A/N Since all of you were nice enough to review I stayed up all night writing this and continued on for most of the day. I probably would have stayed up all night anyway read more fanfiction but that's besides the point. :p

Green Eyed Chapter 2

As soon as Eli stepped out if Morty the next morning he knew something was going on. Instead of everyone avoiding him and trying their hardest not to look at him, they were all openly gaping at him.

"What the..." Eli murmured, absolutely bewildered. He had no clue why he had suddenly become so interesting to his peers. Deciding to just shrug it off, he walked towards the school in search of Clare. While he was walking across the parking lot though, he couldn't help but notice groups of whispering students. Eli was almost to the door when something caught his attention.

Chantay Black. The queen of gossip at Degrassi, had just mentioned Clare's name.

"I heard he got in a fight over her yesterday. Getting jealous when other guys tried to talk to her." Chantay was telling Anya.

"Excuse me." Eli said, taping Chantay on the shoulder. "Do you know what's up with everyone?" Chantay looked surprised that Eli had actually talked to her and looked awkwardly at Anya.

"Yeaah. Everyone's talking about it. Fitz told everyone how protective you were being of Clare Edwards. No one knew that you two were going out. So..." Chantay suddenly smiled brightly. "When'd it happen? Tell me all the details!" She practically squealed.

"Uh..." Eli said stupidly. "I gotta get to class. Bye." He hurried away before she could ask anymore awkward questions. At least he knew why everyone was studying him now. They all thought he was dating Clare, who was clearly out of his league. He found Clare standing in front of her locker. Eli was relieved to see she wasn't talking to any guys. No Fitz, no KC, none. It seemed like they'd all given up now that they thought Clare and Eli were together. He couldn't help but think that maybe everyone thinking Clare was his girlfriend could be a good thing.

"Hi Eli, I wanted to talk to you." Clare said brightly when she saw him. His stomach did a back flip, either from nervousness of her knowing what he said to Fitz or the fact that her face had lit up the moment she saw him.

"Umm..." Eli said nervously. "About what exactly?"

"Everyone seems to be talking about a fight between you and Fitz yesterday. Can you tell me what happened?" Clares eyes were questioning. Eli let out a sigh of relief. She didn't know about the girlfriend thing.

"It wasn't really a fight. More of a confrontation." Eli told her, smirking. "I don't think he'll be messing with me or you anytime soon."

"Okay. I wanted to get the story from you before I start believing some of these rumors." Clare smiled. Eli's stomach did another jolt. "I have to get to class. I'll see you later." She turned to leave when Eli grabbed her arm.

"I'll walk you to class. It's not like I'm dieing to go to world history anyway." Eli said. "I'll even be a gentleman and carry your books." He gave her a sarcastic smile, but still grabbed her binder and text book.

"Err...thanks Eli. But you really don't have to." Clare said, surprised by how he was acting.

"It's no problem." Eli put his arm around her and walked her towards her class, a plan forming in his mind.

Guys think Clare is Eli's girlfriend, they stop hitting on her. If they figure out it's not true, he'll have to go back to scaring them away and suffer the humiliation of everyone knowing he lied. So as long as he was able to make it seem like they were dating, without letting Clare know what he was up too, no one would be the wiser.

Eli worked all this out during his first class instead if listening to his teacher. And instead of doing the homework they were assigned he thought of things he could do to pull off this ruse. He'd already walked her to class, which seemed pretty couple-ly. She seemed okay with him putting his arm around her, and as soon as the bell signaling the end of class Eli pushed out the door to go find her. By the time he found her, he was out of breath from rubbing to her locker.

"Hey Blue eyes." He said as he approached her, she didn't notice him. Being to busy searching through her bag to get something. Boyfriends gave their girlfriends nicknames, so Eli had decided to start using her nickname a lot more.

"Hey." Clare said, not looking at him because she was still searching. When she finally found what she was looking for she looked up. "Did you decide to have an impromptu gym class? Your out of breath."

"Nope. I was just in such a rush to see you." Eli said, attempting to sound sarcastic for Clare's sake.

"Trying to be a gentleman again, are you?" She giggled. Eli gave her a half shrug before grabbing her binder again.

"I wouldn't complain if I were you. I'm feeling generous today so you better take advantage of it. It doesn't happen that often." Eli warned her, hoping she would just accept that as a reasonable answer.

"Well in that case I'm honored that you decide to use your day of gentlemanly-ness on me." Clare smiled. "I take it your walking me to class again?"

"You think I just grabbed your books to steal them?" Eli raised an eyebrow at her and Clare just shook her head and started walking. Eli hurried to catch up with her.

"So...you wanna have lunch together today?" Eli asked, slightly nervous.

"Don't we usually have lunch together?" Clare shot back.

"I was thinking maybe you'd wanna go to the Dot or something. I'm getting sick of the Degrassi cafeteria food." Eli examined Clare's face, trying to read her reaction. To his relief she just smiled.

"Sure. I'll meet you at Morty right after class." She said. They got to her class and Eli handed her her books, not wanting to say good-bye.

Clare walked into her media studies class and took her usual seat beside Ali.
She hadn't seen her best friend all day, even though Ali had sent her a text that morning saying they needed to talk.

"Hi Ali." Clare said as she started to get ready for class.

"Oh my God Clare! I am so mad at you!" Ali squealed. "Why didn't you tell me? I thought you were my best friend. Why would you keep this from me?"

"Keep what from you?" Clare asked, absolutely bewildered. She really had no ideas what Ali was talking about.

"Don't play dumb with me Edwards. I know all about you and you new boyfriend. Of course I had to hear it from Jenna who heard from Anya got told by Chantay who I know got conformation from Eli himself!"

"Ali. I really don't know what your talking about, unless it's about that fight between Eli and Fitz yesterday. But Eli told me about that so I still don't know what your talking about." Clare looked Ali in the eye, who seemed to finally realized Clare was telling the truth.

"Oh my God! You really don't know. Well," Ali sat up straighter looking even more excited. "That fight yesterday was about you!" Ali paused for dramatic effect, taking pleasure in the shocked look on Clare's face. "Fitz was talking bad about you around Eli.
Eli, apparently, grabbed him and told him if he ever talked to you again he would kill him. Then Fitz asked why he cared and Eli said it's because you're his girlfriend!" Ali finished her story and waited for Clare's reaction.

"H-he said I was his girlfriend!" Clare stuttered, still looking astonished.

"Yes!" Ali squealed again. Suddenly her face fell though. "Wait...are you saying that your NOT together?" Ali asked wide-eyed.

"Not as far as I know." Clare said, still trying to comprehend what she was hearing.

A/N Dun…dun…DUH. Ha ha I had fun writing Ali :p it was highly amusing lol. Anywayz, Review and I'll be sure too update faster :D not that I'm holding the last chapter hostage until I get enough reviews or anything… *cough cough*