Breathe by He Is We

P.S.-You may think I'm crazy, but I have done this before and it actually worked (you'll understand later..) xD

Clare's body could almost perfectly outline the large rock that was placed on the soft, warm sands of her favorite beach. Her vacation was slowly coming to an end, making her less than content.

She hadn't been talking much since Eli told her he was leaving, back to his hometown. She didn't want to talk to anyone; it was the worst experience that she had gone through—losing her love due to his sudden decision.

"I'm moving back to my old town." He stated before the silence overwhelmed the two as they sat in his car. Clare's teary eyes looked up at him in shock.

"You're leaving? Just like that?" Eli nodded while Clare felt herself going into hysterics.

"I know that you wanted to talk for a different reason—" Eli couldn't even look at her; the guilt was eating him alive. "But maybe we can still talk about it."

Clare suddenly moved for the handle of the passenger side, and before opening it blue eyes clashed with emeralds, and she said, "I love you." And within a second, she was gone.

Clare couldn't even think about the events that had happened the last time they had a conversation. She faked being sick the rest of the week to make sure that she wouldn't see him ever again.

She no longer believed in love; it was too fragile, too easy to break. Why even try to keep love if it never truly stays?

Her music blasted in her ears, he eyes peacefully closed. The intoxicating smell of the ocean waters was almost tempting to get lost in, but Clare promised herself that nothing was worth losing due to love.

Clare could feel the sand touching her head just the slightest as she tried sliding downwards, farther into the rock. As she lay there, she went into her own beach in her mind; one that was empty, but near a duplicate of the one that she was at. Instead, she was walking to one part of the beach, and almost instantly she began writing a message into the sand, hoping that he would get the message somehow.

She smiled in present time as she looked at the message she wrote in her mind:

Come find me

Clare wanted to keep hope that maybe, one day, Eli would come and find her once again to get her out of her lonely state of life. She needed to see him once again, but she didn't know how she would find him.

A buzz in her pocket made her frown; she forgot to turn off her cell phone. Otherwise she'd still be in her daydreams.

"Hello?" She lazily said, yawning afterwards.

"Hey, Clare." Adam said. "I wanted to hang out with you today. Are you free?"

Clare laughed. "You know, this is the first time that you've asked me to hang out this whole vacation." She shook her head. "I'm at the beach, but I doubt you'd want to come."

"Why not?" Adam defended himself. "I still care about you, Clare. Even when you think I don't."

"I just need a little room to breathe." She lied, and Adam agreed with her.

"Fine," he responded. "We'll catch up after break. See you soon."

Although Clare knew that Adam hung up, she said, "Goodbye, Adam."

Clare laid there effortlessly for several hours, just letting herself become content with being alone. She knew that people were staring at her, just laying there in silence, but she didn't care; she didn't need to feel wanted anymore.

Clare blinked as she felt a flick on her head. What the—? She asked herself before looking up to see Eli's face before hers.

Holding her breath, she stared into the eyes of her first lover; her only lover. It brought back too many memories for her; she brought herself up, sitting on top of the rock.

"What brings you here?" She asked after they spoke with their eyes for a second. She couldn't help but have her tone cold and harsh after all that had happened between them.

Eli sighed. "I felt like I was sent here for some reason." He asked with his eyes to see if he could sit next to her, and she nodded.

"Go on," she said, uninterested.

"Well," he started, a little startled by Clare's voice. "I woke up this morning with one sentence stuck in my mind: Come find me. I had no clue what the hell it meant, but when I talked to Adam today, he explained to me that you had been very distant after… what happened."

Clare was smiling to herself in her mind; her telepathy had worked! She made a reminder to do it again later. She shrugged. "It's been hard." She stated, looking out into the sea. She didn't want to spill out all of her feelings for him.

"Clare, I didn't know that you were going to say what you did." Clare shook her head, angrily laughing at herself. "I didn't think that anyone would love me after Julia, but then you came and I couldn't help but feel—" Eli took a deep breath in, making sure that he wasn't about to break. "I couldn't help but feel ashamed of myself, taking someone's life and then finding myself someone else to love. It's not fair."

She looked him hard in the eyes. "Nothing is fair." She stated. "Eli, you gave my life reasoning, and then once you left, I had nothing to live for." Eli looked down at the sand, guilty. "I still love you, and I know that you've probably moved on, but just know that it will take me a long time before I can forget."

Eli's watery eyes met hers, and he said, "I love you, Clare. I knew that I should've said that to you, but I was such an ass that I didn't know what I was doing to us."

She nodded. "You are an ass." She stated, lightly smiling to him. "And that's why I forgive you deep down, even though I shouldn't."

Eli, partially stunned, looked at her in confusion. "Why would you forgive me after what I did to us?"

She smiled brightly, looking back out into the ocean.

"Because you seem to be the one who lets me breathe."