A/N: New chapter! To all of my lovely readers :) Hope you like it!
Clare's POV
"Stop it"
"But—"
"No, just, Alli! Stop"
"But—"
"Stop it. Stop it"
"Clare!"
"What?!"
"Take your hands of your ears and listen to me!" Alli said so loud I'm sure everyone living in this part of the school heard her. I let my hands fall down on the bed.
"What?" I asked calm. Alli just gave me a look. "What?" I asked again in a high pitched voice.
"What is wrong with you?" She said dramatically.
"Nothing! I just.. I panicked! It was a lot to take in, ok?" I tried explaining. Even though I've come to realize it's really hard to explain something you don't fully understand yourself.
"Claaaare" She said in whiny voice.
"Alliiiiiiii" I said mimicking her.
"I bet that poor boy is dying" I gave her a look and she realized what she'd just said. We stayed like that for a few seconds before we bursted out laughing. I know, very unrespectful of us. But that's just the way we are. It's way too late, 3 am to be exact, to take anything seriously.
"I'll tell you what. Tomorrow you're gonna talk to him. Make him smile, k?" She smiled at me.
"Ehh.."
"Clare" She pointed her other pillow at me, threatening to throw it.
"Fine, just put the gun down" I laughed at her.
"You're terrible Clare"
"So are you Alli. So are you"
I walked slowly towards English. I'm not exactly sure why I was delaying it. I knew Eli was in there, and I knew I had to talk to him. I had exaggerated yesterday and he needs to know that. I walked through the door and saw Eli already was in his seat. I took my place next to him and smiled. Well, he didn't exactly see my smile as he didn't look at me. I rolled my eyes.
"Eli" I said smiling. He turned his face and looked at me with raised eyebrows. He gave me a look that said 'what?'. I just smiled at him, which made him smirk a little.
"What's up with you?" He asked me, smiling a bit.
"Don't know, I just feel really good today" He chuckled.
"Good for you" He said turning back to the teacher, who had walked in a few seconds ago.
"Look, about yesterday.." I started but was interrupted by Eli.
"You don't have to say anything. I get it"
"You do?"
"Yeah, it's a lot. I know that." He turned towards me smiling, before adding "Take your time" I smiled back at him, before turning back to the teacher. I knew this day was a good one.
Adam's POV
"What's up?" I asked sitting next to Alli in the library. She is one of the few girls I've ever seen in here.
"Hunting elephants, and you?" She answered not even looking up from the book.
"I need your help" She looked up from her book.
"Look, I hate to be the one to say this, but if you're as bad at math as your brother is, then not even I can help you. Trust me, I've tried" She laughed a bit and I joined her.
"No, thankfully. It's something else. Oh, and since you mentioned it, Drew really needs help, so if you could just…"
"Adam, no. It's no use" She said smiling.
"Fine" I said defeated. "But I still need your help" I said.
"With?" She asked turning back to her book again.
"Fiona.." I said in a low voice. Alli's head snapped right up from the book as she looked at me with a huge grin.
"I so knew it!" She said closing her book. "Ok. Spill" She demanded.
"Um, well, I kinda like her.. I haven't talked all that much to her though."
"So talk more to her" She said as if it was the easiest thing in the world.
"Well that's the problem! I'm to chicken" I said laughing nervously. She smiled sweetly at me.
"So what you're saying is you need an excuse to talk to her.."
"Yeah!" I said smiling brightly. This girl really is smart.
"Hmm.. well, let's see. What do you guys have in common?"
"Um, you and Clare?"
"What?"
"Well you are my friends and her roommates?"
"Oh yeah" She said in deep thought. She looked so concentrated I was afraid to speak and ruin her thoughts. After a few seconds she exclaimed "I got it!" scaring me half to death.
"Geez woman! Chill!" I said jokingly putting my hand on my chest as if trying to get my breath back. She just slapped me.
"Listen" She said smiling. "Drew is really bad at math—"
"What does that have anything to do with—"
"Just listen. He's really bad at it, and Fiona knows that, so she'll easily believe you are too. Right?"
"I guess? I mean we don't have math together, so sure"
"Great. We'll pretend you're really bad and need help like 2 or 3 times a week"
"Ok, great so I pretend to be stupid. How does that help me?" I asked amused, not following her at all.
"I'm going to help you with your math" She said simply. I gave her a look telling her I still don't get it.
"You come over to our room so I can help you dumbass. Fiona is in our room almost every day. And so will you" She said with a smile. A smile snuck onto my face as I finally put all the pieces together.
"Oh! That's so smart!" I said exited.
"Maybe you actually need help. You're kinda slow" she said jokingly.
"Hey! I'm so much smarterer than Drew!" right after those words left my lips Alli gave me an amused smile.
"No, wait. That wasn't right" I said amused as I realized what I said. "I meant I'm much smarter than him, not 'smarterer'"
"Yeah right" She said laughing at me.
"I've been too much with Drew. He's stupidness is contagious" I said laughing "And yes! That is a word" I said fast.
"No it isn't" She said smiling.
"Oh really? Just ask Drew hon" I said jokingly. She just laughed waving her hand at me telling me I had to go so she could study. I just laughed at her and left for the door. Before I walked out, I turned around, towards Alli, and said "Thank you" with a smile.
"No problem, brochacho" She said smiling at me. This chick wasn't so bad after all. She was actually pretty cool. I could see why Drew liked her so much. Yeah, they're still together. Drew being able to keep a relationship going isn't something you see every day, but I'm glad I'm here to witness it.
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