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Clare's P.O.V.
"You what?" My mothers sharp voice came from behind Eli and I.
"I…Um…" I was so unsure of what to say to her. I didn't want her to get hurt or anything. All these years I assumed they had both been faithful in their relationships, it was so weird that they were like that.
I looked to Eli for some help and he just shrugged.
The expression on my mothers face was making me scared. Her lips were pressed into a thin line and her eyebrows were furrowed and looked angry. Her nostrils were also flaring.
"Well, Clare?" She urged on.
"Dad is cheating on you," I blurt out. I couldn't believe I just told her. My parents would get a divorce for real!
"What? Clare, stop joking around."
"Mom, I'm not joking," I was sad to say it.
Her eyes turned glassy and her mouth formed into a small "o" shape, "Who?" Her voice cracked.
"Her," I whispered and pointed to the woman laughing with my father.
I knew my mom's feelings, she was envious, jealous, furious, and wanted to bitch slap her, kind of like me with Jenna and KC. Of course KC would never cheat on me though. I'm not sure why Eli would lie about that, did he like me or something?
She didn't respond after an awkward, long minute and I got worried, "Mom, are you okay?"
She simply ignored me and marched over to my father. Of course she didn't just go accuse him, she asked him first. She wasn't a reckless person, she was responsible, too responsible in fact, when she walked over to him her face was completely straight, she even laughed at his little joke before asking him, "Are you cheating on me?" In a completely normal tone. She acted like it was something that happened to her every day, I was sort of expecting her to yell or something, I was right.
After they exchanged a few words, she started getting all teary eyed. She started screaming at him. We were in church, so of course everyone turned to us and gave them disapproving looks. I glared at each and every one of them who judged us.
Isn't religion all about accepting people? Why would they be so rude? I rushed over to see my mother on top of my father attacking him I, personally, would be doing the same thing, she finally let out her wild side. She was crushed and so was I. My own father was a piece of shit. He freaking raised me. That stupid, useless, sexist, horny asshole was my father!
It wasn't really something I wanted to accept. When I was younger I always expected everything to be perfect, because everything my parents taught me was perfect, the way they acted was perfect and they were just perfect people.
Everything was in slow motion. I screamed "no" as my dad slapped my mother and I rushed to her side. Everything turned quiet then, and Eli rushed towards my dad to pull him away. He was seething with anger, his teeth clenched, his chest inhaling and exhaling at the speed of a bullet and his nostrils flaring like my mothers had earlier.
My mom's face was a mess. Her makeup was running, she was crying and screaming random things to my dad. Her pretty white dress was stained with a bit of blood and dirt and there was a tear at the right sleeve. I was so tempted to fix it, but I knew it was weird.
I silently cried in the corner leaning onto Eli for the only support I've had for the past week. My parents were being nursed by their friends, my mom by her friend, Susan. And my father was being cared for by his new woman.
"Shh, shh. It's okay, Blue Eyes. Everything will work out, I promise," Eli soothed me.
"No it won't! Nothing will ever be okay again! My parents are getting a divorce," I spat out the last word.
"But they both love you, and I'll be right there for you the entire way."
I was touched by his words and decided not to respond. I just gave him a long hug, I needed it. I whimpered slightly and he started rubbing my back. His touch was so comforting, but his lips accidentally brushed against my left earlobe and I shuddered. It sent chills down my spine, he noticed that and we immediately pulled away.
We stood still awkwardly trying to ignore each other for a few seconds.
"Can we go to The Dot, please?" I asked Eli with shiny eyes.
"Um, are you sure you don't want to go home?"
"I'm positive, I don't want to be there when they get back."
He just nodded and I send my parents a quick text saying I was going over to Alli's.
When we arrived at the newly built diner, I opened my mouth in shock. I was completely caught by surprise, and if my day couldn't get any worse, there was KC sitting down with Jenna in the corner of the room swapping spit. Why would they do that in public? Everyone knows that he's going out with me. Maybe everyone knew that he was cheating on me with Jenna too.
I walked over to them and cleared my throat. They immediately split apart and as they saw me the goofy grins on their faces were replaced by expressions of pure fear. Good.
"Clare! What are you doing here? Don't you have church?" KC said.
"It's over," I said while clenching my teeth.
Jenna stood up, "I should get going, see you guys tomorrow."
I glared at her, "KC, anything you want to tell me?"
"Jenna and I are… together."
As if I didn't already know that, "Why, KC? Why didn't you just tell me and break up with me, it would have hurt a lot less!"
"I figured that we could be together without hurting you, I guess it didn't work."
"And yesterday, when I hung out with Eli, you got so angry! We didn't even do anything, you and Jenna were playing tonsil hockey."
"I know, Clare. And I'm so sorry, can you please forgive me? We never wanted to hurt you."
"And how did that work out for you? Forget the apology, if you didn't want to hurt me you would have broken up with me first. We're done KC," I finished up in tears before walking out, dragging Eli with me.
I wondered what my parents would do to each other when they got home. Maybe they would start hitting each other again, maybe they would trash the house, but I don't care anymore. Hopefully he would leave us, because he's a cheating asshole, just like KC.
I turned to Eli who had decided to be quiet during the whole... conversation. He flung his arm around my shoulder and my anger subsided. The feelings turned into regret, I regretted not listening to him. I regretted getting mad at him and protecting KC. I also regretted not admitting my feelings for him earlier.
I was almost glad that KC cheated on me, because it gave me a reason to break up with him. I know it sounds like I didn't care much, but truthfully, it hurt a lot. It was like he broke my heart. Well, the first cut is always the deepest.
You know what? Fuck my dad's whore. Fuck my dad. Fuck KC. Humans are bitches. I don't give a shit if cursing is bad for me or if I go to hell. I wanted revenge. God isn't even real. If he was real none of this would happen to me. I've been God's perfect little follower my entire life and look where that's gotten me. I didn't deserve this. If God was real people wouldn't be suffering. If God was real there would be no natural disasters like earthquakes and such. If God was real everyone would be happy.
Oh yeah I'm fucking ecstatic.
They didn't deserve to have anyone good loving them. My mother deserved better, she's been a good Christian all her life. Face it, if you don't do anything good for good luck. God is a huge fake.
"Are you okay?" Eli finally said.
"No," I muttered before getting into his car.
"Take me to your house."
"Clare, I don't think that's a good idea. My dad's coming home tomorrow morning and if you're there, he'll kill me."
I turned to glare at him, "Fine. Drop me off at Alli's then," I said before texting Alli
"I'm sorry, I would love for you to come over, but you really can't," His eyes reflected his remorse.
I nodded and my gaze softened, "Okay. Thanks for everything."
As we pulled up to her house I took one last glance at Eli before grabbing his arm and leaning in. I placed a soft, sweet kiss on his cheek as a sign of appreciation. As I pulled away I noticed his blushing cheeks. I gave him a small smile and knocked on Alli's door.
Eli was so sweet. He was perfect. I'd need some time to get over KC before fully moving on Eli though. He was the one who saved me from my parents, hopefully one day he'll save me from myself.
Eli's P.O.V.
My hand found its way to my right cheek. The one where Clare had just kissed me. My cheeks were burning up and were a bright cherry red. I still felt her soft, supple lips on my skin. Chills still ran up my spine. And I still wanted to go over to Alli's house and pull Clare into a real kiss.
When I got home I heard a quiet crash. I cautiously made my way up the stairs afraid of what I would find.
"Eli! Where have you been? I come home early and I get greeted by an empty house!" My dad yelled at me.
"I'm sorry, my friend was sick and I needed to help him," I quickly lied.
"Are your friends more important than me? No!" I could tell that he was drunk already.
"I'm sorry, it won't happen again," I said hoping he would drop it and leave me alone for the day.
"Damn straight it won't." He said before getting off his chair and coming over to me.
I was afraid to make a noise and he brought down his hand on my right cheek. The same one Clare had kissed me on. I almost smiled at the thought before the pain came.
He kneed me in the stomach before I fell onto the wood floor. He threw the beer bottle at the back of my head and it cracked a little on contact before I blacked out.
I woke up to a dark room and checked the time on my phone. It was a little after four in the morning. I had cuts all over my body. He also decided to add some more after I had passed out. I went to the bathroom near my room and took off my shirt. There were pieces of glass sticking through my shirt so I just threw it away. I turned around and examined my back. There were pieces of glass sticking out, at least eight. My dad must have done it. But they were in too deep. Did he put them in by hand? Was he really getting that sick? I couldn't imagine him getting any worse than he already was.
I spent the next two hours pulling the glass out of my back and cleaning my wounds. It took a while for them to stop bleeding and I needed to put bandages on them. I groaned in pain every once in a while and decided it was best to just ignore the pain.
I let my mind drift off to Clare and I wondered what she would be doing. At this very moment she would probably have just woken up. I felt really bad for her because of KC. That son of a bitch. I was still shocked that he would cheat on Clare with a Barbie doll.
She had kissed me on the cheek the other day, did that mean she liked me too? Or did it simply mean she was on the rebound? I didn't want her coming onto me if it was only because she was still hurt from KC. I guess she just needed some time to think about everything. I wanted her to like me, but I couldn't force her.
I couldn't help but admit that I would be bad for her. She would get sucked into a whirlpool of problems. It would also be pretty hard to hide everything from her. Every once in a while I can be selfish right? I'm allowed to do something that's completely terrible for another person because it benefits me right?
Clare was way above me, she was the perfect angel. She was my knight in shining armor. I was the damsel in distress. And hopefully one day she would save me from this hellhole.
That day after a long shower I decided to go to school. I noticed Adam at his locker and went over to him. I hadn't seen him in a while and decided I owed him some quality time. I quickly made plans with him to go to a movie that weekend and went to look for Clare at her locker.
She was wearing a dress, obviously borrowed from Alli's closet. Her cleavage was showing too much for it to be Clare's. She was still stunning though, as always. Her hair was lightly curled, her blue eyes sparkled in the cheap hallway lighting, and her figure was just to-die-for. I'd decided sometime on the way to school that I'd wait for her to be ready before even attempting to pursue a relationship with her. She didn't need me bugging her about my feelings when she had so much more to worry about.
"Morning, Blue Eyes."
"Oh, hi Eli."
"How are you holding up today?"
"I'm fine, and thank's again for last night. You really saved me," She gave me a warm smile.
"It's nothing," I gave her a cocky smirk.
"So can we hang out after school today? There's something I need to tell you."
I wondered what it could be, "Sure, Blue Eyes. It's a date," I smiled at her before walking away.
Yeah, that was a terrible chapter I couldn't really get my thoughts across nicely. It also wasn't that long. Clare gave up on God and I said some stuff, if you're offended, I'm really sorry! I'm an atheist so yeah.
My mom really pissed me off. She said I have no backbone. She said I have no special abilities or talents. She said I have no friends. She's a bitch. Anyways, I apologize for any errors in my story. Tell me how I can improve it and stuff. Sorry I didn't update yesterday, I was too tired to write. Also, yeah, another late night chapter. It's really the only time I can write though, I'm not sure if I'd get more reviews if I posted it in the middle of the day or something. I'll try that some other time. Right now I'm eager to post it. Also thanks for all the reviews, favorites, and alerts from the last chapter! I can't wait until "All Falls Down" because I think Clare and Eli get together!
