A/N: Long time, no see, sorry its been so long. I've been busy with living and having writers block. It's coming up on my 5 year High School reunion and I was inspired to write some EClare at 7:30 on a Sunday morning. So here it goes.

Clare's Point of View

I'd been dreading it for over a month now. Ever since I got the announcement in the mail. My five year High School reunion.

There was something awful about being back in Toronto. Being in the place I once called home. My mom and step father still lived there but it was in no shape or form still my home. Home, was a cluttered studio apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhatten, New York, where my rent was higher then I could afford and my neighbors were louder then the fire alarm. But it was mine, and the rusty porch-my fire escape-was the one place I could clear my head in the concrete jungle.

As a journalism student at Columbia University receiving her Masters, I was pretty busy with an over the top schedule as a full time student and a full time bar tender/restaurant manager, not my job prefference, but that will come in due time. I wrote a fashion blog on the side and was just finishing with my first novel, "Finding Fireflies." My life was busy, and I, in no way, had time for any relationships, at least that is what I told Alli five minutes ago when she accosted me in the girls bathroom with a baby on her hip.

I sipped at my Pomegranate Margarita, the syrup and alcohol mixing seductively on my tongue as I watched everyone around me. Fiona Coyne was kissing Imogen Moreno's neck in a sickeningly sweet public display of affection, and my step-brother/ex boyfriend Jake was holding Jenna just a little too closely on the dance floor. I felt lonely there, surrounded by couples, paired off at such a young age. I didn't even notice K.C. behind me until I heard him speek.

"-and that's Clare, one of my ex girlfriends." I didn't have to turn around to know he was explaining our high school to his significant other.

"Oh, she's pretty, what exactly drew you to her in the first place?" The woman was nosey, thats for sure.

"She's one of the most intelligent women I've ever met,he told her, I smiled glad that I still had such a lasting impression on him. "But those breasts were what kept me around a bit longer."

I stopped smiling, disgusted with what he was saying, my brains and my breasts, thats the best he could do? I was thouroughly insulted. What about my charming wit? Or my compassionate heart? Why were men such pigs? I tell everyone that the reason I can't be in a relationship is because I don't have time, the truth is I don't want to spend all of my time with an unkosher animal.

I watched the door sullenly, I wish I had stayed home.

Eli's Point of View

I've been watching her for an hour, her smooth luminescent skin, her bright blue eyes, her auburn curls. I felt like I was sixteen again, only this time stable.

She sat at a table decorated in blue and gold, a slinky black dress skimming her body, probably silk. All I wanted to do was fist one hand in her hair the other in her dress and kiss her senseless.

"Dude, what are you doing?Adam interrupted my thoughts.

I turned to look at him. He's more manly then I am now, with a broad chest and a stubbly beard, the only thing that was anything remotely high school Adam were the eyes. Even post operation, he was obviously Adam Torres.

"Nothing,I muttered, he looked at me like I was crazy.

"I thought you were over her?"

I rolled my eyes.

"It's impossible to get over Clare Edwards, just ask Jake or K.C...or your brother." I spit the last part out, still upset with Drew for dating Clare during her time at U of T.

"He's married to Bianca," Adam protested, and all I had to do was point in the direction of Clare, where Drew had dragged his wife, and where, it seemed, they were having a pleasant conversation. "Oh."

Nobody gets over Clare Edwards.

A/N: I know it's short, but this is more of a test to see what kind of reactions I'll get. I'll hopefully hace Closest to Heaven updated soon, I've been ridiculously busy with life, so I apologize for my lack of updates. I work 2 jobs and have a social life so it's hard to find time to write (considering my work hours are 7-7). Tell me what you think!

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