Violentine: What The Hell!?!?!

Stressed and Depressed

Clementine's POV

"Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck!!!!!"

"Clem, calm down please."

"I CAN'T JUST CALM DOWN, BRODY!!!!"

Silence fills the heavy air surrounding us. She just...ran...why...

"Look, I'm sorry for snapping--"

"Clem, it's ok. She'll come back, I promise." I continue pacing as I listen to Brody attempt to reassure me.

"Violet has always struggled with feelings of mauerbauertraurigkeit."

I stop dead in my tracks and slowly turn my head towards Brody. "What in the actual fuck does that mean?"

"Mauerbauertraurigkeit is the urge to push other people away. Even friends and family."

Ok were just gonna gloss over the fact that that word is way to long for me to process.

"Ok...anyways I already knew that, but why?"

Brody pauses for a long time before answering my question.

"When Violet dated Minnie...they didn't get along well. Whenever Violet did anything wrong or even slightly inconvenienced Minnie she would come to me with bruises all over her body. She would have cuts on her wrist and she would say 'Please, don't tell the others.'"

Wait...

Excuse me! Who the fuck...

"She said that Minnie beat her and that there was this voice in the back of her head telling her she deserved every drop of blood that dripped from her wrists..."

"Minnie abused Violet?!" Anger is now apparent in my voice and facial features.

"Yeah...she was scared that if the others found out Minnie would kill her. Apparantly one night Marlon found out about what Minnie was doing to Violet and that's why he offered her to the raiders and not himself."

It all makes sense now.

"But what about Sophie?"

"The raiders only asked for one of us, but because Minnie was going with them she offered to leave too."

What the hell...

WHAT THE HELL!?

"Why wouldn't she tell me?"

I feel tears roll down my cheeks...

"She was scared...scared that-" Brody pauses suddenly...

"Scared that what?"

The silence swells momentarily. "She was afraid that you would treat her the way Minnie did. She knew you weren't that type of person, but she was afraid of giving her heart to someone else because she thought it would be beaten again..."

The only sounds to be heard were the sounds of the trees in the wind. It was so quiet you could hear my tears hitting the dirt under our feet.

"Sweatpea?" I look to the gate to see Lee just entering the school yard...

"Lee? What are you doing?"

"I couldn't sleep so I was sitting out here at the picnic tables and I saw Violet run out of the school and into the forest. I could tell something was wrong so I tried to find her, but to no avail."

"Oh...ok..."

"She'll be back soon, Clem. I promise. You go get some rest and I'll wake you up when she returns."

I walk back to the school, but I don't go to my room. I go to the bathroom instead...

I search the bloody room for anything she could have been using to cut herself. Violet didn't grab anything before her swift exit, and there were no sharp objects in the bathroom...

That's not the only thing that doesn't make sense though...

Lee lied.