Alli and Drew were walking to class. He had his arm around her and was parading her around like a barbie doll. He touched her as if she would break if he touched her to hard. He didn't really seem to want to be with her. Dave couldn't understand why he wouldn't. To Dave, Alli Bandari was the most gorgeous person he had ever lay eyes on. Her long onyx hair and her big brown eyes always made Dave feel sick. He knew Drew didn't really love Alli. Dave could see that Alli wasn't happy either. She walked over to him
"Hey Alli whats up?" Dave said
"Drew doesn't want to go to the dance with me." Alli looked hurt "It almost seems like he is ashamed to be with me." Alli looked hopelessly at Dave
"Why don't we just go? Drew will be jealous and he will go with you." Dave said
"Really? You would do that?" Alli was shocked
"Yeah." Dave said
"Oh thanks Dave." she hugged him and kissed his cheek "I love you!" she skipped away
"I love you too Alli Bandari" he whispered to himself.
…...
"I am not mad Eli" Clare said "It just sucks that this is our first dance as a couple, and you can't be there" she was leaning on her locker and Eli was over her
"Ok." he said "Just promise me you will go anyways." Eli looked at her serious
"I don't know." she said "It will be weird going alone." she said
"Promise me." he said again
"Ok. I will go."
"And I promise I will try and get back early to meet you there." they kissed.
"Ok" she smiled a sad smile and Eli walked away.
Kc came up from behind her, and immediately noticed she was upset
"Whats wrong Clare?"
"Eli has to go to a court date tomorrow, and its 3 hours away and he doesn't know if he can make it back for the dance tomorrow." Clare said "He wants me to go anyways." Clare shook her head "I don't want to go alone." she put her bag into her locker.
"Well," Kc said "I don't have a date, your date can't make it. I don't want to go alone, you don't want to go alone," he continued "Why don't we just got together?" the minute he said it he wished he could take it back.
"That wouldn't be weird? Going with your ex/ friends girlfriend?"
"No." KC said "I mean not for me. Would it be weird for you?"
"Um no." Clare said "Yes I would love to go with you to the dance." she smiled at him. "now I gotta get to power squad practice. See you tomorrow? 8 ish?"
"8 ish." KC said
…...
Jenna waited for Adam to get out of Media immersion
"Adam wait up." Jenna said running after her
"No Jenna I am done waiting" He told her
"What do you mean?" Jenna said once she caught up to him
"I get it your a little embarrassed to be seen with me, but we have been together for 2 months. I love you" it slipped out
"Oh Adam" Jenna reached for her
"No!" Adam responded
"You don't get it. My family is very homophobic. If they knew I was with you, they would hate me"
"Half of my family doesn't want to know I exist. They all shun me at family gatherings. My own mom told me I was going to hell, the last time I saw her." Adam was tearing up "Don't you dare tell me about how hard it is for you!" Adam walked away
"Adam please!" Jenna said
"Screw you Jenna." Adam left. Jenna fought back tears as she went to power squad practice.
…...
"Thanks everyone. That's it for today." Trish said. Jenna was changing when Clare came over to her
"Hey Jen, everything OK?" she said
"Yeah." she lied
"You suck at lying Jenna." Clare said
"Clare can I talk to you? Just us? Alone?"
"Yeah." Clare said "Let me get dressed"
Once they were dressed they walked to Clare's house
"What's up?" Jenna took two seconds before bursting into tears. Clare put her hand on Jenna's back "Come on tell me."
"Clare bear, I feel my heartbreaking" she said "Adam wants me to tell my parents about us." Jenna began "But you know my parents hate gay people." she said "I can't!"
"Oh Jenna." she said
"Adam told me he loved me." Jenna choked "I think that I love him too."
"That's great/" Clare said
"No its not." Jenna shook her head "If I cant tell my parents about us, how can it really be love? How can we have a real relationship?"
"If you love Adam, and Adam love you Jenna," Clare told her "Then that is the only thing that matters. Your parents if they love you, will eventually learn to deal with it." Clare assured her.
"You think?"
"I do." Clare said
…...
Dave and KC were getting ready at Dave's house.
"I am all ready for my date with Clare." KC said "What do you think?"
"I think that Clare's boyfriend is Eli and once again you have blurred the line between friend and boyfriend in that pretty little head of yours" Dave told him
"So you admit I am pretty?" KC said
"You are so stupid man."
"Ok like you should talk." KC accused "Your date has a boyfriend also and is only going with you to make him jealous." KC pointed out
"So?" he said "Eli had to got to court, if Clare's boyfriend wasn't a criminal you wouldn't be going with you" Dave pointed out to KC
"You right" What are we doing here dude?" KC sat on Dave's bed "We are both wanting girls who don't want us. God we are becoming chicks!" KC said in horror
"Yeah we are pretty pathetic." Dave sighed "Well we have to get there." Dave said
…...
KC and Dave walked into the school and KC saw Clare in a short dress it was soft pink. KC was gonna pass out. Clare looked 10 times more gorgeous than normal. He couldn't say
"Hi." he couldn't take his eyes off of her.
"Hiya Kase" Clare hugged him. She smelled so good KC thought
"Hi Clare." Dave said
"Hey Dave."
"Where is Alli?" Dave asked
"Um Dave I hate to tell you, but Alli is here with Drew." Clare looked sad for Dave
"Oh really?"
"Yeah. He found out that you and Alli were coming to the dance together and he picked her up a little while ago." Clare said in a sour voice "Sorry Dave."
"No its fine!" Dave said "It worked." Dave put on a fake smile "I am fine." Dave left Clare and KC standing there.
"I feel bad for him" Clare said "He really likes Alli."
"Yeah." KC was still starring at Clare "You look incredible Clare." he said
"Thanks!" Clare said "So do you" Clare told him
"Ready to go in?" KC said
"Yup!" Clare said. KC held out his arm and Clare put her arm through it.
…...
Jenna searched for Adam. She found him standing in the corner. Jenna made her way to Adam
"Just give me a sec." Jenna said
"Ok." Adam said
"I love you to Adam." Jenna said
"You can't tell your parents about us, so don't be upset that I don't believe you."
"I will tell them. Promise!" Jenna said
"Oh yeah?" Adam said shocked that Jenna would do that.
"Yeah." Jenna said stepping closer "I love you Adam!" Adam smiled and kissed Jenna. Jenna smiled and led Adam on the floor
…...
KC and Clare just hung out. They danced to some of the fast songs. Then a slow song came on
"Wanna dance?" KC said
"Sure." Clare walked out the floor
…...
Dave wanted to crawl somewhere where Alli and Drew didn't exist. He hated Drew and the way he would treat Alli like crap and she would run back to him. It wasn't fair. He loved Alli and he would never be with her, because he was no Drew. Dave had to leave.
…...
Jenna loved holding Adam close to her. It felt so wrong yet it felt so right. It was forbidden and alright. It was something Jenna would never get rid of. She kissed Adam.
…...
"You know this song?" KC asked Clare
"No." Clare said
"Its Lonely Boy."
"By Black Lab?" Clare said
"Yup!" KC said he looked at her and they listened to the lyrics
"You say my broken heart becomes me, I say I'd sell it cheap to you. You say I should wrap all the lies I've told in 10 dollar bills and smoke the money..."
"Do you remember the first dance we had?"
"Yes." Clare smiled
"You had gone with Connor, breaking my heart" KC joked
"Oh shut up" Clare laughed
"Then we danced. It was like everything had stopped." he told her
"I had faith in you KC. In us." Clare told him
"Clare, do you ever wonder what would have happened if I never liked Jenna. If I had never left you last year?"
"Sometimes. I guess so yeah."
"Its funny, how you think you are doing the right thing and the you realize the mistake you made" He looked at Clare
"It's what we do." Clare said "humans like to screw up."
"Clare I just wanted to say," He was about to tell her he loved her when he heard
"Can I cut in?" It was Eli
"Eli! What are you doing here?"
"I got done early. I rushed back to be with you."
"You did that for me?" Clare said
"Yeah." Eli looked at KC "Thanks man"
"Oh no problem." KC said
"You were gonna say something K?" Clare said
"No its nothing tell you later" he walked away and Clare began to dance with Eli and as the song ended she looked at KC who stared at her as the lyrics said
"Do you feel something pulling you back in. Do you see something you wanna see again, I could be the one, I can make it up to you. Take me back, I'm a lonely boy, who loves you."