This is all in Clare's POV. I don't know how many chapter this is going to be but I'm going to keep going until I can't anymore. I'm going to post a new chapter every Friday maybe even sooner than every Friday. But whatever, okay READ. BTW just thought I should add, in this story Clare never had a boyfriend, she's the purest thing in life and really innocent and sweet. That has nothing to do with this chapter, but just thought I should let you know. :D
As Eli and I walked up the hill, we found the first item. "We're doing well. Eli nodded. I tried to ignore that his lack of communication was annoying me. As we looked for our next item, we bumped into Alli and Drew. They were making out on a rock.
"Hey guys" I interrupted.
They looked back, Drew didn't say hi to me, he looked annoyed that I had interrupted him but Alli said hi back. She gave me an overdramatic wink and pointed to Eli as he was looking in another direction. I shook my head quickly affirming that her conclusions were absolutely wrong.
"Okay, see you guys later." Alli broke the silence trying to get me and Eli to leave so her and Drew can continue sucking each other's faces off. We began walking some more. "Do we have really have to keep looking? We're most likely going to be the last ones anyway." whispered Eli.
"Well considering I plan on getting a good grade, I don't think so." Eli decided to head back down to the main part of the camp site leaving me by himself. For someone who complimented me before, he was being really mean.
After about a half hour later, I headed back down and noticed everyone happened to be waiting for me. "Sorry" I ran over to sit on one of the rocks. I looked around and noticed Eli. I glared at him and he raised his eyebrows as in "I told you so" I nodded sarcastically and glared even harder. Mr. Simpson was talking about how it's good we completed our assignment and I was dazed out because I really had no care in what he was saying. Sooner than I realized, everyone was getting up to go to their tents. "I'm always 10 steps behind everyone" I whispered annoyingly to myself. I headed back to the tent and climbed in and saw Alli searching through her stuff. I sat down next to her.
"Hey, how was the hunting with Drew?" She displayed the biggest smile. "Amazing, Incredible, we're going to top it off tonight." I widened my eyes and look at her in disgust but I guess that was her thing.
"How was yours with Eli?"
"Ehh, he barely stayed long but I did most of the searching myself." "Oh well, too bad because he's cute." Alli said bluntly. I didn't really think so, I mean he was attractive physically but his attitude completely took away from al that of that but I nodded in agreement anyway. It was about 7 and I knew Alli was going to heading to Drew's tent anytime now. It was really dark considering we were in the middle of the woods. Simpson had intentions to believe everyone was going to bed, but I wasn't tired at all so I decided to go out. "Hey Alli, I'm going down by the river. Have fun with Drew." She nodded and I walked out.
I walked down to the river. The sound of the crunching of the leaves and sticks were so cool. I get satisfaction out of the simplest things. I went to go sit on a log. I sat down looking into the river, cherishing the silence. I looked over to my far left, I noticed the Eli kid, but tried to ignore his existence. Minutes later, he walked towards me and sat on the same log, but the opposite side.
"What is wrong with you?" I asked out of simple curiosity. "Excuse me?" He asked offended. "You're always by yourself; you're so mean and very strange, why?"
"Why do you feel the need to question me? I barely know you." He said even more offended than before.
"Well I mean you're the one who came to sit over here so you can leave if you're going to be rude." We both stared at each other every now and then.
"Clare" I looked over to him. "Why do you bother to talk to me? Why are you so nice?"
"What kind of question is that?" I asked. "A simple one. Why are you so nice in general. Specifically to me. I don't get it."
"Because I'm naturally a nice person, I try to actually make friends instead of isolating myself" I answered mockingly. "Are you saying we're friends?" He asked shyly. I shrugged in response. Eli nodded.
"I mean we can be" I said directly. Eli smirked and nodded. "So friend, why are you over here?" He asked me.
"I don't know. I guess I just wanted to get away from everyone, I guess."
"Yeah, same here" He responded. "Eli" I broke the silence. 'Why do you isolate yourself so much?" He was now looking up at me. He hesitantly responded, "Because I'm not really fond of people—they always seem to judge me so I don't even bother to try to interact."I nodded, "I understand"
"You do?" He questioned. It began to drizzle but we both ignored it. "Yeah, some people just assume that I'm smart that I don't know how to have fun and all I do is study, and I'm sick of that. I've been going through that ever since I got to Degrassi" Eli giggled.
"What's so funny?" I questioned. "I kind of assumed just that." He said still giggling.
"Yeah, that's just great" I scrunched my face and nodded sarcastically. We talked for a while, for about 45 minutes or so, we were getting to know each other. It began to pour heavily. "Oh my gosh" I exclaimed. "Oh calm down" Eli dragged me back the camp site and into his tent.
"Clare…your hair" His eyes widened. "Um…yeah; the rain kind of makes it like that." I said embarrassingly. "Don't worry, it isn't that bad." I blushed. "So umm what do you want do?" I asked. "Want to play a card game or something? I really don't have any entertainment in here except my iPod."
"So let's listen to music." I suggested. "I don't think so. I don't really listen to music a lot of people like."
"Try me" I challenged. Eli took out his iPod from his bag and began to play something from Asking Alexandria. "Wow, that's-loud."
"Yeah, I knew you wouldn't like it" He said dejectedly.
"I never said that." Eli smirked, a real genuine smirk. This was the closest thing to a smile I have seen on his face all day. We sat in the tent listening to music and the sound of the rain outside. Every now and then, we would glance up at each other, exchanging smirks and I blushed like every 20 seconds, uncontrollably.
"You know, you blush a lot, right?" Again, I blushed a darker shade of red and hid my cheeks and nodded, Eli smirked at me. "I think I should be heading back to my tent now." Eli nodded.
"By the way Eli, you have good taste in music. He began to blush. I unzipped the tent and began to walk out. "Clare?" I turned around.
"Yes?" I asked. "Thanks for being my friend." I smiled "no problem."
"Wait", he exclaimed. I turned back around and he smacked his lips against mine, I pulled back.
"What are you doing?" I asked breathlessly. "I'm sorry, I just….I'm really sorry." Eli sighed. I walked back to my tent very confused into what just happened.
Did he really just kiss me? I barely knew the kid, and he kissed me. So basically my first kiss was with a stranger, this is great. How would I confront him tomorrow? I thought about it for a while sitting in my tent. He was cute and after getting to know him he did have a nice personality. Maybe, it wasn't such a bad thing. Maybe, I like him. No, it's way too soon. I just don't know.
Clare layed down still trying to process with happen especially since it was her first kiss. She fell asleep thinking of how awkward tomorrow would be for them both.
