Hello! This is my first fanfiction! I just really wanted to write one about Eli and Clare! I love Eclare, so...yeah! Hope you like it!

Clare's POV:

I stared at Adam's head from the backseat. I know; you would think I would be staring at the back of Eli. The reason I was looking at Adam was because he was sitting in the front seat. The seat that I should have been sitting in. The seat next to Eli.

But it didn't look like Eli cared to have me in his car at all. He had his music up on high and was talking to Adam about the latest The Goon or whatever comic they read. I was practically green with envy, but I didn't show it. I had this crazy idea Adam would go back to being a girl and fall for Eli and...

Where was I getting this from? I was seriously crazy. Adam's a guy and always will be. I'm too paranoid. Just then we pulled in to the parking lot at The Dot. I got out of the Hearse and made my way behind Adam and Eli towards the door.

I was about to hold the door open for them when Eli took the door from me, smirked, and said, "Ladies first." I automatically smiled/blushed and caught his eye.

When I was with KC I thought I could look in to his warm brown eyes and could always find comfort. Not always. Eli's eyes are warm when they want to be, but they're also dark, mysterious, and intimidating. I didn't even know eyes came in a shade of green like that.

That is, until I met Eli.

Eli's POV

The first time I saw Clare Edwards I probably didn't even acknowledge her existence. I had obviously seen her sitting behind me in English, or walking in the hall with her best friend Alli or whatever, but the real first time I saw her I could have made a better impression. And believe me, I wanted to. How cool is running over someone's glasses and blurting out that their eye's are pretty?

About the eyes: I have seen blue eyes before. They might not be the most common thing, but a big bunch of people have them. And Clare's eyes weren't some exotic shade that I'd never seen before in my life. I mean, it's just a color.

But when I saw them on Clare, on her face...it was like they were an exotic color. The most beautiful color in the world in the prettiest eye shape. So when I blurted out that her eyes were pretty, something just came over me. I don't usually say things like that out loud. Like I said before, I have to make an impression. I have a reputation to keep. I need everyone to think I'm the creepy death-obsessed kid who drives a hearse, not some sensitive sweet guy who says or thinks like that. Well, at this point in time, I don't need Adam or Clare to think of me as that, but, you get the point.

Anyway, When I had picked up Clare's broken glasses from the floor I recognized her from her hair, because She's usually the person that walks out of the classroom right before me. I saw her face for a second and then picked the glasses up and said,

"I think they're dead."

She said something about lasers and surgery but I wasn't listening much at that point because I had seen her eyes. I stared at them before I realized she was done talking, then blurted out my reputation-stopper.

To my surprise, Clare hasn't mentioned what I said since we became friends. The second time we sort of met was, I have to admit, a little bit better. I got to act like how people think I act. I thought it would confuse her, me saying she has pretty eyes, then bumping her in to the door, then becoming friends with her, but she seemed to be cool with it all.

I guess I have to explain about the whole thing where I bumped her in to the door and then started talking to her like a friend. I wanted her to forget the fact that I lost my sanity when I saw her eyes the week before, so I pushed her to the side, smirked at her, and acted like a total jerk. I regretted it the second I saw her face, though I continued smirking. When I got to my locker I slammed my head on it for acting like that to the girl with the beautiful blue eyes. I knew people were looking, but who really cared what they thought.

Clare's POV:

Eli said he likes me. Too much. To be just friends with me. That was only last week. If he liked me, how was he acting so cool? How did he just sneak little smirks and winks at me while I just smiled a tiny bit, stared in to my coffee, and hoped I wasn't blushing?

I suddenly imagined Eli as being a guy who had tons of feelings inside but was really good at keeping them there. I smiled to myself at that. He probably didn't. He might like me, but that didn't mean he had all those feelings swelling up inside me like I did.

When we kissed for that school project, I felt as though all those feelings were let out and I was fine. Shortly, though, they began to build up again. Then I said I would give him some time, yada yada yada, and here we are now. Me and Eli sometimes flirting while Adam rolls his eyes, and sometimes Eli and Adam talking. God, those two can go on and on about guy stuff.

The only time I felt happy throughout their conversation at the Dot was when I heard Adam saying he though Bianca was hot or something, and I looked up at Eli and found he had glanced at me.

He looked back at Adam and said, "Sure, in a scary SUV-hit-and-run-club-district kind of way." I barely caught it, but Eli winked at me. I blushed again and looked down. Again.

Adam noticed. "You guys make me sick!"

Eli looked as smug as ever. Obviously.

Eli's POV:

After getting mad at myself for making Clare think I'm a jerk, I decided to take a whole different road and be friends with her. I was thinking to myself, What If? Then I got mad at myself for wanting to be with her. God, I had just met her and I already wanted her to fall for me too?

Wait, did I just say too?

Scratch that.

So, the next day I told her to go skip class. It didn't even occur to me that I could skip class also. When she turned around, smiled, and asked me if I was coming, my-

I really don't want to sound gooey, corny, or cliched, so never mind.

Anyway, we skipped class. I was actually having fun despite the fact we were doing work. I made her scream because I thought it would be interesting. She told me to scream also, but that's not really me. I also said no because I was wondering what she would try. I got up ans she started following me. One thing led to another, and my back was against a pole, I was holding her wrists, and her face was inches from mine. I felt like staring in to her eyes for days. When it got awkward, I let go. I congratulated myself for not doing something stupid like kissing her.

Wait, why would I kiss her? That makes no sense. I don't even like her. But then, as I was smiling to her with my back still against the pole, a small voice in my head said, Yes you do, Eli.

I wasn't exactly sure yet, but the next day she touched my hand. My hand. As I was going in the car, she touched my hand. I could of done anything, but I decided to respond to what she said and just left. Smooth, Eli. Smooth.

Since then Clare and I have become, like, best friend. Besides for Adam, I mean. Except Adam doesn't think of Clare and me as best friends, because best friends don't flirt 24/7. Not that Clare and I do.

Ha. Yes we do.

Anyway, since then she was there to tell me it was wrong when I wanted to get back at Fitz. Okay, maybe I should of listened, but that's not the point. After my fight, when she touched my cut lip, I thought she would feel my pulse through my lip, my heart was beating so fast. And if she didn't feel it, I could of sworn the whole hallway heard it.

And after that she wasn't exactly happy about my relationship with Fitz, but she dealt with it.

Here's what I really want to talk to you about though. Last week. Last week was when I got to kiss Clare. Sure it was for a film project, but was it really? I mean, in the packet it didn't say anything about having to kiss anybody. I came up with the idea. Brilliant, brilliant me.

Clare's POV:

After a while Adam and Eli stopped talking. It seemed they were done.

Eli looked at me. "So, Clare,..." He started. My heart started racing. What's wrong with me?

"What's going on with your parents? Did the headphones come in han

dy?" Exactly. He was just asking me about what he had tried to help me with a few weeks ago.

He smirked. I answered, "Oh, uh, fine. Thanks. They're, uh, actually trying to work things out. I mean, they only fight when I'm not home, so I guess that's good."

"So, since they don't fight anymore, do you think I could have my headphones back?" Another smirk.

I punched his arm. "You are not getting those back."

"I know you just can't stand to have a piece of me taken away from you." the smirk just wasn't going to come off his face.

I punched his arm again, a little harder this time. "Shut up, Eli." I said, though I was smiling.

This time he was rubbing his arm and saying ow.

"I have a question." Adam spoke up. Eli and I looked at him.

"Can I rip my eyes out?"

Eli's POV:

When I heard in English Class that we were going to do a film project on Shakespeare with our partners, I immediately thought Romeo and Juliet. I saw Clare get up to get a packet, but I got up. I said "I got it." before going to get a packet.

While I was in line, I looked over at Clare and Adam. Clare was sneaking looks at me so I guessed that's who they were talking about; me. When I looked at the pile I saw Romeo and Juliet was gone. I picked up A Midsummer's' night Dream. This random couple who looked all lovey dovey and disgusting(was that really how Clare and I acted?) had Romeo and Juliet.

I said to the girl, "Romeo and Juliet both die in that play. You'd probably want something more like this." I handed her the play and took Romeo and Juliet. Before she could respond I went back to Clare and Adam.

"...right setting." I heard Clare say. I smirked to myself and pretended I hadn't heard her.

"Hey, we get Romeo and Juliet! How cool is that?"

I saw Clare give Adam a hopeful look.

Later that day we started rehearsing. I had the idea that we could kiss for the video. I just wasn't sure how it would fit in. Clare said Juliet would kill herself after finding Romeo dead.

I realized how I could get to kiss her. "I would think that Romeo would have a few minutes before the poison kicked in." While she was answering I stared at her and sort of smiled. It wasn't even a smirk, it was a smile.

"And they could share a final kiss."

Hope you liked tbe first chapter! I thought it was kind of long for a first, don't you think? Anyway, PLEASE review!

Tell me if I'm good or not! Please!

Thank you!