Hey guys! Thanks for reading. It's nice to know people like my writing! Also, before you read this you should know, I am not going along with the show. So in this chapter Clare has no idea her parents are going to get a divorce. She was living in a happy bubble world or something. As long as you know this, you should be good. Enjoy!

Clare looked at herself in the mirror. She looked like a terrible mess. There was mascara streaming down her face, her eyes were bright red and puffy, and her hair was sticking up at every different angle. It was just so awful she couldn't think about it.

Four hours earlier….

"Hey Clare honey, can we talk to you?" she looked up at the sound of her mother's voice to see both of her parents in their living.

"Ok what do you want to talk about?" she tilted her head in her innocent girl way.

"This is very hard to tell you. I don't really know how to start. Well just remember that we love you very, very much and we only want what's best for you." Her mother cleared her throat.

"We would never do any of this to hurt you ever. Really it's what's best-"

"Really Emily stop stalling and just tell the girl already!" her father growled.

"Well Randall you're not the one who has to tell her, so I wouldn't talk if I were you." Her mother snapped back.

"What's going on you two? Your really scaring me. Why are you all of a sudden fighting?" she begged her parents.

"Well honey it's not all of a sudden. We are getting a divorce. I am sorry sweetheart." Her mother moved over to try to comfort the shock stricken Clare, but she just flinched away.

"I have to go." And with that Clare ran up the stairs, trying to silence the sobs that escaped her throat.

She couldn't believe this was happening to her. She watched it happen to so many of her peers, but never imaged it would happen to her. Divorce. I word she hated. Clare hated very little, but that word had no right to be liked.

She had texted Eli earlier for support and reassurance, but he hadn't texted back yet. What did she expect? The whole world would drop everything to help her? She'd have to fly this one solo.

She heard a tapping noise at her window but ignored it. She had already started crying again and could barely hear the tapping through her sobs. Then the tapping became louder, more frequent, and irritating. Wiping her eyes she walked over to the window and opened it to find Eli waving up at her on the ground.

"What are you doing here?" she asked still sniffling.

"You said in your text that your parents are getting a divorce. I thought you might need someone…." He shrugged.

"Thank you but I'm a mess and I should really be studying or something…" he cut her off.

"No you shouldn't just erase this from your mind, it doesn't work that way little Clare, sorry to say." He put his foot on the lowest branch of the tree outside her window and started to climb.

"What in the world do you think you are doing?"

"What does it look like? I'm climbing a tree." he jumped to the next branch.

"No, why are you climbing the tree?" she gave him a suspicious look.

"I'm coming up, open up the window more."

"You can't do that! What if my parents come up?"

"It's midnight, don't worry I'll be good and quiet," he said half sarcastically.

She opened up the window, "Fine, at this point I don't care what my parents think."

Clare started to feel tears run down her cheeks as she walked over to lie on the bed. She watched Eli put both legs through the window and slide in. He sat on the edge of her bed and rubbed her back as she cried.

"It's gonna be okay blue eyes, it really will you just have to wait."

"I don't want to wait; I just want everything to be back to normal!" she balled.

"I know Clare, I really wish I could make it better," he moved to lie down next to her. Clare just cried into his chest until she had no more tears left. She leaned on her elbow and looked down at him.

She started to giggle, "Oh I got your shirt all wet."

"Hey don't worry about it, it's just a shirt."

They were both laughing at this point.

Clare laid back down on Eli's chest, just laying in a peaceful silence.

...

The next time she was conscious she looked at the clock. It was two in the morning! Clare sat straight up in bed.

"Eli your still here!" she practically yelled.

"Shush Edwards, you don't want to wake your parents," he said sleepily rubbing his eyes.

"You weren't supposed to stay this long." she was trying to smooth my hair down.

"Calm down blue eyes, if we haven't gotten caught yet then, what's the chance of us getting caught now?"

"Just go, I'll see you tomorrow, K?"

"Fine," he gave her a quick peck on the lips and headed out the window.

Clare went to the window to make sure he didn't kill himself while going down the tree. She heard my door open and froze in panic.

"Hey Clare bear, are you still up?" her mom shuffled in the room.

"No mom, just closing the window, forgot to earlier," she shrugged her shoulders and stood in front of the window.

"Oh I just wanted to come and check on you."

"Ok, thanks mom, love you."

"Love you too, sweetheart," she kissed her head and walked out, closing the door behind her. Clare let out a sigh of relief. She ran to the window.

"Was that your mom?" Eli whispered from the darkness.

"Yeah, but she didn't see you. Goodnight!" Clare blew a kiss out into the night.

All she heard was a chuckle as watched him run down the street into the new day.

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