Okay, so this was actually a chapter from a story I wrote over a year ago, but I changed it to make it about Clementine and Violet. Those of you who've read Letting Her Go and She's In Love with The Boy know what I'm talking about. ;)
It was quiet with no one else in the house, an eerie silence would have been nerve-racking, but right now Clem couldn't have wanted to be more alone.
She sat on the kitchen floor, the cool surface of the tiles leaching the body heat from her skin, which actually felt quite nice. Her back was pressed against the cabinets along the bottom of the counter. She brought her knees up to hug her chest as she protectively wrapped her arms around them. She stared down at the smooth surface of the floor as if the answers to her problem would suddenly appear if she waited long enough. As the minutes passed by she found it harder and harder to hold back the tears that were threatening to leak from her eyes.
Then to snap her out of her thoughts a buzzing sound came from across the room. She glanced over at the thing that she hated right now. A soft light came from the phone she had thrown across the room in a fit of rage as it vibrated, reminding her of today's previous events. She squeezed her eyes closed desperately trying not to break down knowing who was on the other end of that damned device. In the process, a single tear fell from her eyes landing on the tiled surface before her with a silent drop.
Her whole body shook with a sickening feeling making its way into her stomach as the phone drew silent. She opened her eyes only to stare at the floor again. How she wished things were different. At times like this, when it felt like her world was being shattered, she usually wanted to only be in one place. And that was in Violet's arms. But this time was different, this time Violet was the problem.
The vibrating started up again as the florescent light illuminated her phone once more from its place across the floor. Clem didn't care this time. She could call, but she wouldn't hear it.
If one were to look down at the screen at this moment they would see the picture of her and Violet together holding onto each other like they would have done at a time like this. Only now there was a long crack going down the middle of her screen as if trying to separate the two. That had happened when she had thrown her phone across the room in her outrage, as if getting rid of the device would solve her problems. She seemed to mimic the feeling her phone would have if it were alive. Her thoughts and feelings coming straight from the heart, mixing and intertwining, trying so desperately to sort out her true feelings, but leading down a road that just made her feel sick with anxiety.
Her thoughts drifted to one sentence, "How could you do this?" Then she spoke the first words she had uttered since being home. As if trying to talk to the other person as if they were here, she said, "You really blew this babe." It came almost as a whisper as the buzzing finally stopped.
She sat there for a few minutes before finally making up her mind. She shakily got to her feet as the buzzing started again for the last time. She walked the few feet across the kitchen and picked up the tormenting device. She clutched it in her hand and stared down at the screen, but instead of answering the call she lifted her arm in the air and struck her phone down. The screened surface shattered as it came into contact with the ground as if it was a sheet of glass. The phone itself broke in two ending its life, the sound of buzzing silenced forever. The screen shattered like her heart was and at that moment was when she finally broke down.
Clem retreated to her previous spot on the floor and cried her heart out as sob after sob racked through her body. Tears soaking her shirt as she buried her face in her arms.
Meanwhile, the end of Violet's phone drew silent as the signal had been cut short from the event that had just occurred, but which she was unaware of. She tried to redial Clem's number, but a voice came on the other end saying how she could not reach this number. "Shit," She mumbled under her breath. She had really screwed up this time. Sure she and Clem had disagreed about things before which lead to little arguments, but nothing like this. "Smooth Vi, real smooth," She said to herself.
Violet really wanted to talk to her, but she wouldn't answer her phone and she would probably lock herself in her house and refuse to let her in. Her only hope was Louis or one of her other friends. She needed to fix this fast before Lee found out. Forget when he had flipped out when they had kissed for the first time, if she told him what had happened Violet would be dead by morning or at least in the hospital.
She quickly scrolled through her contacts list thinking she better not call anyone who lived with her. She stopped on the person who she thought would take the news the most lightly.
The phone rang for a few seconds before someone picked up, "Hello."
"Sophie! Thank god! Has Clem talked to you yet? Did she tell you what happened?"
Sophie seemed baffled with what Violet was talking about, she sounded kind of panicked like it was a life or death situation. "Whoa dude, slow down. What are talking about?"
Violet gulped swallowing the lump in her throat and also trying to calm her nerves, "I-I s-screwed up."
Sophie raised a brow on the other end of the phone, "You screwed up or you ..."
"I blew it okay! I completely screwed our relationship!" She went on a rant as Sophie stood there dumbstruck only being able to listen to her words. "It wasn't my fault, but Clem ran away crying. Now she won't answer her phone. She won't text me let alone talk to me. And Lee is going to kill me if he finds out before I get a chance to fix this!"
She composed her self after Violet finished, "Hold up Vi, what exactly happened?" The redhead asked.
Violet took a deep breath. "Okay, so you know the girl down at the convenient store?"
"You mean Minnie, My sister, Vi." Sophie said sarcastically. Like she wouldn't know her own sister. Though sometimes she wished she didn't. "Ya know, red hair, green jacket, really into Becca."
"Yeah, that's what I thought, until she fucking kisses me right in front of Clementine!" She shouted into the phone.
"What the hell do you mean she kissed you?" Sophie half questioned half-shouted.
"That's what she did! I was paying for the drinks I had bought us when she started flirting with me, then she pulled me forward and kissed me." She explained.
"And you just let her!" Sophie yelled.
"No! Well I didn't exactly have a choice in the matter. I would have stopped it if I could have, but she took me by surprise." Violet ran her fingers through her hair, "And what's worse is Clem thinks we've been flirting with each other for a while now."
Sophie was in complete shock, "What do you mean? Clem never said anything to me about this or the rest of us."
Violet gave a frustrated sigh, "I don't where she got it from, I think Minnie might of been telling her this behind my back because she was jealous or something."
Sophie took a sip of her drink from her position on the couch, trying to cool her self down. She was ticked at Minnie for doing something like this to one of her best friends. Clementine didn't cry much. Hell, Sophie wasn't sure if she had ever even seen Clem cry before except for maybe when they got her and Violet back together when Lee broke them up. So if Clem had cried over this it was definitely a problem. First thing she would do was march down to the convenient store where Minerva worked and give her a piece of her mind, but first, she needed to help Violet. "Hmm, you're in a pretty tight spot."
"Do you think you can help me out?" The blonde practically begged.
She took another sip of her drink before she replied, "Look, Vi, like it or not you're going to have to talk to Clem."
"I know," She sighed again. "But she's not going to listen to me, Soph. I don't think I ever seen her so upset."
Sophie sighed setting her cup on the coffee table, "Alright Vi, I'll walk over and see what's up with her, but I can't promise she'll listen to me any more than she did you. You know how she is."
A small smile crept its way onto Violet's face, "Thanks Soph that's all I ask. If you could just get her to talk to me or possibly get her outside..."
"Look Violet I can't promise you anything, but the least I can do is try to talk to her," the artistic twin said through the phone as she got up to start walking over to her friend's house.
"Thanks again," Violet said before hanging up. She heard Sophie reply with a "No prob." before the line was disconnected. This was one hell of a day.
Clem was still seated on the floor when she heard a knock at the door. She knew AJ, Lee, and Carley all had keys to get in so she figured it was Violet trying to get her to talk to her. But she couldn't, she couldn't ever forgive her for something like that. How could she just go and kiss someone, another girl for that matter, in front of her? Violet had been the only one for her and now their relationship was gone, shattered on the floor just like her phone and her heart. So she didn't bother to answer or even get up.
Sophie on the other side of the door grew annoyed as she knocked on the door with no response. She sighed to herself before pulling out a paper clip and picking the lock. The door opened within a few seconds. She had to admit her lock picking skills had really improved with hanging around Mitch. But all her training could not prepare her for what was on the other side of that door.
Clem heard the door open and then close, but she didn't bother to look up and see who it was especially if it was Violet, She had some nerve to show up here after what she had done.
Sophie walked in and shut the door and immediately turned to head to the kitchen thinking to search the ground floor before she headed upstairs. She heard quiet cries coming from that direction and spotted Clementine on the floor with her head down. She took a step forward only to hear a crunch under her boot. She looked down and saw the remains of what used to be Clem's phone. Well, Violet sure wasn't going to be able to call her anymore, no wonder Clem didn't answer her phone. "That bad hmm?"
Clem looked up when she realized the voice hadn't belonged to Violet. Seeing who it was Clem wiped some of the tears from her eyes, "S-Sophie, I didn't know it was you," she said in a shaky voice.
"It's cool," Sophie said as she walked over and sat down next to the girl with the blue and white baseball cap. "So...You wanna talk about it?"
A few tears fell down the side of Clem's face, "There's nothing to say, she-she loves someone else n-now." She tried again to wipe the tears away that kept forming in her eyes.
Sophie could tell Clem was trying really hard not to cry in front of her, but was failing to do so. "I-I was just stupid enough to fall for it."
Sophie felt bad for her friend, but this was just a misunderstanding, a pretty big one at that. "Right after this I'm going to kick Minnie's ass," thought Sophie. But she needed to level with Clem first. "Look, Clem, it wasn't her fault okay."
Clem gave her a look that said you better have a good excuse for saying that or I'm going to kill you. She saw what happened, how could Sophie come in hear and tell her otherwise, she wasn't even present when all this went down.
Not wasting time Sophie got to the point before she became just like Clem's phone. "Violet told me what happened... and your right, they did kiss, but not by choice."
Clem's glare changed to an expression of confusion, "Is that supposed to make me feel better?" She shot back.
Sophie felt the ice on that one, Clem didn't usually go off on her friends, but that girl could be cold when she wanted to be. She gave a frustrated groan, she was never very good with this kind of thing, "Clem you have every right to be mad, but before you tell me to get the hell out I have to tell you that Violet would never cheat on you."
Clem was trying to keep her emotions in check, but her thoughts and feelings kept battling for her attention. She wanted to cry and yell at Sophie at the same time. "How would you know? Where not getting through this one Soph. It's over!"
Sophie cut to the chase. "Clem it was Minnie who kissed Violet." Clem looked to her friend as Sophie continued. "I don't know what the hell she was thinking, but you have to know that Vi would never do that to you. I could tell by how scared she sounded on the phone with me. And whatever Minnie said before isn't true either. Do you honestly believe that she'd do this to you?"
Clem wanted to believe it wasn't true. Her heart ached to be held by her at a time like this, but every thought in her mind screamed Violet's a liar. She looked to Sophie not wanting to meet her gaze, "I-I want to believe you, but how do I know its true?"
Sophie gave a small smile, "Then why don't you ask her."
She looked up and Clem followed her gaze to the person standing in the doorway. The sun was starting to set outside so the room was starting to turn a little dark and cast shadows across the walls and floor, but there was still light enough to see. Clem let out a gasp, out of fear or shock or joy she didn't know, this caused her to shoot to her feet in panic, but a fresh wave of tears overtook her. She closed her eyes tight and looked away allowing a few tears to run down her face. She hadn't even heard her come in, how long had she been standing their? Five minutes, ten minutes, at least long enough for her to hear the last thing she had said.
Silently Violet walked over, ignoring the sound of the shattered phone beneath her feet, not paying attention to anything other than the one person she loved the most.
Clem felt her presence in front of her but didn't dare look her in the eyes. She only let a small whisper escape her lips, "Why, why would y-you do th-this?" It was taking all she could do not to break down crying in front of her.
It pained Violet to see her this upset. And it killed her not to be able to see those beautiful amber eyes that she loved so much. "Clementine You know I would never hurt you."
Her voice was soft and gentle, the way she always talked to Clem when she was upset. But what stood out the most was the fact that Violet had used her full name. She only called her Clementine when she was being completely sincere. She knew Violet wasn't lying, but she still felt unsure. "H-how do I know you're not lying?" She said still refusing to look at her.
She tensed up as she felt Violet's fingers brush against her face. Violet moved her hand downwards and lifted her chin so Clem could look her in the eye. A few tears slipping out in the process.
They were now inches apart. She used her thumb to brush away a few tears from Clem's face, "If I didn't love you, would I do this..." Clem's heartbeat sped up. Violet leaned down and kissed her ever so gently on the lips.
Clem let out a small whimper but kissed her back none the less. Violet pulled away slowly, and looking down at her girlfriend, whispered three words from the bottom of her heart, "I love you."
Still, with tears in her eyes, Clem had the faintest of smiles on her face, before she replied in an even quieter whisper, "I know." She leaned up and let her lips touch Violet's this time, her arms finding their way behind her neck, and Vi's around her waist as they deepened the kiss. Violet never wanted to lose her again, so to show Clem she meant it she poured her heart and soul into the kiss.
Clem only broke away for air. She could feel Violet's breath against her neck. Leaning back slightly she stared into ocean eyes looking for any hint of uncertainty, she found none.
Violet spoke up before she could, "There's those eyes I missed so much." She smirked at her, still holding her in an embrace.
Clem genuinely smiled at her and was about to go in for another kiss when someone spoke up. "Am I interrupting something here?" It was Sophie who was now leaning against the doorway to the kitchen with her arms crossed and a large smirk plastered onto her face.
Clem blushed, heat rising to her cheeks. She hoped that the lack of lighting was hiding the redness of her face. She had totally forgotten that Sophie had been here this whole time.
Sophie chuckled at the couple's embarrassment then smiled, "I can let my self out. Catch ya later guys." And with that, she walked out the front door closing it behind her.
Once she left, Clem lowered her gaze away from Violet, "I'm sorry for not believing y..." But Violet cut her off.
"If anyone should be sorry it's me" The blonde apologized. "You didn't know and I should have..."
This time it was Clem who cut her off, "Just kiss me again."
Violet smiled and did just that.