"What's your name?" Clementine asked.
"Uh…I'm Glenn." Glenn said as he pulled up in front of the motel. "So, where's your mom? If you…y'know don't mind me asking." Glenn said.
"Nu-uh. My parents are in Savannah." Clem said.
"Oh…uh…" Glenn said awkwardly. "So, Lee, he's-
"Glenn?" Clementine asked after Glenn cut himself off.
"Oh shit!" Glenn gasped before silence.
"Glenn?" Clem asked. Clem opened her mouth to tell Lee before the walkie-talkie interrupted.
"Hey, little girl, think you could put your daddy on the phone, or on the talkie or whatever?" Glenn panted.
The wood crackled as Ed toppled another log on top of the fire. Clem felt the overwhelming heat on one side of her skin as she snuggled up to Glenn by their fire. "Hey, Ed. Want to rethink that log?" Shane asked, looking over to Ed who was sitting with his family and a few other survivors on a separate campfire, where the heat was coming from.
"I'm cold, man." Ed said as he sat back down.
"Cold don't change the rules, does it? We keep the fires low, just embers." Shane said. "So we can't be seen from a distance, right?"
"I said its cold." Ed moaned. "You should mind your own business for once."
Clem watched as Shane stood up from their fire to walk over to Ed's campfire. "Hey Ed." Shane whispered. "You sure you want to have this conversation, man?"
Clementine sat up but was pulled back by Glenn, touching her shoulder gently. "C'mere." Glenn said with a sweet smile.
Clementine reluctantly leant back onto the log her and Glenn were sitting up against. She kept glancing back at Ed and Shane, knowing out dangerous Ed was. She had seen the bruises Carol had after she heard her and Ed arguing. The adults of the group never told her anything when she asked but she knew all about what was happening, and how close she was to being hurt the first time they met. "Go on…" Ed sighed. "Pull the damn thing out."
That was the moment Clementine decided to interrupt. She stood up and walked over to the campfire the moment Carol reached into the flames. "Here, I can do it." Clementine said.
"Oh, no honey you might hurt yourself." Carol said quietly.
Clementine put her hand in the fire and grabbed the log, feeling a numbing pain on her hand, not noticeable until she had dropped the log to the side. "Christ…" Shane muttered.
"Didn't ask you to do it." Ed said.
Clementine didn't respond, she just stared at Ed coldly before walking back over to Glenn. "Clementine, you alright?" Rick asked.
"M-hm." Clementine said as she waved the burning pain from her hand.
"Here, let me take a look." Glenn said, taking Clementine's hand, noticing a small burn on the back of her hand. "You'll live, let's cool this down a little though, okay?"
"Okay." Clementine said.
The Next Day
"Are you alright?" Amy asked.
"Yeah…" Clementine sighed as she leaned back on a nearby rock, watching all the adults clean the group's clothes in the quarry, thinking about Glenn driving off into Atlanta with Rick, Daryl and the rest.
"He'll be okay. He's fast. And with the toughest people in the group." Carol said.
"Hey, kid I'm sure Shane wouldn't mind you sitting in with him and Carl. Probably more exciting than watching us do laundry." Andrea said looking over to the other side of the quarry, watching Shane splash the water and laughing happily with Carl.
"Okay." Clementine said with a smile as she began walking over to Carl and Shane.
"Alright, we gotta start over, let's find that bucket." Shane laughed.
"Hey Clementine." Carl said.
"Hi, Carl." Clem said.
"Hey, kid. You come to help us catch frogs?" Shane asked.
"If I can…?" Clementine asked.
Shane looked over to Carl, who immediately nodded happily. "Here." Carl said, passing Clem a fishing net.
Clementine took it and stood next to it, using the red-painted bamboo stick the net was on as a support. "Alright, you two ready?" Shane asked.
Clementine was distracted last minute by the woman laughing loudly. She smiled and then looked back to the small area of water Shane was behind ready to chase the frogs towards her and Carl.
"Hey Carl." Lori said as she walked over to the three. "What did I tell you about not leaving Dale's sight?"
"But…Shane said we could catch frogs." Carl said.
"Doesn't matter what Shane says, it matters what I say." Lori said. "Go on, back to camp. You too Clem. I'll be right behind ya'."
Clem and Carl sighed as they walked back up to the camp next to the quarry. "It's okay, we can still play together." Clementine said.
"I don't know what's up with her…" Carl said.
"She's probably just worried." Clementine said.
"I guess…" Carl sighed. "Are you worried?"
"A little…" Clementine said. "Glenn's really nice. I just hope he's okay."
"He will be." Carl said.
Clementine looked back at Carl with a sheepish smile.
"So…uh, it was pretty scary earlier, right?" Carl said.
"With the walkers? Uh-huh. Daryl looked angry about that deer." Clementine said as the two reached the top of the quarry and in Dale's area of view.
"When doesn't he? Merle and Daryl are-
Carl and Clem looked back down to the bottom of the quarry to see Shane throwing punches over and over again while kneeling on top of Ed.
So…pretty uneventful chapter, but y'know…eh. xD Be sure to review to let me know how I'm doing so far! :D
