(Vincent's Pov)
I woke up to some knocking on the door and I slowly get up from the bed and I feel a bit cold and look around and grabbed my sweatpants. I put them on and rubbed my face a bit as I go and open the door and see Hazel.
"Oh, morning Princess." I say and rubbed her head.
"Morning, is Mama awake?" She asked and I turn to see Clementine still asleep and I nod as I moved Hazel away from the door and close it behind me.
"Yea, she's a bit tired from yesterday." I tell her.
"Oh, I have some ice-cream for you and Mama." She tells me and I nodded.
"Alright, we will have that tonight, right now it's time for breakfast." I say and she nods as we head down the stairs and I start working on the food. Hazel helped me with some of the eggs and pancakes and I worked on the bacon and sausages. I yawned a bit as I worked on the eggs and helped Hazel set the plates and silverware out, by this time my mom and dad came in and I set the food on the plates.
"I'm going to get Clem." I say and yawned again as I headed up the stairs. Once I opened the door, I see Clem still asleep so I go over to her and shake her shoulder gently waking her up and she looks to me and I smiled.
"Hey made breakfast if you're hungry." I tell her and she nods and stretches a bit and I get up and head to the kitchen and sat at the table.
"So, what are you doing today?" My mom asked and I shrugged.
"Can we go to the park?" Hazel asked and I see her looking at my mom and dad.
"If that's ok with your father." My dad says and she looked to me and I nod.
"Sure, I'll come by after dropping Clem off to work." I say and drink some of my coffee.
"Aww, I want Mama Clem to come too." She pouts and I chuckled at this.
"Mama Clem has to go to work; we can go pick her up together though." I say to her but she still pouts and I sighed.
"Oh Vincent, our flight is for tomorrow night." My dad says and I nod.
"You're leaving?" Hazel asked and my dad nods.
"Sorry kiddo, but I used up most of my vacation and sick days." He tells her.
"Work sucks." She says and we laughed at this.
"Yea but we need to do it." I say and look to see Clementine as she comes down.
"Hey I don't need to go to work today, they're working on the roof." She tells me.
"YES!" Hazel cheers and Clementine looks to us and I laughed.
"She wanted you to spend the day with us." I say and she nods as she takes a seat next to me and I hand her some sugar for her coffee and we all eat. It wasn't long till we all finished breakfast and I went and got ready for the day. Once ready we all headed to my car and I head over to the park.
"This is going to be so fun." Hazel says excited and I smiled a bit at this. As we get to the park Hazel talks about all she's going to do.
"Can we get some ice-cream too?" She asked and I think.
"Well, we have to eat something before we get ice-cream." I say as I parked the car. We all get out and Hazel looks at me and I smiled.
"Ok, if I eat my greens, I get ice-cream." She says and I nod.
"That's right, now-."
"TAG!" She yelled as she taps me and runs off. I laugh a bit and start chasing her into the park area and she gets on the playground set and I looked a bit as I go around and catch her going down the slide. I grabbed her and she laughed at this and I chuckled.
"Got you." I say and I set her down and she runs off to play a bit. I look over to Clem and my parents and I go and take a seat with them.
"Tired already?" My mom asked and I pat my stomach.
"Hey I haven't exercised in a long time… need to get a gym set." I say and look to Clem.
"Don't worry I'll get a six pack for you." I joked and she laughed as she pats my leg and I look at Hazel as she played some more.
"This is calming." My mom says and I nod and closed my eyes a bit.
"So how was your date?" She asked and I smiled.
"It was fun, we went to the batting cage, then went to the burger joint." Clem tells her.
"We went to the lake too." I say and look over to Clementine and smirked a bit.
"It was sweet." Clem tells my mom and I look back to Hazel as she climbed the jungle gym. She looked like she was having loads of fun at the moment.
"Sounds like a lot of fun." My dad says and I nod. Hazel runs over to us and asked if I would play with her more so I get up and help her climb the monkey bars.
"Your turn Papa." She says as we get to the end and I laughed as I grabbed the bars and lifted my legs off the ground so I wasn't walking the path. It made Hazel laugh and I could hear Clem and I look to her and I look at her and finish up and Hazel wanted to go again so I helped her again. We played for a while before Hazel asked if she could get a drink and I walk with her over to one of those park concession stands and I get her some water along with everyone else. We go over to Clem as Hazel carried Clem's water and I laughed as she runs up to her.
"Mama, Mama." I hear Hazel say as she runs up to Clem and shows her the water.
"Papa let me buy it." She says and I mouthed card to her and Clem nods.
"Well, wasn't that sweet of you." She says and Hazel handed her the water and then someone comes up to us and I hand my water to my parents.
"Hey Clem." I hear and look to see Gabe as he walked up to Clem.
"Oh hey." She says and I glared at him and I walk over but my dad grabbed me.
"Don't start anything ok?" He asked and I shake my head a bit.
"Alright, I won't." I say and head over to Clem and Hazel.
"See you're still taking care of Hazel." I hear as I go over to them.
"Well, she is family." Clem says and I get over to them.
"Hm, family right." He says.
"Got a problem here?" I asked and he looked to me up and down and I raised my brow at him. He didn't say anything and I look to Clem then to Hazel.
"Hazel go over to Nanny and Poppy." I tell her and she runs over to them and I look back to Gabe.
"Look this is an A, B conversation." Gabe says and I look at Clem.
"Want me to stay or leave?" I asked her.
"You can stay, Gabe you need to go." She tells him.
"No, we need to talk." He says.
"About?" I asked as I looked to him.
"None of your damn business." He says.
"You're about to make it my business." I tell him.
"Fuck you, you cheat on Clem and yet she stays with your worthless ass, and she takes care of your kid while you galivant wherever the hell you want." He says pissed and I laughed.
"Gabe, stop."
"No, you need an actual man not some tranny bitch." Gabe says and I look at him.
"Gabe, I swear to god." Clem says and I pull her away.
"Nah let him continue." I say as I get in his face.
"That's what you are." He says.
"What am I? sorry it seems like my concussed brain can't comprehend what you're fucking saying." I tell him.
"Back up." He says.
"Or what?" I asked as he backed up but I followed him.
"Back up before I deck your fat ass." He says and I laughed.
"Try me." I say and the next thing you know I get punched in the face and my head turned. It fucking hurt like hell but I didn't show it as I looked to him and he glared at me.
"Make you feel better?" I asked him.
"Fuck you bitch." He says.
"Hey there are kids here man, stop the swearing." I tell him and then I feel a hand on my shoulder.
"We got an issue here young man?" I hear my dad say and Gabe looked to him.
"The fuck do you want old man?" Gabe asked and my dad laughed.
"Nice, anyway Clem, Hazel is asking for you." My dad says and she looked between me and my dad then to Gabe and she heads over to my daughter.
"Mind telling me you thought it would be a great idea to punch my son?" My dad asked Gabe and I look to the boy as he looked at me dad.
"You mean daughter? Fucking prick." Gabe says and I shake my head.
"You're still mad that Clem is with me?" I asked.
"She ain't with you fucker." Gabe says.
"Oh, she ain't? mind telling me why she was saying my name all night long?" I asked and the next thing I know I'm tackled to the ground and I felt a few punches before Gabe is pulled off me and I get up to se my dad about to punch him but I stopped him and I shave Gabe away.
"You fucking-."
"What? Bitch? Asshole? I don't give a fuck, now leave." I tell him and he looked to me and my dad and heads off and I shake my head and feel the back of it.
"Are you ok?" I hear my dad ask and I nod.
"Yea just a bump." I mutter and we walked over to the girls and I look to Hazel seeing that she was facing away from where we were and Clem looked to me as she shook her head a bit when I asked if she had seen the fight.
"Ok, I think… we should get some food." I say and clap my hands a bit.
"You sure you're, ok?" Clem asked as she comes up to me and feels the back of my head.
"Yea, I'm great, and hey… I didn't punch him." I joke and she looked to me.
"I think you should have." I hear her mutter and I laughed.
"Alright, any idea?" I asked and Clem suggests the diner and I nod as we get in my car and drive off. I get to the diner and we all get and head inside.
"Well hello Clem, Vincent, and who is this?" I hear a woman say and she looked to Hazel.
"I'm Hazel, you know that, Bonnie." Hazel giggled and I nod at this.
"Are you sure? You seem to have grown since I last saw you." Bonnie says and Hazel giggles again and heads to a booth.
"Hey wai-."
"She's fine, we always get that booth." Clem tells me and I nod at this. We all head on over and take a seat, Clem, Hazel and I on one side and my parents on the other.
"Alright is the usual ok for you two?" Bonnie asked as she pointed to Clem and I and I we both nod. Hazel picks what she wants and so does my parents.
"What did you say to make him tackle you?" Clem whispers in my ear and I chuckled as I whispered back.
"Told him you were saying my name over and over again last night." I tell her and she hits my shoulder a bit and I laughed.
"Hey no hitting Papa." Hazel says and I laughed.
"Yea no hitting Papa." I say back and she looked to me.
"You and I will talk later." She says and I chuckled and nodded as I help Hazel with the little maze game on the kids menu.
"Who was that boy?" My mom asked.
"Some punk, but we can deal with it later." I tell her.
"He punched you." She says.
"Eh, it's fine… so please drop it." I say to her and she looked to me and nods a bit.
"I'm sorry, I know you're worried but I'm ok, it's fine." I tell her and she nods again at this. We get our drinks and Hazel gets her food and she looked to us and we nod so she could eat.
"He isn't going to try anything is he?" My dad asked and I look to Clementine.
"No, his dad would… let's just say his dad would get on to him, that or his uncle." She tells us and I nod a bit and Hazel tries to share some of her juice with me and I smiled as I take a small sip and then she does too and goes back to coloring.
"Alright." My dad says and I nod and then after a while we get our food and Hazel taps my shoulder to help her with the cross words. I worked on it with her for a bit and ate my food too and pointed to a word.
"That's not on there Papa." She tells me as she points to the list of words.
"Coincidence." I say and take a drink of my coffee. She tells me we can't circle it and I nod as she goes back to looking for another word, and I hear Clem laughing a bit and I look at her and smiled.
"So, you're thinking about going back to work with Chuck?" Clem says and I nod.
"Yea, it seems like a good idea." I tell her.
"I don't want Papa to go back to work." We all hear Hazel say and I look at her.
"And why is that, Princess?" I asked and she set her crayon down and looked to Clem and I.
"I like you being home, I get to be with you longer." She says and I look to Clem and then to Hazel.
"Well Sweetie, Papa likes working at the music shop." Clem says and Hazel crossed her arms and I sighed a bit.
"You want me to get better, right?" I asked and she nods.
"Well, I think this would be better for me… are you worried I won't spend a lot of time with you?" I asked and she nods again.
"Oh, sweetie." Clem says and I think.
"Maybe I could work for a short time there? I mean not every day?" I asked and Hazel shook her head.
"No." She says and I rubbed the back of my neck.
"Hazel-."
"NO!" She yells and I stopped talking and looked to Clem who was in shock.
"Now Hazel don't raise-."
"NO!" She yelled again.
"Hey don't yell at Mama, now stop it." I tell Hazel and she looked like she was about to cry and she goes under the table and runs to the door.
"God damn it." I mutter as I get up and hand Clem my card and I hurry to follow Hazel out.
"Hazel you can't be running out like that." I say as I see her by my car and she glared at me then looked away.
"Princess." I say and place my hand on her shoulder.
"Princess look at me please." I say and she huffed and looked to me.
"Want to talk about it?" I asked and she looked to the side a bit.
"I like you at home." She says and I think.
"Well, how about I work when you are at school, and then I'll pick you up?" I asked her.
"No." She says and I rubbed my face a bit. I'm running out of options to try and make a deal with her.
"Why don't you make music anymore?" I hear and looked at her.
"I uh… well that's a different story." I say to her a bit confused.
"Why can't you stay home and make music?" She asked and then it clicks.
"Princess are you afraid I'll get into another accident?" I asked and she nods a bit and I hugged her as I feel her tears hit my shirt.
"Oh, I'm so sorry." I tell her.
"I don't want…. That to happen." She says and I held her closer to me.
"Sweetie it won't happen again, look we've been out all day and nothing bad happened." I tell her as she pulled away.
"But what if it does?" She asked.
"Darlin." I say and I hear the door open and saw Clem and my parents.
"Hey we can talk about it later, ok?" I ask Hazel and she nods and I pick her up and take her into the car. My parents get in after I tell them I would explain later. I took everyone home and Hazel went up to her room and I sighed and looked to the others.
"Why did she run out?" My mom asked worried.
"She thinks I'll get into another accident." I tell them.
"And I told her it wouldn't happen but she's still worried." I tell them as we head inside.
"Do you need me to talk to her?" Clem asked.
"When she settles down, I think she needs some time." I tell Clem who looked up the stairs and nods.
"Are you still going to call Minerva?" Clem asked and I nod and my parents head to their room to start packing and I grabbed my phone and looked to Clem as I called Minerva.
"Hello?" I hear.
"Hey uh… look you and I need to have a bit of a discussion about your parents… it involves Hazel." I say.
"Why what happened? They haven't seen Hazel in a long while." Minerva says.
"Well… apparently they told her that she was to only play piano." I say.
"Oh? That's it?" She asked.
"Well, I mean I don't want your parents telling her what she can and can't play." I tell her.
"They asked if it was ok and I said yes." She says.
"Wait… you told them yes… without telling me?" I asked her.
"She loves the piano." Minerva says and I shake my head as I head out the back door.
"No, Hazel will play whatever she wants, they told her-."
"You know kids lie sometimes, right?" Minerva says and I glared at my phone.
"Hazel would never lie about this." I tell her getting pissed.
"Maybe she did, that's all I'm saying." She says.
"No, Hazel doesn't lie she knows it's bad." I tell her.
"Trust me she was having fun with the piano." Minerva says.
"She might have at the time but she's five." I tell Minerva.
"Regardless, she has piano lessons this summer." Minerva says.
"Like hell she does."
"My parents already scheduled it." She tells me.
"And I don't give two flying fucks, summer is for fun not to burn her out." I tell her.
"She asked for it damn it."
"Did she? Or did you and your fucking parents imagine that?" I asked.
"She fucking asked for it Vincent, god damn it she begged them to let her play more." She tells me.
"Bull." I say.
"Whatever, regardless she's going to her lessons in the summer, my parents paid for it, it's done and over with."
"No, no it's not, you tell them to cancel this shit right now or I swear to god you and your family will never see Hazel again." I threatened her.
"You can't do that."
"I'm her fucking father, and I will."
"Like the courts will take your word, besides Hazel isn't even yours." She says and I froze at this.
"What?" I asked.
"She's not even yours, I have no idea who her dad is, so I just told the doctor to say she was yours." She says and I get pissed and out of anger I throw my phone to the ground breaking it and I breath heavily.
"FUCKING BITCH ASS CUNT I'M GONNA…. FUCK YOU!" I yelled and kicked the broken phone and paced around the yard.
"Vincent what's wrong?" I hear and I shake my head.
"No, no not now." I say and shake my hands a bit and I just wanted to punch something and I paced the yard a bit more.
"Vincent?" I hear and looked to my dad and shake my head.
"Nothing, I'll deal with it, just… fucking leave me alone." I say as I paced and my dad stops me and I shove him off me.
"Don't… not now." I say and he looked to me.
"Son what's going on?" He asked.
"I said leave me alone." I tell him and I take some deep breaths.
"Fuck." I mutter and head inside.
"Vincent." I hear and I shake my head and head up to my room and I lay on the bed. She has to be lying to me, she has to be fucking lying to me. I don't know how long I was laying in the bed before I hear someone open the door.
"Leave me alone." I mutter.
"Papa?" I hear and I sit up and look to see Hazel and she looked to me and she comes up to the bed and I watch as she gets up on the bed with me and I take a breath and sit up a bit more so my back was hitting the head rest and I pull Hazel close to me.
"Mama is worried, she called aunt Sophie." She tells me and I nod and I felt tears in my eyes.
"It's nothing Princess… your… mother is just…being mean to me is all." I tell her.
"That's mean." She says and I chuckled at this.
"Yea… she's a mean woman." I say and hazel turned to look at me and I wiped my tears a bit and looked to her.
"I'm sorry Papa." She tells me and I shake my head.
"Ain't nothing you have to be sorry about Princess… how'd I get such a sweetheart for a daughter?" I asked as I rubbed her head a bit.
"Because you're my Papa." She tells me and I nod and pull her closer to me in a hug.
"Is that right?" I asked and I feel her nod at this and I rubbed her back gently. I hear the door creek a bit and I turn my head a bit to look to see Clem and I looked back to Hazel and rubbed her back more.
"Hazel, why don't you go keep Nanny and Poppy company?" Clem asked and Hazel gripped my shirt.
"Papa is sad." Se mutter and I chuckled gently at this and looked to Clem then to Hazel.
"Hey go keep them company, they leave tomorrow… and if you do, we can bring your bed in here for the night?" I asked and she looked to me then to Clem who nods and she gets down gently and hands me her little bear and then leaves the room and I hold the bear a bit to me and I take a deep breath.
"What happened?" Clem asked as she sat on the edge of the bed and I look to her and I shake my head a bit.
"Vincent." She says and I burry my face in the bear.
"I don't want to believe her." I mutter.
"What?" Clem asked and I feel hand on my shaky shoulders.
"Minerva… I don't want to believe her." I tell Clem.
"What did she say?" Clem asked.
"That Hazel… isn't mine." I tell her.
"She said that?" Clem asked and I nod a bit.
"She's lying… she has to be." I mutter.
"Well… even if she wasn't Hazel is your daughter… your name is on her birth certificate, and if she does have a different dad, he's a fucking dead beat… and Hazel loves you very much… it wouldn't change anything about you and her." Clem says and I look to her.
"I just need to know… it's stupid but… I still want to know because." I trail off a bit.
"We can set up an appointment." Clem says and I nod.
"Alright… but what will you do if she isn't?" Clem asked.
"Nothing… even if she isn't mine that doesn't change anything." I tell her.
"Exactly… but come on… she looks a lot like you, how can you doubt that?" Clem says and I chuckled at this.
"I'm just… it just… I get angry so easily." I tell her.
"Do you want to talk to your therapist again? We still have her number." Clem says and I nod at this and she goes and gets the card and sets it on my nightstand.
"Call the office tomorrow and set up an appointment, I'll call the others tomorrow, ok?" She asked and I nod and just hold the bear to me.
"But I don't want Minerva to take her from me." I tell Clem.
"Trust me, Hazel will put up a fight if she tries." Clem says and I smiled a bit and nod.
"She's just mad because I told her to stop her parents from forcing Hazel to take piano lessons… fucking bitch." I mutter.
"We need to put a lot of money in the swear jar." Clem comments and I chuckled and nodded.
"Yea… I just… can I be alone for a little longer?" I asked and I feel Clem pat my shoulder a bit.
"Sure, just be sure to bring Hazel's bed in, since you promised." She reminds me and I nod. I hear the door close and I lay back on the bed and sighed as I closed my eyes for a bit. I know I must have been out for a long time because I woke up to yelling and I get up quickly and run down the stairs to see Minerva and Clem being held back by my parents and just as Clementine got out of my mother's grips I ran down and grabbed her before she could hit Minerva.
"Fucking great." I hear Minerva says.
"Where is Hazel?" I asked.
"With my parents now let me kick this bitch's teeth in." Clem says pissed and I pull her back.
"What the fuck is going on here?" I asked and I look to Minerva.
"Fucking she called me to come down here and supposedly talk." Minerva says and I see a bit of blood on her, I'm guessing Clem had hit her previously and I shake my head.
"Clem calm do-."
"No, think about all the shit she put you through, and then she's going to fucking say Hazel isn't yours? Just because Hazel doesn't want to play the fucking piano?" Clem says.
"Hazel said she wanted to."
"SHE IS FIVE MINERVA!" Clem yelled and tried to go after her again but I hold her back.
"Stop, stop this right now." I say.
"I KNOW WHAT MY DAUGHTER WANTS!" Minerva yells and before I know it, I feel a whack to the back of my head and I let go of Clem to hold the back of my head and Clem goes after Minerva.
"Fuck." I mutter and looked up to see my mom by me and I let go of my head and looked to my hand to see blood.
"Oh… fuck." I mutter and held my head again and turned to see my dad between the two women. I get up before my mom could help me and I push both girls apart.
"STOP THIS RIGHT NOW BOTH OF YOU GOD DAMN IT!" I yelled and moved my hand from my head again and my mom handed me some paper towels and I placed them on the back of my head and take a seat.
"FUCKING HELL MINERVA!" I yelled at her and she looked to me then down to the ground.
"No, you look at me right now." I tell her and she does and then I look to Clem.
"You too Clem." I say and she looked to me and I look to both of them.
"Might have to get fucking stiches thanks to this bullshit, you need to grow the fuck up." I tell them.
"She's-."
"NO STOP THIS RIGHT NOW, WHAT IF HAZEL WAS HERE? THE POOR GIRL IS ALREADY AFRAID OF ME LEAVING TO GO BACK TO WORK DAMN IT!" I yelled to both of them and they shut up.
"All this bullshit… why?" I asked.
"Look at what happened when she said Hazel wasn't yours, you were heart broken." Clem says.
"And you said for me to get a paternity test which I was willing to fucking do." I say and look to Minerva.
"She called me here."
"And you actually fucking came? Fuck you what's the real reason?" I asked.
"Why does… you know what fuck it." Minerva says and as she moved, I get up and stop her.
"Move or I'll call the cops." She says.
"No, we are going to fucking talk about this now before I end up in the hospital because of a damn aneurysm." I tell her and she looked to me. I was not a happy person right now; I was beyond pissed at all of this. She moved away from the door and I moved my hand from my head and see the dried-up blood and I shake my head as I go take a seat again.
"Talk now." I say.
"Why does she get to be happy?" Minerva asked and I roll my eyes.
"What?" I asked.
"You le-."
"Clem stop." I tell her and she just shakes her head and I look back to Minerva.
"The fuck do you mean?" I asked.
"This all this." She says and motions her hands around the room and I shake my head.
"You know Clem and I broke things off after Hazel was born right?" I asked. Though she doesn't know we are back together but she doesn't need to know that right now.
"So? She still got to stay here… besides, this has nothing to do with our relationships, Hazel wants to play the piano, she said so herself." She tells us.
"Don't you think she said that just to make you and your parents happy?... what if that little girl wanted to play the god damn guitar? Drums? Flute? Would you stop her?" I asked her.
"No-."
"But your parents would… you know after the accidents I recall meeting your parents for a dinner because they asked for a custom fucking piano and made it fucking pink, for a little girl… had I known it was for my daughter I would have declined it, because my daughter-."
"She isn't yours."
"Bullshit… she looks exactly like me when I was younger, and last I checked I was an only child…. Now I got to put that girl through another issue to see if she's actually mine and she's going to ask a shit ton of questions, that you won't have to fucking deal with." I tell her getting pissed and my mom checked the back of my head and I wave her off and I get up from the chair and look to both of them.
"Did you ever think how Hazel would feel?" I asked her.
"She'll get over it."
"Bullshit… fucking bullshit, you tell her for five years I'm her dad, she has been with me for five fucking years, I changed her diapers, I taught her how to swim, I RAISED HER AND SHE THINKS I'M HER PAPA…. She won't get over that, no child would that breaks their hearts too you know?" I asked her and she looked to the side a bit.
"Sit down." I mutter and they all take a seat away from each other and I paced the room a bit and take deep breaths.
"Doesn't matter, she's my daughter regardless of what you have to say about it, my name is on her birth certificate and I'm not going to give up my parental rights just so you and your parents can burn her out and end up like you… a fucking drug abusing drunk whore." I say.
"HEY-."
"NO!" I yelled at her and she went quiet.
"I'M FUCKING TALKING AND YOU ARE GOING TO LISTEN TO ME I'M DONE BEING PUSHED AROUND!" I yelled again and tried to calm down and I look to both of them.
"You fucked up badly Minerva, and I want you to tell Hazel the next time you see her that we have to go and get another test done because you say I'm not her father, then you can deal with the fucking crying… and she will hate you for this, I'm not going to be the bad guy in this situation, you always made me look like the fucking bad guy and I'm fucking tired of it…. And Clem you are going to keep your calm, ok? both of you need to stop fighting like cats and dogs, I'm tired of it ok?" I asked and they don't make a move and I sighed. My legs shaking but I still stand where I am and think.
"Jesus if my grandma were still alive, she'd whack you both with her wooden spoon, acting like a bunch of fucking riled up teenagers." I mutter.
"Look… ok we can act civil right now." Clem says and I look at her and laugh.
"Act civil? You two were just about to rip each other's hairs out." I say.
"She wants to make Hazel into another her."
"I don't-."
"Stop." I say and look to them.
"Seems like I'm going to have to make a session for counseling on top of therapy." I mutter and look to them.
"I am not-."
"You are and you will unless you want me to take Hazel from you for good, and trust me I fucking can." I tell Minerva and she looked to me and kept her mouth shut.
"What about Hazel?" Clem asked.
"She can stay with your parents, she still has school to get to, if she didn't, I'd send her with mom and dad." I say and look to them and they nod at this and I look back to the two other women.
"Now… I will make an appointment for all of us, and we will all go, if you don't go, you will have me to deal with, and right now…. I'm not in the fucking mood with what just happened." I tell them and rubbed the back of my head.
"Now Minerva, go home, I will give you the time for the appointment, Clem you and I are going to head to the hospital so I can make sure I'm ok." I mutter and Minerva leaves the house and we wait a bit before Clem takes me to the hospital. I told my parents to sleep in a bit and if I'm ok, I would take them to the airport. We sat in silence for a bit and I could feel Clem look at me but I kept my eyes on the road as she drove. When we get to the hospital, I get my head checked out.
"Nothing seems to be an issue just the cut, we can stich that up but if you start slurring your words or feel something is off just come on back, ok?" The doctor says and I nod a they do what they need to do. I look to the side to see Clem looking at the floor and I take a breath. When the doctor was done, I get my papers and we head on out, taking up two to three hours. We head into the car and Clem gets in the driver's side and I look at her.
"Vincent… I just… I'm sorry." She says and I shake my head.
"Look… I get it… Minerva should have never said that but it happened, I was going to deal with it but you just… I get it Clem." I tell her and look out the window.
"I didn't mean for it to go that far." She says as she started up the car.
"But it did." I say and looked to the road.
"I know… I escalated it I shouldn't have but-."
"Clem, I get it… you saw me upset and you didn't like it but I was going to handle it when I had a leveled head." I tell her.
"But I get it." I tell her and I place my hand on hers and keep looking at the window. I feel her hand tighten on mine and I take a deep breath.
"So, are we not a thing?" She asked and I laughed at this.
"We are… I just didn't want to add more fuel to the fire… besides Minerva won't dare tell her parents." I say and I look to her.
"I'm so sorry." Clem says and I pat her hand.
"Let's deal with this later." I tell Clem and she nods as we keep quiet for the rest of the ride and when we finally get to the house, I get out the car and look at Clem.
"Why didn't you fight Gabe?" She asked out of random and I look at her.
"My dad told me not to… plus Hazel… trust me if she wasn't there, I would have decked him." I tell her honestly and we head inside.
"Seems like I've been causing a lot of issues lately." She tells me and I look to her and then motion for our room. Once inside I take a seat on the bed.
"You haven't… just life giving up a challenge." I tell her.
"But-."
"Nope… now I would like to sleep so I can make these appointments and get Hazel back home." I say and she nods and we lay down in the bed.