Behind the Scenes

I glanced down at our hands.

"You're right, Munro," I conceded. "It's just frustrating."

"I know, Aislinn," he replied, "They will regret it one day."

Knowing Munro since I was eleven has its benefits, like him knowing exactly what to say and when to say it.

"How is your filming going?" I asked, moving the focus from me to him.

"It's good. I have been having a lot of fun." He and I had been talking about his leading role on Second Jen since he got the callback.

"That's great!" I said, smiling. I was happy he was able to bounce back so quickly after Degrassi. He had so much in the works right now, I don't know how he's balancing.

"Yeah, I wish I could see you more often, though," he said, sticking out his lower lip into a pout.

"I know," I said, quickly grabbing hold of the pout. He started to complain, but his words were unintelligible. "Sorry, it was just so tempting, honey," I let it go and gave him a quick wink. He took a second to recuperate.

"Honey?" he asked with his faint-inducing heartthrob smirk.

I blushed, but held my ground, "Yeah, what's the problem?"

"Oh, nothing, honey," he mocked me, leaning closer on the couch.

"Maybe I miss being Clare and harassing you," I offered a reasoning, leaning in as well.

"You harass me enough off-set. You always have, honey," he just couldn't let it go. And he kept moving himself closer to me.

"I do not! I'm an angel, darling," I adopted a new pet name for the boy.

"Ooh, darling, you do," his face was mere inches from mine now. It reminded me of one interview we had where we teased the audience with a kiss out of character. Was he going to kiss me? His lips stopped an inch from mine. "Do you want to watch 'Better Off Alone?" he asked, opening his eyes wide and cocking his head to the left curiously.

I let out a breath, "Yeah, sure." I was frustrated with him, but no good can come from me sitting and fuming.

"Better Off Alone" was a two-part episode in Season Ten of Degrassi. It is also the episode where mine and Munro's characters are given a reason to spend time together, which will lead them to date, and breakup, and date, and breakup, and date, and so on. It really was not a healthy relationship.

This is also where I started developing these unrequited feelings for my older cast mate. We spent more time together than any other couple in the history of the TV show, according to Stefan, and he has been on the show FOREVER.

Munro got up and rifled through his DVD shelves until he found Season ten, part one. We each got complimentary discs after they were released.

He turned on the TV and Blu-ray player and looked at the back of the DVD case to see where the episode was place among the two-sided discs.

When he found it, he popped it into the open disc tray. He then turned around to me, remotes in hand as the titles began to play. He sat back down next to me, closer than before. His musky scent washing over me. We reached the main menu and he arrowed to scene selection.

"Better Off Alone" was the first set of episodes on this side of the disc.

He pressed play and moved his arm to rest on my shoulder.