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Here's chapter two! Thanks for all the reviews, I'm glad other people like the idea of these two together as well and not just me.

Thank you to ILive4Irony417 for being awesome and my beta.

Now on with the story!

Adam

When Eli knocked on the door I felt myself getting nervous. As I walked to the door I just kept telling myself that there was nothing to be nervous about. On the other side of the door was my best friend who has come over to watch movies with me. See, nothing to be nervous about, unless of course you add in the part where said best friend kissed me last night. No, nothing to be nervous about there!

I opened the door and there he was. "Hey Eli," I said while fighting myself to not start interrogating him as to why he kissed me last night.

"Hey," he answered back and I stepped aside to let him in. He walked past me then turned around while digging in his back pack.

"So what movie is first in the marathon you have planned?" I asked him.

"You choose," he said while pulling out three discs. "Spider Man, Sin city or V For Vendetta to start with."

"Sin City," I said as we headed into the living room. He handed me the movie and I went to get it started. After putting the disc in the player I turned to Eli. "Do you want popcorn or something?"

"Sure," he said as he started getting up. "I'll help."

"Eli, I think I can get popcorn myself."

"I realize that Adam, but popcorn leads to thirsty so I'll get the drinks." He smiled at me and I couldn't help but smile back. That isn't weird is it? I mean I would normally smile at him so…

We headed into the kitchen and got our snacks. When we went back into the living room I realized that I was going to have to sit closer to Eli than I had first planed on. If I sat too far away we both wouldn't be able to reach the popcorn. So I sat close enough to him that we could both reach. The movie started and soon I was feeling like I had nothing to worry about; we were just two friends watching a movie and one that is full of hot girls at that.

"Rosario Dawson is so damn hot," Eli said toward the end of the movie.

"I know, right? It kinda makes you wanna shoot yourself in the face."

"What?"

"You know, cause she is so hot…"

He smiled at me. "Man you are weird." We both laughed and I finally relaxed almost totally.

We went back to watching the movie then till the end. When it was over we decided it was time for lunch. After searching through the kitchen we decided to just go to the Dot. We left the house and hopped into Morty and were off. We got there, found a table and ordered. We were just sitting there talking when Eli looked over my shoulder.

"Shit."

"What?" I turned and saw Clare and Ali walking in. "Whoa."

"Yeah, Adam look at me."

I did and was taken back by the look he was giving me. It was more than friendly to say the least. "What's up Eli?"

He sat back then and I realized that he had been leaning toward me. "Nothing is up Adam, I just don't think either of us should be staring at her."

"Right," I said, thoroughly unconvinced.

"Anyway, what were we talking about?" Just then our food arrived and I took the opportunity to stuff a too hot fry in my mouth.

"Hah-hah-ho-hot!" I said as I flailed around like a spaz.

"Well yes Adam," Eli said sarcastically, "that's what happens when food is cooked. Its gets hot." He smirked at me then and even through the pain in my mouth I was aware of how attractive he is.

"Shut up," I said as I reached across the table to punch him in the shoulder. He laughed so hard then that he almost fell off his chair. I decided to ignore this strange behavior. "So we're just going to ignore her?"

"Well, yeah," he said as he regained his composure. "She made it painfully clear last night that she doesn't want to have anything to do with me."

I sighed, sometimes it was really exasperating dealing with the two of them. "Yeah, but she does care and you two were friends first right? Not to mention now I'm caught in the middle cause I'm her friend too."

"Well, what do you want me to do Adam?"

"I don't know, say hi or something?"

He looked past me again, "Well it looks like you're going to get your wish cause here she comes." I turned around just in time to see Clare just feet away from us.

"Hey Clare," I spoke up, hoping to keep things civil.

"Hi Adam, Eli," she said while plastering a smile on her face.

I looked at Eli and decided he was a better actor than our Romeo and Juliet video had me believe. He didn't seem at all hurt or bothered when he said, "Hey Clare." He even smiled and it seemed genuine. "Hey listen," he said while focusing his attention on her. "I'm sorry about yesterday, I was an ass."

"Yes you were, but…"

"But what Clare, I was an ass, end of story. I gotta piss," he said as he got up and left us. So there is the emotion I was looking for.

Clare and I were left there in awkward silence. What was even worse was that she just stood there staring at me and I kept trying to avoid making eye contact. Finally she spoke up.

"Adam, tell me, is he ok? Really? I mean I know that the whole Fitz with the knife thing really shook him. That on top of…well, me…I don't know. I just need to know, is he ok?"

"Yes Clare, he is ok. We have been hanging out all day. How are you?"

"You want to know?"

"Well, yeah, I am your friend you know."

"I know, its just, the way Eli was just looking at you…"

"Huh?"

"Never mind," she said as she turned to leave just as Eli came back.

Eli walked right past her and sat down without saying a word.

"What did she have to say?"

"Nothing really," I kind of lied, "just making sure you're ok."

"Why wouldn't I be?" He asked me, a look of agitation on his face.

I put my hands out in front of me, palms out. "Hey don't shoot the messenger, I told her you were fine!"

"Thanks man," he said while he got back to his lunch and I to mine.

Clare

When she walked into the Dot with Ali Clare almost turned right around when she saw Eli. Ali convinced her not to.

"Come on Clare, look he already sees us," Ali said while just barley gesturing his way. "If we leave now you will look like a coward. Do you want that?"

Clare sighed. "No," she said as they sat at a table. As much as she tried to not stare she just couldn't help herself. She may have decided not to be with Eli, but that doesn't make him any less hot. While she was trying not to stare she saw something confusing. Adam had been looking at her then he turned back to Eli. Eli gave him a look that she had only ever seen him give her before. What is going on?

"Earth to Clare!" Suddenly I was brought back to the reality of my friend sitting across from me.

"Oh, sorry Ali."

"You need to talk to him." Clare gave her a look that said, 'Why would I do that?' "You are obviously worried about him; you haven't talked about anything else all day."

"Sure I'm worried, but what will talking to him do?"

"Well, you want to know if he's ok right?"

"Yes, but-"

"But nothing! Go talk to him; see if he is ok and let him know you still care at the same time."

She did and all it really did was confuse her more. At first Eli seemed like he really was fine, then he had a kind of minnie freak out and left. Then to make things even weirder, she talked to Adam and actually asked him what was going on with them. That was probably the stupidest thing she could have done. Adam looked at her like she was a freak. But she knows she didn't imagine the look Eli gave Adam. Unfortunately she didn't see Adam's face or hear what they were saying. That might have let her know why Eli gave him that look, not that she should be obsessing over it. They are best friends so they are allowed to give each other whatever looks they want. After thinking about it for probably too long she finally decided that it was nothing and she would just drop it. At least she would drop it unless she witnessed more strange behavior between them.

Adam

This day was turning out to be strange, at least the latest part. So I was pretty happy when Eli and I finished eating and were ready to leave. We paid, waved goodbye to Clare and Ali and headed out to Morty. We got in the car and I grabbed Eli's CD case and started going through it.

"Hey!"

"What? The passenger gets to pick the tunes; it's a rule."

"Oh yeah and who's rule is that?"

"Mine", I said as I found NOFX's Punk in Drublic and put it in the player.

"Nice choice Adam, so I guess this rule of yours is ok." He turned and smiled at me before turning his attention back to the road. "So, what movie is next?"

"You bring Iron Man 2?"

"Of course I brought it."

"Good, then that's what I want to watch."

We didn't talk for the rest of the drive back to my house. I tried just focusing on the lyrics to Linoleum but my mind still wandered. I was kind of going crazy thinking about Eli and all this weirdness. Like why did he kiss me last night and what was with that look at the Dot? We pulled up in front of my house and I decided that I couldn't just go on acting like nothing happened anymore. So when we sat down about to watch the movie I turned to talk to him before it started.

"So Eli…"

"Yeah?"

"I gotta ask, why did you kiss me last night?"

He sighed and put his head in his hands for a moment before looking back at me. "Oh that again."

"Yes that again Eli, I'm really confused now and I would like not to be. Confused."

"Well, ok. So for a lack of a better term I guess you could say I'm bi. Really what kind of junk a person has doesn't matter to me. I have had a crush on you since before Clare and before I knew you were FTM. I guess I was just really messed up last night and I had to know if maybe you might like me too. But now I know that you don't so I just want us to go back to being friends." He looked at me then, right in the eye. "Does that work for you?"

My mind went crazy then and I didn't really know what I wanted to say, what would be true; so what I said was, "Yeah, that'll work." What I didn't say was that maybe he was wrong about me not being into him, I just don't know.

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