Chapter 2 ~ Love's a Competition
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NOTE::: Adam will not be transgender; he is going to be 100% male. (That will take on a huge part of this story, sort of like my other story 'Twisted Routes') So please, don't kill me (:
~ Live. Love. Be. ~ Shannon Kook-chun ~
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Eli POV
I almost kissed my best friend. What was I thinking? I know Clare would never like me, because I don't believe in what she does. She would never fall for anyone like me. I want to tell Clare how I really feel about her, but what I fear mostly, is that if she doesn't like me back, I would ruin everything. Including our friendship, and I really don't want that to happen. Clare is my only best friend, she knows everything about me, Julia dying, how my dad was a druggie and he left me and my mom when I was little… She has always been there for me. And I have always been there for her, when her parents got divorced, and when her sister left them, so I know we have a pretty close relationship that I really don't want to screw up with a kiss.
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Clare came over to my house and we worked on some of our assignment that was due soon. We talked and laughed for a while, and I thought that maybe if I acted like nothing happened, then everything would be okay. I wanted to just lean over and kiss her, and actually not be interrupted but I knew that she would hate me and mostly likely be awkward when we hung out.
"So, Eli… what do you think of the play… Romeo and Juliet? We could get Adam or Alli to help us out with the camera and everything." She said looking at her textbook.
Wait, the play Romeo and Juliet? Isn't there a kissing scene? I would be Romeo and she would be Juliet… perfect.
"Y-Yeah, that sounds… great. Now would I play Romeo?" I asked showing her a small smirk.
Her bright beautiful smile filled the room.
"Nooo… you're going to dress up as the freaking horse." She said sarcastically. "Yes, you're going to play Romeo."
"Ha Ha… very funny, Clare. And you're going to be Juliet?" I asked looking at her through my eyelashes. I tilted my head up and she was looking into the small book Ms. Dawes gave us for our assignment.
"I was planning on it." She said softly. I saw her cheeks turn into a small blush before we started on our next worksheet.
We hurried up on our worksheet and started going through the script on the play.
I scanned through it and found the most dramatic kissing scene in the play.
"Ah… page 14, let's start from there."
We practiced our lines and when it finally came down to the kissing scene, Clare stopped.
"Eli, I don't know… I don't want to ruin our friendship by a stupid kiss."
"Stupid?" I thought to myself "Why would a kiss between two people be stupid?"
"What do you mean? Nothing could ruin our friendship." I said trying to make her disagree.
She sighed and picked her script back up and scanned through it.
"Okay, I drank the poison… " I murmured. I stepped closer to Clare and lifted her chin up, making her only inches away from mine.
I leaned down and barley touching her lips against mine before, of course… My mom called me.
"Eli, its Clare's mom, she needs to talk to her." She said. I sighed angrily and picked up the phone sitting on the edge of my desk.
"Guess it's waiting on the right moment." She mentioned making me show her a weak smile. I was very disappointed that we were so close to kissing again… but I guess she's right…. Maybe we need to wait for the right time.
I handed Clare the phone and she slowly took it and walked to the other end of the room. I sat on the bed waiting for her to hang up so we can hang out a little bit more.
"Okay, Mom… I'm sure…. Yes, mom… I'm fine." I heard her mumble; I could tell she was getting aggravated.
"Hey, Eli… do you want to come over for dinner?" She asked looking back at me.
My heart sped up and I stood up from the bed, showing Clare a huge smile. "Yeah… I would love to." I smiled and grabbed my car keys.
"Okay, we're on our way, and we will…." She said and hung up the phone.
"She said to bring our home work, because dinner isn't quite ready, but she might need our help." She whispered, placing her book bag and purse over her shoulder. I nodded and got my stuff together as well.
I told my mom where we were going and she agreed that it was okay. We ran to Morty, trying our best to escape the freezing cold weather.
"Now… Eli, my mom is sort of the 'protective' type… whenever I'm with a guy she always thinks the worse possible things… so please, try to be as good as you can." She smirked and took her laptop out of her bag, and started typing her Vampire Fanfiction.
"Clare, please let me read that." I whined. She's never let me read it yet, and by the way she smiles at the computer and how her typing increases by the sentence, I could tell it was really good. Even by her assignments for class we work on for each other, Clare is an excellent writer, and I don't see why she's hiding it from me.
"Why do you want to read it so badly?" She asked looking up from her laptop.
"Because, you are a really good writer, and maybe I kinda wanna be your beta reader, and maybe help you out?" I said shrugging my shoulders.
"Naah, Alli already is… and it's embarrassing." She whispered pulling a strand of hair behind her ear.
I sighed sadly and stuck my bottom lip out, showing her a pouty face. "Please Clare."
She looked over and a huge smile broke into her face. "Don't do that! You know it always works!" She yelled slapping me on the arm. I noticed her eyes got wider and her cheeks started to turn red.
"Clare…"
"Eli... I already made up my mind." She said looking back over at me. I was still showing her my pouty face and she let out an annoyed sigh.
"I'll let you read it, when it's done… which would be in… a few more chapters." She looked back down at the computer screen and started typing again.
"Alright…" I mumbled looking out onto the passing houses. "This one in yours, right?" I asked pointing to the house on the left.
"Yes, Sir…" She smiled pulling her stuff back into her bag. She rushed out of the car and onto the porch.
I followed behind her, and just as she was about to turn the knob, she turned back around to face me.
"Are you sure you're up to this? You really don't have to." She insisted.
"Clare, please… what could go wrong?" I smirked and looked deeply into her diamond blue eyes.
She drifted her eyes away from mine and quickly opened the door.
"Mom! We're here." She stopped inside the doorway and her jaw dropped.
I peered my head in and saw a dark orange headed girl with light green eyes. Who was she and why is Clare so speechless?
Clare mumbled words that I quite couldn't understand. Her mom then came inside the room and sat down next to the girl and placed her hand on top of hers.
"Hi Clare." She whispered and stood up, walking towards Clare.
"…Darcy?" Clare asked.
"Clare… I've missed you." She laughed and held her arms out, trying to give Clare a hug. But Clare stepped backward, giving Darcy the dirtiest look. "Mom… what is she doing here?" Clare yelled stepping in front of her mother.
"Clare, Darcy came back…"
"Clare, I came back for a reason… I need to talk to you." She whispered grabbing Clare's hand.
I just stood there in shock; I've never seen Clare so pissed before through the whole time I met her. I watched as Clare yelled at the both of them, I wonder what her sister did to make Clare so angry.
"I have nothing to say to you, Darcy… just go home." Clare whispered taking her hands away from Darcy's. I noticed Clare was crying, I just wanted to step up and ask what's going on, but I decided to keep my mouth shut.
Clare ran away from the two and ran past me and into Morty. Darcy and her parents stood there in shock and stared at me like I'm a super hero or something… It was getting very uncomfortable.
"Eli, can you please go calm Clare down." Ms. Edwards asked and walked back inside of the kitchen. I nodded and looked back at Darcy sitting down on the couch with her head in her hands. I sighed and walked out into Morty to see if Clare was okay. I peered inside the window and noticed that Clare had her back up to the door and she had her knees brought up to her chest. I knocked on the window lightly making her jumping.
"Go away… I don't want to talk to anybody right now." Her voice was low and she took small sobs between every other word.
"Well… this is sort of my car." I said sarcastically. I opened the door and she suddenly shifted over to I can have a seat next to her. She leaned in closer to me and laid her head on my shoulder. "Clare, will you tell me what happened?" I asked wrapping my arm around her shoulder, rubbing my hand in tiny circles, letting her know that I'm here for her.
"It's just, when I was a freshman, Darcy was a Junior… and we were like really close, and one day she just decided to go away to Kenya. She didn't even talk to us about it, she just got her stuff and left. This was before my parents got divorced; they were still fighting a lot so I guess she just got tired of it. She left without saying goodbye to me." She sniffled and wiped a tear away with her knuckle.
"When my parents got divorced, my best friend getting pregnant by my ex-boyfriend, and all that, she wasn't here for me… like you were. Darcy had always said that I had nothing to worry about because she would always be right by my side, but of course, she lied to me. But then there you were. You always had the things to say to cheer me up and laugh. I don't know what I would have done without you Eli. You are my best friend and I hope you always will be."
She lifted her face up and placed her hand on the side of my cheek. She leaned in and connected her lips with mine gently. We stayed that way for a second before she pulled back, without looking me in the eyes she whispered something to me. "You should just go home… I will see you tomorrow at school, I'm sorry you had to see me like this." I nodded and she carefully got out of the car and into the house.
I drove off thinking about what just happened, Clare actually just kissed me. A part of me felt like my heart was just sowed back together, but another part of me feel bad and guilty. I was having a really hard time processing all of this. I needed someone to tell me what to do, someone to give me the best advice on this… I pulled out my phone and looked down on my contact list to find the person.
"Hey dude, I need your help with something, mind if I come over so we can talk?" – Eli
I decided to text Adam since he knew Clare really well.
"Sure Eli… the back door is open. Come on over whenever" – Adam
I sighed of relief and turned around to head over to Adam's house.
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Eh, this chapter may be sucky… I wrote all of it, then half of it got deleted cause my daddy 'accidentally' deleted the file with the whole completed chapter…. I tried my best to put in everything, so sorrryyy.. (:
Much Love…
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I'm excited to see the episodes of "Drop the World" Part 1 & 2… they seem intense.
SPOILER: I heard a rumor that MORTY won't be in season 11! Because of Eli getting into a wreck you know, and that's why he ends up in the hospital….
So yeah. And sorry if there are any spelling or punctuation mistakes, my computer was being stupid…
