Whose Fault? (Editing)

Chapter Three

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"So... It's an animal. And another name for it is an ass." Eli told me as his hint.

"Donkey?" I guessed. Eli nodded his head and I flicked the phone down. We were playing Heads Up, but to make it more interesting, Eli had the wonderful idea of involving Oreos. This time he had to eat the stuffing because I had gotten the answer right.

"This one is a song by a man who used to be in a boy band and the song has to do with enough tears flowing that it fills up a long stream of water."

"Ooh...Shit! Justin Timberlake 'Cry Me a River!'" He nodded his head again and grabbed another Oreo only eating the filling as I flicked the phone down.

"Alright. It's another animal that can live in water or on land. It has a shell as it's home..." he hinted.

Oh, this one's easy! "Turtle!" I yelled.

So loud!

Whoops. I made a mental note to not be so loud for the next one while flicking the phone down once again and waiting for Eli to finish eating the cream Oreo filling.

"This one's a profession which someone works with kids and shows them how to do a whole bunch of new things."

"A teacher?" I guessed, turns out I was right as Eli ate the filling once again.

"Okay. Um. Fuck. It's a fruit. They're small and orange but it's not an orange."

"Okay... Uh... Tangerine?" He shook his head. "Clementine?" He shook his head again. I got stuck and thought for a few seconds, when my time ran out. "What was it?" I asked as I grabbed an Oreo and only ate the cream.

"It was a kumquat." He said. Dumbass.

"How the hell was I supposed to know that?! I've never even heard of a stupid kumquat before!"

Eli got this very offended look on his face before he said, "it is a very important fruit and you should try not to make fun of it."

I apologize and laugh while saying, "I'm sorry! Are you king of the kumquats?"

"Hey, you never know. I very well might be..." He said starting to laugh at the end. I ended up joining in on it. He's got a contagious laugh, and a smile that could light up just about anyone's day. He lit up my day. I always realized that after being around Eli, even for the smallest amount of time, my mood was a bit better. For some reason he made me happier than I usually was. He was the exact opposite of me.

We laughed for a couple minutes, then Eli said, "we should probably get back to our homework now. That break, while fun, was long enough." I nodded agreeing with him.

It was a few weeks after we started our project. It took me a while to get used to him being around. Even when I tried to push him away, he had stuck around and did not give up on me.

We got along very well, and we had several similar interests. The two of us hung out a lot. A lot more than I did with most of my friends. Somehow, he knew how to make me laugh and cheer me up a bit when I was with him. My stomach was always filled with butterflies and my heart went crazy sometimes. It was easy to forget things when I was around him.

That being said, I still didn't trust him at all. It was difficult for me. For all I knew, he could turn on me or disappear in a flash. Being around him was nice and made me happy for the time being; however, I was not going to be stupid and let my guard down.

Eli had told me that he was usually "pretty shit" at science, his words, and asked if we could basically be study buddies along with working on our project together. To which I had agreed. We had to read the next chapter in the textbook and familiarize ourselves with the vocabulary before the next class. We were a little more than half way through when we got bored and he came up with a game to play as a brain break before going back to work.