The Broken But Strong

The Mess I'm In

(Clementine's Pov)

I watched as Violet would work on the card tower over and over again, I then looked to the side to see Marlon by himself at the table. In all honesty he hasn't really done any work, but right now I couldn't deal with it. I looked back to Violet who was putting all her concentration on the cards.

"Damn it." She muttered as the cards fell over.

"Try again." I tell her and she nods as she does so. It took a bit but she stumbled a bit as she tried to move making the cards fall down again.

"God damn it." She mutters. I watch as she tried to build the cards again.

"Need some help?" I asked and she nods as she hands me some cards and I help her. AJ and the others came over and they wanted to help so Violet gave them some cards to work with. I helped Violet and as we get close to the top the cards collapse and she got mad.

"What the fuck cards? Louis your cards are jank." She says to him and he laughed at this.

"No, they aren't you just suck at card stacking." He says.

"Jokes on you Clementine was building the card tower." She says and he looked to me and I nod.

"Oh... then the cards are Jank." He says and Violet looked to me then to him and waved her arms at the cards.

"WH- Make it make sense." She says and I laughed at this.

"Let's go on patrol." She says and I look to her then to the others and I nod.

"Ok, AJ want to-."

"I'm on watch Clem." He says as he runs to the tower and I nod and look to Violet and follow her to do some patrolling.

"Sorry, you didn't have to come if you didn't want to." She says.

"No, it's fine, not bothering me in any way." I tell her as we walked some more.

"So how do you think we will do? You know with the raiders?" She asked and I looked at her a bit and then saw her hands kind of shaking.

"I think we will do fine as long as we stick to the plan we have, as long as we do that, we're golden." I tell her and she nods and takes a breath.

"Sorry I just... we never had to do this and I just... don't want any more kids to be taken or die or just... I don't know." She says and I nod.

"I understand, I haven't had a group for so long it's kind of weird for me to be working with people again, you know?" I asked and she laughed a bit.

"I was never a people person." She tells me and I fake gasp.

"Really? Violet not a people person? It's unheard of." I say and she laughs a bit.

"You know how to make people smile." She says.

"It's one of my many charms, thank you for taking notice." I say and bow a bit and she laughed again. We just walked around a bit and would chat about anything we could. It wasn't long till we finish the walk and Violet went back over to Louis and tried to stack the cards again. She looked to be having fun with Louis and I look to Marlon who was just looking to the gate. I didn't say anything to him and I look over to AJ, Tenn. and Willy as they watched Violet and Louis stacking the cards. We then decided it was best for all of us to go to sleep so the guys grabbed Marlon and I take AJ to our room and I see Violet pass us by.

"Hey you good?" I asked and she nods.

"Oh yeah, I's fine." She says and laughed a bit.

"Hey uh... do you want to stay in our room, I just... don't think you should be alone if you're drunk." I say and she looked to me.