Eli's POV

I went through most of the school day without seeing Sara. But then once I went into English I had to see Clare, of course. She was sitting at her desk flipping through some paper. Probably one of her vampire romances, like she hasn't written enough of those already.

But as if her Eli senses went off, she turned around as soon as I stepped into the classroom. "Hey, Eli, so you're sure you're doing ok?" She asked me. "Positive." I assured her and sat down. "It's just you seemed really upset when I left the hospital." She said, not giving up. "Yeah, that's a normal reaction when someone breaks up with you," I told her. "But so is healing."

Just then, our teacher came in and it was time to start class. Good, I wasn't in the mood for talking to Clare right now. I'm doing a lot better, really. But everytime she tries talking to me I go back a step. Luckly talking to Sara has brought me back at least five.

When class was over, Clare didn't have a big group of people waiting for her. Just Alli. Now she is just... she just knows how to get on my nerves. When she saw me walking out of she shot me a look that said "I don't even know what she saw in you." I just shot her one back that said, "You're should know by now I don't care what you think." and walked away.

Then, as if by luck, I saw Sara walking out of a classroom. Thank God, someone sane to talk to. And I could find out if she took what her friend said seriously. I casually walked over to her. "Hey," I said to break the ice.

She turned her head. "Oh, hey Eli" She said. She hadn't changed much from yesterday. Still wearing the uniform, her hair still put in a half ponytail, and her makeup was the same. There wasn't much anyway. Just, eyeliner, mascera, probably some lip balm. I like the natural look though.

"How's the Walking Dead working for you so far?" I asked. "Good, I'm about halfway." She answered, the tucked some hair behind her ear. Sometimes when a girl does that too much, it gets annoying. On her, it was cute. She must've did it out of nerves, which was also cute. "Cool, so just tell me whenever you want one of the other books." I told her.

"Oh, thanks. Um do you read anything besides horror stories?" She asked me. "Not really, unless you count comics, but the ones I read are mostly horror too." I explained. "I haven't read a comic book in awhile." Sara admitted. "Why, too childish or something? Not all comics are superheros and cartoon characters you know." I said.

"No...no, it's not that. I just got into some books and stuff." Sara said. "Understandable. That's cool." I told her. Just then, her look gazed off to something behind me. I kinda wanted too turn around to see what she was looking at, but I didn't.

"Am I not amusing you?" I asked her. She then looked back at me. "What? Oh no I just thought I saw something." She said, kind of a lame excuse but whatever. "Well, you can, wander off now if you want." I said.

"You sure?" She asked. "Yeah, you probably have class and stuff." I said. "Yeah I guess I do. But I'll...talk to you later." Sara said and tucked her behind her ear again. She didn't do that as much as last time. "Is that a promise?" I asked. She paused.

"Sure." She finally said with a small smile. "Be sure to keep it." I told her. "I will. Bye." She said an walked off. I turned around to watch her. Some her hair flew back as she walked, and her strut was gentle. I noticed that she walked toward a blonde with a yellow polo and skirt on. It must be the girl Adam was talking about. The blonde said something to her and they walked off. But before they did, the blonde gave me some sort of...look.

Sara's POV

I was having a normal yet nerve-wracking conversation with Eli when I saw Justine over his shoulder. She gave me her "What the hell?" look. Uh-oh, I had to get out of there. But I wanted to keep talking to Eli, even if it was a little awkward. Luckly, he told me it was ok to go so I did, and walked right over to Justine.

"Please tell me you really weren't talking to Eli." Was the first thing she said to me. "Well, I was. But he was the one that came up to me." I explained as I started walking down the hall to my next class. Justine followed me as she said, "So, you got to get rid of him, didn't you listen to a word I said about him yesterday?"

"Yeah I did, and I really don't believe some of it." I told her. "Like what?" She asked. "Like...the whole crashing his hearse thing." I said. "Um, he seriously did that, I'm not lying. Where do you think he got that cast from?" Justine said. Crap, she did have a good point. I did wonder where he got that cast from, but I never connected it with the car crash. I guess I'm just that dumb, but I didn't really believe that he crashed his hearse in the first place.

I sighed. "Come on, Justine. You've been telling me for the past couple of months I've been mopping around. Maybe it's a good thing I'm starting to be friends with Eli." I said to Justine. "Ok, you cannot be serious when you say that! It's not a good thing, at all. If you start being friends with him things will only get worse." Justine said. She was acting like I was trying to become friends with a Hitler instead of some Grade 11 guy that didn't seem all that bad once you saw past the black hair, magic marker colored nails and the love of horror stories.

"Why are you acting like this?" I asked Justine. "I'm just trying to be a good friend." She said. "Well you have a twisted way of showing it." I said to her and walked off.

Sorry this is late, the past couple of days have been busy. But I'm about to start the next chapter, so stay tuned