Summary: Eli lost the only person he thought he could count on… so to cope he turned to drugs and alcohol, and shutting off any kind of relationships with people… Clare lost her innocence in the worst possible way…. To cope she turned to self-harm, drugs, alcohol, and multiple suicide attempts. What happens when they both get sent to a boarding school for troubled kids? Will they find better ways to cope with the tragedies they have been through? More importantly will they find the love that both of them thought the NEVER would find much less deserve?

Eli POV

I can't believe this… can't fucking believe that I'm being sent to this hell hole for 'troubled teens' because I have been 'acting out'. So what I drank alcohol, pop pills, and smoke weed. I don't see why it's such a big deal for me to be here. I mean going to this school isn't going to change me back into the son my parents want because the truth is he died when she did and they should just get used to me like this instead of wasting money for this school. Right now I'm stuck on the bus that is supposed to take me there… I see this dude with a beanie that seriously looks too feminine to be a guy, but I guess some guys take after their mom a little too much. I sat here lookout the window listening to my favourite band The Dead Hand on my ipod. I felt some one poke my shoulder, I take an earphone out and turn around and notice it's the dude with the beanie.

"Can I help you" I give him my 'what the fuck do you want look'. I notice he looks down and I sort of feel bad… wait I don't give a shit about other people.

"Umm… I w-was wonderin' if I c-could sit here" I look him up and down I just shrug and put my ear phone back in. He sits down

"T-thanks" I just nod my head at him and finally the damn bus starts moving. I notice the guy next to me pulls a comic book… 'The Goon' I fucking love that comic…

"The Goon…Eh?" I ask nodding toward the comic. He looks at me and smiles. "Y-yeah… you read comics"

"Hell yeah dude… I fuckin' love comics." I smirk at him. "Cool… the name's Adam." He points to himself.

"Eli… look dude I'm sorry about before its just I'm not exactly thrilled be to going where I'm headed."

"No problem… so I take it your headed to 'Degrassi: The school that will turn your wild and troubled teens into prim and proper law abiding citizens'" I laugh. "Yep, that would be THE place… you headed there too?"

"Yeah… unfornatley ." We stopped talking for awhile after that… as much as I hate the idea of having friends especially after the accident I decided I would be friends with this guy because it would mean I wouldn't have to be alone for a whole year.

"So Adam… " he looks up at me from his comic…" I think we should be friends.. you know talk about comics and stuff." After I say that I feel extremely embarrassed because Me Eli Goldsworthy has NEVER asked someone to be my friend it just sort of happens.

He smiles. "s-sure… I'd like that it would suck to be alone or whatever" I noticed we are at the bus station. Once me and Adam get off, we get our things and head over to the shuttle that transports us to the actual school. I noticed there were other kids there probably going to hell along with me and Adam. As we approach the shuttle I notice this girl, with short auburn hair in curls, in a yellow sundress with white flats and a jean jacket on… she looks far from 'troubled' like the rest of us. One of the guys that was on the bus walked by her and grabbed her ass… I don't know why but that made my blood boil she turns around but the guy already left that's when I notice her eyes the big, beautiful, big eyes. I thought about going over to ask if she was okay, but I don't do that the old Eli would but not this one not after her. So I head to the shuttle to get on and try to forget about any thoughts I have about blue eyes over there.