Bye Goat ||Colentine||

13. Meet?

"Cole? Are you here?" Yelled a voice.

"Don't leave me Cole..." I heard Clementine whisper.

"I-"

"Cole!" Kingsley came up in the other side of the river.

"What are you doing here Kingsley?" I stood up.

"Looking for you..I didn't know you were going to come out here today." Kingsley replied worried.

"I wanted to talk to Clementine," I responded.

"Oh... where are they?" Kingsley pointed behind me. I turned to look seeing Clementine no where to be found.

"They...they were right here...I swear." I looked around.

"Cole.."

"No, they were right here infront of me I was talking with them..I felt them.. I heard them" I stuttered.

"Let's just get you home okay.?" Kingsley waited for me to come on the other side of the river.

"I'm going to wait here." I crossed my arms.

"Kingsley? What's taking so long.." I heard Perrine walk into the scene.

I sat there not saying a word. Feeling a little embrassed on my part. I didn't understand how and why Clementine would leave whenever they would see Kingsley or Perrine approach.

"Cole..we're you talking to that goat person?"

"Clementine." Kingsley corrected.

"Yes I was." I answered.

"Where did they go?" They asked.

"I don't know they left to go home or something.."

"Well then that means it's time for you to get home as well it's super late," said Perrine.

"No, I'm not tired I'm going to stay here and wait til they come back," I avoided eye contact.

"But if they went home then they would want you to go home aswell ." Kingsley stated.

"Just come home." Perrine said.

I sighed and gave in.

"Cole...how did you meet this Clementine person?" Perrine turned to me as we were walking back to the village.

"I-I found them by the river on the other side, why?" I responded.

"And how did they looked like?" Kingsley asked.

"Oh..like honey blonde curls with small freckles and they wear this goat mask and have-"

"Okay." Perrine cut me off.

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We went back to the village chatting with eachother. But I couldn't have the thought of not seeing Clementine. I didn't know why they left. They usually leave in the mornings so why did they leave now. I had to go back to see them again.

"Cole?" Kingsley asked, "where are you going?"

"I'm going to see Clementine again," I said.

"Cole..don't you think it's time you stop going over there for once?" Kingsley mumbled as he sat up. We all went to a flower field to watch the stars together.

"What do you mean? If I want to see them I'm going to see them," I yawned.

"Your too tired..you've been going over for maybe a month now.." Kingsley narrowed their eyebrows.

"I'm fine, thank you," I stood up.

"Wait!" Kingsley got up, "could I come with? Could I finally meet Clementine now?"

"Uh.." I thought about it. Clementine always leaves whenever they see someone else, but it is odd how they never wanted to make an effort of meeting my friends.

I sighed, "you know what..sure why not, they're shy so maybe one at a time would be fine for them." I looked at Perrine sleeping.

"Yippee!" Kingsley jumped slightly.

I smiled. "Let's go."