*I do not own Degrassi*
Clare POV
I woke up before Eli so I got out from his hold and grabbed some cloths. Then went to the bathroom to change and get ready for the day. When I came out Eli was still asleep so I went downstairs to find Marie, and her twins, Abby and Hope. "Morning" I said.
"Morning, what would you like to eat?" she asked as she sat down.
I sat down with her and then Zane walked out of the kitchen before I could answer. "Two scrambled eggs for my favorite nieces." He started sitting Abby's and Hope's food down in front of them and kissed there forehead. "And for their beautiful mother, a cheese and ham omelet." Then he saw me and smiled "And what can I get for you?"
I smiled and said "Same as Marie, please"
He nodded and walked back into the kitchen. "He is a great cook" Marie said.
"Stop talking about Zane, he's mine sis" Riley said.
I looked at them both funny, first Zane called the twins his nieces, now Riley is calling Marie sis, what is going on? "Clare, you ok?" Marie asked.
"What's going on?" I asked. "With the whole sis stuff."
"Oh, we grew up together, so I he is like a brother to me, so I just told the twins he is my brother" Marie said with a smile.
After a while Adam came down and kissed Marie's forehead, before sitting down. "Where's Eli?" he asked.
"Still asleep" I said. As we all finished eating, we all moved to the living room.
"Isn't today going to be warm, why don't we all go swimming and go into town tomorrow when colder?" Zane said.
"Good idea" Marie said. "Let's go get ready."
We all walked upstairs, I walked into my room and saw that Eli was still asleep. I left him to sleep he must be tired. I changed into the new swim suite and grabbed my towel running down stairs. I looked around and Marie was in a Bikini, Adam was in Swim Trunks and a black tank, and Riley and Zane were in swim trunks as well.
We all were having fun when Riley said "Let's play Chicken."
The teams broke down to Riley, Zane and me were one team and Adam, Marie and the twins were another. Marie was sitting on Adam's shoulders and I was sitting on Riley's shoulders. We started fighting and Marie got Riley and me to fall back into the water.
I couldn't get onto the dock like Marie and Adam had so Riley had come up behind me and put his hands on my waist and helped me out of the water. "Get your hands off Clare" Eli yelled and ran towards Riley and me. Riley stepped between me and Eli.
"Eli, he was just helping me out of the water. I was having trouble-" I stared but was cut off by Riley.
"You would have been here to help her, but you were too busy sleeping the day away. So I was helping my friend" he said.
Eli got right up in Riley's face and said "Stay away from my girlfriend."
"What are you going to do about it? Clare, can be friends with whoever she wants to be friends with" Riley said.
"STOP!" I yelled. Everyone looked at me. This was the first time most of them had heard me raise my voice. "Eli, Riley was just helping me out of the water because I was having trouble. He's right I would have asked you for help, but you were still asleep. Now apologize to him."
Eli glared up at Riley "Never."
I grabbed my towel and walked back to the house without another word and slammed the door shut when I got there. I walked up to my room set Eli's bag on the outside of the door and then shut and locked it.
Marie POV
I looked between Riley and Eli; then right at Eli and said "you couldn't just apologize for something you did wrong and drop it." Eli was about to say something but I cut him off "I don't want to hear, just fix it" I picked up Hope and Abby in my arms and walked off towards the house.
Riley was right next to me with Zane on out tail. When we got back to the house I saw Adam and Eli were talking. We walked upstairs and saw that Eli's bag was outside Clare's bedroom door. "Doesn't look like he has a place to stay tonight" said Riley.
I slapped Riley in the arm and said "Don't start this is just as much your fault as it is his, you made the fight worse then it needed to be."
Riley rubbed his arm and said back "But he didn't need to yell at her like that, I was just helping her."
I looked behind him and saw Zane walk out the door. "Zane, what are you doing?" I asked walking to the door after setting the twins down to get dressed. I walked out into the hall and saw that he was walking into Clare's room. "He got into Clare's room."
"He is good at helping calm people down. He helped me a lot" Riley said.
"Well that says a lot you're such a big fierce man, I'm so scared" I said with a laugh as I walked into the room again. Riley started to chase me around. "Get back here and I'll show you how fierce I am, sister" he said.
Adam walked into the twin's room where we were. "Adam, save mommy! Uncle is chasing her" Abby said.
Adam turned and saw me trapped in a corner with Riley coming closer. "Adam, help" I yelled. Riley started tickling me, and I started laughing. "Riley, NO!" Adam ran over and tried to pull Riley off him. I was surprised that he did it. I never did doubt that Adam was strong, but Riley is twice his size.
"You win, you're strong little man" Riley said to Adam.
"The winner's prizes" I said and kissed Adam's cheek.
There was a small tap at the door. We all looked and there was Eli with his bag. "Can I keep my bag in your guys room and sleep down stairs on the couch till me and Clare work things out?" he asked.
"Um… there is a closet downstairs you can keep your bag in, just in case we aren't up when you want your things, I'll show you" I said standing up.
"Thanks" he said and turned to leave with me, but turned back and looked at Riley. "Sorry, about earlier I shouldn't have over reacted."
"No problem, I'm Sorry too. I shouldn't have yelled at you in the first place. It was between you and Clare not me" Riley said.
"Ok, don't the four of us go downstairs and play a bored game. Girls, you wanna play up here or down stairs?" I asked.
"Here" the Twins both said.
Then Riley, Adam, Eli and I walked downstairs and started playing the game 'Life'. I kept looking up to see if Clare and Zane would come out, but they didn't.
