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"Tag you're it!" Eli yelled as he poked Clare and ran. They were playing tag on the Goldsworthy Yard. Clare's cheeks turned red as she ran after Eli. "You're too fast Eli!" She stomped her foot on the floor in frustration. Eli stopped running and walked back to Clare, he was out of breath from running so long.

"C'mon Clare!" He complained. Clare folded her arms in front of her, her eyes widened as she saw who was watching them play from the front porch staircase. A feeling of unworthiness ran through her. Mr. Goldsworthy looked upset. Eli followed her gaze and smirked. "Wait here." He said as he walked to his father.

"That's Clare." Eli said as he looked up to Bullfrog.

"I know, that's the maid's daughter Elijah." Bullfrog's eyebrows wrinkled as he as examined the help's daughter.

"I know that!" He smirked.

"Well, you can't play with her, Elijah." He said emotionless.

Eli glanced back at Clare who was sitting on the grass while looking up at the sun. "W-w-hy?" He asked worried. His world was now crashing down. What would he do? How could he tell Clare? And break his promise to her? She hasn't gone home in two weeks, if she suddenly goes home, here dad will murder her. All these possibilities ran through Eli's mind.

"Son, because she's the help's daughter and I have other playmates in mind for you." Bullfrog said in amusement as he looked at Clare again. Eli didn't know what to say! He was to flustered to fight back.

"Mr. Ryan's daughter will replace Clare easily!" He said.

"No!" Eli yelled as he stomped his foot. "She's my best friend!"

"You better listen to me! I need this deal with the Ryan's. If you ruin this, I'll send you to a boarding school." Bullfrog threatened. "And their daughter will make a good wife for you one day."

His father was already thinking of marriage! Eli was frustrated that his dad would do this. His dad was being selfish. He didn't even know who this Ryan's daughter was anyways. All he knew was that he was going to keep being Clare's best friend.

"Then I can have more than one friend, Bullfrog. Clare is my bestest." Eli said simply.

Bullfrog seemed irritated now. He huffed and ran his hand through his hair and looked at Clare, giving her a stink-eye."We're not done Elijah." Bullfrog walked into the Mansion. Eli felt uneasy, but at least he was still Clare's friend and he didn't break his promise to her. He ran to Clare, who was still sitting on the grass.

"You slow poke! What took you so long?" She rolled her eyes.

"My dad. It's nothing."

"Oh, okay."

"What do you want to play now?" Clare asked in excitement.

"Hmmmm." Eli placed a finger under his chin and thought of something. "Aha! I want to give you something!" Clare raised her eyebrow and saw Eli taking something from his collar. It seemed like a pendant or a dog tag. "My granma gave this to me." Eli showed a locket that had engravings on the back: Elijah Nathan Goldsworthy. He proceeded to open the locket and it showed a picture of Eli and while the other side didn't have one. Eli took off the locket and held it in his hand. Then he broke off the two parts, now they were single pendants, except one didn't have a chain. Clare gasped at this action. "You can have this side." Eli handed her the side with the engravings and the picture of himself. Clare examined it in her hand and put it on. "We can get a picture of you on my side of the locket and maybe a chain for me too!" Clare smiled at Eli.

"Bestfriends?" She offered her pinky. "Bestfriends!" They joined.

In the Goldsworthy Mansion with Bullfrog:

"Helen!" Bullfrog yelled and threw a vase a the wall. He was angry about the conversation he had with his son. To him, Elijah was being stubborn. To him, it was this peasant girl's fault. She needed to get away from his son, or else his plans would be ruined forever. How would he support his family if he didn't get this deal.

"Yes, sir?" A very scared Helen Edwards approached a very angry Mr. Goldsworthy.

"Are you aware that your daughter has been getting very close with my son?"

"My Clare? She's been here." She asked worriedly. Helen wiped the sweat off her forehead while a very intimidating Mr. Goldsworthy paced back in forth.

"Yes, she has. And I want her to stop being a nuisance to my son."

"But sir, they're just children!"

"NOT ANOTHER WORD HELEN." He yelled fiercely. "Eli loves your daughter, I can see it in his eyes and I don't want my son falling in love with a peasant."

"By god, sir. They're only gradeschoolers. Why would you bring up love?"

"I don't care Helen. If this keeps going on as they age, they could end up together! Or worse, even get married! That could ruin my plans for Elijah! I have a future planned for Elijah and it does not include having a peasant wife!" Helen seemed hurt at this little out burst.

"That is why I am prepared to pay you 3 million dollars to leave Toronto and never let your daughter show her face to my son."

"Excuse me?"

"Yes, you heard me Helen. Leave with 3 million dollars and never come back."

"Is this some sick joke?"

"No it's not." Bullfrog pulled out a check book and proceeded to the coffee table and wrote out exactly 3 million dollars to Helen Edwards. He ripped off the check and held it in front of Helen.

Helen thought of possibilities of a better life for her daughter. She thought of a new life that did not include Thom Sunders. But then she thought about how she could be ruining her daughter's possibilities with Eli. Then again, they were just children, she thought.

"Deal." Helen grabbed the check and examined it for any faults.

"It's the real deal Helen. I want you and your family out of here by tomorrow."

"Yes, sir."

"You are now fired, leave and bring your daughter with you."

"Yes, sir." Helen walked out of the mansion and smiled at the check. She then felt guilty at what she'd done. It will go to good use! She thought to herself. Helen looked at the yard to find her daughter locking pinkies with Elijah. "Elijah! You father is calling you, boy!" His head snapped up.

"Wait here Clare! Okay?" She bit her lip and smiled. Then her eyes bulged out, because her mother was the one who had called Eli. She was going to tell Eli, but he was already on his way into the Mansion.

Meanwhile her mother paced to her.

"Clare Diane Edwards, we are leaving now." Her mother said emotionless.

"What? Why? I don't want to! I can't leave Eli!" Tears started to form their way down her cheeks.

Her nose started to turn red and she could barely breathe.

"We have to go, Clare. Mr. Goldsworthy fired me!" Helen said as she grabbed Clare's forearm and started pulling her out of the yard.

"Mommy, we can't!" Clare started crying even harder. She was heartbroken, being separated from Eli. They made a pact to be bestfriends forever and she didn't want to be the one to break the promise. Then Clare suddenly remembered Thom, he would murder her, if she showed her face to him.

"We're moving to the states, Clare. Darcy is already home, all we need to do is get her and go to the bank. Mother and daughter were power walking to the apartment. Clare tried very hard to not think of Eli, but she couldn't. He was the most important person to her and her mother was taking that away from her. Clare clung to the half-locket. "I'm sorry Eli..." She murmured to herself very low, so that her mother couldn't hear her. They finally reached the ghetto apartment, Helen opened the door and whispered to Clare, "Stay here, I'm going to get Darcy. Thom can go to hell, for all I care." Clare nodded and held onto her half-locket. Thinking of Eli ached her heart even more.

At the Goldsworthy Mansion

"What do you mean she's not really my friend?" Eli's cried at his father.

"You heard me, Elijah! She only wanted to be your friend because of your money. That's what you need to watch out for these days, son."

"I don't believe you! She's not like that, she wouldn't do that!"

"Fine, go see for yourself. She left with her mother as soon as I gave your Nan-Helen a 3 million dollar check. That's all your Clare wanted. Money. I told you there better playmates that I had in mind. This playmate I chose for you is for sure not after your money, Elijah."

"I can't believe this!" Eli stormed through the main entrance and ran to the yard. He tried desperately to search for Clare, but she was no where to be found.

Eli felt crushed and heartbroken, he knew it was too good to be true to find someone who wouldn't want him for his money. A voice in the back of his head told him that Clare wasn't like that and she would never do that.

Then Eli did what his heart told him to. He ran through the yard and ran his way to Clare's apartment. The place where he first met her. He ran as fast as he could and ignored all the yells from his father. Bullfrog would have to wait for Eli to find the truth. As Eli ran, he stopped for a split second to catch his breath. After that, he resumed to running. When he arrived to the apartment, he saw Clare and Nan-Helen and another maid loading in a taxi cab. He couldn't comprehend what was happening. He could feel his eyes getting watery again. The taxi cab started moving and then an impulse made Eli run for it. "CLARE!" He kept chasing the cab until he could no longer run. Clare turned around in her seat and saw a broken Eli through the windshield. Eli sank to his knees and held the half-locket tight in his pocket. "Why?" He roared.

"I'm sorry...I know we'll see each other again." She whispered to herself in the car. Clare was now crying too. Now she knew the strange feeling that bothered her. It was love. She knew she was to young to be thinking of love, but she felt love from Eli. She was in love with Elijah Goldsworthy, but it would never happen. She's going to have a better life in the states. She wouldn't have to live in poverty anymore. Clare felt in her heart that her and Eli would find each other again. You're probably wondering where this cheesy talk was is coming from an 8 year old little girl. Clare would listen to Darcy rant on about love and fate. That's probably where shes getting this fate talk about Eli.

Clare held onto her necklace and kissed it quietly.

"Mom what's happening? Darcy! Mom!" Clare panted as she sat in her airplane seat. The lights of the plane kept flashing. The oxygen masks dispensed their way out. A hand suddenly grabbed hers, it was Darcy.

"Clare, the plane is going to crash! I want you to know I love you Clare! What ever happens, take care of mom or try to find me no matter what."

"Darcy!"

"The pillar shattered and combusted!" The pilot yelled frantically as everyone started to panic. "We're going to crash!"

"Clare, god is always with you!" Helen yelled at Clare.

"MOM! DARCY!"

At the Goldsworthy Mansion

"Elijah! Hurry the Ryans are almost here!" Bullfrog yelled as he fixed his tie.

Eli grunted as he fixed his tie in the mirror. "Stupid Ryans, I could be playing at Mark's house."

After the long day of chasing Clare, Eli gave up and returned home. As much as it hurt him to be separated from his other half, he had to forget about her. After all, his father was right. But the bond they had would never be replaced.

Bullfrog was planning on introducing Eli to his future bride. Eli sighed and returned downstairs by his father's side.

"Where's mom?" Eli asked.

"Right here baby boy." Cici came from the kitchen.

Ding.

"They're here! Elijah, hurry and greet them." Bullfrog pushed Eli's shoulder. Eli rolled his eyes and made his way to the front door.

"Hello Mr. and Mrs. Ryan, I'm Eli."

"Ah Bullfrog, so this is your handsome son Elijah. We've heard so much about you Elijah. We hope you get along with our daughter." Mrs. Ryan said as she hugged Cici. "It's so nice to see you, Cici! It's been way too long!"

"Of course, Janette!" Cici exclaimed. The grown-ups went to their business and discussed possibilities.

"Hi there." A soft voice said in Eli's direction. Eli turned around to see a girl with long brown hair and light brown eyes. Eli chuckled to himself, She's so different from Clare. He said to himself.

"Hello?" Eli answered awkwardly

"Ah, I see you've met my little Julia, Elijah." Mr. Ryan said as put his hand on Eli's shoulder. Eli shuddered from Mr. Ryan's touch. "Play nice." Mr. Ryan smiled and went to follow the other adults.

"So Eli, what do you like to play?" Julia's voice was very different from Clare's. Eli wasn't in the mood to play any games. He'd rather be playing with Clare. He just walked to the nearest couch and sat there. Julia soon followed and wrinkled her eyebrows.

"You're very boring, Elijah." She said simply. Eli rolled his eyes and gave Julia a stink-eye.

"You are too."

Beep. Beep. Beep. The sound of the cardiac monitor echoed through the hospital room. Clare was awakened by the annoying sound. A nurse who was writing on her clipboard saw Clare and smiled.

"You're awake honey, let me get the doctor. Don't move, you've been hurt very badly."

After 10 minutes, a woman came in holding a clipboard.

"Hello there, sweetie. Do you know what happened to you? May I ask your name and how old you are?"

CLARE'S POV

I tried very hard to answer the doctor's questions, I just couldn't remember anything.

"I-I-I don't know...who am I? Who are you?" I could feel I was starting to cry. "What happened?"

The lady rubbed my back. "Honey, I think you have Post-Traumatic Amnesia. You were found in a plane crash site. I think you hit your head pretty hard. You don't know or remember anything at least?"

"What's Amnesia?"

"You lost your memory from hitting your head really hard, sweetie."

I tried to think as hard as I could, but my head hurt too much. This made me very mad, I didn't even know my own name. I looked into the lady's eyes and it was like something hit my head really hard.

"Do you know my name?" I asked.

"I'm sorry honey, we have no identification from you. Think hard and look back. Just tell me any name that comes to your head. We'll just call you that for now, until your memory comes back."

I nodded my head and closed my eyes.

"...Diane...we're leaving now...to states."

I opened my eyes and wiped away the tears. "The only name I remember is Diane." I sniffed.

"Alright, Diane it is. I'm Dr. Bhandari." She smiled.

"Where are we?" I asked.

"You're in a hospital in California."

"Do I have a family?"

"I'm afraid, I don't know Diane. You were the only survivor reported from that plane crash. They found you drifting on a broken plane wing."

I don't know why, but my heart told me to be sad.

"Oh and we found this in your hand. You were holding onto it really tight. Maybe it might help you jog your memory." Dr. Bhandari handed me a broken half-locket.

On the broken locket it said, Elijah Nathan Goldsworthy. Who is this Elijah? I turned it around and there was a picture of a boy smirking.

"...bestfriends?...tag you're it!...wanna come...cousin...house?" I ignored the memory.

"Where will I stay?"

Dr. Bhandari looked up to think. "Hmm...you can come with me and my family. You can stay there until your memory comes back. You poor thing, who knows what you've been through!"

"Okay..."

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