The 6 of them finally arrived at the beach house. Drew got out of the car and went over to pick Alli up bridal style. He carried her into the house and they quickly disappeared to their room. Bianca and Adam quickly jumped out the car holding hands and walked into the house also disappearing to their room. Eli and Clare got out of the car but didn't go into the house right away.

"wow look at this gorgeous scenery" Clare said looking around at the trees and the water

"I know look at the way the water hits the shore it's so cool" Eli said taking a step back to look at it. "this could be a great place to just sit and write" He added quickly

"y-you write?" Clare asked. Eli looked away almost embarrassed "yea I know it's really nerdy, but I can sit and write for hours" He explained. Clare quickly walked over to the trunk of the car opened it up and took out a book laying in one of her bags. "this is my writing book" Clare said handing it to Eli "I write all the time I can't believe you do too"

"seriously, oh my god we have so much in common, just imagine the two of us this summer sitting on those two rocks down there right above the water just writing together" He pointed to the two rocks, they were tall and overlooked the water. "Yea we have to do that, promise?" Clare said holding out her pinky for another pinky promise. Eli smiled and quickly they made their promise.

"we should really make a list of stuff we are promising to do because it's bad luck to break a pinky promise" Eli stated jokingly "funny Eli, but good idea lets write a list of things we promise to do and by the end of the summer, and we have to make sure we do the entire list" Clare added. Eli nodded in agreement and then the two of them finally went inside the beach house to see where they'd be living for the next month.

Clare's POV

When I walked inside the house I noticed it was so clean (probably not for long) and big. It had a massive kitchen and a giant pool in the backyard. It had a long winding staircase and when I walked upstairs it had a huge living room and then three bedrooms with a bathroom in each room. I can really get used to living like this.

"Clare isn't this amazing" Alli said running over and hugging Clare

"yea it's insane, Drew thank you so much for letting me come" Clare said

"no problem the more the merrier" He said laughing "I just hope you guys are down for clubbing tonight, there's a club right around the corner we can literally walk there, and then tomorrow we can chill on the beach all day" He said excitedly

"did I hear clubbing?" Bianca yelled from her room "Yes Bianca I said clubbing" Drew yelled back

"WE ARE SO IN" Bianca yelled once again

" I think I'll sit this one out" Clare shyly said walking towards her room that she'd be sharing with Eli

"No Clare c'mon I invited you so you can have fun and not mope about anything, you've been through a lot you need to have fun" Alli said really sweet and sincere

"ugh fine I'll go" she finally gave in "I'll be there too" Eli said climbing up the stairs with his bags, and Clare's bags in his hands

"well aren't you just a gentlemen" Clare said taking her bags from him

"ya know, I do what I can" Eli joked. Clare playfully slapped his arm.

"Well thank you Eli" Clare said walking into their room. That's when Clare noticed there was only one bed in the room.

Clare's POV

I'm not even dating Eli, and I've only known him for about 2 hours and they expect me to sleep in the same bed as him. That's not happening, I wear a purity ring and I am very religious, I guess I'll just say I'll sleep on the couch because it's not fair to him to have to sleep on the couch because I'm uncomfortable.

"listen Eli I, umm…I'm just not very comfortable with-"

"I get it, the bed, it's fine I'll just take the couch or the floor, I don't really care, no worries." Eli said making me feel so comfortable around him. He was so sweet and he wasn't mad at all.

"are you sure, because I can take the couch" I said silently hoping he wouldn't make me sleep on the couch

"are you kidding me, like I'm going to let a girl sleep on the couch, funny joke Clare" he said laughing "but is it okay if I still unpack up here ya know leave my clothes in the drawers and stuff, use this bathroom." He asked

"of course, of course no problem at all Eli, thank you so much you really are so sweet" Clare said blushing

"yea I know I am" He said unpacking his clothes "so how about we get to that list of things we are going to do before the summer ends

"good idea" Clare said grabbing a pen and a sheet of paper