*PLEASE READ* This story does not follow all of the events which happened on Degrassi. Most of which stayed the same, but not everything. This story is also based on events leading up to the Colorado shooting which took place last week. My heart goes out to all the families who lost or had a loved one in the hospital 3 Enjoy!

Chapter One: The Distance

"What if he goes crazy, like last time?" Ali said.

"He's changed. He'll understand. He's been seeing his therapist and taking his pills, he's different."

Something about Ali refering to Eli as 'crazy' made me want to gag. Is that what everyone still thought? Sure Eli has messed up in the past, but he had changed. He was already attending an amazing film school and his play had done great, things for Eli had just seemed to work out for him the way he had wanted.

"Well I hope so, you don't need people talking about you dating the bipolar boy." Ali started to rise. "I need to go to the office and talk to Simpson, wanna come?"

"No," I said, shaking my head. "I should probably call Eli and let him know."

Ali and I said our goodbyes and she walked down the hallway, disappearing at the corner.

I stayed sitting outside the caf wondering how to break the news to Eli. It was our one year anniversary and he had bought tickets for a screening of the new Batman movie. Although Batman wasn't my first choice, I knew Eli wanted to see it and the cast line-up was good enough for me.

He had a 'surprise' for me which Adam wouldn't even give me hints about. Eli was trying to keep everything a huge secret and all he would tell me was what we were going to see, The Dark Knight Rises. Although I love surprises, I hate the suspense.

I checked my watch and saw that the bell was going to ring in five minutes. I gathered my books and lunch and started towards my locker.

Ever since Eli and I had got back together things had been... amazing. As cliche as it is, were crazy in love. All the problems from last year, just didn't matter. Although Eli had wanted to go to NYU, he couldn't afford to financally, but he was offered a scholarship to a film school in Colorado. As upset he was with not going to NYU, he gladly accepted and flew to the Colorado Film School in Denver.

We had talked about breaking up, seeing as he would be so far away for most of the year, but we decided what we had been through can survive the distance and was worth the shot. He comes home on all holidays and even some weekends to see his family and me.

Since school was going to be cutting to break soon, my mom had agreed to let me go see Eli and spend a few days with him. I had saved up money from working at The Dot and Starbucks to buy my plane ticket. Eli had offered to pay, but I had told him to save his money for a plane ticket back home and see me before exams.

Convincing my mom to let me go was the hardest part. Glen and Jake had helped a lot by talking her into it. Her conditions of course were to sleep in seperate beds, like she'd know, and I could only go for four days. We had origionally planned to spend the whole week together, but I'd take what I could get.

When I got upstairs Adam was standing by my locker with his binders in hand. He wasn't paying attention as I walked over, he had his eyes glued to his phone.

"Hey." I said.

"Hey." Adam said, without looking up.

"Who are you texting?"

"No one." He replied quickly.

I opened my locker and glanced at his phone from the corner of my eye. He was texting Eli. I switched my books and put what was left of my lunch on my top shelf. As I closed my locker Adam put his phone in his pocket and smiled.

"What?" I asked, suspicious.

"Nothing." He said, walking passed me towards class. I turned and ran to catch up with him.

"I miss you so much." Eli said, his face glowing from his laptop.

We had been skyping for almost two hours now. We were mostly just catching up and filling each other in on the past week. He had been really busy with editing a short film he had both filmed and directed. He wanted it to be perfect. We didn't have much time to sit down a skype, we mostly talked on the phone for a little bit or just sent quick texts.

He didn't look any different from when I saw him last month. His black hair was longer, almost covering his eyebrows. His face was skinnier, probably from only eating K.D. and canned soup. He had dark circles under his eyes, I was guessing it was from staying up and trying to make his movie the best he could in every way.

"I do too." I said into the webcam.

"But, I get to spend the entire week with you." I smiled shyly and my eyes dropped to my keyboard. "What's wrong?" Eli asked.

"I talked to my mom about it and she said I could go, but I can only stay for four days." I slowly looked up to Eli's face on my screen.

"Well, that's still better than nothing." Eli nodded. "So, are you still coming on Saturday?"

"Yeah, my mom just called the airport at the beginning of the week and changed my ticket to leave on Wednesday."

Eli smiled and sat back in his desk chair smirking. "Well that's a relief, at least I don't have to change or reschedule anything."

"You're still not going to tell me?" I pleaded. Eli smiled and shook his head.

"No way," He started. "A surprise is a surprise and I'm not going to be ruinning anything. This is going to be one of our best four days together, I promise."

We said our goodbyes soon after and signed off our computers. I had only one more day and then I'd be able to hug Eli and kiss him and tell him how much I love him. One day. One more sleep and then I'd be sleeping next to him, I'm eighteen years old and my mom couldn't stop me if she wanted to. I love Eli and respecting her wishes of coming home three days earlier was good enough.

I laid in my bed and closed my eyes, dreaming of what mine and Eli's life would be like the following year. No more planes, no more parents or highschool getting in the way.

I had applied to a few schools in Colorado. The one I really want to get into is the University of Denver. It has a great writing program and is only 20 minutes away from Eli's school and 15 minutes away from the apartment Eli is renting next month. Our plan was that I get into UD, stay in dorms for my first year and then move in with Eli that summer.

Of course everyone is saying that we wont make it, were high school crushes, not high school sweethearts. It didn't matter if people believed in us, we believed in each other and that's all we needed.

So please let me know what you think & if I should continue :) Thanks!