Don't own Degrassi, or Characters.

Soo here is Chapter 3, Clare's breaking point in this story.

Chapter slightly based on the song, Hide and Seek

Chapter 3

It's All For The Best

The sky was starting to darken, announcing the nearing night. Murky rain clouds were beginning to pool in from the east. It was a a gray purplish color, speckled with streaks of gold, letting Clare know that it must be nearly 7. She would need to hurry to make it home, to beat the rain. She was already late by nearly half an hour.

Shrugging as the cool nights wind whipped into her, Clare grasped her jacket instinctively pulling it closer .

Should have never stayed so late working with Connor on math she thought as she approached her house she heard yelling.

Panicking and thinking that her parents had gotten into another fight, she increased her walking speed.

When she made it to the front door she reached up to the knob before she heard her mothers sobbing voice yell out. "Why would you do this, why would you do this to us, do we mean nothing to you anymore!"

Clare stood there in front of the door unable to move, she just listened to the ongoing argument taking place inside.

"Its has nothing to do with you two, you've known this was coming for some time. Don't play dumb, and don't make me out to be the villain here!"

The voice of her father broke in, then the sound of quick feet shuffling across the floor, and a smack.

"You cheated on me! How dare you make it as if you did nothing wrong. We made a vow before God, you have a wife, and children, a family." Clare raised her hands to her mouth to try and stifle a cry of shock. Stepping back from the door in a haze of confusion, she heard another slap from inside followed by cursing, then the door flung open.

In front of her stood her father, looking distraught and red in the face. He looked at his daughters pale face before completely pulling his tie from his suit. Clare stared at him for a moment silently before suddenly everything inside came out erupting like a break in the dam. her pains, her fears, her anger, and her confusion.

Tears began to flow freely down her cheeks as she rushed to her father grabbing hold of him tightly as if never to let go. "Dad, you cant leave us!"

sobbing erratically, her face wetting the front of his suit.

"Dad, you cant leave us!"

Sobbing erratically, her face wetting the front of his suit.

He just stood there as she held him tightly mumbling I'm sorry over and over again

"Tell mom you didn't mean it, tell her! Tell her your sorry, you were just kidding, you can't go, tell her, tell her dad!" Clare began to scream beating her fists into him at each word she spoke.

Her father struggled to break from her grasp, stumbling out of her grasp, half walking half dragging his way over to his car.

At this point Clare had began crying hysterically trying to convince her father to stay asking what she had done soo wrong to make him leave. She clawed wildly at his suit trying to get him to stop somehow, anyhow as he climbed into his car and closed the door behind.

Looking emptily up at his daughter from the car window, he locked the door with a click-

It had began to rain as he turned the keys to start his ignition.

He looked as if in slow motion the drops began to hit her already tear stained face, soaking her entire figure. He mouthed 5 final words before speeding off leaving his daughter alone in the poring rain in their driveway, on her knees crying.

"Its all for the best."

Clare stayed there, in that exact same spot crying for what felt like an hour.

When she finally got to her feet, she wobbled a little, as she did so. Numbness coursing through her body. She made her way back to the house, this time opening the door.

Inside she spotted her mother sitting on the living room couch. She was dressed up in a red dress. Her black heels strewn across the floor, as well as what looked like a broken champagne glass. She sat on the couch, a nearly finished bottle of red wine to her side. she had her head lazily slumped between her legs. Clare gave one last look at her before quietly making her way upstairs to her room.

Making her way over to her dresser, she peered into it's mirror taking in the way she looked.

Her eyes were blood red and puffy. She felt like hell. Her eyes continued to rake across her body until she came across something that made her blood boil.

There, laying against her neck and shining slightly was her cross. It represented all of her beliefs and prayers, her faith.

Touching her finger to it lightly she thought about everything that had occurred that night.

If there was a God, he wouldn't let her parents argue, if there was a God, her father would have never cheated, if there was a God he would never have left her there alone crying in the driveway. Things like this just don't happen to good people, bad things don't constantly keep happening to good people who don't deserve it. If there was a God he sure as hell would not have left her mother crying down stairs with nothing more than a whine bottle for comfort.

As she thought about all of this the anger began to boil over and fresh tears began to fall.

She grasped her cross tightly before violently ripping it from her neck walking a few feet away to the trash bin in her room.

She held her hand out containing the cross necklace over the bin, as she did so another object in her hand stood out.

The gleaming ring her father had given her for her 9th birthday, her abstinence ring.

She dropped the necklace into the bin, it hit with a soft cling, though she hardly noticed as she still stared at the golden ring-

Dead, that's what Clair felt like inside, an empty shell.

Emotionlessly she pulled the ring from her finger observing it. Bringing it up closer to her face she began to start giggling .

Only a fool would keep something like this, and she had been nothing more than a stupid fool. Well no more of that foolishness. If there was no God, then there was no need for this, and if there was no need for this...

Her slight giggles began to change to a full fledged laugh as she played over those words in her head, over and over again.

"Well I won't be needing you anymore!"

And with those words it fell, not only the ring, but her beliefs, faith and abstinence along with it.

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