Chapter 4

"Clare can I ask you something?" Angie asked Clare. They were both sitting on the floor of Clare's living room with the TV on and junk food all around them. Their girls' night out was getting back on track after they left Angie's house.

"Sure what is it?" Clare said as she let the paint dry from her finger nails. She had painted them black. Now Eli and I can match she comically thought to herself.

"When Adam and Fiona broke up, did she take it kinda hard?" Angie asked. Clare just looked at her for a minute. Why is everyone asking for Fiona today? First Eli and now Angie. She knew the answer to the question; she just didn't want to tell Angie that when Adam broke Fiona's heart, she went back to drinking and got in to a car accident that ended her cousin Victoria's life. Fiona had never really recovered from that. Clare only knew about it since Fi had told her only weeks after the incident happened. She made Clare promise not to tell anyone. Not even Eli.

"She took it bad as expected. Why do you ask?" Clare wanted to know why, after all these months of being with Adam, Angie was now asking about Fi.

"Adam told me why he broke up with her"

"Why did he break up with her?" Clare asked

"You mean you don't know? He never told you?" Angie thought that out of everyone Adam knew, Eli and Clare would have been the first to know why.

"Well I know what happened, but never the reason." Clare replied " So what was it? Why did he break up with Fi?"

"He told me it was because she was leaving and he didn't want to do the long distance thing." Angie said, taking a spoonful of chocolate chip ice cream to her mouth.

That's a strange reason Clare thought. She knew very well that it wasn't a long distance problem. According to Fiona, she was going to take off a year to stay here and be with Adam, but that all changed when Adam broke her heart. She left as soon as she could. This doesn't make any sense. Just last year they spend two weeks away from each other in the summer and both of them didn't seem to mind she thought.

"Hello. Earth to Clare" Angie said as she waved her hand in front of Clare's face. Clare snapped back out of her thoughts and simply smiled at her friend.

"What's up?" Angie asked.

"Nothing. Let's get back to watching Pretty Woman" Clare said, quickly turning to the TV. After a few minutes of getting into the movie, Clare heard her phone vibrate on the table. She opened it and saw one new text from Eli

I need you to get over to my house ASAP big problem. BIG PROBLEM. Call NOW!

"Who is it?" Angie asked. Clare got up from the floor and headed towards the front door. "It's just Eli. He wants to talk to me. I'll be back in a sec" Clare said opening the front door. She quickly closed it and took her coat off the rack and put it on. She had forgotten how cold it was outside. She took a seat on the patio chair and called Eli.

"Hey so what's the problem?" she said as Eli picked up.

"Why didn't you tell me that Fiona was coming?" Eli said rather quickly and angry.

Oh shit Clare thought.

"Well it's not for another week. She wanted to visit me and I asked her when and she said when school was out. I told her next week so I would have a chance to tell you an…wait how do you know that she…"

"She's in my house, sitting in my kitchen, drinking coffee, asking me why I'm surprise to see her."

"Stop playing around Eli. I just talked to her this morning and she was in New…"

"Hey Clare" said Fiona who had the phone handed to her by Eli.

"Fi! What are you doing here? You were supposed to call me so I could get Eli to pick you up from the airport."

"I decided to rent a car and just meet you at the Dot."

Shit shit…I mean shoot Clare said to herself.

"That's where I met up with Eli and…"

"What did he say when he saw you?" Clare interrupted her friend. Clare didn't have to finish the sentence for Fiona to know who she was talking about. She had seen Adam. She knew Fiona hadn't dated anyone since Adam broke up with her. Fiona always made it clear that if she couldn't be with the one she loved, she wouldn't be with anyone.

"He just stood there, in shock for a bit and then ran from me." Fiona replied obviously hurt by Adam's actions.

"Hey Eli wants to talk to you. Hold on." Fiona handed the phone to Eli, who was still pretty aggravated by the fact that his best friends' ex-girlfriend had come to visit with out telling anyone, except for his girlfriend. He walked a few steps away from Fiona before he stated to talk.

"Hey so I need you to get down here and pick Fiona up. That crappy car's gps system she rented can't find your street. She can't stay here. Especially since Adam ran to who knows where in the middle of the night. I need to go find him."

"He's missing?"

"Well his mom called me when I got to the house. She told me he hadn't come home yet and asked if he was with me so I lied and told her yes. She wanted to speak with him, but I told her he was already asleep. So you think you can get Angie to drop you off?"

"Angie? You want Angie to drop me off at your house with Fiona being there?"

"Just let her drive off before you come inside. No big deal. I have to get going. It's already been half an hour. Text me when you get here. I might be gone by that time."

"Ok fine." Clare responded

"Hey Fiona" Eli said talking to Fiona. Clare could still hear him over the phone. "Clare's gonna come over. Angie's gonna drop her off."

"Who's Angie" Fiona said as Eli hanged up.

Hope you can come up with something good to explain that, Eli Clare thought as she open the door. "Hey Angie. We need to cut girl's night short."

"Why? what happened?" Angie asked as she got up from the floor.

"Well Eli needs me to head over to his place and help him out with something." Clare replied as Angie put on her coat.

"Oh ok. Well I guess I can lend a hand"

"No!" Clare said as she opened the door. "No..it's something kind of private for him."

"Oh." Angie said, confused by Clare.

As they drove up to Eli's place, Angie couldn't help but wonder whose black 2012 Audi TT was parked in the driveway. She looked around and didn't see the hearse. She was still confused by what Eli wanted from Clare so late at night. She had not come to a stop in front of Eli's house when Clare quickly jumped out. Angie waved her good bye as Clare just stood there. Clare waved back, but didn't move to go inside. Weird Angie thought as she slowly drove off. She looked at her front mirror to see if Clare was moving. She saw Eli's door open and saw a tall girl walk out. she couldn't really see anything else except bouncing curly dark hair as the girl made her way down the stairs. She really didn't pay too much attention as she hit the gas.

"Hey! It's so great to see you, Fi!" Clare said as she and Fiona hugged.

"It's been too long. Look how long your hairs gotten" Fiona replied as they parted. They stood there a few seconds as Fiona looked over in the direction that Angie had just driven off in. She looked back at Clare

"Who was that?" she asked Clare

"Eli didn't tell you?"

"No. He told me to ask you" Fiona replied. Thank you so much Clare thought.

"I'll tell you when we get to my place." Clare said. They both headed over to Fiona's rented car and quickly they were on the road. Clare took out her phone and sent a quick text to Eli telling him that they were on their way back to her place.

Good. Eli text back

Have you found him? Clare asked

A few minutes passed before he answered. No

"Where are you Adam? Clare said.

"Huh? What did you say?." Fiona replied.

"Oh nothing" it didn't cross her mind that she had said those words out loud. She told Fiona how to get to her house as her phone started to ring. She picked it up.

"I found him." Eli told her

"Thank god. Where was he?"

"Standing on the steps of your house"

"What? My house?" Clare replied, making Fiona turn to face her.

"He was looking for Angie."

"Well where are you guys now?" Clare asked. She didn't wait for a response. As Fiona drove up, her car lights shined in on the hearse parked in front of her place and there on the step right next to her boyfriend stood a pale Adam. Both boys looked down as the light blinded them. Clare looked to her side. Fiona eyes where frozen on Adam. Crap Clare thought as they both exited from the car.

End of chapter 4