I DO NOT OWN DEGRASSI, I am just a lowly fan, who has nothing better to do than write fictional stories about Eli and Clare...teheee

Chapter 1

Everything Will Be Ok

Clare sat in the front seat of her mother's car half looking out of the window, and half staring off into space.

"Maybe the uniforms will be a good change Clare?"Her mother spoke up breaking the silence and shaking her daughter from her depressed stupor. Looked into the car's side mirror at herself, she stared at the navy blue polo shirt, and the tan khaki skirt she wore.

As her mother continued to drive along the long winding road leading to school, she thought for a minute before reached up to her chest and touching the Degrassi crest on her shirt. Sighing, she crumpling back down into her seat depressingly.

All the memories of what had accrued during the last semester came flying back violently. Eli, the stink-bomb, the dance, the knife, the police, It had all been her fault, all of it, and now in the words of Principal Simpson

"There were going to be changes!"

The new uniform included. Who knew what else would await them when they made it back to Degrassi.

The thought of all of this made Clare's stomach turn. She brought her hands up to her face, as if trying to cover all the shame, and fear bottled up inside.

A pair of hands lightly touched Clares shoulder comfortingly and brought her attention back to reality.

"Hunny don't worry, everything going to be fine, just give it a little time and you'll see."

Clare looked up and smiled acknowledging her mothers kind words.

She was not sure wheather she was trying to convince her mother or herself that she would be ok. Even her mother was trying desperately hard to let her know everything would be fine, she had an inkling feeling in her stomach that things would not, as a matter of a fact she thought things were about to get much worse.

The car them came to a sudden halt in front of the school grounds.

Clare looked over at her mother with pleading , begging eyes. "I don't want to be here."

"Clare you shouldn't worry soo much, change is not always a bad thing."

With those final words her mother leaned over the seat and kissed her on her forehead.

Clare huffed as she unclasped her seat belt and exited the car. Her mother waved her goodbye before pulling off.

She felt confused and empty as she lazily tossed her bag over one shoulder looking around the school lot for a familiar face, when she luckily spotted Adam.

Contemplating whether or not to stay to herself or go over to Adam, Clare stood for a few minutes shuffling her feet

Deciding it would be better to to surround her self by someone she actually knew, she made her way over to him quickly squeaking out a soft hello.

Adam turned around in a hurry, a bright smile covering his impish face before enveloping Clare in one of the tightest bear hugs she had ever experienced.

"Clare! Its so great to see you, it seems like its been years since we last saw each other, how was your break.!"

He spoke out almost to loudly, as the people surrounding them all looked at them rudely.

Putting his hands in the air, he waved off the attention and apologized before grasping Clare's arm and walking a few feet away to a slightly more quieter spot.

"It was...ok, and it's good to see you too Adam."

Clare finished off her sentence dully before giving a fake smile to Adam.

Adam then began to explain to Clare about how bland his break had been, and they had a long conversation, or more Adam talked, and she listened half heartedly about how

"Atrocious" as he called it the uniforms were.

Finally after what felt like a century the school bell rung and all the students began to pile into the building.

Clare and Adam stuck together as they attempted to enter the building, but everything seemed to be moving so slow, literally. The students for the first time since she had been attending Degrassi seemed to be taking an obscene amount of time to just enter the building.

For nearly 10 minutes the two stood in line bleeding in with the other groups of Red, Blue, Yellow, And green.

When Clare finally made it to the entrance she gasped.

There in front of her were about 3 guards with metal detectors searching students along with their bags.

"You have got to be kidding me."

Adam sneered as he handed his bag off to a officer before being body checked along with Clare.

The two walked down the hall before making it to their lockers, there Clare saw Ali standing looking at the tv monitor above her.

Walking over to the girl, Clare hugged Ali with a small smile before they both looked up at Ali's older brother Sav and Holly J who had appeared on the screen.

They gave a very rehearsed welcoming to the students and to a new semester at Degrassi. They then proceeded to read aloud from the new rulebook about how the new dress code must be followed at all times.

"This is ridicules, were living in a police state!"

Clare looked up at them reading the announcement .

Ali shook her head in agreement before making her way back to her locker pulling out a schedule and comparing hers with Clare's.

"-Oh my God, thank you, thank you, thank you, we have math together first period!"

She was jumping up and down in joy handing Clare back her schedule.

"I don't know what I'd do if we didn't have a class together. We can catch up on how each other's breaks were."

Ali locked arms confidently with Clare before dragging the girl off to the math classroom.

In math the two girls completed their assignments with Ali filling Clare in on how Mrs. Torres had gotten the wrong idea about her and Drew, and how her were soo over.

Clare meanwhile explained about how her and Eli hadn't spoken a word to each other since that night,

her parents failing marriage, and how her reputations was shattered for causing this whole mess at school...

Sometime later Ali collected her things placing them into her bag as the bell rung, announcing the end of the period.

"Don't worry Clare, where both going to figure this all out and then soon everything will be back to normal, right; By the way I meant to ask you, what class do you have next?"

Clare snapped from her daze of collecting her own school supplies, and pulled the sheet of paper out glancing at it.

He eyes nearly popped out her head as she read from it-

"Clare whats wrong!"

Ali shook the taller girl, worry evident in her voice.

"I just didn't realize I would have it this early-" She mumbled.

Ali shook her and grasped for the sheet, looking at it for herself.

Ali's eyes too bucked out as she read from the slip.

'Advanced English 3'

"ELI!"

Yay yay yay...oh soo Clare's got to deal with Eli, whom she hasn't spoken with since that night last semester... uhh-ohh 8D

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