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WARNING THIS CHAPTER IS KIND OF LIKE A FILLER AND I REALLY, REALLY HATE THIS ONE.

"Miss Wilson?"

I jerk out of my reverie and look at the counsellor in front of me.

"Yeah?" I ask.

"You seemed to have drifted off."

"Yeah she does that." Natalie snorts,"Must be fascinating in that head of hers."

"Well at least I have something in my head, I wish you could say the same." I reply drily.

She simply rolls her eyes.

"So you girls have issues, huh?" The counsellor asks.

Yeah, no shit.

"Look Mrs Sawy-"

"Please call me Sarah." She interrupts and Natalie nods.

"Can we please get on with this?" Natalie asks,"I have cheerleading practice."

Sarah raises an eyebrow,"As far as I know you've been suspended off the squad."

"Look. I'm the captain Melanie can't do anything." Natalie starts an I snort.

"You're just terrified that Melanie will replace you and your social status will go down drastically." I say.

"Puhleese I'm Natalie Anderson." He says and I roll my eyes.

"And I'm Clara Wilson." I reply,"What's your point?"

"My point is that fuck off."

I roll my eyes and mutter,"And my IQ points just dropped by a hundred."

"Miss Wilson if you're done." Our counsellor says,"So let's start at the beginning shall we? Clara can you tell me one thing that you hate about Natalie and a reason for it?"

Where do I even begin?

"She did get a bucket of oil paint thrown at me." I say,"In front of the entire school. When I was being asked out, on my birthday- Do you want more reasons?"

She shakes her head,"So far so obvious, Natalie what about you?"

"We'll for starters she's a boyfriend stealing whore."

I roll my eyes,"That's real rich coming from you. You're the one who stole him in the first place."

Natalie turns to me,"As far as I can see he was my boyfriend at the start of the year. Then he dumped me, for you. Again. So tell me how so you are not a boyfriend stealing whore?"

"Well you were the one who started dating him the first time just I throw it at my face. You almost did as well as my sister I'll give you that." I state drily.

"I actually like him unlike her." Natalie mutters.

"And when did this happen?" I ask,"Magically when you stopped being friends with me? Magically when you knew for just how long I've liked him?"

"Oh please at least I'm not using him as a rebound." She says.

"I'm not-"

"Oh really? I heard that you practically marathoned out of the chem lab when Jake came back." She says.

I resist the urge to choke her. But the worst part was that she was hundred percent right about the running out of the chemistry lab like my life depended on it.

At first I thought I had inhaled some fumes or something which was why I was hallucinating him and I looked away for a second, and then I looked back.

And he was still there.

And he was still looking at me.

And then I looked at Alec.

And then I ran out, mumbling something about third degree burns. I went to the third floor bathroom a place almost nobody came to and just stood in front of the mirror looking at my reflection which looked like I had just seen a ghost.

After that I just bunked the rest of chemisty telling myself to stop over reacting. So what he if was back?  When the bell finally rang, I was in full mood to run out of school, Ussain Bolt style but then I realised that not only did I have to go to counselling but Alec was ride home and he had football practice.

"I just dropped something." I say giving my pathetic excuse,"I had to wash it off. And honestly but out of my life. It non of your flipping concern, after all you don't see me around asking who your newsy duck buddy is now do you?"

She snorts,"Is that what-"

"Okay girls that's enough." Sarah finally interrupts and Natalie huffs.

"So that two minute conversation between you told me that we have a long way to go." She says,"So Natalie please tell Clara what you would like her to stop doing."

"Fine." Natalie says,"I'd like Clara to stop pretending that she is a holier than thou good girl who has never done anything wrong."

"Okay." Sarah says,"And Clara?"

I keep my mouth shut.

She raises an eyebrow,"Do you have nothing to say to her?"

"I just want her to leave me alone."I say,"We both don't talk. We are not friends. And I have nothing against her as long as she keeps away from me and minds her own buisness."

"Well then stop going out with Alec." She says.

"For the billionth time Natalie, Alec asked me." I say,"He dumped you not me. I never asked him to dump you-"

"Hold up girls." And for some reason we both shut up as she looks at us curiously,"So this is about a guy?"

She says slowly.

"Yes."

"No."

I look at Natalie raising an eyebrow,"It's not about Alec?"

"Well that's just part of the problem." She snarks,"My main problem is that your a condescending little goody two shoes who is actually a two faced bitch."

Michella and Natalie should get married.

"Goody two shoes?" My voice rises,"Look Natalie I don't know what you've been getting high on and frankly I don't care less, but let's get one thing straight, lay off."

"Is that a threat?"

I throw back the line she had said to me right before she had impeded paint all over me,"We used to be friends figure it out."

"Well the Clara I knew couldn't say boo to a cat."

"Don't pretend you knew me." I say seething and Natalie is red,"Let's face it if we really were friends then-"

"I don't know what was going through my head being friends with you." She says,"Forget good girl you are a good for nothing bitch."

"Well I'm not the one who dumped paint-"

"I'm not the one who stood on the cafeteria table and practically announced that I had-"

"In my defence I never said you had it. I just told the truth-"

"Yeah well you sure as hell implied it. As if it's not enough for you to take Alec-"

"He is not your property." I say exasperated,"Just because he dated you for god knows what reason-"

"Stop acting like your innocent!" She bursts and I shut up.

We both sit there quietly and the counsellor finally speaks up,"You two used to be friends back in middle school, what happened?"

We both keep quiet.

"Look you guys need to co-operate or else your parents will get involved."

Natalie rolls her eyes,"Well best of luck getting her parents here, they-"

I throw a glare her way that even makes her stop. Even she can't go that low.

But I was wrong.

"-would probably just put you on hold and ask, Clara who?"

I shut my eyes clenching my fist. I let go of a long breath and look ahead. The counsellor stares at me and I look back with a steady gaze.

Sarah looks at me curiously and then at Natalie before finally saying,"Well that's enough for today."

"You two clearly need to start talking about your issues which you clearly have a whole lot of." She continues,"I want you to make a list of everything that you bothers you about the person siting next to you."

This sounds like couples therapy.

Natalie raises an eyebrow,"So this what are counselling will consist of? Yelling at each other and making lists?"

Sarah shrugs,"Yes for now. I'm letting you go now. Unless you want I start talking about your feelings-"

I'm out of the office before she completes the sentence and Natalie is right on my heels.

"You need to watch it."

I turn around. I had always been taller than Natalie and right now it felt good to tower over her despite her heels.

"I will bury you." I seethe,"Do not mess with me Natalie, you don't know me at all. So don't even try to take me on because I've kept truce all this while trust me you will go running away when I start fighting."

She smirks,"You could never take me on. What makes you think you could take me on?"

"Because I'm over being scared of you." I say,"When I realised just what a pathetic loser you are an in the end all you that going to be on your wall of achievements is the guys who you nailed and the fact that you were some wannabe cheerleader in high school. That all you're going to be Natalie, the has been."

"And what's going to be on yours?" She throws back," The fact that you are a lonely girl who nobody cares about , the one who will always be second to her sister, a nobody to her parents. Even Jake tossed you aside like last years trash. You are the one who is pathetic Clara."

"All you can do is cling on to Alec with all you've got hoping that you don't drown and you just can't let go of him can you?" She says,"You're scared that if you do then you are going to drown and nobody is going to care enough to save you."

She takes a step closer but I stand my ground as my mind is trying to soak the impact of the words she's saying.

"Don't mess with me Clara." She says,"I let you easy with the oil paint because you know that cutsie little crew you have of yours? The black haired one whose been at it with Jeremy? I will make sure that they run away from you and never look back.And when I snatch Alec back I'll make sure that he abandons ship like Jake did. And let me tell you I will make sure you sink like a rock with no one there to care enough to save you."

"I'd save her."

Natalie's eyes widen and my breath hitches and my hands go cold. I feel like I've been hit by a bus and I can't get myself to think.

I glance at Jake standing in the hallway in his football gear and I immediately look away.

No, no, no. Please don't.

"Besides I think she can swim pretty well Natalie." He says his voice is amused,"So she's going to be just fine, pity I can't say the same about you."

Natalie smirks,"Is that why you threw her away her like trash? We all know that you dumped on her ass and frankly I don't blame you. My advice babe, you run away before this one blows up."

His eyes meet mine for a second almost surprised but he regains his cool,"For your information Natalie, she dumped me. And for your information babe I don't take advice from girls who get their little egos boosted by putting other people down, especially people I ca-"

He catches himself right on time.

"Leave Natalie or so help me god I'll make sure that I screw up your nose job even more before." He regards her coldly.

"You're not supposed to hit a girl." She says looking a bit shocked.

"You're not one." I deadpan,"Just because some fake boobs on you does-"

Natalie more or less pounces on me but Jake is quicker and stands in front of me.

"I wouldn't do that." He says and Natalie seethes with anger.

She glares at me her eyes burning a hole into mine and I look back amused.

"Game on. I'd watch my back if I were you."

And with that she turns and leaves her high heels echoing through the empty hallway.

"Are you alright?"

His tone gives nothing away and it's casual as if he's asking a perfectly normal question to a friend.

I had pictured this in my head. A billion times when he had left me, what I would do if he came back. But now faced with the chance I was left paralysed.

What could I do?

Tell him to go fuck off and stop messing with my life?

To give him a standing ovation for successfully shattering my heart into the tiniest bits possible.

Or just forgive him for everything?

"I'm fine."

My voice is surprisingly sturdy considering everything. For some reason I can't get my gaze off the polished floor and get myself to look at him and say what I want to. To say something, anything. To ask him why he is back, why he just told Natalie what he did and why he cared.

My mind went blank as if it had just fused out. There is a limit to how much a person can take and I had reached mine long back when it came to things regarding Jake Henderson.

"Okay." He says.

I keep staring at the ground as his footsteps fade away. I finally manage to look up in the end knowing he's long gone.

In more ways than one.

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I manage to get myself together in under two minutes. Although Natalie's words hurt they made me angry.

Mostly because it was all fucking true.

Game on, bitch. You messed with the wrong version of Clara Wilson.

It would have probably effected me more had it not been for Jake. No matter how much I tried I couldn't get his words out of my head. As much as I tried to divert my attention to the impending war that Natalie had just declared on me my mind kept on going back to him.

I'd save her.

She dumped me.

It was nagging me. As much as I tried to tell myself otherwise it was killing me as to how he could treat me like some acquaintance, a friend so casually without betraying a single emotion.

That's not my problem.

Then why in gods name are you making it yours?

She dumped me.

People I ca-

I shake my head.

It's not my problem, either anymore.

I curse myself for thinking so hard about him. There was no point after all. But still my mind kept going back to him, questioning as to why he had come back. Part of me I knew hoped that it was for me, but the other part of me the more dominant one buried that thought as deep as it could.

I was moving on, correction I had moved on. I was happy with Alec and whatever I had with Jake was just not my problem anymore.

I make my way towards the football field slowly contemplating as to wether I should actually wait or just walk to town and catch a bus from there. In the end I shake my head and tell myself to man up.

A practice match was going on and all the footballers were well into the match. According to my watch practice would end over in about twenty minutes max which I could easily wait out.

I spot Alec's number 9 jersey number far off on the other side of the field and think against waving. I take out my chemistry book and start working on my extra credit since clearly my chemistry marks were going to be stellar after my mishap.

Luckily before I dropped everything Alec had noted down enough to give me a passing grade and all I needed to do was do some, okay maybe a lot of extra credit work to bring up my grade and maintain my GPA.

I start solving the equations going through it as methodically as I can, although it's hard concentrating in the cold as well with all the noise coming from the cheerleaders but I carry on.

Why was he back?

The pen involuntary jerks in my hand.I curse because I just ruined one of my equations.

My mind flickers back to the hallway.

I'd save her.

The irony of that sentence is not lost on me.

Let it go, Clara. Let it go.

Yeah you wish you were as cool as Elsa.

This is ridiculous Clara. You're acting like the world has ended just because some boy has come back. Stop acting like one of those airhead girls. So what if he's back?

It's not like you're going to become buddies again, you're dating Alec and you're happy. You're with the-

"Look out!"

I duck just in time to see the football pass over my head missing me by a couple of inches.

That did not look like an accident.

"Oi Kevin!" One of the boys yell,"Watch where you're throwing."

I narrow my eyes at Kevin who currently raises his hand and yells,"Sorry!"

But he doesn't look sorry at all as he smirks in the direction of the boy in the number five jersey.

Jake.

I turn my gaze away from Jake trying not to overthink things and focus it back on Alec who just called a break and is heading in my direction.

Jake is the past. Alec is right now.

I smile and I can feel my mind getting lighter as Alec takes the seat beside me.

"Hi."

It takes me all my willpower not to throw my arm around him and just thank him for being there.

And being normal.

Well most of the times.

"I'm so sorry you have to wait." He says siting next to me,"It must be a nightmare."

I roll my eyes unable to keep the smile off my face,"I'm fine. Besides it's fun to see you play."

He raises an eyebrow,"You hate football."

I shrug,"Doesn't mean I can't start to like it for you."

He smiles.

"What's Kevin doing on the team?" I ask trying to sound nonchalant.

"Long story but he's good and we need him, his aim doesn't slip like that often."

Or he was aiming at me.

My mind flickers back to several months ago when Jake had picked fight with Kevin. I try to grasp onto something a faint memory of Kevin somewhere but it disappears as soon as it comes.

I glance at the field where Jake is standing. His eyes meet mine for the tiniest bit of a second but then he immediately looks away. I feel a brief pang of hope as well as hurt but I bury it as quickly as it appears.

He was not worth it.

I tear my gaze back at Alec as he sighs,"I was about to tell you that he was-"

"I know, but I said no bad news." I interrupt," I just wish that if you had told me earlier out chemistry grade wouldn't be in jeopardy."

He smiles,"Don't worry about that. Mrs Yetern will let us make it up. God help it if she fails you, the grade point average of our entire batch will come crashing down."

I find myself laughing at that.

"Jake told me about Natalie." He says slowly and I look at him surprised.

"Jake?" I ask just to be sure. His name feels like sandpaper in my mouth and I almost have to choke it to get it out.

"Yeah." Alec says,"I know weird. But that's not the point. The point is that are you alright?"

Was I?

I give him a smile and look at him earnestly as I say,"I'm a whole lot better now."

He looks away, his green eyes filled with guilt,"I'm sorry this is happen-"

"Don't even think it's your fault." I interrupt.

"But it is." He says,"If I-"

I shut him up with a peck on his cheek. For a second my gaze diverts to Jake and then i almost immediately look away.

"No apologies." I say,"Because it's not your fault and neither is she worth it."

"Natalie is going to be put in her place one of these days."He says fiercely and I smile.

"I know." I say,"But for now let's not waste a second on her."

"I love you, Clara Wilson." He says,"I hope you know that."

"I won't forget as long as you're there to remind me everyday."

He grins,"Good. That's the plan. And don't worry about chemistry you'll do just fine the next time."

I roll my eyes at that and he gives me a quick peck on the cheek.

"Gotta go."

"Hey Alec?"

He stops and turns around looking at me expectantly.

"You do know um- that um." I fiddle with my fingers trying to form a sentence,"That the fact that he's back changes nothing right?"

He strides back towards me and gives me a good long kiss, one that I can feel up to ,my toes.

Jeremy whistles and I pull away red with embarrassment.

Alec grins,"I know Clara. Why would it?"

I stare after him very pointedly trying to ignore this empty pit in my stomach.

It doesn't change a thing.

Wow, I almost managed to convince myself too.

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"And she completely fell flat on her face."

I roll my eyes as both my grandmother and Alec start cracking up at that.

"Why does every single story about my childhood end like that?" I groan buring my face into my hands.

"Darling trust me you fell so much that I almost considered wrapping you up with bubble wrap at one point." My grandmother says.

Alec laughs and nods,"I'm not sure if that would have worked, I mean Clara has the habit of finding a way to trip over something even when there is nothing."

"It's not a habit." I respond trying to gather whatever shreds of dignity I had left,"It's a talent."

He shakes his head in silent laughter.

"What's a talent is that Alec here got you to go to not one but two dances in the span of three months." My grandmother says,"I've been telling you since the past three years."

"Well she had to go for the homecoming ball, she was nominated as a princess."

"What?" My grandmother says her eyes bulging.

"Why does everyone find it so hard to believe?" I whine.

"No I'm talking about the fact that you failed to mention this to me." She says.

"It's not such a big deal."

"Well for one I find the part that you didn't get voted as queen the unbelievable part." Alec says and I blush.

"You lay it on thick don't you?" My grandmother observes.

Alec nods,"I try my best."

"Good." My grandmother observes,"Heaven knows that this girl needs to get fatter she's a stick"

"If you mean it literally, thank you." I say,"But if you mean it metaphorically grandma-"

"Watch who you're calling grandma missy." She says in a mock serious tone.

"That's true Mrs Wilson you look like you haven't aged a day over twenty five."

My grandmother beams,"I'll never get tired of you flattery Alec, it's a shame you don't come to dinners more often."

When we were kids Alec used to come to have dinner with my grandmother and I almost every alternate day. The both of them always got along perfectly well. It used to be my highlight back then, but when Alec started dating Natalie in freshman year things changed. He came more often when he was dating Michella mostly because she wanted to make sure that she wanted to flaunt him in front of him as far as possible.

"Oh I plan to Mrs Wilson." He says,"I'm going to stick one like white on rice."

"Well then you know you're always welcome to come over." She says,"Im going to go out of town this weekend but I'll be back in a week or so."

He nods,"Well I hope you have a nice trip."

Something in my grandmothers eyes darken but it vanishes as quickly as it appears.

"I'll be sure too."

"Well then I'll take my leave now." Alec says getting up.

"Already?" I ask.

"Yeah, I'm supposed to be at Jeremy's house for biology, in about-" he checks his watch and sighs,"Well I was supposed to be at his house half and hour back."

"I'll walk you out."

I get up with him and lead him towards the door even though I know he's been in my house a gajillion times. Something just felt oddly satisfying being a normal couple. With all the dinners, PDA and flirting,

But at the same time it felt..

I try to grasp on to a word to describe it but when I failed to I just gave up.

"Wait." I halt,"Your gift let me open it now."

The gift is still on the counter where I left it. I stop and look at the black one right in next to it. I grab it and shove it into the drawer making a mental note to return it back.

"I think you're making a big deal out of this." Alec says as I open the present.

"Well you see there are not a lot of people who give me presents." I say,"Take my parents for an example. My mom gave me a text and my dad called me for a grand total of ten seconds to wish me. Agreed they might have spruced up my bank account a bit but I don't get these kind of gifts very often so I happen to cherish the gifts I get."

Although my voice is bitter, Alec overlooks it. He'd always been the kind to think that I should try to mend my relationship with my parents. I don't blame him, he had always been close to both of his parents and after his mother died he become more adamant about what I should do to mend relations with mine.

He'd never understood the fact that there was no relationship with my parents they were just there as some figures who had no job just a title. Yeah it was messed up but the ironic thing was really the fact that his family was more messed up than mine and he didn't know any of it and I was not going to be the one to tell him either.

"It's beautiful." I say smiling as I look at it. It's a simple yet dainty necklace with a small teardrop pearl on it. My gaze falls to my wrist for a second but I quickly look up at Alec and smile.

"Put it on for me?" I ask and he smiles.

"Of course."

He takes it from me and I push my hair to the side as he clasps it around my neck.

"It used to be my mothers you know?"

My hand instantly moves away form it as if it's been burned.

"What happened?" He asks confused.

"Alec you know how clumsy I am." I ramble,"You can't give me something like this. What if it's breaks? Or I lose it? Or-"

He puts both his hands on either side of my face and looks at me,"It's going to be fine Clara, stop panicking. Besides it always her intention for you to have this."

"But-"

He kisses me and it's enough to shut me up.

"Good night Clara."

"Good night Alec."

He leaves after that and I stare after him. This was a fairytale. Every girl wanted this, the perfect prince, the perfect happy ending and the perfect love story

I glance at Jakes bedroom which currently had its light on and then looked back at Alec's car which sped out into the road.

If this was a fairytale then what was Jakes role in it?

And even when I asked myself that question I knew the answer to that.

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"You're going to break your pen if you don't slow down."

At that I almost do break my pen, along with my neck as I look up from my math sum, startled.

Jake is siting on his window sill with his legs propped up against the ledge. I look at him keeping my face neutral.

"Are you alright?"

It's not your fucking problem.

"I'm fine." I say trying to appear unaffected,"Why wouldn't I be?"

A silence settles around us but there is nothing comfortable about it. It's so quiet that you can hear the crickets chirp which was weird because I doubt that this place even had crickets. I stand there as he looks at me in silence with a look that's guarded.

"And thank you about the Natalie thing but I was doing fine." I add finally breaking the uneasy silence.

"No doubt."

I purse my lips trying to get used to our curt manner of speaking. It sounded like we were two strangers who didn't want to talk or associate with each other were forced to make small talk. I look at him trying to figure out what had changed. He was Jake, but he wasn't Jake.

He looked the same, messy black hair that had grown slightly longer and those same green eyes. He didn't look any older just tired and yet..

He didn't even closely resemble to boy I used to know.

"Ashley asked me to invite you for dinner tomorrow. She knows your grandmother is going out of town." He says and I quickly glance away when I realise I had been staring at him.

I hesitate and then he adds,"Alec's coming too, I really don't think he has a choice cause she's cooking her special."

I raise an eyebrow,"Her special?"

"Something edible I think." He replies.

I nod,"Ashley would probably not take a no, huh?"

"Nope." He says with a small smile on his lips,"She'd probably go ballistic on your ass."

I laugh but then I quickly stop myself.

"So Alec huh?"

What did you expect that I would wait around just hoping you come back after you left me hanging in New York?

"Yeah." I say instead.

His eyes give away nothing as he nods,"That's good. You guys were always meant to be."

What?

What?

"Yeah I know." I say struggling to keep my voice even but even then the three words sound like burnt grass in my mouth, bitter.

What was happening? How could he act like nothing had happened?

"Apparently he asked you-"

"Very romantically." I cut in,"It was perfect. Any girl in my position would have said, yes."

I act on an impulse trying to get something out of him. Maybe even a flicker of emotion. But Jake had always been good at hiding emotions and that had not changed about him. He smiles as if he didn't notice my exterior motive before getting off the ledge,"I'm sure they would have."

He gives nothing away as he speaks. If anyone else had seen the conversation between the two of us looking at him none of them would be able to guess what has happened.

Does none of this effect him? Alec, me, none of it? Why was he back anyway? To show how speedily he had moved on and how whatever happened there didn't matter to him at all?

He's about to close his curtains but he looks at me one last time and says,"But you're not like other girls are you?"

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AUTHORS NOTE

Author: For some reason I just don't like this chapter. I've read like fifty times trying to figure out what is wrong with it and I'm just not happy. Can someone please tell me why this chapter is bad?

Natalie: You read it fifty times and there are still so many grammar mistakes, wow.

Author:*looks very pointedly at Natalie* never mind I figured out the cause

Clara: I feel like I've been friend zoned

Jake: I sound like... I sound like an Alec in this chapter

Alec: You mean awesome, cool and charming?

Jake:*snorts* I mean more like a whiny pathetic loser

Alec:*rolls eyes* Even you admitted it that Clara was always meant to be with me.

Jake: I must have been high or something *turns to author* I was high wasn't I?

Author: No. You meant every word you said.

Clara: is that a good thing or a bad thing.

Author: You have the rest of the book to figure that out.

Reader: this chapter was boring, please tell me it gets better from here?

Author:Yes it does. You have to realise that you can't expect him to just barge in and create controversy and drama, it takes time to build up stuff like this, especially because Clara hasn't completely processed the fact that he is back yet. As to why he's back I'm pretty sure you guys may have guessed it's Clara, but clearly he's not doing anything to win her back(yet/maybe never) Now that you will have to wait and find out.

Clara: He's probably back to make my life hell

Jake: More like Alec's

Author: And mine. It's incredibly tiring writing about your mood swings.

Clara: He PMS's more than you do 

Jake and Nylla: Hey!

Clara:*turns to author* You owe me after basing your entire book on my life

Jake:*turns to author* She's never going to let that go is she?

Clara: *turns to Jake* And you! you- you *walks away*

Author: Jake, you have a lot of work to do

Alec: Yeah, even i feel sorry for you now

Clara: *yells from the background* Oh he hasnt begun to feel sorry just yet, just wait until I'm done with him.

Author: She's either a sex crazed pyscho or she's going to kill you in your sleep.

Jake: I'm too pretty to die

Author:*rolls eyes* Wow. Literally, just wow. Okay moving on from these weirdos, thank you guys for all the comments reads and votes its almost reached 1,00,000 and thats kinda sorta really insane. Thank you so much! I know this chapter is stupid but my exams are killing me and i'll try my best for an update next saturday. Special mention to @TheRamonesRock once again for her fantabulous comment. I kinda fangirled so hard that i put a screenshot of it on my instagram ID, @nyllacamphry. Also special mention to @longinglouis who made the graphic in this chapter.

Okay my question for this one is a werid one, if you were to write a bonus scene for this book what would you write it on and why. Oh and will even a single person participate if i hold a one shot competition for this at the end of the book ? 

Any questions feel free to ask ;)

Jake: So dont forget to comment all about me, vote for me to stop being so stupid and if you have any suggestions go tell Clara to-

Alec: Hey! No fair he can advertise during authors notes 

Author: I give up. I seriously do.

Next Chapter: (note they may not always be accurate) More Alec and Clara, More Jake and Clara and its finally time for Operation Take Natalie Down to commence.

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