Filler chapter. Very short! I'll hopefully update again tonight.
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Disclaimer: If I owned Degrassi, Eclare would be kissing on every episode. Are they? No.
Blue. It's all that surrounded me at one point. I was drowning in the ocean, treading in dangerous waters. Never moving towards land, always staying in place, I was treading. She was the only thing that helped, she showed me how to swim. She told me how to get to land, she taught me everything. I wanted to hold her hand as we swam together, but you need two hands to swim. Or else you'll drown.
I never wanted her to drown. And when I let go, she swam. And I treaded.
"We are never getting back together." Imogen repeated.
"You're not helping Imo." I growled.
"She never cared about you. She'll never care about you the way I do Eli." The way she said my name made my insides churn. I wanted her to burn. But she was right. Clare never cared. Imogen wrapped her arms around my neck and kissed me.
I should burn.
I could see through my window a red truck, its sudden appearance near my house causing me to roll out of bed and peer through my window as if I thought she would be inside the car. I snarled in self loathe when I realized how much those fucking blue eyes haunted me, how much I need them. I closed my eyes and walked away from the window, everything inside me felt like it was burning.
I heard three knocks and snapped my head up. I tried not to run to the door, opening it slowly, my heart aching.
"Eli" she spoke, breathless. She was pale, and out of breath from the walk from the car. She looked like she was about to collapse. "Eli, Eli I can't stan-" she fell before me, I reached for her, my hands catching her, and I was suddenly afraid I bruised her fragile self. I knelt down, desperately looking at this beautiful girl, who was complete shaken.
"What's wrong?" I whispered, hearing a car door slam, Jake inching towards the gate looking out for her.
"Eli, I can't, I need you Eli." She sobbed, I let go of her. This was too good to be true.
"You can't do this to me Clare, you can't do this anymore! I went through hell after we broke up." I clenched my jaw trying not to scream at her. "Whatever you came here for, you might as well leave." Tears welled up in those blue eyes I loved so much, and she clenched her chest.
"Eli, I love you." Something was different about this confession though, from the way that I had imagined so many times before. She was struggling to breathe, to make sentences. "Eli. Please. I'm dying."