A/N- Hey guys this is my first Clare/Eli fanfiction. I love them so mucchh33. This is basically a week in the life of Clare and Eli, and each chapter will be a new day! Make sense? I sure hope so!(:
Disclaimer- I don't own degrassi, if i did Clare and Eli would be the only people in it.33
Enjoyy!(:
Monday morning started out just like all he rest of them.
5:45 am-
Clare wakes up by the sound of her feuding parents. She should of known this would happen, she has been woken up by the same sounds the past three mornings in a row. She sits up for a moment, rubbing her eyes. She can't make out any words, just muffled voices. And when she hears a door slam, and heavy footsteps run down the hallway, she has had enough. She reaches over to her night stand, where the noise canceling headphones that Eli gave her have seem to have a reserved spot. She slips them on her ears before falling back asleep.
7:43 am-
Clare's eye blink open at the sound of her pinging computer. She lays there for a moment, then realizes something. She raises her hands to the side of her head. She could of sworn she was wearing Eli's headphones. A sudden state of shock washes over her, and she sits up fast. She couldn't of lost Eli's headphones! There in her lap, she realizes, relived. She blushes, embarrassed at how much she cared about a stupid pair of headphones. Eli's headphones.
She reaches her computer, acting almost surprised that Eli has messaged her. She knew it was going to be him, though. He was really the only person that she messaged anymore, and she kind of liked it.
Eli-gold49- My chariot awaits for any young ladies that are in need of a ride to school. Plus, I hear that McDonalds makes a mean hash brown.
Clare smirks to herself, and can barley type "yes." fast enough. She spends nearly twenty minutes on what to wear, and finally decides on a pair of faded jeans and a blue button down shirt, with little lace on the sleeves. No make-up, she decides. Eli already likes her eyes the way they are.
8:12 am-
Eli leans against his hearse, arms crossed. His hair has fallen perfectly in front of his deep eyes, and he smirks because he knew that she was going to say yes before he had even asked her. She comes out even earlier than he expects, and she is pleasantly surprised to see him. He thinks she looks gorgeous, and her eyes are even prettier than he can remember, but he would never show it. Eli was cool, calm, and collected. At least, he wanted Clare to think he was.
"How long have you been waiting?" Clare asked, hurry over to enter Eli's car.
Eli blinks, entering his car as well. "I'm just really excited about those hash browns."
"Oh really?" Clare turns to him, a grin forming on her pale face. There glances caught each other for a moment, and she was frozen. He had that classic Eli face going on, the smirk and the raised eyebrow. He was so confident in himself, and Clare wished that she could be like him. She was blushing, she realized then. She cursed herself, why did a simple smirk from Eli make her that way?
"Yeah, Have you ever had one?"
8:32 am -
They sit in the Degrassi parking lot, and they laugh and talk, and eat hash browns, and Clare likes it. It takes her a while to realize the parking lot is empty, and she it late to class.
"Oh no!" Clare eyes the time on the dash board of Eli's car. She clutches her book bag fast and exit's the car. She glances at him through his open window.
"Thank for making me late."
"Anytime." He replied, and she did that cute scoff, and then she was gone, and Eli watched her walk away.
2:12 pm-
English was Clare's new favorite class, and no, it was not because the cute emo boy that was currently doodling on his fingernails with black sharpie sat in front of her. He was just, like icing on top. Strawberry icing. She had always liked strawberry icing.
Clare let out a little laugh to herself, and before she could even blink, there he was. "What are you laughing at?" He questioned, with a raised eyebrow.
Clare looked at him, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't help but blush. She bites her bottom lip and shrugs.
"Why do you do that?" Clare finally said, gesturing to the sharpie wiggling between two of Eli's fingers.
"Well, why do you do that?" Eli shoots back.
"what?"
"You always bite your bottom lip." And the Eli picks up his hand touches her lip, right where her soft lips meet her smooth, white teeth. She freezes then, and his fingers linger there, and their gazes intertwine.
"It's a," She finally speaks, her voice cracking. "Habit."
Then he smirks like he always does.
2:57 pm-
"An English assignment, on a Monday?" Eli rolls his eyes as him and Clare exited the classroom.
"Um…everybody?"
"Well, they shouldn't."
"Were going to have to meet up after school to work on it." Clare says, smiling as she sees Alli, walking down the hallway, and her eyebrows are raised at the sight of her and Eli.
"Oh, Clare." Eli turns to her, and he looks into her pretty blue eyes. "Your just trying to get me alone, aren't you? I didn't think you were into that kind of stuff."
Clare stops immediately. "what?" She shakes her head, her face beat red. "No, that's not what I meant!"
"Relax." Eli smiles, and keeps on walking. "Meet me after school, we can go to your house." He throws a wave behind his head, and Clare just stands there. My house? Clare's parents would probably die if they even saw Eli in the same room as her, with his dark clothes and black nails and creepy hearse.
Then Alli walks up, and she makes a comment about her and Eli that's makes her blush even more.
4:12 pm-
They arrive at Clare's house, and Clare sits there. She thought this whole ride what she was going to say to her parents when she walked in with an older, Goth, teenage boy.
"You know you could just tell them the truth." Eli said, as if he was reading her mind. "I mean, we are just going to work on our English project, right?" He shot her a wink before getting out of the car.
Damn, she's cute. Eli closes his eyes for a brief moment, and then Clare was next to him, with her curly hair and her pretty blue eyes and her cute smile.
"Are you coming?" She looks at him, and then he nods.
4:14 pm-
Clare stops when she notices her parents. Her mother sits at the table, tearing running down her cheeks. Her father stood, towering over her. A beer bottle clung in his hand, Clare noted. He rarely ever drinks, and it scared her.
"Clare, honey." Her mother tries to sound has calm as she can, wiping her cheeks with the back of her hand. "We need to tell you something." Clare's father scoffs, and turns away, down the hall way. "I need to tell you something." She corrects herself, and stands up, wrinkling out the creases in her dress.
She looked up then, and noticed the teenage boy standing behind Clare. He stars at her, almost angry and she doesn't know why. "Who's that?"
"Sorry." Eli says. "I'll wait outside."
Clare turns to him, shaking her head. "Don't leave." She whispers it, and she's not even sure if Eli heard her.
"I'll be right outside." He reassures her, patting her on the shoulder before he is gone.
4:17 pm-
Eli runs his fingers through his hair, walking back to his hearse. He almost hits it, and then stops. "Damn it!" He says loud, and looks down at his feet then, sticking his hands deep into his pockets. "Clare." He says her name softly, almost as a whisper. And then he repeated it, almost quieter than he did the first time. He hated those parents. He hated them so much and he didn't even know them. Anyone who made Clare feel that way deserved to be hated.
Eli turns around fast when the door slams, and there Clare stands. Her face is white and her arms are crossed hard over her chest. Eli shoots her a half smile. "How'd it go?"
She doesn't even look at him. She just passes him, and she gets back in his car.
"What are you doing?" He asks.
"Can we go somewhere else, please?"
Eli blinks. "Yeah." He enters the hearse then, and he can't stop looking at her. "Where do you want to go?"
"Anywhere."
The car ride is silent at first. He had shot her glances at every light, but she never looks back. Her face is getting paler, and her eyes are forming water in the corners, and Eli can barley stand it. He wants to stop his car and kiss her hard, and then he would tell her it was going to be okay. He didn't, of course. Instead he gripped harder on his steering wheel. Then he could hear her crying, and he tightened even harder. His knuckles were turning white, and he tried so hard to stay calm.
"There getting a divorce." She finally says, and Eli looks at her. "He was drinking." He turned to him. "He doesn't drink."
They look at each other for a moment, and for once, he's speechless. He just watches her as tears run down her cheeks and she is confused, and Eli wishes he knew what to say to make her stop. He hated seeing her so upset.
"Well, think of it this way." He finally says, his voice shaky. He has never seen her like this before. "Now you'll get twice as many presents on Christmas."
Clare laughs for Eli's sake, even though she didn't want to. She looks away to wipe her face. "I'm sorry."
"Don't be." Eli said before the light turned green, and he kept driving.
5:12 pm-
"The dot?" Clare asks. "Very original." She almost laughed at herself. Eli's sarcasm was totally rubbing off on her.
"Why thank you." He raises his eyebrows, a smirk on his face.
They order one chocolate cheese cake, and they share it. They fight over the last bite, but Eli let's Clare have it anyway. They laugh and smile together, and she almost forgets.
"That was good." Clare says, and she bites her bottom lip like she always does when Eli looks at her like that.
"Yeah."
Clare sits across from him, and she is smiling again, and Eli likes it when she does that. There is smear of chocolate on her right cheek and that makes Eli smile, and they sit there for a moment and smile at each other.
He sits up then. "Hey."
"Yeah?" She asks, but comes completely silent when he starts to lean in toward her, and she thinks he's going to kiss her, she's sure of it. But then he stops, and she can feel his breath on her lip, and he is looking at her like that. She is speechless. She watches as he wipes the chocolate of her cheek, and shows it to her.
"You had some chocolate on your cheek." he almost whispers it to her, and then he leans back in his seat.
"Thanks."
8:00 pm-
He wanted to kiss her, He really did, and he can't stop thinking about it as they drive down the street, and the sun is setting right in front of them. He stares at the rode but he really wants to look at her. Why didn't he kiss her?
"Where are we going to go now?" Eli hears Clare say.
"I figured you would want to go home." he finally looks at her, and his mouth opens, showing his teeth. The sun set is hitting her just right. "You don't seem like the night owl type."
"I don't want to go home." She says, and then she looks away, her teeth somehow meeting with her bottom lip, yet again. "Not yet."
Eli smiled at the thought of spending time with Clare. He thought of lots of places they could go together.
"The library."
That was not one of them.
"Wow, I should of known Saint Clare."
Clare laughs then. "We have an English assignment due tomorrow."
8:41 pm-
Eli talks way to loud in the library.
"Shut up!" She mumbles, hitting him in the arm.
"Ouch!" He said even louder than before. "Harassment! Somebody help!"
"Eli, it's not funny!"
"Then why are you smiling?"
Clare pauses for a moment, and then looks back down to her notebook. They sat at the table in the corner of the library, and Eli watched her as she got on her tip toes to reach books off the shelves. He smiled inwardly to himself and then looked away.
He watched her now too when she worked, her paper already filled halfway with notes. She wrote fast, but neat, and she was so into the Project that Eli almost laughed. He has almost thought that Clare had forgotten he was there until she finally closed up at him.
"Are you going to do any work?"
Eli shrugged. "That's what you're here for." He smiled at her. "Plus, you look so cute doing it."
She blushed and looked away then, and it took her a few minutes to realize that she had written Eli's name in the corner of her paper in her favorite purple pen.
11:57 pm-
They had spent the rest of the night sitting in Eli's car, drinking strawberry smoothies and listening to dead hand and telling stories. But now it was over, and Clare had to face reality.
He watched as she walked up the steps, slowly and quietly, and he didn't want her leave. He wanted her stay, and he wanted to tease her more and he wanted to watch her bite her bottom lip.
He wanted to kiss her.
He took a deep breath then, and went after her.
Clare had almost reached the door when she heard Eli say her name. It was different than all the other times he had said her name. It was soft and fragile and nervous. She smiled to herself before turning around, and she was greeted with the most pleasant surprise ever.
Eli Goldsworthy was kissing Clare Edwards. It was a strong and passionate kiss and Eli loved the way his lips felt against hers, he loved the way that curls of her hair brushed against his pale cheek, and he loved they way his neck felt when she grabbed onto it with her fingers.
She was just as much into it as he was.
A/N- oh my gosh I'm sorry it was so long! I just had so many ideas! Anyway, I just wanted to say please read and review!(: To persuade you, I will sent each person that reviews a sneak peek of the next chapter! Tempting..right? lol click that review button!
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