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You all said you liked Kyle but now do not or you like him but you do not like the fact that he likes Clare. SPOILER! You will like and dislike him in this story. Okay enough about that!
Eli's POV
I have no idea what to do. I hate when Clare is mad at me. She is also not one of those girls that will just come crawling back to you. You have to work for her forgiveness. I like that about her; actually I love that about her. I love everything about her. How do I get her to see how upset I am? That is it! I smiled and went to the bathroom. I took a shower and put on comfortable clothes. I sat on the bed and took about twenty pictures with my phone clearly stating how alone and sad I am. I put on my best pouting face and sent them all to her phone. I heard her phone beep right outside my door which clearly meant she was standing right next to it and not sleeping. A few minutes later I still did not hear anything so I sent her a text.
I am sorry, love. Come back; I miss you and need you!
Two minutes later I finally gave up. I threw my phone on the ground which is probably broken by now and lied down. I closed my eyes and I felt one tear roll down my cheek. I would go out there and talk to her but we would probably just end up arguing. I snapped my eyes open and got off the bed. I got on my knees and began to pray aloud. I never pray. I do not think I have ever prayed in my life but Clare is the most important thing to me and I will do anything for her. When I was done with my awkward prayer, since I had no idea what I was doing or how it was supposed to work, I crawled over and picked my phone up. Thankfully it still worked then went back to bed. I did not go to sleep but just laid there doing nothing but feel the tears fall on my cheeks. I was in there all day because I looked over at the clock and saw that it was already 9:00pm. I heard our parents come in and also heard Clare tell them that I had already gone to bed which was not a complete lie. I rolled over on my side facing away from the door. I heard it open. I knew it was Clare because I could tell by her breathing. She takes long breathes when she is in an uncomfortable situation. I wanted to die knowing she was not comfortable. She went into the bathroom probably to change. My phone went off. It read:
I love you.
It was from Clare. I felt my lips tug into a smile. She obviously thinks that I am asleep and that I would have gotten that in the morning after everything blows over. I heard the bathroom door open. She came over and sat next to me on the bed. She reached her hand to touch my hair. I love it when she does this. Play with my hair. It feels amazing!
"You do know that I am not asleep, right?" I whispered. I saw her cheeks start to blush.
"No, I did not." She whispered back. I sighed.
"Why did you not come out?" She asked.
"Why did you not come back in?" I asked right back.
"Well, you were supposed to come to me when you could deal with it! What, you still cannot? Just like you do not trust me." I groaned. I knew that would come back and bite me where it hurts.
"Clare, I honestly did not mean for it to seem that I do not trust you. You know I trust you with everything I have." She started shaking her head.
"No I do not." That one hurt. I got out of bed and went to my suitcase. I grabbed what I needed and dragged her out the door.
"We'll be back!" I called to our parents. They all looked confused but none said no so I kept moving.
"Eli, where are we going?" Clare whined.
"If you think for one second that I do not trust you then I will just have to prove to you that I do." I explained. We finally made it to the pool. Luckily, there was no one here. I heard Clare sigh obviously annoyed.
"Stop that." I said. She just rolled her eyes. I put the cloth that I had gotten from my suitcase over my eyes.
"Eli, that is dangerous! Do not do this!" She complained. I smirked and walked over to her.
"You are my eyes, love. The only way it is dangerous is if you let me fall in." I exclaimed.
"What happens if you fall in?" She whispered.
"Then I'll be wet and you will feel bad." I smirked and turned away from her and started walking.
"I am on the move! You better come help me!" I teased. I heard Clare giggle. Good, that means we are on the right track. I then ran right into a table.
"Clare!" I shouted.
"I am sorry. I was testing something." She explained.
"Testing what exactly?" I questioned.
"What you would do if I allowed you to hit something." She said.
"Once this blindfold comes off you are so going to get it." I heard her laugh some more which caused me to smile big.
Kathy's POV
I may seem really mean to everyone but I do feel extremely bad for what happened to Kyle. I honestly did not know it would hurt him so much. So, now to make it up to him I catering him. I do realize that now we can't follow Eli and Clare around but my brother is way more important to me then some guy. I will never admit that to anyone though.
"Are you feeling better?" I asked him.
"I feel okay. Not the greatest but those pills the doctor gave me really do work." He explained.
"Is there anything I can get for you?" I offered.
"No I am okay right now. Thank you." He said.
"You are welcome." I answered.
"No really, thank you for doing all of this and taking care of me. I know it kind of ruins your plans with Clare and Eli but I do really appreciate it." He said. I smiled at him.
"It is my fault you have a sprained ankle." I sighed sadly. He grabbed my hand and smiled.
"I forgive you." He responded.
"I did not say I am sorry." I explained.
"Yeah you were not saying it very loudly." He said with a chuckle. I smiled at him.
"I am sorry." I whispered.
"I know you are." He whispered back.
"You know Eli and Clare fight a lot." He told me.
"Yeah, I know. You can tell they are having problems. I do not know why though. They are so good for each other." As much as I hate to say that. It is true.
"Well, I think someone, I do not know who, is not helping with their relationship problems." He said.
"Do you really think what I am doing is wrong?" I asked.
"I do." He said sadly. "But I now am starting to get why you keep doing it."
"No way! You are falling for Clare?" I squealed.
"Well, I mean she is amazing. It is kind of hard not to." He admitted. I think they would make a cute couple but I think Eli is better for her. I am not going to tell him that though because that is basically like telling him that Eli is better for Clare then me and even though that is true I love Eli. I am still going to do anything.
"Help me get Eli and I will help you get Clare." I said. He sighed and replied,
"This is bad and I feel really guilty for doing this but okay. Deal!" He shook my hand.
Clare's POV
"Okay, there is a chair on your right." I told him and even though this is a bit stressful it still really fun.
"Thank you, my love." He said after stepping around the chair.
"Eli, how long do we have to keep doing this?" I complained.
"Until you know just how much I trust you." He replied.
"I know how much you trust me." I said.
"How much then?" He asked. I sighed.
"Enough to go around the pool blindfolded." I responded. He nodded his head.
"That is ri-"
"Eli! Watch out!" I yelled.
Splash!
Once he surfaced he took off the blindfold.
"Eli, you got me all wet!" I shrieked.
"Excuse me? I am the one that fell in the pool." He said.
"I tried to warn you! Why did you keep walking anyway?" I asked.
"I did not! It was wet and I slipped." He explained.
"It is not wet." I stepped onto the surface that is right before you get in the pool and slipped. I started to fall.
"Eli!" I screamed. I do not know how but Eli caught me.
"It is okay. Are you alright?" He asked me. I nodded my head. He caught me bridal style but I swung my legs around so that I was facing him. Our lips were inches apart. He started to lean in but I quickly pulled away.
"Are you still mad at me?" He asked and I shook my head.
"Are you sure?" He confirmed and I nodded my head this time. He went in and tried to kiss me again but I pulled away again.
"Okay, what is wrong?" He asked. I untangled myself from him and swam to sit on the steps. He followed me.
"I just feel like even though we trust and love each other, I just feel like one day you will wake up and that will not be enough." I whispered.
"What do you mean?" He asked me. I sighed.
"Never mind. It does not matter." I tried to get out of the pool but Eli would not allow that.
"Clare, what do you mean? Are you talking about Kathy?" He guessed.
"I am talking about any girl you meet! I do not know who it will be or even if it will be a girl. I just feel that one day my love for you will not be enough. You were in love once before I wasn't. I cannot imagine being in love with someone else but you already have so one day my love will not be enough." I explained. He moved so that he was facing me.
"That is not true Clare. Your love will be enough for me always. Yes, I may have been in love before and you have not but what matters right now is that we do love each other." He said.
"Exactly! Right now. What about tomorrow? A year? Ten years? I do not just want to think about right now." I stated and then exited myself from the pool and walked back to the room. Eli was close behind me but I am not talking to him.
"Clare!" He called. I ignored him.
"Clare!" He called again. I looked behind me and noticed he was right there.
"What?" I demanded.
"Stop fighting me. What happened to talking it out so we won't fight anymore?" He asked.
"Obviously that just does not work for us." I responded.
"It was before! And it will if we let it." He said to me. I shook my head violently ad started walking away again.
"I promised myself I would not tell you this but I am. Earlier today I prayed." I heard him say. That got me to stop. I felt him right in front of me but I did not dare to look up.
"What?" I whispered.
"Yeah. Me pray? I know sounds weird but I prayed that we would stop fighting or somehow work around that." I smiled softly.
"You prayed?" I could not get over that. He grabbed my face in his hands. I knew that was coming. He always does this when I will not look at him. I shut my eyes tight not wanting to look at him. I thought he was going to tell me to open my eyes and look at him but instead I felt him kiss my entire face with the exception of my lips of course. I giggled. I did not mean to it just came out. He chuckled right before placing his lips on top of mine.
"Baby girl, I love you more than anything in the entire world." He said on my lips. I smiled at him and kissed him again.
"Well, I love you too. But kissing does not make anything better." I sighed and he wrapped his arms around me.
"Eli!" I squealed once he started giving ne soft kisses on my neck.
"I know it does not but it does make it better. Do you agree?" He responded. I pushed him away lightly and rolled my eyes at him. He smirked at me.
"Can we talk to our parents and ask them if they could help?" I asked.
"You mean about our fighting?" He questioned. I nodded my head.
"Mhmm."
"I guess." He said.
"You do not want to. That is fine." I said.
"No no no! Do not do that! Just because I said I guess does not mean that nI do not want to. Talking to my parents about it is fine but talking about it with yours is a whole other thing, sweetie." He told me.
"Why?"
"Because when I went to go talk to them about being in love with you they were so happy because they knew I make you happy. But since I don't anymore I do not want them to ban me from being with you." He explained while I felt tears roll down my cheeks.
"What is it? What did I do now to upset you?" He asked in defeat.
"No. You make me happy. Why would you even say that you don't?" I shouted while hitting his chest.
"Clare! I don't make you happy because if I did we would not being having this conversation right now. I will never ever give up on you but you know that if you want out of this all you have to do is say so." He told me. My tears were coming down faster and harder. Just as I was about to respond his phone went off.
"Ignore it." He said.
"It could be important." I whispered. He groaned.
"Fine." He looked at his text message. "Oh no. Come on!" He said frantically while we started running.
"Eli what is it?" He ignored my question and just kept running but faster.
Kyle's POV
"So if you do not need anything I am going out for a bit." Kathy told me.
"Where are you going?" I asked.
"Next door to talk to Eli and Clare's parents." She said.
"Wow…that sounds devious. What do you plan on doing there?" I asked.
"Bad things." I was starting to get a little bit worried.
"Kathy." I warned.
"Not like that! I am just going to talk to them and pretend to be nice. Do not worry it will help with us getting who we want." I sighed and her comment but nodded anyway.
"I will be back." She said then gave me a kiss on the cheek. Grabbed her phone and was out the door. I can only imagine the things she is going to do. I know that even if we break them up neither Clare nor Eli will get together with us which is why I am tricking Kathy. I am pretending to be on her side when really I have a plan of my own. Kathy get ready for a surprise because your life just got twisted.
Eli's POV
I barged through the door with Clare right behind me. I looked at Bullfrog and mouthed a 'thank you' to him. I walked over to where Kathy sat and pulled her up.
"Oh Eli! We were just talking about you!" She said in a cheery voice.
"Cut the crap! You do not really think that our parents do not know about you, right? Because if you think that you really are stupid." I spat. She gasped.
"You know Clare I finally realized what our problem is. It is her." I said gesturing to Kathy.
"I know that your plan is to break us up and so you will be together with me. It does not matter if I am with Clare or not. We will never happen, okay? You are ruining my life. Clare and I are barely speaking most of the time and I have to try and pick up what is left of our relationship and try to find some way for them to work together. And it seems like every time I almost get them glued back you have to shatter them again. Get it in your brain that I do not want you and I never will." I finished and walked away from where everyone was. I heard Clare's mom tell Kathy that it was time to go. She left then. I walked into the bedroom where Clare and I slept and sat on the floor crying. I did not care who heard me or who saw me I just could not hold it in anymore. What I told Kathy was only half of what I feel like with mine and Clare's relationship. I did not want her to know but now she does. I heard a knock and then someone enter.
"Hey." I heard the person whisper. I would know that angelic voice anywhere.
"Hello." I whispered back. She sat down next to me and put her head on my lap. My legs were propped up so her head was the level of mine.
"My mom told me to come in and talk to you. I do not really know what to say though." She admitted. I silenced my sobs when she came in but I could not handle it. I broke down in front of the one person I have been trying to be so strong for.
"Was all that you said true? Do you really feel that way?" She asked me in her soft voice. I nodded.
"I am so sorry." I said.
"For what?" She asked clearly confused.
"Everything!" She hugged me and told me that everything was going to be alright. I was not sure if she was saying that to make me feel better or because she really meant it.
"We were interrupted earlier. I would really like to finish that conversation." She told me. I nodded my head telling her that that was fine.
"First of all, I cannot believe you would think I want to leave you right now." She started.
"All we do is fight! Who wants that? I do not." I said accidentally. Crap, she is going to take it the wrong way.
"You can leave just as easily as I can, Eli." She said while walking to the bed. She lied down and I could tell she was starting to cry. I sighed and went to my suitcase. I walked back over to her. I sat behind her so her back was still facing me.
"If I did not want to be with you, I would not have bought this for you." I said while holding out her present.
"What is it?" She asked not moving an inch.
"Turn around and find out." I whispered into her ear. She sat up and faced me. She opened the box and her mouth fell open.
"It is a promise ring." I told her.
"When did you buy this?" She asked.
"We will just say after we started fighting." I said. "Put it on."
"It is beautiful." She said while admiring it on her finger.
"Yeah, it is a beautiful ring for a beautiful girl." She looked at me.
"Thank you." I knew that that was not just for the ring.
"Does that mean you except my promise to love you?" I asked hopeful. She nodded and went in to kiss my cheek but right before she pressed her lip down I moved my head so that she was kissing me on the mouth. I instantly deepened it. I never wanted to let her go. Unfortunately for us we needed oxygen.
"You are evil." She told me. I smiled at her and laughed.
"But you love me?" I stated more like a question.
"I do love you." In this moment I felt happy until,
"But."
I know and I am sorry it is a big cliffhanger but I did not update all weekend and I thought you all deserved a longer better chapter! Including a cliffhanger at the end! I also realize that there wasn't too much Kathy and Kyle action in this one after I just told you there would be but this was more of a set up chapter than anything else. How do you feel about Kyle now? I told you you would like and dislike him now! The drama has just begun everyone! Are you ready for it? Review for me please! It makes me happy and if you want me to update really fast then review more! Even if you review twice! Haha thanks! =D