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For the whole day Eli realized he couldn't think, speak, or even write without it being about Clare. Later on in the day he sat on the steps with Adam rocking back and forth waiting for Bullfrog to pick them up.

"Are you ok?" Adam then asked after what seemed like hours of silence.

"My leg hurts." Eli answered with hostility behind his words.

"Yea…ok." Adam rolled his eyes. Not a moment later Bullfrog pulled up in a pickup truck.

"Sorry I'm late boys!" Bullfrog yelled from the car.

"Well it's about time." Eli answered as he opened the passenger door to the truck.

"What's your problem kid?" Bullfrog asked taken back by his attitude.

"He's got girl problems as usual." Adam answered with a laugh, while climbing in the backseat of the truck behind Eli.

"Shut up Adam!" Eli answered as his eyes told him not to talk too much.

"What did your shrink say about Clare?" Bullfrog questioned. When he didn't get a he looked over at Eli staring out of the window. "Eli…"

"Bullfrog!" Eli said in a loud voice clenching his teeth. "Can we just not talk about Clare or therapist for one day?" He then said lowering his voice.

"I'm sorry." Bullfrog said putting the truck in gear to drive off. "But…" he then said but was cut off by Eli.

"But what? I'm tired of everyone treating me like I'm crazy." Eli answered.

"I'm not trying to. I just want to make sure you're alright." Bullfrog then answered as Eli looked over at him. "I know you are hurting, and I know things will be alright. I just don't know if you know that."

Eli sighed seeing the genuine worry in Bullfrog's face. The car fell completely silent, and Eli's thoughts had seemed to become obsessive, confused, scrambled, and scary all at once. The only consistency Eli could think of was Clare.

(CLARE P.O.V)

Clare was washing the dishes in the kitchen while her mom and Alli chatted away about a number of things. Clare wasn't paying attention though, she was deep in thought about what she would do, or say when she finally saw Eli again.

"Clare honey." Ms. Edwards said noticing her daughter's silence.

"Yes?" Clare answered as she quickly turned around forgetting she was holding a very expensive bowl. The next thing she knew the bowl was falling to the floor, and then shattering in to what seemed to her a million pieces.

"Are you ok?" Ms. Edwards asked quickly retrieving the broken pieces of the bowl on the floor. Clare stood there in shock for a second still startled "Clare?"

"I-I'm so sorry mom." Clare then answered dropping down quickly to help pick up the broken pieces.

"It's ok Clare." Ms. Edwards answered then looked at Clare's frantically picking up the pieces. "Calm down. I'll go get a broom." She then said holding Clare's hands. Once assured Clare had calmed down she left the room.

Clare sighed and looked up at a shocked Alli.

"Wow. Are you ok?" Alli then asked.

"I'm fine. I just have a lot on my mind." Clare explained.

"Like what?" Alli asked with a smirk "Eli?"

"I don't know what to do now that he's back." Clare then answered.

"How about keep living your life….normally." Alli answered.

"I feel like I'm not living at all when I'm without him." Clare answered as Alli looked at her strangely not know what to say. Luckily at that moment Ms. Edwards entered back into the room.

Clare meditated on what she had just said to Alli, and she knew she needed to talk to him.

(ELI P.O.V)

Eli sat on the back steps of his house. Tonight just like every night he couldn't sleep.

"Why so glum Chum?" A familiar sarcastic voice startled Eli as he looked to the right of him he nearly jumped out of his skin.

"What are you doing here?" He asked nearly in tears "I thought…"

"You thought what? That you had gotten rid of me forever? As long as you still love me I'll be here."

Eli closed his eyes and raised his hands to cover his ears "You're not real, you're not real." He then opened his eyes and looked at the very person he last wanted to see.

"Julia, don't do this to me again." Eli found himself saying followed by a sob.

"You are doing this to yourself." Julia then said taking a puff of a cigarette. "You know Clare is never coming back. Not as long as I'm here."

"Stop it!" Eli yelled.

"Eli!" he heard somebody yell behind him. He turned around and saw that it was just Adam.
Suddenly he felt his knees give out, and fell to the ground. Adam ran over in a panic.

"Eli, are you ok? What's wrong?" Adam questioned trying to help Eli up.

"Stop it! Leave me alone!" Eli yelled as Adam fell back onto the ground in shock.

Adam noticed Eli's hands shaking nonstop, and his face wet from tears. Trying not to freak out, and start running for help Adam got up off the ground, and looked back at Eli who appeared to have started crying again.

"It's ok." Adam said quietly reaching his hand back out to help Eli off the ground. Eli looked up at Adam's concerned face and let him help him off of the ground.

Adam then led Eli back into the house, and up to his room.

"Everything looks better in the morning." Adam then said as Eli sat on his bed look at his best friend.

"Thank you." Eli answered hoarsely.

Adam nodded sleepily and laid back on the futon. "Goodnight."

Eli laid back in the bed in the dark, and used his arm to wipe off his face. He closed his took a deep breath.

"Goodnight."

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