The Broken But Strong

The Memories and Sorrow

(Clementine's Pov)

I woke up to the sound of movement, footsteps creaking on the hardwood flooring of the room. I open my eye as I sit up and looked to see AJ walking to the door and I looked to the window.

"A bit early to be walking around don't you think?" I asked as he stopped and turned to face me a bit sheepishly.

"I was just going on patrol." He says and I get up and walk over to him.

"Alright, and I'm coming with." I say.

"No, I want to do it on my own." He says and I look at him a bit.

"And how are you going to do this patrol, and who will watch your back?" I asked and he looked to me as he thought a bit.

"I was just going to look around." He says and I smile.

"Mhmm, well come on, I'm awake now so let's go." I say and he nods as we walk out. We get to the front of the school and I looked to see who was on watch and I was surprised to see Violet.

"Violet's on lookout." AJ states and I nod at this.

"Yea seems so." I say as we walk up to the watch post a bit and I hear a guitar as I looked up.

"Shit." I hear Violet say as she picked at the strings a bit and turned the knobs.

"She said a swear." He says and I hear some shuffling and looked to see Violet looking at us and I looked to AJ.

"She's older and you know better." I tell him and he nods.

"Hm, smart kid... I would have been hit for swearing." Violet says and I look back up to her.

"Clementine wouldn't hit you." He says to her and she laughed a little.

"No, if I was younger, swore once as a kid and had my mouth washed out with soap, didn't swear after that but now.... Now I can." She says with a smile and I smile a bit too.

"What has you two up?" She asked as she came down from the watch post.

"AJ wanted to try and sneak out to do some patrolling, woke me up so I decided to join him." I explained and she nod as I see Aasim come take watch.

"Well, I can join you two, we walk around after watch sometimes just to make sure there's no breach in the walls." She says and I nod as we all start to take a walk around the wall and checked for anything weird. When we get to the back of the school, we see that there's some playground stuff, but it's overrun by weeds and tall grass.

"What is that?" AJ asked.

"Never seen a playground before? Well, I mean one that isn't being taken over by the weeds and grass." Violet says as she looked to him.

"We saw a swing at the train station." He says and I nod as he goes over to one of the slides.

"Careful, it might be rusty." Violet tells him and he nods as he does what he can to be careful.

"Hm, I uh.... I was thinking a bit... about everything that happened." She says and I look at her.

"If you want to talk about it, I shall be your therapist." I say and she laughed a bit and shook her head as she looked to AJ and so did I.

"The um... the twins... I was supposed to be with Marlon that day the twins supposedly died.... Makes you start to think a lot." She says and I nod at this.

"Yea it does."

"To think.... I should have taken their place... if I could redo it, I would." She says and I cross my arms a bit.