Awakening-Open

[Bianca DeSousa]

She was through with her little spurt of sadness or whatever the hell it was and after the small talk with Cam the other night she was pretty sure she could handle this. She walked through the doors of Degrassi with her head held high, her heels clicking as usual with her step and she walked right over to her locker pulling out the books she would need for her first set of classes and she closed the locker and glanced up and down the hall for a moment. She leaned against her locker cooly before she spotted Drew and surprisingly the numb feeling was there but it was a good numb feeling, a feeling to where she could worry about herself and doing better for herself and if his ass decided to make up his mind thats when she would be there. She pushed herself off of her locker and walked right passed Drew, she even caught his gaze for a brief moment but she just looked right at him, gave him an unamused look and walked right on by him she wouldn't falter, not today, not any time soon again the way she had the last few days and she held her books loosely against her chest and walked to the end of the lockers and sat down by the door of her first class on the floor as she took out a nail file and began filing her nails as she smiled abit to herself, nope she wasn't going to let him get her down any more not until he was ready to actually make a decision and make her that decision and if not then fine, she'd eventually move on but for now love wasn't the most important thing any more, her grades and keeping out of trouble was important.

[Drew Torres]

His weekend was nice, he enjoyed spending time with Lilli Friday, and the rest of his weekend he spent with Adam and Dave he was out of his downed mood for now as he walked the halls of Degrassi. Drew gave a couple winks even, said some flirty words if Lilli was right about the rumors why suffice anymore? Drew was gone, so done with caring about everyone concerns if he was going to get in trouble and possibly broken up with anyways he wasn't going down feeling alone. He walked by the lockers and saw Bianca and the glare she gave him caused him to raise an eyebrow. "If looks could kill." He said forcing out a smile as he kept walking to his own locker. He saw Lilli and gave her a quick hug still in distance of Bianca's site but he wasn't doing it out of spite. He was doing it because hanging out with Lilli meant a lot to him, having a friend that wasn't mutual right Bianca, that he could actually talk to and feel normal around proved to him he didn't and shouldn't be separating himself. Drew opened his locker and looked at his scheduled, he had English first today as he grabbed his books walking into class, he say next row over and one chair in front of Bianca's looking through his phone texting away. He listened to her file, it was different for a change as he looked over his shoulder and smiled a bit clearing his throat. He wasn't the awkwardness to stop as he thought for a moment then he began to speak. "Hey Bianca, I'm doing driving test after school today, I need someone with a license to come with me, wanna tag along?" Drew said he wouldn't get his hope up but maybe just hanging out with her would kill the dead emotion that was beating in his chest. He realized a lot in his down time this weekend and he didn't want to push anymore but if she did that was fine. "We could do it as friends, and avoid awkwardness, over all I miss that alot." Drew admitted looking back at his phone shoving it into his pocket then he opened his note book, it was just a suggestion anyone could go with him really but maybe avoiding Bianca wasn't the best way to handle every thing. He'd spill to her later.

[Bianca DeSousa]

She had gotten to her feet and walked into the classroom when the door had been opened and she walked over to her seat sliding into it and continued filing her nails without a care not really paying much attention to anyone else, that was until his voice reached her ears and she glanced up briefly to listen and then back down at her nails as she thought it over. "Sure why not, gives me an excuse to not have to go straight home,"

[/color] she said airily before she put her nail file away and opened her notebook tapping her pen against it abit. "What time is the test? and where do you wanna meet after school?"[/color] she asked, she wasn't going to get into a full on conversation with him right now but maybe after school she would but her school work was abit more important and the teacher was starting to talk now and she let her eyes drift away from Drew and to the front of the classroom as she continued to tap her pen against her notebook and she listened with intent to the teacher.[/center]

[Drew Torres]

Drew listened to the teacher walk in and he went into his pocket pulling out his pen. He glances back over his shoulder, "Meet, me by the bleachers and it's at five, so we can walk around and kill time." Drew said turning back around flipping through the pages now paying attention to his work. This lecture seemed to go on forever and then he heard the work Popquiz and he shook his head looking around unamused. Drew watched the teacher hand out papers and when he got his he dropped his notebook and text book aside. Drew put his pen cap in his mouth and chewed a bit answering the questions he knew for sure first. It took him a moment to think about two questions in particular but he answered them to the best of his ability and when he heard the bell ring he reached down grabbing his books and his test as he handed it to the teacher on his way out of class, he waited for Bianca and smiled. "That was pretty intense probably got a low B but it's still passing." Drew said a little confident holding his books as he walked the hall, he had algebra 2 next. "What class you got, I can walk you." Drew offered with a smile, he was going back into his routine, he was acting like himself again and it was feeling nice.

[Bianca DeSousa]

Five...that gave a decent chunk of time to talk and walk around before hand, but she shrugged it off and she heard the word popquiz and she was surprisingly ready for it almost as soon as it hit her desk she was flying through answering the questions without a problem and she got up and handed it to the teacher and sat back down at her desk waiting for the bell. When the bell did ring she followed Drew out of the classroom and she shrugged abit at his intense comment,"It wasn't that bad, umm sure you can walk me I have science"

[/color] she replied falling into step beside him. She walked with him and when they parted ways she went through her class with ease and then her following classes. School seemed to go by alot quicker today and before she knew it the last bell rang and she gathered her things and went to her locker shoving everything into it before closing it and heading outside to the bleachers where she sat down and pulled out her nail file again and began filing her nails while she waited for Drew and she chewed the inside of her cheek in thought, she was ok, she was going to be more than ok and all she had to do was show no weakness and show no signs of fragility and she would be fine... She glanced up hearing footsteps and she looked to him,"So what do you wanna do til 5?"[/color] she asked him as she raised an eyebrow and continued to file her nails abit but kept her eyes on him.[/center]

[Drew Torres]

Drew smiled and out his arm around her walking her to her class, things felt a little better with his new mind set. But he also noted her and she was slowing becoming the Bianca he knew. Drew stood outside her class and smiled. "I'll see you later." He said smiling walking away and to his next set of classes. Drew went through his day, he was very social and when people asked him questioning him about Katie, and regarding the Rumors he ignored them, nothing was going to ruin is mood, nothing was going to bring him down. Drew made it through lunch then his last two classes and hit up his locker grabbing his bag packing only what he needed for homework and then headed outside. He walked the field and he was Bianca sitting where he asked her to meet him and he couldn't help but to smile. When he walked up and she spoke he raised his eye brow. "Hookup, what do we always do behind the bleachers." He said with a look of dead seriousness, then he smiled and shoved her playfully. "Jokin B." Drew said as he took her hand and walking on the bleachers to the top overlooking the field. Drew took a seat placing his book bag between his legs. "Just want to talk, you know see how your doing. I'm sorry about the other night, I guess I was pushing too hard, but I've come to a conclusion." Drew said with a smirk looking at the field, he watched the boys running around kicking the soccer ball for practice. He could hear the cheerleaders as well, high school was feeling a bit normal. He then directed his attention back to Bianca, he wasn't really considering her feelings, through the whole situation and he was kind of selfish, because he knew Bianca didn't care what people thought about her, he himself was different, his reputation meant a lot to him but now it was messed up anyways.

[Bianca DeSousa]

She raised her eyebrow again at his following comment and narrowed her eyes slightly until he nudged her and said he was joking, good because she really wasn't going to have it if thats what he had thought and been serious about. She listened as he spoke again and he said he had come to a conclusion, she never liked the sound of that and she shoved her nail file in the pocket of her jacket and she looked at him expectantly,"A conclusion huh? What would that be Drew? I thought you already had your conclusion the other day, so now that you've changed that, whats your newest conclusion, the audience is dying to hear,"

[/color] she said as she shoved both hands in her jacket pocket and then pulled her eyes from him to look down at her open toed heels and she clicked one against the bleacher beneath her feet, she really wasn't wanting to hear his conclusions if they had anything to do with saving his reputational ass, a reputation was simply that and reputations could be changed and earned and he never seemed to get that just because you had a reputation didn't mean it couldn't be changed for the better...and honestly he needed a reputation change for the better if she had an opinion but then again that could also end up not including her in that change which she didn't want to imagine.[/center]

[Drew Torres]

Drew listened to her toss him an attitude and he sucked his teeth a boy laying down on the bleachers and he looked up at the sky. It was blue and the slightly scattered clouds made it even more beautiful. He was actually realizing the little things in life now and he knew this was a good thing and then he felt his phone vibrate and he looked at it raising his eyebrow and swallowing his spit ruffling his hair in disbelief. It was Katie, she was getting out within the next two days and now this made him a bit more nervous and he looked at Bianca. "My conclusion was stupid." Drew explained while texting back a little smiley face and the words we need to talk. He wasn't letting Bianca make his decision, but he couldn't hide what he had done. "It was something like this, I'm going to get in trouble, or broken up with anyways she isn't going to stick by my side. I'm pretty sure of it and I don't want you to think your my default girl, so I just want to work on being friends, avoiding you is like ignoring the fact that it's raining in a desert, it's not the same and I don't like it." Drew said shoving his cell into his pocket, he was going to be stressed now and mess up on his driving test. He was unsure what Bianca would say now if she'd flip or she actually felt the same way.

[Bianca DeSousa]

She watched as he took out his cellphone and she watched his expression closely and had a feeling that things were going to be coming abit quicker than they had thought. She reached up taking a lock of her hair and twirling it between her fingers as she drank in his words and she chewed the inside of her cheek in contemplation of it all and she scooted over and picked up his head placing it in her lap before absent mindedly running her fingers through his hair."Friends... fine thats fine,"

[/color] she couldn't exactly tell him her thoughts that Cam had made her realize the other day so she just agreed with him because the thoughts she had were to try and make things work with him as friends anyway, they were a tad bit more in depth but she didn't need to tell him that. She continued to play with his hair as she glanced over across the field,"She's comin home sooner than ya thought huh? Your expressions on your face are quite easy to read there Drew,"[/color] she said as she kept her eyes on the field though, she couldn't look at him right now, she had to keep her head held high and not fall back into temptation if things were going to ever go further than friends again she was determined that Katie be out of the picture next time and that Drew actually have his decision set in stone, she was done with the cat fights and having her claws out for him, she needed to turn that into her school work productivity instead and leave the fighting for when it was called for.[/center]

[Drew Torres]

Drew looked up at Bianca and he was soothed when she started to play with his hair and he closed his eyes and noted her pause after friends. He smiled a bit and when she caught on to his text he chewed his bottom lip. "Yeah, she is... but I'm not changing my mind, I'm going to tell her that I love you and what I did and if she cries she cries if she gets mad she does I can't control what she is going to do. I'm just scared of losing her completely..." Drew admitted getting up his expression changed and he looked around at the cheerleaders doing back flips, he saw Lilli and smiled. "You know what? I don't care anymore, I don't care Bianca because...I'm sick, so sick of living in this high school world where I always have a set standard. This is the way Drew Torres should act." Drew said looking around a bit more, he was talking a bit loud and getting a bit amped actually. He then turned his head to Bianca. "Why? Why is it your the only one who doesn't set standards for me and makes everything I do seem wrong?" Drew said, in his mind he answered his own question sarcastically because she is always the one making the decisions with you He smiled a bit and continued to ramble. "I want to be everything I am when I'm around you, for them but it's not that simple because that's not how Drew Torres should act. I'm sorry mood swing but I have to get this out." Drew said looking over the field. "I'm only human, I make mistakes, I'm not PERFECT!" Drew shouted watching eyes direct his way and he looked at Bianca and tried to hide back a laugh but he couldn't and he walked over and pulled her to her feet and took her hand in his. "Shout with me it feels nice." Drew said looking at her as he leaned down and kissed her cheek. Then he looked back to the people. "We're not PERFECT!" He shouted, he didn't care that the sports teams were looking at him, he was being himself and he liked this feeling as he got ready to shout again hoping Bianca would chime in.

[Bianca DeSousa]

She watched as he spoke and then he got to his feet and she tilted her head observing him and the words he spoke now made her smile as she got to her feet beside him and she listened and looked out onto the field as he was doing. "You tell her whatever you want Drew Torres and if she tries to tell you you can't do something, you tell her you can do whatever you want"

[/color]she said with a smile and a scrunch of her nose. She smiled abit more when he said she was the only one who didn't really judge him and she giggled abit and playfully shoved him,"You wanna know why that is Drew Torres? Thats because I love you for exactly who you are not what other people want you to be,"[/color] she explained and he began to yell that he wasn't perfect and when he pulled her beside him and told her to try it she began yelling with him,"We're not PERFECT!!!"[/color] she hollered and though eyes were on them, Bianca enjoyed eyes on her as it was and she giggled and at that she grabbed Drew by the hand, picked up his backpack for him and she dragged him down the bleachers and toward the parking lot to her car. When they reached her car she opened the backseat door and sat inside scooting all the way over before patting the empty seat beside her,"Come join me hun, lets talk about this abit more,"[/color] she urged with a smile at him and a wink.[/center]

[Drew Torres]

Drew smiled when she joined him and he put his arm around her shoulders and felt happy for the first time in days. When she spoke of why he could act himself around her he blushed a little looking away and when his face met hers again he was a bright shade of pink. Drew grabbed his bag and walked down the bleachers and he put his arm around Bianca and walked past all the people that were just staring at him. "What I'm not." He said directing his comment to some of the cheerleaders, then he looked back at Bianca and smiled a little shrugged. Drew got another text and he scowled at Katie's text about talking and he noted the time, then turned his phone off. "Don't want to hear it." Drew said referring to his text. When they got to the parking lot he watched Bianca open the back door and he crawling in with her closing the door. He got comfortable and put his arm around her pulling her close and he looked down into her brown eyes and smiled kissing her forehead. "I love you troublemaker." Drew said thinking on what else that should talk about but he'd let her bring up whatever she wanted to discuss for now.

[Bianca DeSousa]

Bianca glared down the staring people, she'd punch faces in if need be if they decided to go opening their mouths for no reason in business that wasn't theirs. When Drew slid into the car with her and pulled her closer she looked up at him with her brown eyes and she grinned when he kissed her forehead,"I love you too drew,"

[/color] she said with the utmost sincerity in her voice and she rested her head on his shoulder now and reached for his free hand taking it in both of hers and toying with his hand as she looked at their hands,"Do you really think she'll break up with you? I mean if she loves you she might...just might want to stay with you and work things out with you...then what are you gonna do?"[/color] it was a logical enough question and she knew it was a possibility because Katie may very well blame Bianca for everything and try and stay with Drew instead of leaving him. She turned his hand so his palm was facing up and she placed her hand right on his and she smiled abit,"You are perfect Drew, even though we yelled saying we weren't, you are,"[/color] she said softly as she glanced up at him now and winked abit.[/center]

[Drew Torres]

Drew looked down at her holding his hand and he wiggled his fingers a bit and thought for a moment about her question. Drew exhaled and looked at Bianca. "What would I do, I'd tell her I couldn't be with her because although I loved her, it faded and I can't go on pretending like everything is okay when it wasn't no matter how hard she tried." Drew chewed the inside of his cheek and looked out the window of the car for a moment, Katie taught him a lot but having her away just made him move on, and he fell back in love with Bianca. But he wouldn't go and say it like that he'd take Katie's feeling into consideration as well. "I'm perfect, only to you like you are to me." Drew replied looking back over at Bianca he took her hand and brought it to his lips kissing her knuckles. "I'm sorry I dragged you along on this messed up journey, but I'm glad you stayed." Drew said letting go of her hand as reaching over for her thigh, squeezing a bit. Drew leaned in bringing his lips to Bianca's ear and whispered. "I could never stay with her, because I know what that would do to you, and what it would do to me, and I couldn't break 'us' like that." Drew said kissing right under her ear. He stayed close and inhaled again thinking about the other night. "I didn't want to make you leave the other night, you looked quite beautiful, I was foolish to push you away but promise me this. No matter how hard I push, don't leave me." Drew said in all seriousness. "I would be lost, more then I am now." He mumbled closing his eyes a bit, realizing he really couldn't live with out Bianca in his life.

[Bianca DeSousa]

She listened with intent and when he moved his fingers she smiled and she wiggled hers back as she drank in every single word he spoke, her heart began skipping beats and when he brought her hand to his lips she looked up into his eyes. "Drew don't be sorry, I put you through a lot too, your not the only one who has put someone through something, and I am sorry I ever hurt you,"

[/color] she whispered when he let go of her hand she reached up and touched his cheek running her fingertips along his cheek to his jaw as he squeezed her thigh and she inhaled abit and bit her bottom lip as he got close and whispered in her ear and it gave her chills as she closed her eyes listening,"I'm glad you don't want to break us Drew...I'm so happy"[/color] she whispered as she felt his breath near her ear and neck and she shivered her heart racing as she ran her fingertips from his jawline to the back of his neck. "I'll never stop fighting for you Drew or staying by your side, I'm not going to leave you, never I promise,"[/color] she vowed whispering against his ear as she kept her eyes closed and kept him close her, her chest against his and she breathed in shallow and deep trying to control her racing heart as it wanted to jump out of her chest. She pulled away ever so slightly as she opened her eyes and only shifted to rest her forehead against his,"Look at me Drew,"[/color] she whispered and when he opened his eyes she smiled,"I love you, more then you could possibly imagine,"[/color] she whispered.[/center]