Chapter 4
"I miss her, Adam. Why'd this happen to me? It's not fair." Eli spoke strongly and quietly. I felt tears roll down my face. I ran out of the room. I didn't care if I missed class. Nothing mattered anymore, the one, the only one I loved didn't love me. He used me! He didn't care! I knew it was too good to be true! I ran into the girl's bathroom, crying. One girl washing her hands, looked up, but didn't say anything. She stared at me as she headed through the door, not bothering to care. I grabbed a paper towel and dabbed my eyes. What was I going to do? I can't continue to see him, but I don't want to talk to him right now. I'll just ignore him. I won't answer his texts, I won't answer his calls and I most certainly will not talk to him. When he walks up, I will just walk away. Suddenly, my cell phone vibrated. I didn't usually carry my cell to class, but I must've of left it in my pants pocket. Figures, the only time I bring it and I don't want it. I slipped it out. It was Eli. I read the message slowly and carefully. "Hey, where are you? I thought I saw you earlier today. I didn't know Clare Edwards skipped class?" I had to be strong. I deleted the message. Then, I wiped my eyes. I was going to have to face it. I walked back to class. "Sorry I'm late" I muttered quietly to the teacher. I quickly slid into my chair, being careful not to make eye contact or even look at Eli. I couldn't believe him. He lied. He said he cared. He said he'd be there for me. The thing I don't understand is why he would go on with the lie, and how he could tell me all of these things and not feel the slightest bit guilty. It was disgusting. Then, I snapped back into reality, Eli was talking to me. "Where were you?" he whispered. I glanced at him for a second opened my mouth to speak but then remembered I wasn't talking to him. "Hmph" I said. With that I turned my head back to the front. Eli didn't attempt to talk to me for the rest of the period. Maybe he'd figured out that I knew about his little plan. The bell rang twenty minutes later and I picked up my stuff. I began to speed walk trying to avoid Eli and the curious Adam. "Clare, wait up!" Eli shouted, but I ignored him. I kept walking straight down the hallway with my hand down. I was not in the mood to talk to that lying jerk.
Eli's P.O.V
Clare has been avoiding me all day! What do I do? Ever since English class she's been ignoring me. I tried to talk to her, and she turned her head. I don't know what I did wrong. I need to know, I need Clare. I finally got to be with her, and I'm already losing her. This isn't fair. I lost Julia, I refuse to lose Clare. She's so important to me. She's ignoring my texts to. I tried texting her 10 times, and not one reply. Adam says he doesn't know what's up either. She seems to be avoiding him to, but knowing Clare it's probably because she knows he's going to ask her what I did wrong for me. I have got to figure this out before it's too late. Before I lose her and she finds someone else. Suddenly, I realized that a lot of people were staring at me. This can't be good. Some girls giving me dirty looks. I put my head down and walked to my next class. I found Adam on the way. "Adam, what did I do?" "I don't know, man. But, you better find out. Seems like the whole school knows but us. It obviously can't be good." I nodded my head in agreement. I decided to skip class. "I'm going to go find Clare. Cover for me." "Yeah, okay sure." With that, Adam and I parted ways. I walked all the way down the hall, before stopping in front of Clare's next class. I saw her sitting at her desk, doodling on paper. I knocked on the door and then said that the office needed to see Clare. Sure, it was a little different. The truth was I needed to see Clare, but that doesn't matter. "Okay, Clare. Go Ahead." The teacher said.