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CLARE'S PERSPECTIVE
"I'll be there in a half hour; I'm going as fast as I can. Try and hold him back until then. -Owen," I sighed in relief of somewhat, rereading my brothers text, but the other part of me, the nervous, hand shaking part of me was panicking.
"Eli please, can you just try to slow down?" I begged him, as his eyes glared at the road, his knuckles turning white as he gripped the steering wheel tightly in his shaking hands.
My heart raced as Eli continued to ignore me, going through every red light his eyes had seen. My car jerked from side to side as Eli continued to speed at ninety five miles an hour in a twenty five zone.
He was unstable.
"Eli please," I pleaded, as he stopped, our bodies jerking forward as he screamed, "You don't have a kid that's in the hands of a no good doing, coked up fucking drug addict! You don't, okay? So please, just fucking let me drive and shut up!"
My mouth closed, as tears formed in the rims of my eyes as Eli slammed his foot down on the accelerator. I gasped, my chest and throat tightening as I held back the whimpers begging to escape my lips.
This was going to be the longest twenty five minute drive of my life...
My legs felt like jello as my feet touched the concrete floor, and a part of me sighed in relief as Eli muttered a not so reassuring "sorry" and handed me my keys, avoiding eye contact with me at all times. I took them, as he stormed up the door, beginning to pound frantically on it.
"You know what, fuck this shit; I'm breaking the door down!" Eli screamed, as I jolted back, watching him charge at the door sideways and soon after, he thrived in pain, as I whispered, "Please stop Eli...my brother, he's on his way and he can open the door. You're going to hurt yourself-."
Eli glared at me, cutting me off, "Clare...if you keep treating me like I'm fucking broken glass, I'm going to go insane! My head is fucking spinning, my daughter is inside this house, and I had her call me on the fucking phone hysterically crying! What do you want me to do, fucking bake cookies while I wait for your drunk ass brother to show up?"
There it was, the pang to the chest that I've been waiting for.
"Clare, I didn't mean it-," I shook my head, biting back my lip as I heard a whimper from the other side of the door. When Eli began to talk, I slapped him across the face, letting out all my anger on him as I hissed, "Will you shut the fuck and listen? Just listen."
Eli was in complete shock that I had such dominance over him when I wanted to, and he sighed, placing his ear against the door. He gently stroked the door, listening closely as we both heard a whisper, "Daddy? Daddy is that you?"
"S-sweetheart," Eli said, "B-baby girl, baby girl it's daddy okay? You have to open this door baby, please."
We both listened to Lilly's frustrated groans from the other side of the door as she whimpered, "D-Daddy I-I can't, I can't reach it...I'm sowwy, I'm so sowwy Daddy. I'm sowwy."
Eli growled in frustration as Eli stopped before he hit the door once again, turned to me and asked, "Did you hear that?"
"Hear what?" I asked, pretending to be clueless that I didn't hear what I just heard only to try to keep Eli calm. He was like an outrageous, angered, uncontrollable tornado that was determined to destroy anything in his path.
We were both silent, and as I tried to talk over what we were hearing, Eli hissed, "Be quiet Clare, I can't-." We both stopped talking, looking at the door as we heard an obnoxiously loud moan.
Eli scoffed, his eyes wild as he glared at me, "Is she...she's seriously fucking some guy when my kid is right in the same house! Is she fucking insane? Is she really that fucking insane? Call the police Clare, call the police!"
I quickly took out my cell phone, and as I dialed nine one one. I listened to the pounding of Eli's body against the door which was continuously followed by a high pitched scream, making Lilly's sobs on the other side of the door louder.
When I hung up from the call to the police, my eyes immediately lit up when I saw a broad figure standing beside me.
"Need a hand?" I heard my brother ask, and I smiled, "Oh thank god."
Eli's chest was heaving, his hair in all different directions, blood seeping through the side of his shirt as I bit back my bottom lip and Owen asked, "So, we got a rugrat problem on isle coke?"
Neither Eli nor I laughed as Owen mumbled, "Tough crowd tonight eh?"
"Your stitches are bleeding man," Owen told Eli as he sighed aggravatingly, "Thank you for telling me, I would've never known."
The tension between the two was thick as I said, "Eli just move aside so he can break down the door. The police are coming now so everything will be sorted out, just please."
I lightly grabbed Eli's bicep, and although he struggled, he knew he wasn't going to break the door down anytime soon so he reluctantly stood beside me. Owen flashed me a cocky smile as he shouted, "Alright rugrat back away from the door!"
"O-okay," we heard Lilly mumble from the other end, her voice distant, which meant she was far away from the door.
With one swift thrust into the door, Owen managed to get the hinges to fly off the door, and as we entered, I quickly grabbed Lilly, bringing her outside because of the disturbing scenery...
ELI'S PERSPECTIVE
"Are you kidding me?" My blood was boiling, my little girl probably petrified from what she had witnessed, although she didn't know what was going on. I gulped, as Anya didn't even care that she was standing in front of me, naked from head to toe.
"Will you put some clothes on?" I seethed through gritted teeth as I watched her one night stand escape through the window, "Why? You're not my husband...you don't own me anymore, I can walk around my house naked anytime I want to."
"Come on man, let's stop before things get ugly," Owen mumbled as he remained to stand beside me, probably waiting for me to snap so he could hold me back.
"I had my little girl call me on the phone, to tell me that she was scared because she didn't know what was going on," I took a deep breath in, "Now, if that something that was going on was you making her watch what you and that low life were doing, I'll make sure you're put behind bars for the rest of your no good life!"
"Alright, alright, that's enough," I heard Owen mutter in my ear as I went to wrap my hands around her throat, but Owen wrapped his arms tightly around me. I couldn't move anything, as Anya whispered, "I'll call the police for you being on my property if you don't get the hell off it and leave the brat at the door."
My face was probably the equivalent color to a tomato as I seethed, not holding back, "Brat? Brat? That's your fucking daughter! The daughter that will probably have to fucking rub her eyes with soap until the day she dies to get the image of you and your lover as he probably butt fucked the shit out of you! I hope you get aids and die you ungrateful bitch!"
Anya's eyes were sorrow, and for a minute, I wanted to apologize until I spat in front of her feet, "I'll never have respect for you ever again."
"Alright man, that's enough," Owen led me outside as I sighed in relief, the feeling of a weight being lifted off my shoulders as the police surrounded the house. When a police officer came up to me and said, "Alright, sir, you're going to have to tell me everything that happened."
It took about an hour for me to finally finish up the entire story. By the end of the day, I was allowed to take Lilly home for the night because Anya and her one night fuck buddy got arrested.
Lilly was sobbing the whole way home, and every cry was killing me.
What ended up happening was Owen left his car there and he drove all of us back to my place. Clare sat in the back with a crying Lilly in her lap. I wanted to be back there and comfort her, but Clare and I decided that I'm not in any condition for that.
After we all walked into my home, I bent over in pain.
"Clare!" I heard Owen call, "I'll look after the kid. Look at him…he's just...falling apart."
"Eli, he's right. You have to go to the hospital. You're losing too much blood, you could hospice," I heard Lilly whimper a question, and somehow whatever Owen whispered made her giggle. I couldn't face this…Clare, Lilly, Anya, court, life, everything.
I just couldn't handle it right now.
So with all of the strength I had I stood up straight, or well, somewhat, and walked out the door. I knew Clare would follow me, and eventually push me overboard and I would feel guilty, which would end up with me going to the E.R., but I didn't care.
I kept going forward.
What I didn't expect to happen though, was to have Clare right beside me, holding my hand…silent. She didn't say a word about the events that had happened this day or even that I needed medical attention. She just stood by me like any normal girlfriend would, who was being supportive.
Wait, we aren't together...,but, I mean. Ugh, it is such a complicated process!
I looked over at Clare, and saw the oddest thing, she looked calm, somewhat peaceful. I felt almost bad…maybe that was her angle! Oh, why do I do that? Why do I always assume that people are trying to make me do things, probably because they normally are? That isn't the point...
"Would you like to take me to the hospital?" She shook her head, and when she did, I stopped in my tracks but she continued on. I stopped her by holding onto her arm, and she turned to face me, "What?" she asked, her eyes filling with slight anger.
"Eli, I am done forcing you to do things, I care about you and all, but like you have said, you are a grownup who can take care of yourself. I am done being the mother to you and Lilly."
"Woah, you may be incredible with Lilly, while Anya is awful at it, but you aren't her mother! And you never will be!" I expected her eyes to water or that she would run away, but instead, she stood there in front of me, staring me down.
"Clare-"
"Yes?" She said, ever so calmly.
I felt that I ruined everything in two seconds, because of a stupid thing to say, "I didn't mean that, I was just mad and-." I stopped my sentence when she didn't cut me off.
All of this was just odd...too odd.
"Is everything alright?" She smiled up at me.
"Perfect." That was her only response as she continued to stare at me with her innocent eyes, as I whispered, "let's go back to the house." She nodded and then walked in the direction opposite from my house, "Where are you going?" I called out for her.
"I'm not a mother equals I'm not needed. Eli, go take care of your child and bleed to death, then no one will have Lilly and she can be an orphan. Congratulations!" I frantically shook my head and took off after her.
"Clare, please, that is not what I meant!" She looked at me still with dry eyes and a normal look, "You did, and it is perfectly fine. I shouldn't be mixed with your family fucking drama anyway. I have that with my own. You are supposed to take that away, not add to it. So yeah, I'm not Lilly's mother, but I am glad about that, because if I were that would mean that I would have had to be with you!"
My body froze, my legs feeling like jello as I opened my mouth, trying to speak, but air kept getting caught in my throat.
"I tried to fit in with you Eli! I tried to take care of you, I tried to distract myself with you because you were the best thing that ever happened to me! But, I should've known, I should've known you were just going to break my heart like the rest of the assholes I've dated in my life!" She shouted at me, as I stood there, taking in what I deserved.
Wait, so we were dating...?
"You're an asshole, a dirty, rotten, asshole! All you do is take, just like the rest! You live to destruct, to destroy what's in your path! Well, you know what Eli, you want to live with Lilly alone, fine. But, I want you to know that if you ever, ever try to come near me again, I'll make sure you ass is put behind bars," her eyes were dark, resembling the color of black.
"Clare I-," I tried to grab her hand, dizziness taking over me as she swatted it away, "I-I-I can't breathe."
In a matter of seconds, everything around me had seemed blotchy. It could be from the blood loss, or the heart ache. Either way, I felt like I was slipping away, kind of into an unknown universe...
When I couldn't feel my legs, and I heard Clare around me screaming, saying my name repeatedly, I smiled, knowing that now, I'd be able to slip into an imaginary world where I could be with Clare...
END OF CHAPTER
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