Thanks to tomfeltonlover1991 for helping me make decisions with this chapter because i hate decisions.
Ch. 36 The Next Ten Minutes
(CLARE)
"Stay away from me and get us out of here!" I demand to Eli as I bang on the door frantically.
"We're soul mates Clare you must see that, we belong together." Eli says in a soft yet malicious voice.
His hand touches my shoulder, grazing with his fingertips and I get mad, turning around and bringing my foot up to meet Eli's personal area. Eli grunts falling to the ground and clutching where I just kicked him, I turn and go back to banging on the door.
"I belong with Owen; I'm in love with Owen! LET ME OUT!" I yell pounding my fist against the heavy wooden door.
Continuing to bang on the door and yell for someone to get me out several minutes pass and my voice begins to get slightly rough from yelling. I should have been paying better attention to what Eli was doing but I was too focused on getting out of there and away from him. Eli recovers standing behind me without me being aware until he grabs my wrist halting my beating against the door. Eli whirls me around, my back hitting the door with a dull thud and my other wrist pinned above my head as I'm still marveling at what just happened.
"You belong with me Clare; you can't possibly be in love with that ape. I know you love me Clare we belong together." Eli insists his voice determined and his eyes crazed.
"LET ME GO AND GET ME OUT OF HERE!" I scream as loud as I can.
Eli opens his mouth but before he can say anything the door moves and is suddenly opened. As we're leaning against the door we begin to fall, Eli loosens his grip on my wrists as I think I'm about to hit the floor but an arm goes around my waist catching me. Eli falls to the ground as I'm straightened; Dave looks at me then at Eli then back at me as he removes his arm from my waist.
"Are you okay Clare?" Dave asks.
"Not really," I reply with a deep breath happy to be out of that room.
Eli stands reaching his hand out to me; I flinch and hide behind Dave a little. Dave furrows his brow a bit and stands a little taller crossing his arms over his chest.
"I think you better leave Eli; I don't think she wants to talk to you right now." Dave tells Eli.
"She's my girlfriend I can talk to her, maybe you should leave!" Eli shoots back, he's sounding more and more insane by the minute.
"She's Owen's girlfriend and I'm pretty sure he's going to kill you," Dave replies putting his hand at my back and guiding me for the front door.
"Do you have your phone?" I ask Dave and he nods. "Can you call or text Adam and ask him to bring our stuff and meet me at the front steps please?" I request.
Dave nods and pulls his phone out of his pocket. "Hey I'm with Clare she wants you to get all of her stuff and yours and meet her on the steps…not really…not too sure but she can tell you…yeah I'll wait with her." Dave says and hangs up.
"Thanks Dave," I smile as we get out to the front steps.
"No problem Clare, Eli seemed to be…" Dave stops searching for the right word.
"Insane, crazy, obsessed," I offer.
"Yeah that about covers it," Dave smiles.
"I don't get it, I honestly don't he won't move on he's determined to get me back and he's so focused on the idea that we're soul mates and Owen must be blackmailing me somehow or tricked me into loving him." I tell Dave.
The front doors open, Adam comes out with our book bags and my purse. I take my purse and put my notebook in it which I've been clutching this whole time. Adam hugs me before handing me my book bag.
"So what happened?" Adam asks me.
"Eli locked us in the prop room and told me he wasn't going to let me out until I realized I belonged with him. I kicked him and he pinned me to the door, Dave heard me screaming probably and let us out." I inform Adam.
"He locked you in the prop room? Are you okay?" Adam asks.
"I'm not hurt just angry and a little shaken Eli was crazed Adam. If Dave hadn't let us out I honestly don't know how far Eli would have gone." I admit to Adam.
"You want to go see Owen and Drew, tell them?" Adam asks.
"And interrupt their testosterone fueled football practice no way! They'll rip Eli apart, possibly literally." I reply shaking my head.
"You're not going to tell Owen?" Dave asks.
"No I will just not right now there's something else I need to go do right now, one crisis at a time." I reply.
"Let's go we'll take Drew's car and Owen or Bianca can take Drew home, let's go to your mom's." Adam says.
"I'll see you guys tomorrow," Dave waves as Adam and I go down to Drew's car.
"You know it's like a little after four and your mom won't be home for probably an hour we have plenty of time to tell Owen and Drew what Eli did and let them pound him a little." Adam offers as we get buckled.
"You know as well as I do that neither Owen or Drew will pound him a little and I don't want to interrupt football practice. Besides Eli's your best friend Adam I appreciate the support but I don't want to make you choose sides." I reply as he starts driving.
"Yeah but if he keeps pulling stuff like locking you in a room with him he won't be my best friend for much longer and he does deserve to get hit for the stunt he pulled." Adam says.
"Thanks Adam, I know my mom won't be home for a while but it'll give me time to think about what to say to her. I need to approach this calmly and logically, convince my mom that I need to keep living at Owen's house and not come home. If I talk to her rationally then hopefully she'll understand but if I start fighting with her she won't listen." I tell Adam.
Driving to my mom's in silence Adam parks out front and I use my key to get in. Adam sits on the sofa and I give him the remote so he can watch TV. I sit at the table and run over what I'm going to say to my mom, I run over it a dozen times at least, changing what I'm going to say over and over until I hear the front door open and my mom comes home.
"Adam what are you…" Mom starts before seeing me at the table, "oh Clare you're here. Have you decided to do the smart thing and move home?" Mom asks as she sets down her purse and Adam turns off the TV.
"I came to talk to you about it actually," I reply while Adam joins me at the table and Mom sits down.
"There's nothing to talk about Clare this is your home, I am your mother you belong here." Mom states.
"Mom this hasn't felt like home in a long time not since Dad left and you went temporarily insane." I argue.
"Well it will never feel like home again if you don't move back in Clare. You need to be here with your family." Mom counters her voice getting slightly higher as she starts to get annoyed.
"What family Mom? Darcy is in Africa and we only hear from her every couple of months if that even! She doesn't even know everything that happened! Dad and his whore moved to Australia and you went temporarily insane and stopped caring. You can't just start caring again expect everything to be better Mom!" I tell her as I start to get aggravated and my planned out speech goes right out the window.
"I don't expect it to be instantly better Clare, I know there's stuff to work on but we can't do that if I never see you. I'm better now Clare, clean and sober and since Randall has abandoned you it's best if you move back in here." Mom says.
Adam takes my hand for support; I'm glad he's here and not Owen or even Drew or Bianca. I love them all and I know anyone of them would have come but Adam is the only one that can remain this calm and silent unless he needs to say something. Any of the others would be yelling at my mom by now.
"I won't be happy if I move back in now Mom. I need to be at the Milligan's; I need to be with Owen." I say in a steady and determined voice.
"Clare I'm not going to let you live at your boyfriends house in sin." Mom responds.
"Excuse me?" I demand.
"You're sixteen Clare you can't be living at your boyfriends house. Do you have any idea what the people at church are saying?" Mom asks.
I'm too shocked to respond and Adam tenses a little, tightening his grip on my hand a bit.
"Do you want Clare to move back here because you think it's what's best for her or because you're worried about what people are saying about you?" Adam asks, speaking for the first time.
"I know what's best for her she's my daughter and living with your boyfriend at sixteen is not what's best for you Clare. He took your virginity Clare and turned you into a floozy Clare I need to bring you back home put you back on the right path." Mom says.
"You have got to be kidding me Mom! Owen and I are in love, we made love he didn't take my virginity and he's the only guy I've ever been with. I'm not moving back in, I'm not going back to church, if you want to work on building our relationship again and earning my trust back then we can have dinner once a week but I am not moving back in and if I have to get emancipated or get you declared as an unfit parent then I will." I inform her losing my calm just a little.
"You will do no such thing Clare. I've already been to a lawyer this morning he talked to a judge and I'm getting the Milligan's guardianship of you revoked and suing them. Like it or not Clare you will be back in this house by Monday morning." Mom smiles confidently.
"YOU DID WHAT? ARE YOU INSANE? YOU'RE SUING THEM?!" I scream at my mother.
"They took you, forced me to sign guardianship papers." Mom shrugs.
"Adam lets go," I say calmly but with a tight jaw.
"Start packing Clare you'll be back in this house in a few days." Mom says with an arrogant smile as Adam and I get up from the table and walk out to the car.
"I can't believe her, how could she do that to me, to Wendy and Eric? I hate her Adam; I never want to see her again." I tell him as I begin crying and Adam starts driving.
"Let's go grab some dinner; I'm thinking Italian, good comfort food." Adam says.
"Thanks Adam for coming with me and everything," I smile wiping my tears away.
"No problem and we can start talking about the next step from here." Adam says.
"No we don't there's only one step to take but we will go get dinner I'm hungry." I reply.
(OWEN)
After 2 hours of football practice right after 45 minutes of athletics I'm exhausted and starving. After dropping Drew at home and seeing Adam had not yet returned I drove home. Tris was at the table eating delivery when I get in and he smiles at me.
"Hey how was football? I ordered Chinese, got you beef and broccoli it's on the counter." Tris tells me.
"Awesome I'm starving, football was good." I reply grabbing the box of food and a fork not even bothering to put it on a plate.
"Where's Clare? I thought she'd be home with you," Tris comments.
"She's with Adam, they went to talk to her mom because she's trying to make Clare move back home." I inform him before taking a giant bite of food and Tris makes a face at me.
"Well she's not going to move back is she?" Tris asks with an apprehensive voice.
"No way," I say with a mouth full of food.
"Dude swallow before you answer," Tris scolds me.
"I am not letting Clare move out and back in with that woman, I don't care how much progress her mom has made I don't trust her." I enlighten my brother.
"Good because I don't want Clare to move out, she should be here." Tris smiles.
We finish dinner and clean up, I go down to my room but Clare still isn't home and I'm starting to get a little worried. I know I'm probably being paranoid by tracking the GPS on her phone but after last weekend can you blame me? She's at an address I discover to be an Italian restaurant so she must be getting dinner with Adam. I sit at the desk and start doing homework, I hear Mom come home and then Dad, I'm about half way through my homework when the exterior door opens and Clare comes in. I get up helping her take her book bag off and dropping her purse to the floor before pulling her into my arms and a heated, passionately loving kiss. She kicks the door closed with her foot, looping her arms around my neck and slipping her tongue into my mouth.
"What happened? What did your mom say? Are you okay? Should we call the lawyer?" I ask in practically one breath.
"She's still insane and I'm not moving back there ever again, marry me." She says in nearly one breath.
The words take a second to hit me and I just blink at her, I'm almost certain I misheard her.
"Did you just…" I start but she cuts me off.
"I want to marry you, I'm in love with you, I love you more than anyone and I want to marry you Owen. I didn't think it would be so soon but I don't care as long as I'm with you. Will you marry m…"
I don't even let her finish the sentence before my lips are on hers, kissing her hard, with fervor, rapture, extreme bliss and love. She meets the kiss with every emotion I'm feeling, her hand goes into my hair clutching the short hairs at the back of my neck. I lift her up, her legs go around my waist and I sit on the bed with her on my lap. We continue kissing for several minutes, a desperately happy passion in our make out session. After many minutes I pull away but only because I need to breathe and I'm pretty sure she does as well.
"Nothing would make me happier in this entire universe than to marry you." I tell her after a breath.
Clare smiles, her posture relaxing just slightly as if she was nervous about what my answer might be. I run my fingers into her curls, stroking her hair and she cups my face.
"Good nothing would make me happier either so how do you feel about this weekend?" Clare asks me.
"Seriously?" I inquire.
"I know it's really soon and I'm not going to be able to have the wedding I always pictured but I'm going to be getting married to you and it won't matter. My mom is insane she talked to a lawyer this morning and they saw a judge, she's having your parents guardianship revoked and she's suing them. I know getting married is extreme and I didn't want a shotgun wedding but I am in love with you, deeply in lo…"
This time I kiss her so she'll take a breath and stop talking, I love her to death but she gets very neurotic sometimes and she can talk too much. Thankfully I know how to silence her and calm her down.
"This weekend is perfect we'll make it happen. Come on we should go tell my parents they have a wedding to pay for." I tell her lifting her off my lap.
She takes my hand and we walk out of our room, finding my parents working and eating at the table.
"Mom, Dad we have something to tell you." I announce and both my parents look at us. "We're getting married." I inform them.
"Welcome to the family Clare, I'll finally have a daughter." Mom smiles standing up and hugging Clare and then me.
"Congratulations son you picked a great one." Dad says shaking my hand and hugging me. "You sure you know what you're getting yourself into?" Dad jokes with Clare as he hugs her.
"I'm sure, I'm in love with Owen and I want to marry him there's just one little thing. We need to get married this weekend, like Saturday and I know it's asking a lot and you've done so much for me already and I shouldn't be…"
Time to silence her with a kiss again; I have a feeling I'm going to be doing it a lot in the next few days.
"Breathe Sweetness," I tell her when I take my lips away.
"Right sorry it's just been a long day." She sighs.
"Clare went to see her mom and try to reason with her but it didn't go so well." I explain.
"That's an understatement my mom is still insane she's just not drinking or doing drugs anymore. She went to see a lawyer this morning and they saw a judge, she's having your guardianship revoked and she's suing you for god knows what. She expects to have me back home by Monday morning, which is why we need to get married so soon." Clare tells me.
"Oh Clare I'm so sorry your mom is doing this, don't worry we'll talk to the family lawyer in the morning and even if she manages to revoke our guardianship you two will be married by Sunday." Dad replies.
"Guess we have a lot of planning to do, we'll start tomorrow afternoon, I can move some things around and I can have my assistant call around to florists and caters tomorrow. Why don't you two go tell your brother and then go finish your homework, make a guest list a short list of locations you'd like to get married." Mom suggests.
"Thanks both of you for everything I don't know how I can ever repay you," Clare smiles hugging my parents again.
"You make our son happy and that's all the repayment we need." Mom replies.
Clare smiles, I put my arm around her and we go upstairs to Tris' room and knock on the door.
"Yeah," Tris calls through the door he's listening to some show tunes album and I cringe slightly as we open the door and step in. "Hey what's up?" Tris asks.
"We're getting married bro," I tell him.
Tris hops off his bed and runs over hugging us both tightly. "Awesome, I'm getting a sister! I told you we were keeping you." He says as he releases us and Clare smiles.
"We're getting married this weekend so make sure you have no plans, you have to be one of my groomsmen." I inform him.
"Sweet, I'm totally going to help you plan the wedding." Tris smiles and Clare kisses his cheek.
We turn to leave but Clare turns back. "Tris it's kind of a secret though so don't say anything to anyone and that includes Tori." Clare requests.
"Sure," Tris shrugs but he's squeezing his eyebrows together a little probably wondering why the secrecy.
Actually I'm wondering that myself so after closing Tris' door and walking a few steps I stop Clare and turn her to me.
"You want to marry me but you don't want to tell anyone?" I ask her.
She puts her arms around my neck and presses her body to mine. "Of course I want to tell people Owen, I want to tell everyone but I don't think it's the best idea right now. If word got back to my mom she would try and stop us, she might even succeed. And before this summer we weren't even friends, we had barely said two words to each other. Our friends just got used to the idea that we're even dating if we tell them we're getting married just a few months after even becoming friends and then falling in love they might have us committed. Not to mention All, Eli and Jake hate us because we're dating and after what Eli did today who knows how far he'll go to stop us from getting married." She tells me and takes a breath so I interject.
"Why what did that fucker do today?" I inquire with clenched fists and a tight jaw.
"I'll tell you later focus on the wedding now please we have maybe three days to plan a wedding. I want to tell everyone and we will but I just think we should wait a while. If everyone knows beforehand they're going to try and stop us or tell us we're crazy or talk us out of it and if I have to spend the next three days defending that we want to get married then it's just going to stress me out and drive me crazy and I'm al…"
Time to quiet her with a kiss again, cupping her chin and ensnaring her lips, she exhales, her body relaxing, her lips and tongue welcoming mine.
"Okay we'll wait to tell everyone; as long as you want the only thing I care about is that in a few days you will be Mrs. Clare Milligan. I don't care where or how or who's there as long as long as you become my wife." I assure her.
"I love you you know," she smiles at me.
"I know and I'm in love with you," I reply putting my arm around her as we start walking back down the stairs.
"I promise to try and not go completely crazy in the next three days." She says taking my hand.
"Eh I still love you even if you do," I tell her and she laughs just a little. We go down to our room and I close the door. "I'm almost done with my homework how much do you have?" I ask her.
"I can do my homework later there's something else we need to do. We can't tell most of our friends but none of my family is going to be there and I really want Peter, Spinner, Emma and Jay to be there. Paige too if she's still in town but we need to call of them and make sure the three that live out of town can come in for the weekend. We should try and skype with Spin, Em and Peter but we can call Jay on the phone." She tells me.
"Okay anything you want, whatever will make you less stressed in the next few days." I tell her and she smiles at me.
She takes her phone out and puts it on speaker, it takes a couple rings but he picks up.
"Clare are you okay?" Is how Jay answers.
"I'm fine but was wondering if you had any major plans this weekend that you couldn't break?" Clare asks.
"No didn't really have any plans, why do I need to come hang another kid off a building?" Jay asks.
"Jason!" A female voice suddenly snaps at him surprised.
"Oh good Paige you're there are you going to be in town this weekend?" Clare asks her.
"Yeah I'll be here I leave Monday morning and my only weekend plans were with Jay why what's going on?" Paige inquires.
"Let's just say it's important we'll call you back when we have an actual time and all that." I tell them.
"Time for what? Owen what the hell is going on?" Jay asks me in a very protective, angry tone.
"We'll call you tomorrow we need to skype Peter, Emma and Spinner." Clare replies.
"Wow them too; you're not pregnant are you?" Paige asks.
"No I'm not pregnant we have to go we'll call you tomorrow." Clare tells them and hangs up.
"Why do I have the feeling Jay's going to come to school tomorrow looking for me?" I ask her when she hangs up.
"Because that's exactly what you would do if you were in his shoes," she replies.
"Yeah good point," I nod.
I sit at the laptop, she sits on my lap and signs into her account before clicking on two of her contacts. It takes a minute and then both contacts answer at almost the same second.
"Baby Edwards!" A girl with long blonde hair smiles and I assume she's Emma.
"No Em it's Hot Legs now," Peter corrects her.
"Hey Peter," Emma smiles.
"Emma this is my boyfriend Owen," Clare introduces us and we say hi, "is Spinner there we'd like to talk to you both?" Clare asks after Emma and I exchange a greeting.
"Yeah just a second, HEY BABY," Emma calls into the house or apartment.
A few seconds later Spinner comes in the room not wearing a shirt and instinctively my arms tighten around Clare, even though he's like her brother.
"Hey Clare Owen, what's up?" Spinner asks leaning on the back of Emma's chair.
"I'm here too," Peter says.
"Oh hey Pete so what's going on? She's not pregnant is she?" Spinner questions in the same tone Jay had a few minutes ago.
"No I'm not pregnant but we were hoping the three of you could come home for the weekend? Please it's really important." Clare pleads.
"I can get hotel rooms for you guys if you need them." I offer.
"Yeah that would be good it's pretty cramped at my parents place and Joey moved and I don't want to crash at Jay's again." Emma says shooting Spinner a look so I'm assuming they've done that before.
"Jay has company anyway Paige is in town and she's coming too," Clare tells them.
"Yeah a hotel room would be good, so coming to what exactly?" Peter asks.
"Dinner at my house Friday night can you guys be here Friday night?" I ask them.
"Yeah I can make it Friday night," Peter says.
Emma and Spinner look at each other and a have a soft mumbling conversation before answering.
"Yeah we can do Friday night too," Emma nods.
"Great I'll book you guys into the same hotel and we'll have dinner at my house around seven or eight. I'll have to see what works for my parents." I inform them.
"Okay sounds good and like a lot of trouble for just a dinner." Spinner comments.
"It's not just the dinner and you guys need to stay all weekend. We'll be in touch tomorrow when we have more details just clear your calendar for the weekend." Clare insists.
"We'll be there," Emma says for her and Spinner.
"I'll be there too," Peter assures her.
"Great we'll talk to you guys tomorrow." Clare says waving to them and hanging up then turns to look at me. "You want them all to come to dinner Friday night?" She asks.
"Like you said they're practically family, kinda all you have left and they don't know me very well. I want to make a good impression and do this right." I tell her.
She smiles joining our lips and linking her arms around my neck. "I am so in love with you."
"And I," I say picking her up as I stand which makes her gasp, "am so very, incredibly in love with you." I tell her laying her on the bed; I lie next to her and wrap her in my arms. "So you want to do homework or make a guest list?" I ask her.
"Make a guest list, I won't be able to concentrate on homework," she replies.
I get up and grab a notepad and pen before lying next to her again. "Well obviously my parents, Tris, Adam and Drew who will all be groomsmen but Drew will best man." I say writing down the names.
"Bianca as my maid of honor if she wants to and Emma as a bridesmaid, no wait that doesn't work you have three groomsmen and I only have two bridesmaids. But I'm afraid to tell anyone else and I don't have that many female friends and I don't know P…"
I silence her with a kiss yet again, not that I'm complaining; I honestly don't mind having another excuse to kiss her.
"Sweetness it's fine Tris doesn't need to walk down the aisle with anyone." I tell her.
"Right sorry it's just a lot," she apologizes.
"I know but you're not doing this alone. Okay so Jay, Spinner and Peter obviously." I say writing their names down.
"Yeah and Audra and Omar, they've always been nice to me and they helped us out. And I guess that's it, I mean I'd love for all of our friends to be there, the Bashful Babes, Scott and those guys and Marissa and Chris and them but I'm afraid if too many people know word will spread and my mom, Eli and god knows who else will try and stop us." Clare says sounding kind of sad that we can't have all of our friends there.
I wrap an arm around her, kissing her forehead. "So when you decide it's time to tell everyone we'll have a big party, like a reception."
"I like that idea, thanks Owen." She says and I smile at her.
After an hour of discussing possible locations I take the lists up to my parents and Clare gets ready for bed. When I get back to the room she's doing homework so I get ready for bed and turn on the TV. I fall asleep about halfway through an old horror movie, the kind that are so bad it's actually funny. I wake up when Clare finally comes to bed done at last with her homework I guess. I look at the clock to see it's nearly two in the morning and encircle her in my arms.
"You're going to be tired tomorrow Sweetness," I yawn.
"We'll just have to stop at the Dot for lots of coffee," she replies with a yawn of her own.
"So what did Eli do today, er yesterday?" I question as she nuzzles into me.
"He locked me in the prop room with him and told me I couldn't leave until I realized I belonged with him. I kicked him and pounded on the door but when he recovered he pinned me to the door then Dave let us out because he heard me screaming." She tells me in a very sleepy voice ending with a yawn.
My arms tighten around her and I start growling, that fucking bastard locked my girl in a room with him and pinned her to a door!
"I'm gonna kill him, right now you won't have to worry about him trying to stop the wedding because I'm going to rip his fucking head off!" I snarl and start getting out of the bed.
"Owen go to sleep you can kill Eli in the morning," she tells me pulling me back down.
"Fine but tomorrow morning he's a dead man!" I tell her.
She falls asleep in my arms after a few minutes and it isn't long before I'm back to sleep. My alarm wakes us up in the morning, after getting ready we eat breakfast with my family and it's mostly talk about the wedding. Thankfully invites aren't a problem since we kind of already invited Jay, Paige, Emma, Spinner and Peter we just didn't tell them why they had to clear their weekend. We'll tell the rest of the Fab Five at school and Caveman and Bashful can tell their parents. I drive the three of us to school and Clare reminds Tris not to say anything about the wedding. I saw Drew's car and Bianca's so I know they're all here and we find them sitting in the memorial garden which is perfect so we go in and close the door.
"Hey you okay Adam told us what Eli and your mom did," B asks getting up to hug Clare.
"That reminds me Drew you wanna help me kill Eli after this?" I ask him.
"Sure happy to," Drew nods.
"I'm good a little stressed but good," Clare tells them and looks at B, "what are you doing after school?" She asks.
"Uh homework," Bianca shrugs.
"You want to come over to our house and help me pick out a wedding dress?" Clare questions.
"You and Owen are…" Bianca starts and Clare nods, "congrats you guys that's awesome so happy for you and I totally get it after what your mother pulled. Anyway you two are so in love we knew you were going to get married." Bianca smiles hugging me.
"You'll also need to pick yourself out a maid of honor dress assuming you want the job." Clare tells her.
"Aww Hot Legs of course I want the job, so when is it?" Bianca asks.
"This weekend but it's also a secret so don't say anything to anyone outside of this room." I instruct.
"We won't say anything bro but this is great," Drew grins as he and Adam high five me.
"Drew I was hoping you'd be best man and Adam a groomsman," I say.
"Dude of course," they answer in unison.
"Also invite your parents this evening," Clare tells them.
"Yeah we don't have a day or time or place just yet but Mom promises me she'll have it all sorted by Friday. Well we're going to kill Eli before the bell; I'll see you for morning break Sweetness." I say before giving her a passionate kiss and leaving with Drew.
"Don't get in trouble," Clare calls to us just as the door closes and we smile at her through the window.
"I know you're sure about this and everything but isn't this weekend a little soon?" Drew asks.
"We have to her insane mother is trying to get her back by Monday morning." I tell him.
"Okay so why the worried face then? I doubt you're worried about pounding the snot out of Eli." Drew remarks.
"It's just for all I care we could get married in my living room in jeans and t-shirts and have pizza for dinner because the only thing that matters to me is marrying her. But Clare's a girl and she's had this vision of her perfect wedding since she was a little girl. None of her family is going to be there because they've all gone insane or abandoned her. Most of our friends won't even be there because she's worried about telling people. I mean she has a point we barely even knew each other before this summer and in the course of a few months we became friends, fell in love and started dating and now we're getting married. I get that she doesn't want to announce it but it means most of our friends won't even know. I just wish I could give Clare her perfect wedding instead of this rush job." I sigh keeping my voice low so no one overhears.
"So rush job now and renew your vows in a year and give Hot Legs her perfect wedding then. Her family may not be there still but all of your friends will know by then, I would assume." Drew says also keeping his voice low.
"Dude you're brilliant," I smile playfully slapping him on the back.
I love Drew's idea but of course I'm still going to try and make this wedding as perfect for Clare as I can.
"You mind telling that to my mom?" Drew teases.
I start to laugh and then see Eli, he's at his locker so we stalk up to him, he turns when he sees our shadows and smirks at me. I grab him by the collar and slam him into the bank of lockers as hard as I can.
"YOU STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM CLARE! YOU EVER PULL A STUNT LIKE YOU DID YESTERDAY AND I WILL RIP OUT YOUR TONGUE! CLARE IS MY GIRL SHE LOVES ME!" I yell in his face and then drop him.
He's still smirking at me so Drew punches him hard on the side of the jaw, while I punch him hard in the gut.
"Wipe that smirk off your face Eli, Clare doesn't love you anymore, she loves Owen. You hurt her or my brother and we'll both come after you." Drew warns him.
"Get this through your thick skull, Clare is mine and I am so in love with her I will kill to keep her from harm. Just remember that the next time you get the idea to pull a crazy stunt!" I threaten as the bell rings and Drew and I walk away.
Update soon with more wedding planning and more crazy Eli and Alli