DONT OWN DEGRASSI :P 3
Chapter 12
Eli P.O.V
I woke up to the sunlight filling up my eyes. I squinted quickly and looked to see what time my alarm clock said. 10:24.
I was supposed to meet Adam and Clare today but Clare had to call Adam and ask him if he could hang out with us. I reached for my phone on my night table and dialed Clare's number.
"Hello?" She said with the most beautiful voice in the world
"Hey, Clare."
"Hi Eli." She said
"Did you call Adam?" I asked
"Yep and he said yes. We can all meet at my house at 2:00." She stated perfectly
"Okay, no problem." I said
"You can come early if you want, to keep me company. My mom's at work..."
"Is Clare Edwards scared?" I joked
"Yes. Clare Edwards is scared." She laughed "You know I hate being alone in a house."
"I'll be over at 12:00." I smirked
"Okay, sounds great." I can imagine her beautiful smile
"Bye Clare."
"Bye."
I hung up and went to take a shower. Then I got dressed. I put on a white button down with a pair of black skinny jeans. I went downstairs and poured myself a bowl of cereal. As I was eating, my mom came downstairs.
"Morning, honey." She said pouring herself a cup of coffee
"Morning, mom." I said while stuffing cereal in my mouth
"You're all dressed up. Where are you headed?" She said sitting down on a chair in the kitchen
"I'm headed to Clare's."
"Clare's? You guys have been getting along now." She smiled "Are you guys started back up again?"
"...She said she needed time to get over Jake, then she'd give me 'a second chance.'"
"Well, I'm glad to hear you guys are getting along." She said and took a sip of her coffee
"Hey where's Bullfrog?" I said standing up and and taking my empty cereal bowl to the sinkTour
"Work." She said "I'm gonna run some errands myself. I need to go grocery shopping."
"Okay." I said. I went upstairs to brush my teeth. It was 11:33 so I decided to watch some TV for 15 minutes. I fell on the couch and flipped through the channels. I finally found a program. Dead Hand Concert Tour 2012.
As I watched the program and listened to the awesome music, I checked my phone and Adam texted me.
I'll see you at 2:00
-Adam
I smirked and typed a quick message.
We still don't even know exactly what we're doing. We'll figure it out, hahahaha.
-Eli
A message quickly came back.
Typical, spontaneous Eli. :^D
-Adam
I rolled my eyes at Adam's stupid smiley face.
Haha, very funny. And stop it with the cheesy smiley faces.
-Eli
Fine! See you at 2:00 Eli!
-Adam
I checked the time and it was 11:50, I should get going. I turned the TV off and put my phone in my pocket. Grabbing my earplugs, I yelled from the bottom of the stairs, "Bye Mom!"
"Bye baby boy! Have a great time!" She yelled from her room
I walked out the door and plugged the earphones in my phone and started walking. I skipped to a random song which was Paisley Jacket by Dead Hand. I loved the song. I remembered sneaking out the concert with Adam and Sav. Those were the good days. After Clare and I broke up...everything was so different. But at least we're becoming friends again. Adam, Clare and I are all being reunited. I remember when I met Clare, and how we hung out. My mind drifted to a flashback.
FLASHBACK:
We were sitting on 'our' bench. We had skipped class to work on our assignments.
Eli: Wow this is a first. Skipping school to do work.
Clare: Hey! I just don't how you got an A and I got a C!
Eli: Simple...I'm dating Ms. Dawes
Clare made a confused look
Eli: You're a good writer but anyone could have handed this piece. There's no point of view.
Clare: Fine, what am I supposed to write about?
Eli: Something that pisses you off
Clare: Besides my english partner?
Eli: Ouch! If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?
Clare: My mom and dad...they're not exactly getting along
Eli: So write about that
Clare: I can't, it's personal
Eli: You care to much about what people think
Clare: That is not true.
Eli: Prove it. Scream, at the top of your lungs
Clare struggled to do so letting out a quiet shout
Eli: That's the best you can do?
Clare got up and let out a loud scream
Clare: AHHHHHHHHHHH! Your turn!
Eli: Yeah...not my style
Clare: What? You have to do it
Eli: It's not my style
Clare: You have to-uhhhh
The two of them back up by a flagpole were inches away from each other's face
END OF FLASHBACK
Eli P.O.V
I missed those days. Clare and I...were friends but more than friends. Just...everything was balanced perfectly. Until...I ruined it. Julia ruined it. I couldn't control the feeling...the feeling of losing Clare like I lost Julia. It became to much for Clare to handle. She had to do the right thing for herself. I could hear her words echoing in my head:
"Spring is a time for birth and renewal...not us." Her voice broke
"We need to break up." She pleaded
"Did you hear me? We're not meant to be together!" She shouted
"Eli! ELI ANSWER ME!" She screamed
That's when the hearse crashed. I destroyed it because...she said she hated it. I also knew I could see her if...I crashed my car. I didn't mean to manipulate her...I wasn't thinking...I was crazy.
I got closer to her house and walked up the front steps. I took out my earplugs and phone and put it on my pocket. I rang the doorbell and waited until a bright and beautiful Clare welcomed me in the doorway.
"Hey!" She grabbed my hand pulling me in.
"Hi." I said, pushing the thoughts from before out of my head
"So I decided that the three of us can go to the church to talk and maybe a picnic and then we can all go to the movies and then come back and relax!" She smiled as she plopped herself on the couch.
"Sounds great." I said studying her. She looked beautiful. She was wearing a white collared button up tucked in, in her knee length blue skirt with white polkadots on it. She wore a black belt around the middle and a navy blue cardigan sweater on top. She wore converse. Her hair was perfectly curled and a one inch section of the front of her hair clipped to the back.
"Where's Jake? Glen?" I asked
"Mom's at work and so is Glen. Jake went out with some friends, I think."
"Cool." I said nodding
"So what do you wanna do for the time being?" She asked
"Prank calls." I smirked
"Prank calls?" She said shaking her head with a confused look
"Fine. Uh, let's bake cupcakes." I said laughing
"Eli." She said laughing "Are you okay?"
"Never better." I said laughing "Why don't we...go outside."
"And do what?" She said tilting her head...she was so cute.
"Watch the clouds, play hide and seek."
"Hide and seek?" She asked and thought for a moment "Okay!"
We ran outside like little kids. And I counted. "Go hide Blue eyes!" I yelled "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!"
I walked around her house but there was no sight of Clare. I looked behind some trees, no Clare. I went and looked down the sidewalk, no Clare. In the shed, no Clare. I sighed, where could she be? I walked around the house once more, until I heard movement. Behind her mother's other car. I smirked. I walked towards the car to a Clare bending down next to the car looking up at me.
"You found me." She smiled
"I did." I said.
After that, I hid and she found be hiding behind a bush. We sat and watched the clouds for a while. Most of the clouds were getting to be shades of grey and up to almost black. The sun was slowly being blocked by passing clouds. Soon, the sky was filled with grey to dark grey clouds.
Suddenly it started to drizzle. I looked up to the sky one last time until Clare and I ran inside the house and I walked towards the couch. As I saw Clare close the door, I tripped on my own foot and went flying on the floor.
"Dammit!" I said laughing
Clare was laughing so hard. "I-I s-s-saw...the w-whole t-t-thing." She stuttered being cut off by her own laughs. I got up. I threw myself on the couch still laughing. I glanced at my phone which read 1:40.
"Adam will be here soon." I said while Clare sat next to me
"Text him." Clare said
My phone rang. The caller ID read Adam. "Speak of the devil." I smirked, picking it up and putting it on speaker.
"Hey!" I said
"Hi, I will be there in 3 minutes. I'm walking...it's raining."
"Haha, your luck." I said laughing
"Very funny." He said "You try walking in the rain."
"Okay, calm down Mr. Man-Who-Doesn't-Carry-An-Umbrella." I said laughing more and Clare was laughing too.
"Eli just open the fucking door, I'm at the door-step." Clare was still laughing and she got up to open the door.
"Hey Adam!" I heard her call
"Hi Clare." He said as they appeared in the room
"Adam, your not that wet, not at all." I said looking at him
"I'm what you call damp, and I'm still cold." He said shivering
"Well, we can wait until it stops raining to go the picnic. It looks like it's starting to clear up." Clare said looking out the window, holding the curtain.\
"No problem!" Adam said with his head in Clare's fridge
Clare and I looked at each other and laughed
"What's so funny?" Adam turned around with whipped cream in his mouth, you couldn't even understand what he was saying.
That's what set me and Clare off. We started laughing so hard, we could not control ourselves.
"What?" He said speaking through the whipped cream which made us laugh harder. Typical Adam with every kind of food in his mouth and try to speak with all of it in his mouth!
While we calmed down, Adam handed Clare and a soda and the three of us relaxed while the rain stopped.
Clare P.O.V
When the rain stopped, I grabbed the picnic basket and the three of us were out the door. The abandoned church was only 5-10 minutes away from my house, walking. We all kept each other entertained with our stories, and laughter.
We got there and set up our stuff. We remembered the good times we all had.
"Wow! Guys this place brings back so many memories. That secret party we had was really great!" Adam said
"Yeah it was a lot of fun!" I said
"We did a good job with that and a lot of people came!" Eli said taking a sip of water
"Except for Fiona." Adam frowned "But besides that, it was great!"
Then the conversation drifted off to different stuff.
"Eli? Remember the fight with Fitz and then Clare set off that stink bomb!" Adam laughed
"Yeah! We had an idea it was her though." Eli laughed at the memory
"I did it to protect you guys! I couldn't let him beat my friends up." I smiled
"It was sweet." Eli smirked
"I couldn't believe that Clare Edwards would do something like that!" Adam laughed
"You'd be surprised!" Eli said looking and me and chuckling
The three of us stayed at the abandoned church for the rest of the day. We forgot about the movie because we had so much fun talking about the old times. I don't think I laughed this much in a while. We even talked about when Adam told us about him and his secret. That was a beautiful moment. We even talked about how the three of us really even started hanging out. Later on it was 6:00 and we packed up and walked back to my house.
We watched TV for a while until Adam went home.
"That was a lot of fun." Eli said
"The three of us never run out of things to talk about." I laughed
"Yeah." Eli smirked
"We should all do this again. I love us all hanging out again."
"Yeah, I miss this." Eli said
Then Jake came through the door.
"Oh...hey Eli." Jake said "Hey Clare."
"Hey." Eli said "I should get home. See you tomorrow Clare!"
"Bye Eli!" I said as he grabbed his jacket and walked out the door.
"So. You and Eli seem to be getting along." Jake smiled, I could see he was trying
"Yup, it's great that it's not awkward." I said shutting off the TV.
"Are you guys dating?" He asked wiggling his eyebrows
"...Not yet." I said smiling
"I hope everything works out." Jake smirked
"Thanks Jake, I'm glad we are getting along." I said. Jake and I shared a friendly moment, it was glad to see that we were good friends. And not good enemies anymore.
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