Title: Maybe This Time
Prompt: #33/ charm
Words: 108
Summary: Aaron and Clementine share a moment.
Spoilers: 5.11 – Whatever Happened, Happened
A/N: Title from Maybe This Time, the Glee version.
He's five, she's eight (always older, more experienced), hiding beneath blankets. Her idea – he still thinks girls have cooties – their lips brush against one another; tentativeness transforming strangely into pleasure.
Once he begins to enjoy it (his first kiss, maybe not hers), she slaps him away; building up walls that didn't exist before. He never did like isolation, already too much at home.
Her eyes reflect pain of infinite unshed tears, hidden behind anger, fueled by lies. She's gone before he dares to blink, wailing as she trips downstairs.
"Mommy, Aaron tried to kiss me!"
In the kitchen, Cassidy and Kate share a look. She's like her father.
