A/N- I hope this chapter isn't too confusing. The more you read the more you understand it. =)
Third Person POV
"I don't think these papers will start themselves," Clare said to Eli and sighed. They were at Eli's house, which was not huge, but definitely not cramped. They had both been putting off their essays, and when Eli asked Clare to hang out she said that she had to work on it. He told her he hadn't started it either so she should just come to his place so they could work on it.
"Hmm… We could start the paper. Or we couldn't," he suggested. Of course he didn't want to; he was having too much fun with Clare. Every chance he had he would ask her to hang out. With Clare, he always had a good time.
"But if we want good grades, we should probably start working," Clare proposed. "What would the teacher think if we failed it because we didn't want to work on it?"
Eli rolled his eyes. "Here we go again with the caring what other people think…"
Clare playfully smacked his arm. "Yeah, but not when it comes down to whether I get a good grade or not. That's a different story."
Eli smirked. "Your right. Writing an English paper about a book written in the 1600's that is pretty much a different language sounds extremely tempting."
Clare smiled. "Okay, well… I guess we could watch TV for another 20 minutes."
Eli smirked. "Yeah, I'm not in the mood for TV right now."
"Then what are you in the mood for?" Clare asked. Eli raised his eyebrows at how that sounded and she blushed.
"Well, we could get some ice cream. I'm feelin' mint chocolate chip, how 'bout you?" he suggested.
"Um, yeah, sure."
He got up and walked to the doorway. He gestured for Clare to follow so she got up too. They went to his kitchen and Eli opened up his freezer and got out the ice cream.
"You wanna grab some spoons?" he asked Clare.
"Oh, yeah, sure," she said. He pointed to the drawer they were in and she got two out. "Bowls?" she asked him.
He nodded. Clare reached for two bowls and brought them over to Eli. Once he scooped enough in one bowl he handed it to Clare. She thanked him and waited for him to get his. They went back into his living room. They started talking while they were eating, playing the question game, where you could ask the other person a question and they have to answer it truthfully. And it just keeps going back and forth.
"What's your favorite season?" Clare asked.
Eli thought for a minute. "Winter. Okay, if you could be a boy just for a day, would you?"
Clare rolled her eyes. "Duh. Any girl would. Well if it was just for a day that is. Hmm.. okay. What's your favorite subject?"
"English," he said. Was it sheer coincidence that it changed to English when he found out Clare was in his class?
"Have any siblings?" Eli asked.
"Just one. My older sister named Darcy," Clare said. Eli wondered why they were asking such stupid questions, when he could ask anything he wanted. After all, you had to answer truthfully.
"What do you want to major in?" Clare asked.
"I have no idea. And that's the truth. Oh, I got a good one. Who's your favorite English partner?" he asked jokingly.
Clare smiled and rolled her eyes. "Eli, you're the only English partner I've ever had."
"I'm still the best though, right?" he said jokingly.
Clare smiled. "Why not? Okay. Favorite color?"
Eli thought for a minute. He did love Clare's eyes. "Blue."
This surprised Clare. She thought he would say black. Eli laughed. "What? Thought I'd say black?"
Clare shrugged but grinned at the same time.
Who was… your first crush?" Eli asked.
Clare was taken aback by this, but kept a poker face and thought. "This kid named Joshua. I was in first grade. Go ahead, make fun."
"I bet he wasn't as handsome as me," Eli said. That was so typical of him, Clare thought, but ignored his comment.
Clare took a bite of ice cream. "Something that you're parents don't know that you know?"
"When I was little I woke up from a nightmare when I was about, I dunno, six? I was really upset and I went to my parents room, and I was about to knock on the door, but then I… heard stuff. Nine months later… hey baby sister!" Eli shuddered.
Clare looked shocked. "Oh my gosh! I feel so sorry for you!"
Eli shook his head. "My room's on a different floor from theirs now."
Clare giggled. "Okay, ask a question."
"Your favorite color?"
Without thinking she blurted, "Green." Like your eyes, she thought.
Clare recomposed herself while Eli licked his ice cream. "Do you sleep in or get up early?"
"Depends. If I go to bed late I sleep in. If I get to bed on time I wake up early," he said. He thought of another question. "What's your favorite thing about me?"
Clare froze when she was in the middle of taking the last bite of ice cream and looked down. "Uh…"
"Wanna know my favorite thing about you?" he asked.
She looked up, suddenly curious.
Eli smirked. "They way you just got ice cream on your face when I just asked that."
Clare immediately looked down and her whole face and her ears turned completely red. She was about to wipe it off -how embarrassing- but Eli's hand stopped her.
"I got it…" he trailed off and took his thumb and wiped his on the outer corner of her lip, neatly wiping it off. Clare wished she could wipe that smirk off.
While he was doing this, he somehow managed to scoot much closer to Clare. He brought his thumb down to wipe off the ice cream of if him, but his eyes were still locked on her gorgeous bright blue eyes. Clare tensed up for a second.
"Remember when I told you that you had pretty eyes?" he barely whispered.
Clare continued to stare for a couple a seconds, but once she processed what he said she slowly nodded.
"I wasn't lying."
Clare bit her lip. She could've gotten lost in his beautiful emerald green eyes. The smirk faded away from Eli's face and a new unfamiliar look came across. She started to look down like she usually did when she got nervous, but suddenly her eyes landed on something: Eli's lips. She continued to stare for several seconds. He noticed her staring; it could only mean one thing, right? So he started to slowly lean in.
"Feel free to tell me to stop," he barely breathed. Clare wasn't even sure if he actually said it. But of course she didn't tell him too. She didn't want him too.
Eli had never seen her eyes this close. Her eyes were even more beautiful up close, which he didn't think was possible. By now they were only millimeters apart. They could hear each other's ragged breathing, their out-of-control heartbeats.
And they jumped about two feet in the air when Clare's phone started buzzing. Clare yelped a little. Oh my gosh. We were about to kiss, Clare thought.
"Uh, sorry," she said quickly. She took her phone out of her pocket and looked at the vibrating screen. Alli's picture was on the screen and Clare quickly opened it.
"What?" Clare said angrily into the phone.
"Hey Clare I was just calling you because Drew and I just had the awesomest time at the movies. And he made out with me, Clare! Isn't that great? So what are you up to right now?" Alli asked. Eli could almost see the steam coming out of Clare's ears.
"Um, I'm at Eli's and we're… working on an English paper," I said. That girl had Hell to pay tomorrow.
"Oh my God Clare I'm so sorry for interrupting! We you two busy? Or busy?" Alli said suggestively.
Clare internally rolled her eyes. "Um, yeah."
"Holy crap! I'll leave you two love birds alone! Bye Clare! BYE ELI!" Alli screamed. I held the phone away from my ear from how loud she yelled.
Eli rolled his eyes. "Goodbye, Alli!" he yelled sarcastically.
Clare shut her phone quickly, ending the call. She mentally slapped herself. Her and Eli were this close to kissing!
"Sorry," she said sheepishly. "We should probably start our papers now."
Clare grabbed her notebook and started quickly writing stuff down.
"Yeah. Okay," Eli said.
Dammit.
A/N- I'm sorry to the person who said to take it slow. I just couldn't help myself haha. For me I don't do the writing; once I start typing, I have to read it over again to find out what happened lol. Now that things are awkward it might take a bit of time for them to get back in their comfort zone. I honestly have no idea how long this will last.
For now, I will update for every two reviews I get. If it gets more popular then I'll raise it to three or four, and if no one reads it as much then I'll just wait for you guys. I have time haha. So please review! It will make my day!
