Hey guys! Sorry its been so long, but graduating has been time consuming.
Anyway this might be my last chapter for this story. I just feel like its being dragged out to long. I don't know. But I'll probably start something new soon. Well here you go.
After
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 where 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 it's 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 Tommy's arms. But this time was different, this time Tommy was the problem.
The vibrating started up again as the florescent light illuminated her phone once more from it's place across the floor. Clem didn't care this time. He could call, but she wouldn't hear it.
If one where to look down at the screen at this moment they would see the picture of her and Tommy 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 where alive. Her thoughts and feelings coming strait 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 it's 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 Tommy's phone drew silent as the signal had been cut short from the event that had just occurred, but which he was unaware of. He tried to redial her number, but a voice came on the other end saying how he could not reach this number. "Shit," he mumbled under his breath. He had really screwed up this time. Sure he and Clem had disagreed about things before which lead to little arguments, but nothing like this. "Smooth Tommy, real smooth," he said to himself.
He 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 him in. His only hope was Sarah or one of her other friends. He needed to fix this fast before Luke found out. Forget when he had flipped out when they had kissed for the first time, if she told him what had happened Tommy would be dead by morning or at least in the hospital.
He quickly scrolled through his contacts list thinking he better not call anyone who lived with her. He stopped on the person who he thought would take the news the most lightly.
The phone rang for a few seconds before someone picked up, "Hello."
"Wendy! Thank god! Has Clem talked to you yet? Did she tell you what happened?"
Wendy seemed baffled with what was he talking about, he sounded kind of panicked like it was a life or death situation. "Whoa dude, slow down. What are talking about?"
Tommy gulped swallowing the lump in his throat and also trying to calm his nerves, "I - I s-screwed up."
Wendy raised a brow on the other end of the phone, "You screwed up or you ..."
"I blew it okay! I completely screwed our relationship!" He went on a rant as Wendy stood there dumbstruck only being able to listen to his words. "It wasn't my fault, but Clem ran away crying. Now she wont answer her phone. She wont text me let alone talk to me. And Luke is going to kill me if he finds out before I get a chance to fix this!"
She composed her self after Tommy finished, "Hold up dude, what exactly happened?" The red head asked.
Tommy took a deep breath. "Okay so you know the girl down at the convenient store?"
"Yeah, May Tenner, brown hair, red jacket, really into Ash."
"Yeah, that's what I thought, until she fucking kisses me right in front of Clementine!" he shouted into the phone.
"What the hell do you mean she kissed you?" Wendy 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." he explained.
"And you just let her!" Wendy 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." He ran his fingers through his hair, "And whats worse is Clem thinks we've been flirting with each other for a while now."
Wendy was in complete shock, "What do you mean? She never said anything to me about this or the rest of us."
Tommy gave a frustrated sigh, "I don't where she got it from, I think May might of been telling her this behind my back because she was jealous or something."
Wendy took a sip of her drink from her position on the couch, trying to cool her self down. She was ticked at May for doing something like this to one of her best friends. Clementine didn't cry much, hell Wendy wasn't sure if she had ever even seen Clem cry before except for maybe when they got her and Tommy back together when Luke broke them up. So if Clem had cried over this it was diffidently a problem. First thing she would do was march down to the convenient store where May worked and give her a piece of her mind, but first she needed to help Tommy. "Hmm your in a pretty tight spot."
"Do you think you can help me out?" He practically begged.
She took another sip of her drink before she replied, "Look man, like it or not your going to have to talk to Clem."
"I know," he sighed again. "But she's not going to listen to me Wendy. I don't think I ever seen her so upset."
Wendy sighed setting her cup on the coffee table, "Alright man, I'll walk over and see whats up with her, but I can't promise she'll listen to me anymore than she did you. You know how she is."
A small smile crept its way onto Tommy's face, "Thanks Wendy that's all I ask. If you could just get her to talk to me or possibly get her outside..."
"Look Tommy I can't promise you anything, but the least I can do is try to talk to her," the lumberjack's daughter said through the phone as she got up to start walking over to her friends house.
"Thanks again," Tommy said before hanging up. He heard Wendy 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 Sarah, Luke, and Rebecca all had keys to get in so she figured it was Tommy trying to get her to talk to him. But she couldn't, she couldn't ever forgive him for something like that. How could he just go and kiss someone, another girl for that matter, in front of her. Tommy 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.
Wendy 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 growing up in the apocalypse. But all her training could not of prepared 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 Tommy, he had some nerve to show up here after what he had done.
Wendy walked in and shut the door and immediately turned to head to the kitchen thinking to search the ground floor before she headed up stairs. 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, Tommy 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 Tommy. Seeing who it was Clem wiped some of the tears from her eyes, "W-Wendy, I didn't know it was you," she said in a shaky voice.
"It's cool," Wendy 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, he-he loves someone else n-now." She tried again to wipe the tears away that kept forming in her eyes.
Wendy 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."
Wendy felt bad for her friend, but this was just a misunderstanding, a pretty big one. "Right after this I'm going to kick May Tenner ass," thought Wendy. But she needed to level with Clem first. "Look Clem, it wasn't his 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. Clem saw what happened, how could Wendy come in hear and tell her otherwise, she wasn't even present when all this went down.
Not wasting time Wendy got to the point before she became just like Clem's phone. "Tommy 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.
Wendy 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 Tommy 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 Wendy at the same time. "How would you know? Where not getting through this one Wendy. It's over!"
Wendy cut to the chase. "Clem it was May who kissed Tommy." Clem looked to her friend as Wendy continued. "I don't know what the hell she was thinking, but you have to know that Tommy would never do that to you. I could tell by how scared he sounded on the phone with me. And what ever she said before isn't true either. Do you honestly believe that he'd do this to you?"
Clem wanted to believe it wasn't true. Her heart ached to be held by him at a time like this, but every thought in her mind screamed Tommy's a liar. She looked to Wendy not wanting to meet her gaze, "I-I want to believe you, but how do I know its true?"
Wendy gave a small smile, "Then why don't you ask him."
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 staring to turn a little dark and cast shadows across the walls and floor, but their 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 over took her. She closed her eyes tight and looked away allowing a few tears to run down her face. She hadn't even heard him come in, how long had he been standing their? Five minutes, ten minutes, at least long enough for him to hear the last thing she had said.
Silently Tommy walked over, ignoring the sound of the shattered phone beneath his feet, not paying attention to anything other than the one person he loved the most.
She felt his presence in front of her, but didn't dare look him 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 him.
It pained him to see her this upset. And it killed him not to be able to see her beautiful amber eyes that he loved so much. "Clementine You know I would never hurt you."
His voice was soft and gentle, the way he always talked to her when she was upset. But what stood out the most was the fact that he had used her full name. He only called her Clementine when he was being completely sincere. She knew he wasn't lying, but she still felt unsure. "H-how do I know your not lying?" She said still refusing to look at him.
She tensed up as she felt his fingers brush against her face. He moved his hand downwards and lifted her chin so she could look him in the eye. A few tears slipping out in the process.
They were now inches apart. He used his thumb to brush away a few tears from her face, "If I didn't love you would I do this..." Clem's heartbeat sped up. He leaned down and kissed her ever so gently on the lips.
She let out a small whimper, but kissed him back none the less. He pulled away slowly, and looking down at her whispered three words from the bottom of his heart, "I love you."
Still with tears in her eyes she 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 his this time, her arms finding their way behind his neck, and his around her waist as they deepened the kiss. Tommy never wanted to lose her again, so to show her he meant it he poured his heart and soul into the kiss.
She only broke away for air. She could feel his breath against her neck. Leaning back slightly she stared into his eyes looking for any hint uncertainty, she found none.
He spoke up before she could, "There's those eyes I missed so much." He smirked at her, still holding her in his embrace.
She genuinely smiled at him and was about to go in for another kiss when someone spoke up. "Am I interrupting something here?" It was Wendy 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 forgot that Wendy had been hear this whole time.
Wendy chuckled at the couple's embarrassment then smiled, "I can let my self out. Catch ya later dudes." And with that she walked out the front door closing it behind her.
Once she left, Clem lowered her gaze away from Tommy, "I'm sorry for not believing y..." But Tommy cut her off.
"If anyone should be sorry its me" he apologized. "You didn't know and I should have..."
This time it was her who cut him off, "Just kiss me again."
He smiled and did just that.
Well not bad for a last chapter if I do say so my self. I hope that creative writing class that I took in school payed off. :P
I will warn you guys now though. I might write just one more chapter, still debating. It's something that I've been wanting to write for a while now, just something simple and sweet. I guess will just wait and see.
Let me know what needs to be improved I know its not perfect. Feel free to leave a review or PM me.
