Lucky for you I "left" all my homework in my locker ;P so here's chapter 11! READ, ENJOY, REVIEW!
Clare sat on her front steps. Her hands held her face as her elbows rested on her knees. Her parents bickered inside, changing sides and tones left and right. "She's just a teenager!" Helen yelled.
"I don't think she should be with him!" Randall yelled.
"Eli's a good kid!" Helen.
"He showed up in the middle of the night last night! He's not good!" Randall.
"So he wanted to see Clare! Is it wrong for her to be happy?" Helen.
"Not when you find him half-naked hiding in her closet. I'd rather of come home to a wild party then that! She's going down hill Helen! She should be punished! We don't need Clare to go through what Darcy did!" Randall.
"She's not Darcy! There's no way that could happen to her!" Helen yelled the calmed her voice when she continued, "I talked to her. If she said her and Eli weren't going to do anything. I believe her."
"He had his shirt off and was in her closet!" Randall. There was no response. At least Clare couldn't hear.
She took off and wandered into town. Her phone rang, it was her mother, so she ignored it. The sun was set, and the stars shined. She found herself in the same park her and Eli camped out at in Morty. Her phone rang again, it was Eli. She answered in a sweet voice, "Hey."
"Clare, where are you? Your mom said you were missing." Eli's concerned voice replied, where he was at his house grabbing his jacket off the hook and racing outside to Morty.
"I'm at the park." She sat on the swing lightly swinging back and forth, keeping her feet on the wood chip covered ground. "I just went for a walk."
Eli held his phone between his shoulder and his ear as he turned the ignition creating a roar of the engine, it made Clare pull her phone away from her head for a second. "I'll be right there. Stay put."
"No Eli. I'll start walking home."
"No. I'm coming to get you. Your mom said she wanted to talk to both of us anyway when she called."
"That's weird. But Kay fine. I'm on the swings." He said bye and so did Clare before closing her phone. She stared up at the stars smiling.
"St. Clare!" a voice yelled causing her to twist her head back to see just a dark figure between two trees. She could see a small red glow from a cigarette's ember as the figure inhaled it. The figure stepped into view to reveal Fitz with a creepy smirk on his face.
Clare got up, taking a step back. "W-What are you doing here?"
"I never got my dance," he said walking up to the swing set. "You were my date on Vegas Night. Until that asshole ruined it."
"Fitz, do you forget that you were the one that ruined it?" He looked down at her with a disrespectful glare. "When I came out to comfort you after Eli poisoned you." She used "poisoned" loosely. "I was still your date. Willing to go back into the gym and ignore Eli for you 'cause of his dick move. But you pulled the knife out so I ran off scared."
Fitz grabbed the chain to the swing and rested his cheek against his clenched hand. "I'm sorry."
"I don't forgive you." Clare crossed her arms and Fitz stood up straight again. "You almost stabbed my boyfriend! Were you expecting me to?"
"What do I have to do, Clare?" he pleaded.
"Leave me alone." she turned around.
"No!" He marched up and grabbed her arm yanking her back over to the grass.
"Fitz! Ow! You're hurting me!" Clare yelled but he ignored her. He pushed her against a tree and started to kiss her neck. "Fitz! Stop!" He pulled her to the grass, she was now crying as he straddled her hips. "Stop!"-choking on her tears-"Please! Eli will be here any-"
He slapped her. "Shut up bitch!" He reached up her dress, fingers curling along the top of her leggings, pulling on them as he kissed her chin that was trying to pull away hopelessly.
There was a sound of a car door being shut. "Clare?" Eli yelled looking for her.
"Eeeeeliiii!" She screamed until Fitz covered her mouth, becoming nothing but mumbles.
"Clare?" Eli followed where the voice came from. Once he could see Fitz on Clare he raced after them. "Clare!" He raced over yanking Fitz off Clare and throwing him to the ground. He jumped on him and started to punch his face repeatedly. He got up and started to kick him in the gut.
Then Eli stopped, running over to terrified Clare. She leaned against the thin tree trunk, tears pouring down her cheeks with eyes red as cherries they were so blood shot. Her leggings were down around her knees and a loose fist covering her mouth. He tried to hug her but she crawled back crying, "Don't touch me!"
Eli's hands went up in surrender. "Clare, it's okay. It's me Eli." Clare pulled her leggings back up before wiping her tears away. She jumped on him wrapping her arms around her neck, bawling into his collar. He was surprised at first but then hugged her back tightly in a secure comforting way. He stroked her back as he whispered in her ear, "Don't worry. Everything's okay. Everything's okay."
Clare hugged her knees leaning her head against the chilled window shivering, but not because she was cold. Eli parallel parked in front of her mom's town home. Once the engine was off, Eli took a minute of silence before asking, "Do you want to talk about it?"
She shook her head. "No. Never."
"Clare, you can't just ignore it." He consoled.
"I don't need to!" She yelled. "Nothing happened."
"Only because I showed up!" He hit the steering wheel. "Probably would of never happened if I didn't show up at all," he mumbled.
"What are you talking about? I was pinned against the ground by the time yo-" She was interrupted.
"No." He looked out at the lonely road in front of them. "Never showed up in your life."
"Eli?" Terror creped over her voice.
"I think... Were-" She cut him off by grabbing his forearm and saying, "Don't you dare even say that Eli. Were perfect for each other and we both know it."
It took him time before glancing at her. He opened his mouth about to speak, but shut it as if he decided to change his words last minute. "Let's get inside and see what your parents want of both of us."
They sauntered into the house slouching, still upset from what just happened. "Oh Clare-bear!" Her parents said in-sync as they hugged her. "Thank you Eli." Helen said, making Eli reply with just a nod. Then continued, "Sweetie, Eli. Will you join us in the living room?"
They both sat in the couch, with a six inch space between the two so not even their shoulders brushed or anything. Randall stood behind the chair Helen sat in. "Okay, I'm just going to come out and say this. Clare, you've always been honest with us and trusted us. But with the divorce I understand if you have lost some of that trust. But we'd first like to remind you we're still here for you." She glanced away from Clare noticing Eli leaning against the arm staring at Clare lovingly but with trepidation. "So all we want is our daughter back. Because it seems as if we don't know you anymore. So we just want to know a few things before we tell you what's on our mind."
Clare was very confused. "What's on your mind? What do you want to know?"
"Well first," Helen started but Randall finished, "Are you two having sex?"
Clare's eyes widened toward her parents, mouth dropped. She glanced at Eli gave a quick smirk. "No. We're not. Eli is very faithful to my beliefs. One of the reasons I love him so much."
Helen and Randall both gave out relieved sighs, but were trying to hide it. "Okay, what really was going on last night?"
Eli leaned off the arm and joined the conversation before Clare could answer. "I got this. Mr. and Ms. Edwards, I love your daughter and she's always all I can think about." -He directed his eyes to Clare- "I can't sleep if I don't get a goodnight kiss from her. I can't dream without seeing her smile before bed. And so, I thought I'd stop by for a surprise visit last night just so I could get to sleep." -sigh- "I climbed through her window because I didn't know if Mr. Edwards was home or not. From there we kissed that's it. The lemonade spilled on my shirt. We kissed again. And she threw me in the closet when you got home."
"That's it? You just kissed?" Helen asked.
"Just kissed. Nothing more." Eli lied. He wasn't going to add in what he wanted and was about to do, because it did not happen, they didn't need to know.
Helen smiled. "That was very cute Eli. We love to be assured someone cares about our baby-Clare that much. But it's also the reason why we're doing this."
Before anyone could ask what she was talking about, Randall started. "Clare, you're going to stay at Linda and John's for a week."
"Aunt Linda and Uncle John? They live all the way in Victoria!" Clare yelled.
"Yes, we know. But I think it would be good for you. Get away from the drama of high school, from us, from... Eli." Helen went on.
Eli's mouth dropped slightly. And Randall replied to it, "You guys are like Siamese twins sense you two started dating. You need to learn to be apart if you want to be together for much longer."
"It's for the best." Helen said then got up patting down her dress. "You leave Friday night."
Yes! Fitz is back! So what did you think? Review! love you! :*(^_^) ~Eli