Author's Note: Been a rebel today and stayed home from school. Tumblr is down, so I'm updating. This chapter me be kinda long, kinda not. I'm not sure yet. Thanks for the reviews! Enjoy! : )

It has been three minutes and I already have a headache. From the moment Darcy stepped out of the cab, her and Clare have been screaming their heads off and hugging each other. At first, I thought it was cute. They were adorable siblings, but now...

I quietly cleared my throat and Clare settled down. She turned to smile apologetically at me, and then back to Darcy.

"Darce, this is Eli,"

Darcy brushed her hair away from her face and then held her hand out. "Hi, I'm Darcy. I'm sorry for the freak it out - it's been a couple years since I saw her. I've heard so much about you in Clare's letters,"

I grin I couldn't help creeped on my face as I shook her hand. "Good things, I hope,"

"Wonderful things," Darcy assured and Clare blushed next to me.

"So where is mom?" Darcy turned back to Clare.

"She's in there. She wanted to give me and you some time to say hello. I'm pretty sure she's cooking dinner,"

"Great. Well I'm gonna go in there and say hi. I'll see you in a few minutes for dinner," Darcy reached down and grabbed her bags.

"Oh, Darce!" Clare called. Darcy turned around. "We have another dinner guest?"

Darcy raised an eyebrow.

"Spinner Mason. He and Eli are both auditioning for band so I invited him,"

"Really? That's great. It will be awesome to see him," She started back inside. Once the front door closed, we could hear Darcy squeal.

Clare laughed and turned to me. "Sorry about that,"

"It's fine," I smiled back at her. "You haven't seen your sister in forever. I get that you'd wanna catch up with her,"

She smiled warmly at me and wrapped her arms around my neck, bringing my face down to hers. "Thank you for coming to this dinner. Darcy has been wanting to meet you forver,"

"Anything for you,"

She leaned up and kissed me, pulling my face even closer to hers. I wound my arms around her waist and deepened the kiss,"

"Alright! Porno on the front lawn!" Spinner's loud voice broke the moment, and I pulled away sighing. "Darcy here yet?"

"She's inside, but she's saying hi to my mom. She said give her a few minutes."

"Alright. So, Eli, you been practicing? Sav said he's letting us know tomorrow,"

"A little," I said evenly. I wasn't too happy about this guy being here, but I would make do. For Clare.

"Good, I'm sure you've gotten a lot better,"

Spinner and I stared awkwardly at each other, before I looked down. Clare could sense the tension and she clapped her hands. "Alright, well let's get in there for dinner,"

Clare's mom was very happy to see Spinner. I guess he was some sort of Jesus-loving, respectable, abstinent, perfect guy when he was dating Darcy. I snorted.

Darcy was happy to see Spinner, too. Even though they had broken up, they stayed friends. Everyone there seemed so happy-go-lucky. I felt out of place. Mrs. Edwards would never think I'm good enough for Clare, and with Spinner here it wasn't helping either.

I sighed and set down my fork. Clare grabbed my hand silently and gave me an encouraging smile. I took a sip of my water.

"You know actually, Eli reminds me a lot of Spinner," Darcy laughing. Mrs. Edwards glanced between us and then went back to her food, obviously not agreeing. Spinner and I stared at each other before I rolled my eyes and started eating again.

"How so?" Spinner asked and looked at Darcy.

"Just the whole, mysterious, guy-with-a-past thing,"

"With a past?" I asked, looking up at Darcy. "What past?"

"Well, Spinner had his issues with his best friend and you and...your ex-girlfriend,"

I put my fork back down and took my hand away from Clare's. "You told her?" I asked, looking at her.

Clare looked at Darcy, then to me, her expression awkward and apologetic. "Eli, I'm sorry...I just - I tell Darce everything,"

"That's great, Clare, that's just great," I took my napkin off my lap and placed it on the table. "Mrs. Edwards, thanks for dinner. Darcy, it was nice to meet you," I stormed out the door.

Once outside, I was able to breathe for a minute and I knew that storming out was a mistake. That's twice, now, that I had proven to be a bad seed in front of Clare's mom. I will never be allowed to come over again. I ran my fingers through my hair and I sighed, sitting on the front steps. After I had a few minutes to cool off, I'd go back in.

The door opened, though, and I figured Clare would sit down next to me. So I was very surprised when Spinner sat down.

"What do you want?" I muttered.

"Don't be so harsh on Clare. Her and Darcy were always very close. She didn't mean to hurt you,"

"I told Clare about my past so we could be together. I didn't want to hide anything from her, but I didn't know she'd go off and tell her who family!"

"She only told Darcy. And she tells Darcy everything, she can't hide anything from her either,"

"But my past is personal," I argued.

"Darcy isn't going to judge you with it, trust me. She's very accepting about people's pasts,"

"You're the point, Spinner, I don't want her to know about my past. God, her family already thinks I'm horrible for her they don't need to know that I killed my fucking girlfriend!" I stood up and walked down the short path, trying to control myself.

I heard Spinner's footsteps behind me. "Uhm, did I hear that correctly?"

Eli sighed. "Yup,"

"And when you say kill, do you mean-"

I turned to face him. "We fought. It was brutal and messy and late at night and she took off on her bike to get away from me. I told I never wanted to see her again. I called her a bitch. She cried and left and got hit by a car. If I had never pushed her away that night, she would still be here,"

"And you wouldn't have Clare," Spinner murmured.

I glared at him. Of course I had thought of it that way before, but the fact still remains: I killed Julia.

"Look, Eli, it's rough and you're probably still hurting...but it's not your fault,"

"No, you know what, just shut up. Shut up!" I yelled at him. "Stop acting like you know me, stop acting like we're friends. Just leave me alone," I walked over to Morty and got in, taking a deep breath, then driving off.

Author's Note: It's so weird writing Eli and Spinner as not being friends. Idk. It sucks. Lol.

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