Rated: R for violence, language, adult content, sexual content, etc.
Disclaimer: I do not own any character from Degrassi. Any character you do not recognize I do are mine.
A/N: This is a new continuation of the Writing's on the Wall series. This does involve Ellie and Craig as the main characters. I was upset by that whole Manny/Craig/Ellie thing so this is my revenge. Haha.
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Chapter II: Stare
(Craig's POV)
Boring, boring, this is so fucking boring. Why the hell was I humming that? I must be so bored. I'm so bored I wrote a song about being bored within the last 2 minutes in my head. Why did Joey make me come to this is on a Saturday? Oh yeah, no chores. I slouched down in my seat as Mark kept yapping away.
Everyone looked bored. Usually with these damn meds I'm as high as a kite. Not literally but you guys get it. But I wasn't excited. I was moping around, feeling sorry for myself. That fucking sucked.
I get rejected from Joey, my girlfriend leaves me for England, my guitar gets stolen and I'm back in Degrassi, labeled as a psycho. Great. It should be a psycho guitarist instead. I looked at the clock. 10 minutes until this was over.
I looked around the room. There was Amanda, the human Barbie. And there was Rod. Rod was a cool guy. He's into music, like I am. He's not a psycho like me but he is close to it.
And then, there's Ellie.
Ellie looked as bored as I was. But she looked different. Maybe I haven't noticed but she looked in a good word, good. Her hair was straight and longer than during the school year. She was snapping those rubber bands around her wrist again. What's up with that? I've heard the rumors of her being a cutter but I never seen it.
Only Marco and probably Ashley did.
Ashley… I still love her. But I do despise her. She left me. She's gonna fall for some British guy and eat escargot or something on some fancy river. Okay, stop Craig. You're jumping to conclusions. Even though I have the feeling that it will. Okay, back to this group. I couldn't pay attention very well in these places.
Especially when Ashley's best friend is right across from me. Don't know what is about her. Maybe it's that red hair of hers. Maybe. Let's stop analyzing this. I kept sighing. Mark was seriously dragging this on forever. At least time went by so fast. Now we had only 3 minutes left.
"Okay guys, since I have to leave early, this session is officially over." Mark said. Inside of me cheered. Whoa, that caused an upset to my stomach. Maybe I shouldn't have had that burrito with Marco earlier today.
Everyone rushed out of the room like it was on fire. It was amazing how hyper we were to get out of something that is supposedly helping us. But Ellie stayed behind like I did. And then she left. I guess she was waiting for everyone to leave like I was. I had to talk to her. At least say hey.
Yeah I know we aren't exactly friends but we should be able to say hey. I mean, she just lost her best friend who was my girlfriend. We see each other around school and hang out with the same people but I don't remember ever saying hi. Or her to me actually. So why am I starting this now? Kinda late right?
Ellie is a fast mover. Just walking to catch up with her, I was getting tired. "Hey, slow down." I shouted to her.
"Why? Am I too fast for you?" Ellie said. Even from behind, I knew she had a sneer on her face. Why was she being mean to me? It must be girl thing. I remember how Ashley used to act like that sometimes. I decided to stop her from walking away.
I moved faster than she did and jumped in front of her to block her. "Well yeah." I said to her. She just sighed and I knew she lost. Haha.
"You stopped me. Is there something you wanted?" She asked me.
"I was wondering if you were heading to Marco's because he invited me too." I explained. She looked suspicious. She had a right to be I guess.
"Yeah I am." She said.
"Great. I am too. I just didn't want to walk there alone." Gah, why did I just say that?
"Ha, Craig Manning is scared to walk to Marco's? Wait until the Grapevine hears about that." She was mocking me. I expected it from her. Hell, I expect a lot of things from her. "Fine, we can walk there together, huh?" And then she started walking again. I just followed behind her. I put my hands in my pockets and stared at her from behind. I tend to do that a lot.
I wondered if she was feeling my vibe I was giving her.
If she wasn't, then she must be clueless than I thought.
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It wasn't that far to Marco's place. We were practically almost there. With me walking next to Ellie, I heard her humming a familiar song. It was by the Ramones. I didn't expect Ellie to be interested in that. Don't get me wrong. I knew Ellie was into the same music as Ashley was but the Ramones wasn't known to Ashley. That was pretty impressive.
"I feel like I'm on paradise," Ellie sung outloud.
"I'm Affected" was one of my favorite songs by them.
"The Ramones, Ellie? Didn't take you as a fan." I said to her. She just smirked at me.
"It's not popular around here but I listen to them. I'm a closet fan." She said to me.
"Cool. So am I." I said. Then we stopped. We were at Marco's. That went by fast.
Ellie knocked on the door. We both heard Marco from the other side. "Coming!" And then the door opened.
"Craig and Ellie. My two best friends. Come in." He let us in. Ellie dumped her bag on the couch and I threw my jacket on the chair.
"So what is the special occasion?" Ellie asked him.
"I can't be around my two friends?" Marco laughed. That made me laugh. Of course you can't.
"No, not really." Ellie said to him. Huh, it was like we share the same brain or something.
"Okay. Well I just wanted to hang out with the both of you and I know for a fact that you both do not want to be at home, right?" Marco asked us. We both just looked at him and then at each other. I guess the home front was bad for both of us.
"I guess." I said to him. I sat down on the couch.
"All right. Let the hanging out begin in friend city." Marco said. He went into the kitchen for a while and I heard a lot of noise coming from there.
Ellie sat on the chair where my jacket was. She crossed her legs and put her head on her hand.
"Expecting that from him?" She asked me. I just looked at her and shook no. "Same here." She said.
"Well Marco always the ability to surprise us. We should testimony to that." I said back to her smiling. That actually brought a small laugh from her. I didn't think she wanted to let me hear that but I did. She had a nice laugh. "You should laugh more often." I told her. It caught her off guard.
"You're something else Manning." She said to me. She never called me by my first name. Why? I don't know.
"Why is that?" I asked her.
"Because you just are. I don't need a reason to say that." She replied back.
Marco came back. "Okay guys, I rented like 6 horror movies and we are going to watch them all so no sneaking out." He looked at Ellie. "That meant you." I smiled.
Ellie raised her hands in that 'I don't know what you're talking about' look. She got up and sat next to me on the couch. "So what are we watching first, Del Rossi?" she called him.
"Um, Friday the 13th." Marco replied. I sighed deeply. Not those damn movies, I thought.
"The first one?" Ellie asked.
"Yep. That's the best one." Marco said. He put in the tape and sat down on the floor.
Ellie moved around on the couch before she got in that comfy spot. The movie started and had that creepy ass music. I despised this movie to a point. I just didn't like any of the Friday the 13th series. All of them were dumb. But like Marco said, the first one was the best one. I would agree to that.
During the movie, Ellie jumped some at a scary part. She grabbed my hand by accident. She looked at what she did and at me. "Sorry." She took her hand back and ignored me. I couldn't stop looking at her and managed to do it. I had to force myself. There was something about the way we touched. It was different from Ashley.
And you want to know what's bad?
I liked it.
And all I could do about it was stare at the TV.
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A/N: Craig does seem a bit OOC but its my story so I can do what I want. Have any suggestions on it, email me and I'll most likely reply back. Part 3, done in Ellie's POV will be up soon.