Welcome To My Messed Up Life

Chapter 13

The Family Dinner

It was now about a week later. Last weekend was a very interesting deal, but this one will be too. Lane was suppose to come over with his little girlfriend. Something didn't feel right. He just didn't seem to excited when talking about her. He didn't tell us her name or anything. Just that he wanted her to meet us.

I sighed and got ready for today. He was coming over in about a hour and Eli would be here any minute. I smiled when thinking about him and got those same butterflies in my stomach. He could always do this to me.

I was surprised when Mom said that he could come over for dinner tonight. She was trying and even Madison had warm up to him. Before long she'll have the baby pictures out too. I just laughed. Shoot, even Lane wanted him over here. That really surprised me right there.

Just then the door bell went off in the living room. I ran down stairs to see if it was Eli, or if Lane was finally early for once. I got to the door and answered it.

"Hey, what's up Eli?" I ask once I saw who it was. He leaned down and gave me a kiss. Right then two little kids came running down the stairs. It was Brianna with Madison following behind her.

"Eli, your here, your here!" Brianna screamed running into his arms. I had to laugh at how she acted sometimes. I smiled finally happy her birthday was over. Nothing against her, but that was the day Benny was found murdered. It still hurts our family.

"Yes I'm here. Why wouldn't I be?" He ask her and Madison finally spoke up for a little bit.

"We thought that Clare had finally decided to run away. She always has. I don't think she will with you though. I think you'll be around for a while." Madison said and I smiled at her. She went up and gave him a hug. "Just don't break her heart or we all will personally hurt you." She said with a death glare. Eli smirked. "I mean it." With that his smirk was swiped off.

"Don't worry I don't plan on breaking her heart." He said and put his arm around my shoulder. I snuggled up to him a little. Madison gave me a happy look. Eli noticed. "Why are you smiling so much?"

"Because, my sister is finally coming back to her normal self. She has a smile on her face. Plus she's letting you touch her. That's not normal. She gets really weirded out when people touch her. With you she doesn't." Madison said and Eli smiled.

"That's cause she looves me!" Eli said with a smirk. I just rolled my eyes but still had a huge smile on my lips. It was moments like these that my life didn't feel so messed up that much. "Besides I'm just that sexy."

"Now that's a matter of opinion." Madison said and I just busted out laughing after the look on Eli's face. It was priceless. I took my phone out and took a picture. "Is that going on Face Range?" Madison ask with a smirk.

"Oh most definitely." I told her and started typing away. The caption read 'Eli's face after getting dissed by my little sister Madison.' Eli gave me a look of begging. "You can't beg your way out of this one."

"Fine I'm gonna have to chase you." With that we were going around the living room with it. "Your not sending that anywhere." He said and I laughed.

"Fine have my phone. Just know that its done been sent and that the picture is locked. Figure out the code and you have the picture." I told him handing the phone off. He sighed and just handed it back. "That's what I thought."

"Eli, you may as well just give up on her with a phone in hands. She's sneaky and I don't know how she does it. Just be careful around her with a phone." Madison said and Brianna started agreeing. Eli went through my pictures on my phone.

"Your real great at taking pictures Clare, but please, leave me out of them." He said and I had to laugh. He wanted all of me. Isn't that what he said?

"No can do Eli. You wanted all of me and that's what your gonna get. I just won't take as many pictures of you, but I'm still gonna take some." I told him and he sighed. He just nodded his head.

"Fine that sounds good to me." He said and I smiled. I went up and kissed him playing with my purity ring like I do when I'm nervous. "What's wrong? I can feel you playing with your ring." He said and I smiled at how well he new me.

"Nothing is wrong, I'm just nervous about tonight. Something doesn't feel right." I told him and he nodded, pulled me in to his arms and just kept me there.

Best moment of my life.

Degrassi

"So Melissa, why don't you tell us about yourself." Mom said as we all gathered around the table eating. It was Mom at one end, in front of her was Madison, the on the left was me, Eli, and Brianna. On Madison's right was Lane then Melissa then an empty chair. It got quiet as I stared her down.

"Well, I love to shop, think cleaning up is a maid's job, and um, don't like people all that much." She said and I just about got up, but Eli kept me down. "Oh and I can't stand little siblings. Thank god I'm an only child. There just trying to steal my attention that I worked so hard for."

"So Lane, what did you do to the skank that you have to stay with her?" I ask him and his head went down. Eli was trying hard not to laugh and Brianna blurted out the first thing that came to her.

"Are you having a baby like that blonde skank Jenna is?" She ask and Lane's eyes got big.

"Not now Brianna." He whispered to her. I just gave him a look.

"So she is? So who's the girl that was in Mom's place. What's her name? Did Melissa tell you that if you didn't dump her you wouldn't ever see your child? Ah history repeats its self again." I told him and he had his head down.

"Blue Eyes you need to sit down and calm down. Let's talk about this like normal people do. I get your angry but please just-" I was still standing up not looking at anyone and angry. He grabbed my hands gently. "Hey look at me." I stared into his dark green eyes and calmed down a little. "Just relax and calm down." I just nodded my head still staring into his eyes. "That's better."

"Look, Clare I know your thinking this is pay back for all those times and your probably right. Just please, can we be civil about all this?" He ask and I just stared hard at him.

"Why? I've given you plenty of chances. I'm going to be honest with you. When you first came down here I thought you would be the brother I've always wanted. So you weren't, but that's because God made you the brother I needed to grow up. He had better things for me and all the crap you put us through is to make me stronger." I told him and he sighed. Eli had his hand intertwined with mine under neath the table. "All of us, stronger."

"Okay, yes, I get that. I'm sorry for everything. I'm sorry because of me you had CPS called on you twice, and that I ignored you all those times, I'm sorry on all of it. You have to understand I also tried with you." He said and I nodded. He did try with me and I was a little blessed. I blew up the idea of a relationship cause of how I was just scared all together.

"I new either you or Taylor would end up in Dad's foot steps." I told him with a smirk and he just rolled his eyes. Eli looked over at me with questioning eyes.

"Who in the world is Taylor?" He ask me and I had to laugh. He didn't know much still, but it was cute that he was trying.

"Taylor is my Dad's littlest and only brother. We thought maybe he would end up like him cause of the girl his was with at the time. I can't stand the girl he's with now." I told him and he laughed.

"You just don't like many people now do you?" He ask me looking in to my eyes and I just shrugged like it was nothing cause it wasn't. "Is it a good thing that I'm liked by you?" He ask me and I laughed.

"Yea, but I've always been a little boy obsessed." I said and just then Lane broke through.

"A little? If I remember correctly I was the one who came to you when you were crying your eyes out on that boy back in eight grade." Lane said with a smirk. I just glared. "You said something about it just being a crush, but I said a crush was love."

"And your still wrong to this day. A crush is when your attracted to someone by their appearance or how they look. Love is when you see deeper beyond there looks and to their soul. I had a crush on him cause of his looks, and I think cause he was popular at the time." I said and Eli laughed. "What's so funny Mister Smirks A Lot?" I ask him and he just smirked at me.

"I can't see you trying to become popular. Its just not you. The girl you show me is one who don't care what people thinks and doesn't have emotions on her face." He said and I just looked at him with a blank expression like always. "Like right now your confused." Everyone looked at him bewilder.

"How did you do that? I can't ever read her face or anything. She leaves me guessing." Mom said and Eli laughed a little. "You have to be the boy for her cause no other guy has been able to do that before. Plus, how long have you been together now?" She ask us.

At the same time we both answered. "Three months." We looked at each other and laughed. Mom smiled and gave me a surprised expression.

"You've lasted this long then that means you really are a keeper. The only other one who lasted that long was K.C and that was because that was her 'first love'." Mom said putting air quotes around first love. I just smiled then Melissa interrupted us.

"Excuse me, but I thought we were here to meet the family not have your sister hogging attention that's clearly yours at the moment." She said. Oh no she just didn't. Eli gave her terrified look.

"You shouldn't have just said that." He said while Lane just nodded his head agreeing with him. I just smirked wondering where to began. I still had a blank expression on my face so she couldn't tell anything.

"What she looks fine to me." She said with a shrug like she didn't really care. I stood up.

"Your in for it now." Brianna said with a huge grin and a laugh. She liked seeing me get angry with people as long as it wasn't certain people. I could tell she didn't really like her though. She had been quiet the entire time.

"Yea, you shouldn't of made her mad." Madison said sitting back in her chair with her arms crossed enjoying the show.

"Its not my fault she wants to be an attention hog and brat." Melissa said staring at everyone with innocent eyes. Oh its on now.

"Hey don't you dare call my girlfriend a brat or an attention hog. Clearly that's you from the way you talk." Eli said and I smiled at him for defending me, but I can fight my own battles.

"So how did she mange to get someone as cute as you? What's she lying about?" She ask and that's when I lost it.

"Don't you dare go accusing me of anything. You know nothing about my life or the stuff I've gone through. Your Mommy and Daddy buy you everything I bet. I bet your a Daddies girl and he buys everything for his little Princess." My Mom cringed at that word. "I'm sorry bout that word Mom." I went back to Melissa. "I bet you get everything handed to you, well sorry to disappoint you honey, but this is the real world now get a reality check and don't tell me what I am and what I'm not." I said and she gave me a scared look once I got done. I just smiled.

"I thought you said they were your normal family. I can't be apart of this family Lane. Once this baby is born you can have him or her. I don't want it anyway. You have about four months left to prepare. Goodbye." She said and left the house. It stayed quiet for a little while til Lane looked at me.

"Thank you Clare. I new I could count on my little sister to help me out." He said and we did a little hand shake. He gave me a hug. "And Eli, after this test, you just passed. You can keep dating my sister." Lane said and we smirked. Then it hit Eli.

"Wait, you had this all planed?" He ask us and we just nodded. "Yea, I'm staying on your good side from now on. You scare me a little when you get angry." He said and I laughed.

"Yea those anger management classes didn't help me that much. I've come a long way though." I said and he smiled and went up to me and kissed me.

"Yea, well, I'll take you the way you are any day. You know where your going with life and that's what I love about you. Your different from other girls cause you know what you want and won't take no for an answer." I smiled and Lane just laughed.

"Thanks again Clare. I owe it to you big time. Anything you want just name it and you got it." He said and I smiled. I liked that idea. I thought about it.

"As long as I can still see my little niece or nephew I'm good. Don't act the way your mom did to our dad. I want a part in that baby's life. I am the Aunt after all." I told him and he nodded.

"Yea can I be in on the little plan you two hatched?" Eli ask and we laughed. Lane explained it since it was his idea.

"You see, I didn't like this girl, but wanted to be in my baby's life. Clare and I had a plan. She only new about the first half of it. I did the second half on my own. I would say bad things about Clare so the girl would call her names and get Clare angry. No one likes her when shes mad. It worked. The second half was to see if you were worthy enough of my sister's love. To see if you would stick up for her without hitting the girl since its not nice for a guy to do. You passed it." Lane said finishing his story. Eli looked shocked.

"You know, the more I get to know your family and see how strange you all are, the more I love it. Even Sandy comes home talking about how much she loves it here. She really loves you Clare." Eli said and I laughed. Lane gave us a confused look.

"Who's Sandy?" He ask and I went into serious mood. Eli just stood there.

"Sandy is my new step daughter. She's Eli's three year old daughter." I said and Lane's mouth shot open.

"Y-y-your s-s-ser-serious?" He ask stuttering a little. I just nodded my head. Mom came in.

"Stop messing with your brother. Lane its not true. Sandy is Eli's eight year old sister. She's Brianna's best friend." She said walking up stairs.

"What can I say I learn from the best." I told him and he just rolled his eyes. I laughed and he left the house. Just then I looked at Eli. "Hey I think I'm ready." I told him.

"Ready for what?" He ask me and I took in a big sigh. I took his hand and lead him up stairs to my bed room. We got to my door and I looked him strait in the eyes.

"I'm ready for you to know about my past." I said and he nodded as we went into the bedroom.

So, here is another chapter! I hope you like it and I'm not sure how much longer this story has! Its just kind of a go with the flow story! =)

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