Chapter 15

(Ellie's POV)

I'd spent the whole weekend at Ash's. I was avoiding Craig. I honestly don't know what I should do. I honestly don't know if I like him or if I'm over Sean. I called home to tell my mom I was staying the whole weekend. I think she understood but she was to drunk to care. She did tell me someone, "Greg? maybe Trey?" called. I was surprised he didn't call Ash's but I'm guessing he didn't want to seem weird.

But it was Monday morning and I was home. Running around my room aimlessly looking for something to wear. Nothing looked good! This is the thing that worried me. When was the last time I cared about how I looked? I of course remembered, before I went out with Marco, when I liked him. This hit me and I just fell onto my bed. This was too complicated. It would cause too many problems... or would it?

I walked into Degrassi, make that ran, I was going to be late. People were rushing to their classes as I tried to get to my locker. I got there and got my books and then the bell rang.

"No" I whined under my breath. I finally got my book to fit in my bag and started for the MI lab. At least I have Mr. Simpson for Homeroom and not Kwan. I turned the corner and there he was. At his locker, in no rush at all to get to homeroom. He stood in front of it with his leather "rocker" jacket, most likely covering a tee shirt with some indie band on it. I stood there not really knowing what to do. Walk by? Stop and say hi? I didn't want to be mean. So I decided to go up to him.

"Hey"

"Ellie! Hey" he said kind of surprised. He stopped what he was doing and turned to me.

"So how have you been?" he asked.

"Fine, you."

"The same." This was so awkward.

"Well, I'll let you finish" I said motioning towards his locker. "See you in homeroom."

(Craig's POV)

She started to walk away and I turned back to my locker. This wasn't working. I shut my locker.

"Ellie!" she turned and watched me as I walked, really jogged up to her.

"That song, wasn't about Ash."

"I know" she said quietly. She looked down at her feet.

"Oh, um..." I had no idea what to say.

"Listen, Craig..."

So I did all I could think of, I kissed her.

(Ellie's POV)

I couldn't believe it. I was completely shocked. We pulled away from each other and he looked at me waiting for my response. I stood there for a second, then looked up at him and smiled. He smiled and pulled me in for another kiss. One I gladly accepted. I heard the bell ring but ignored it. We both did. I heard then people around us, filling in the halls but we ignored them. I heard the freshmen girls giggling. I heard the surprised "whoa" from Spinner. I heard the "I knew it" from Jay and the grunt he made when Alex hit him in the stomach. I smiled and so did Craig and we broke apart from each other, just as Simpson came up to us.

"I missed you both in homeroom. Come on now, get to class"

We looked at each other and laughed and went to class. He put his arm around me and pulled me into a hug as we walked down the hall.