Disclaim.
Eli
And let the rest come easy
"Me?" Eli finally asked after a few moments.
"Yes, you." Clare never looked away from him.
"Why?" Eli asked. "You didn't seem to want to be around me at all since Prom. And you and Mark seem pretty close. Why me?"
"Because I never stopped loving you, Eli," she whispered. Eli looked away from her. She sounded too vulnerable for him to hear, let alone look at. He figured he could handle hearing her over looking at her.
"I'm sorry, Clare, but as much as I love you, I can't let myself be hurt like that again." He could feel pressure behind his eyes and blinked to get rid of the tears forming. Clare got off the bed and went to sit beside him. She took his hand, but didn't make him look at her.
"Eli, I can never hurt you like that again. I left you when you needed me. I shouldn't have done that, but I couldn't bring myself to just go back to you when you didn't seem to want me back."
"Clare, I-,"
"I know now that I was wrong," she interrupted.
"What if we break up again?" He looked her in the eye.
"Then we get through it. We never were the conventional couple." She laughed.
"There will be no such thing as 'settled' for us, will there?" he asked quietly as he leaned closer to her.
"I don't think so, no," she said softly, leaning in to meet his kiss.
Never settle down
I know it may seem like the end was just thrown together, but it was in fact quite hard to write the ending of that. I wanted to get them back together, and when I was listening to this song, it just sort of hit me. Something had to happen to throw them together. Other than Adam getting shot. That was so sad, but I'm so glad he didn't die.
~Tori
