Clare's Perspective

Adam, Alli, and I walked to Eli's house after school to see him.

I rang the doorbell, and there Eli stood. He had cut on his lip and a bruised eye, it also looked hard for him to stand up.

"Eli!" I hugged him lightly happy to see that he wasn't dead. Thank god Fitz didn't put him in the hospital.(Feared that will happen next time.)

"Hey Clare, Adam, Alli." he greeted us back. He looked so sore.

"Hey Eli, we just wanted to come over and see how you were doing?" Alli told him.

"Yeah man we were worried about you." Adam added.

"Thanks guys." Eli brightened up a bit.

We walked into Eli's house it was small inside, but decent. We all sat in the living room and just talked.

"Dude we have to get Fitz back." Eli suggested.

"Revenge?" Adam wondered what Eli had up his sleeve.

"No. Eli you should just get Fitz back by catching him next time so the police can take care of him." I told Eli, but as always he ignored my "innocent" act.

Suddenly my phone rang. It was my mom. Oh shit! I forgot about the thing my parents wanted to tell me. Just thinking about it made me get a chill in my spine.

"Are you okay Clare?" Alli noticed my uncomfortable expression on my face when I looked at my phone.

"Yeah. Fine. I have to … Actually never mind." I said hitting the call right to voice message. What the hell was I doing now? I just couldn't deal with it right now.

"Eli, where is your bathroom? May I use it?" I asked.

"Down the hall to the left." Eli pointed across the room.

I took my bag and locked the door. Not again. No. Stop. I tried telling myself but it just wasn't good enough. I opened my bag and took out a piece of glass. It was sharp and easily could cut my skin.

I put my arm over the sink and started to cry. I was choking on soft weeps. I cut myself.

After 10 minutes in the bathroom I suddenly heard a knock on the door.

"Clare you okay in there?" I heard Alli's voice.

"Yeah, I will be right out." I quickly rushed for a tissue and wiped the blood off my arm. Then rinsed the sink.

I put a band aid over my cuts for now, just to hid them. Then I rolled down my sleeve and put my jacket on.

"Um, sorry guys I just had to take a call and didn't want to be rude." I made up an excuse.

"No problem." Eli smirked. "So I was thinking we should all go out to the Dot, I am not as sore as I was and why not have a night out with friends."

"Great idea!" Alli smiled. "My parents are fine with it as long as I be home by 9:30, they are totally awesome now. We are all trying to open up and understand each other more."

"That's good. My parents would be fine with it too." I lied.

"Same here." Adam agreed.

"Perfect." Eli said as he grabbed his jacket and car keys. We all hopped in his car and just drove.