Hey everyone! I'm back! Ok, so I know that I have been MIA for quite along time. I've had major writers block, and am back in college, and I've been extremely busy! I've really missed writing and updating my stories on here though, so when this popped into my head tonight I decided to give it another try. I'm really sorry that I haven't updated in forever, but to be honest, I didn't really think I was going to finish this story. I hope I will now though, just please bare with me, it might take some time. Anyway, you don't know how great it feels to be back! I'm so excited and I love you guys! Oh, and about all my other stories I haven't finished yet, I don't really think that I intend to finish the ones that are not done such as Making Friends With My Neighbor. I just have major writers block and don't know where to go with it. But if you really wanted me to finish the story, give me some ideas and I might consider doing it! Thank you everyone! Please read and enjoy! And please review! I've been away for so long, I am craving them! :)

Eli's POV

"Clare"...I breathed out, just barely above a whisper.

"Eli?" She asked. I didn't know whether or not her tone implied that she was happy to hear from me, or that she was surprised I was calling, and at any minute was going to hang up the phone.

"Yeah, it's me Clare. Listen please don't hang up, I think we really need to talk about some things. But first off I want to say please come back to Degrassi, we can work this out. I can't even believe that you would just leave without telling me. It really hurt Clare. I thought we were supposed to be best friends. Last time I checked best friends tell eachother EVERYTHING, and don't just ditch one another."

"Eli" She said with a sigh. "Things just got complicated, that's all. And if best friends were really supposed to tell eachother everything, then you would have told me when you started dating Sarah. Anyway, we were headed down a path that we could no longer walk down together. Let's face it, there just isn't room for three people to walk side by side on one path. Someone always has to walk behind. I'm sorry I left without telling you, but I figured it would be best. If things work out, and we end up meeting eachother again someday, then we will know that this friendship was meant to be. But until then, it's time we go our own ways. I can't walk behind forever Eli. And it's not fair to ask me to"

"But you don't get it Clare! I want to walk side by side with you on the same path. I don't want there to be three people! Just you and me. Adam told me how you really felt about me Clare, and I think It's time that we discuss this. Please, just talk to me, that's all I'm asking for. I'm not ready to end this thing here Clare, and I know you're not either, otherwise you would have hung up the phone already. Especially after you told Adam you wanted to end all ties, and basically never speak to me again. If thats what you really wanted, you wouldn't be talking to me looking for closure"

"I have to go Eli, I'm at school and class is about to start soon"

"C'mon Clare, please don't do this to me. You may not believe me when I say this, but if you hang up that phone and walk away, you'll break my heart."

"Eli..." She breathed, unsure.

"Please Clare, just talk to me, that's all I ask for"

"Ok, but I don't think that there is anything we can fix Eli"

"But we can try"

"Alright. I have to go, but meet me at my house tonight at six. We can talk then"

"Thank you Clare. You don't know what this means to me"

"Your welcome Eli, but I'm not going to get my hopes up just yet"

"I wouldn't expect anything less"

"Goodbye Eli"

"Bye Clare" I hung up the phone, and leaned my back up against one of the cold lockers in the abandoned hallway, letting out a breath of air I seemed to have been holding in through our entire conversation. Atleast she had agreed to talk to me. That's all I want. Maybe we can work this thing out. Make things go back to normal. If anything, I just want my best friend back. And maybe if things work out we could be something more. I have to let her know how I feel. Obviously we have been holding our feelings in for way to long now. That's how we got ourselves into this mess. I guess we will just have to wait and see.

I walked back into the cafeteria, headed back to Adam, my mind on nothing but Clare, when Sarah walked up to me and kissed me on the cheek. Only semi breaking me out of my thoughts. "Hey baby, wanna come sit with me? Now that Clare's gone, there is nothing keeping you sitting over at that table with the tranny. I know you were only nice to him because Clare was "supposedly" your best friend, but now that she's gone you don't have to worry about that any more. I mean, if she was really your best friend, she wouldn't have transfered schools without telling you now would she?"

"How did you know about that?"

"I may have happened to hear a tad bit of your phone call when I was headed to my locker"

"Wow, eavesdropping? Really? You know what Sarah? You don't know anything about Adam or Clare. Or me for that matter. All you ever want to do is makeout or flaunt me off to your friends every where we go like I'm some kind of shiny new purse. Well newsflash Sarah, your a bitch, and I'm not a shiny new purse. I'm not anything to you. And I don't only hang out with Adam because of Clare, I actually like Adam, he's a really great friend and person. Something you would know nothing about. So why don't you just forget about me, and go back to your little bimbo friends. Find someone else that doesn't mind being your twenty four hour arm candy, cause we're through."

"But E-Eli, wait..." I heard Sarah say as I began to walk off.

I turned around and took two steps back towards Sarah. We were now eye to eye. I looked straight into those two black coals, and then smirked at her.

"Oh, Eli, thank God. You had me worried there for a minute. I knew you weren't really serious." She said while smiling at me and beginning to wrap her arms around my neck.

I kept my smirk in place, removed her hands from around my neck, and looked her straight in the eye when I told her, "I forgot to tell you something. I'm in love with Clare. Oh, and get over yourself." I patted her gently on the cheek and walked away, my ego sky rocketing through the roof. I can't believe I just told off Sarah Jax.

I began laughing to myself when I heard, "UGGGHHH! ELI!" Across the entire cafeteria as I sat back down in my seat with Adam. I can't wait for tonight.