This story is dedicated to my girl Mansavage777 who was the first to request a Flare story, helped me decide which story to do and what to call it.

Starts at the end of Dead and Gone. This is a Flare story be patient, it'll take a little while for there to be a Flare.

Much like Her Unexpected Hero this will be a mix of fluff and drama, more drama than fluff probably but I will put in as much fluff as I can.

For the purpose of this story Jay and Manny never got together.

Clare will be in character for the most part.

Ch. 1 Do You Want To Know a Secret

(CLARE)

"I'm sorry Clare." Eli said with a sincere tone as he handed me back my phone.

I took it, looking at Jake's text message one last time. "Maybe it just wasn't meant to be." I lamented.

I was still reeling from everything that had happened that night, in a matter of a few short hours my mom had announced she and Glen were getting married. I had been so upset I'd walked all the way to prom and hadn't even cared that I'd arrived in my street clothes. When Jake finally had shown up, instead of holding me and telling me he loved me like I'd hoped, he'd broken up with me. Before I could really even process our fight and the end of our relationship, Adam had been shot! Now here I was in the hospital hallway near Adam's beside standing with Eli who I really hadn't spoken with much since he'd come back to school after his plays opening night drama. We had come together for our best friend though, putting aside our past for his sake and I was finding a certain familiar comfort being with Eli as we both worried about our friend. We stood in an awkward silence as each of us searched for something to say until we each felt a hand on our shoulder and looked over to see Audra.

"They're about to take him back to surgery if you two want to see him before he goes. Then you two should go home, you can come back and see him in the morning and thank you for coming with him." Audra told us, her voice was distressed but also relieved and I took that to mean Adam would be okay.

Eli and I walked back to Adam so we could say goodbye, I kissed his cheek and smiled at him reassuringly.

"I'll come back in the morning, your surgery will go just fine. Just hurry up and get better." I insisted to my best friend.

"I will." Adam told me.

"I'll be back in the morning too." Eli said.

Adam smiled and two orderlies began preparing his bed to be wheeled away. I stood there watching until I couldn't see Adam any longer, then I turned and began walking to the exit. Eli walked out behind me, pulling his phone out as soon as we were outside and I heard him asking someone to come pick him up. I pulled out my phone too, walking away from Eli a little. I saw a missed call from my mom on her phone so I called her back.

"Hi Mom." I said when she picked up.

"Clare thank god I heard something happened at prom are you and Jake okay?" Mom questioned in a worried voice.

"Adam was shot, he's going to be okay though, it went through his shoulder. I'm at the hospital with him now. I'm okay just shaken. Jake left early he wasn't even there when it happened. He told me he's going to the cabin for the summer." I inform my mom.

"Thank goodness you're both alright. I hope Adam's okay. You said Jake left for the cabin?" Mom asked with an interesting tone it was sort of curious, happy and mischievous.

"Yes." I replied.

"Well I'm staying at Glen's tonight, do you have a ride home? Will you be okay at the house on your own for the night?" Mom questions.

"Yes Mom." I reply.

"Okay sweetheart tell Adam I hope he's okay and we'll see you tomorrow." Mom says and hangs up.

I put my phone away and walk back to Eli, he's sitting on a bench now near the door and I sit on the opposite end.

"My dad will be here soon if you want a ride home." Eli offers.

"Thanks but my mom's on her way." I lie.

While we forgot everything we'd been through to come together for Adam, the thought of a very silent uncomfortable car ride with Eli is not appealing. I've been through a lot tonight and my brain is still catching up to everything I've been through in the last few hours. Quite frankly a walk home sounds pretty good, I need the time to think. Bullfrog arrives a few minutes later and waves to me when he sees me, I wave back.

"You want us to wait until your mom gets here?" Eli questions and I see his protective instinct hasn't wavered any.

"No she'll be here in a few minutes and I'm right outside of a hospital I'll be fine, thanks though." I smile at him appreciatively.

Eli stands up and waves, getting into his dad's car and I wave as they drive off. As soon as their car is no longer in sight I get up and start walking home. Once I'm away from the hospital, the only sounds I hear are crickets and passing cars. The early June night is slightly breezy and chilled but not cold. There are lots of streetlights and the nearly full moon illuminating the night time streets so I can see very well. It's really quite peaceful and I would be thinking over everything that I'd been through tonight and beginning to process it if not for the fact that my brain couldn't seem to hold a single thought for more than a few seconds.

"How could they be getting married?! Seeing Adam on the ground in all that blood was the scariest sight! Eli almost seemed happy about the fact that Jake broke up with me. I hope Adam's really okay. How could Jake break up with me!? They've only been dating a couple of months they can't get married! Is it wrong that I enjoyed my time with Eli even though it was under horrible circumstances? I love Jake, at least I thought I did. Adam could have nerve damage in his arm. How could..."

My jumble of thoughts was suddenly interrupted by a sudden and very loud car horn. I gasped, jumped a little and turned to see the orange two door pulling along side me. The car belonged to Jay Hogart who had been friends with my sister Darcy and was still friends with Darcy's ex-boyfriend Spinner. I relaxed and smiled when I saw it was someone I knew but he was giving me a curious sort of concerned look.

"I thought that was you, had to double back just to be sure. What are you doing walking by yourself at night? Hop in I'll give you a lift home." Jay insists.

"That's okay I can walk." I tell him.

"Get in the car, I'm not letting you walk all the way home by yourself." Jay commands.

I shrug and get in the car, trying to argue with Jay is kinda like trying to argue with a pit bull.

"You okay, you look sad and worried and you seemed pretty lost in thought?" He questions as we begin driving.

"It's been the night from...hell." I say after a second of consideration but if any night seemed right for using profanity it was this one.

"Did sainted Baby Edwards just use a swear word?! I think I might die of shock." Jay mocks and it actually makes me laugh a little.

"I haven't been called Baby Edwards in a long time, I'm not even called St. Clare anymore. I'm not the saintly little girl you knew three years ago." I remark.

He looks me over and smiles. "You are definitely not a little girl anymore." He says with a wink, it was kind of a slimy comment but for some reason it made me blush. "You still live on Maple? He questions.

"Yes but I don't really feel like going home just yet. I don't really have anywhere else to go but I don't want to go home right now." I tell him.

"I could take you to my place, you could even stay the night." He offers.

"That's sweet Jay but..." I start to argue but he cuts me off.

"I have my own apartment you can have the bed, I'll sleep on the sofa. You said you didn't really have anywhere else to go. Besides I want to hear about this night from hell." He remarks.

"You might regret saying that." I laugh a little. Then bite my lip to mull his offer over in my mind. I knew Jay a little, I had spent some time with him but not very much. Most of what I'd heard about him from Darcy wasn't exactly glowing praise. Still I did know him and it was better than going home to an empty house where I spent many hours making out with my now ex-boyfriend and soon to be stepbrother. "If it wouldn't be too much of bother for me to stay the night then that sounds great." I say finally.

"It wouldn't be a bother at all." Jay assures me. "How's Darcy?" He asks after a few minutes of silence.

"Good I guess, we don't hear from her much, even less since our parents divorced. She's still in Africa, she joined the Peace Corp and last I heard she was in Mozambique." I inform him.

"You're parents divorced! When?" He questions.

"It was finalized a few months ago apparently my dad has been cheating on my mom for years. Darcy missed all of it, they didn't even tell her they were separating but my mom did e-mail her when they filed for divorce." I sigh.

He puts his hand on the back of my neck and rubs gently. "I'm really sorry Clare, that sucks. I wish I'd known I could have gotten you out of the house and taken your mind off of things. Helped you through it, when my parents divorced I was angry and spent most of my time as far from my parents as I could." Jay tells me.

"It's okay Eli was pretty good at getting me out of the house." I tell him.

"And Eli would be?" Jay asks with a slightly curious, slightly angry or protective tone.

"My ex-boyfriend he's bipolar, he just found out a few months ago after he went crazy again." I enlighten him as he pulls into a parking garage.

"Crazy again?" He questions parking in a space and turning off the car.

"That was a little harsh it wasn't his fault really," I say as we get out of the car and start walking to some elevators, "it was his bipolar disorder screwing with his brain but I broke up with him after he intentionally crashed his car to get me to come see him again." I tell Jay as we get in the elevator.

The elevator goes to the fourth floor and stops and I follow Jay down the hall to his apartment, number 4G.

"Home sweet home," He says slightly sardonically as he unlocks the door and flicks on a light. "It's nothing special but it's home."

The apartment is a pretty decent size, not very clean but I really didn't expect it to be. There's an open galley style kitchen to the left with a breakfast bar. To the right is a living room area, consisting of only a sofa, coffee table and a giant TV. Rather than a dining room table there is a poker table with six chairs and empty beer cans on it. This is definitely a bachelors apartment, straight ahead I see a washroom, it doesn't look very big but I see all the essentials, dimly lit by the living room light. Behind the dining room or should I say poker room I see another open door way to the bedroom. I can see dirty clothes on the floor and a window but not much else from here. I step into the apartment and Jay locks the door behind us.

"You want something to drink?" He offers. "I've got water, beer, soda and some left over strawberry daiquiri mix." He says.

"Water would be..." I start and then stop rethinking my decision, it's been a night of firsts and I've already used profanity why not try my first sip of alcohol. "Could I have a daiquiri?" I request.

"Sure." He shrugs.

He gets out a beer for himself and pours some bright pink slush into a cup for me, sticking a straw in it before handing it to me. We go and sit on the sofa, he sits back and puts one arm on the arm rest and his other on the back of the sofa. I sit in the opposite corner of the sofa, my feet on the floor, slightly hunched forward with my arms on my lap.

"So tell me about this night from hell." He requests.

"Well it started when my mom and I were having dinner with my boyfriend Jake and his dad Glen, who has been dating my mom for the last three months. Anyway at the dinner our parents announced they were getting married! I didn't take the news very well," I pause to sip at my daiquiri, at first it tastes like a strawberry milkshake and then the strong burn of alcohol hits me and I shudder slightly but still take another sip. "Actually I didn't take the news well at all. I kinda threw a fit and stormed out of the house, walking all the way to prom in my street clothes."

I stop and suck in a big gulp of the daiquiri, the alcohol start to hit me and I turn on the sofa sitting to face Jay, leaning back against the arm rest and curling my to my side.

"When Jake finally got to prom, instead of holding me and telling me he loved me and would fight for me, he told me he was putting his fathers happiness first and broke up with me! It sounds really pathetic and selfish when I say it out loud but I was really hurt by it. I thought I loved him! I thought he loved me but apparently I was wrong." I confess to Jay. I suck down the last of my daiquiri and hold my glass out to him. "Can I have another one?" I ask.

"Sure," he laughs a little, "but that should probably be your last one. I'd hate for you to add getting sick with a hangover to your night from hell."

He gets up, goes to the kitchen and returns a minute later handing me a full glass.

"Thanks," I smile.

"Sure, so I'm guessing there's more to your night than your mom announcing she was getting married and your boyfriend breaking up with you." Jay says as he sits down again.

"Well after Jake broke with me and he left prom, this guy showed up and got into a fight with Drew." I pause to take another sip. "Drew kicked his butt and then this guy pulled out a gun and just fired a few shots randomly." I pause again to take another sip. "Drew was fine but Adam who happens to not only be Drew's younger brother but my best friend, he got shot!"

I stop to take another sip and wipe the tears that are at the corners of my eyes. Jay takes my hand and squeezes it gently.

"He was lying on the floor and crying out and pain and there was so much blood! It was so scary! I thought I was going to watch my best friend die!" More tears come and I stop to wipe them away and take another sip of my drink.

Jay moves closer to me, putting one arm around me, his hand stroking the back of my neck, his other hand resting on my leg.

"Is you're friend okay?" He asks.

"He'll be okay, the bullet went through his shoulder. Eli and I, oh yeah Eli is his other best friend, anyway we rode with Adam to the hospital and he was conscious and talking and everything when we left. Still after everything else I'd been through tonight seeing Adam lying on the floor in all that blood..." my sentence trails off as I take a shuddering breath so I won't cry again.

"Well I'd say that rates as a terrible night, definitely up there on the scale of worst nights ever." Jay comments.

"K.C. left me for Jenna because I still believed in waiting until marriage to have sex. Eli crashed his car just to get me to see him again and Jake decided he didn't even care enough to fight or be around me all summer so he left for their cabin until the wedding. What is it about me that either drives guys away or drives them crazy. Am I that awful?" I ask but not really expecting an answer.

I don't exactly get one either not with words anyway, he leans forwards and kisses me. Normally my intellectual self would have taken over and I would have begun over analyzing the kiss, starting with the fact that he's almost seven years older than I am. However be it the alcohol or just the stacked up emotions of the night I don't think about the kiss at all just disappear into it. His lips are gently caressing mine, his tongue strokes my bottom lip and I open my mouth allowing his tongue to play with mine. My hand not holding my drink instinctually moves to the back of his head and begins clutching at the short hairs at the back of his neck. After a couple minutes he pulls away from me smiling and I can't help but smile back and feel myself blush.

(JAY)

I pull away from kissing Clare and she's blushing, it's very cute and it's been a while since I kissed a girl who blushes after I kiss her.

"You are anything but awful, you're beautiful and sexy." I tell her and her cheeks go more red and she bites her lip which is hot!

"You really think I'm pretty?" She questions.

"Gorgeous and any guy who wouldn't fight for you to the death has to be the biggest idiot in history." I assure her.

She smiles and looks at her drink finishing it off as I begin running my fingers through her hair. Last time I saw her she was as rail thin as her sister, really young and mousy with long hair she usually wore braided and glasses. But now she's incredibly hot, way hotter than Darcy! If Spin saw her he might have a heart attack. She lost the glasses so her amazing blue eyes are even brighter and she cut her hair making her look a little older than I know she is. Best of all she filled out, I mean really filled out. She has the most luscious curves, a nice round ass that I saw as she was walking before I picked her up and my favorite thing nice big soft titties. She's quite for a long time just staring into her empty glass and I'm beginning to worry she's getting uncomfortable. Then she puts her glass down on the coffee table, turns to me and mashes her lips to mine. I grab her waist and pull her onto my lap, her arms come around my neck as she parts her lips and I deepen the kiss. I know she's only sixteen and a tiny part of my brain tells me this is very wrong but I tell it to shut the hell up. Suddenly she pulls away with a shocked and slightly guilty look on her face.

"Oh my god! I'm sorry that was wrong," she exclaims nervously as she get off my lap and I feel hurt by this comment, I must look it too because she softens her expression. "No I mean the kiss was great, amazing just I haven't exactly had the best night and I'm pretty sure I'm drunk and I was upset and I shouldn't have just kissed you it was wrong."

"I didn't mind you can kiss me whenever you like." I tell her.

She smiles and bites her lip again. "I think I should go to bed now. I'll take the sofa though I'm not going to kick you out of you're bed."

(CLARE)

I yawn and stretch nuzzling my head into the soft pillow some more as I snuggle into the warm comforter and then I realize I'm not in my bed, I gasp and sit bolt upright, my eyes shooting open. I look around the room, my head is pounding and my memory a little foggy.

"Where the hell am I?" I whisper into the empty room.

There's a closet filled with guys clothes, the bedding is dark blue and the white walls are broken up by posters of cars and scantily clad girls. I'm definitely in a guys room, I'd swear it was Drew's but I've seen his room and it's bigger and cleaner than this. Then I remember Jay picked me up and brought me to his apartment so I didn't have to go home, I had liquor and...

"Oh my god I kissed Jay!" I shriek in a panic to his empty room and then hope that he's not in the living room to hear my minor freak out.

I get out of the bed slowly as I try to remember exactly what happened last night. As I stand up it dawns on me that I'm not dressed any longer, not in my clothes anyway but I am wearing Jay's shirt.

"What the hell did I do last night?!" I whisper in case he is in the living room.

Being upright doesn't help my headache, I look around for my clothes and find them on the other side of the bed. I lock the bedroom door and change back into my clothes, putting his shirt in the laundry basket. When I leave the bedroom I see the rest of the apartment is empty, there's also a note on the breakfast counter with a bottle of aspirin. The note says he had to go to work and just to lock the handle when I leave and there's water in the fridge so I can take the aspirin. He ends the note by saying he'll call me after work and includes his phone number. Finding my purse on the sofa where I left it I put his number in, dispense a couple of aspirin and swallow it without water.

It's not even eight yet so I know I can't go see Adam at the hospital until nine but I want to see him first thing just to know he's truly okay. Jay's apartment is only a few blocks from the Dot so I decide to go there first as I am in desperate need of coffee and hopefully the fresh air will help my head and clear up my memory. I lock the door as I leave and do enjoy my walk in the cool early summer morning, it does do some good for my headache but not my memory. I remember Jay kissing me and enjoying it and everything after that goes kind of fuzzy. While I was wearing my panties and bra this morning under his shirt I still worry that I got so drunk I did something I shouldn't have.

"Hey Clare." Fitz smiles at me as I enter the Dot. The he furrows his brow a bit when I sit down at the counter. "You okay? You look...hungover." He says the lost word with extreme hesitation and a dubious tone.

"Pretty sure I am, lots of coffee please." I request sort of slumping down at the counter.

He sets a large coffee in front of me with the cream carton and sugar dispenser and I pick my head up opening my purse to pay, he puts a hand on my arm and I look up at him.

"That's okay it's on me." He says.

"Thanks Fitz that's sweet of you." I smile.

"No problem. I heard about Adam is he okay?" Fitz inquires as I put cream and sugar in my coffee.

"The bullet went through his shoulder he's okay, I mean he was conscious and everything when I left the hospital last night but it was still really scary. He may still have some nerve damage or something to his arm, I should actually start walking over there, visiting hours start at nine." I tell him taking note of the time.

"Why don't you finish your coffee and I'll give you a ride over." Fitz suggests as he puts the cream and sugar away.

"That's really nice of you but I can't ask you to do that and you have to work." I counter.

"You're not asking I'm offering and I have a break in a few minutes. Really it's no trouble, besides I remember what hangovers are like." He laughs.

I smile, bite my lip and think about it for a second. "Okay that would be great."

"Great!" He smiles widely, I don't think I've ever seen him really truly smile, it lights up his whole face.

I finish my coffee and when I'm done Fitz tells Jack, the other person working today, that he's going on break. We exit the Dot and walk across the street to his car, it's an old mustang, I know nothing about cars but I'd say it's from sometime in the 80's. It's black and red, with peeling paint, two doors and cracked leather seats.

"It's kind of a wreck but it's all mine." He says as he opens my door for me.

"No it's nice and at least you have a car, I don't have a car at all and Mom almost never lets me drive hers." I remark as he gets in and we start driving to the hospital.

"How come Jake isn't taking you to the hospital and why'd he let you get drunk at prom?" Fitz inquires.

"I didn't get drunk at prom, Jake did however break up with me at prom right before Adam got shot." I inform him.

"Wow that sucks, why'd Jake break up with you? I can't imagine why anyone would ever break up with you." He comments and I smile at the compliment.

"Our parents are getting married in two months, he's about to be my stepbrother." I educate him.

"Oh," he laughs, "I guess that could do it."

We arrive at the hospital and he pulls right up to the doors.

"Thanks for the ride Fitz." I say gratefully.

"It was nothing. Tell Adam...no maybe you better not, he probably doesn't want my get well wishes." Fitz frowns, his tone picking up an edge of sadness and he looks down.

I put my hand on his shoulder and he looks at me again. "Fitz we all forgave you, even Eli. I'm sure Adam will appreciate the sentiment."

He smiles once more, I thank him once again for the ride and get out of the car walking into the hospital.

(ADAM)

Mom left to call Dad about getting a lawyer or two for Bianca and she starts apologizing to me.

"I am so sorry Adam, I never thought Vince would go so far. Well no that's not true but I never thought you'd get hurt because of it." She atones.

"No it's my fault, I provoked him. He never would have been at prom if I hadn't confronted him." My brother confesses.

"But I..." Bianca starts again and I cut her off.

"Guys stop this is Vince's fault he brought the gun intending for someone to get hurt. The doctor said I'd be okay after a couple months of physical therapy." I insist to them.

"Well that's good news." Says the soft voice of my best girl friend from the doorway.

Bianca, Drew and Katie all move back from my bed so Clare can get to me. She walks in with a sad sort of smile but she also seems kind of distressed and confused or anxious. When she gets closer I see that her eyes are blood shot.

"I got you a bear," she says nervously handing me a little black stuffed bear with a sling on one arm, "sorry it's stupid." She apologizes sitting down on the bed next to me.

"No it's cute." I smile at her and she smiles back.

"How do you feel?" She asks.

"Well they have me on a morphine drip so I feel awesome." I tell her and she laughs a bit.

"Fitz says he hopes you get better soon." She tells me, I scrunch my eyebrows together wondering when she was talking to Fitz about me. She shakes her head a little and quickly explains. "I went to the Dot for coffee he had heard about prom and asked if you were okay."

"Are you okay? You look sad and confused and..." I pause unsure of what I'm seeing in her face.

Bianca leans over from the other side of my bed and studies Clare's face a second. "Hungover." She says and even Drew and Katie stop talking, the idea that Clare was drunk is shocking to all of us.

"Jake broke up with me at prom last night because our parents are getting married in a couple of months. They announced it during dinner and I got so upset I left and walked to prom in my street clothes." She informs us.

"Geez you trying to outdo me for worst night?" I joke and she smiles.

"Speaking of your clothes, aren't those the clothes you were wearing last night at prom?" Katie asks.

"Yes they are." Bianca nods with a curious yet devilish smile.

"I didn't go home to change yet, I wanted to be sure Adam was okay." She informs us.

"Wait so then where did you spend the night?" I inquire and we're all looking at her awaiting an answer.

She bites her lip nervously and looks at her hands. "Somewhere safe." She tells me but she doesn't really sound like she believes the words as they leave her mouth.

"Clare?" I say sternly, normally Eli is the friend I worry about but Clare is acting weird.

She looks up at me and smiles. "Alli's, I spent the night at Alli's. I should go though...home to change. I'll be back later, heal quick Adam." She says rapidly in an anxious voice, pecks my cheek, hops off my bed and all but runs for the door.

I watch the doorway for a minute, as do Drew, Katie and Bianca; after a minute I let out a breath I hadn't realized I was holding and they all look at me.

"Okay I really don't know Clare but that was weird right?" Bianca questions.

"I do know her a little and that was weird, that wasn't like Clare at all." Drew says.

"I worked on the newspaper with Clare all semester and I have never seen her that nervous or frazzled." Katie comments.

"That was very weird, I've never seen her like that. She was hiding something from me, she's never hidden anything from me, she usually confides in me." I comment. I would have kept talking but we heard a high pitched voice burst into the room.

"Adam oh god are you okay?! Sav told me when I was packing for science camp and I told him we had to come down and see you right away before we go to DeGrassi to pick up my laptop from Miss Oh. Are you okay? Tell me you're okay." Alli demands pushing Drew out of the way to get to me.

"I'm okay Alli, the bullet went straight through my shoulder. I won't be able to use it for a couple of weeks and I'll have to do physical therapy for a couple of months but then I'll be fine." I assure her and then look at Sav who followed his sister in. "Hey Sav."

"Hey, glad you're okay." He replies.

"Wait Sav told you so then Clare didn't sleep at your house last night?" Bianca asks.

Alli turns to her with a puzzled expression. "No I haven't seen Clare since Friday."

"Why'd you think Clare slept at our house last night?" Sav questions Bianca.

"Because that's where she told us she was." I tell them.

Now Alli looks worried again. "Why would she tell you she was at my house?" Alli asks.

"No idea but she showed up here in the clothes she was wearing last night and said that she'd spent the night at your house." Drew tells them.

"If she'd spent the night at my house she would have borrowed clothes. Where was she last night, I'm going to call her and find out." Alli says in a determined tone.

"You'll have to do it from the car we have to get going Alli." Sav tells her.

"You had better be all better when I get back from camp." Alli insists and then she and Sav leave.

"Okay if she didn't sleep at Alli's and didn't go home where did Clare spend the night?" Drew inquires to no one in particular. "Do you think she stayed at Eli's?" He asks.

"Not likely and she would have told me if she'd slept at Eli's." I say.

"Hey." Eli greets from the door and we all fall silent and look at him. He walks in the room coming next to me and gives everyone a bewildered look since we're all looking at him. "Feeling better?" He asks me, sitting right where Clare was sitting a short time ago.

"The morphine kind of stops me from feeling anything." I tell him.

"Yeah morphine's great for that umm why are they all staring at me?" Eli inquires.

"Just wondering if Clare spent the night at your house." Bianca blurts out.

Eli crinkles his forehead in surprise and confusion. "Last I saw Clare she was waiting for her mom to pick her up as my dad and I drove away last night. Why would you think she slept at my house?" He questions.

"She was just here in the clothes she was wearing last night and said she hadn't yet gone home to change. She told us she spent the night at Alli's but Sav and Alli were just here and they said she didn't. She also looked hungover." Bianca tells him.

Eli looks astonished and he's speechless for a minute. "Well she wasn't at my place but if she didn't go home and didn't sleep at Alli's or your house where else would she have gone? Her only other female friend is Jenna and she lives at Alli's house. Jake broke up with her last night and he went to his cabin until their parents wedding, so she wasn't with him." Eli states.

"She told us about Jake, I'm more worried about where she spent the night, she was really nervous when she was telling us." I inform him.

"Nervous?" Eli questioned.

"Very nervous before she told us she spent the night at Alli's she told us she was just somewhere safe." I tell him.

"Huh." Is all he says.

Update soon with some more of Fitz, Alli and Jay and probably Adam and Eli too.

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