Sorry guys! I know I haven't written a lot in my chapters and posted very frequently as I usually do. I've have writers block for a while and ideas don't come to me as much as they normally do. I'ma try hard to make this third chapter good for y'all and write more often! Okay, Okay, That's enough talking, Story time! Please comment how you feel! :)

Chapter 3: Take a Breath, Take a Chance.

The next day at about noon I laid in bed for a while, not sure if I should go back to sleep or get up. I was startled when I heard my phone ring. I answered it with a yawn,

"This is Clare, How may I help you?" I half-joked sleepily.

"Clare!" Eli cheered, sounding sincerely happy.

"Eli!" I mocked. Eli chuckled at me and began,

"Do you want to…go somewhere? Anywhere, like out to eat, or the park, or something? I want to do something!" Eli said this to me cheerfully, and he seemed to have a huge smile on his face.

"Sure, Can we get some … uhh, like breakfast or something? I'm starving!"

"Yeah! When do you want me to pick you up?"

"I dunno…like thirty minutes or so?" I mumbled.

"Sure thing!" Eli said. "See ya then!" And he hung up.

I got off my bed and stumbled off to the bathroom. I walked in and turned on the sink, rinsed my face off, dried it, brushed my teeth, hair, and blah blah blah. I went back to my bed room and picked out my black dress with flowers, the one I wore during me and Eli's first kiss. I walked to the bathroom again and put on some makeup, shaped my hair and walked out. I got some water –using a plastic cup this time, ha-ha!—and quickly chugged it. I walked over to the door and stood there for a moment. Why was Eli so cheery? It's like he say the light or something! I felt a chill go through me and rubbed away the Goosebumps on my arm. The door bell rang and I turned around, opening it. Eli jumped up when he saw me.

"Geeze!" He joked, "Scared me there!" I laughed and gestured toward his car.

"Village Inn?" Eli asked, as to where we would go, but I was still half asleep so I didn't really get it.

"What?" I asked, totally out of it. "Oh, heheh, yea, sure." Eli laughed at my stupidity and walked towards the hearse. He opened the passenger side and waited for me to crawl in, and then shut the door. I smiled at him through the window and looked down. Eli walked around the car to the other side. I trailed my eyes from the floor of the hearse to the cup holders by the key-ignition. Right before the cup holders was a huge book turned upside down, it had a book mark sticking out of the top. I picked up the book and flipped it over it said, 'HOLY BIBLE' on it. Aww, Eli has been reading the bible. I looked at where the book mark was. He was more than half way through reading it. Geeze, someone's a fast reader. I heard a slam and turned around seeing that Eli was putting something in the trunk of Morty. I looked down at the bible and opened it up, seeing where he was at. I jumped up when I heard the car door unlock and start opening. I quickly dropped the book down and smiled at Eli who was sitting down in the driver's seat.

Eli looked at me and I spread a smile on my face. "So you read the Bible!"

"Is…reading the bible. I'm not exactly...done." Eli said.

"Eli, The bible isn't a fairytale book you read and forget about. It's about God." I said.

"I know, I just . . . . . . . How . . . do we know . . . that there is . . . a God?" Eli asked me, confused.

"We just, Well, Let's see. If there wasn't God, How would we be here? Where would the world come from?"

"Well…I don't know, I always though we were just, y'know, here!" Eli exclaimed.

"Well, Yeah. That's what most nonbelievers think. And that's pretty much it. But how would we be here. I mean, the universe didn't just pop up billions of years ago and people came out of trees!"

"I guess so-."

"And . . . We can feel God. Without God there would be no consequences."

"That's true, I guess." Eli started the car while saying this and drove.

"Eli, I'm glad you want to learn about God. Really glad. But it takes more than a day of reading and church to turn you into a Christian." Eli nodded and looked at me with a smile.

"I want to know about God."

"That's good, Eli, That's really good." Eli smiled wide and chuckled. Finally we arrived at the restaurant. I sat there, not noticing anything, picking at a cracked fingernail; I heard the door open and I jumped. Eli held out his hand to me. I looked at the driver's seat and saw the crease of Eli's body still in the seat. I hadn't even noticed he got out of the car. I looked back up at Eli, smiled, and grabbed his hand. I got out of the car and Eli started walking beside me. I stopped and looked at some flowers, still thinking about a Christian-Eli when Eli grabbed my hand. I looked up at him and smiled, squeezing his hand for a second and then releasing the pressure. We walked inside, hand-in-hand not saying a word. I yawned and rested my head on his shoulder. I felt him giggle a tiny bit then say, "Still tired from this morning, Eh?"

I yawned once more and said, "Yup."

"Well wake up! You can't fall asleep in your food!" Eli joked. I laughed and we picked out a table.

We sat down and started small-talking; a waitress came up and asked for our drinks.

"I'll have a . . . Dr. Pepper." Eli ordered and the lady scribbled it down.

"I'll just have a….iced tea, uhh, please." I smiled at the waitress. "Unsweetened or Sweetened?"

"Sweet…please."

"Sure." The waitress said and walked away.

"Dr. Pepper in the morning, Eli? You rebel." I joked.

"Hey, hey, hey. It's already like 12:30. Not really morning anymore, wake up!" I laughed and said, "That's what happens when you wake in Edward up too early on the weekend!"

"Well sorry, you'll have to warn me next time." We both laughed and I asked to be excused.

"I'll be right back." I smiled.

"Well, alright." Eli said.

I walked over to the bathroom and went in.

TO BE CONTINUED!

Haha, sorry but that's enough for tonight. It's already like 3 pages on Microsoft Word and I don't want this Chapter too long. Enjoy this little/big/whatever snippet of their date and the rest shall be out soon!