This is my second story. I'm going to keep working on my first but this idea was nagging on me and I had to get out of my system. Btw I wrote this before I knew Adam was in Eli and Clare's English class so he's not going to be in their class during this. Please let me know what you think of it! :)
Clare, Adam, and Eli were sitting at the park joking around during lunch. Clare and Eli
were sitting on a bench and he had his arm around her. None of them could stop
laughing though. Ever since Eli and Clare had talked out their issues and told their
secrets, they had been inseparable. Adam tagged along all of the time which was starting
to get on their nerves when they wanted privacy. He knew this but couldn't stop hanging
out with them. Both of them were kind of oblivious to the fact that he had his secrets that
he kept from them. After the whole transgender thing, they pretty much thought that he
didn't have any other secrets that he would keep from them. What could be bigger than
that right? In Clare and Eli's opinion nothing. In Adam's, having a huge crush on Clare.
There was no way that he could tell Eli. If he ever turned his back on him, that would
bring him down to a total of two good friends and one of them being his step brother. In
his defense though, he didn't even know that he liked Clare until she told him that he
shouldn't change himself for others, that she wanted him to be a guy.
Adam's not a dimwit. He's seen what Eli can do and he knows that being on his bad side
is not a good idea, but he couldn't stop following them around. This way he could be
with Clare all the time. And now the reason they were laughing was because of
something Clare said. It was barely even funny but since he was still in a girl's body,
that half of him made him laugh at whatever his crush said.
At first it wasn't funny at all but then they were laughing at him like none other
because apparently it was hilarious seeing him
laughing so hard he was on his back.
Between laughs Clare managed to get out, "You," small giggle, "are so strange," another
chuckle, "but in a funny way!"
That was absolutely adorable Adam thought, but it seemed like Eli thought it too because
he laughed and pulled her closer to him. Seeing that was really hard for Adam. All that
did was make him wish he could switch places- be born a male, have Clare, have life so
much easier.
"Thanks," he said sarcastically. Them together always sobered him of his laugh hysteria.
"We've got to get to English, we're going to be late," Eli told Clare.
"Are we still on for after school?" Clare asked Adam. The other day he asked Clare if
she could stay at school to help him with his math homework. Actually he really did
need help but being honest, he just wanted to spend more time with her. He wasn't going
to try to steal Clare from Eli but he did want to spend some time with her that didn't
involve being extremely jealous.
"Yep, see you then," Adam said very upbeat.
They got up and started in the direction of the school hand in hand. Adam walked next to
them but a good few feet away.
Eli turned towards him and said, "So what's after school?"
At least he didn't have to lie about this. "Well, I'm pretty much failing math and so
Clare, genius that she is, is going to help me out."
Eli seemed satisfied with this. Even though there was no reason to fear him suspecting
anything, Adam breathed a sigh of relief.
"Alright I'm heading in a different direction, I have free period now. See you later!" He
said breaking off from them and walking in the opposite direction. As he walked the
other way he kept looking back at their locked hands and the way they were looking at
each other. Why can't I just be happy for them? He thought.