A/N: Hey guys, sorry it's so short. I have a lot of it written out, but I'm spacing it out a bit to make sure the momentum continues. Later chapters will be longer. Thanks so much for reading and please hit the review button, as this is my first fic, and I'm not sure whether or not I should bother to continue.
~Deowai
Eli's POV
She was out the door before I realized what had happened. So there she went. Back to K.C. or Declan or whoever she had, for some reason, decided she liked more than me. My guess was K.C.. He'd broken up with his girlfriend again. The pregnant one…Jessica? Jasmine? Whatever. I'd never really talked to her before, anyway. I found myself wondering how long Clare had been with him before she had been guilty enough to tell me.
How could Clare leave me for K.C., anyway? Sure, they had some kind of romantic past, but he was obviously not right for her, what with getting a girl pregnant and all. Clare wouldn't have just gone to seek him out. Something must have happened in the heat of the moment, and I guess she had never gone back to liking me after that.
I thought she had understood what I was going through! I was her rock! She had needed me through her parent's divorce, and I had been there! And she…she was mine. I hated to admit how much I needed her, but it was undeniable. I surveyed my room. There were small patches of floor here and there that had been completely covered for the past year or so. She had been over every few days to help clean up. How could she have left?
I was still thinking clearly, though very numb from the suddenness of it all, when it hit. I was overcome with a ferocity that only overtook me when I could turn to no other source for help. I was a boat that had been released from its pier. My rock had left me. Just like Julia had left me. I was all alone. Waves crashed over me as a storm began to form around me. Again and again. They wouldn't stop. The boat capsized and I was drowning, going deeper and deeper into the water, surrounded by loneliness and despair. The edges of my vision blurred. I was running out of breath and the last remnants of light from the inside of my room disappeared as I was pushed under by the power of the waves. Everything went black.