"Don't walk away—Dammit don't Clare!" he pleaded with me. Closing the door I was trying to open.

"Stop Eli, you want me or you don't, tell me right now you love me and I'll stay.. I'll stay." I trailed off. Please say it. You always loved me.. right?

"Yes. Stay. Come inside.. I do—I do love you I always will, always have. Stay with me. Be mine forever Clare.. Please, I—I can't function—without you in my life. You feel this—" he pulled my cold shaky hand up to his bare chest to feel the rapid pounding of his heart—"Feel that? My heart beats for you, you keep me going.. I love you. God I love you so much."

He pulled me flush against his chest, and with those words, every tear and sob meant nothing. Because he loved me. Julia could rest now, Eli would be happy again. I would be happy again.

As we embraced I could hear the faint playing of 'the notebook' in the back ground. "if you're a bird, I'm a bird.".. if you're a bird I am one.

"You never have to feel that way again Baby." I whispered as my grip tightened around his torso.

"Don't leave me ever again Jules, God I love you."

Julia.

Jules.

He thought I was Julia.

It was so wrong deep down that I didn't care. Because even if he loved me as Julia.. at least it was at all.