Romeo and Juliet ||Clouis fanfiction||

5.- Strangers

Words count: 2859

/Midnight/

Clementine's POV:

I climbed on my balcony back to my room on the second floor. The balcony doors were opened, as always, and nobody was in the room. Phew! I jumped on my bed, arms under my head, and crossed legs. But suddenly, I heard fast loud steps going in my room's direction. I quickly covered myself in bed blanket and faked sleep. AJ kicked the door open, ,,Hey, Clem! They came back!" he shouted. ,,Who is back?" I tried to make a tired voice. ,,The group, c'mon, hurry up!"

While I was walking with my brother through the courtyard, he told me something I would never expect from him to say, ,,When I grow up, I want to be like them. Killing sounds easy."

,,WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?! You haven't even killed anybody, AJ, you don't wanna be like them! Killing is not easy or fun. You can't murder someone just for fun, or because you're bored. Even if they are Blue." He looked at me like he was about to scream at me but he just breathed out. He looked at his small foot and then on me, ,,How can you say this, they killed our mom! Stole our food, killed these innocent people!" he pointed at our graveyard. But the point is we are killing each other! It's not like we could all live in a harmony, no, we have to fight and steal just over stupid jealousy.

Our father came up to us, he had a confused face, ,,Hey, hey, hey, what's going on? Why are you not in bed, anyway?!" AJ turned to him and said, ,,Clem said we should stop fighting with the Blue group-"
,,That's not what I said!" I cut him off, ,,AJ wants to be a fricking killer and said killing sounds easy." Dad stared into AJ's eyes. Then looked into mines and asked AJ, ,,And what did she say?"
,,She tried to convince that killing is bad EVEN if they are Blue. But that's not right! We should kill what is bad or if it wants to hurt us, and Christa is both!" he said. Dad thought about this a little while and shook his head. ,,Oh, my kids, come. Sit." We sat down on one of the benches in the courtyard.
,,Listen, Christa, she's...she did bad things, but it was because she was protecting her people. She's not a bad person, she's just doing wrong choices. Because she is scared. I've known her since middle school. She was once or twice in a fight with this girl because she flirted with me. Christa was super jealous, but it wasn't like she like-liked me, we were only best friends. And after a year, another girl came to our school, she was nice. Me and Christa started to hang out with her and eventually she was part of our best-friendship." he took a break for a second, ,,We had a treehouse in a dark forest. We often played hide and seek in there." he closed his eyes and took a deep breath. I think I know what happened to her... ,,She got lost, we couldn't find her five days,...police found a dead body on the ground near a cliff. Her face and clothes were torn apart."

Wow. That was very deep. He looked like it just broke his heart. AJ moved close to dad and gave him a hug. Dad smiled down at him. ,,Thanks, buddy." I smiled at them, too. It was kind of special moment because we're not so often together. Dad is our leader and that takes so much responsibility and he doesn't really have time for us. He continued, ,,Well, and the reason why are we fighting is-" Ohh, don't even remind me...
,,Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know." AJ and I said in a unison. Oh Geez, I miss her every day so much. But AJ is taking it worse than me. He was so little when our mom was murdered and he doesn't remember her at all. He saw some photos of her, but still...

,,Alright, kids. Go to sleep now. Goodnight!"
said dad and went to his office. AJ told me he wanted to talk to the group that went to Blue's. I rolled my eyes and went to my room.

I got under my blanket and closed my tired eyes, but suddenly Brody came in with a book. She had red puffy eyes and was sobbing. ,,Brody! Are you okay?" I asked her worriedly. She nodded but soon started crying. I quickly hugged her and she buried her head into my shoulder. ,,Hey, hey, it's alright, girl. Just tell me, did something happen to you?" I gave her some tissues, she soon calmed down and spoke, ,,I...I just finished reading Romeo and Juliet and it was just too emotional for me. A true love story." she said still sobbing. I looked at her with my 'are you fucking serious' face and just got into my bed and finally closed my eyes.