Here is the new chapter I hope you like it :) sorry for not upload sooner but I was pretty much buried in homework, and RRsabi yeah I made a time jump sorry for the confusion :P, and well thanks to anyone who takes time to read and even more to review 3
"You´re really different for us" Cece said with a sense of admiration in her voice
"What do you mean?" Clare asked with curiosity.
"Nothing bad if that´s what you think, is just that I´m kind of proud of you, and I´m not even your mother""Well you´re like one, but I´m pretty sure you already know that, and you´re saying this just to hear it again"
"And you´re also smart. I don´t know Clare when the boy that takes you away from us comes, I´ll have to make him a full interrogation, or maybe I can just marry you, with" She made a short pause when she heard the sound of a key getting into her door "My boy is here" and as she said that Clare hided next to the door and made a sing to Helen to keep quiet.
"Hi mom" The boy said as he let his bag on the floor, then he felt the weight of someone coming on his back. He lost the balance and let the person that was on his back felt "What the hell" he screamed as he saw his friend laying in the floor with a notorious pain expression.
"Go help her" his mother commanded while Clare was still on the floor like getting her balance again before trying to get up.
"Don´t worry, I´m fine"
"Heard that she said she´s fine" and with that Eli walk away from the scene to sit on his couch and turn on the TV.
"And I give birth to a jackass" Cece said for herself but at the same time louder enough so everyone that was in the room could hear her "Come sweetie, I´ll help you" she said giving a hand to Clare
"Thanks" When finally, she was standing on her two feet again she went towards Eli, blocking his vision from the TV "What a gentleman you are, sucker" and after that she gave him a little kick on the shinbone, as he was very busy complaining about the pain she walked next to Cece "I´m going home. I have a lot of homework'" Cece nodded "And thanks for the meal" she finished as she closed the door.
"So...what the hell was that"
"I know she can really kick" he complained still rubbing his shinbone
"Oh, no that" and she pointed his shinbone "was just a girl being intelligent, I´m talking about your attitude when Clare fell"
"Mom it wasn´t my fault Clare came out of nowhere"
"Eli, I´ve noticed that you´re weird lately, are you feeling uncomfortable with Clare, are the two of you growing apart" she sounded sincerely concerned
"God, no mom, is not like that, I mean sure I have my things she has hers, but it´s Clare ok. We will never be grown apart. It was just..."
"You being a jackass"
"I guess you can say that"
"Ok then say sorry later"
Clare was at her table with books all around her and her headphones on, so she was shocked when the figure of her mother crying appeared in front of her.
"Mom, what´s wrong" she asked as she took of the headphones.
"Clare" she responded with surprise "I thought that you were at Cece´s place, what are you doing here"
"Cleary I´m not at Cece´s and could you tell me why are you crying" at this point Clare was really worried because it wouldn´t be a lie if she told you that never in her almost 13 years of life, she had ever seen her mother sobbing like this.
"Nothing, is not of your concern so please go back to your studies, and I´ll be on my room don´t disturb me, ok?" by now, she was most composed.
"But mom" she couldn´t finish her sentence because her mother gave her a glance that made her shout her mouth.
Clare stayed there, but she couldn´t bring herself to concentrate in her books anymore, why was her mother like this, was a question that kept on her mind, she was thinking of any possibility until she heard someone knock her door, and found Eli on the hall.
"Hi" he said in a low voice almost shy
"Hello" she tried to sound cool, like he was a total stranger and she was saying Hello politely
"Clare" he looked right in her eyes with some anxiety for the way she greet him "Please"
"What I´m not doing anything" her cool tone stayed
"Sure"
"Look what do you want, I have like tons of homework and ... "
"Did something happen" he questioned her
"Besides you knocking me out" she stated ironically
"Yes besides that, you´re doing that thing with your nails" Eli pointed out as she was moving her fingers into each others touching the nails, Clare looked down at her hands and put them in her pockets
"Can we talk in other place" Clare asked letting her guard down
"Sure, I live next door in case you didn´t know" Eli joke trying to light the mood
"Very funny, but for other place, I mean no Cece and no Mom"
"Oh"
"Let´s go" and with that she closed her door and took Eli´s hand, he smiled and begin to follow her, they walked a few streets and finally were at the park, she let go of his hand and took sit at a bench
"So, what happened" Eli sounded serious but with tenderness
"You first, what was that at your home" she asked avoiding his eyes
"It´s not fair we come here because.."
"Because"
"Clare is not like I hit you on propuse, and we used to you know hit each other"
"Playing" she practically yelled
"Yeah, I know, but I don´t understand why everyone is macking a big deal out of it" he said honestly
"Eli, it wasn´t me lying on the floor it was your exprecion, like if you didn´t care about me... and it´s not the first time, the other day when you were walking with your friends and you saw me I was practically jumping but you just passed by me a said -hey-"
"That" by then he feleed ashamed, but how could explain his reasons, he simply couldn´t bacuse to do it he needed to say other things and if he was sure of something was his desire to of not letting Clare know the "other things"
"Yeah, it felt really weird you treat like if I was some annoying classmate" she sounded hurt "And today... do it bother you"
"What"
"Me being in your house"
"No, how could it bother me... I just, I was with my friends and it was weird, thats all
"And I guess I´ll have to believe you from now... but please if something is happening I want you to tell me, I mean it´s us, how could something between us be weird"
Eli didn´t say anything just nodded, then they stand there watching each other for a while until they finally smiled.
"We´re good then"
"Uhm ... oh yeah"
"What are you looking" Eli asked her because she was clearly spacing out "The jungle gym" Eli said after he saw where Clare was looking at
"Just earlier I saw a picture of us on that"
"Well, Cece has a lot of pictures of us in everywhere"
"Yeah, but let me tell you, I give you, your first kiss on that" Clare was saying this playfully and a little cocky, Eli´s cheeks turned red "What, did I put you nervous"
"Annoying" he managed to say
"Who" and Eli get up from the bench "Come here" she yelled and then follow him
"You´re a pain in the ass sometimes, you know that" Eli said as he grabbed Clare´s wrist
"I make you nervous" she was singing her sentence just to bother him a little more
And then they were in a wrist grabbing fight laughing and practically forgot everything, moments later they started to talk while eating an ice cream
"Now can you tell what why were you all sad in your home" she didn´t say anything and kept walking "Or maybe you were just faking so you could bring me outside, because I´m so irresistible" Clare hit his arm a let go a little smile
"It´s my mom" her voice was low and she held her head down
"Helen, what´s with her"
"She come home crying and looking like really messed up"
"You´re mother, crying" Eli was as shock as Clare when she saw her
"I know, it´s weird right"
"I´ve never seen your mother cry, so just trying to picture it is weird enough"
"Try seeing it..." Eli nodded "And when I tried to ask her what was wrong, she was like angry at me for even be there, that´s why I didn´t want to tell you at your home, if Cece hear me she could run to ask her what´s the matter"
"Or maybe she knows, you know our moms know everything about each other"
"And if she doesn´t and Cece star the interrogation she would be just angrier"
"And you have a point there, so what are we doing"
"We" she asked with a smile
"Hey it´s Helen I like her too"
"No, you love her, is just that you´re to shy to admit it"
"Shut up, and let´s go home, I´m hungry"
"Hungry, Eli you just eat a double ice cream, pig" Clare say with an horrified face
Clare and were coming back from their afternoon at the park and when they were already in their hall they saw a very angry Helen outside Eli´s door and talking with an expressionless Cece
"Mom, what happened" Clare said
"You go home now" Helen said to her in a command form
"But"
"Home I said"