Best Friends Forever? [Complete]

Chapter four: You're like a brother to me.

The next night Clare and Kc walked home together, Eli had wanted them to walk home together, but Clare had convinced him to take Imogen home, she was his girlfriend and Clare wasn't, and frankly Eli was still trying to come between her and Kc and she didn't like it. Kc had insisted he didn't want to go to his house, he wanted to spend time at her house that was OK with Clare but she was wondering, why he didn't want to take her home. But they were having fun together. ''So... how do you feel about us Clare?'' Clare blushed, she really liked Kc and wanted to be his girlfriend, but what if he didn't like her back?

''Well...'' She glanced down at her feet she just couldn't look into his eyes, and that was OK. He wasn't looking at her. ''How do you feel?''. She was throwing the question back at him, hoping he would give her the answer she wanted, he laughed and stopped walking facing Clare.

''I asked you first''. She smiled and looked down at her feet, what if she told him how she felt and he didn't feel the same way she blushed and kicked a rock with her foot wishing Eli would call and get her out of this.

''Well, I really like being around you Kc''. She spoke the truth without telling him how much of a crush she had on him. ''I feel... free when I'm around you, i've always hung out with Just Eli, and you and Alli made me realize how I can have other friends and still be Eli's best friend.'' He smiled at her and kicked a rock their hands brushed and they both blushed.

''I feel so close to you Clare, I trust you more then anyone''. Clare wanted to ask him why but didn't, if he wanted to he would tell her. ''I've never really had a family around that I could trust.'' She nodded not knowing what to say, but she really did understand, her mother and father had proven she couldn't trust them and her sister didn't care about her.

''I get it, after my Parents got divorced, and my dad left, and my sister stopped being around as much, it's always been just me''. She sighed remembering Eli he had been there for her, but he never understood what it was like to be alone in you're own family. ''And even though I had Eli, He didn't really understand how I felt you know?''. KC knew what it was like to be alone but he didn't get what it was like to loose you're family to divorce. She thought back to the night she found out. She had been ten.

''Clare, I think somethings wrong.'' Darcy and Clare and Eli, were in Darcy's room listening to the silence, they had gotten used to the yelling and there wasn't any right now. ''They aren't yelling!'' Clare and Eli were sitting on the floor whispering to one another. The both looked at one another, and then Darcy. Clares face fell and she hugged her knees and Eli, eyed her and then put his arms around her.

''What do you thinks happening Darcy?'' Eli just hugged her tighter and she rested her head on his shoulder he always made her feel better. ''Daddy wouldn't leave would he?'' Darcy looked at Clare sadly, she didn't want to upset her sister, but Clare needed to know the truth.

''Clare listen, Mom and Dad told me this last week and I wasn't supposed to tell you,'' Clare braced herself for what she was about to hear and Eli kept his arm around her, he knew what was coming as much as Clare did. ''Mom and Dad are getting Divorced''. Clare's heart broke and she broke down right there, she began to sob and Eli hugged her, she didn't notice at the time, that Darcy didn't to anything to help Clare, she only watched Clare and Eli. Clare was glad to have Eli as her best friend. Darcy left the room at that moment, and it was just Eli and Clare.

''Darcy shouldn't have told you that Clare, its not OK I know.'' He whispered to her, he had always been one to never tell someone everything would be OK when it wasn't, he always felt like it made them feel worse. ''But it will be one day, it might not be for awhile, but it will, I promise I'll be there until it is, and even when it is''.