I'm sorry that I use the word "said" a lot. Its the first time I'm writing in third person omniscient and since its not first person it makes it harder(for me at least). I'm glad people are liking my new characters and thank for the reviews! (you're thinking right now, "where's the but") But,(there it is), I need more reviews! I'm not being greedy or anything, but you guys are writers too and love the fact that people tell you little things about your story too!
Enough of my tyrant, lets continue!
"Clary?" she knew that voice anywhere and a huge smile spread across her face. She turned around and came face to face with a pair of forest green eyes.
"Eli? What are you doing here?" Clary asked and pulled him into a tight hug which he returned.
"I could ask you the same thing, I thought you were still at Bardell?" Eli questioned. They were both still standing in the middle of the dot with their friends surrounding them and watching the two reconnect.
"Okay. I'm lost. So you two know each other?" Clare asked from the sidelines. Eli looked over at Clare and she looked back and they both had the same look in their eyes: regret. Clare's regret for leaving him that day at the hospital and his regret for yelling at her when he didn't take his medication.
"How about we all sit down and we'll explain everything" Clary said and they all: Fiona, Eli, Clare, Adam, Clary, Shane, and Jordan, when to a booth on the side of The Dot. Once everyone was settled Clary and Eli started to Explain.
"Clary and I were best friends-" Clary cut him off an said "Were? Okay so I don't talk to you for a year and I'm not your best friends anymore?" she teased.
"Ugh, okay. We ARE best friends, since elementary school. I remember that people in our high school thought we were dating when we were freshman" Eli chuckled and Clary continued.
"Yeah, I love you Eli, but not that way" she laughed and then said "while in the middle of our freshman year I befriended Julia Simmons" when Clary said her name everyone got quiet;everyone except Shane, Jordan, and Fiona looked at Eli. They are the only three that have no idea what happened to Eli his sophomore year at Bardell.
Shane finally decided to speak up "Who's Julia? If you don't mind me asking" Eli explained to him that it was his dead ex-girlfriend. Then Eli asked him why he and his friend are even here in the first place.
"Adam asked us to join him for lunch" Jordan explained while flattening his brown hair with his hand. Jordan was about six feet tall and had bright blue eyes like Adam has. Shane on the other hand was completely different. He has long dark brown hair, but not too long. He is about the same height as Eli, and has green eyes any girl could fall for. Clary hadn't realized she was staring at Shane until his dark green eyes met hers making herself look in the other direction feeling her cheeks burn.
Adam cleared his throat "Can you continue, this is getting interesting"
"Julia, Eli, and me were best friends since then. As the months went on Eli and Julia's feeling for each other progressed past friends. At first, when they started dating I felt like a third wheel"
"I know the feeling" Adam mumbled positive no one heard him, but Clare and Eli did and glared at him. When Eli and Clare were dating they tried to make Adam not feel like the third wheel most of the time, but failed.
"But I soon realized that they were great together..." Clary words started to fade and she was looking off into the distance at absolutely nothing.
"From that point," Eli continued, "Julia and I were together for a long time" When Eli would talk about Julia now, he would have a smile on his face. Since he has been going and talking to someone about the things that happened, he is able to remember the good times with Jules, instead of the bad. But, even when he does talk about the bad times he had with Julia, he is able to control his temper better and not get too upset.
"Then our Sophomore year came around," Clary said taking the conversation into her hands, "Eli and Julia were so close that you couldn't even get a sheet of loose leaf between them" they all laughed at Clary's joke.
"So then how did you two lose touch over the past year?" Fiona butted in. Clary and Eli looked at one another, their stares were so intense. It was like they were having a silent conversation with one another.
"Do you want to explain what happened that night or should I" Clary asked Eli.
"Do you want to? I mean, I was there. But..." Eli's words trailed off and he looked at Clare for something, but didn't know what.
Clare finally decided to speak up, "Do you want Adam and I to explain? We understand that it's hard for you guys to talk about this stuff" Clay gave Clare a confused look.
"They know what happened?" Clary questioned.
"Adam is my best friend and Clare was..."
"I'm his ex-girlfriend" Clare filled in.
"So where do you two stand now?" Clary asked and from that things got awkward and no one wanted to talk.
"Can we please stick to one story right now" Shane said breaking this awkward tension in the air.
"Do you want Adam and I to explain or do you two want to?" Clare asked again. Clary and Eli both shrugged their shoulders and Clare began to explain everything that happened that night in march; Eli and Julia got into a fight, both said something they didn't mean and she got on her bike and road off into the night.
"While riding home on her bike she got hit by a car and died on impact" Adam said. Everyone was quiet for what felt like hours, but was only minutes.
"After that, Clary and I had both been emotionally unstable. I barley remember that two months of my Sophomore year" Eli said shaking his head. Instinctively, Clare was about to reach out and take Eli's hand in hers, but stopped.
Your dating Jake now she thought. But her heart was singing a completely different song. Her heart was telling her to reach out and take his hand to reassure him that everything is okay.
"I left Bardell and transferred to Degrassi to get away from everything, but running away from your problems doesn't solve them; they just follow you" Eli spoke, thinking back to every event that happened during his junior year at Degrassi: the almost stabbing, crashing Morty into a wall, Clare breaking his heart, being diagnosed bipolar; he remembered it all.
"Eli, when you left I had no one! My sister didn't care that my best friend died, my mom made me go to a physiologist to make sure I wasn't crazy after everything that happened! You were the only friend I had left and you moved away" Clary had tears falling down her face as she whispered the last part of her tyrant.
"Clary... I had no idea, I'm so sorry" Eli said realizing that when he left he didn't just try to escape his problems but also the people he loved.
"It doesn't matter now, after a month of you being gone my mom decided that t was best for me to go away for a while. I went to New york for a year to find myself again. When Julia past I had to let the anger out in some way, so I started cutting" she lifted her arm to show everyone the scars on her upper arm. Eli's eyes went a mile wide.
"Clary..." he was lost for words. He couldn't believe that Clarissa, his best friend from elementary school, was a cutter.
"Save it. You left when I needed you around and all you did was run away. Who does that?" she questioned angrily. She stood up from the table so fast that the chair fell to the floor making a crashing noise. After that she ran out of The Dot and kept on running and stopped when someone started calling her name.
"Clary! Are you okay?" Shane asked.
"Why do you care? You don't even know me?" she started walking again with him trailing behind her.
"You seemed very upset about what happened back at The Dot, I hate seeing any girl cry and I wanted to make sure you were okay" Shane said catching up to her and stepping into her path making her crash into his chest.
He placed his hands on her waist to steady her because she lost her balance. She looked up at Shane and thought, damn, this kid is hot! She realized that she was staring at him when he smirk and said, "like what you see?"
she pulled away from him and started walking back to Degrassi and all she could think about is what her mother had said to her that morning, "Who knows, maybe you could find guy". She scoffed and continued to walk back to Degrassi.
Back at The Dot
"Shane! Where are you going?" Jordan yelled after him when he left to go after Clary.
"Well, this has been..." Jordan started, but didn't finish.
"Confusing" Clare said.
"Odd" Fiona added.
"Depressing" Adam announced.
"Horrible" Eli said and they all looked at him.
"I didn't even think about Clary when Julie died. How could I be so heartless?" he asked, more to himself than to the people around him.
This time Clare couldn't help herself, she pushed that little voice in the back of her head aside and took Eli's hand in hers. He looked up at her and she said, " You're not heartless,Eli. You were going through something very traumatizing and you couldn't help the actions that you did" she reassured him.
"Yeah, when my uncle died over the past summer I did some pretty stupid things" Jordan said then continued, " I was at sleep away camp when I found out. I was so upset that I trashed my whole cabin, and let me tell you, my roommates weren't happy" he said giving a sheepish grin.
"Adam, Jordan, can you guys help me organize my locker at school?" Fiona said out of nowhere.
"Sure" they said in unison leaving Clare and Eli by themselves.
They just sat in silence not wanting to break it by talking.
Clare was the first one to speak, "How was your summer?" she asked.
"Okay. My parents kept their word when they said they were gonna get me help, and I'm glad they did because I feel much better and actually happy" he said with a genuine smile. The same smile that still makes Clare's heart flutter and make her stomach do back flips.
"That's good" she replied with a smile. She looked down and noticed that their hands were twined together. She smiled softly and realized that whenever her and Jake held hands she felt nothing, but holding Eli's made her feel all tingly inside.
She looked up at Eli and saw that he was smirking.
"What?" she asked.
"Nothing" he said, his smirk widening.
"Sure.." she said.
"We should probably get back to school, unless you wanna skip?" he suggested and wiggled his eyebrows.
"The last time we skipped we got detention from Ms. Dawes and I had to scream at the top of my lungs. No thank you" she said trying to hold back a giggle.
"I'm sorry" Eli blurted out. Clare gave him a confused look and said, "What for?"
"Last year, I must have messed with you so much. Between what happened at Vegas night, Me crashing my hearse into a wall, and for screwing up our relationship in general. If I was able to take back everything that happened, I would. But you cant change the past, right?" he said looking down at the table.
Clare took her free hand and lifted Eli's chin so they were at eye level, "It's all water under the bridge, okay? Last year is over and this is a fresh start" she said and moved her hand so it cupped the side of his face. He leaned into her touch as she moved her thumb back and forth over his cheek. In that moment they both realized that they both missed this; each others company.
Little did both of them know that outside of The Dot, Jake had witnessed everything that had just happened between the two ex-lovers. He clenched his fists and stormed off to his red pick up truck and had a plan set.
Ohhhhh! what do you guys think so far? enjoying my made up characters? Like where things are going for Clare and Eli or Shane and Clary? And whats going on in Jake's head? Click the little review button and make my day, okay?
~MadamDegrassi354