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Chapter Four

She walked into English and sat down in her usual seat. Right as the bell rang Eli walked into the room and sat down behind Clare. He leaned forward, "Hello, partner."

"Hi." She whispered back.

And just as he was about to ask her something their English teacher, Ms. Angelo, walked into the room, "Good morning, kids. Today we will be starting our first partner essay, so sit with your partners and I'll hand out your paper and topic."

Clare turned around in her seat with her pencil in hand and she couldn't help but feel nervous. What if he didn't believe her aspirin story and was going to ask her why she was really at the pharmacy?

She gulped and bit her lip as the teacher set their paper and topic down on Eli's desk.

She waited for Eli to finish reading the topic and when he did he handed it to her. She took it from his hands and started reading in her head.

Your topic is to write about something in your life that brought you pain and affected you in a bad way. You must elaborate with your partner and write two pages on it. When finished you will edit each other's work and pass it in on your due date.

Due Date: Friday

She let out a shaky breath and clenched her pencil in her hand. The only topic that flooded her mind was the rape and it made her remember. She didn't want to remember.

"Clare? Are you okay?" Eli's voice rang in her ears and she looked over at him.

"Y-yeah… I just." Her voice cracked as she swallowed back her tears, "I'm n-not feeling too well." She did her best to get up as the tears started running down her cheeks and before she took even one step, Eli got up and grabbed her when she started to sway to the side.

"Clare, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, n-nothing…" She tried pull herself from his grasp, but as soon as she did her sight went black.

Her eyes opened groggily and looked at her surroundings. She realized she was in the nurses office and sat up and just about jumped out of her skin when she saw Eli sitting next to the cot she was laying on.

"Hey." She couldn't quite hear him, since he was barely whispering.

"Why am I here, what happened?"

"You fainted in class so I carried you here."

"Oh…" She didn't know what else to say.

"What happened in class, Clare?"

"Nothing… I just-" Her breathing became slightly ragged as she started to feel tears surfacing again.

"Clare?"

"Just stop! Stop talking about it, okay?" She regretted the words that sounded so harsh coming from her mouth. She looked over at him and sighed in despair. He looked slightly hurt and taken aback, "Look, I'm sorry. It just brought back some; bad memories. I didn't mean to be so me-"

She cut herself off as she felt the bile crawl up her throat and jumped off the cot and rushed from the nurses office and down the hall to the girls bathroom. Footsteps were heard behind her, but she kept running until she reached the restroom and shuffled herself quickly into a stall.

And… she just let it all out. She emptied her stomach as her eyes watered and she coughed and cried and just… let it all out.

She walked out of the bathroom after cleaning herself up, only to collide with a hard chest. Eli.

"Clare, are you, making yourself throw up?" She looked up at him in shock. How could he think so lowly of her? She would never do that to herself, and for some reason she wasn't thinking when she replied.

"No! I'm pregnant, Eli!"

She watched as he almost choked on his own spit and then he looked down at her with his mouth slightly agape and his emerald eyes opened wide, "Wh-what?"

"I'm pregnant. I was raped…"

And she just wanted to smack herself. Why she told him, she didn't know. She just spit it out; an in the moment thing, but she couldn't take it back now.

"Wait… so when you were at the pharmacy… it was for, a pregnancy test?" He mumbled. She could only nod as the tears ran down her face again and she didn't look at him; she didn't want to see the scowl on his face. He probably thinks she's a slut now…

But what he did next surprised her; he hugged her. He pulled her into his chest and wrapped his arms around her waist and squeezed her close. She cautiously wrapped her arms around his neck and buried her face in his chest while she cried.

She had never been comforted by someone she had known for about only three or four days. It was nice that he didn't judge her. It was amazing.

He pulled away from her and stared down at her, "Who did it?" He sounded angry and his lips were pursed. She didn't know how to answer.

"Jake Martin." She whispered, hoping he wouldn't hear, but he did. She watched as his fists clenched at his sides and his nostrils flared.

"My cousin!"

And Clare felt like throwing up again.

"He's y-your cousin?" She asked in astonishment.

"Yeah, he is." He replied bitterly. There was something behind those words. A story and Clare wanted to know it.

But it was going to be a while before she did.

Well… did I shock you & totally blow your mind? Eh? ;) So, yeah, don't forget to review, like I said before we started; seven reviews or else no chapter five! & I'm being serious! So, don't forget (: