Ok soooo since a lot of ppl liked my last song fic i decided to make another one! but this time for a completely different fandom! This time i will being using another Taylor Swift song -but all you rockers out there just hear me out- i know that because the song is country you guys wont want to read it but i promise you the story its self should be pretty good even if it is based on a country song. Trust me I am a rocker at heart but i like almost all kinds of music and i thought this would be perfect to base a fic on.

p.s. I did change a few things, like a lil bit of the personality(but not much) and i had change eli's parents to make them fit better into the story.

~~~~~freakxlover~~~~~

P.O.V. Clare Edwards Age 7

"Clare! Come on honey! We are going to be late for the party at the Goldsworthy's!" My mother called up the stairs for me.

It was around 3 p.m. on a hot summer day. We had recently gained new neighbors. The Goldsworthy's. They were odd people to say the least. They all talked normal but they looked as if they worshiped the devil! Granted i may not have ever seen their son, but I did hear plenty about him from the neighboring kids that had snuck a peek of him. Why my mother accepted their invite to this party in the first place is beyond me.

I suppose she was just being her nosy self as usual. She wanted to learn every thing about the new neighbors, so she would have a new topic at Sunday brunch with the other housewives. I may only be seven years old but I am told that I am very smart for my age. There are somethings that i just know. One of which is that my mother loves to gossip. Another, is that I WILL NOT, i repeat, WILL NOT, change my opinion on those darn Goldsworthy's for the rest of my life.

Within the next ten minutes my family and I were all walking across the street to the two-story tall, navy blue house. We walked to the front doors and saw a sign posted on it. In neat, pretty bubble letters it read: Come to the back yard around the house to the left! See you there! :D

We turned to the left and walked around the house to the gate leading into the back yard. The latch had a note on it that read: Open me!

These people sure like notes. I thought to myself. My father pulled the latch on the gate and swung the door aside to allow us into the neighbors yard.

"Hello!" My mother announced our entrance into the yard full of people, in a sing-song tone. I recognized most of them as my parents friends from around the block, none of which had names I had bothered to remember.

A woman with blonde hair down half the length of her back walked up to us. She wore a black skin tight dress. She had accessorized it with red pumps, a skinny red belt situated directly under her chest and red jewelry. Along with said things she wore black eye liner and red eye shadow.

"Hello! I am Celina Goldsworthy, my friends just call me Cece, feel free to do so as well" she spoke happily. She stretched out a hand to my mom, who shook it warmly, with a greeting smile. Just then a tall man with short black hair walked up to us, he had a small boy, looking to be a little older than me, sitting on top of his shoulders. The man stopped next to Cece and took the boy off his shoulders and place placed him on the ground in front of him. Cece then proceeded to introduce them as her husband, Bullfrog(but his real name is Buell), and her son, Elijah.

The boy stood in front of me, just staring. I didn't know what to do so I just stood there, staring back. I had never been in this kind of situation before, it was very bizarre to me. It was like I was in a trance. His eyes bore into my sole like the stars in the night sky. My brain blocked out the words coming from our parents' mouths. Suddenly I was brought back by the sound of one voice. His voice.

"So, you gonna just keep starring blue eyes, or are you gonna say hello?" His words were mocking, but his tone was the sweetest thing in the world. I opened my mouth to speak and it took a minute before any real noise came out.

"uh...I-I'm Clare, and you are?" The words finally came out of my mouth. My mind was blank and I had totally forgotten that his mother had introduced him not even 5 minutes ago.

"The name's Eli, wanna go swing?" He asked as he pointed behind him at their immaculate playground in their back yard. It was like a kids dream land. It had two swings, two slides, one big and one small, a swirly slide that seemed never ending, a rock climbing wall, a tunnel, a moving bridge, all that and it doubled as a club house too! It was the best thing I had ever seen. We ran over as fast as our little legs could carry us. When we finally reached the swing we hopped right on.

Across the yard our mothers were joining the other women in a circle sipping their beverages. While our father sat in lawn chairs with bottles of beer in their hands laughing it up like they had know each other their whole lives. My sister had wandered off to god only knows where. I looked over at Eli from my spot on the swing and we just began to talk.

"So how old are you anyways?" he asked me.

"I'm Seven. But I am told I act old for my age" I spoke back.

"Really? You fooled me that for sure, I thought you were at least nine, like me" By this time I felt like he was warming up to me, he had completely dropped that sarcastic tone he had earlier.

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She said, I was seven and you were nine
I looked at you like the stars that shined
In the sky, like pretty lights

~~~~~freakxlover~~~~~

We sat there on those swings for hours. The party continued and people came and went as they pleased, we were just so fixated on each other we never noticed.

Across the yard in the group of men sitting on yawn chairs, you could hear our fathers. They looked at us and saw how well we got along. Then they started joking about the two of us growing up and falling in love. Our mothers snorted at their comments on us and then looked back at us. They didn't admit it then but they saw just what our daddies saw.

~~~~~freakxlover~~~~~

And our daddies used to joke about the two of us
Growing up and falling in love and our mamas smiled
And rolled their eyes, and said "oh, my-my, my"

~~~~~freakxlover~~~~~

After that day our families became best friends. We would go to each others houses all the time and always have a blast. It was one of the best times of my life. On a random summer day Eli and I convinced our fathers that we needed a tree house. It took about 3 weeks to get all the material and finish constructing it but in the end, there was a totally awesome tree house in my back yard.

One day I came up with this master plan, I was gonna lure Eli into the tree house, and then get him totally soaked with my new water blaster. So I called Eli and told him to meet me in the tree house. Then I loaded my weapon and took my position. I heard the creak on the steps of the tree house and I watched the latch as I held my breath. When the door opened and Eli walked in i soaked him from head to toe, completely running my self out of ammo. Eli's face then turned bright red as he began to chase me around.

"Hey! I am bigger than you, ya know? I can beat you up for this!" Eli yelled as I slid down the pole in the tree house to the ground. Once he was down from the tree house as well he continued to chase me around for about half an hour, until we were totally pooped. He never did really beat me up that day. We just fell to the ground in a fit of laughter.

~~~~~freakxlover~~~~~

Take me back to the house in the backyard tree
Said you'd beat me up you were bigger than me
You never did, you never did

~~~~~freakxlover~~~~~

P.O.V. Clare Edwards Age 9

Being nine really wasn't that different from being seven or eight really. Eli and I were still restricted to our block. We weren't allowed to leave it without our parents consent. So a lot of the time we just rode out bikes up and down the block, not really doing anything eventful. But for some reason that day i came up with the thought of me and Eli...kissing. I wanted so know what it was like, to kiss someone...to kiss Eli. So I hatched a plan. So i started it as we were taking our snack break from bike riding.

"Eli, your all bark and no bite!" I said

"What are you talking about blue eyes?" He said, using his usual nickname for me.

"I mean, you act all tough, and say you're all tough, but you're really not!" I answered.

"Oh yeah?" He questioned.

"Yeah!" Which of course is what I responded with.

"Well what do you want me to do? I'll prove I'm not just bark" he retorted.

"I dare you toooooooo...Kiss me!" I spoke confidently but I was getting nervous. This was it. All or nothing.

"Fine I will!" He spoke with just as much confidence, he closed his eyes and leaned in. Our lips were just about to meet when I jumped up and ran away.

After that we spoke of it as a joke and played it off well.

~~~~~freakxlover~~~~~

Take me back to when our world was one block wide
I dared you to kiss me and ran when you tried
Just two kids, you and I, Oh-My-My-My-My

~~~~~freakxlover~~~~~

P.O.V. Elijah Goldsworthy Age 18

Today was Clare's birthday, she was turning 16 and she couldn't be happier. I could tell that her face was glowing all day long. She was having a big sweet 16 party which of course I was going to. It was a formal event, being held in a ball room and everything. My dad helped me rent a tux, or as I like to call it, a monkey suit for the event.

It was 6pm and the party was about to start I stood in the ball room waiting with the rest of the guests for the birthday girl to make her appearance. I looked around, there was about 50 other people, among them where some of her best girlfriends that I had seen with her at school occasionally, like her two friends Ali and Jenna. Other then that there was a bunch of new faces to me.

I walked walked around the room attempting to mingle, when I saw everyone turn their heads to the master staircase. I looked over to see what it was they were looking at, and then I saw it. I saw her.

At the top of the staircase stood the most beautiful sight I had ever seen. Suddenly all the mental images of the dorky next door neighbor i had grown up with were replaced with Clare's new stunning image.

There she stood in a floor length purple gown, incrusted with sparkling jewels all throughout it. Purple silk wrapped tightly around her small stomach, pushing her perfectly sized breasts up, giving them the appearance of being larger then they truly were. Below that, a sheer purple fabric was draped over a poofy hot pink color of material. Her auburn colored hair hung loosely to her shoulders, it framed her perfectly structured face. To top it all off there was a small, simple tiara atop her head. [the dress mentioned here is real! if you wanna see it go to the link on my profile and check it out :) its really pretty so plz look at it]

When she reached the bottom of the stairs i couldn't help myself. I stretched out my hand toward her.

"Care to dance, Princess?" I asked her in the most gentle voice I could make.

P.O.V. Clare Edwards Age 16

"Care to dance, Princess?" I heard a deep yet gentle voice ask me. I looked up to see the familiar face of my childhood best friend Eli. Although i had just seen him yesterday it looked as though he had matured, I just assumed that was the handiwork of the tux. I looked him over once more and noticed that the tie Eli wore around his neck was a deep shade of purple. This assumed me immensely cause it meant that we had subconsciously matched our formal wear.

Without saying a word i held onto Eli's hand and he pulled me onto the dance floor. Everyone attending the party stopped to watch us, i mean it made sense, I was the birthday girl after all. The DJ began to play a soft medley and Eli continued to lead me around the dance floor. After a minute or so people began to join in on the fun and danced around us.

To those not dancing this most likely gave the appearance of a scene strait out of a movie, although i had no recognition of it. I was entranced in the beautiful eyes of the boy, no, the man, that held me in his arms. I guess you could say I had always had a crush on the black haired boy. I have never dated anyone in my entire life because I had always compared them, in one way or a another, to Eli. The boys with the devilishly good looks, like Eli, always had a brain the size of a pea. Where as the boys that matched Eli's intelligence gave off the appearance of roadkill, but now as i watched that same boy pull me around in flawless motion, I couldn't help but feel that i was in love with him.

~~~~~freakxlover~~~~~

Well, I was sixteen when suddenly
I wasn't that little girl you used to see
But your eyes still shined like pretty lights

~~~~~freakxlover~~~~~

So heres what i got so far! it was gonna only be a short oneshot but i just kept typeing and it was suddenly this long lol sooo yea:) i will post the next part soon but i hope u like what i have finished so far :)