Yes, it's probably cliche, and horrible. But I still love Evan, but this as an AU where he freaked out when he learned about the Cahills' existence.
~O~
She loved Evan.
He was sweet and kind and adorkable.
However, sometimes she compared him to someone who was snobbish and rude and richer than her.
Evan was better she convinced herself, Evan would never leave her behind.
But, she forgot that she was a Cahill and Evan wasn't (he, on the other hand, was a Cahill too).
All her fellow Cahills thought that her and Evan made the cutest couple, the bookworm and the computer nerd, they said, a perfect match. Except…
Except Evan wasn't a Cahill.
And only a Cahill can comprehend what Cahill are and do.
So even though she loved Evan, he dumped her for a normal, non-Cahill girl.
For some reason, the boy, well, no, she thought forcefully, Evan was the boy, he's the man. The man that she sometimes compared him to was there for her.
The man was charming and nice and forgivable.
While the Ian had left her behind before, he had come back. Evan didn't.
Ian was a Cahill and a fellow branch leader, so he understood the pressure she was constantly put under. Evan thought that putting up with stupid teachers assigning him homework on something that he knew already was the worst thing that he would ever have to do.
Ian didn't dump her.
Because, Amy realized, it's in the tenses. She loved Evan; she wasn't in love with Evan.
She was in love with Ian.