Before, Just a few weeks before the events of "Letting Her Go".
All right's go to Chris Stapleton for his song Parachute.
With Clem and Tommy being together she had learned a lot of new things about him, like his love for music. Clem hadn't known this earlier on, but once they began dating, Clem learned that Tommy loved country music. He even learned how to play the guitar. He had his own at his house and one day he showed it to Clementine. He even taught her how to play a few chords.
It was Saturday Afternoon when Luke walked down the hall. He passed by the door to the old guest bedroom that kept all the old house junk in it, when he heard the words to an old song he used to know, and it sounded like someone was singing. "I will be your parachute."
He stepped backwards a few paces and walked through the door that was slightly open. He saw Clementine seated on the bed with a light brown, acoustic guitar on her lap.
Clem slowly looked up as he entered the room. "Oh hey Luke." She greeted. "Look what I found under the bed." She held up the guitar. "Tommy's been teaching me how to play."
Luke gave her a small smile, but it suddenly disappeared. He pulled up a wooden chair next to the bed and sat down. "Clem where'd you learn that song?" He asked.
Her smile disappeared too. "What song?" She asked innocently.
"The song you where just singing."
"Oh um," She blushed. She didn't think anyone had heard her. She sighed. "Actually Nick taught it to me." Her voice starting to sound a little sad at the remembrance of one of their friends.
"Nick? When did he teach you that?" Luke knew he had recognized the song, Nick used to sing it all the time while Luke played the guitar, But he didn't remember Nick ever teaching Clementine that song.
"When we where trapped in the cellar." She said kind of guiltily, as if it was something she wasn't supposed to know. "He found some whiskey and got a little drunk, then he told me that he'd teach me this song."
"Huh, Do you remember all of it?" Luke asked.
"Only part of it." Clem explained.
"Would you mind singing it again?" Luke wondered. "I'll play if you sing."
"You play?" She asked surprised.
"Yeah, though it has been a few years since I picked up a guitar." He smiled and took the guitar from Clem. "Me and Nick used to play all the time and he would sing sometimes."
He tuned the guitar then brought his hand down and strummed a few chords trying it out. "You ready?"
"O-okay." She said.
Luke began to strum the guitar to the melody of the song the best he could, since it's been a while.
Clem flashed back to when Nick had taught her this song. Back to when they were both trapped in that cellar all those years ago.
Nick set the jar of whiskey down. "I needed that."
"Nick what are we going to do?" Clem asked worriedly.
"Nothing left we can do." He said bluntly.
Clem rolled her eyes. "Your just drunk."
Nick smirked. "Yeah maybe, but seriously."
Clem gave him a look, wondering how he could just give up like this. Then he spoke up. "Clem theirs a song that Pete taught me long ago, and sometimes theres just a time when you need something the most. And I'm gonna teach it to you."
She gave him another look, but accepted it anyway. "Okay."
Nick taped his hand against his leg to a rhythm. "Street lights along the highway. Throwing shadows in the dark. And the memories keep on turning... to the rhythm of a broken heart."
She sang every word just like how Nick taught her back then. "You only need a roof when it's raining. You only need a fire when it's cold. You only a drink when the whiskey... is the only thing you have left to hold. Sun comes up and goes back down and fallen feels like flying till you hit the ground. Say the word and I'll be there for you. Baby I will be your parachute."
She stopped. but Luke kept playing on. "I-I that's all I remember." She told him.
Luke smiled. "Need a little help?" He continued on where she had left on. "There's a song that I remember...I never learned to play."
Then Clem picked it back up. "And a lifetime of forgotten words...I never got to say."
Then they both started to sing. "You only need a roof when it's raining. You only need a fire when it's cold. You only need a drink when the whiskey... is the only thing you have left to hold. Sun comes up and goes back down and fallen feels like flying till you hit the ground. Say the word and I'll be there for you. Baby I will be your parachute...parachute."
Then Luke played a guitar solo. He continued on with, "If you think you're going down...just know I will be around...You only need a roof when it's raining. You only need a fire when it's cold. You only need a drink when the whiskey is the only thing you have left to hold."
Then Clementine joined in again. "Sun comes up and goes back down and fallen feels like flying till you hit the ground. Say the word and I'll be there for you."
A single tear rolled down her face as they sang the last part. "Baby I will be your, baby I will be your parachute...Parachute."
Then Luke ended it with a final strum of the guitar. The sound slowly dies away and Luke sets the guitar on the floor next to him. Neither of them want to say anything until Clem flings herself into Luke's arms and hugs him. She softly cries into his shirt. Luke pulls her onto his lap and hugs her too, letting a few tears fall from his own eyes as they share this moment together, remembering their friend Nick.
"I love you Luke."
"I love you too Clem."
So what did you guys think? I know it's a little shorter than what I usually write, but I wanted to make this chapter where Clem sings a song to Luke that Nick had taught her. A little Luke and Clementine moment. I knew this one was going to be shorter, but I thought it was cute and I wanted to incorporate this song into the story somehow. Hope you guys liked it. Don't forget to leave a review or PM me. Secret life of writing Out!
