Chapter 8
Eli and Clare Fan fiction
I'm sitting in Eli's hearse, I seemed to be sitting in here a lot lately, and Eli also seemed to be saving me from my parents too. Now I'm going to go live with Eli back in Toronto, eventually. I just hope things don't go too far, because if I break my promise to god, then I'm going to hell.
"Eli my dads not chasing us, I said as we crossed the Ottawa border, "yes I know Clare but your safety is all that matters" he said, in a hesitant tone, "well if you really love me than you will slow down" I said jokingly, he slowed down to under the speed limit. I suddenly remembered, I glanced at the clock, it was almost 6 A.M "Eli we have school in an hour" I said remembering I didn't have my stuff, not even a change of clothes, "Its ok Clare when we got out of Toronto you fell asleep, and I called my dad, and explained everything, he said he would call Simpson and tell him that you fell and scraped up your heel and your parents were on vacation and your staying with us, he told him you will be back in a week, and apparently I have mono, he also called the Bhandari's, and the police." he said, "Eli what happened to your shoulder, I said realizing the bulge in his sleeve, and the cuts on his hand, "you had really good locks on your door", he said doing his heart warming smirk.
So where are we going exactly?" I said trying to figure out where we were. "Maybe a restaurant or a hotel" he said, turning on the radio, "oh great were supposed to be getting thunder storms" I said listening to the weather man, "great I love the rain!" Eli said in an exited tone. "Why Clare you don't like them?" he said realizing my pause, "no they just freak me out" I said remembering all the times I hid in my closet when if was little. "Don't worry Clare bear I will protect you" he said placing his arm around my shoulder, while pulling into a sonic.
Once again Eli is being the perfect gentlemen by opening my door for me, I barley even stepped out of the car before he kissed me so passionately, in front of the restaurant window, "and what was that for?" I said trying to catch my breath, "well I couldn't kiss you AND drive" he said putting his arm around me once again and pulling me into the restaurant. "Eli at this rate you are going to catch mono" I said, as we entered sonic, "let me worry about that, and go find a table" he said pecking me on the lips and walking towards the cashier counter.
I found a quiet table for two away from all the screaming kids. Suddenly my phone rang, "hello?" I said not even looking at the number, "Clare it's your mom" she said in a worried tone, "MOM!" I practically screamed, causing heads to turn; now I'm the screaming kid. "Mom where are you?" I said in a quieter tone as Eli came around the corner with our breakfast, "Clare I'm at a friends house in Montréal" she said, her tone still worried, "where are you Clare, are you ok?" she said, "yes I'm with Eli in Ottawa, um- I think he wants to talk to you" I said as Eli gestured for the phone, "Hello Mrs. Edwards, Me and Clare are in Ottawa, their was an incident with Mr. Edwards and her heel is badly scraped, and her cheek has a slight bruise, but she's ok" he said gritting his teeth and grasping the cheap plastic table. "Yes I will drive her up their tomorrow, thank you, bye mrs. Edwards" he said snapping the phone shut and handing it to me, "so are you and my mom bff's?" if said sipping my coffee, "totally" he said taking two sausage links, "But we are going to go to Montréal to meet her tomorrow", he said biting the sausage, "but for tonight I booked a room at the Holiday Inn Express". Oh boy.
As we got done Eli threw away our trays and got into morty. The rain started and I could hear rumbles of thunder in the background, Eli grabbed my hand as we drove off towards the Hotel, "its ok Clare I got you" he said pulling on to the highway. As the rumbles of thunder got louder and the lighting started every few minutes, I grasped his hand tighter. The radio said their was a bad tornado in Québec city and we are getting the thunder, lightning, rain and the winds. "Clare it will be ok, were not getting the funnel cloud part, just every thing else" he said while the rain started down-pouring, by this time I think I might break Eli's poor hand, it already is all cut up. "Here Clare" he said letting go of my hand, well at least trying too, he eventually pulled away and grabbed my shoulder with his arm, like a hug except one hand. As we pulled into the holiday inn the rain was so hard you could barley see trough it, your better off going under Niagara Falls, Eli got out first and ran to the passenger door and helped me run to the main foyer.
As we got inside he went to the check in desk and got our room key, "come on Clare I made sure we were on the bottom floor just in case" he said grabbing my hand and walking me to our room. The minute we got inside he kicked the door shut and kissed me, until a rumble of thunder made the room shake, he grabbed me tighter as I started crying into his blazer "shhhh its ok Clare" he said, but then a huge bolt of lighting hit the transformer outside the hotel, we heard and ear-drum smashing bang and the whole room lit up orange, something flew off the roof and made our window smash, me and Eli both fell to the floor.
When the room was dark and the thunder was just getting louder and louder and the lighting was like strobe lights, "Eli-" I tried to say but the tears were hard to talk trough, "I'm scared" I said Finally getting the words out, I have never been more scared, I felt like I was in a horror movie, then suddenly we heard a knock on the door, "Clare let me see your phone" he said looking at me when the lightning lit up the room, I patted down all my pockets until I found it, "here" I said, the tears stopped but I was still scared, Eli got up and used the phone for light, to answer the door. A tall man in a red jacket asked if we were ok, I thought the storm was over and he was checking on us, oh was I wrong.
"Their is a record breaking tornado headed towards the area all guest must get into the hall way, he said shining his flash light on both of us, Eli got up and grabbed me by the waist, "Clare its ok, I will never let anything happen to you" he said while I cried harder into his already-wet blazer, a tornado was coming, record breaking, and Eli didn't seem scared at all.
Me and Eli were both sitting against the wall, his arms held me in a sitting hug, while we both listened to the kids cry when their parents told them what was happening, I seriously think the kids were calmer than me. "Clare this is the safest place in the hotel, were fine" he said kissing me lightly on the lips. "Ok everybody stay calm but the tornado is headed this way, it's about 15 minutes away" the man in the jacket said, "storm teams are following it, I assure you, everything will be ok." he said, walking around asking if the guest wanted refunds.
As soon as I felt safe in Eli's arms, him lightly humming a song from Paramore, I almost fell asleep until we heard a huge rip, the roof came off, "every thing is ok, the roof has been partially torn off, as it sounds," the man in the jacket said, he came over to Eli, "sir, do you need a blanket for your wife?" the man asked, "yeah sure" Eli said quietly laughing, I loved the way that sounds, Eli, as my husband.
Again Eli was humming a different song, I was warm under the fleece blanket and Eli's arms, "Eli" I said still leaning on his chest, "Eli doesn't that man know where only 17?" I asked in a sleepy voice, "well I don't know Clare-" he was saying but before he could finish the sentence, the window broke, part of the window pane had hit my arm but not hard enough to leave a cut, "Eli I'm scared" I said burrowing my whole face into his chest, "me too, Edwards me too" he said kissing the top of my head, "Clare I lov-" he tried to say before the other window at the other end of the hall broke, "EVERY BODY FOLLOW A EMPLOYE WITH A FLASHLIGHT" the man shouted over the winds howling through the holes where the windows used to be, before I know it I couldn't find Eli, "CLARE!" I heard his voice shout, louder than I've every heard, not even this loud when I was losing too much blood. "ELI!" I screamed back but I couldn't see, their was to many people running the same way, the wind was howling through the holes in the wall.
I was just trying to find Eli, and soon enough I did, he had taken a flash light from the employee, "Clare!" he said grasping me, "Clare I don't know what's going to happen the funnel cloud is headed towards us, if any thing happens, I love you."