Disclaimer: I do not own degrassi
After about a month or so all the rumors about Fitz had stopped going around and even though some people had an idea about who was to blame for the incident no one ever said anything It was just forgotten , Fitz never came back so that was just the end of it.
Clare had even suspected Eli but she never asked him about it, he couldn't do it he was so sweet, and nice, and smart, I mean she knew that he fought with Fitz but he would never do anything so bad right?
Eli walked into English that morning bitching about the school system and how it was so stupid how that they made kids get up early for school when he saw his favorite little project.
Clare was sitting in her seat slightly leaned back absorbed in a book, Eli snuck up behind her and snatched the book out of her hand.
"Hey!" She said looking up to meet green eyes.
Eli looked at the book title and smirked rolling his eyes "Twilight? Really blue eyes? I should have figured" he scoffed dropping the book on her desk and taking his seat in front of her.
"Hey" She said shoving his shoulder lightly what's that supposed to mean?"
He turned around to face her "Well Mrs. Dawes did say you have a love for the undead did she not?"
"Yes but i-"
"You know I've also heard around school that you write mature fan fiction about said undead care to share?" he said smirking.
Clare blushed and smacked him lightly with her book "No! And besides this is different twilight is a love story it's romantic and sweet and –"
"And about sparkly vampires who are vegetarians LAME"
Clare smiled "you know I think you're just jealous of Edward"
Eli Scoffed "That Cullen guy? As if blue eyes I'm far better than him, I'm better looking, I'm more charming, and I can bite better if you want me to" he said winking at her.
Clare blushed and looked down at her book "No that's ok"
"Alright ladies and gentlemen this week we will be coving Shakespeare" Mrs. Dawes began as she stood up and started the lecture.
Eli sat at his desk coloring his nails only halfway listening while he thought about how to formulate the next step into play.
This cute little friendship and banter was alright for a while but he didn't wanna lose focus on what the original plan was.
The next thing to do was push this little friendship of theirs a tad farther he needed to kiss her once he did that than he could play hot and cold with her for a while confuse her make her a tad unsure and insecure.
Than finally he'd give her what she wanted, a sweet, caring, loving boyfriend…
But for now he needed to get that kiss, he was pretty sure that if he just straight out kissed her that the little prude would close up and avoid him and that are not what he wanted.
He sat there for about 5 more minutes until Mrs. Dawes said some that caught his attention.
"Now I'm going to pass out you film packets send one of your partners up to come get them if you want to get a good grade on this the scenes have to be accurate. Remember Shakespeare was about love, hate, Emotions, that's what I wanna see"
If he remembered right Mrs. Dawes mentioned that one of the packets was Romeo and Juliet, a smirk made its way onto his face as he thought of the perfect way to get to the next step: the kiss.
Clare would of course wanna get a good grade and they were gonna have to do the famous scene with the poison, so he could just convince her to change the scene around a little bit it was perfect.
He saw Clare start to get up behind him but he quickly stood up and faced her. She looked at him a little surprised.
He smiled at her "Don't worry about it I got this one"
She shyly smiled back at him and sat back down as he headed towards the front of the class.
When he got up there he made sure he asked for Romeo and Juliet telling Mrs. Dawes that it was his favorite play and he wanted to give it justice.
She smiled and said she appreciated Eli's love for Shakespeare so she gave it to him.
Eli smirked as he came back to his seat.
"So what play are we doing?" Clare asked.
"Star crossed lovers who kill themselves so they can be with each other in the afterlife Romeo and Juliet."
"Oh" Clare smiled
"What's wrong Edwards scared to kiss me?"
"Kiss?"
"Yeah I wanted to talk to you about the poison scene I think that Romeo would require a few minutes for the poison to kick in before dying instead of just kicking the bucket right away don't you think?"
Clare scrunched her eyebrows for a second "Hmm your right he does die rather quickly"
"Exactly so I thought what if Juliet woke up for a brief moment, they could… share a final kiss."
Clare blushed slightly and looked down quickly before relocking eyes with Eli "Yeah ok I think we could do that."
RING!
Eli and Clare stood up and started gathering their things and walked to the door Eli grabbed Clare's arm. "So after school today?"
Clare smiled "Yeah"
Eli smirked "Good later Edwards" and with that he walked of down the hall to his next class.
Clare sighed and went to media mersion.
She walked in and took her seat next to her best friend Alli.
"Hey Clare what's up with you your all flustery."
"I am not" Clare said smiling.
"Alright who is it? Spill it Clare!"
"What do you mean?"
"Clare!"
"Ok ok I'm gonna kiss Eli after school today"
"WHAT?" Alli practically screamed.
"Shhh Alli!"
"Ok I'm sorry but what? Details please!"
"So Eli and I have this project to do in Mrs. Dawes class it's like modern Shakespeare scenes and we got Romeo and Juliet and Eli said he wanted to change something a little bit in one of the scenes and basically he suggested we kiss"
"Oh my god! Clare you're gonna kiss you crush today awwww" Alli said putting her hand over her heart.
"Shut up Alli I do not have a crush on Eli"
"Yes you do just admit it it's so totally obvious you wanna kiss him"
Clare smiled and blushed
"See aww Eli and Clare sitting in a tree k-i-s-s-i-n-g"
Alli sang, Clare elbowed her and she just winked.
Ms. Oh than quieted the class down and began the assignments for the day.
After school Eli lent on the hood of morty waiting for Clare to come out. He knew exactly how to play this. He was actually excited things were progressing so nicely. He smirked when he saw come out of the school and head his way.
"Hey" She smiled as she got closer to him
"Hey blue eyes ready to go?"
She nodded and Eli opened the door for her and then went around to the driver's side of morty. He got in and drove them to a semi vacant park.
He grabbed the equipment out of the back of morty and he and Clare walked to an empty picnic bench.
Clare sat up the table as he sat up the camera.
When they finished setting up Eli walked up to the table and sat on top of it. "So ready to be my Juliet?"
"Yeah let's do this"
"So eager Edwards huh?" He smirked and patted the spot next to him.
"Juliet I will join you in the after life, Death come quickly so I can be with her asap" Eli recited taking a sip of coke.
"Romeo no! You drank the high fructose cola beverage" Clare said sitting up.
Eli put a hand on Clare's waist and slowly started to lean in , Clare's eyes grew wide for a second but then Eli pressed his forehead to Clare's and they locked eyes briefly before Eli captured her lips in a sweet quick kiss.
When they broke away Eli fell back and pretended to die while Clare spoke her last line "Star crossed not for long, I shall see you in the afterlife Romeo" Clare shot herself and then fell back as well.
Eli grabbed the remote he had in his pocket and stopped the camera. They both sat up and locked eyes, Clare blushed as Eli eyed her and looked down.
After they finished at the park Eli dropped Clare off and then headed home.
Once home he headed up to his room and plopped down on his bed, he rested his hands behind his head and sprawled out as he thought of the day's events.
He went from the "friend" stage to a whole different level in a matter of hours god he was good. Well now that he gave sweet little Clare something to dream about it was time for the next step: Hot and Cold.
For the next week Eli played and confused Clare as much as he could. One day he avoided her like the plague, the next day he was barely around her and spoke to her little, the next day after that he was around her all day but never said a word to her and so on.
After watching her squirm and making her feel insecure for a while he decided it was time to give her what she wanted.
On Friday after the last Class of the day he went searching for her and found her coming out of her science class.
"Clare wait up!" He yelled as he jogged up to her.
Clare turned around and frowned a little, she adjusted her bag strap as she spoke "What is it Eli?"
"Look I'm sorry ok"
"For what?" she said looking down.
Eli looked down as well before sighing and lifting her chin up to meet his eyes.
"For playing hot and cold with you for the past week , I know I've been an asshole it's just that I really like you and it freaked me out because I don't express myself and my feelings very well and I don't wanna screw anything up between us."
Clare let a smile grace her features as she stroked his cheek. "Eli I like you to a lot"
She blushed and he crashed his lips to hers roughly Clare gasp and Eli slid his tongue in her mouth quickly before breaking the kiss.
She smiled at him as he wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her close as a twisted smirk made it way on to his face.
Damn I'm good I should be a fucking actor, Next Step: Isolation