I'm back! This chapter will be mainly about Kyle and Clara.

Chapter 14 (yay! It's now officially longer than any of my serious fics!)

Clara

I don't know what Kyle's playing at. I know for a fact that we both like each other in that way, and yet, it seems that he's distancing himself from me.

He walks into the room where I'm sitting and reading a book. "Hey," I say, but he just looks at me and leaves. That's it, time for something drastic that I'm probably going to regret later on, blah, blah, blah.

I put my book down and march up to him. "Alright, what's going on?" I demand.

Kyle turns around, looking startled. "What do you mean?"

"I mean, why are you avoiding me?"

"Who says I'm avoiding you?"

"Stop answering my questions with questions!"

He sighs. "Fine. What do you want to know?"

"I want to know why we're not together, even though I know we both have feelings for one another, and I'm sure that you do too."

I see his eyes go wide. "W-what? I-Clara, we barely know each other!"

I slap him. "Don't go using that excuse on me! We've known each other for at least four months now, and Jacob knew Vanessa for less than that before they got together!"

"Look, maybe that's true, and maybe it's been long enough for you. But, you know, some people don't think like that! Not everybody can meet someone and want to kiss them the next day!"

He's struck a cord. I feel tears coming to my eyes, and force them down. "If that's the kind of girl you think I am, then I don't want you to stay in my house anymore," I tell him, noticing my voice wobbling a little. I turn around and run away before he can say anything more. I can hear his thoughts tumbling into my head, saying that he didn't mean it like that, but I force them out. Only when I reach the sanctuary of my room do I let my tears out.

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Kyle

I've screwed up, big time. I decide to go talk to Ethan, since it seems that both Clara and Rochelle are similar in some ways. I get to his house and knock on the door. His father, Shaun, answers it, and directs me to Ethan's room. So, I go and knock on that door, and Ethan opens it.

"Oh, hey, Kyle," he says. "Come in." I take a seat on a chair while Ethan sits on his bed. Before he even gets a chance to ask what happened, I tell him everything.

When I'm done, he voices basically exactly what I'm thinking. "Wow, you really screwed up."

"Yeah, I know I did. But do you know how I can fix it?"

He thinks about it for a while. "Well, you have feelings for her, right?"

I nod. "Then go and tell her what a big idiot you've been, and that you'd like nothing more than for her to be with you."

I raise an eyebrow. "Why would I do that? I mean, I like her, but I don't feel that I know her well enough to be with her."

Ethan sighs and puts his head in his hands. "That's not the point. I didn't exactly know Rochelle as well as I wanted to before we got together, but it's fine. Just do it, already."

"Alright, I will!"

So, I go back to Clara's house and knock on the door. She answers it with a frown. "Go away, I told you that I don't want you to stay in my house anymore."

She makes to close the door, but I put my foot in it. "Look, I didn't come here to stay. All I want to do is tell you that I was being an idiot, and I want nothing more than to be with you."

She bites her lip. "Go. I've made my decision. I won't hesitate to push the door into your foot as hard as I can, and then you can tell Isabel exactly why your foot's cut off."

With that I pull my foot out and Clara closes the door fully. I sigh and walk away, but not before I hear her slide her back down the door, crying.

Okay, a pretty emotional chapter there, and short, too. I almost started crying while typing it…anyway, I'll try to update soon.