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WHAT AN ASSHOLE-CHAPTER 3

CLARE'S PERSPECTIVE

I waited for Eli's response, as my heart raced.

This answer would either make me, or break me.

"She's lying, she did it on purpose, she's full of shit...as usual. God if you wanted attention, why don't you just ask?" Eli asked me with a hoarse voice.

My mouth opened agape, but no words came out.

"I can't believe you Eli..." I whispered turning around to shove my way through a crowd of boys.

I bowed my head, as Reese screamed, "Come on baby! We all know you love the attention!"

Reese wrapped his arm around me as I tried to force him off of me while trying to walk at the same time.

Eli did this to me. How could he not even care? He had the nerve to say I lied, when he was lying through his teeth with that same grin plastered across his face.

I looked back, noticing Eli had disappeared off school property within seconds.

When Reese finally gave up, he left my side, to be alone.

This is how I liked it now.

I liked to be alone.

It's a sad time in one's life when being alone feels good. No one deserves this. No one deserves to be bullied over lies. It makes me want to crawl up in a hole, and cut myself until I bleed to death. The feeling inside me, made me want to throw up.

Not eating all day, and living on tears and air, wasn't going to work.

When I finally reached my house, I saw a figure sitting on my doorstep.

Eli.

I ran past him, tears falling from my face, and rushed to the garbage can in my kitchen. I heard faint footsteps, as I hurled into garbage.

My chest heaved, vomiting, as I felt a hand rub up and down my back.

I hated this, I hated throwing up. It made my legs feel weak, throat burn, and head spin.

When I finally stopped, I got enough strength to say, "Get the fuck out of my house."

I wiped the corner of my lip, my chest rising, as tears dripped down my face.

Eli dropped his book bag on the floor, remaining silent, and kneeled down to open it.

He slowly stood, handing me a water bottle.

"Drink this," he told me as I took it was a shaky hand.

The water burned my throat, as it slipped down into the long journey through out my body.

Tears streamed down my face, as I glanced at Eli who stood in awkward silence with me in my kitchen.

Eli opened his mouth to say something but I interrupted him and said, "Save the apology and just leave. You've done enough damage."

Once again his mouth opened to speak, and I walked by him, completely ignoring his statement grabbing his bag.

I opened the door, and dropped it out on the porch.

"Get out," I told him.

"Seriously Clare?" He asked me as if I was supposed to smile and let him in as if he didn't do anything wrong.

I grinned, tears continuing to fall down my face, and Eli gripped his bag from the ground.

He turned around and said, "I tried to-."

I slammed the door in the middle of his sentence and ran up my steps, rushing to my balcony, as the wind blew by my face.

I looked down beneath me, and for the first time, thought about jumping...

ELI'S PERSPECTIVE

"I tried to fucking apologize," I told Adam trying to convince him that I did really try and say sorry and fix everything.

Adam sighed and said, "But, you told every one that was huddled around you and Clare that she was a liar Eli!"

I looked down and my hands balled into fists.

"I know! Fuck, I know I screwed up! But, she deserved it! I tried to talk to her the whole fucking day, and what do I get? Saint Clare's turn of the fucking cheek," I growled at Adam slamming my hands down on The Dot table.

Adam looked at me, searching for words to call me.

"Eli, if you want to set things straight you have to stop telling everyone she is lying. Who knows what if, what if she kills herself Eli?" He asked me.

I shook my head, "She wouldn't do that."

"Yeah, you also said she wouldn't cry over this, and look at her today. She didn't stop crying the whole day," Adam told me, guilt starting to course through my veins.

I sighed, "I'm going to fix everything."

I left Adam, storming out of the Dot and rushed home to my computer to finish what I started...

CLARE'S PERSPECTIVE

I sat outside in my front yard on the tree swing, swinging slowly back and forth looking down at my interlocked legs.

When silence filled the air, my mind raced.

I couldn't believe that earlier today, I had actually thought about jumping off my balcony and committing...suicide.

My head shook, out of instinct, thinking about it.

I was slowly driving myself insane, as all the words said to me today in school raced through my mind and echoed through my head, taunting me.

Who would have known that High School could pull you down so hard?

I used to be "the smart girl," or "the one over there," but now I'm just...the school whore.

Honestly, I would rather be a nobody than a somebody right now.

When I was little, all I worried about was my crayons being in my bag in order. All I worried about...was stuff not worth worrying about.

I closed my eyes, folded my hands together, and prayed.

"Please God, please, make this pain go away..." I whispered out loud the feeling in my chest building up in agony.

All that I had done today was cry, and I've had just about enough with crying.

Crying didn't get me anywhere, now did it?

No.

I licked my lips, wiping the last tear, thinking the last negative thought, sighing the last out of rhythm breath, feeling the last ounce of pain coursing through my mind.

This was it, it was war.

ELI'S PERSPECTIVE

I walked into school, with the only intention of finding Clare and talking to her.

Last night, I sat at the computer, for five hours just staring at the status I had put up that started this whole "Clare's a whore thing."

I felt like a complete ass not being able to do delete it.

But, my fingers wouldn't let me.

I couldn't do anything to fix this.

Adam and Clare were both right, it was too late.

The one thing, the only thing, I could do was beg for her to forgive me.

And, I wasn't going to stop until she accepted the apology.

Once I spotted Clare, I glared at her, as she stood by her locker, ignoring everybody around her, reading a book.

"Hey," I mumbled.

"How are you?" I asked her curiously.

She looked up at me, bright eyed and smiling, remaining silent placing her book in her locker.

Clare was completely ignoring me, as if no one was standing right fucking next to her.

My eyebrows pressed together and I asked, "Can you give me...two minutes of your time?"

She shook her head, "Nope, not worth it."

"Clare, I don't care if I have to tie you to a chair to get you to listen to me, I will. Just please, two minutes," I begged her.

She looked at me, her head tilting from side to side and said, "Now that would be two minutes of my life wasted now wouldn't it, Elijah?"

Clare knew when someone said my full name it would irritate me. She smiled at me, eying me up and down licking the corner of her lips.

"Okay, two minutes," she said.

I was about to talk, when she said, "In front of your friends and the whole school...on your knees..."

"What? You said that you'd give me two minutes, not in front of my friends, let alone the entire school!" I screeched my voice getting higher.

She laughed at me and said, "Then, I guess I don't accept your apology."

I sighed, looking down at my feet and then back up at Clare who walked confidently away from me. Her curvy hips swaying from side to side, grabbing my attention.

Was she really worth it?

Was Clare Edwards, my secret crush,the one that I get turned on by when we fight, the one that I kind of sort of hated with a strong passion...worth it?

I flipped out my cell phone and sent a text to my whole phone book except Clare, my mom, and dad:

"Hey,

You want to see the whore in action?

Meet me and "Clare" at the front of the

school at three p.m. right after last period.

-Eli."

WHAT THE FUCK WAS I DOING?

ADAM'S PERSPECTIVE

I slid in the seat next to Clare for last period, English.

"Hey," I said and asked her "How do you feel?"

To be honest, Clare looked a bit...fresher, more relaxed.

Yesterday, all she did was cry and cry and cry. And, the worst part was it looked as if it hadn't effected Eli one bit.

She tilted her head, a tear forming in her eye and said, "Could be better."

I smiled at her and said, "It will Clare. Just, give it time and who know's the next gossip will be about Jenna's pregnancy or Hannah's STD infection," I quickly covered my mouth as I blew two secrets as quick as I heard them.

Now, I felt like shit.

Wow, it was really no one's week this week.

This week was shit.

Complete shit.

"Please, don't say anything, they'd kill me, please-," I told her as she nodded and smiled.

"Don't worry, I don't spread rumors," she said with an exaggerated, loud, obnoxious voice so Eli would hear.

I smiled, shaking my head, and looking up at the board as my eyes bulged hearing my phone vibrate in my pocket.

Thank god no one had noticed, not even the teacher, and I glanced down at a text from Eli.

"Hey,

You want to see the whore in action?

Meet me and "Clare" at the front of the

school at three p.m. right after last period.

-Eli."

My eyes bulged and I quickly texted him back even though he was right behind Clare, and conveniently in screaming distance.

"Eli, what the fuck are you doing?

-Adam."

Clare watched, as Eli and I texted back and forth for the remaining forty minutes of the class.

This was going to blow up in his face.

The whole "apology" thing was not going to turn out well, at all.

He thinks he's going to be able to apologize to her, and say he's a liar and all of this shit in front of the school and we all knew it wasn't going to work out.

Eli will get up in front of the whole school, including Clare's "bullies" and he would freeze.

His last resort would be, well...to lie.

To call Clare a whore.

And he did this to embarrass her, and give her the attention she's always "wanted."

Then, Clare would go home, a nervous wreck, upset, and will just tired of him putting her hopes up that he'll apologize.

I needed to stop this.

I needed to stop it, before it started.

ELI'S PERSPECTIVE

My head shot up, and my eyes opened, when the bell rung.

I quickly got up, and ran to my locker, wanting to get out as quick as possible and Adam stood, blocking my locker.

"Dude, get the fuck out of my way," I told him.

"You can't do this, you can't apologize to Clare," Adam begged me.

My eyebrows tightened in confusion.

"Okay, first you want me to apologize to her, and make everything better and say I lied, but, now you don't want me to. Make up your fucking mind!" I screamed at Adam, confused as fuck.

Adam said, "I know you Eli. You think you're going to set this straight, but once you get out there, you're going to freeze up and you're going to lie again! Please, just pull Clare aside and do it alone. Don't do it in front of everyone."

I laughed and said, "You think doing it in front of everyone was my idea? Oh no, it was Clare's idea. I apologize...on my knees, in front of the whole school, and say that what I said was a lie, she'll forgive me. And, that's the only way she'll forgive me."

Adam growled and said, "She'll forgive you Eli, if you just...fix it. But, not this way."

I shook my head, smirking, turning away from Adam and heading to the doors.

Adam ran past me, standing between me and the door.

"Adam, if you don't move, I'll move you," I growled.

He stood between the door, and I said, "You fucking asked for it Adam."

I pushed Adam forcibly causing his feet to fall out from beneath him.

Adam shook his head, tears filling his eyes, looking up at me and I smirked.

I passed Adam, walking through the crowd of people gathered in a circle.

Once I reached the middle, there she stood, her arms crossed in annoyance...tapping her right foot gently.

My heart dropped into my stomach, and my stomach dropped into my ass, and my ass fell to my feet as I searched for the words...

CLARE'S PERSPECTIVE

Everyone surrounding Eli and I waited patiently for one of us to talk.

"Come on Eli, tell them why you called everybody here," I told him raising a curious eyebrow.

Eli smirked and I could tell his hesitation in his words as he started to talk.

"The reason...the reason I bought you here right now, was because...because I want to apologize to Clare and want you all to know something!" Eli screamed making sure the whole crowd could hear.

My heart stopped, was he actually going to do it?

Eli slowly went down on his two knees in front of me, looking up and glancing into my eyes.

"What is he doing? What the fuck?" I heard rumblings from the crowd.

Eli gulped and looked me straight in the eye saying, "I'm sorry Clare. I'm sorry for making your life a living hell. I'm sorry for lying to everyone. I. Am. Sorry. Will you forgive me?"

Tears dripped from my eyes, and I nodded.

He breathed out as I held out a hand to help him up.

"You hear that everybody? I'm the one who unhooked her bra in English class, I'm the asshole that lied about it all over Facebook, that's me. I'm the one! And, I'm sorry Clare," he said his chest breathing in and out.

Owen shouted, "We don't care about your stupid apology! You started a revolution man!"

"Yeah!" Someone screamed out.

"Yeah! Come on baby show me some ass!" Reese screamed getting everybody worked up, pulling out cell phones, and completely ignoring Eli's words.

As the words were being said, Eli smirked and said, "Well, it was worth a try. Sometimes, things just don't turn out the way you want them to, sorry tuts."

I laughed, he was full of shit.

This whole apology thing was just so people could gain up on me and yell at me.

So they could corner me and call me a slut, a whore, and all the names in the fucking book.

I shook my head and said, "To believe you would try and make MY life better, yeah right. What the fuck was I thinking?"

When I spun to turn around, I rammed into Fitz's hard chest causing me to fall onto my back.

I screeched in pain, feeling my shirt rise up and the concrete to scrape my skin. I winced, tears falling from my eyes.

"Hey look! She's on her back! She's doing what she does best," Eli called out making everyone laugh.

I looked down, tears dripping down my face, here we go again.

My head shot up when I heard quick paced footsteps and Adam appeared grabbing me by the arm and pulling me up off the floor.

"Told you I'd be here to pull you up," he said smiling.

END OF CHAPTER 3

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