Boxing Partners

A Cliff's Edge

Suddenly the girl jolted upright, gasping for air, her chest heaving up and down, beads of glistening sweat rolled down her skin like pearls in the night sky. Looking around the empty dorm room, a frown grew on her face as she remembered the events from the day before.

The sky was a bright baby blue, the fluffy white clouds blanking out the majority of the sky above, a mixture of dew and mist fell on the world below, like a silky blanket resting on the bushes and trees, the trees left barren and empty from the harsh and bitter winter.

Clementine rested her heavy head on her hands as a pearly tear fell from her cheek and landed on the floor, a fragile damp patch formed where the bead landed. She sighed and wiped the residue from her face. Reluctantly she pulled her phone off the desk and pressed the power button, clicking it multiple times to bring it to life, but no luck, an empty black screen stared back at her.

"Dead, damn" she swore, picking up the charger and forcing it into the port, laying back on the bed her head sunk into the pillow, the brunette looked into the nooks and crevasses of the greying ceiling above. After a while Clementine got up and walked to her closet, pacing back and forth as her breaths grew heavier and heavier, clenching her fists and the anger bubbled inside.

"I can't fucking believe it, after all, I've gone through and all I've fucking done for that bitch and she kisses my girlfriend, how fucking dare she?!" the girl huffed and puffed,

"FUCK!" the brunette yelled loudly, her vision turned to black, her fist made contact with the wall and breached the flimsy drywall, going up to her wrist. As the drained colours returned she slowly removed her hand, the crumbling white drywall falling on the ground, some of the white grains stained red and pink from her knuckles that began to bleed.

"Clem?! You okay in there; we heard a loud bang next door! Can we come in?" Brody spoke softly, knocking on the door. The brunette sighed, walking towards the door holding her hand to not let her blood drip on the floor, hiding behind the door she opened the door slowly, Ruby pushing her out of the way to investigate.

Brody looking at the girl attentively, "What did you do?"

"I was thinking about what happened last night and I just remember pulling my hand out the wall and nothing else" Clementine spoke placing her hand gently into the redhead's hand,

"Clem..." Brody said with a sadness in her voice, "I'll go get my first aid kit" Ruby sighed.

Brody lead Clementine onto the bed, sitting beside one another, the redhead used her fingers to gently brush off the drywall residue off the brunette's hand, Ruby returning swiftly with a red and white box with a darker red cross on the front, setting it down on the desk pulling out a roll of bandages, some cotton balls and a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, unscrewing the tight lid, pressing a clump of cotton onto the lip of the bottle and turning it upside down till the cool liquid made contact with her dainty fingertips.

The girl took Clementine's hand and slowly wiped the soaked cotton ball over the cuts and scrapes, fizzing at the touch of blood. The brunette winced at the stinging sensation, the ball of cotton stained pink.

After the redhead was finished cleaning the wound she grabbed the roll of bandages and started to warp her hand up, cutting the excess off and taping the end to the rest of the clinical white fabric.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Brody said softly,

"I know Vi didn't do anything and that she would have never kissed Minerva, but I was shocked, and I'm just mad about my stupidity, I should have been smarter than that. She tried to fucking kill me and then I forgave her and then I helped break her out of that shithole called Delta and then she fucking kisses MY girlfriend" the brunette paused, "I'm done!"