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A/N- You guys have been asking where I get these quotes and to answer you, A BOOK IN THE LIBRARY THAT I FOUND! lol When Eli says or Clare says "Some book in a library" it's basically me speaking haha.

Warnings: Switching POVs. I don't use a Beta for this story so if you see any mistakes, please ignore...

Anyways, onto reading...

I WISH-CHAPTER 14

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

ELI'S PERSPECTIVE

I covered my eyes from the blaring sun that was coming from...coming from the sun!

My eyes shot open and I realized Clare was still on top of me, sleeping soundlessly as the sun was peering down on our bodies because we were still on the roof.

Oh shit, her parents are going to be pissed.

I clenched my eyes shut and turned to see a note near my head, attached to my phone.

"We called Clare's parents for you and covered your butt you lucky dope. Please, just make sure Clare gets to school unharmed and on time. -Bullfrog. P.S. If I ever see you two in that position, naked, I will forever shun you as a son. ;)"

I smiled and crumpled the paper, causing Clare's eyes to flutter open slowly.

"Hey sleepy head," I whispered while stroking my fingers through her hair and smiling.

When she had noticed that we were still on the roof and it was daylight, her eyes bulged and she stood nervously to her feet. I watched as she tried to register what was going on and before she knew it, her foot had slipped on a broken roof tile.

"Clare!" I screeched while grabbing her hand and her eyes opened fully.

"Don't move so quickly," I whispered as I tightened the grip of my fingers on our interlocked hands.

Since she had just woken up, I'm guessing she wasn't good at walking around right away.

Her hair was tossed to one side, her eyes halfway open and her body was very limp as she whispered, "Can I sleep inside on your bed?"

"Clare, we have school," I told her, just wanting to go by what the note had ordered me to do.

She laughed and said, "I called my mom on your cell phone when you were sleeping and told her I was sick, she told me to stay with you because no one is home to take care of me. Please, just...just let me sleep in your house."

I couldn't say no as her knees grew weak and I said, "Let's get you inside."

When Clare stepped inside my bedroom window, she lazily removed her shoes and her denim jacket as she plopped down on my bed. I smiled as she curled up in my blanket, a smile spreading across her face as she inhaled my scent on the pillow.

"Eli," she whined and I asked, "Yeah?"

She giggled, rolled over and said, "Tell me some quotes so I can fall back asleep."

I smirked, walking over to my bedside and kneeling down as I whispered, "Don't find love, let love find you. That's why it's called falling in love, because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall."

She smiled and said, "Go on."

I sighed, tightened my eyebrows and said, "Oh, I have a good one."

Clare gripped my hand, preventing me from stroking her bicep as I whispered, "Love...What is love? Love is to love someone for who they are, who they were, and who they will be."

She smiled, taking my hand and placing it beneath her head.

"Say one more," she mumbled while shutting her eyes and beginning to fall asleep once again.

"Alright, this one is for you Clare," I whispered, remembering I read this quote in the "spiritual" part of the book from the library.

"Just because you know someone doesn't mean you love them, and just because you don't know people doesn't mean you can't love them. You can fall in love with a complete stranger in a heartbeat, if God planned that route for you. So open your heart to strangers more often. You never know when God will throw that pass at you," I said, noticing that she was fast asleep before I even started to talk.

I smirked, kissed her forehead and when I tried to pull away, I noticed my hand was underneath her head.

"Crap," I mumbled lowly.

What's the point in fighting fate anymore?

I leaned my head on the crook of Clare's neck while closing my eyes slowly. My eyelids had begun to grow heavy and I shifted my body so that I couldn't move my hand out from underneath her head.

As I was slowly drifting into a sleep, I heard someone whisper, "It takes millions of people to complete the world, but it only takes you to complete mine."

I smirked, knowing it was Clare's voice...

DREW'S PERSPECTIVE

"So, she's inoccent, cute, attractive, sexy and whispers lovey dovey quotes in your ear when you're sleeping. God, if I had a girl like that..." I told Eli as his face turned serious and I continued, "I would so give her your number because you'd be perfect together!"

"That's what I thought," Eli said while biting into his burger.

He was eating like a mongrel.

"Dude, when's the last time you ate? Last year?" I asked him, letting out a pathetic laugh as he put down the hamburger and took a gulp of his water.

Eli smirked and said, "I don't know man, possibly a day or something. Since I'm always around Clare, I'm not really hungry."

"Oh! Aw, does she fulfill your hunger?" I asked him, grinning devilishly.

"Dude, you're disgusting. But, aside of your grotesque side, thank you for bringing Alli to The Dot and letting her spend time with Clare. Sometimes, I feel like she needs a little girl time," Eli told me convincingly.

I nodded and said, "By all means, Alli likes Clare. Apparently, she's the only girl that has been around her more then one time and she didn't want to rip her head off. Plus, me and you get our man on man time back again."

"True," Eli said and asked, "What do you want to do?"

I glanced over at Alli and Clare, who seemed lost in a conversation across The Dot and said, "Let's go shoot some hoops."

"I don't think we should leave them alone, what if Johnny and Fitz-," I cut Eli's nervous rant off and said, "Relax dude, nothing is going to happen. It's only three in the afternoon and there is plenty of people around to protect them if anything happened. Come on, just a couple of shots."

As much as Eli didn't want to leave Clare's sight, he gritted through his teeth, "Alright."

ONE HOUR LATER

"You win! You win! I give up!" I said while my chest heaved up and down from running back and forth on what seemed like, the biggest fucking basketball court on this earth.

"Man, you're out of shape if I can keep up," Eli said while leaning on the gate beside me.

I nodded and said, "I think it's from eating like a fucking vacuum cleaner."

No it wasn't...I wasn't out of breath because of my horrible eating habits.

"Yeah, that could make you gain a couple of pounds," Eli spoke as the park had become blurry before my eyes. My heart started beating at this erratic pace that I've felt before as I whispered through frantic breaths, "Hospital."

My lungs were tightening and felt as if I could only take small breaths, which wasn't going to help me.

Before I knew it, the black stars that were blocking me from seeing clearly had over taken my whole sight and I felt my body drop...

ELI'S PERSPECTIVE

"Is he okay?" Alli asked running side by side with Clare into the hospital waiting room.

I nodded and said, "He's fine. But, he didn't tell me he has been having frequent asthma attacks. If I would have known that, then I never would have agreed to playing basketball with him."

Clare came to my side, linking her arm around my waist and said, "Well, when people need medical attention they don't really like pity from the people around them because of their condition."

"Where is he?" Alli asked, tears forming in her eyes.

"Room one fourteen, down the hall," I said while pointing to his room.

Alli nodded and before running down the hallway, she wrapped her arms around Clare and I as she whispered, "Thank you so much Eli, for saving him."

"Eh, isn't that what best friends are for?" I asked while playfully nudging her towards Drew's room.

CLARE'S PERSPECTIVE

My arms were wrapped around Eli's neck as he cried in the crook of my neck. I swayed my hips back and forth slowly to try and stop him from crying. But, when you witness your best friend have an asthma attack, I think crying is a reasonable outlet.

"It's alright Eli, he's going to be fine," I told him while stroking my fingers through his hair.

His chest heaved against mine as I felt a tear from his eyes drop onto my cheek. He only gripped me tighter when I pulled away to take a quick breath. After all, I knew Drew, but not well enough to cry over him.

"I shouldn't have played with him Clare," he told me and he whispered, "I could imagine if that was you that I lost..."

I pulled his head out of the crook of my neck and asked, "Hey, where is this coming from Eli? You're not going to lose Drew and you're not going to lose me. I'd never leave you and you know that, right?"

He smirked and said, "I know, but I don't think I could handle it if anything happened to you. Look at me, I'm a mess just from seeing my friend have an asthma attack, something that happens every day to so many people."

"Nothing's going to happen to me Eli, I'm not going anywhere. I'll be here when you need me, but, gone when you don't want me anymore," I whispered while pecking him on the cheek.

"I'd never not want you Clare," he pecked me on the lips while pulling me into another consuming hug.

After a few moments of silence, crying sobs and frantic breaths, I heard him whisper in my ear which caused my cheeks to blush a flaming red color, "If I had to choose between loving you and breathing, I would use my last breath to say 'I love you'."

END OF CHAPTER 14

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