(Vincent's Pov)
For the next few weeks Clementine would help me try and remember anything, my parents have been in town trying to help me as well. Today though Hazel and I decided to head to the music store with my mom and dad, I parked the car and looked around a bit and opened the door for Hazel and mom, my dad opened his own door and we head inside.
"Well hello Vincent how's the head and legs?" I hear and turn to see a man and I rubbed the back of my head.
"This is Chuck." Hazel tells me and I nod.
"Right…. My boss?" I asked and she nodded.
"Guess your head is still hurting hu?" He asked and I nodded.
"Yea, sorry." I mutter.
"It's ok, I understand, Clem stopped by to explain." He says and I nod.
"I uh just wanted to check out the place, and try to see if I could remember anything." I explain and look to see Hazel looking at some instruments.
"Well, you use to make custom instruments, you were really good at explaining instruments to the kids who just started to learn how to play, heck you're really good at advertising as well." He says and I looked to the side a bit as he showed me my workshop that was in the back. We went to the front of the store and talked a bit and I see Hazel looking at the smaller guitars and I think a bit.
"You know your dad has his old guitar back at our house, maybe he'll let you play it." My dad says and I come up to them.
"If she want's too, I won't force her." I tell them and Hazel looks at me and nods then she walked around a bit. I rubbed my head a bit and I look at my parents.
"Well, if you feel up to it, you could start working next week, only if you're up to it." Chuck says and I look to him and I nod.
"That would be great actually." I say to him. I then went looking for Hazel and saw her over by the keyboards and I come up to her and she presses a key and I smiled.
"Want to play the keyboard?" I asked and she looked to me.
"Grandma and Grandpa said I had to play the piano." She says and I look at her confused.
"Uh, wait what?" I asked as I got to her level and she looked at me as she put her hand on her other arm and I was worried.
"Princess, tell me what is going on." I tell her and she looked to me.
"Grandma and Grandpa said I was only allowed to play the piano." She tells me and I get a bit angry and take a breath.
"Well, they aren't your papa, and papa says you can play whatever you want." I tell her and she looks at me.
"No, it's ok." She says and I look at her sadly and I stand up and look to the side a bit. She then walked over to my parents and I sighed as we all went back to my house, once inside I see Clementine in the kitchen and I smiled as I go over to her.
"So, I have something to ask you." I say to her.
"Oh?" She asked. I take a bit before I sighed and rubbed my face.
"Did Hazel say anything to you about… Minerva's parent's making her play just the piano?" I asked her and she looks to me quickly.
"They what?" She asked.
"Ah guess you didn't… ok I have a call to make." I mutter and look to Clem as she set the dishes in the sink.
"Where did you hear this?" She asked as she dried her hands.
"Well, we went over to my job, and she was pressing a key on the keyboard, so I asked her if she wanted to play the keyboard, and that's when she tells me this." I tell Clem and she looked mad.
"She can play whatever she want's and if she doesn't want to play anything that's fine, she's not going to be… subjugated to just one damn… oooh I'm getting pissed." She says and turns back to the sink.
"Hey, hey I agree with you." I tell her.
"I know… I know you use to make jokes on how she was going to be a rock star when she was banging on pots and pans." She says and I chuckled.
"Well, that does sound like me… look I'll call Minerva and talk to her about this." I tell her and she nods.
"If her parents try anything I'll kick their damn teeth in." She mutters as she cleans the dishes again.
"Violent aren't ya?" I asked.
"I'm not going to have Hazel deal with all of this, she's only five almost six damn it." She says and I nod.
"Ok, I get it, plus she's a little young in my opinion." I say.
"Well… I mean yea, but she is talented." Clem says and I look to her as she looked at me and smiled.
"Come here." She says and I followed her. We go into the living room and she pulls out a VHS tape, then puts it in the VHS player, when she turns the TV on and plays the tape, I can see me and a little Hazel in my study. I was working on something and strumming my guitar a bit, I would look down to Hazel as she was looking at me, and I laughed a bit as I get to the ground with her and strum the guitar again and told her the notes.
"Vincent she's a bit young." I can hear Clem say behind the camera.
"Bah, she's just curious is all, besides my grandpa did the same thing with me when I was her age." I say to the camera and wave. Hazel turns and waves too and I laughed a bit as I hold the guitar to her and she plucks a string and giggles at this as she plucks another one. It was a while before she was able to play the basic notes and I look to the camera.
"She's a fast learner." I say.
"That she is." Clem says and Hazel then plays a few more notes and you could see me scrunching my eyes a bit and then I grabbed my folder from the desk and looked to see she played the notes to one of my old songs.
"Hey do that again princess." I asked and she plays it again and I look to Clementine then back to Hazel.
"What is it?" Clem asked.
"She just played… look." I say and show her my notes and the camera is set to the side but you could still see all of us and I look back to Hazel.
"Ok I want to test something out." I say as I turn my back from Hazel and play a few notes then turn back to her.
"Can you play what I just did?" I asked her and she nods as she tries too but her hands are a bit small to reach the top of the neck, but other than that she played all the same notes I did.
"Holy shit." I mutter.
"Vincent, language." Clem says and I look up t her.
"Clem you don't understand, she has perfect tone… I mean she's a bit small to actually play this thing but even I'm not this good." I say to Clementine.
The camera was then cut off and I look to Clementine and she looked to me. I rubbed the back of my neck a bit and then look over to see Hazel outside with my parents and I look back at Clementine.
"She is a very talented child… but I don't want her to play music as a job you know? I want her to have fun with it like you use to… she'll be burnt out and will hate music if she has to play it constantly." Clem says and I nod at this.
"Yea… well looks like I'm going to have to make every excuse in the book to keep Minerva's parent's away from her, they'll burn her out so fast… fuck I don't even want to think about it." I say and then the door opens and I see Hazel run in covered in mud.
"She got over to the chicken pen, don't worry your father grabbed any loose chickens." My mom says and I laughed a bit and went to help Hazel get cleaned up.
"And what were you doing in the chicken pen?" I asked her.
"I wanted to show Nanny an Poppy my favorite hen." She tells me and I roll my eyes a bit.
"Well next time get me." I say and get her cleaned up and in some nice fresh clothes. I go and put them in the wash as she goes and runs over to Clementine and talks to her for a bit.
"And Papa said I had to get him next time." She says as I come into view and Clem looks to me.
"Well yes, that would be best, we know you know how to handle the chickens but we don't need any of them getting loose ok?" Clem says and Hazel nods. I sneak up behind Hazel and pick her up causing her to kicks and yell but in a fun way and I put her on my shoulders.
"Papa, you scared me." She says and hits my head a bit and I look up to her.
"I did? Oh, I'm sorry." I tell her then she pats my head gently this time.
"It's ok… sorry for hitting you." She says and I nod.
"It's fine… so Hazel… would you like to play any other instruments?" I asked her.
"Mary plays the violin… can I play that?" She asked and I nod.
"Anything you want, I'll get one from Chuck, just remember you don't have to practice unless you want to, we aren't going to force you." I tell her and she nods.
"Then can I play the flute too?" She asked and I nod.
"Again, anything you want, heck I'll buy you a drum set." I say and look to Clem.
"Just… don't play if we have headaches." Clem says and Hazel nods.
"I won't that would be rude." Hazel says and I set her down and look to see my dad come inside.
"Hey I got an extra shirt and pants for ya." I say to him and he nods as I go and grab it for him. He goes and changes and I head back to see my mom working with Clem on dinner.
"So, at this point you let is slow cook with all the ingredients in the pot, the meat stays nice and moist, and the pineapple juices will do it's work." I hear my mom say.
"I didn't know you were much of a cook." Clem says.
"I use to work in a kitchen when Vincent was little, I actually went to school to be a chef." She says.
"I didn't know this." I say and take a seat.
"Oh you were so young, still in diapers I think." My mom says as she thought a bit and nods.
"Besides, I had to take up other jobs just for us to get by so I gave up on it, couldn't finish schooling for it, but your grandmother made sure I was still good at it." She says and I look up to her.
"How did Great Nanny die?" Hazel says and I look to her in shock.
"Hazel, that's rude to ask." I tell her.
"But you wanted to know too." She says.
"Yes but… you can't just ask someone that so bluntly." I tell her.
"Why?" She asked.
"I got this." My mom says a she takes a seat and looks at Hazel.
"Sweetie, sometimes people are still sad when a loved one passes away, especially someone that they looked up to, or loved very much… and the way they die still makes people sad too, and sometimes they don't want to remember it." My mom says.
"But why?" Hazel asked and I sighed and looked to Hazel.
"Hazel… when your Great Poppy passed away, I was sad… I was in a dark place because people kept bringing it up… you know how your great aunt and uncle blamed me for Great Nanny passing away?" I asked her and she nods a bit sadly.
"Well… they did the same thing with Great Poppy… they kept blaming me… and it made me very sad because at some point I started to believe them… I loved my grandparents very much, and they loved me more than anything in the world… and I don't want to remember the sad times, I want to remember the good times… like how I would help Nanny in the kitchen, we would bake cookies and cakes, and other treats, and Popp would teach me how to grill and mow the lawn… how to play the guitar and… help me get my music career started… they both did actually." I say as I remembered all of this.
"And… people just want to remember them from all the good times we had together… how your Great Poppy stood up for me in front of the family." I say as I looked to the floor.
"How he was proud that I was naming myself after him." I say and rubbed the back of my neck and I take a deep breath.
"So, it's rude to ask that because it might make people sad?" She asked and I nodded.
"Yes, sweetie… especially for Vincent." My mom says and I look at her as she looked to me then to Hazel.
"Just be gentler when asking." She tells Hazel who nods at this.
"Ok… I'm sorry if I made you sad… and you too Papa." She says and I nodded at this.
"Now I think you and Poppy should go watch something, then after dinner is done we can go light the bonfire and make smores." I suggested as I see my father come in who nods.
"Ok, Poppy I got a movie." Hazel says as she goes and runs into the living room and I look to Clementine.
"Your parents coming over?" I asked and she nods.
"And Sarah, Duck and Mariana." She says and I look at her.
"What about Gabe?" I asked.
"Oh no, not after last week." She says and I look to her and she goes back to cooking. I look to my mom who nods and makes her way to my dad and I go over to Clementine.
"Did something happen?" I asked her quietly and she sighs a bit.
"Don't get mad, ok?" She asked.
"Well-."
"Please… don't get mad." She says again and I look at her.
"Clem… ok… I will try and not get mad… unless it's something really bad." I tell her and she sighs but nods.
"Last week Gabe, Mariana, Duck and I went to his uncle's batting cage." She says and I nod.
"I remember that place… we should go again sometime." I say and Clem smiles and nods.
"Well, you know how Gabe likes to show off right?" She says and I nod.
"Well, I would just smile and nod a bit at this… I guess he got the wrong signals or something, because he asked if he and I would go out together… you know… again." She says and I look to her.
"I mean I can't stop you from dating other people, but if he got mixed signals that's his own damn fault." I tell her.
"Swear." She says.
"I'll put a ten in the swear jar… please tell me he didn't get mad at you for his fuck up." I say to her.
"He did… when I said no." She says and I look at her and she breaths a bit.
"Then he was bitching saying that I was flirting with him and then Duck stepped in and told him to… buzz off, if I didn't want to date him, I didn't have too." She tells me and I look at her and place my hand on her back.
"And… he and duck argued more about to fight and I got between them and Gabe ended up hitting me." She says and I gripped the counter a bit and she looked to me.
"He hit you?" I asked and she nods.
"It was an acci-."
"No, hitting someone trying to stop a fight is no god damn accident, I should know." I say and felt my face a bit and shake my head.
"Look it's been taken care of so don't try and do anything." She tells me and I sighed at this.
"Fine… I won't do anything… Yet." I muttered the last part.
"No, don't start anything." She tells me and I look at her.
"Please don't, he's not coming over, and I don't want you to try and go after him, it's been dealt with ok." She tells me and I nod at this.
"Fine, I won't do anything." I tell her as she looked to me.
"Alright… thank you." She says and I nod and the doorbell rings and I head over to greet the guests.
"Hey Vincent, how have you been?" Duck asked as Sarah, him and Mariana all came in.
"Been good, still trying to remember some things but Clem and my parents have been helping." I say to him.
"And me too." I hear Hazel say and I laughed a bit.
"And of course, Hazel too." I tell him. He laughed a bit and I let them in and we all go take a seat in the kitchen. I go and help Clementine with finishing dinner. By this time Clem's family had come over and we all got ready for dinner, and we sat and just talked.
"So, I might be going back to work next week." I say.
"Are you sure?" I hear and look up to see Carly.
"Well yea, I mean I can't just do nothing." I say to her.
"I think it would be great for him, he could get use to his old job again maybe get some memories back." Lee says and I nod at this.
"I think that would be great." Clem says and I smiled at her. When we all finished dinner Hazel hurried over to the cabinet and grabbed the marshmallows. I laughed a bit as I go and help her get the gram crackers, and chocolate and looked to Clementine who was helping Hazel. AJ, Duck and the others decided to head out to the back and I went out and started the fire in the pit, I helped Hazel put her marshmallow on a stick and helped her roast it. We all just sat around and talked some more.
"So, when Vincent here was little, he once went into the creek where he knows he wasn't supposed to go." My dad says and I groaned a bit.
"Oh god not this story." I mutter.
"Oh, come on it's funny." Clem says and I look at her.
"Anyway, he was messing around the creek and my god when he came back home, he was covered head to toe in mud, and his grandpa, was just asking if he had fun, and if he caught any frogs." My dad says.
"And he responds with, 'No I didn't catch any frogs, but I caught a snake.' And then he pulled out a snake freaking out his grandmother." My mom finishes and laughed a bit.
"I actually remember that day, Grandpa ended up hosing me down because I didn't want to let go of the snake, I named him squiggles." I laughed.
"That's funny, I remember catching a snake once but freaked out when I realized it was a cotton mouth." Duck says and I laughed.
"it's fun though." I say.
"Oh, do you remember when your cousin Molly took you to the beach once, and you saw a shark?" My dad asked.
"Yea, I called it a puppy and tried to pet the damn thing." I say.
"You saw a shark?" AJ asked and I nodded.
"Oh yea, we were in Florida for a few weeks, I know I wouldn't stop talking about it." I tell
"I want to see a shark." Hazel says and I think a bit and nod as I help her make her s'mores.
"Well actually Louis and the others are holding a show in Florida, maybe we can go visit them." I say.
"When?" Clementine asked.
"During the summer, hey we can make it a family vacation." I suggested. More time would pass us by and everyone decided it was time to go home. My parents got ready to head to their room and I stayed outside as Clementine helped Hazel for bed. I look at the beer in my hand and I look to the sky a bit and take a breath.
"Hey kiddo." I hear and look to see my dad as he takes a seat next to me. I watch as he looked to the flames and I turn my head to the side.
"Does it ever drive you crazy, just how fast the night changes?" He says and I look at him and smiled.
"You've been reading my music hu?" I asked and he chuckled a bit.
"The fact that you knew I did… makes me feel good." He says and I laughed at this as does he.
"Dad… I don't know if I ever told you but… I love you and… thank you… for all you and mom have done for me… even after I made you mad, you try your best to be a better father." I tell him.
"… I don't think you should thank me at all… you were growing up so fast and changing and I just… you basically taught me that I had to learn to accept change… So… thanks." He says and I smiled at him and drank my beer.
"And I think you are doing a great job being a father yourself." He says and I look to him.
"Hey, you're doing better than I did, you talk to Hazel, you make sure she is happy… you make sure Clem is happy, yea you get into fights here and there but that's going to happen." He tells me and I look down.
"I think… now don't get mad at me for suggesting this, but… You should let me and your mom take Hazel out for the day, and you and Clem should go out for the day." He says and I think.
"Well… Clem is off tomorrow… and I have nothing to do… would that really be fine?" I asked him and he nods.
"Of course." He says and I nod as he get's up and heads inside after he pats my shoulder. I stay outside for a bit and then as I get up, I see Clem about to come out.
"Oh, I was about to get you, Hazel want's you to tell her a story." She tells me and I nod as I go and throw the bottle away and head up the stairs. I head to Hazels room and I see her already in bed and she looks at me and smiles and I chuckled as I go and take a seat next to her bed.
"Ok… you got a story idea this time?" I asked her.
"Princess and Knight." She says and I chuckled and nodded. I start off the story and she would ask some questions here and there. I was able to finish the story when I saw that she was finally asleep. I kissed her head and left the room and headed to mine and Clem's room. I see her already in the bed and I rubbed the back of my neck a bit and she looked up from her book to look at me.
"Are you ok?" She asked and I nod a bit.
"Yea… I was thinking…" I stop and take a deep breath and look at her.
"Clem, could you and I go out tomorrow?" I asked and she looked to me.
"Like a date?" She asked.
"We can go as friends if you want, it's not a date… I mean." I tried to say but look to her. She looked as if she was thinking.
"Alright… it's a date." She says and I look at her as she goes back to reading. I was a bit shocked but I got over it and got ready for bed.
"I have to ask your parent's if they're ok with watching Hazel though." She says.
"My dad said it would be ok." I tell her.
"Oh… alright than." She says and I smile a bit. I get into the bed and we both went to sleep for the night. I was woken up by someone jumping on the bed and I sit up only to get hit in the face.
"Ah fuck." I mutter as I held my nose.
"I'm so sorry Papa." I hear and look to see Hazel and Clem looked at me and moved my hand from my nose.
"It's ok, I'm fine." I say as Clem grabbed some tissues and put them under my nose and I chuckle a bit.
"Oh no Papa is bleeding, I'm so sorry." Hazel says freaking out.
"No, no it's ok Princess, I'm fine." I tell her and place my hand on her head.
"But-."
"It's fine princess, it was an accident." I tell her and moved my hand to grab the tissues and Clem gives her a hug.
"It's ok, your Papa isn't mad see." She tells her and I look to Hazel and smiled. I wipe her tears and she nods and then gets off the bed and heads out the room.
"Poor girl." I say and move the tissues and feel under my nose to not feel anymore blood. I sighed and go to the bathroom and get cleaned up and look in the mirror and chuckled.
"What's so funny?" I hear and look to Clem and pull my hair a bit.
"Long hair." I laughed and she nods and laughed a bit.
"Yea, you going to cut it?" She asked and I think and I nod.
"Yea… yea I'll cut it after you get cleaned up?" I asked and she nods and I leave the bathroom and go help Hazel get ready.
"And Poppy said we would go to the park too and we would get some ice-cream." Hazel says and I chuckled.
"Is that so? Mind saving me some?" I asked.
"Hmmm, I can try." She says and smiled at me and I smiled at her. I hugged her gently and she hugged me back.
"You know I love you right?" I asked her.
"Are you ok?" She asked and I move away from her.
"Yea, I'm fine." I tell her and she nods and I take her to my parents. They tell me when they will be back and I nod at this and wave to them as they leave the house. I take a breath and I head over to the bathroom just as Clementine was coming out in a towel so I covered my eyes.
"Shit sorry." I say as I tried to leave the room.
"Hey it's fine… not like you haven't seen me before." She says and I feel for the door.
"I'm being respectful." I say as I leave and closed the door.
"How are we dressing?" I hear as I uncovered my eyes.
"Comfortable, nothing fancy." I say to her. I hear some shuffling and after ten minutes the door opens and Clementine was wearing a nice yellow summer dress, with some black flats and I smiled a bit.
"Does this look good?" She asked and I nod quickly.
"I'm… I'm going to head in." I mutter and head into the room and then went to the bathroom after grabbing some clothes. I go and take a shower and rubbed the water on my face a bit as I try to calm down a bit. I get finished and I'm all clean and I step out and look to the mirror and get to work. It took a while but I finally got the cut I liked and I run my hand through my beard and I shave it a bit to make it look clean. I clean up the sink area and I get dressed in a pair of blue jeans, white shirt and a red flannel, with my black work boots. I head out the door and head down the stairs and look to see Clementine in the living room and I come up to her.
"So, you ready?" I asked and she looked up to me.
"Woah." She says and I chuckled.
"Clean up good hu?" I asked and she nods as she comes and runs her hands through my hair and I chuckled.
"Haven't seen it this short in a long time." She tells me and I think and nod.
"I guess so." I say and she moved her hands away and I clear my throat.
"So… um, batting practice?" I asked and she laughed a little and nods and I go grab my wallet and keys and we head out. I was able to find the batting cages and Clem talked to the owner I suppose, she said she knew the owner here and I rubbed the back of my head as she comes over to me. there was a lot of people walking around the place and kids running around the park too. It seemed a bit hectic at the time.
"Alright I got us a cage." She says and I was a bit confused but followed her.
"Javier owes me." She says and I nod at this.
"You remember this place?" She asked and I shake my head.
"Not a lot I just remember it…. should I know more about this place?" I asked and she looked a bit sad as she grabbed a bat.
"When you first came to Macon, we hung out the next day… we went on a small hike by the Saint Johns farm lands, and you told me you played baseball in high school." She tells me and I think a bit and nod.
"That does sound familiar." I say to her and we get ready. She went into the other cage and I took my stance and waited for the machine to go. When the ball came my way, I swung and hit the ball and it went far.
"Damn, that's good… but watch this." Clem says as she gets ready and swings as the ball came at her and she hit it farther than mine and I chuckled.
"Shouldn't mess with the pro." I say to her and she laughed as we kept playing.
"This feels nice." I say to her as I took another swing but missed.
"We haven't done this in a long time." She tells me.
"Why did we stop?" I asked as she swung and hit the ball. I watched as she looked to me and the machines stopped and she looked to the side.
"Didn't really have time I suppose… I mean you were being caught up in the stupid media and Minerva's bullshit… then I had college… after that Hazel came into the picture and we just took care of her, we didn't really have time anymore… then when we… I guess broke up, we just… stopped." She tells me and I nod a bit.
"Ah… guess I messed up a lot hu?" I asked.
"No, it has nothing to do with that, we just… I can't explain it." She says and I rubbed my neck as we left the batting cages and then I saw a few people running around and I look down to Clementine.
"I'm sorry." I tell her.
"For what?" She asked.
"You… had to deal with my mistakes… and I made things hard for you… I don't blame you though." I say as we walked around the park a bit.
"I don't regret it." She says and I look down to her as she grabbed my arm and couldn't help but smile.
"If I had to go through all this again I would… you're a really sweet man who was delt a shit hand in this life, but hey everyone gets screwed over in life sometimes." She says and I chuckled at this.
"And think of it this way… we kind of get to start over." She tells me and I nod.
"Yea… I mean is this, ok?" I asked and she nods at this.
"If you're ok with it, then so am I." She says and I nod. We play a few games here and there and I win a small stuffed bear for Clementine. We then headed over to a drive-in burger joint, apparently, we use to come here a lot. I order a burger with fried and a chocolate milkshake, and Clem gets the same thing but her shake is vanilla. She then moves to the back and I followed her and she laughed a bit.
"We did this a lot." She says and I nod as she takes a fry of mine and I steal hers too and she eats my fry and I chuckled at this as I eat hers. We just sit and talked and Clementine told me that we could head to the lake and I think.
"Should we get swimming clothes?" I asked and she points to the back trunk.
"Got them already." She says and I nod at this. We spent a few hours going around town before the night came and we headed over to the lake and I look at her and we both get out the car and grabbed our clothes. I take my shirt off and Clementine takes off her shirt and I stare at her a bit before I turned around so she could change. Thank God we were alone here.
"I'm dressed." I hear and nod as I take my pants off and boxers and put on my swimming trunks. I turn to see Clem had turned around to and I tap her shoulder and she looked to me and nods as we head to the lake. We take a seat on the dock and put our feet in the water and I look up to the sky a bit.
"This was nice." I tell her and I feel her put her head on my shoulder.
"Yea… it really was." She says and I place my hand on her shoulder and rubbed it a bit and think as I moved away and get up. I see her look to me and I smirk as I take a few steps back and run off the dock and dive into the water. I come back up after swimming under the water a bit and look up to see Clem looking at me and she also smiles as she gets up and jumps into the water. I dive back down and swim to where she was and I pop up and scare her. She screamed a bit and hit my chest softly and I chuckled at this. This felt really good. I feel happy.
"Jerk." She laughed and I smiled and chuckled at this.
"It's a bit funny." I say and she splashes me. We have a splash contest and we take turns jumping off the dock, I was able to do a backflip and Clem claps and then heads up the dock as I watch her.
"CANNON BALL!" She yelled and I moved back a bit as she ran and curled into a ball as best as she could and landed in the water making a huge splash. I go up to her as she breaks the surface and I pull her to me as she looks up to me catching her breath. I don't know why I did what I did, but I kissed her. I feel her place her hands on my shoulders, I thought she was going to push me away so I moved away from her but I felt her put her arms around my neck and I look at her. She put a hand on the back of my head and move it a bit and I kissed her again. We pulled apart again and I look at her.
"Holy shit." I say and she laughed and put her head to my chest. I laugh at this and we pull apart and swim back to the land. I grabbed the towel in the back and handed it to her. She wrapped it around herself and I look at her as she looks at me. she comes over to me as I grabbed the other towel and I was drying myself off.
"This was a great date." She says and I nod quickly.
"Yea it is." I say. Just as we were about to kiss, I hear my phone go off and I look to her as she smiled and I grabbed my phone and answered it.
"Vincent speaking." I say.
"Hey we're back at the house, Hazel saved you and Clem some ice-cream." I hear my mom say.
"Oh, ok yea we will be on our way." I tell her and we both hung up. I look to Clem as she got changed and I go and get changed as well. We headed back to the house and just as I get the door open, I feel someone grab my leg and I look to see Hazel and I pick her up and she screams.
"Papa, you cut your hair…. MAMA!" She says and I feel her grab her hands out and I hand her to Clem who kissed Hazel's cheek. She motioned up the stairs and I nod and I watch her go up the stairs and I look to see my mom and dad on the couch, my dad was asleep and I smile as I go and get him a blanket and place it over him and I look to my mom who was smiling.
"How was your day?" She asked.
"Fantastic." I tell her.
"I see." She says and I nod and Hazel calls for me.
"Go see what she wants, we can talk in the morning." My mom says and I nod as I head up the stairs and see Clem put Hazels Pajama shirt on and she looked to me.
"Her head got stuck." Clem laughed and I smiled at Hazel.
"Got a big head hu?" I joke and she pouts and I go over to her.
"That's mean Papa." She tells me.
"I'm sorry Princess, how can I make it up to you?" I asked and she thought a bit.
"Can you make a song for me?" She asked and I tilted my head a bit.
"I heard one of your songs on the radio, it was really pretty." She says and I look to Clementine who was looking at Hazel. I think for a bit and smile and nod.
"Yea, I'll write a song for you." I tell her and I see Clem looking at me.
"Really?" Hazel asked excited and I nodded.
"Really, working on it right now." I say and tap my head. She gives me a big hug and I hug her back. I look to Clem who smiled a bit and I helped Hazel into bed. She didn't want me to tell her a story tonight and I nod as I both Clementine and I head out the room. I go look down the stairs to see my mom wasn't there and I see my dad still on the couch and I head back up to mine and Clementine's room. We both got ready for bed and just as I turned the light off on the nightstand I feel Clem put her hands on me and I look to her and give her a kiss. But after that one kiss it became a little more than just a goodnight kiss.