Chapter 4 of The Gothic and The Gifted.
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Alicia Josipovic (Bianca) is by far one of the more amazing dancers I have ever seen. I am very jealous, her performance put my ten years of dancing to shame. If you didn't know, she was a dancer in Capm Rock 2. One of the best in the movie, along with Allison Stoner.
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Eli and I skip out of school on Thursday and his dad writes us each a note for Friday. When we get to school we go to the office to hand in our notes. The school doesn't know I am currently residing with Eli and his father, so Mr. Simpson gives me a curious look when I give him the note.
"Miss. Edwards, is the a forgery?" he asks me, my heart jumps a little. I shake my head vigorously.
"No, Eli's dad wrote it for me, I've been staying in their guest room for the time being, things are rough at my house." I say, "I was told to wait twenty four hours before returning to normal activity," I say brining my arm up.
"Mr. Goldsworthy, why were you also out?" he says, the note just says that Eli was unable to attend school because he was out until almost four in the morning and he was helping me out.
"She needed supervision for forty eight hours, because of the pain killers her doctor put her on, her mom works all day, as does my dad." Eli says showing him the small orange bottle of pills. Mr. Simpson takes the bottle and reads the label nodding his head.
"Alright, Eli go to your first period class. Clare I want to talk with you and then you'll have to go to the nurse and get a slip for gym." He says, Eli leaves me alone in the office. I take a seat across from Mr. Simpson.
"Clare, what's going on at home?" he says softly to me. I breathe lightly before starting to tell him the story for my summer.
"Well, my parents fought a lot at the end of the school year, then all summer, the day after the Vegas dance they sent me away to bible camp. I didn't know until the morning I left. I was at camp for a week and came home to see that my dad had moved out and no one told me. I kind of lost it on my mom, and left for the night, the same day I thought Eli had cheated on me. I was upset over that too, he wasn't he was talking to a close friend I never knew about his dead ex girlfriends twin, actually. But Fitz and I started talking a little that afternoon and he cleared some air between himself and Eli.
"The next day my mom asked me to come home after I told her I was going to stay with Eli and his dad for a few days. She gave me money for school stuff and Eli talked to her while I gathered some things for the week." I finish, looking to see what his face would be saying. He looked confused as he tried to take it all in.
"Ok," he trails off slightly. "How long are you staying with Eli?" he asks. I think about it for a couple seconds.
"Well we decided today after school I would move back with my mom, but then I broke my wrist and we haven't talked about it yet." I reply.
"Well, I think you should come see me every couple days, telling me what is going on with all of that. Normally I would send you to the social worker, but you seem to be doing ok, so I'll just ask for regular updates. Now when the bell rings for second period I want you to go down to nurse, you can either go to the last ten minutes of first period or stay in here." he tells me.
"I think I'll just stay in here," I say and look at the clock. The seconds tick by and I start to fidget in my seat. "Could I go to my locker and get my stuff out before the bell rings and just go to the nurse from there?" I ask. He stops to think for a second before nodding his head. I leave somewhat quickly and get to my locker. I set all my stuff down and use my left hand to open the lock. The bell rings before I have picked my things up and I bend down to grab them. Before I have any in my hand another sat of hands scoops them up for me. I look up and meet the blue eyes for Mark.
"Hey," he says, smiling. I smile back.
"Thanks, Mark," I say as he helps me put them in my locker.
"What happened to your arm?" he asks concerned. I sigh.
"I tripped on a tree root at some field Eli took our little group to after school the first day." I pause and he nods. "I broke it, we spent all night in the emergency room. We got home around four."
"Ouch, well I hope it feels better," he says smiling at me. He grabs a book I am reaching for in the top shelf. "Here," he hands it to me. "So how's home, and Eli?" he asks softly.
"I haven't been staying at home, I went there once to get more clothes and my mom gave Eli money to give to me, and I saw her Wednesday at the hospital. I'm staying with Eli and his dad." I explain to him, he nods.
"So I take it you two are ok?" he says, shoving a hand into his pocket.
"Yeah," I nod and he pulls out a sharpie.
"May I?" he asks pulling off the cap and pointing the tip towards my arm. I nod and he gently holds my arm in his left hand writing something with his right. He steps back and I see Eli out of the corner of my eye, approaching quickly, but not angrily.
"Clare, I hope this gets better quick. Remember what I said, anytime. Fitz." I read to myself, Mark sees Eli coming our way,
"Maybe I should walk away, now:" he says adding a pause in his sentence. I give Eli a nervous glance and nod to Mark.
"See you around?" I ask, bringing back the memory of when I first saw Eli.
"I hope so," he says and starts to walk away. Eli come up to me looking a tad bit angry now. I show him my cast and he nods.
"That all he wanted?" he asks suspiciously. I sigh to myself more than him because I thought they'd be over this.
"He helped me get my books off the ground and switch them out in my locker, then he signed." I say, frustrated.
"Oh, ok," Eli opens his locker and switches his books.
"I have to go to the nurse, see you in chemistry." I say kissing his cheek and turning to walk away. He follows.
"Wait, give me your books. I'll take them to class so you don't have to carry the extra weight." he says taking everything but my bag. I smile and kiss him lightly on the lips.
"Thank you," I say walking to the nurses office. I give them my note and they write me a slip saying that I can't participate in gym for three months. I leave, tucking the note into my pocket and go to chemistry. I walk in and Eli smiles at me. I show my pass to the teacher and she tells me to sit down. Chemistry goes by quickly mostly because we had to do a quiz about laboratory safety. In fact the whole entire rest of the day went quickly.
"Can we talk about me going home?" I ask Eli when we are at our lockers at the end of the day. He stops digging through his locker and shuts it, looking at my arm. Throughout the day people periodically filled the space of my cast with nice things about me getting better.
"Sure, what about it?" he says closing my locker and leading me out the door.
"Well we planned for today, but I think it would put a lot of stress on my wrist," I say, it's true but I just don't think I am ready to go home. "Plus you are supposed to introduce me to Janie today." I add on.
"Maybe we could wait one more week, just so it isn't sore. By then it should not swell up so much," he sees through my lie, but goes with it. He touches my fingers which were swollen a little along with my exposes hand.
"I mean, my mom is fine with me not being home, as long as she knows we aren't-" I start to trail off but suck it up. "having sex." I finish. He nods, understanding what I mean.
"So Friday?" he asks, smirking. I nod. "Ok so about Janie," he starts but stops talking while we get into Morty and buckle up. "What do you want to do?"
"We could all just hang out at your house," I suggest. I look around the parking lot as we drive out of it. Its just after two and we just finished our first week of school.
"My house is kind of a mess," he confesses as we drive towards it.
"Well I can handle tidying up if you go and pick her up," I say and he gives me a unsure glance. "I'll be gentle, I won't hurt it anymore. I promise and after I finish I'll ice it."
"Alright, but ice it and you have to take the painkillers as soon as we get home, you were supposed to have done so ten minutes ago." I nod in agreement. We get to his house and I look around. It isn't too messy. I take the blue pill as he told me to and go back out to where he is, in the kitchen.
"We don't have anything to eat," he says and I open a cupboard. It's full of food, I give Eli a dirty look.
"Eli there is plenty of food. It just has to be cooked. I'll make something, while cleaning. Ok?" I ask him. He thinks about it for a little.
"Clare I don't want you to make your arm worse. I know you don't either." he is right, but I can handle cooking something simple and tidying up a couple things.
"I won't make anything too complicated. Be back in about an hour." I kiss him and shove him towards the door. He groans loudly and kisses me. I kiss back but shove him out the open door with my left hand. I go back into the kitchen and look in the freezer. There are fries and honey mustard chicken bits inside. I read the directions and they each take about thirty minutes to make. I clean up around the house a little but focus a lot of attention on his room. When I finish cleaning it looks like I have lived there for a while, not just a week. I laugh a little and go to start the food. After it is all in the oven I sit down and ice my fingers and part of my palm. My phone rings,
"Hello?" I answer, confused because the call was restricted.
"Hey Clare-Bear." my mothers voice floods my brain. I feel agitated that she called restricted, but act friendly.
"Hi mom," I say.
"How is it going there?" she asks me trying to make small talk with me, but I'm just got in the mood for the fake talking right now.
"Fine mom, did you need something?" I ask kind of harshly. I open the oven with my good hand, carefully pull the tray out with the same hand. Holding the phone between my face and shoulder, I flip everything and put it back in.
"When are you coming home?" she asks me suddenly after she was quiet for at least a minute. I almost say soon, but decide not to be so vague.
"Friday, next week. By then my wrist won't we so bad and things with school should be settled in." I say emotionlessly. I hear the door open and look to see who it is. Sometimes Eli's dad comes home early, but its Eli. I go back into the kitchen without seeing anyone else. Eli comes to the doorway and I give him the one minute finger. He nods and walks out.
"Clare I think you should come home sooner than that. Its lonely here." she says. I explode with anger.
"I'm sorry, its lonely there?" I yell. "Who is to blame there?"
"Clare, you are the one who left." she says calmly.
"Are you fucking kidding me? I am the one who lift, more like you drove me away. Don't call looking for me, if I want to talk to you I have your number." I say hanging up quickly. Eli walks in the room with his eyes wide as ever. "Did you really just say 'fucking' Clare?" he asks me stunned. I blush forgetting that he had picked up Janie, who is standing behind him a little to his right. She is looking blankly at me. She is beautiful, she has big brown eyes. Her medium brown hair looks natural and I assume Julia's was died in the picuters on his mirror. Other than the hair color, she looks exactle like her late twin, her skin is slightly tan and she has a near flawless smile.
"Sorry," I apologize, sitting down at his table. He comes up to me and rubs my back lightly.
"Janie this is Clare, who I don't think I have ever heard swear before. Clare this is Janie, Julia's twin sister." he says awkwardly.
"Hi," I say nervously, blushing like crazy, I can feel it.
"Hello," she says less nervous than I am. She offers her right hand to me and I smile giving her my bad hand.
"Who's hungry?" Eli asks, he looks like he is feeling awkward, his hands are both shoved in his pockets. I giggle at him.
"I'll get it out of the oven," I stand up grabbing an oven mit which is snatched out of my hand quickly.
"No, no. You sit." he orders me. I put my hands in the air surrendering. "Ice, you promised." he says opening the oven and taking the tray of food out. He set in on the stove and pulls out three plates and puts food on each one. He sets them down in front of us and grabs forks.
"So what do you like to do?" I ask trying to sound more confident than I really feel inside. She smiles warmly.
"Well I like rid-" she starts but cuts herself off. "I like to read a lot, hang out with my friends. Like everyone else." I look at Eli and he appears upset.
"I suppose that was given," I laugh. She smiles at me and I decide I like her.
"Possibly, so tell me about Dr. Doom over here, how is he doing at the new school, that I guess isn't so new anymore." she says.
"Well, his first day he ran my glasses over with his car," I say giving him a look, he laughs and smirks at me. The rest of the night Janie and I talk about Eli and the trouble he's gotten into, us, and some other little things.
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