𝐻𝑜𝓌'𝒹 𝓌𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒?

•TWO•

"Hey Clem, we almost there?" Javi looks away from the window and toward the front seat at Clementine.

She doesn't respond and continues to looks out the window, like she's in her own world. "Hey Clem." She comes back to reality and looks back at Javi with a shocked face, her eyes wide along with her mouth.

She then remembers where she's at and nods her head putting back on her stern face, "Yeah we're close."

"I gotta say I hope you're people are safe and sound. Eleanor asked me before I left to make sure of it." He looks into the review mirror and back at Javi.

"Oh yeah?"

"Yessir. So that's what I'm gonna do, though why she went to bat for you; I've got no idea." I scoff and start to smirk at Tripp, he must really like her to get this jealous over something so small.

He raises his voice a bit, "I mean she hardly knows you, and you hardly know her for that matter. Makes a guy wonder you know?" He quietly said the last part, and part of me felt bad.

I mean he likes the girl and I could see something there. "There's not much mystery to it, Tripp. She's a good human being."

I mean from the small amount of time that he knows her he seems to apparently know a lot. Me and Eleanor have never really gotten along. She thinks she's to good to hang out with me, so that's why I try to hang out with her as much as I can. I want to make her life as enjoyable as I can.

"Yeah, Eleanor's got a big heart, that's for damn sure." It was quiet for a bit and I decided to speak up, "Hey Javi, if you don't mind me asking, how'd you get that cut on you're eyebrow?"

He turns his head in the direction of me and smirked, "Well you see I went into that bar area where this guy sells bullets. He completely ripped Clementine off and got so mad that he went to attack her, luckily I was there and protected her." I raise my eyebrows as Clementine scoffs in the front seat.

"So what happened to him?" Javi's smirk disappeared and he looked at Clem, her face also dropped. I furrowed my eyebrows together, "These two shitheads shot him in the head as 'self defense'." Tripp's answered seeming really pissed off.

"But if he attacked them first isn't it self defense?" Tripp looked back at me and looked back at the road after a few second. Seemed I was right and that just made him even more mad.

We were arriving at the dump when Clem spoke, "guys, that's the place." I would've said a sarcastic remark, but Clem probably would've given me a death stare and I don't want that right now.

When we arrived everything looked like a complete dump, pun intended. There was multiple smoke beams coming from the air and things were all over the place.

"Oh shit."

Javier quickly gets out of the van. "Is it cool if I stay here and keep an eye on the van?" I asked after Tripp and Clementine were outside the van and in front of the dump sign. Tripp turned around annoyed as per usual, "I didn't bring you here just for you to sit on your ass, get out before I drag you out."

I groan and slowly make my way to where they are standing and stand beside Tripp and Javi. "If I die it's on you." I point at Tripp, "Well I think I can live with that." I gasp and cross my arms dramatically.

Tripp shakes his head before walking forward with Javi, "what a mess." I mean he did state the obvious. I then felt a chill go down my spine, something isn't right. I felt like I was being watched, I looked around the woods and all around us to keep an eye out and couldn't see anything.

"Jesus, must have been hundreds of em."

"Kate's good in a crisis- she'd know how to get to shelter."