"We can be whatever you want us to be." He said looking into her perfect blue eyes.

"I want their to be an us." As she took a step closer to him.

Everyone experiences a different kind of pain and everyone goes through things in their life. My pain, was Elijah Goldsworthy.

*Previous In Time*

" And I know we aren't dating, but here's the key to my house- 'our' house."

She was quite confused. She looked at the shadow standing in front of her.

"Eli- you know I can't take this key." She said looking down at her feet.

He stepped closer to her and lifted up her chin so their eyes met. The blue and green clashing. He didn't get why she had to deny his proposal due to the fact that she basically already lived in a house with him, half of her stuff already being there. "Darling, you can. We can live together, it'll be fun. I want this for us." He said to her being completely sincere. She looked up at the ceiling and took a few steps around the house. She admired every inch of the house and smiled. "It's beautiful." She said turning towards him again. He smirked watching her act like a little kid in a wonderland. "It's what you've always wanted." He said to her. And for that he was correct. A house like this was what she had dreamed of. She placed her hand over the piano. He headed towards the bench to sit down. "I truly want this for us, Clare." He repeated looking to the piano. She smiled and nodded. She wanted this as well, but with the house came her dream of kids and a husband. Eli was complicated. She knew he never meant the words of them being an 'us' but she hoped to herself each day that he meant it. "I'm in." She said glancing at the bare wall. He smirked. He was glad that he accepted his proposal to move in with him. He grabbed her hand and said "We can be happy." And in that moment she truly wanted to believe every word that he had said. They stared into each other's eyes until the ring of his phone had stopped the picture perfect moment. He answered it, "Goldsworthy." She heard a voice on the other side of the phone but didn't pay much attention to the call. As he talked she sat taking all of this in. As she sat there thinking, he had interrupted her thoughts with words. "I need to go sign some papers in the office. But I'll be back and then we can watch a movie or something. Deal ?" She nodded. He had kissed her head before grabbing his jacket off the hanger and shutting the door. She decided she'd sit down on the couch and call Alli and tell her the news. She picked up her phone and called Alli. The phone rang.

"Hi Clare."

"Hey Alli. Are you busy ?"

"No, I just got home from working in the lab. What's up?

"Eli just asked me to move in with him. "

Alli hesitated for a second. "And you said no- right?"

Clare huffed. "No, I said yes."

"Clare we've been through this, he is only going to end up hurting you."

Clare has heard this so many time and she as honestly getting sick of it. "He said he wanted this for 'Us', Alli."

Alli rolled her eyes through the phone. "There is no 'us' for you guys."

Clare was beginning to get mad. "Alli, why can't you just be happy for me?"

"Fine. If that's what you want. Ill be here but Clare you need to be careful."

"I will Alli, thanks." They then said their goodbyes.

Clare felt as if she should do something as a celebration for her and Eli so she decided to make a dinner for the two. She started to prepare the dinner for the to while running a hot bubble bath. After being out of the bath she blow dried her hair and put on a dress that hugged her curves perfectly. She applied her eye make up and blush then put on heels to match her dress. After finishing up, she looked in the mirror and smiled feeling content with the way she looked. She went back downstairs to the kitchen where she had finished dinner. She then looked at her phone and the time read 11:23 p.m. It had been an hour and a half since Eli had left. She waited and waited around and soon she drifted to sleep.

"Clare baby, wake up. Daddy is home. Wooohoo!"

Clare opened her eyes to Eli, hovering over her. "Eli?" She had looked at the time and it was already one in the morning. "Claaaaaareeee you look sooo cuuuute when you sleep." She had smelled the alchoal on his breath. 'Oh boy' she sighed to herself. "Eli you're drunk." She said bluntly. "Nooo, Clare. YOU are drunk." He laughed. She had a look of irritation "I made us dinner, but it's wasted now." She said codly. "Screw dinner."he had retroted. "Eli go to bed." She said with an annoyed tone. He looked at her and said, "Come with me." He had grabbed her hand and they headed up the stairs into the bedroom. Clare had removed Eli's shoes and socks and tucked him into bed. She then slid into bed herself facing the opposite way. "Clare." Eli said. "Yes Eli?"She had answered. "There will NEVER be an us." He spat his cold words around.

She felt the pain in her chest. Tears rolled down her cheek. She thought back to all their memories, all the things that happened between them. She gave him everything and all of her and his cold words hit hard. That night was the first time she had cried herself to sleep in a while.

*Playing Through Clare's Head*

"I wanna give you my all, Eli."

"I belive that Clare."

"And I know you do but I want to prove it to you."

That was the first time they made love.

Tears continued to roll down her cheek as the memories flooded.

As she started to drift to a slow sleep, she felt a hand on her waist. It was Eli holding her kind of like he would do some nights, so gently. She fell into his touch and in those twenty seconds all the pain went away. and in those twenty second Eli had not done a thing wrong. and in those twenty seconds she had believed everything was going to be alright. It only took Clare twenty seconds to be naieve. Twenty seconds for her to believe that her "pain" was pleasure.