Hope is the Thing with Feathers

Wild nights! - wild nights!

All of the things I could think of - but I think about you - my dearest sue

Saying those lines out loud, made my heart shattered. How after all these years. We are still here. Yet still here.."damn I'm thinking like a poet again" when I said that Clint came in "like a what now?" I look shocked at him "oh nothing nothing, I'm just talking non sense" I look down at my hands with the old poem and as fast as I could without him noticing, I put it in my back pocket.

"So I was thinking we meet outside in an hour? Is that good with you?" He asked me while looking away weirdly "uh yeah sure. See you then" he had his hands at the back of his head "alright kid, see ya" and he went out of the door.  Something felt weird about the way he was acting and his body language was totally off. I thought of calling Sue. Just to hear her voice and hear how she is doing. I missed her. I still need to tell myself that's her and not some stranger that looks like her.

I walked around the motel room and asking myself if I should call her or not. "Damnit Sue you're taking the life out of me" I took my phone out thought about it again. "Kate get yourself together and just tap the button" I said to myself and tap the call button. It felt like an eternity but it was only 5 seconds. "Hello?" I couldn't get myself to talk "Kate? Are you okay?" "Uh yeah sorry hey. How are you doing?" I could hear she chuckled "I'm okay Em, just at the tree, reading" my heard slowed down just by the sound of her voice "I actually have something important to tell you and uh it's kinda bad" "what is it??" Her voice changed serious in no time "we need a plan to tell Clint and Laura because Clint is acting really weird and he keeps asking about you and me. We need a story" she sighed "it's simple actually. You just say that you thought I was an old friend of yours and that well you wanted to know me and yeah we became friends" I looked at the time. There was 7 minutes till I was meeting Clint outside "okay but what if he asked about you and me in the romantic way?" She was silent for a moment "maybe we shouldn't say anything just yet it's too suspicious, and it's too fast. I love you Emily but I should get going before Laura and the kids are back" I sighed "okay then. Talk later maybe?" I could feel her warm through the phone "yeah let's talk later" I smiled and said "okay then talk later Susan" and hung up. I never felt so good about a decision before and I threw myself on the bed and just thought about everything for a moment till I looked at phone again and saw that it was 11:59. Oh fuck.

I ran around the room to get all my things and ran out the door, I looked again and saw it was 12:03 oh no. He is probably mad now. I got into the elevator and went down. When the door opened Clint was at the doors "you're late kid" he smiled "don't worry I'm not mad at you" how did he know I was scared of that "how did you know??" He laughed "kid it's clear on your face. When you saw me" he signed me to go out of the elevator and we went to his car "so I wanna talk to you later about something and I want you to be honest okay?" I just know I was acting weird "oh uh sure, of course. Why wouldn't I? I mean who would-" he laughed "Kate take it easy it's nothing bad, just breath"

Later at that day.

We have been cleaning, panting the wall and recovered some of the floor. And other thing that needed a touch. "So uh I talked to Laura" he said nervously, looking everywhere but at me while talking. "We talked about you and Hannah maybe having a thing with each other?" And now I was about to explode..."uh what do you mean about that??" I said as confident as I could. But failed. "Kate every time I ask about you guys, you go all weird and defensive and Laura says Hannah keeps talking about you and probably daydreaming about you too." Goddamnit..but wow she still likes me that much? I couldn't stop but smile like a idiot, who's crush just accept going to a date "I take that smile as something is going on" I looked at me deeply in the eyes "Clint I'm so sorry okay? I will stop seeing her or anything, I don't wanna stop working with you" I most definitely didn't mean those things but I really didn't want him to be mad at me and hate me. "Kate I'm not mad at you, okay? I fine with it. If you guys wanna be together. That's your decision and not mine or mine to be mad about it okay? I will always support you guys" he smiled walking over to me and give me the biggest hug I have ever felt in such a long time. "Thank you so much Clint, it makes me really happy to hear that." He pulled away and tapped my shoulder "no problem kiddo, always here, always" He said and went back to panting the walls. "Clint?" "Yeah?" He looked at me like I was about to say some bad "wanna do the last thing tomorrow and uh eat some pizza?" He chuckled "that's the best idea I have ever heard Kate" we both smiled at each other and took our thing fast and went out.

Hey guys! So I hope this chapter wasn't bad:( I don't have that much time in my hands atm but I promise I will write and update as fast as I can. Hope you have a great day or night!! - Salina:)