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Chapter 3:

Surprise, surprise

Clare, nothing happened I swear. It was all just Lenore. I waited for hours hoping she would reply to the message. And just as I was about to give up, my phone started ringing. It was Clare.

"Hey", she said softly. "Hey, I'm sorry you had to witness that." I sincerely was. If someone didn't deserve pain it was Clare.

"Eli, has she done stuff like that before?", she asked me with an urgent tone. I was quiet for a second. "Eli?" "no it hasn't". I lied. But just to protect her, not to hurt her. "I don't know why she did it, maybe the booze got to her brains and she went nuts". Clare laughed but it felt like she saw trough me. I had to make an end to this as soon as possible. But I knew Lenore wasn't going to stop out of herself. I'd make her stop. I'd make her wish she'd never met me.

"Well, I can't wait till I see you again. Love you", Clare said. I replied with an 'I love you' and we stopped calling.

All of a sudden I heard a knock on my door. Lenore was back. The only person I didn't want to see.

"Eli, stop locking me out, I want to go to bed.", she said, stumbling over her words. But I wasn't going to open the door, no matter how hard she was going to beg. I put my music louder and went to bed.

It took me a while, but then I finally fell asleep. Dreaming of my lovely girl.

Ugh I hear my alarm beeping. It was 7 am and I felt terrible. I finally opened the door and saw Lenore slept right in front of it. I took off to the shower put on some new clothes and went out. I didn't have to get to class till 1 pm, so I decided to look for something special for Clare, but also thought of a way to get revenge on Lenore. Just letting her sleep outside the room wasn't enough. Not even almost.

I walked past many stores and grabbed a coffee. Black and one cube of sugar.

As I was starting to feel desperate I found a cute little gift for Clare. It was a teddy bear saying "I love you" as you pressed it's belly.

I still didn't know how to take revenge at Lenore. I didn't want to be the crazy Eli I was two years ago. I just wanted to be normal now. But she should know not to do stuff to Eli Goldsworthy.

It was almost half past 12 and I headed back to school.

I like the classes a lot, but still school was school. It never seemed to get better.

As a film major we also had to take acting classes. Today I had to play with Lenore. She would be Julia and I would be Romeo. I wasn't in the mood to do this, but she seemed eager to play with me. If I could remove that smile I'd be happy.

That night Clare didn't show up until late. "Saint Clare, shouldn't you be in bed?", I teased. "It's only 10:30!" she replied acting offended. She laughed. "Exactly", was my reply. Clare acted weird, as if she was hiding something.

"What's wrong?", I asked, as she followed with a devilish smile. "You'll figure it out soon enough", se answered. "But I got to go, captain curfew."

I laughed and kissed her goodbye.

What was Clare planning? I really wondered. I lay down on the bed just thinking about that.

The next day we only had some morning classes. After the class film making I returned to my room, to find Lenore sitting in her underwear. "Lenore, put something on", I said irritated. At first I didn't mind, but since the last time I just wanted her to act like a normal girl. Instead, she started walking towards me and tried to touch me. I pushed her away against the wall. But she came back. I did it again and hit her too times afterwards. "Stop trying to harass me, I have a goddamn girlfriend!" I screamed, when all of a sudden she kissed me. I pushed her away but it was too late. I now knew Clare's surprise. She was going to visit me this weekend.

She stood in the door opening and ran away crying.