When you walk away I count the steps that you take
Do you see how much I need you right now
When you're gone
The pieces of my heart are missing you
When you're gone
The face I came to know is missing too
When you're gone
The words I need to hear to always get me through the day and make it ok
I miss you

~When You're Gone- Avril Lavigne

Claire sighed, laying in her large empty bed, no one was with her. Well, more specifically, he wasn't with her. They'd had a fight. Again. And now she was laying in her bed with her hot salty tears steaming down her cheeks, and he... He could have been anywhere. She felt broke, not just for the fact that they'd fought, but more over the fact that they had always fighted over the most pettyless reasons.

She blamed herself, it was her fault for signing the contract with Amelie in the first time, all that time ago. She wished she hadn't. If she hadn't agreed with Amelie; she wouldn't be in any of this mess. But then her own life and the people she loved lives would be more in danger. Without the protection of the old vampire there was no doubting that herself and the other memebers of the Glass House would be dead and gone. And then she would have never met Myrnin, she didn't know whether that was good or bad, she loved Myrnin like a crazy uncle but then if she didn't know Myrnin then everything would be more simpler. Shane wouldn't be accusing her of cheating on him with Myrnin.

Another reason why it was her fault; she'd taken long to get home from the lab. She'd told Shane that she would be back by 7, in time for the romantic meal Shane had made her (which was now spread all over the kitchen floor.) Shane had organised it so carefully, he'd organised with Eve and Michael to be out of the house, he'd cooked, he'd cleaned everything. And she had to be stupid and take ages to return home.

It had been 6:50, Claire was half way through one of them experiments she couldn't name because she just made it up as she went along and she'd out it all away expecting her to hopefully just be on time to get home. But then Myrnin had appeared with donuts and tea and he looked so happy to get her to eat the donuts. He'd even got her favourite movie and had it on. Myrnin had said it was a 'thank you' present and after sitting down with him for an hour throughout that time she'd forgotten completely about Shane. Then she remembered, and she ran back to the Glass House, an hour late. She finallygot there at 8:00 a lot later than expected. She'd walked in to Shane pushing all the food off of the tables shouting and cursing in frustration.

"Shane... I'm so sorry..." She muttered softly walking quietly into the kitchen trying to not make him worse then what he already was.

"You promised me you'd be back..." Shane grunted "What did you do? Fall asleep in his bed with him beside you?! I knew what you'd been getting up to. I KNEW IT!"

"No... I-"

"Don't lie to me! That's it, I am not going to put up with your little lies any more Claire! It's over, you're killing me with all of this!" Shane shouted, walking past her and out of the house, slamming the door behind him. Claire had shrunk to the floor in tears, before he'd walked out Claire had caught the rare sight of seeing the tears in Shane's eyes, it broke her heart even more. Relationships are meant to be filed with trust aswell as love and Shane had never trusted her and it hurt her to know that she never had his trust.

The door to Claire's bedroom opened and closed, Claire opened her eyes even though she was facing away from the door. "Shane?" She asked quietly, her voice sounding broken and fragile.

"No CB, it's little old me" A voice said from behind Claire, Claire turned over to find Eve sitting on the edge of her be looking down at Claire.

"Have you seen him? Is he alright?" Claire questioned.

"We haven't seen him no, what happened?" Eve asked Claire softly.

"I was late home... H-He thought I'd slept with Myrnin... He wouldn't le-let me explain and he said it was o-over" Claire briefly explained between the sobs and tears that were now falling.

"Did you sleep with Myrnin?" Eve asked bluntly.

"No! I'd never do anything like that" Claire sobbed "See? Even you don't trust me."

"I do trust you CB, I just had to make sure" Eve said hugging Claire as she sat up.

"I'd really like to be alone for a bit..." Claire mumbled. Eve nodded and slowly got up off the bed and walked out the room softly closing the bedroom door behind her. Claire laid back down on her bed, wiping her eyes slowly and quickly falling asleep.