Clare joyfully doodled hearts on her math notebook.

"Well, somebody's in a good mood, today," said Alli as she sat down next to Clare, "I'm guessing you and Jake made up."

"Nope," said Clare and she continued to doodle with a mindless smile on her face.

"Wait, then why are you smiling? Do you know something I don't?"

Clare put her pen down, "Alli, can I ask you something?"

"Shoot."

"If one of your best friends and Drew got together, would you be mad?"

Alli's eyes widened, "Clare, does Jenna have a crush on Drew?"

"What? No, no she doesn't. But if she did, would you be mad?"

"I'm so over him Clare that I don't care who he dates, not even if she was my friend."

"That's good to know."

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As Clare was about to go to bed, she heard a tap on her window. At first, she ignored it. However, the tapping continued and she looked outside to see Jake holding a sign that said, "I'M SORRY!"

She ran downstairs to let him inside the house.

"Jake, come inside!"

"Do you accept my apology?"

"Yes! Just come inside!"

Jake walked over to Clare and gave her a kiss.

"You are so-"

"I am so what?" Said Jake, smugly.

"Cheesy."

"I'll take that as a compliment," he said as he put his arm around her.

"My Mom's not home, wanna come to my room?"

"Woah. You can read minds?"

"Shut up," Clare jokingly punched Jake in the arm.

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Clare and Jake made out on her bed, like they usually did. However, this time, Jake decided to take it a step further. Instead of kissing her lips, Jake kissed and sucked on her neck. Clare moaned and giggled. Then, she did what she thought she was supposed to do during this type of situation. She moaned his name.

Abruptly, Jake looked her in the eyes and sat up. He sat at the edge of her bed, not speaking. Clare finally got up and slid over to Jake.

"Jake, what's wrong?"

"Who's Drew?"

Clare tried to process what happened and came to the realization that she had moaned Drew's name.

Jake glared at her, "answer me, Clare! Who's Drew?"

"Drew Torres. He goes to Degrassi."

"Then how come I've never seen him before?"

"I don't know. He's in your grade, maybe you two just don't have any classes together."

"Are you cheating on me with him?"

"What? No."

"We may have-" Clare was about to reveal that she had kissed Drew but decided against it, "we may have had one date but it was before you."

Jake looked at her skeptically.

"Before Eli, actually," Clare lied, "Drew was my first kiss and you know what they say, you never forget your first kiss."

"Do you still have feelings for him?"

"No, absolutely not. There are no lingering feelings, no feelings at all," Clare lied, once again.

"So I'm the only one person you have feelings for?" Asked Jake.

"Yes."

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Drew saw Clare opening her locker and ran up to her.

"Guess what I got?"

"What?"

"Tickets to that new Fortnight movie!" He said as he pulled out two tickets from his pockets.

Clare grabbed the tickets from him, "I've been dying to see this!"

"Yeah, Adam told me that you were a fan of the series."

"Drew, that's so sweet," Clare's happiness was pushed aside by a feeling of guilt, "Drew, I don't want things to be awkward between us."

"Why would they be awkward?"

"That kiss?" Clare looked at the ground, "I think we should just be friends."

"That's all I want, Clare," lied Drew.

"Well now I feel like a conceited moron."

Drew laughed, "don't worry, us seeing this movie together will be a 'two friends hanging out' type of thing."

"That would be great."

"Alright, see ya," Drew was about to give Clare a kiss on the cheek but stopped himself.

"Ummm" Clare hesitated.

"Uhhh," Drew raised his hand, "high five!"

Clare awkwardly gave him a high five before Drew walked away.

Suddenly, Drew walked back to Clare.

"Friends don't give each others high five as goodbyes," said Drew.

Clare laughed, "Yeah you're right."

Drew opened his arms for a hug and Clare wrapped her arms around him and rested her head on his chest. They had expected it to be a quick, short hug but it turned into a long embrace.

The hug was so long-lasting that people began to stare, including Alli, Marisol, and Katie.

Drew and Clare emerged from the embrace to find people gawking at them. Embarrassed, the two went separate ways. Drew walked over to his girlfriend, Katie, put his arm around, and walked her to class. Clare stayed at her locker gathering her books.

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"So it's not Jenna."

"What?"

Alli leaned on a locker near Clare's, "You and Drew have something going on."

"Alli, I honestly don't know what you're talking about."

"Clare, I'm your best friend. You know you can tell me anything right?"

Clare took a deep breath, "Fine, I like him, Alli. But we promised to be just friends."

"I sure hope you keep that promise."

Clare shut her locker and rested her forehead on the cold metal, "What am I gonna do Alli? Drew makes me happy. Happier than Jake makes me."

"If you want my advice, stick with Jake. Drew will probably hurt you in the long run. Besides, you and Drew are both in committed relationships with other people. You're a good person, Clare. I know that you wouldn't want to hurt anybody. Especially someone who loves you. Someone like Jake."

"Thanks, Alli."

Clare didn't want to hurt Jake by being with Drew. But there was one person she was hurting by not being with Drew. Herself.