AN: I'm sorry I never updated my other one-shot story thing. I was finishing high school and then I went away for the whole summer. And to top it all off I got my own computer so I don't have any of my old stuff. Anywho, I met a real life chivalrous Eli this summer! I saw him every Friday night and he always opened the door and offered to pay for dinner. He was really nice. He was a pretty cool dude, a smoker though which totally ruined everything but anyway on to the story i guess.
This chapter is based off the song fine by me by Andy Grammer(total EClare song imo). While I bought the song on itunes I in no way own the rights to the song nor do I own the characters that I used in this fic.
"Pig."
"Ouch Clare! I don't even eat that much." Eli and Clare had gone to the park to work on their English papers. They had spent a solid twenty minutes working before Clare began to lose interest and drift off.
Clare looked over to Eli and rolled her eyes. "No look, a pig." She pointed up to the sky at a cloud that had a striking resemblance to a pig.
"Ha! Wow it is a pig!" Eli searched the sky for another cloud. After a few minutes he pointed to the sky, "Dog."
"Hmmm. I don't see it." Clare stared at the cloud trying to make out the dog that Eli somehow saw in it. She turned to Eli so he could show her the dog in the cloud but he wasn't across from her anymore. She looked around trying not to think Eli would ditch her while she was looking up at the sky. Clare had a distrust of men. Understandable considering what her father and KC have done to her. She shook off the panic that threatened to overcome her. Eli was different. He had always been different.
She spotted him laying down in the grass looking up, both hands behind his head. She smiled before getting up and making her way over to him. "You could've told me you were getting up."
"Sorry." He sat up and tapped the ground next to him, gesturing for Clare to sit next to him. "I wanted a better view of the sky." He layed back down putting his hands back behind his head. Clare stared at him for a minute before laying down herself.
After a few minutes Eli pointed back up to the sky. "Dragon."
"Eli I think your overactive imagination is getting to you. That is clearly a dollar sign."
He turned to look at her proping himself up on his right side and resting his head in his right hand. "A dollar sign? That is clearly a dragon. Here look." He reached over to her taking her hand in his and pointing out the different parts of the cloud dragon. In the process of showing clare the dragon they moved closer to each other, practically touching all the way down the sides of their bodies. Clare noticed this and looked away, anywhere but Eli's face. Her face turned red as she realized that she didn't really mind the contact. She actually liked it. She hoped her face had regained it's natural color as she turned to look at Eli, and with complete honesty said, "I could lay like this forever."
Eli turned and stared right back at her. It seemed like everytime he looked at her he found something new about her he couldn't live without. That's when he realized she was the girl for him, and not wanting to come on too strong and ruin the moment he simply replied, "Fine by me."