If everything I love turned to dust {TWDG LOUIS x CLEMENTINE/CLOUIS}

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"AJ! Don't do that!" I scold.
He looks up at me with large eyes, the stew all over his face.
"sorry." He says quietly, but then proceeds to burp. I crack up laughing. I then hear another burp behind me, from Louis. We all start laughing.
Ruby gave up and started walking away.
"Goood niight, ruby!" Louis says loudly.
"Ugh. I really need to go." Marlon gets up and leaves.

"I guess that leaves you and me."
"Yeah, and AJ." I say as I look at where AJ was, but he's not there. There's a moment of panic but I see AJ sitting next to tenn, almost finished with his stew. I smile.
"That's the first child-like thing he's done." I say as I watch him speak to Tenn. "it's nice to see him acting like a kid for once."
I look at Louis.
"He seems like a nice kid." Louis says.
"For the most part." I laugh. We start to talk about life before the outbreak.
"Me and Marlon have been best friends since.. well.. as far as I can remember." Louis says.
"We came here around the same time, at a really young age. We just came to be best friends instantly."
I nod.
"No one I knew back then is alive now." I admit, "I'm far from home anyway. If someone was alive, we'd probably never meet. Same with my first group."
"Where are you from?"
"Georgia, originally."
"Really are far from home."

~~~

We talked all night, and at some point my hand slipped onto his. It was only by midnight that we stopped talking. In the moonlight, we look at each other and look at our hands, which are now intwined. We make eye contact and he leans in. I accept him and we start kissing in the rays of the moon.

~~~

I wake up, my eyes open slowly. Rays of sunlight illuminate the room, reminding me of last night. I hear light footsteps coming down the hallway. I sit up and run a hand through my messy hair before putting my hat on. The door opens slowly, revealing Marlon.
"We need to talk. About you staying. Follow me." I follow him as we silently lead out of the doors and into the main building. We go up the stairs and enter what looks like a principle's office.
"You being here." He sighs suddenly, "means more mouths to feed. We barely can afford one serving for our own meals."

My stomach tightens.
"But I believe that you can stay, if you find a way to help us." He looks into a drawer and pulls out a piece of paper. He unfolds it to show me a map of what looks like the school.
"This is Ericson's boarding school." He points to the buildings on the map.
"This is where we hunt," he points to the nearby forest, "and this is where we fish." He points at a stream.
"What's that?" I ask about a little house symbol.
"That's our shed. It's filled with supplies, mainly for fishing." I nod.
"Today, Aasim and Louis are going to the forest, so I'm assuming that you want to go with them."
I raise my eyebrows.
"Why do you think that?"
"Because you two chose flirting outside over sleeping. That's a telltale sign." He teases.

I feel my cheeks get warm, but fight it.
"Well you assume right. I want to go with Louis and Aasim."
"Told you so."

~~~

Louis leads me out of the gate. He's listening to Aasim rant about the 'safe zone'.
"Sorry about him. He's just mad that we can't find as much food." Louis whispers to my ear.
"Hey! I heard that." Aasim says. "And yes, I AM mad that Marlon keeps limiting our hunting grounds and then complains about food."
"Chill, it's not his fault." Aasim doesn't open his mouth, but I can hear him saying 'yes it is.'
And then Aasim stops.
"This is the place. Clementi—"
"Woah, look! A walker piñata!" Louis interrupts Aasim.
"Clem, either go with this idiot, or try to earn yourself a place in our school and help me hunt. Please make the right choice." Aasim has obviously given up on changing Louis' mind.

For me it's not much of a choice. I approach Louis and AJ. Louis is lightly tapping the walker, which was hanging from a snare, and making jokes to AJ.
"Hey Louis, should I help you with cracking open that piñata?" I laugh.
"Sure. Knock yourself out." He hands me the bat. I study and realise that it's a chair leg with nails indented into it.
"His name's chairles, be careful with him." AJ and I laugh. I then lift the chair leg over my shoulder. The walker swings back, and forth and back and forth—
I swing the bat with all the strength I can muster.

Flesh meets metal and wood and the walker is ripped almost in half with one swing.
"An extravagant swing! If the Olympics was still around, you'd get a gold!" Louis commentates.
"Have another go. Let's see just how good you are." I prepare another swing. Back and forth, back and forth, back and— I swing it underarm and bring it back up with as much power as I can.
The head explodes at the touch of my swing.
"And you've earned yourself a platinum!"

Louis steps forward and takes the bat from me, but not before kissing me on the lips gently. My head feels like a volcano and I feel Aasim and AJ's eyes on me.

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