Annabelle took a deep breath before opening the door and walking in to confront her aunt about Eli.

"I'm home!" She shouted announcing her arrival.

"In the kitchen!" Elizabeth and Christopher screamed back at her.

Annabelle exhaled loudly once more and then step into the kitchen. "We need to talk."

Elizabeth and Christopher patiently waited for her to continue her thought.

"Now before I tell you this I want you to promise to not freak out." She cleared her throat.

"Please tell me you're not pregnant." Elizabeth said anxiously.

"NO! Nothing that serious." She paused and took in a deep breath. "I'm sort of friend's with Elijah Goldsworthy."

Their faces didn't change for what felt like twenty. Annabelle waited for them to say something and nothing left their lips. Elizabeth sat down on the stool next to the counter and broke eye contact with Christopher.

"You need to stay away from him Annabelle." Elizabeth finally spoke.

"What? Why?" Annabelle said with a panic tone.

"I refuse to have to bury another daughter!" Elizabeth shouted at her.

"Well you don't have to worry about that because I'm not your daughter!" Annabelle screamed back at her.

"You might as well be. We love you Annabelle and we don't want you around him." Christopher said calmly.

"Why? Eli didn't kill Julia. Julia killed Julia. Eli didn't force her to get on that bike that night, she got on willingly." Annabelle turned to leave the kitchen and ran up the stairs to her room. How was she going to tell Adam that she couldn't even associate with his best friend or Clare, what about Clare? Clare is Eli's girlfriend for goodness sake how can she be friends with her and not Eli?

She threw herself on her bed with frustration. She loved her aunt and uncle dearly, but this is one decision that she didn't agree with. She was going to be Eli's friend and eventually they would understand or she at least she hoped they did. Annabelle needed to talk to Adam about the talk so she picked up her cell and quickly dialed his number.

"Hey." He said quietly on the other end of the phone.

"Well I talked to them." She said in response to his greeting.

"That doesn't sound so good." Adam said honestly.

"They don't want me to be his friend Adam." She was sad. How could everything so good get bad again.

"Well, what are you going to do?" He asked her curiously.

"I'm obviously not going to listen. I mean come on I can't be Clare's friend and not Eli's." She said quietly into the phone.

"That's true but you know if you get caught it'll be bad." He warned her.

"I won't get caught." She said sarcastically.

"If you say so." He said with a laugh.

"Well I better apologize to them before I'm not allowed to see you either." She said truthfully.

"Okay. See you tomorrow." He said happily.

"Bye Adam." She said as she closed her phone slowly. She didn't want to apologize to them because she felt like she didn't do anything wrong. She had to swallow her pride and just apologize to smooth things over. She jumped up from her head and walked down the stairs. She waved at her aunt in the kitchen.

"Look, I'm sorry." She said quietly to her aunt.

"We're just looking out for you Annabelle." She said with a sincere tone.

"I know. I'll let him know tomorrow that we can't be friends." She bit her lip knowing that she was lying to her aunt.

"Thank you sweetie." Her aunt pulled her into a tight hug.

Annabelle knew she was going to continue to be friends with Eli. She had no right to judge him for anything he'd done in the past. Annabelle ran up the stairs and sat down on her bed. The only thing she had to make sure of was that her aunt and uncle NEVER find out about her friendship with Eli. Easy enough right?

A/N: Just remember to review(: I really didn't get any reviews on this one resulting in the lack of update. I forget to update without reviews.