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Chapter 6

Clare P.O.V

After lunch, Adam ran off with that girl Tori, which left Eli and I alone. We had a free period after lunch, 25 minutes to ourselves.

"So we have time, what do you want to do?" Eli asked me and all I could think about was talking to Fitz. This was the perfect time to have a discussion with him. On the other hand, I could do that another time and hang out with Eli.

"What can we do?" I asked, very gloomily

"We can...sit in the hallway and talk." He suggested, and sat in front of our lockers

"Talk? Talk about what?" I asked sitting down next to him and looking down the empty hallway.

"Talk about anything you want to talk about." He said scooting closer next to me

"Umm, I don't know what I wanna talk about. What do you want to talk about?" I asked

"Clare, you're making no sense." He smirked

"Sorry." I said "I-I-I have to go do s-something." I got up and walked away. I was deep in thought. I needed to talk to Fitz about the feud between him and Eli. This was my chance. It wasn't long until I head Eli calling my name and running after me.

"Clare! Clare what the heck?" He said and soon enough caught up to me and stopped me in my tracks. "What's going on? Why did you run away like that? What are you doing?"

"Calm down!" I grinned "Hold off with all the questions! I was umm actually gonna go talk to someone."

"Who?" He asked and I stayed silent. He quickly realized and rolled his eyes slightly and looked the other way. "I told you not to talk to him."

"But you're not the boss of me! If I wanna talk to Fitz, I can. It doesn't concern you." I snapped

"It does concern me. 2 reasons. 1 is you're going to talk about me and him and try to stop our 'feud.'" He put air quotes around feud. "2nd, you can get hurt. I won't let you get hurt. Not over me."

"I won't get hurt! You can watch us from afar! And if you start to feel uncomfortable, you can give me a signal to stop! How about that?" I suggested and he raised his eyebrows

"That is the most childish and immature plan I have ever heard." He crossed his arms "But will you shut up about this if I let you?" He asked me and I nodded quickly "Fine. But never try to talk to him when I'm not around, where I can't protect you."

"I can protect myself." I crossed my arms

"Not from him. That's my job." He stated and I was confused

"Your job?" I asked

"Yeah. I mean...I don't know. I care about you Clare, that's all. I care about you a lot." He said "I think I care about you a little more than I should." He whispered at the end to himself and I don't think I was meant to hear that.

"That's sweet." I smiled "I'm gonna go talk to him. You can 'watch.' Okay?" I asked and he nodded

We walked down the hall and into the cafeteria. The caf. had a doors which led to the picnic tables outside. We walked outside and Fitz and his friends were there of course. Eli walked to another table and sat down and I walked over to Fitz.

"Hi Fitz. I need to talk to you...alone." I said glancing at Eli who was glaring at Fitz.

"Oh, should I be excited?" Fitz laughed and his friends applauded with 'ohhhh's' and 'oooooh's.'

"No." I crossed my arms

He looked at me and raised his eyebrows "Sounds serious. Well guys give us some privacy, let me talk to this fine girl." I shuttered at his laugh, it frightened me. I glanced at Eli who was smirking at me as a sign or reassurance he was fine but his fists were clenched.

"I need to talk to you about Eli." I said when his friends went over to another table.

"What about Emo Boy?" He grinned

"That's the thing!" I threw my hands to my side "Stop being so mean! Why do you call him names, make up lies and turn everybody against him? He's a good guy! Why do you hate him so much?" I raised my voice which caught a few glances but they soon turned away

"That's a good question Miss Clare Edwards." He said sitting down "Eli, he's weird. And once you get to know him he's trouble."

"I've gotten to know him and he's just fine. You are what I call trouble." I snapped and heard Eli laugh a bit.

"Am I? Well an answer to your question...I don't know why. I just do. He different, I don't like different. And he doesn't do what I say." He got closer to me

"Lots of people don't do what you say." I said

"Yeah but Eli does certain things. He got me arrested." His eyes grew dark "I'll never forgive him for that."

"What can't you just start over and pretend nothing ever happened?" I asked

"Cause that's not the way I work." He snapped

"Well it's the way you should work." I glared at him

"You will not tell me how I work." I stepped closer and I stepped back "He's rubbing off on you way to much. I don't need another minion of his, cause I always take care of those." He said

"Fine. But at least think about what I said. What if it was you? So what if some of us are different? Why does everyone have to follow what you say?" I asked

"I wouldn't care. I'd follow that handsome and wonderful leader. And that's just the way things are, people follow what I do." He stated

"Well can't you at least stop the rumors and lies? Stop telling people that he's a different person from who he actually is." I threw my hands in the air

"All those stuff is not a lie. Eli-Emo boy is all of those things that are said." He spat

"Eli is the sweetest, caring, cute, honest, unique, and talented guy I have ever met! That's not true, and you know it!" My voice broke towards the end

"Let's see if you can change my mind. Maybe, but I doubt it." He said and walked away leaving me standing there.

"Are you okay?" Eli asked and threw his arms around me pulling me into a hug and I slowly hugged back.

Still in shock I said, "Yeah, I-I'm fine."

"That stuff you said was sweet." He looked into my eyes and his arms were still around my waist

"But every single word was true." I smiled

"You really think so?" He smirked

"Yeah I do." I whispered in his ear resting my chin on his shoulder

"We should get to class." He lightly nudged me

"Oh ummmm yeah w-we should." I slowly pulled away from him

"Yeah." He smiled

We walked inside and down the hall to our lockers. I was really starting to like Eli. Really starting to like Eli.

"Uh hey Clare?" Eli called my name and my head shot up

"Yes?" I asked

"You look beautiful today Blue Eyes." He smirked and a very light blush creeping his cheeks and I could feel my cheeks heating up

"Thanks." I smiled "I look the same though."

"You always look beautiful." He said and grabbed my hand to lead me to the classroom. There has been flirting like this going on everyday between Eli and I. I love it.

"That's sweet." I smiled. We walked in together and didn't stop smiling.

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