The girls are very vague about freshman year, so what will happen when the boys try to find out? And more specifically, what will they find?

March 5th 1:15 p.m. Cafeteria

"Wait here while I go grab a table for us to sit at." Eli stated. He took off jogging, leaving Clare in line to pay for her food. He left before she had a chance to reply, but she didn't mind. Clare sat there shifting from one foot to the other, and around thirty seconds later, a certain someone that she wanted to avoid came out of nowhere.

"Hey Clare, I need your advice. I know that we aren't on the best of terms, but can we put that aside for now? I need to-" K.C. started, but was cut off by Eli running back up to Clare, glaring at K.C.. Clare's ears were growing red, and her eyes never stayed in one spot for long. She fidgeted with her fingers, and slouched, ruining her perfect posture.

K.C., not in the mood to have a fight, (even thought he knew that he could beat up this Goth-kid in a second), decided to not ask Clare for advice with Jenna right now, and ask at a more appropriate time, like when she wasn't attached to the hip with Goth-kid. "I'll see you later, Clare," K.C. said in a monotone voice before staring Eli down for a second or two, and walking away.

"What did he want?" Eli asked curious, with a hint, or more like a ton, of jealousy.

"He needed some advice, but I think you just scared him away," Clare declared with an eyebrow raise and a smirk on her face. "I think your being jealous!" Clare finished happily, smirk growing into a full grin.

"Me? Jealous? In case you haven't seen, I think I'm more of the person who gives people space, I'm definitely not clingy." Eli said, slightly taken aback that Clare would call him jealous.

Clare's grin gradually became a closed-lip smile, and she spun around on her heel to face the line again after turning around to watch Eli jog off. Her neck burned with excitement and smugness. Her satisfactory smile stayed plastered on her face, and Eli regained his spot next to her after leaving his sweater and waiting for Adam at the table in the far corner.

Eli wondered what K.C. needed to ask Clare, and decided to keep a close eye on him. He secretly hoped that K.C. would somehow find a solution to his problems and not have to talk to Clare, but a thousand questions ran through his head such as: Why did Clare look uncomfortable? Why was she nervous? What connection did they have or had? Is this as serious as he thought it was? Was he overreacting?

He decided to ask Clare, but her eyes clouded over, and she promised to tell him later, but she had paled at the question, and now that this happened, he did notice how Clare refused to talk about freshman year a lot. Eli decided that if he told her about Julia, that it would finally be time for Clare to spill the beans about what happened last year. That only left one question: How was going to weasel the truth from Clare?

March 7th 1:06 p.m. Cafeteria

"I swear Adam, if you pull that joke one more time, I'm going to have a heart attack!" Clare said with a hint of annoyance as Adam pulled the fake-Simpson and pretend getting them suspended for PDA joke.

"Yeah, and I might beat you up," Eli added with sarcasm.

Adam rolled his eyes as Alli sat down at their table accompanied by Drew. Clare rolled her blue eyes at her friend. Alli knew better than to take back Drew, but once Clare realized that there was nothing she coud do about it, especially since Drew and Alli were joined together by the hip, she stopped trying to convince Alli that Drew wasn't the one.

"I'm tempted to find a janitor's closet, just so i can kiss Clare in peace." Eli said, chuckling.

"I'll help you with that, man." Drew commented. "Alli and I also need our privacy." He continued, smiling at Alli and with emphasis on also.

Alli looked at Eli and giggled while saying, "Yeah, I heard that Clare can be wild in a janitor's closet. Right, Clare?" Alli finshed smugly, with an eyebrow raised.

Clare looked at Alli, and actually glared. Alli erupted into giggles, and Eli looked at Clare quizzically, giving her a look that asked her to tell him what happened.

"Oh, it is so on!" Clare hissed at Alli. She leaned back in her chair, and folded her arms over her chest. "I heard that a certain someone can be pretty wild in a van."

Alli's eyes widened, and she smacked Clare playfully. Who knew that Saint Clare had it in her. She knew exactly what to say, and she was going to win this little argument that was shared between her and Clare. Clare smirked and laughed for a second before speaking.

"On top of that, i never got arrested!" Clare challenged before daring Alli to go on.

"Well at least it was for a good cause. HJ needed to go down in flames. Justice was finally served! And at least it was me who got arrested! I wasn't the one who put someone else in jail, little miss riot starter!"

"Coming from the girl who was frequently on the Anti-Grapevine! Let's not forget who decided to bring a little souvenir from Simpson's? Hmmm?"Clare added with some extra funk.

Alli was taken aback but this, but she let it go before things got ugly, and before Eli and Drew grew bored. She answered with a simple whatever, and took a bite from the warm chicken nuggets before something escaped her mouth that she didn't want to.

"Riot starter? Closets? What did I miss last year?" Eli asked amused.

"Same here! I have no idea about what they are talking about. You know, now that I think about it, Alli hasn't told me much about last year..." Drew added onto Eli's statement.

"Clare hasn't said much either. Care to spill, Edwards?" Adam questioned.

"How about you Bhandari? Have anything to share with the class?" Drew asked.

Simultaneously, the girls answered, "Nope, I'm not gonna say anything." They looked at each other and laughed, high-fiving each other and running out of breath. The three boys just stared at each other, the same questions in their eyes.

What happened last year?

As the girls got up early from lunch to work on a project in the library, the boys took the extra ten minutes to formulate a plan.

Adam spastically muttered, "The curiosity is going to kill me! What did each girl mean? Why are they keeping freshman year a secret? I know that there are some embarassing times, but really? What could have been that bad that they have to keep it a secret?"

"I dunno, bro," Drew said as he crossed his leg in the typical boy-way. "But, im dying to find out. I wish i knew. Alii and I tell each other everything. I bet once we find everything out, we're all gonna be like, 'oh, that makes sense', and beat each other up for not figuring it out sooner."

"How hard could it be?" Eli said simply.

"C'mon, it can't be too bad! Think like a girl, think like a girl! "Drew chanted, rubbing his temples. " A typical girl would say, Omg, lets go to the mall! blah blah blah shopping, blah blah blah makeup, but this is Alli and Clare. Alli... Alli would say something like, trust me you dont want to know, and Clare, being super-smart would say something along the lines of Thou shall never know, for i would very much enjoy to see this cause you woe."

Adam, Eli, and Drew laughed at this so hard, that at one point Drew snorted and had chocolate milk coming out of his nose. the boys laughed even harder a this, and it had been a good five minutes before they were done slapping their thighs and clutching their stomachs.

"No, but seriously, we need to concentrate." Adam finally piped up.

"What do they do in movies?" Eli said, taking a piece of doodled paper from his back pocket, and digging through his pockets to find a pencil tip that had fallen off, leaving him with less than a cetimeter of lead to write with.

"Well," Adam started, "They try and trick people into saying something."

"But the girls are way too smart to fall fot it, we would need a legit reason." Drew chimed in. "What else do the heroes do in movies?"

"They search people for gossip!" Adam spoke up, sticking a finger in the air to prove an A-Ha moment. I think we should ask Chantay Black. I heard she's the leader of the Anti-Grapevine, surely she should know!" Adam continued grinning.

"Yeah, but that's not entirely reliable. I mean, it's gossip, but who knows if shes telling the truth or not." Eli contradicted. "We could still ask her, but i need rock-hard proof.

"I know!" Drew jumped slightly out of his seat yelling. "We could look at the school's collection of yearbooks!" Drew flashed a Crest-Whitestrip commercial smile, and looked expectantly at the other two boys. They returned his look, and cheered for Drew. How did he come up with the idea? Nobody will ever know, but Eli stuffed the piece of paper in his back pocket again, and threw the remains of a tip of a pencil behind his shoulder.

"The girls are in the library too, so we can spy on them!" Today is gonna be really fun!" Adam yelped excitedly, already throwing out his lunch to start heading to the library.

"Let's go!" Drew and Eli said at the same time, both in a ridiculously happy tone.

And with that, they ran to the library, more than thrilled to start "researching".