AN: This chapter is not that great. I don't think I really captured the emotion of the song, but I think it's because I've never lived the situation. I don't know if I'll update again this weekend. It's my brother & my mom's birthday but we'll see if I get inspired. :)
This chapter is based off the song down to earth by justin Bieber. blah blah blah i don't own the song blah blah or the characters.
Clare and Eli were at their usual picnic table at the park editing papers for English class. The assignment was to write a letter. Clare chose to write her letter to her dad. After all the fighting between her parents and the divorce her father had moved out. His house was in the neighboring town and she hardly ever saw him anymore. Even though he had cheated on her mom, he was still her dad, and she really missed hanging out with him.
Eli sat across the table from her reading her letter. Ms. Dawes wanted her writing to be more personal; you couldn't get more personal than this letter. To be honest she was nervous watching Eli read it. He knew a little bit about the situation, but she had added more details in her letter and she didn't know how he would react to that. He was taking his time reading causing her to become more nervous, and thinking about the contents of her letter caused tears to slowly begin to fall from her eyes. She tried to wipe them away before Eli could look up and see her crying.
Dear dad,
I never would've thought you and mom would get a divorce. I knew once it was happening that it wouldn't be easy, but I didn't think it would be this hard. We used to be so close and now we hardly ever see each other. I feel like since you've moved out you've moved on so fast and left me behind; like there's no room in your life for me anymore so you've forgotten me all together.
I know I wanted to stay in the house to have one thing stay normal in my life, but now that you're gone even the house isn't normal. It always seems so empty without you, and mom isn't around as much anymore either. I hope you know you left a huge hole in this family that I don't think will ever be filled.
I don't know if you will ever fully understand the effect this divorce has had on my life. Everything I've ever believed in has been questioned. I don't know if I should believe anything you've ever told me because it's obvious you were lying. I spend every night crying myself to sleep because the house is so quiet. At least when you were fighting I still had a family. I still had hope that things could get better. I can't believe you would do that to mom, to our family. Did your years together mean nothing? I just want things to go back to normal.
I still don't see how this divorce can be for the best, but maybe with the help of time things can get better for us. You and mom might have given up, but I'm still willing to try. Life is so different now. We're so far from the happy family we used to be. I wish we all could just start over again.
~Clare
Eli finished reading Clare's letter, and took a deep breath before lowering the paper and looking at Clare. Clare was clearly trying to hide her face from Eli. He knew that writing this letter had to be hard for her and having Eli read her thoughts didn't help. She was definitely crying. He got up from the side of the table he was sitting on and walked around to sit next to Clare.
"Hey." Clare turned to look at him, her eyes red from crying and her face still wet as tears were still coming down her cheeks. Eli opened his arms. "Come here." Clare buried her face in his chest and let everything out. "Shhhhh." Eli rubbed Clare's arm trying to make her feel better.
Clare giggled a little bit. "I'm totally ruining your shirt right now."
Eli smirked and let out a chuckle with her. "Don't worry about it Blue Eyes." They sat there for a few more minutes as more tears came from Clare's eyes. Clare finally pulled away from the hug sitting up on the bench of the picnic table. "All better?" Eli wiped her eyes with his thumbs.
"For now." Clare nodded. "So…What did you think of my letter?" She asked him hesitantly.
"It's perfect." He smiled down at her as she smiled up at him.