Disclaimer: I don't own Degrassi.
Finally, the few weeks of recording had passed and the CD was made, all that's left is the release date, interviews, and time with Clare. As I quickly dressed I folded my clean clothes and put them in my dresser, wanting to keep clothes here and in Toronto. Those were the two places we were at most. Everyone was excited to go back and the minute we were in the limousine, we cheered to both be finally out of the house and to be done the recording.
"Eli, Halloween party at casa de Coyne." Imogen said happily. "Costumes are a must, dates aren't since Drew doesn't have one." Imogen stated.
"Thanks for the reminder." Drew groaned and I chuckled.
"I could hook you up with Clare's yappy friend." I laughed a little, but I was serious.
"That would be perfect." Adam said and looked at Drew.
"No way, I heard her in the background. Last time I dated a groupie it didn't go so well, I don't have the same luck Eli does." Drew stated and I remember the time we bet him money to date her. It lasted not even a day and she decided to try to climb in my bed in the middle of the night, luckily I locked my door.
"She knows I like Clare." I assured and looked over at Drew. "We kissed in front of her a few times." I added.
"So is she one of us?" Imogen asked and the guys chanted 'one of us' in the background.
"Guys we're not a cult." I chuckled. "No I can't ask her to leave her life behind for the one we have. Not right now anyway." I muttered. "Besides, who are you going to the party with, Adam?" I asked remembering things with him and Becky aren't that good.
"Lor." He stated and I knitted my eyebrows together. "She knows about me and Becky, she wants to see what's going on." He clarified and I nodded.
Lor is an actress and has worked with Fi in some movies, she's really close to the band for multiple reasons as well as Fi.
When we finally got to the airport we all walked to our plane and filed on. Bethany of course was buckled up and we took off not much longer. I called my parents immediately asking that they can drop off the hearse in the airport so I can go see Clare. Towards the end of the plane ride, I texted Clare with a simple "hello" just to see what she was doing and she had just gotten to her Journalism class which from previous texts, is two and a half hours long. Just enough time to land, drive to TU and find her before the class could end. I told Bethany of my plans and asked that someone would take her for the time being, Imogen already jumped in wanting to take her out for lunch and to the clubhouse.
Once the plane landed, right next to the limo was my hearse. I said goodbye to Bethany and quickly hopped in the hearse, put on a baseball cap and sunglasses since I was already wearing something I considered to be a disguise and started to make my way to TU. The ride itself felt like forever and since I didn't have time to shave in New York, I had a noticeable mustache.
The minute I got to TU, I immediately asked where Clare Edwards was in an Australian accent and I was given direction. I nearly ran to find her, but then slowed down as I saw her in the hall talking to some guy and let my head fall when they started to smile and laugh.
"Sorry." I said in the same accent when I bumped into someone. In turn I saw Alli and she drug me into an empty classroom.
"Eli, what's going on? Why do you seem so sad?" she asked and I looked up at her.
"I saw Clare out there with some guy, they seem close. I mean I know I've been gone for weeks and haven't been able to text her like I want." I muttered losing the accent since Alli knows it's me and she pulled me by my arm back into the hallway and looked at me with an extremely pissed off face.
"Stay here." She stated and walked over to them, her heels clacking to where they echoed in the halls so of course I obeyed.
Right as Alli was walking towards Clare, she stopped when a sudden loud slapping sound was made and Clare picked up her books and smiled when she saw me standing behind Alli. Immediately she dropped her books and ran into my arms. I kissed her the minute she attached our lips together and spun her around. "I missed you." I whispered.
"I missed you too." Clare whispered back and I put her down only to look into her gorgeous baby blues and pecked her lips.
"So I assume you're kidnapping Clare?" Alli asked curiously.
"Both of you once you're done classes." I smiled using the fake accent and smiled down to Clare. Alli squealed a little and Clare giggled, while I just rolled my eyes behind the dark glasses.
"I'm done class." Alli exclaimed. Clare smiled and looked at me.
"Almost done." she sighed.
"Do you get a Halloween vacation?" I asked with a raised brow and both looked down sadly like their dreams have been crushed I raised Clare's head so she can look at me and kissed her lips chastely. "It's ok." I whispered and someone called Clare into the class, I followed with Alli and we sat in the back while Clare moved up to the seat next to the girl who called her.
Alli and I nearly fell asleep as the class drug on and I felt Clare grab my hand. "Where to next?" I asked curiously and we walked out of the room only to hear the professor call to Clare.
"Have fun this Halloween." She stated and I smiled down to Clare.
"Where to?" I asked Clare.
"Home." She smiled and laced our fingers together.
"All my instructors gave me off for the week." She smiled up at me and Alli squealed.
"So now to drop Alli off at her home and go with Clare." I stated and Alli looked at me.
"Unlike Clare I can't afford to live in an apartment, I live on campus." She muttered and I motioned to Clare to follow Alli.
"I'm not driving back and forth." I said firmly and Clare stood on her toes.
"I thought we might have some fun at my place." She whispered and I nearly groaned.
"My room." I whispered and kissed her again.
It didn't take Alli long to pack and while she packed, Clare and I made out on the couch. I missed her so much. After that it was off to Clare's, then home. It took a bit to have Alli get in the hearse and I threatened to leave her behind. Before leaving I texted for a car to meet us at the garage with a given time. Clare sat in between Alli and I in the hearse and I took my cap and sunglasses off on the way to the garage. The ride was spent with Alli yapping about how excited it was and it only made me think about finding ways to tune her out. Finally we got to the garage.
"Why are we here?" Alli asked as I pulled into the garage to park Morty.
"Switching cars." Clare answered and I soon smiled seeing there was a limousine waiting like usual. Once I hopped out of Morty I helped Clare out and opened the back where I took out the bags only to have the chauffeur take them.
"Dude what took so long?" Adam asked exiting the car.
"Sorry, Adam. I had to finish class." Clare giggled and Alli started yapping again about the band and I started to sign to Adam as we filed in the limo. I tried hard not to laugh when Adam called Alli an insane fangirl. Imogen stayed home with Bethany and I started to feel bad for putting Imogen through this. As we continued to drive all I could think about was how much I wanted to be home and have Clare in my arms, but I knew that Bethany wanted to see her and I needed to talk to her about earlier.
"Do you all sign?" Alli asked noticing Adam and I were signing.
"Yea. We all need to talk to Bethany." Adam answered. "Even our manager Matty knows how to sign."
It wasn't much longer when we finally pulled up to the house and the four of us exited the limo.
"This is it?" Alli asked seeing the outside. "It's brick and looks small." She noted and I chuckled.
"Yea. Let's go." I chuckled and held Clare's hand as we walked up the few steps and walked inside.
I turned to see Alli's face once she saw the inside of the house and her jaw dropped. I took Clare's bag from the chauffeur and Adam took Alli's.
"Drew your crazy fan girl is here." Adam yelled out and Drew emerged from the hallway. Alli immediately started to talk again, this time walking up to Drew.
"Does she ever stop?" I asked Clare and she shook her head. I took off the hat and the dark sun glasses and Clare looked at me again.
"The mustache." She pointed to it with a raised brow.
"I couldn't shave in New York, we didn't have time." I admitted and picked up Clare's bag. "Ready to go to our room?" I asked and held out my hand which Clare took.
When we got to our room I immediately went to the bathroom to shave and walked back out.
"Better?" I asked Clare as she looked through the agenda I left on my dresser.
"A lot." She smiled and walked over to wrap her arms around my neck and I kissed her. "What's going to happen with Alli at the Halloween party and the publicity?" Clare questioned.
"We'll be in costume and you'll be known as my date while Alli will be known as Drew's. No paparazzi or publicists are going to know your names." I assured and kissed her again. "So about that guy you were with.." I trailed off.
"Partner on a project. He hit on me and I slapped him." Clare sighed and rubbed my cheek softly, I leaned into her touch and bought her palm to my lips only to kiss it. I wanted to look into her eyes and tell her I love her then and there, but I couldn't. It's too soon.
"Go out with me?" I asked and she looked up at me. "Secretly, I'd only give your first name if I had to." I assured and she smiled.
"Of course, but would giving my first name do anything?" she asked.
"People might suspect you especially after Halloween since photographs are going to be in magazines, but since you'd have on a mask, close friends and family like Alli will be able to easily point you out." I explained and she nodded. "Do you need time to think?".
"No, I want this." She whispered and I crashed my lips into hers.
"Eli, Clare they're back." Adam yelled causing us to break the kiss and I groaned. I pecked Clare's lips once more before leading her out of the bedroom. Immediately Bethany ran up to hug Clare and I smiled at them. She didn't stay long with Clare until she wanted her to put her down and we made our way down stairs.
"We're going costume shopping, Drew, Alli want to join?" I asked and looked at Drew.
"Please." He said and took Alli's hand as he started to sign to me. Apparently they've been getting to know each other and he just wants her to stop talking. Bethany laughed and signed back to Drew.
"She laughs?" Alli asked looking at Bethany.
"And cries. Just because she can't hear doesn't mean she can't laugh or cry. She can probably talk too, but because she uses sign language she doesn't need to, but if she does her voice will sound scratchy like it took effort for her to talk because it probably did. She doesn't use her voice other to laugh or cry which comes naturally to everyone, like breathing." I explained and signed to Bethany that Clare and I were dating, she smiled widely and hugged Clare. "I told her we're dating." I whispered in Clare's ear.
"Congrats you two." Drew stated causing Alli to look between us. "Eli signed to Bethany that they're finally dating." he filled Alli in.
"Wait, you two weren't dating before?" Alli asked.
"No we were just casual." I chuckled and signed to both Drew and Bethany about plans.
"Where are we going?" Clare inquired.
"Modern Mayhem." I answered and noticed we were right around the corner and signed it to Bethany.
"We're there." Drew exclaimed as we pulled up in front of a dark store and Clare looked at it along with Alli. I walked out and helped out both Bethany and Clare and watched as Bethany ran inside.
"No disguises?" Clare asked and I chuckled.
"None needed. No one shops here unless they can afford it." I shrugged and watched as we walked inside. Bethany already had up a black princess dress and a mask. Behind her emerged Patricia, the crazy woman behind it all and she immediately took me into her arms once we entered the store and kissed both of my cheeks.
"It's so good to see you again Elijah." She said as I pulled apart. "Andrew it's a pleasure to see you again too." She smiled calling us both by our full names. "And who are these lovely ladies?" she asked looking at Clare and Alli and I moved beside Clare and put my arm around her as Bethany stood in front of us.
"This is my girlfriend, Clare." I smirked and looked at her.
"And Alli is my date." Drew clarified.
"We need costumes to the party. Preferably matching for all three of us and Drew and Alli need ones too." I filled Patricia in and I watched her escort Drew and Alli while Clare and I looked around.
"Eli.." Clare called me and I walked up to her.
"What's up?" I asked curiously and she pointed down to the price tag she held in her hands. "So?"
"Eli it's two thousand dollars." she exclaimed, shock clearly evident in her voice and I looked at another price tag on a different outfit which had more embroidery and detail on it.
"And this one is two and a half grand. Things cost money, what's your point?" I questioned and she walked over to me.
"My point is there are others that are a lot cheaper than these ones." She pointed out and I put my arms around her.
"Clare, we're going to a party and I'm buying the costumes." I chuckled a bit and looked down to see Bethany had run off again which was normal. "I like buying you things. You're my girlfriend now which means I get to spoil you." I smirked and kissed her lovingly, then pulled apart to look at the costumes again. I put my arms around her as her back pressed against my chest and Patricia started to walk over signing to Bethany.
"Everyone signs." Clare groaned as she noticed.
"Only people that are close to the group." I informed and Clare nodded.
"Does that mean you'll teach me to sign?" Clare nearly whined and I pecked her neck.
"Of course." I whispered and Clare looked at the costumes noticing she pushed certain ones away the minute she saw the price. "Don't worry about the prices." I whined and looked over the costume Clare pulled off the rack before she could check the price. It was black and red and it matched the image of the group. "I like." I smirked and kissed Clare's cheek. "Go try it on." I smiled more and looked over the men's costumes to find one like Clare's and smirked when I found out. I knew that it would fit just from looking at it and picked up a masquerade mask to match and saw Bethany running over with a similar outfit and a smaller masquerade mask to fit her.
"Eli, what do you think?" Clare asked and I licked my lips a few times as my jaw dropped. I think I mouthed the words holy shit.
"I'll take the dress." I stated as I looked at Patricia and Clare went to get dressed again. Once she was out, I looked over Bethany's outfit and it was perfect and I paid for all three outfits as I waited for Drew and Alli. Luckily they didn't take too long and we were ready to leave. When we got to the limousine, the chauffeur took our bags and laid them in the trunk as we filed inside. The ride was mainly spent me signing to Drew about him and Alli, turns out she does stop talking.
When we got home, Clare and I walked to our room to hopefully help her unpack finally and spend some time with my girlfriend. "Eli." Imogen called as we were halfway up the stairs making me clench my eyes close for a moment and turn around. "Can I take Bethany to Fiona's?" She asked.
"Just don't let her have junk food before dinner." I yelled back and she squealed a little.
"Everyone else is leaving. Alli wants to go to some place with Drew and Adam left to get his costume with Lor." Imogen clarified and I sighed in relief. We were finally going to be alone. As we finally entered our room, Clare turned to me and put her hands on my chest.
"How many girls have been in here?" she asked curiously.
"I don't know, I think less than ten." I shrugged, my voice trailing off since I didn't really count how many girls have snuck into my room when they weren't supposed to.
"In your bed?" she raised a brow and I looked at her with my eyebrows knitted together. "With you."
"Two." I answered. "You and Bethany." I said knowing the first few nights in the house Bethany wouldn't sleep in her own bed.
While Clare unpacked and I gave her a few drawers in my dresser, we talked about whatever came up, mainly our pasts. Once her drawer was cleaned Clare had started to put her clothes into it and I sat on the bed. After Clare finished putting her clothed in the drawers, we decided to cuddle and I placed my hand on her waist.
"I missed you so much when you were gone." She sighed and I rubbed my thumb over her waist.
"I missed you too, but now that we're together what do you want to do about it?" I inquired and she kissed me causing me to kiss her back. Within minutes our tongues were fighting for dominance and Clare was on top of me as I moved my hands to her waist. Moments later I flipped us over and started to kiss down her neck causing her to moan. My hand immediately went to her skin and groaned against the feeling as my hips immediately searched for friction against hers. I groaned slowly as her hips thrust into mine and reciprocated the action by thrusting my hips back into hers. I gently bit Clare' bottom lip as I let out another groan and looked into Clare's eyes when we pulled apart. Her eyes were darker than normal and I smirked deviously at her before thrusting my hips into hers again. A small grunt elicited my lips as my hips thrust harder into hers and Clare's hands gently tugged my hair. My hands went to hers as I laced them together and looked at them. Her purity ring was different and I looked down to her.
"Your ring is different. You're wearing a Claddagh." I pointed out the obvious and moved off of her to face her.
"I switched it out after you dropped me off. My parents surprised me with it." She smirked as she handed it to me and showed me the inscription "Pure love waits." And I smiled.
"So you don't have to worry about anything?" I asked and she nodded. "Parents?" I questioned remembering when she told me her parents were divorced.
"My mom and my uh.. step dad." She sighed and I instantly knew something was wrong. I brushed her bangs out of her face and looked down at her.
"What is it?" I asked and she looked at me with her eyebrows pinned together.
"I found out I had made out with my step-brother." She confessed and my eyes widened. "My mom married Jake's dad." She informed and I looked at her.
"If it helps they weren't married when you two kissed." I assured and kissed her head causing her to smile softly at me in return, then laced our fingers together. Her lips pressed softly against mine and I looked down into her eyes as we pulled away. "You're beautiful." I whispered and Clare reattached her lips to mine.
"Clare, Eli." Drew called out and we both groaned.
"We'll be down in a few." I yelled back figuring it would give me some time to fix myself. I could hear him walking up the steps and I swiftly moved behind Clare and pressed my erection against her ass causing her to moan.
"Can I come in?" Drew asked as he knocked on the door.
"Yea." I said loud enough and he walked in.
"Alli misses Clare already." He sighed and looked at us. "Plus she needs to talk to her." He added and walked out. Clare groaned and headed out of bed, causing me to follow her down the stairs to see Alli holding her bag.
"Where are you sleeping?" Alli questioned and I looked down at Clare.
"I tried to tell her, man." Drew raised his hands in defense.
"I'm sleeping in Eli's room." Clare answered her.
"I think it turned to our room the first night you stayed with me." I smiled and wrapped my arms around Clare's stomach, then locked my hands once they were around her, in turn Clare looked up at me and I leaned down to kiss her.
"Hey Eli, don't forget to check your fan mail." Drew pointed out and I groaned.
"Too late, but I'll check now." I sighed and kissed Clare before making my way to my room.
When I got to my room I opened my laptop and signed into my blog given on the band's site for fan purposes only, then signed onto my twitter account to search my tags. There were a few flirty tweets for me, but nothing that really caught my interest aside from one or two people wishing me a good morning and one of the two tweeted about an exam so I re-tweeted them back and typed "Good afternoon I hope you had a wonderful day." And "Good afternoon. I wish you the best of luck on your exam #Ihatethose." And then it was over to my e-mail account which was well beyond ten thousand e-mails.
"How's the fan mail going?" Clare asked as she sat next to me.
"Entirely too slow." I groaned and opened an e-mail to see a marriage proposal, then immediately deleted it.
"Get those often?" she inquired about the marriage proposal and I nodded slowly.
"Marriage proposals, girls throwing themselves at me, girls asking me out, some asking to meet me, some asking me on dates, some asking me to father their children, and some that are actually good like a fourteen year old thanking me for a self-picture I took of Bethany and I wearing the shirts she made us. They're now folded in one of those space bag things. I posted the picture to both the site and my twitter. There are also messages from some fans that have met me and want to know when another meet and greet is." I informed.
"I've seen some of the tweets people send you." Clare admitted and I checked through my followers to see Clare's picture.
"Ah-ha! You are a crazy fan girl." I exclaimed and looked at her. "And here I thought you were totally different." I joked with my voice trailing off as I crossed my arms in front of my chest and Clare just poked me and sat on my lap.
"You like me." She stuck her tongue out and I sucked it into my mouth only to start kissing her with fervor. I groaned once she started to lace her fingers in my hair and moved my hands to her waist.
After we pulled apart I clicked on Clare's twitter account to see that she hasn't been on in over a year and only posted about ten tweets, then looked over at her.
"See." She giggled and I looked at her.
"If you don't use your twitter why have one?" I questioned curiously.
"Alli wouldn't shut up until I made one and a few kids in High School made me. When they mentioned The Aesthetics have twitters we all followed." She shrugged. "I just hated twitter." She sighed honestly and I looked through the followers of my blog, Clare wasn't following. After that I decided to stop checking the fan mail for now. I chuckled when both my stomach and Clare's stomach growled simultaneously and looked at her.
"I think its dinner time." I smirked.
"Dude, I need to tell you something." Adam yelled out and I left Clare in my room to see what was going on. The minute I walked down I saw Lor and knew it may not be good.
"What is it?" I asked and sat down on the couch.
"Becky's bringing Luke to the party with her." Adam stated and I let my head hit the wall next to me.
"Eli, stop." Lor said bringing my head to rest on her stomach as she stood before me. She started rubbing my temples to calm me down as I closed my eyes and clenched my fists. "Let all your thoughts go." She whispered and I kept my eyes closed like I always have every time she did this and my fists unclenched. "There's only me and you. Allow me to manipulate your mind." She cooed and I looked up at her.
"If I do that you'll put me to sleep." I chuckled and she nodded.
"Fine, but sit on the floor." She said and I listened. Lor moved behind me and started to massage my muscles.
"I hate when you do this." I muttered and she giggled. "About Luke since Lor's keeping me from getting pissed, does anyone not remember when he threw holy water on Imogen and I?" I asked Adam curiously.
"We do, but you threw beer on him." Adam stated.
"Only because I couldn't beat the shit out of him knowing Bethany was in the room." I added and Lor rested her head on mine when she was done massaging my shoulders and I stood up. "What if we don't go?" I asked curiously.
"Eli, don't be an egotistical ass." Lor said firmly and stood up to face me.
"How the hell am I being egotistical?" I inquired.
"Not everything is about Luke having it out for you." She argued and I sighed.
"If he does something-"
"-I'll handle it." Lor cut me off and I nodded. "That's why I'm going. To protect you." She added and I sighed.
"I hate you, you know." I muttered under my breath.
"I love you too." She giggled and hugged me. "Besides if you wouldn't go I'd have to go to your house and make you or come here." She smiled and put her hands on her hips.
"You're still the same. Following me around like a lost puppy." I chuckled and she nudged my ass with her foot. "Really?" I laughed. "You're going to do that again…. Just remember I can still throw you." I laughed a little more.
"I'd like to see you try." She challenged and I threw her over my shoulder as she screamed for me to put her down and laughed as Clare was walking out of the hall. I smiled at her, carried Lor up the stairs and opened the door to Bethany's room only to throw her on the bed.
"Challenge accomplished." I stated and walked out of the room only to hold the door shut and Clare looked at me. "She's pissed and probably going to kill me."
"Eli let me out or I won't go to the party." She threatened as she pulled on the door to get it to open as hard as she can.
"You love me too much to see me get hurt." I contradicted her.
"What would it take for you to let me out?" she begged and stopped tugging on the door.
"Oh, I don't know. 'I promise not to kill you since you won the challenge and I love you, Eli.' Sounds pretty good to me." I yelled to her.
"Eli you jerk, when do I not love you? Besides if I did kill you who would protect me?" she asked and I opened the door and hugged her.
"That's my Lor." I cooed and she punched me in the chest.
"You still owe me from when we were little and you tortured me." She grumbled.
"Teaching you sign language didn't suffice?" I raised a brow. "Or letting you baby sit when Bethany was little?" I continued. "Or other things I did?" I added and she sighed.
"I never asked you to ditch Julia at your house." She sighed and I looked down at her.
"You were sick. You needed me more." I assured. "Now Clare and I are hungry go fix us some food woman." I demanded and she turned to Clare.
"See how he treats me?" she giggled with wide eyes as she started to walk down the hallway.
"Don't make me use your entire name Lore-." she put her hand against my mouth so I wouldn't say it and laughed.
"You egotistical ass." She grumbled and licked her hand before laughing some more. "Gross! Now I see where Bethany gets it from." She whined and I wrapped my hand around Clare's waist, but she pushed it off causing me to look at her quizzically and I started to walk down the steps with my hands in my pocket.
"Why did you cover Bethany's mouth since she's deaf?" I questioned Lor once I got down the stairs.
"Long story short. I did something my mom said 'like father like daughter' and I wanted to prove it since I know you hate having your mouth covered." She answered and looked at me causing me to stop. "Did you tell her to lick me?" she asked pointing a finger.
"No. I swear she did that on her own." I said with my hands raised in defense before she started to walk the rest of the way down.
"Yea, well my mom and Aunt CeCe thought it was the funniest thing." She rolled her eyes and I laughed as we made our way to the kitchen.
"Because they're twins. Hence the reason you're name." I stated as we walked in the kitchen. "I honestly think if you were a boy we'd be dressed the same." I laughed a little more.
"Uncle Bullfrog tried it." She muttered and pulled a pot and pan out of the cabinets. "What do you two want to eat?" she asked looking at me and I shrugged.
"Chicken. Grilled with barbecue sauce." I replied with a smile and she took out the chicken.
"Lor's cooking?" Adam inquired and I nodded as I went to sit with Clare.
"Are you ok?" I whispered and she looked up to me.
"Sorry I didn't know you were cousins and I kind of got jealous." She confessed.
"Sorry, Lor likes to keep it a secret." I assured and kissed Clare softly. "I keep forgetting that no one knows especially since we're used to acting like this when we're behind closed doors." I whispered and glued our heads together. Clare kissed me again and I laced our fingers together.
"Eli, can you get me my stuff from my purse?" Lor interrupted us.
"Meds?" I asked her curiously and she sighed, yep her meds. I got Lor's purse and handed it to Clare.
"Can you get her birth control out?" I asked and she raised her brow. "I'm not going in her purse." I stated.
"I don't have anything personal in there." Lor said giving Clare permission and she sighed, but got out Lor's birth control pills. I walked up stairs as the girl's talked and walked into my room to answer fan mail and saw birth control pills on the dresser and knitted my eyebrows together. Sure I thought that Clare might have to take a vitamin like I do. I wanted to call her, but didn't want her to think something was wrong, so I walked back down stairs to the kitchen.
"I take birth control for the some of the same reasons." Clare giggled and I looked at her.
"Just in time, the food's done." Lor stated as she got out plates and I looked to Clare.
"Care to explain those reasons about the birth control?" I asked with a raised brow as I leaned on the counter.
"It helps with headaches and certain stomach pains." Clare replied, her voice a little low when she mentioned the stomach pains.
"She means cramps." Lor said loud enough for me to hear.
"Oh." I stated and Clare looked at me weird while I grabbed a plate and filled it with food. "I've lived with a woman for almost a year and I live with Imogen now. If she gets cramps we all know." I chuckled and Adam walked over.
"I heard cramps which reminds me, where are you staying in two weeks?" Adam asked curiously as he fixed himself a plate and we walked to the table.
"Here why?" I questioned.
"Because I'm staying with Drew over at Lor's." Adam informed and I looked to Lor.
"That's when Imogen turns into a monster the boys and I are going my house in Quebec." She explained and I looked to Clare as we all sat down.
"How much would you love to have your boyfriend with you for an entire week?" I asked looking at her curiously as she sat next to me and I ate a piece of my chicken.
"You saw my apartment. It's nothing like it is here and I don't have anything for Bethany aside from the guest room." She said and I sighed.
"Just buy a house." Lor shrugged and I looked at her. "It's the obvious choice. Make it near TU, get two rooms, furniture, but stuff for Bethany, sheets, and everything. Clare would be out of her seemingly filthy apartment building and in a nice lovely home." She said and I stayed quiet. "Or get a hotel room for a week and have the paparazzi asking you endless questions and jumping to conclusions about who knows what." She stated.
"Or I can go home to my parents." I added.
"Imogen knows where they live." She reminded me and I groaned.
"I'm sure it's not that bad." Clare laughed a little
"It's so bad, Matty runs." Adam laughed as we all started to eat and I got a text.
"Fi's taking care of Imogen we don't need to run for the hills." I cheered. We talked about everything and anything as we all ate and not long after we finished eating, Bethany ran inside the house and signed to me about Imogen turning into a monster and we all laughed, aside from Clare.
"What did she say?" Clare asked.
"If-"
"I don't turn into a monster." Imogen argued cutting me off and Clare giggled a little. I got up to put my emptied plate in the sink and turned my attention to my daughter, but she grabbed a bag and ran to her room. Before I could do anything, Lor put a music sheet in front of me and a pen.
"You're stressed." She stated and I sighed. It wasn't long until I started writing and had half the sheet filled up with lyrics and looked at Clare. "That was fast." She smiled and I chuckled.
"I'm just able to write. Doing the music is the hard part." I sighed and Drew walked in causing me to look over at him.
"Is the basement set up?" I asked.
"Yea, but don't forget sheets." He said and I nodded.
"Added some in the basement." I chuckled and kissed Clare quickly before running down to the basement. I smirked as I saw the drums and the table beside them. I set up a microphone before sitting down and tried to drum a few notes, but they didn't sound right and started to sing it first. When I hit the chorus I slammed down on the symbols and started to sing again. I smiled liking the sound and switched to the guitar and to the bass.
Once I was finished I went up the steps to give the rest of the band the music and smiled at Clare. "All done." I smirked and kissed her lovingly as I placed my hands on her hips.
"I didn't know you can play that many instruments." She breathed.
"I can play the drums, piano, guitar, and bass." I smiled and looked around. "Where's Bethany?" I asked.
"Sleeping." Imogen replied and yawned. I looked at the clock and realized that I had been in the basement for almost three hours.
"Are you ready for bed?" I questioned Clare and she nodded. We held hands walking to our room like usual and when we got there she dressed in my bathroom and I dressed in my room. I left a shirt off like normal and put on pajama bottoms and waited in the bed for Clare to knock on the bathroom door.
"Are you dressed?" Clare asked and I chuckled.
"Yea." I stated and held out my arms as she crawled into them and I kissed her again.
"I hope you don't mind, but I went through some of the tweets to you." She whispered.
"Clare why would I mind? You're my girlfriend." I smirked and looked into her blue eyes.
"What if I wanted to be official?" she asked.
"We are." I smiled and ran my fingertips along her spine.
"I mean publically, like leave my old life behind and fall into yours?" she asked and I looked down at her. As much as I wanted to tell her yes, I knew with the upcoming party things could change that.
"Someone I don't like is going to be at the Halloween party. I don't know if he'll piss me off or not and I can't hold back if he does especially if he uses Bethany to do it." I stated.
"If he does I wouldn't blame you for killing him. You're an over protective papa bear." She said and rubbed my chest and smiled at her.
"We can go public after the party if you want. I'll tweet it." I promised and held her close. Clare pecked my lips chastely before laying her head on my chest and we started to drift off to sleep.
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