Here is part 2…be ready for some major crazy drama!
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Part 2
Eli's POV
How could this happen? How could I let this happen? Should I even..? Shit I don't know what to do anymore.
I was fidgeting in the hospital waiting room.
I came home from work, to find Clare passed out completely on the floor. Not only did she go unconscious, but I saw a big bottle of what used to be red wine lying next to her. She was literally completely out. She was still breathing, but she had a low pulse rate. I freaked out and called on ambulance.
"Is there an Eli Goldsworthy?" The doctor called out.
I stood up immediately and replied, "Right here Is she ok? Can I please see her?" I headed toward the entrance to where the doctor was standing, but the doctor stopped me.
"Yes, she will be ok, but may I please speak with you first? It's very important."
I nodded, and followed the doctor into a small room.
The doctor gestured me to take a seat in one of the chairs. We both sat across from each other, and the doctor proceeded to speak taking out his charts/notes.
"You are Miss. Edwards boyfriend?"
"Fiancé." I corrected.
The doctor nodded and proceeded to the important information. "Clare is awake first off. Her heart rate is back to normal, and she so far is doing fine."
I smiled. "Oh thank god! But what happened?"
"Well we noticed Clare has dropped weight. A lot of weight. She is at 114 lbs."
My eyes widened. "Isn't that underweight?"
"Yes it is. She has been diagnosed with Bulimia. She told us that she has been eating but apparently on nights you aren't home, she has been purging her food out."
My heart started racing. I can't even process whether I feel upset at Clare or upset at my self for not seeing this.
The doctor continued. "Also we noticed some bruising and swelling in her pelvic area and she was leaking blood."
"WHAT?" I shouted.
The doctor tried to calm me down. "Relax, my son. I promised that I would let her do the rest of the talking. But she is going to need to stay overnight for some more testing, due to her passing out from intoxication of alcohol, and such."
I felt tears pour down my face. I really can't even process what I feel at all. I got up and shook the doctors hand, thanking him for informing me and helping Clare. Then we left the room and headed to Clare's room.
As I walked inside the room I found Clare lying in the hospital bed. She was connected to an IV and had a heart monitor on. The minute I entered the room I could see it in her face that this was going to get intense.
Clare started crying and covered her face.
The doctor interrupted. "If you need anything don't hesitate to press the call button." The doctor left us in the room, alone.
I walked over to a crying Clare, and just stood beside her and bowed my head down to the ground in disappointment. I didn't lay one finger on her delicate body. "How could you do this?" I asked sternly.
"IIII don't know. Im sorry I didn't mean to hurt you, I swear." She said through sobs trying to grab my hand.
I pulled my hand away and backed away from her. "Yes Clare, you did hurt me. BAD!" I shouted at the last part. I continued. "But you are hurting yourself even worse. The person who I loved and cared so much about more than anything in the world hurt her own self and that to me hurts more than hurting me."
Clare cried some more. "I know."
I walked back over to her. "Tell me what happened."
Clare tried to take a deep breath and stop crying. "I was walking out of the doctors building from my physical. I felt arms tug around my waist pulling me into an alley. Turns out its Nathan."
NATHAN? WHAT THE HELL IS THIS BASTARD DOING BACK?
Clare continued. "I really tried to escape from Nathan's grasp, but he wouldn't release me. I yelled and screamed as much as I could but Nathan covered my mouth with his hand, and told me he would leave me alone on one condition. I told him that I would do anything as long as it didn't involve hurting you. So he said he wouldn't hurt me or you. He then took me to the dance studio, and said he just wanted to practice that one dance we learned at those workshops."
I was shaking my head in dis belief.
She continued. "So after we did our dance, it ended with him lifting me up and over him. He then just let me down, but immediately shoved me to the ground, pinning me to the floor. I tried screaming again, but Nathan covered my mouth again with his hands. He told me to calm down, and that he wouldn't hurt me. I said to him he got what he wanted now I should leave. He laughed and said that he wasn't finished yet. I started crying and trying to escape his grip, but he immediately slammed his lips over mine, forcing a deep kiss. I was very terrified and kissed back." Clare started crying even more and was shaking like crazy. "I broke the kiss and told him that this was wrong and that I should get going, but he pushed me harder to the floor and pushed his hand hard on my chest so I couldn't escape. He pulled at the hem of my sweatpants, and said, 'No its either you let me finish you off, or I hurt your little true love. Your choice.' I stayed quiet, and he…"
I cut her off. "YOU SLEPT WITH HIM?"
"NO ELI HE BEAT ME UP!" Clare snapped. "He tried to…but I slapped his face which caused him to get angry and with my pants already being off he beat me up there, and caused some serious bleeding. He got off of me and left me laying there. He told me he would stay out of my sight, and just left me there."
My jaw dropped to the ground. "I don't know what to say."
Clare cried even harder. "Eli I didn't sleep with him, I couldn't let it happen. But I did this to save you from getting hurt. Please don't hate me." She begged and grabbed my hand.
I sighed, and let go of her hand walking away from her.
"Where are you going? Please don't leave me!" She cried.
"Clare, I just need some time to think. I think you do too. Everything that you just told me really scares me."
"But I couldn't control that Nathan hurt me." She replied sadly.
"I know." I said quietly.
"Eli…"
I interrupted. "Clare you need help. Sadly I don't think I am the one who can do so." I walked out of the room, trying to fight my tears, and hearing Clare cry louder.
With that I left the hospital and headed home.
It has been three weeks since I was with Clare at the hospital. She ended up getting sent to a rehab that next day. She has of course been there for three weeks. After being evaluated by a physiatrist she was advised to spend three weeks in a rehabilitation center, due to her bulimia, and emotional trauma after Nathan's harassment.
The good news is that night when I came back from the hospital I called the police and had Nathan arrested. Yup turns out they found him with that same blonde girl Clare was talking about…well I don't want to talk about that. But luckily he was put in jail. Not so sure about the charges, I still need to speak to my lawyer more on that. But I'm at least glad that bastard ass hole is in jail.
Unfortunately it has been very hard on my part. I miss my Clare so much. I cry my self to sleep every night. I hate not having her I here in my arms. Because having her in my arms makes not only her feel safe, but it makes me feel safe that I am protecting her.
We aren't exactly broken up. I haven't spoken to her since that night at the hospital, but that night I said, "I need some time to think. You do too."
I used "think" as another word for space. We did need time apart. But I almost hope I did the right thing by leaving her to go get professional help. I couldn't be the one to help her through in that kind of situation, but really I love her enough to make sure that she gets the help she needs.
I am currently lying in what I still hope to call our bed. I'm depressed as hell. Nervous as hell.
I probably hurt Clare leaving her without any explanation. She probably did think I left her, or that I didn't care at all about her, or what she went through. As far as the bulimic part, I feel terrible. I am the one who told her she wasn't fat, and had a beautiful body. What could even convince her otherwise?
I looked over at Clare's nightstand and found her cell phone. I unlocked it seeing 2 new messages. I shouldn't snoop, but they said both were from Alli.
Hmm I wonder…
I read the txts.
Alli: "114 ehh? Not bad sista, not bad at all."
My eyes widened.
The next message read,
Alli: "You can thank me later for calling Nathan. Hopefully he kicked some sense out of you to dump Eli, and start your better life you deserve. ;)"
NO! ALLI DID THIS? OH NO WAY IN HELL WILL I LET THIS BITCH GET AWAY WITH HER MESSED UP SHIT!
I immediately dialed Alli's number. No answer. The voice mail came on, and I said into the voice mail,
"MESSED UP BITCH! YOU CALL YOUR SELF A BEST FRIEND? YOU PUT CLARE IN THE HOSPITAL! THIS IS ALLYOUR FAULT! I WILL MAKE SURE CLARE SEE'S AND HEARS ABOUT THIS, AND I WILL HAVE YOU ARRESTED WITH NATHAN!" I pressed the disconnect button.
I picked up a pillow and through it across the room knocking over a picture of me holding Clare from when she won a competition. How could this get any worse?
REALLY HOW?
My cell started to ring. I picked it up.
"Hello." I said groggily.
"Eli?"
It was Clare.
I felt tears falling down my cheeks.
"Clare? Is that you?" I said through tears.
I could have sworn Clare was crying too. "Yes, it is."
"Baby, how are you feeling?" I asked anxiously.
"I I ummm…." Clare stuttered, but then the line broke.
I cried even more. Just hearing her voice made me feel so much better. I don't know for sure if she is ok, but hearing her voice was somewhat of a reassurance. I suddenly heard a knock on the door. I sighed and got up to walk towards the door. I wiped my tears and opened the door. I couldn't believe what I saw.
"CLARE!" I shouted.
Clare actually stood there, she wasn't all skin and bones anymore she looked to be at a healthy figure, she stood there with a smile on her face, and what looked to be tears in her eyes.
Before I could even say more I was cut.
She walked up to me and took my hand in her's. "I am so sorry I put you through this. I have been in rehab and they have helped me so much. You were right; space was exactly what I needed." She let go of my hands and frowned.
I placed my hand on her shoulder. "And?"
She turned around and kept her frown on her face. She started crying.
I looked into her beautiful blue eyes and saw her sadness. Would if this is the end? I really hope rehab didn't convince her it was my fault. I can see in her eyes it just might be….my thoughts were interrupted as she crashed her lips over mine. We moved our lips in sync, and shared the most intense needy chaste kiss. As we were kissing our tears spilled all over each others face. We pulled apart from the kiss. Both of us still crying.
"I love you Eli." Clare smiled and moved my bangs out of my face.
I paused and kept crying, but shared a sad smile.
Clare frowned and sat down. "We aren't breaking up are we?"
I left her sitting on the ground and went inside the apartment, leaving her crying on the porch.
I came back outside holding an object. "Stand up."
Clare gave me a confused look, but stood up.
I knelt down and grabbed her right hand. I slipped on a diamond ring. Yes I really did buy a ring a while ago…was waiting for the best time to make this official. Now, for sure seemed to be the best. I kissed her right hand, and then looked up into her teary blue eyes. "Well I don't know about you, but I don't believe we should let any shit, no matter how bad it is get in the way of what we have."
Clare smiled and pulled me up so we could share another kiss. I wrapped my arms around her waist holding her tightly to me. She wrapped her arms around my neck and deepened the kiss.
Clare broke the kiss, and entwined our fingers. "Can we go out and get some dinner? I'm hungry." She smiled.
I leaned down to kiss her temple. "Of course blue eyes. In fact I have an idea." I squeezed her hand and we walked inside.
We both washed our faces and calmed down from our sobs.
Clare and I are currently sitting in a cozy booth at a fancy French reastraunt. Sharing some much needed French kissing. I don't care if we are in public, I don't care if we still have some serious talking to do. I missed my Clare, and she missed me. I'm just going to spoil her with what I know best tonight.
END OF PART 2 :-)
SOOOO? I told you I'd get it up tonight ;-) hahaha I try not to disappoint my reviewers. I really hate ending all of my chapters with drama cliffhangers cause then I never know when I will update. Now the next chapter is going to be fluff ;-) but I am also for sure going to put Alli's dealio in the next chapter! I really hope this was good, again I know I ended with un resolved talks, and just added fluff, but like I said next chapter will conclude more. Just wanted to end part 2 on a happier note :-) Thanks so much for reading :-) please please please review! ;-)
