC said "Sorry that me being your friend causes you so much grief!" he said "Maybe we shouldn't hang out at all." KC said

"Maybe we should." Clare said and KC stormed off. Within two seconds he returned

"This wont work for me." He said

"Me either. We just have to learn to be friends without hurting our other relationships." She said

" Agreed." KC said "Now what was your fight about?

…...

"Hey Pet Die." Dave said to Alli "How are you?"

"Soooo much better" she said "Drew called and apologized." she said

"Really?" he said his heart sank to the floor

"Yeah, so we are back together." she was happy and Dave could be mad.

"Great." he was so sick to his stomach.

…...

KC banged on Eli's door

"What?" Eli said

"I heard what you did. Your an ass."

"Oh boo who" he said

"Look nothing is going on with Clare and I." he said "You just hurt her for no reason and that is not cool."

"She is really hurt?" Eli said and he felt bad

"Yeah. Now go make up before she realizes she is better off." Eli ran out of the group home

…...

Eli knocked on Clare's door.

"What do you want?" Clare said

"I am sorry about the whole Bianca situation." Eli said "I guess I let my stupid jealousy cloud my judgment." he looked at her "It's just. I know guys, and no guy wants to just be friends with a pretty girl." Eli said "If you weren't pretty, I wouldn't worry. But you are. But I also get that you and KC are gonna be friends no matter what I say or do." he said "So I guess I have to grin and bear it." he stated

"Eli." she touched his arm and sat him down "I forgive you." she said "But now I want to ask you to forgive me."

"For what?"

"For not making time for you." she said "You are my boyfriend and while you aren't my whole life," she started "You should be more involved." she looked into his eyes "So how about this Friday you and me a dark theater?"
"I wouldn't miss it babe." he said and they began to kiss slowly on her steps.

…...

Jenna and Adam were at Adam's house

"So, when do you tell your parents about us?" Adam asked Jenna

"Um I don't know." Jenna said

"You know Jenna, it almost like you don't want your parents to know we are together." Adam said

"What no!" Jenna said "I just have to find a way to tell them" she said kissing Adam "Ok?
"Ok for now." and Adam kissed her back.

Jenna sighed.. How could she tell her parents she was gay? They were all upset when her oldest brother Max came out. If she did too, who knows what would happen.