I sat in my room, thinking about what to do my science fair project on. Eli was right, the robot was a stupid idea.
I had told Clare about what happened with Eli at the library as soon as I got home yesterday, so when she saw him in school today she gave him little glares to show she supported me. All it did was make me feel even more guilty. The truth is, I did ask for a lot from him and then was planning to bitch about him, wasn't I? It's weird, I've hardly ever felt guilty before, I was usually certain I was always in the right. I hated the feeling. But why was I feeling so guilty over this, such a trivial thing?
About halfway through working on my project the doorbell started ringing. And ringing.
"Will someone answer the door?" I shouted. Silence. I trudged reluctantly towards the door, cursing under my breath.
"Eli?" I spluttered in disbelief. I was probably the last person Eli wanted to see, what was he doing at my house at eleven pm?
"Hi Alli," he began, "can we talk?"
Strange.
"Sure..." I said stepping out cautiously onto the porch with him.
He looked around awkwardly. I raised an eyebrow, gesturing for him to start.
"I'm sorry about yesterday-"
"No, I'm sorry, you were actually right." I said, swallowing my pride in the process.
"Nothing I said was right." He sighed, leaning against the porch rails and looking out into the garden. I went to join him. Something about being like this felt right, like I could just stand outside on the porch with him all night.
"It's just, you're Clare's friend." He started again.
Oh. How could I have been so stupid? Of course, this was why he was being such an ass.
"I know she's told you everything. I thought you'd hate me too, I just didn't get why you were being so... So nice. And then it made me get really paranoid." He confessed.
"Clare doesn't hate you," I turned to look him in the eyes, "And neither do I." I smiled.
He look back at me for a while, and then slowly smiled too. Then he broke our eye contact by looking down.
"So... I totally wouldn't blame you for saying no, but I might aswell take the chance. Can we work together for science again? I'm actually completely lost without your obsessive-compulsive ways." He grinned.
I made my mouth a dramatised "O" shape, to show I was offended. "Fine, I guess so..." I joked.
"Truce?" He laughed, offering me a hand.
I held it. "Truce." I smiled.
"Aliyah, who are you talking to, so late?" I heard my mom's voice yell from inside.
"Shoot, I think you should go." I told Eli.
"Got it." He said, turning to head to his car.
I shut the door behind me, standing in the dimly lighted hallway. Did we just have a moment? No, we couldn't have...
Sorry it's pathetically short... but yeah...