Hi guys! THANKS SO much to cant-help-but-love-degrassi, JJ288 and Degrassistar. I got a PM from someone, complimenting on this story, so that counts as a review! And thanks cant-help-but-love-degrassi fror being the 40th reviewer! I do not own any of the songs included in this chapter. Some past characters are being mentioned, or comes back in action in this chapter. Longest chapter EVER for me! BOOOOYYYYAAAHHHH! (Go Adam!) Hope you guys enjoy, here's chapter 20 of The Rest Of Our Lives

Zac's POV

"Sorry, wrong name. I love you Stephanie Oviedo." I correct myself, and Stephanie stared at me, with a confused face. "My last name's Fitzgerald, and who's Jordan?" Stephanie replies, and I freak out. Damn! I messed up their names. "God I'm so sorry! I love you Stephanie Fitzgerald." I finally say correctly. "I love you too." Stephanie smiles.

"You love me right?" A beautiful voice said in my mind. I ignored it, and Stephanie was saying something as we walked off the stage. "You said you'll always love me. You love me right?" The majestic voice repeated. I shrugged it off, and tried to concentrate on Stephanie. "Zac, you could never replace me if you love me. Are you replacing me? I love you, and I know that you love me. You'll never replace me, right?" The voice comes back. "SHUT UP!" I yelled, looking at Stephanie.

"What? Ok fine, I was just asking if you'd like to dance." Stephanie replied, and stomped off. What the heck did I just do? I walked over to Alex, who was making out with Diana, his longest girlfriend ever. "Alexander Samantha Ruiz, I just accidentaly told Stephanie to shut up, and now she's mad." I greet. Diana looks at me, and pulls away from Alex. "I'll go talk to her." Diana says, and walks off.

Alex sighs, and looks over at me. "Seriously? During a make-out session?" Alex sighs. "That's all you two do. Make out." I shrug. "No we don't!" Alex argued. "Yeah, you do." I reply. "So? Jealous? You're good girl, smart ass girlfriend doesn't like to make out? Or sex? Yeah, I know you want to." Alex growls.

"Shut the heck up." I growl back. "Nope." Alex replies. I punched his stomach, and Alex lunges for my mouth, giving a hard punch. I fell to the ground, covering my mouth, the blood pouring. Marus comes in, and kicks my stomach. I start coughing, and could hear the crowd go quiet, as the stared at us. Alex laughed, and kneeled next to me, then he got up, and jumped on me.

My coughing thickens, as the blood from my mouth makes it hard to breathe. "Zac!" I could hear Stephanie yell. Some of my football friends, like Christian, (Julia's ex) Tyler, Greg, OJ, Colmon (A/N: Same as Colman or Colmen, but one of my best guy friends (I'm a girl) is spelled like that with a O, so in the honor of Colmon! Also, the Colmon in this story doesn't mean this is how my Colmon is like, but similar.) and Will. I heard punches, and screams, but the blood got to me, and I could hear Stephanie yell at Alex and Marcus and other boys who joined in.

Julia's POV, Orlando, Florida, Applebees

I sat on my seat, laughing as Hunter was telling us something about his school. "So Julia's what did your Mom say about you going to Florida in the last minute?" Hunter asked. "Crap." I whisper, biting my tongue. No one's ever noticed me biting, and Allison once noticed, but told me not to.

I could feel the blood pour into my mouth, and I tasted as good as usual. Hunter and I were sharing sodas, and I had some of the coke. When I was done, and asked Allison something. Hunter jumped, and examined the straw. "Is that blood on your straw? Julia…" Hunter gasps. He looks at me, as I blush. "Open up and say ah." Hunter demanded. "No!" I argued, and closed my mouth. Next thing I knew, Hunter had my mouth open, examined the bite marks that I just did. Blood was still going, and he just observed. "Oh my god…" he manages to say.

"Julia? Biting?" Allison asked. "Yes, I'm sorry. I've been doing it all my life, and it feels good. "So why do I find out about this now?" Hunter asks, sipping on his soda. "Um…" I blush.

I waved Hunter bye, and he promised to come back to Toronto with his grandparents, since they spoil them to death. We kissed, and I got in my plane. As soon as I got home, I was welcomed by Mom and Dad, playing Monopoly, with Ethan passed out on the couch. "No! 7M is too much!" Dad argued. "No it isn't. just hand me your card!" Mom complained.

"Hi guys. What are you doing? Where's Zac?" I greeted, and Mom hugged me. "Hey honey. Where were you?" Mom asked. "Um…Florida." I replied. "Florida…wait Florida! What were you doing in Florida?" Mom yelled. "I had some business to do down south, but don't worry, I'm fine." I assure her. "Ok…where's Zac?" Dad asked. I shrugged, and called him. No answer. "Oh, at the dance. You know what? I'm gonna go over there, love ya!" I wave bye.

I drive over to Degrassi, and walk in. I stare at the ambulance, who was putting a boy into a gurney. "Wow." I gasp. Then, April Moreno-Martin walked up to me. "Wow, did you hear what happened?" April asked. "What?" I ask. "Well, this 10th grader punched another 10th grader, and it turned into a fight. Um… it was Tack and Lex, well I think those were the names. But Tack punched Lex, and Lex punched Tack in the mouth. Blood…lots of it. Then Tack was ganged up on, and was kicked and pushed. Eventually, he started coughing blood. Coughing blood! So there's this girl, Tiffany, who yelled at Lex and the others, and beat up Lex's ass. It certainly was LMFAO and LOL worthy!" April exclaimed.

Tack…Lex…Tiffany…oh my god! Zac! Alex! Stephanie! I ran to the ambulance, and saw Zac's unconscious, bloody body. Then I saw Alex, with a black eye, and a few bruises, his mouth split, laughing and smiling. April caught up with me. "Wait, is that your brother?" April asked. "Yep." I sigh, and run home, with April following. I barge into the house.

"NO! Give me back my 7M! Cheater!" Dad yelled, as Mom was using his bank card. "It's not cheating! It's the rules!" Mom argues back. "No! No it isn't!" Dad replied. "Aunt Clare? Is that you?" April asked. Mom looked over at April, and gasped. "April Martin! I haven't seen you in forever! How's your parents?" Mom greeted. "Aunt Clare? Wait…Martin?" Dad adds. "Oh, Eli, this is April, Imogen and Jake's daughter." Mom introduced. "Forget that, Zac's in the hospital!" I yell, and we hurry to the hospital.

After some waiting, Zac came out. His lip had multiple stiches, and he was limping. "What the hell happened?" Dad asked, looking at Zac. "I don't wanna talk about it, let's go home." Zac groaned, and went home.

2 Weeks Later, Hunter's POV

I can't ask. But I should. But she'll be embarrassed. When we broke up, she was still shy about singing. I can't ask her to sing a simple song. Or could I? I walked up to Julia on my first day back, and I smirked. "Hunter!" Julia greeted. "Hey honey. Do you want to um…perform in the talent show with me? I can play guitar, you can sing, let's do it!" I ask. "Ok. Sure, let's practice for Friday." Julia sets. I smiled, and her green emerald eyes lit up. God I love her eyes!

Zac's POV

"I'm so sorry…about your ass!" Alex laughs, as everyone laughs. I sigh. How could my best friend go to my enemy? I go to the Degrassi radio, as I'm being interviewed today. Lilli Torres was there, smiling, and I sat in front of her. "And welcome back to the Degrassi radio! I'm Lilli Torres, and I'm here with star football player, Zac Goldsworthy!" Lilli introduced. "Say hi Zac." Lilli said. "Hi Zac!" I joke. "No silly, to the audience!" Lilli adds. "Hi to the audience!" I giggle.

After a while of boring questions, Lilli asks an important question. "Any secrets you wanna spill?" I thought hundreds of things, and one secret really came to mind. "There are people who don't give a crap about others, thinking that they're perfect. Well, hate to be cliché, but no one's perfect. You all know Alex Ruiz? Well, you should know his full name is Alexander SAMANTHA Ruiz! Samantha!" I confessed, everyone around my laughing. Alex would be furious the school knows this know.

"Oh! That's not all! Alex was gay! He was in love with guys for like 2 years, before he used Diana Sanchez as a rebound just to get over dudes. He admitted it to me that all they do is make out, and he doesn't love her! Sorry Diana!" I admit, using an emphasis on sorry. "So, feels good to spill out your best friend's most personal secret?" Lilli asked. "I didn't. I spilled my ex- best friend's secrets." I corrected her. "Well there you have it Degrassi, Zac Goldsworthy!" Lilli announces, we hug, and I leave.

At home, I walk in on my Mom arguing with Dad. "Zac, we really need to talk." Mom greeted, as they noticed me. "Ok, sure, shoot." I replied. "I don't want you seeing or talking to Stephanie Fitzgerald." Dad bursts. "DAD!" I yell, standing up. "Eli!" Mom yells at the same time. "Zac! Her father's a menace!" Dad argues. "So? What the hell does that have to do with Stephanie!" I ask. "Don't use that language!" Mom snapped back. Is she like on two sides? "Zac, I'm serious!" Dad argued. "I am too!" I yelled, and stomped upstairs.

Friday Night, Degrassi, Julia's POV

I stumbled into the auditorium, with Allison encouraging me. She flew north from Florida to see us perform. I gasped, as I looked at Zac and Stephanie singing.

"I got a dirty mind I got filthy ways

I'm tryna bathe my eyy in your milky way

I'm a legend I'm irreverent I'll be reverend

I'll be so faaaaa-ar up

We dont give a fuuuh-uh-uck

Welcome to the danger zone

Step into the fantasy

You are not invited to the other side of sanity

They callin me an alien a big headed astronaut

Maybe its because yo boy Yeezy get ass a lot"

Zac started. They sang the duet, then Mr. Simpson walked up. "And now is Julia Goldsworthy, singing a duet with guitar player Hunter Meyers." We stumbled onto the stage, and Hunter started playing.

"The sky is breaking up Jim." Hunter started.

"Inform my next kin.

There's a storm on my horizon.

And I think I'm walking…" I sang. Hunter smirked, and concentrated on playing the song.

"Now it's outside of my hands.

I've never felt so free.

So less in command.

So totally guided by chance…" We sang together.

We waited a while to sing, with Hunter smirking at me, his brown eyes chocolaty, playing his guitar.

"The sky is breaking up Jim." Hunter started.

"Inform my next kin.

There's a storm on my horizon.

And I think I'm walking…" Hunter sang this time. The song ended, and we walked off. After some more performances, we won!

Zac's POV

"Zac! Zac!" Stephanie yelled, chasing after me, Monday morning. "What?" I ask. "Alex. You ruined him." Stephanie answers, and drags me to his locker. I found Alex, leaning on his locker. It had things written in Sharpie like "Hey, you should call me sometime, I'm a guy, dork!" "I wrote this in pink, so it'll remind you of your gayness." "Wanna sleep with Zac? Gay loser." "Damn I fucking hate you!" and other hurtful things.

Alex had bags under his eyes, and I examined what's left of my old best friend. "Alex…" I let out. "What the hell do you want? Ready to say anything else about me? I'm transferring anyways…" Alex groaned. "I'm sorry." I apologize. "I don't want your freaking apologies. Get the hell away from me." Alex answers. "Alex, I bet Zac regrets what happened." Stephanie adds. "Oh does he? So why the heck did you tell everyone that I was gay. You swore you would never tell anyone…but you did. To EVERYONE!" Alex cried. "When did I promise that?" I asked. Alex sighed, and looked at me.

Flashback in Alex's POV

Zac walked in to my house, ready to play video games. I cried, and Zac comforted me. "Zac, can I tell you something? But you have to swear, that you'll never tell anyone this." I cried. "Sure. I swear." Zac answers. "I'm gay. I love guys. For all I know, I could love you." I told Zac. "Ok, no one will hear from me." Zac promises.

End Of Flashback

"Oh…" I look down at my feet. "Yeah, oh." Alex replies. "Friends?" I ask. "Friends." Alex gives in, and we hug. "Aww! You guys hugged and made up!" Stephanie lets out, and we burst out laughing.

June, 2030. Julia's POV

Graduation day. I put on my cap and gown, and I'm valedictorian. "Ugh, I look like a cow." I complain. Mom fixes my hair, and sighs. "You know, early labor is common in the family…" Mom adds. "What?" I ask, combing my dark brown hair. "I gave birth a 5 months, my Mom gave birth to me and your aunt Darcy at 5 months." Mom explained. "Oh…" I reply.

At Degrassi, all of my family and friends were here, watching. Uncles: Jake, Adam, Spinner, KC, Drew and others. Aunts: Fiona, Imogen, Jenna, KC, Bianca and others. And lots of relatives. Out in the blazing sun, Mr. Simpson called me up to the podium.

"Today's the day. The last eighteen years of our lives, everything we've accomplished, everything we've been through, has led us to today. Just four years ago, all of us were awkward pre-teens ready to embark on the long journey of High School. Fours years is a long time, but it seems like it all just happened yesterday. Elementary school, middle school, high school; it all feels like it happened in a flash. Twelve years of school, eighteen years of life - and just one day to graduate." I start.

"Some of you guys have lived here your entire lives. Some of you guys are absolutely dying to get out of this town. But I'll tell you right now, there's nowhere else I would have rather went to high school than Degrassi." I continue.

"I can't tell you how blessed I feel, how much I appreciate, growing up with you guys. And I can readily say I am proud to be a part of the Class of 2030. I am proud to call every one of you a member of my class. We have been a part of each other's lives for the past four, eight, and for some, eighteen, years. And today, in one single day, we finally move on." I go on.

"I'm not going to say my high school experience was perfect. I'm not going to say that I didn't have some regrets, or missed opportunities. Every one of us went through the good times and the rough patches. But I wouldn't trade my high school experience for anything else. Everything that has happened to us, everything we have been through, has made us into who we are today. And it's these experiences, these life lessons, that we will take with us into the next step of our lives. Whether your high school experience was the greatest in the world, or if it was something that wasn't quite ideal, when we leave here today." I cry, and the crowd claps.

"And now I present the 12th grade class of 2030! Katie Marie Aaron." Mr. Simpson started. Eventually, she gets to the G's. "Julia Clara Goldsworthy." He called. I walked up, and received my diploma. Then, M's. "Hunter Charlesworth Meyers. April Imogen Martin." He called, and one at a time.

"And now, I present the graduated class of 2030!" Mr. Simpson, and he motioned us to throw our caps. We celebrated, and Hunter kissed me. He ran up to the stage, and got everyone's attention. "Everyone, I want to say a lot of things right now. But, Julia I love you." He starts.

"I remember the first time I met you. I bet you do too. I remember the exact order of events when we met." Hunter continued. I do too Hunter, I do too.

I took my seat and stared at the boy sitting in front of me. He had dark brown hair, nice light skin, huge smirk on his face, and beautiful chocolaty eyes. "Hey there." He finally said, as I flinched to his voice. "H-hi." I squeaked. I nervously looked down at my Dead Hand T-shirt, feeling embarrassed. "So you like Dead Hand?" he asked. "Yeah, I love them. My dad and I listen to the same music. I'm Julia. Julia Goldsworthy." I answered. "Cool. I'm Hunter Meyers. So Julia, have a lot of gold?" Hunter replied. "Yeah I have a lot of it!" I teased.

"Will you marry me?" Hunter asked, kneeling, and the crowd looks over at me. "Yes! Gosh yes!" I cry, and he runs up to me, and places the ring on my finger. We kiss, and Allison walks over to us. "Let Junter live on forever!" Allison cheered. "Junter?" I asked, looking at her. "Yeah! Julia-ulia+unter=Junter!" she tried to explain. I laughed, and hugged my best friend. We party, and I look back at Degrassi, seeing it's plaque, with Allison and Hunter's shoulders around me.

"Well Degrassi, thanks for all the hell of drama you thrown in my way, and…that's sculpted me to who I am." I say, and Allison smiles. Then, everyone cheers for me to sing. "What? Ok!" I agree. Nothing comes to mind, until the catchy song Mom taught me before preschool.

"Whatever it takes,

I know I can make it through

If i hold out,

I know I can make it through

Be the best (Be the best i can, and i say to you)

Whatever it takes (I know I can make it)

I know I can make it

I know I can make it through"

I sing, after a few verses, I hop off the stage, by a man in a suit. "Are you Julia Goldsworthy?" he asks. "Yep why?" I reply. "Well, I want to record a demo with you, your voice is amazing. Also, Hunter Meyers as a guitarist. You guys can make it big." He explains. "Sure! HUNTER! We're gonna be famous!" I cheer. "Way to show your excitement, green eyes." Hunter replies. We cheer, and I spend my last few hours at Degrassi.

Zac's POV, July

I walk downstairs, to Julia cheering, screaming, and calling everyone she knows. "What?" I ask. "I got in! I got into the University of Toronto! I can pursue my writing career!" Julia exclaims. Having two extremely good writers as parents can come in handy. "Nice! Congrats!" I praise. "Thanks! I gotta go tell Hunter." She answers, and runs off.

I smirked and walked to The Dot, across the street. Stephanie told me she was having breakfast there. "Hey Fitzgerald." I greet. "Hey Goldsworthy." She replies. I sat next to her, and she looked over at me. "Zac…do you wanna tell me something you've never told me?" Stephanie asked. "Well, what would that be?" I asked, taking a sip of her mocha. "Alex…he told me that a loved one died a few years ago…care to explain?" She questioned. "Ok, let's go for a walk, abonded church. (Yeah! The abounded church is even where Eli's kid hangout! Let the church last forever, lol)

We sit on a ledge, and I look over at Stephanie. "Well, I was 14 years old. I was dating Jordan Oviedo, and we had a daughter. Our daughter was barely 2 months old. At a Degrassi dance, someone shot Jordan, 3 times, they couldn't save her, her lungs stopped working, she died. I was stuck as a single dad. I gave Isabella away, 2 weeks later…and little Bella turns 2 in November." I explained, and broke down crying. "I'm sorry Zac." Stephanie whispered.

Over the next few weeks, it's been getting great, until Stephanie started acting strange. "Zac, why not?" Stephanie asks, for like the millionth time. "No! I'm not having sex with another one of my girlfriends until we're married!" I complain. "Well…let's fix that then…" Stephanie whispered. "What? No!" I yelled. "Fine then." Stephanie gave in, and walked away.

I followed after her, and looked at her. "I'm sorry." I whisper. "I get it Zac. You're not over your ex. You're just using me." Stephanie whispered. "Stephanie, Jordan's dead." I answer. "I know. Can we just take a break? For a while?" Stephanie asked. "Fine." I agreed, and stomped into my room.

"Why do you have to ruin my life? Why did I even have to meet you? What the hell even happened to Nalani? Thank god you're DEAD! I want nothing to do with you!" I yelled, and threw the picture of Isabella, Jordan and me at the hospital. "I fucking hate you!" I added, stepping on the picture.

Do you guys want this story to end when Ethan graduates High School, or would that be too long of a story. Like I said, longer chapters from now on, probably as long as this one, or a little less. Should I end this story with Zac graduating, or Ethan graduating, you pick. Oh! Thanks JJ288 for giving me an awesome and official couple name for Julia and Hunter! Mentioned by Allison in the graduation scene.

Huge kudos to anyone that can figuere out the name of the song Julia and Hunter sang, what episode it was in, what season, and describe the scene!

I FINALLY finished updating my profile, and character pics of Julia, Zac, Stephanie, Ethan, Hunter, Allison, Eli and Clare are posted, so check it out! Hey, PM me while seeing if ya could!

YAY! Degrassi Season 11 part 2 airs on FEBRUARY 24TH! I repeat, FEBRUARY 24TH. The episode is called Underneath It All and:

The title of this episode is named after the song "Underneath It All" by No new characters will be replacing the graduated seniors in the opening will mark the first appearance of Tori, Zig and Stohn has said on his Twitter that this episode will be screened in the United States and Canada simultaneously, and all episodes will be like that for the rest of the will be aired as an hour-long episode maybe the first appearance of Imogen's parents.

Go to /degrassi and find the trailer there, or go on youtube, and look it up! The main characters mentioned so far are: Tori, Zig, Maya, Eli, Imogen, Fiona, Katie, Marisol, Drew, Jake, Clare, Adam, Alli, Dave, KC, Jenna and alot others! Watch Teennick or MuchMusic on Friday, February 24th at 8 pm to see it!

Few, I felt like a commercial maker. I'm supposed to make a commercial for one of my favorite shows for Technology at school (7th grader here!) and enjoy! Wow, long author's note, and here's the end of my rambling! Review!