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Teardrop In The Fire	By : MysticNight Category: Singers/Bands/Musicians > Incubus Views: 3776 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. I do not know the members of Incubus. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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Throughout the first 20 minutes of the car ride, there was nothing but silence besides the low sound of the radio playing.

“Brandon” Chris started “I don’t know if it was just me, but did it seem like…Maybe, Claire wasn’t telling the complete truth?”

At first he didn’t say anything, still caught up in his own thoughts, he didn’t want to think that Claire had lied to him.

“We’re going to just have to trust her.”

Chris nodded in response, “I know. I do trust her, it’s just…” he stopped talking.

“Just what?” Brandon asked while keeping his focus on the road.

“I know you heard about the abuse thing when she was younger…and, I don’t even want to think back to that. But, it’s just. That’s how she got, really defensive and secretive, she didn’t want anyone knowing anything. Did you see when i threw my arms in the air at her not telling me, how she flinched? she's never done that. It just kind of bothered me.”

The only thing Brandon had rememberd about the situation he was refering to was her uncle getting arrested.

“Chris, what DID happened back then?”

he didn’t know if he was being too inquisitive but he really did want to know.

Claire had never really spoken about it.

“I don’t remember exactly everything because I had just been adopted by her family. But from what I heard, her uncle pretty much 'took it there' with her.”

Brandon had an idea of what he was talking about but in a sense he found it vague, that could have meant anything.

“It messed her up for a while, she was afraid of everything and everyone. But after that, I promised myself as her only brother, that I’d never let another guy take advantage of her again. My mom kind of let me know a while ago that was one of the main reasons she made us go places together.”

“…So if that’s the case, who do you think could have…’

“I’m not saying that’s what happened, because Michael would never let anything happen to her or do anything to her, he loves her way too much for that. It’s just, I guess it just brought back some old thoughts, maybe.”

“Man, you shouldn't over analyze this, we’ll take her word for it, that’s all we can do right now.” Brandon assured. “We’ll keep an eye on her”

“But for how long? you know we’re going on tour the day after tomorrow so we wont see her another couple of months”

“Shit” he said to himself “I totally forgot about that. Well all I can really say is, Claire knows we’re here for her, she knows she has us, it shouldn’t even be a question in her mind, so you just have to trust if something important is going on she’ll come to you, or me, or us, or whoever, but hopefully us.”

“You’re right”

“I know I am”

*

“Hey” she walked in,

“Hi honey” Michael walked up to her. “Aw, look at your face.”

She didn’t answer, instead she just stared at him malevolently.

“What did the other guys say?” he inquired, sitting back down on the couch.

“How do you think they reacted? They’re worried about me, those guys are like my brothers-besides Chris who actually is”

“Well they don’t need to worry because you have me”

“I’m going to bed” she was still quite upset from earlier.

*

The next morning Claire was up bright and early, 6:00 to be exact.

She had something to eat, read some of her notes then took a shower before turning her laptop on.
As for Michael, he had been gone before she even woke up.

The phone began to ring when she walked out of the bathroom in her robe. She quickly caught it as the answering machine started to respond.

“Good morning?”

“Hey”

“Hey Brandon, how are you?”

“I’m good, how are the bruises?”

She glanced over at a nearby mirror noticing her bruising had gone down, some.

“I put some ice on everything last night, so it’s gone away considerably.”

“That’s good. So are you ready?”

“As ready as I’ll ever be. What about you? You guys ready to start the big tour tomorrow?”

“Mm, Yeah, it’ll be good to see what everyone thinks of the new album.”

“Oh, they’ll love it” she said genuinely “From the tracks I've heard, they’ll go bananas!”

“B-a-n-a-n-a-s?” he coolly asked.

“Yep” she laughed. “So Marissa’s going to meet up with you on tour?”

“Yeah, she’s going to take a break from the modeling to spend a couple of days with me”

“Aw, is someone excited or what?”

“I’m alright” he smirked.

“Wait-why are you up so early, you’d think you would bask in your last day of good sleep”

He stopped for a minute “I just wanted to wish you luck, I know how much you’ve been studying for this”

“Brandy, you didn’t have to do that”

“I know, but I wanted to.”

“Thank you sweetie, it means a lot to me”

“You’re welcome. Now i’m going to let you go, you have to start in 5 minutes”

“Shit, you’re right. Okay, I’ll tell you how everything goes. Bye!” she smiled hanging up.

Claire quickly pulled on a pair of shorts and a vintage t-shirt. She turned on her laptop, and waited for it to load while placing her curly tresses into a high pony tail, and putting her glasses on.

20 minutes into the exam, Claire found that she knew just about every question that was being dished at her.

“Hey” she heard Michael say from behind.

“Hi, I’m kind of busy can we talk in a bit?” she asked not taking her eyes from the screen.

“You certainly had enough time to talk to Brandon” he squarely pointed out.

“Oh, not again. Michael this is important, Later Please”

Lately everything seemed to be in comparison to Brandon and it was more than beginning to be enough for her, she found herself having to remember what a great person Michael had been to her and how much he loved her.

“I heard you’re conversation, the answering machine caught it. You were so nice to him and yet your being so malicious to me.”

“Malicious?” she asked in surprised. “Look, I don’t know if you don’t know the meaning of the word, or you’re just seeing things wrong but I have been anything but malicious to you!” she continued to click.

“So what, Now that you're getting your masters you think that you’re smarter that everyone?”

She sighed in frustration.

“I do NOT think I am smarter than anyone. I’m doing this for me, I don’t need to prove anything to anyone but myself. It's like everything I do bothers you! You’re pursuing your career in acting, and I’ve done nothing but support you since day one, a little bit of the same towards me is all I ask.”

“No one told you to take on a workload of shit…”

She ignored him, “Keep talking, Michael”

“I fucking will” his temper flared. “What, you’re going to call Brandon next to tell him about big bad me?”

“I didn’t yesterday, did I?”

She could feel his eyes on the back of her head.

“I told you it was an accident.”

She didn’t asnwer.

“You believe me, don’t you?”

“Can you please just let me finish this exam in peace”

“You think I would purposely hurt you? That I don’t love you? Everyone’s not as perfect as you, Claire! We all make mistakes!”

“If that’s what you want to call it” she smirked shaking her head. “You know what Michael, I’m not talking about this anymore, you’re ruining my concentration”

“No! I want us to talk about this”

She didn’t say anything, instead he only heard the clicking sound of the mouse.

Without another word he walked over snatching the laptop from her, opening the balcony doors, and walking out.

“Hey!” she shouted after him.

He didn’t give her so much as a look, and before Claire's very eyes, the exam that would complete her career fell 6 floors below.
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