Clares POV

"Eli, the bell is about to ring! We need to get to English class!", I complained. Eli rolled his eyes as I grabbed his hand and pulled him down the hallway, Eli a foot behind me, even though we were holding hands. The bell rang, and my hand squeezed Eli's hand. His muscular fingers rapped around mine, and it felt comforting. He started to speed up to my pace, walking along side of me. He knew I hated being late for class, and I appreciated he at least tried to get there quicker, since the bell rang. We dove to the right, into our English class. Eli slipped into his seat in front of me, and I sat in my seat behind him. I glanced at Adam, and he rolled his eyes. I just knew what he was thinking. "Late again". I smiled to myself. I was so happy to be with Eli.

He turned around to talk to me, and said, "See, Clare? I knew we'd make it without Ms. Dawes noticing us. We never get caught." I laughed and smiled at him, just thinking about all time times we were late to class because we were kissing, or he was surprising me with some interesting place i've never been to in the school. He usually did that a lot. He had only been at Degrassi for a couple months, and he already knew the best places to hang out.

"That's because we've had too much practice, sneaking into late classes. We need to break that habit, Eli." He have me one of his cute smirks, and turned around the face the front of the class. The second he did that, the door opened up, and in came the most beautiful I've ever seen. I looked at Eli, and saw that his eyes were huge, and his mouth was open a little bit. Was...was he checking her out? She held a piece of paper in her hand, and looked around the room as if she was a baby fish and we were all sharks that were going to tear her open and eat her. She looked away from all of us, and put her eyes on Ms. Dawes. I could see Eli staring her down, absolutely astonished by her beauty. I murmured to Eli, "Who is THAT?" I waited for a response, but nothing came from Eli. Not even a realization that I said anything at all. As if I wasn't even there. The girl took three steps towards Ms. Dawes, and cleared her throat to get the teachers attention. Ms. Dawes turned around, confused for a second, then probably realized who the girl was, and she started to speak.

"Are you Ruby Dobson?" Ruby shook her head yes, and Ms. Dawes turned towards to class to speak.

"Everybody, this is Ruby Dobson. She is a new student here at Degrassi, please make her feel welcome." She turned to face Ruby, and said to her, "You can go sit in the third row to the left, third seat from the back. Right next to Eli." I usually loved Ms. Dawes, but right now, I just wanted to run her over with Eli's hearse. I was cursing at myself, Ms. Dawes, Eli, and Ruby, inside of my head as I watched Ruby walk down the isle, with a smile planted on her perfect face. She plopped down in the set next to Eli, looked at him, and her smile grew wider. Ruby was also sitting in front of Adam, and Adam looked at Ruby like she was some sort of trash that blew his way.

"So, you must be Eli, right?" I grew furious as Ruby spoke to Eli. I've never been jealous like this before. It was just the way that Eli looked at Ruby. Her smile stayed on her face, and somehow it grew a little bit. To me she looked like she was a creeper, but to Eli she looked like she was a goddess. Eli responded, "And you must be Ruby." Her face scrunched up, and it made her look like a pig.

"Don't call me Ruby. Everyone calls me Rue. Except that teacher..." Just at that moment, Ms. Dawes says to Rue, "Ruby, are you familiar with Shakespeare?" Eli laughs when Rue tried to hide her ugly piggy face. Rue replied, "Yes, I am. And could you call me Rue, please?" Ms. Dawes looked at Rue for a moment, and said, "Oh, sure thing." I could tell by Eli's eyes, that he liked Rue. Something about her gave me the chills. She made me so mad and jealous with rage. Rue looked at Eli and smiled, he looked at her and gave her the cute smirk he always gave me. I fought the urge to cry, shots of pain went up and down my throat to try and keep my cries inside of me, my eyes stung trying to keep in the water. Then, Eli looked down at his desk, his eyes closed.

I turned to Adam, whispering, "What...what is Eli doing?" He could see the pain in my eyes, and I knew Adam just wanted to pain to go away. I could tell he knew how I felt. Eli turned around to look at me, then at Adam. Adam shrugged his shoulders, not even knowing what Eli was doing or why he was doing it. I turned to face the front of the classroom, head down, picking at my fingers, and let the tears fall down my face.