Holly J. Sinclair - Season 10

Season 10

Holly J. leaves New York City and returns to Degrassi for her senior year, continuing a long distance relationship with Declan, who now attends Vanderbilt Prep in New York. She also makes up with Declan's sister, Fiona who has returned from therapy in the Hamptons, the two become good friends throughout the year.

Upon her return, Holly J. discovers that her family has sold their house and will be soon moving into a more affordable apartment. This worries Holly J., as her dreams of attending Yale and being with Declan may be crushed. As she returns to Degrassi she plans to again run for student body president, although she is sure she'll win because she is the only one running, that is until Sav Bhandari decides to run against her in the race for student body president. Holly J. is determined to win, so when she asks Anya if she'll help get revenge on Sav, and get him out of the race and she agrees, Holly J. makes up a lie and tells Sav that Anya is pregnant with his child. Although this initial plan backfires when Anya switches sides when Sav decides to take her back, and Holly J. loses the student body president race, although she is made Vice President.

Holly J finds herself missing Declan, and is excited to go on a trip to tour Yale with him and others until he tells her not to show up. After doing some searching, Holly J finds pictures of Declan with another girl named Tinsley. Assuming he's cheating on her, she breaks up with him via voicemail. Declan makes a surprise visit to Degrassi and says he was being harsh to her so he wouldn't give away the surprise. He still expects Holly J to come with him to Yale though and begins paying for everything she does. After beginning to feel like a kept woman, Holly J and Declan break up for real, leaving both of them heartbroken.

Holly J later find herself lonely without Declan and begins taking an interest in Sav Bhandari, although she still has feelings for Declan. The two later start a secret relationship that was going to be something casual, and nothing serious, and would go their separate ways at the end of the year.

During the dance before winter break, Sav sings a song for Holly J, and gives him a strip tease when the two are alone. The police catch them after the school is put on lockdown and the police searched the school. After the lockdown was over, Principal Simpson told how disappointed he was in the both of them for the decisions they made. He also said that there were going to be some major changes.

Sometime after winter break, Declan returns for the award show where he will be receiving an award for the play he directed last year. He takes this as an opportunity to try to win Holly J back, and is shocked to find that Holly J and Sav have become a couple. Regardless of the news he was told, he still tries to win her back. Holly J attends a party that Declan throws, and after he makes some advances towards her, she tells him nothing is going to happen. Fiona, however, pretends to pass out drunk so Holly J and Declan can take care of her together. Afterwards, Declan starts making more advances towards her, but this time she reluctantly gives in. After that night, Holly J doesn't want to see Declan as she felt pressured into having sex with him. When Fiona tells Declan how Holly J felt, he mistakenly thought she felt he raped her. Declan decides to leave forever, but before he leaves, she tells him that she got into Yale as well, but she is going to need some time to get over what has happened. The two part ways once again.

Shortly after her night with Declan, Holly J is upset to find that Jenna has a crush on Sav. Sav tells Holly J that she kissed him, but it meant nothing and would never hurt her like that. This causes Holly J to fess up about sleeping with Declan when he visited. The two breakup and are both miserable. Jenna, feeling guilty over ruing the relationship helps get the two back together after she reunites with KC. Both Holly J and Sav realize they don't want just a "casual" relationship anymore, and that they have genuine feelings for each other. The two reconcile, get back together, and kiss.

Later on, Holly J becomes very ill while working with Chantay on a work study for Media Immersion. Although, she continually ignores her sickness and pushes herself extremely hard in order to do well. She then resorts to self medicating with many different medicines, this causes her to pass out and hit her head during a class presentation about her work study. She is sent to the hospital where the doctor tells her they must run a few tests in order to find out what's wrong, but when she remembers that she must present her ideas to a city council woman, Holly J leaves the hospital without the doctor knowing. While presenting her ideas to the council woman with Chantay, she begins to experience kidney failure which causes her to wet herself in front of the city council woman and her colleagues. She then calls her mother, and finally decides to go to the doctor. She then learns from the doctor that due to ignoring a case of strep throat for too long, the infection spread to her kidneys. Holly J is then put on a treatment of dialysis.

Shortly after, she returns to New York with Fiona so she could support Fiona in her trial against her abusive ex-boyfriend, Bobby. When she wins, Fiona kisses Holly J, as she has fallen in love with her. Fiona later comes out to Holly J as a lesbian although she is unaware of Fiona's feelings towards her.

After realizing she is not in love with Sav, she breaks-up with him. Anya then reveals that Fiona is in fact, in love with Holly J. Things then become awkward between her and Fiona, and she even tries to push Fiona onto another girl while at a dance. Although they soon patch things up, and Holly J promises Fiona nothing in their friendship will change.