Alli's POV

I stayed with Jenna as my only friend. I didn't mind it actually.

Around school, you'd always find KC with Bianca, maybe not kissing but enjoying each other. That breaks Jenna's heart.

Then you see Eli and Clare, always intertwined and lips connected with each other's.

I was walking down the hallway after-school once with Jenna to surprise Drew when I saw this scene:

"Drew, get off me, KC's waiting for me." Bianca said her voice rough. I saw her struggling to get her wrists free.

"Bianca, what happened to us?"

"Us, ok, there was no us. You were just a rebound from Fitz, okay?"

"You can't say that."

Bianca growled and got one wrist free. "Drew, it's over. You may not like it, but I enjoy being with KC, more than anything we did for those stupid two weeks."

"You lied for me to her, right?" She rolled her eyes.

"Yeah, I did because you're blackmailing me. Now hand over my other hoop earring or I'll put a few holes in your head."

"Jeez, these are important to you,"

"Shut up," she snatched the box out of his hands.

"I just want one more kiss,"

She kicked him in the stomach. "Eff you," she gave him the middle finger and stalked off.

"Drew!" I shouted.

He laid his head on the floor sputtering.

"Alli…" then he saw the expression on my face. "How much did you hear?"

"Enough," I hissed, "We are so over."

He wheezed. "Great,"

I walked away. I had something to make right.

Eli's POV

"Adam, has Clare been acting weird to you lately," I asked, genuinely concerned.

Adam was on the other side of the shady tree.

"A little," His voice came out strange and small... kind of strained.

"Every time she's around me she gets more nervous than she did before,"

"Maybe, I mean I know she loves you, she's going through girl things."

"What do you know about girl things?"

"More than I should," I heard him whisper.

I turned to face him.

"What—oh my god," I looked at his face's scratches and scars and bruises.

"Eli…" he started but I cut him off

"What happened?" I asked calmly, if I showed how angry and upset I was then he would tell me to let it go.

Tears squeezed out of his eyes. "Fitz," he said barely.

"Why?" I said.

"Because," he said again in the whispery tone.

"Adam…"

"Eli, I need to deal with it on my own." He said.

"Dude, no offense, but its you against Fitz, Owen, and all of them,"

"I know… but… okay… if I tell you why… you will let me deal with it, right?"

A tear ran down his scar and he winced.

It hurt him to cry.

Like hell would I let him deal with it himself, but I nod.

"I… wasn't born… Adam…" he says.

"What?"

"I was born… Adrienne." He said. "A girl,"

I was shocked, but recovered fast. He wore heavy clothing all the time, never showing you his arms or legs or even his hair.

"So?" I said.

He smiled sadly. "Well Bianca sorta like-liked me and I only told her and Bianca promised she wouldn't tell and she didn't, he figured it out. No guy would reject Bianca and either I was gay or… a girl."

"Pretty smart for a bully," I grumbled.

"He saw my clothes and how I walked and my energy and all these things…"

Adam started crying and it hurt him more when he did cry so he started to cry more and it was a vicious cycle.

Fitz was going to pay... big time.

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Stuff and Eli vs. Fitz...

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