Clare's POV

"Oh my god," I said, tugggingmy hand through my hair and smiled.

Darcy exited my room with a smile, mirroring mine.

See, next to the window in my room there's this sort of balcony and then a fire escape. It was a tiny balcony, connected to the fire escape. The rock hit my window again.

I couldn't resist when I opened the window.

"Hi," he said.

There was a dim and faint smile barely on my lips. I looked down at my pajamas.

"Hi," I said.

"Can we talk?" he asked, looking like some adorable lost puppy. My ghost of a smile was becoming more and more real.

"Sure,"

He climbed up my fire escape this time. Then he stood on my balcony, looking all... Eli.

I opened the door to my balcony and entered. He gave me a rose, a pretty tose. My heart swelled.

"Clare..." he said, waiting if I'd stop him.

When I didn't do anything, he smiled a bit. "I... love you." he said.

I uncrossed my arms. "Why is that so hard to say?" I whispered as my heart exploded all over my body.

"It's not... anymore. Um, I never really loved anything, well... I've been out of practice for awhile and you... were like, probably the first human I've ever loved since... I was thirteen maybe. And it scared the living daylights out of me okay? And you're Clare Edwards and I'm-"

I laughed, a small flitting laugh. I stepped closer with every word. "You're Eli Goldsworthy. You're like everything. You're important. To me. And that's personally all that I believe will ever matter."

By now I was close, very close, to his face. He smiled, my heart was beating a mile a minute.

"I love you." Clare shrugged. "Simple as that. You're like the meaning of love, to me. It's a how I define it, Eli. I don't think I could change it if I wanted too."

He brushed a piece of hair off my face and kissed my hand.

"Thank. God." he said and I laughed.

He enveloped my lips in a kiss I'm pretty sure I'll never ever experience with anyone else. I knew there would never be a kiss as wonderful or divine or special as this one.

Then I heard two 'Awws' and turned around to see my mother and Darcy, squealing like they were at a showing of 'The Notebook'.

Eli smirked at me. I rolled my eyes as they clung to each other, probably planning my wedding and cooing.

"Clare, oh my god, you have to get ready to get ready with Fiona, Alli, Jenna, and Lacey. No, Eli! You can't see her yet, it's bad luck." my sister says, shooing him down my fire escape.

"Clare, your grandma wanted you to have these," My mom says, excitemnet seeping in her voice, gave me a box of beautiful lacey white gloves.

I looked at her."I love them! Oh my god, I mean gosh, they're so... ugh!" I wanted to jump up and down, but restrained myself, unlike some people.

Jenna's POV

When we went to pick up Clare, we saw a hearse parked across the street.

Lacey took one look at it and said "Ellijah," Sounds like Ell-e-i-jah.

I looked at Alli. "Yes!" she said triumphantly.

Fiona chuckled. "We should've taken the hearse." she joked, turning into her driveway.

Then I heard squealing and a figure exiting her house. Eli!

"Did you fix it!" Fiona shouted out the window. Alli and I rolled down the window.

He nodded and we squealed. "Aww, shut up," he joked and looked at Lacey who was bouncing.

"Jen, you're actually bringing her?" he mumbled.

I nodded. "Unfortunately, one tip, never get pregnant. I mean I love her to death but she shouldn't be going to her mother's junior prom!"

Eli cocked his head. "I'm pretty sure Lacey doesn't mind."

Lacey and Alli were playing. She looked like the poster one year old of happiness.

"I'm just stressed, high schoolis a pretty crappy place. I don't want her to get hurt."

"Nobody's going to lure her into a van with a cookie, she can barely stand."

I laughed."I just... have a bad feeling. I don't know."

He sighed. "Between all of us, me, Alli, Clare, Fiona, Sam, Adam, you, Dana, Connor, Dave, Wesley and you know... everyone, she has more than enough parents than she'll ever need."

I ran my fingers through her curly blonde hair. "I maynot be good for her alone, but together, that's a shield."

He smiled and walked to his hearse to get to Adam's house.

Dave's POV

(Since Alli is busy, I decided to trysomething)

"Ok, so Dave, uh... I'm an annoucer for prom queen this year and since nobody's seen my co-partner, Nathan, all day can you sub for him, for me?" Zoe asked me over the phone.

Connor, Wesley, Adam, and Sam looked at me expectantly. We were at Adam's house in his basement.

"Well, I do have a date of some sort... Zoe I can'tjust up and leave her-"

"No, it's for three minutes and it's like at the near-end. I swear, ask Ms. Black."

"Yeah, she's my cousin and the coach of the Power Squad and leader of this prom thing, I know."

"You can ask Ms. Chang," she offered.

Zoe sounded so needy wheich she should be.

"Fine, but you better hope Alli doesn't get mad." I warned her and Sam and Wesley gave Adam and Connor 20 dollars repectively.

"So you're gambling on me?" I say, as I hang up.

"Is it really gambling if you always win," Connor said and knuckle punched Adam.

"We bet you'd choose Alli in the end though." Adam said. Connor and him were waving their money in Sam and Wesley's faces.

"And we don't," Sam said. Wesley nodded.

"So who is it?" heasked eagerly. I shrugged.

"I don't know!" I said.

They all groaned as Eli entered, grinning like crazy. "Pay up now suckers. I. Am. King." he said and collected his twenty dollars from all of them.

I shook my head.

Fiona's POV

Adam Torres. He was nice, funny, charming,he gets me. He was also born a girl but I just figured out recently that I really didn't care.

He was a good guy. Who was I kidding? He was... me in boy form and I liked that.

I pulled on the purple dress with the delicate black design. It twisted around my midsection as I looked in the mirror of my room.

"Guess who's going to love that little number," Alli said, pulling on her pink hand gloves.

I blushed. "Who?"

"Uh, no one, just a little junior by the name of Adam."

I squeaked. "I'm not that pretty for him to uh..." I turned backto the mirror to apply my mascara.

"Oh really," Jenna said, with Lacey on her lap, while she was applying eyeliner.

My stomach churned. "Best friend," I reminded them.

"Addy kiss Finona?" Lacey said, confused. I dropped my mascara brush

Way way way too smat of a girl.

Alli burst out laughing. Clare giggled alongside her, in her strapless white dress that makes her look beautiful.

Lacey cocked her head as everyone caught their breath. "No, sweetie, but Fiona wouldn't mind."

"Finona want Addy?" she asked.

"Yes, badly," Alli said.

"Addy want Finona?" she said, trying to get this straight.

I sighed.

"Not as far as we can tell," Clare said.

I blew out air as I fixed my hair.

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Preview

Eclare

"Whoa, stop loverboy! I'm not ready to do... that just yet,"

"Are you sure?"

"No,"

Jenna/Lacey/Sam

"Where's Clare?"

"Why?"

"She was watching Lacey."

"Have you seen my baby?"

Alli/Dave

*Hint-Drew comes back*

"Step away from him!"

"It isn't what it looks like Alli,"

FionAdam

"Wanna dance,"

"Uh...ok, but it's a slow song."

"Precisely,"

Bonus- expect BianKC moments.

Later!