After the night's festivities, Eli drove Clare home. He pulled up alongside her house and shut off the engine.

"Im really sorry about what happened tonight." Eli said

"It's fine. Better for it to be your parents then mine" Clare replied

The ride had been a rather awkward one, since they had never had such an intense make put session prior to tonight. Eli was a little unsure as to how he should address the subject.

"It was probably a good thing that she walked in when she did..." Eli said

Clare looked at him "Why do you say that?"

Eli looked down, "Because it would have been really hard for me to stop otherwise, you know, eventually when you would have told me to…"

"What makes you think I would have told you to stop anyways?" Clare asked, a little taken aback by Eli's assumption.

"Come on Clare, I just meant that…" Eli was quickly cut off

"You just meant that im a prude or something?" Clare asked, offended

"You know that's not what I meant!" Eli said exasperated.

Clare leaned back against her seat and signed.

"Look Clare, I just don't want to push you, you know that…it's hard on me but I don't want to seem like some sort of dog. What happened in my room, I shouldn't have pushed you, it was wrong of me to." Eli said, taking her hand in his.

Clare turned her head to look at him again, "You know…you don't always have to be so cautious with me. It's not like we did anything that I didn't want to! Your always tip toeing around the subject. When you kiss me its like you try and restrain yourself and then when things get a little intense you pull away…"

"Because it's hard Clare!" Eli said abruptly "It's not exactly easy to stop sometimes. I don't want to just jump you when I know you're uncomfortable with it. As much as I want you I-"

Clare cut him off again "I want you too. You don't have to be so gentle all the time…"

Clare leaned in to kiss him, hard. She moved closer to him, wrapping her arms tightly around his neck. Eli's arms wrapped around her waist, the other fell upon her thigh, and he began rubbing it slowly.

Clare slipped her tongue into his mouth, moving her hand down his chest. She then moved so that she was on top of him, straddling his waist. Eli seemed extremely taken a back but his maneuver, but continued kissing her deeply. Both of his hands lay on her thighs now moving closer to and closer to her ass.

Things began to get very heated; Clare's hands were roaming all over Eli's body, she grinded her hips a little into his. Eli moaned.

"Clare..." Eli breathed, breaking the kiss.

Clare started at him, flustered. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, its just…we're parked outside your house. Your dad could talk out at any minute and catch us. Not exactly the best second first impression I want to make…"

Clare signed, and removed herself from his lap. The same annoyed feeling came over her once again.

"I'll see you tomorrow?" Eli asked timidly.

"Yeah, sure." Clare replied monotone "Tomorrow…sounds great."

Eli leaned in to kiss her. Clare kissed him back, but her head was somewhere else.

She opened the door turning her head one more time to smile "Bye"

Eli waved and started the engine to the hearse and drove off.

Clare stood there outside her house for a moment and let out a long frustrated sigh before turning to walk into her house.

"Hey Clare bear, how was dinner?" Clare dad called from the living room as she stomped up the stairs in frustration.

"Fine…Just fine" Clare replied "Im going to bed. Goodnight"

Clare walked into her room and shut the door behind her. She turned on her cd player and walked over to her bed and slumped down onto it.

What was her problem? She had an amazing respectful boyfriend that abides her wishes and she was annoyed with him?

Clare lay back on her bed. Her body tingled all over and she groaned a little. She yearned for Eli's touch, for his lips to be on hers.

Sometimes he was just too respectful. He hardly ever even pushed a little, constantly stopping when things got good. Like he never believed her when she said she might be ready for…

Clare sat up straight. Ready for what exactly? Could that be what it was? Did she want to have sex now?

It would make sense, considering her mind had been in the complete gutter lately and she just couldn't admit it to herself. She remembered once how she had scolded Ali for saying how horny she was; and now she was the one who was…well you know.

She recalled the conversation she had had with Eli and what he had said about her being ready. Her reply had been "Maybe, someday."

She didn't think that someday would have come so soon.

But that's what it was; she wanted to finally take the next step. She wanted Eli to just take her and…Clare's mind trailed off into rated R thoughts and she smiled a little to herself, but she quickly snapped out of her little fantasy and shook her head.

She stood up and began pacing her room. She really did want it...bad. She had never allowed herself to even think about it before really, besides that one time she attempted to throw herself at Eli. She always felt a little twinge of guilt when it came to thinking about sex. But lately it was all she thought of. She had even attempted masturbation but it didn't bring her to kind of relief she had expected and hoped for.

Every time she thought of Eli or saw Eli she felt herself tingle all over; specifically below the waste line. She felt herself blush a little.

She looked at herself in the mirror. "Its okay" she thought to herself, "I'm a sexual human being that just wants to be banged like a screen door in a hurricane". Clare shook her head again, she really was horny…wow, Ali would be so proud.

"The weekend…" She thought "His parents are going away. Maybe I could take him up on that stay at the "Hotel Eli". Clare started to become a little excited, even moreso to tell Eli that she was finally ready to go all the way.

She got ready and got into bed, her mind still racing with thoughts when she heard her phone buzz.

She picked it up and it read: "You know I think you're the most perfect person I've ever met, Edwards…sorry if I pissed you off tonight. I'll make it up to you!"

Clare smiled at the text.

"Yes, yes you will." Clare thought and smirked a little, shutting off her light and drifting off to sleep.

Across town, Eli sat in his newly cleaned room. He thought it was extremley weird lookig now, but was glad he finally didn't feel so lost.

He signed, giving up on waiting for her to reply. He lay back on his pillow and groaned in annoyance.

"Why did I have to push this?" he thought

Eli really didn't mind waiting for Clare to be ready, but it was growing tiresome. Everytime he saw Clare, kissed her, touched her...he wanted to rip her clothes off and just-

He stopped himself from continuing the thought.

It had been a while though...a long while. Eli couldn't deny to himself that he really wanted to have sex, but he couldn't bring himself to tell Clare. He didn't want her to feel guilty or to get pissed off, he knew how reserved she was about sex and even about discussing it. Besides the one time he showed up on his doorstep throwing himself at her, they hadn't really talked about it. Part of him had wished he said yes that day, but he knew that would have been wrong and selfish.

He wanted it to be right for Clare, that's all that mattered to him. Clare just never seemed like a overly sexual person to him, he wondered if she would ever actually be ready.

But she had acted so strange tonight. Like she was annoyed he had stopped...he didn't really think anything of it he just found it strange. He checked his phone one final time before shutting it off. He was going to have to do some groveling tomorrow, he could see it now.

He tried to move his mind onto other things. He was looking forward to having the house to himself for a few days!

Author's Note: You're all so sweet in the reviews! Thanks so much! I got such great feedback I had to continue it right away! There is going to be another 2 parts to this story I believe so keep checking back for updates!