DEGRASSI

CHAPTER 009: "No Light, No Light (1)"

PLOT A: Eli Goldsworthy

Eli is sleeping in his bed, he's having a dream, a nightmare to be exact. "Julia?", he whispers in his sleep as he starts to twist and turn. As flashes of headlights that belong to a car start to flicker on and off. "No.", Eli whispers as he gets deeper and deeper into the dream. It's raining now, he can see himself running down the sidewalk to what looks like an disfigured bike, we then see the body of Julia, her dead body. "Julia!", he shouts, this time Eli shoots up in his bed. He's relieved when he realizes that it was a dream, but it was so real. Eli decided that he was going to go back to sleep so he turned around and started to drift off when he thought about something.

Eli quickly shot back up and went over to his wall, where his calendar was located. "No?" Eli said, almost shouted. Julia's birthday was today, this can't be happening to him, Eli thought, he was starting to think about her now. How could he just forget her birthday like that. Eli decided that he didn't want to go back to sleep so he just stayed there, staring at the wall.

PLOT B: K.C. Guthrie

K.C. didn't know where he was going, he decided to call Jenna. "Hello?", Alli's voice answered from the other end of the phone, "Alli, where's Jenna?" K.C. asked. "Oh, what? No hi Alli.", the girl stated. "Alli, really, this is serious." K.C. said as he began to become annoyed. "I know, sorry, Jenna told me. I can't believe they actually lied to your faces like that." Alli said, apologizing. "This sucks you know?" K.C. said, holding back the urge to have an emotional breakdown. "Hey, I can't even imagine what you guys are going through right now." Alli tells him, noticing that his voice is shaking. K.C. swallows, "Well, um, do you know where Jenna is?" K.C. asked. "Yeah, she's at Jake's." Alli said as K.C. smiled a little, "Thanks.", he whispered, "No problem." Alli said as they both hung up the phone in unison.

K.C. looked down the street, he was only a few feet away the Edwards Residence, he took a deep breath and made his way up to the door. He knocked on it and before he knew it, Jake had opened the door. Jake gave him a smile, before stepping aside, he had no clue what K.C. and Jenna were doing her and he didn't know why they had brought Tyson with them.

PLOT C: Tori Santamaria

Tori made her way into the band room, "Ms. Santamaria, nice of you to join us." Ms. Oh said as she gave Tori a smile. "Sorry, Ms. Oh, I was talking to Zig. We're back together." Tori stated as she looked over at Tristan, the two rolled their eyes at one another. Tori then looked back at Ms. Oh, "Okay, I really didn't need to know that." Ms. Oh whispers as she goes back over to her desk. Tori then gives Tristan another glare as she sits down next to Maya, "So, what are we doing this weekend?" Tori asks as Maya looked at her confusingly. "What?" Maya asked as Tori looked at her, "Maya, come on, we're friends and friends need to go places over the weekend." Tori states as she tries to get Maya to be her friend.

"Um, okay." Maya said as she started to mess with her instrument. Tori gave a weak smile, "Oh, Tori." Tristan whispered as Tori looked over to him and he was sitting with a group of kids. "Looks like Zig's moved on...again." Tristan states as Tori turns around to Zig flirting with another freshman girl. Tori because embarrassed as Tristan and the group of kids start to laugh. Tori looks at Maya, "You wanna...help me with something?" Tori asked. "Of course." Maya whispered.

PLOT A: Eli Goldsworthy

"So Clare doesn't know anything about it being Julia's birthday?" Adam asks as he and Eli round the corner. "Yeah, and I'd like to keep it that way" Eli states as he continues to walk down the hall. "But, don't you think that will kind of ruin that 'no more secrets' policy you and Clare have?" Adam asks. Eli turns around and looks at him, "Look, I don't want her to think that just because I remember Julia's birthday, I still care." Eli said as he turned around and started down the hall again. "Wait, but you still do care." Adam tells him. "I don't want Clare to know that." Eli whispers as he bumps into Clare, "Clare?" Eli asks. "You don't want me to know what?", she asked as Eli looked at her. "Nothing.", he whispers as he walks past her. She starts to look confused, she can't believe that Eli is keeping secrets again. After he specifically said that he didn't want anymore secrets between the two.

Clare noticed Adam, who was at his locker, "Adam, can I talk to you?" Clare asked as Adam looked at the girl. "Sup?", he asked as Clare looked down at her hands, "What's going on with Eli?" Clare asked. "I have no idea." Adam said as he started to put books into his locker, he later noticed that Clare was starting to feel bad. Adam knew how he felt when Bianca didn't open up to him. "Look, it's an important day today and he doesn't want to spend it the way he wants." Adam tells her. "Well how does he want to spend today?" Clare asked as Adam looked at her, "He wants to remember, Clare." Adam said as he walked away. Clare looked at him, some help, she thought.

PLOT B: K.C. Guthrie

Jenna sipped her coffee, "This sucks.", she whispered as K.C. gave her a weak smile. "Tell me about it." K.C. said as he placed his cup down. "I mean it's like that bitch thinks that she can just get away with hitting a child, our child." Jenna adds. "I know, but I promise you as long as there's still air in my body, I'll find a way for us to get Tyson back." K.C. whispered as Jenna smiled and hugged him. Jenna then realized that the hug was a little awkward and decides to back off a little bit.

K.C. and Jenna looked at one another, "Um. Jenna!", Jake shouted from the living room, which brought K.C. and Jenna back into reality. Jenna shot up and made her way down stairs as Jake was standing in the living room with the police. "What's this I hear about a kidnapping?" Jake asked as he looked at Tyson's carseat. "Jake, I was going to tell you..." Jenna began, but Jake interrupted her, "Oh, really when?" Jake began, "Could it be after the fact that I just found out I was facilitating a kidnapped child?" Jake asked, he was furious.

One of the officers went behind Jenna and started to handcuff her, "Jenna Middleton, we're going to have to place you under arrest for kidnapping Tyson Powell.", the other officer told her. Jenna fell silent, K.C. looked at the officers, "Oh really, did those pysho's tell you why she did it?" K.C. asked, the officers fells silent. "Exactly, they've been abusing our son." K.C. said as the officer arresting Jenna let her go. "You do realize, we're going to have to do an investigation, right?" the officer asked.

Jenna spoke before K.C., "If it proves they done it, go right ahead, whatever it takes." Jenna said as she looked at K.C., then to Jake, who gave her a look of sympathy.

PLOT C: Tori Santamaria

"Zig?" Tori asked as she looked at the boy, "What?" Zig asked as he looked at her. "Just do the stupid paper." Tori said as Zig nodded his head, "Okay, fine.", he whispered as he noticed that Tori had disappeared behind a corner. What he hadn't realized was that Tori had just made her way behind a brick wall, "Okay, Maya." Tori said as Maya looked at the girl, "Are you sure that this is reasonable?" Maya asked as she looked at Zig's profile page. Tori looked out from around the corner, "Yes, I'm sure. Do it, I have to see if he's faithful to me." Tori said in an annoying tone of voice. Maya shrugged, "Whatever.", she whispered as Tori gave her a look.

"And to be honest, when you said that you needed my help, I thought it was because you wanted to get back at Tristan." Maya whispered as she looked at Tori, who smiled deviously, "Oh my dear Maya, one thing at a time." Tori whispered.

Maya sent a message to Zig, reading, 'Hey Cutie'. Tori gave a devious smile before looking back around the corner, when she did, she noticed that Zig was looking around, to make sure that he was the only one that got the message. 'Maya?', Zig messaged her back. Tori smiled even harder, 'You do realize I'm dating Tori, right?', another message popped up. Maya smiled, "See there, you're worrying about nothing, Zig likes you." Maya assured the girl. "Yeah, well that's because it's you." Tori whispered.

Maya looked at her, "You know what!" Maya shouted as she slammed her computer and stood up, "I honestly don't know why Zig likes you, because you're nothing but a brat who thinks she can get whatever she wants." Maya tells the girl. Tori looks at her confusingly, "Maya?", Tori asks. "Save it, I was stupid to actually think that we could actually try to be friends this semester." Maya said as she walked off.

PLOT A: Eli Goldsworthy

Eli was sitting down on the steps of his house, he was thinking about something, but he had been brought back into reality when he heard footsteps coming towards him. "Eli?" Clare asked as Eli looked up at her, "Clare?" Eli began, "I thought I told you that I had something to do today." Eli stated as he stood up. Clare looked at him, "Really? Because, it doesn't look like you're doing anything." Clare said as she continued to focus her eyes on him. Eli couldn't believe that he was really about to have this conversation with her. Clare looked at him, she could tell he wasn't in the mood for this. "Look, I'm sorry, it's just, I really thought you wanted to make our relationship last this time around" Clare said.

Eli took her hands, "I do. Trust me, it's just I'm dealing with a lot right" Eli whispered as Clare focused on his words. "Well what is it that you're dealing with exactly?" Clare asked. "No more secrets, remember?" Clare said, as Eli gave her an unsure look. "Fine. If you really want to know, it's Julia's birthday today." Eli said as he looked at Clare. "Oh," Clare whispered. "See, I knew you wouldn't understand." Eli stated as he started to walk back in the house. "No, I do understand, it's just you could've told me this before hand." Clare stated. Eli looked at her and pulled her into a hug, "I didn't know how you would react." Clare said. "Look, I don't handle things with dramatic outbursts, anymore." Clare said, realizing that she was being a hypocrite again.

"But, wait." Clare said as she started to back away, "Do you still love her?" Clare asked as Eli looked at her confusingly, "I mean why go through all of this trouble just to try to make yourself believe that it isn't her birthday?" Clare asked as Eli looked at her. "Just go." Eli stated as he walked back inside of his house. Clare couldn't believe what she had just witnessed, she quickly made her way down the street.

Eli couldn't believe what he'd just done. He then was brought back into reality when he realized someone had knocked on the door, "Clare.", he whispered as he opened the door to a man and a woman. "Eli?", the woman asked. Eli focused on the both of them. "What are you doing here?" Eli asked as he looked at the woman and the man, "Well it's our daughter's birthday, it'll be rude to not come and see her last boyfriend." the man said as Eli looked at the both of them, disgusted.

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