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Chapter Twenty Seven
"Dare You To Move"
I stumbled to the door, once I heard it ring. I reached for the door knob - after a few seconds, I finally succeeded in opening the door.
"Clare!" I excitedly slurred her name. She looked at me suspiciously.
"Eli?" She replied, I ignored the fact that she seemed concerned and hugged her. "Are you okay?"
"Clare. I'm perfectly good - like happy Eli is here." I rambled. I then allowed her entrance in to my house and closed the door.
"Have you been drinking?"
"Never in my life."
Kinda sarcastic and unbelievable..
"Let's go sit down." She suggested/demanded.
I believe that she may have caught on to my stumbling and obvious lying.
She grabbed my hand and pulled me towards the couch- she sat me down, and sat next to me.
"I love you Clare." I told her, as I rested my head on her shoulder.
"I love you too Eli." She replied "But why were you drinking?"
It was pretty obvious that I only drank to get problems off my mind- For example- I drank after Fitz almost stabbed me.
I ignored her question.
Clare softly ran her fingers through my hair - I felt my eyes shutting and my mind wandering off.
Suddenly, I felt Clare shaking me.
"Eli." She spoke my name.
My eyes opened and I pulled my head off of her shoulder. My head hurt extremely bad and I felt like I had been punched in the face several times in a row.
"What time is it?" I asked- completely sober.
"10. I have to go home." She told me.
I slept the entire time she was here.. Great.
"Clare. I'm so sorry." I apologized, feeling guilty already.
"Eli. It's fine. But why were you drinking?" She asked me.
The question I dreaded, and honestly did not want to answer. I let out a deep breath and sorted out an answer in my mind.
"I was just in a bad mood." I lied. Of course, I couldn't bring myself to just tell the truth and get it over with.
Random Reminder - Tomorrows Friday, I have eight days left with Clare..
"Oh." She awkwardly replied, she then looked down at her phone "I should probably get going. My moms going to go nuts if I'm gone too long." She explained to me. I nodded and watched her walk towards the door.
"Wait, Clare-"
"What?" She replied, turning around.
"Did I say anything mean or stupid to you?" I asked. Not having the ability to remember much of anything.
"No." She replied, with a slight smile. "See you tomorrow, Eli." She added before walking out.
The minute she was gone- I sighed and rolled my eyes. I wasted a perfectly good night and a perfectly good chance to tell her the truth.
I woke up the next morning, my head felt like it was on fire.
I walked downstairs- in my boxers and no shirt- I grabbed headache medicine and sat down at the kitchen table.
I refused to even go to school... But then again- school was six hours of seeing Clare.. I refused to miss that.
I forced myself to get up from the table and make my way up the stairs.
I took a quick hot shower and then grabbed some clothes. I brushed my teeth- grabbed my back pack and made my way to school.
My hair was already dry when I got there.
I sat in Morty, and honestly did not want to enter Degrassi.
Degrassi was good for one reason, and that reason would be Clare.
But since I'm going to be leaving Degrassi, and entering a new school - I'm not sure what I'm going to do. Or who I'm going to focus my time on.
All I knew was that I was simply going to be isolated and pulled away from happiness.
Leave it to my parents to ruin every little enjoyable thing in my life. Leave it to them to make misery seem like the only feeling I could feel.
I finally exited Morty and made my way towards the front doors. I watched as all the happy students around me talked to their friends- or skate boarded around the parking lot.
Degrassi was a very 'unique' school. I suppose that I never really stopped to look at every one around me.
As I entered the school, I immediately noticed Adam sitting by the stairs, looking through his backpack - in search for some thing.
Man.. I've lost touch with Adam. And I'm pissed off at myself. Adam's a good friend.. I shouldn't always ditch him like I do.
"Hey Adam." I greeted him.
"Oh hi." He awkwardly replied - I should've known he'd be mad.
"Whats up, dude?"
"Nothing.. Haven't talked to you in years."
"I know. I'm sorry about it- I'm just busy."
"With Clare?" He replied, smirking - Good to know he's not mad.
"Kinda." I answered, softly laughing. "But I actually wanted to tell you some thing.."
"What?" He asked, sounding worried.
"I'm moving." I decided to just straight out say it.
"What?" He yelled.
"Shh, dude. I didn't even tell Clare yet."
"When are you moving? Where?" He unloaded all of his questions at once.
"Next Sunday." I answered his first one- Adam's jaw immediately dropped.
"And you haven't told Clare yet?" Adam asked - I could tell that he thought I was insane.
"I'm scared. I don't want to hurt her." I attempted to explain my reasons- which weren't good ones.
"And waiting till last minute won't?"
"I know dude, I'm fucking myself over. But I'll try to tell her this weekend or as soon as possible." I promised- all though I could tell it was a promise that I was going to break "And I'm moving to my dad's - which is like an hour away."
"Dude.. Clare's going to take it hard. Aren't you guys close now?" He asked me.
"Yeah..." I paused "We are."
Adam made me realize how close Clare and I were, and how much I was going to hurt her.
There was nothing I could do about it though.. But I'll continue to try and fix this.
I'll do whatever it takes to keep my Clare happy.
I sat on the ground and waited at Clare's locker for her for about 5 minutes..
Soon, I saw her walk down the hall, staring at the floor as she did so.
It looked as if she was crying. I immediately got up from the ground and made my way towards her.
"Clare, Clare." I softly said her name- as I placed my hands on her shoulders, "What's wrong?"
"My parents."
"Tell me what happened." I demanded.
"My dad left." She told me, I watched tears slide down her face. I pulled her in to the tightest, most loving hug I could.
"It's okay. Your here with me." I whispered, as she placed her head in my chest- and cried her eyes out.
I couldn't tell her about me moving now.. I couldn't hurt her more then she already was.
"We probably should of ditched today instead of yesterday." I said, attempting to get her to smile.
Luckily - I was successful.
"Yeah, we should've." She replied.
I continued to have my arms wrapped around her and our body's were against each other's- She looked up at me with her beautiful blue eyes.
I wiped off the tears from her red cheeks, and smiled at her.
"Your beautiful, even when your crying."
She smiled - "Lying isn't going to help anything." She replied- I smiled at her.
"I would NEVER lie to such a pretty girl like you."
