Know Where (A Walking Dead Game Contintuation)

Apologies

AJ woke up abruptly to an uncomfortable position as Disco Broccoli was pushing against his chest as he was laying on his stomach. He pushed Disco Broccoli away, towards where he kept Beet Nick and Calypso Cauliflower. He tried to go back to sleep, flipping side to side on his mattress. After a lot of turns, he was unsuccessful.

He laid facing up to the top bunk, "I am really, really, not looking forward to this," he thought.

He turned towards Clem's side and saw her sleeping with her back towards him. He realized that he didn't know when Clem went back to their room, and he knew she slept late as it is. He thought that she waited until he knew he was asleep on purpose, or that she cleaned up more in the courtyard. Either way, he felt terrible.

AJ got up from his bed and tidied it, making sure that Clementine couldn't get mad at him for anything else. Before walking out of the dorm, he checked to see who was outside. By the time he usually woke up, Omar was already cooking breakfast for the group and Louis was singing who knows what. He peeked outside the window to see that no one was outside. The sun was barely showing.

AJ saw the partially fallen wall by the front gate, and the dried walker blood on the floor and tables. He shut his eyes and cringed remembering what he did. He already knew, but seeing everything again made it worse. He turned his head to Clementine, and then back outside, thinking about how terrible this day was going to be for him.

He stared outside for a long time, AJ thought he even forgot to blink, until he came up with an idea. "Holy shit!" he thought.

He walked to the door and shut it slowly so as to not wake up Clementine. He then walked down the hallway, making sure his steps didn't make any creaking noises and made it to Tenn's room.

He knocked, "Tenn?"

Hearing no response, he opened the door to see Tenn sleeping on his bed. He realized he'd never been inside Tenn's room before. It had his drawings all over the wall, he thought it was beautiful over the bland, grey walls. He noticed that Tenn tucked all of the drawings that had Minnie on it to a small corner on the right wall, they were still hung up, but AJ thought it was odd.

"Tenn?" AJ shook him by the arm. "Tenn!"

"Ahh!" Tenn screamed. "Who is it!"

AJ lunged back from a hostile Tenn. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."

"Oh," he started to calm down. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong," AJ started. "But I have an idea."

"No," Tenn refused. "Not again. I am not going with you on one of your stupid ideas."

"This one is good!" AJ said in excitement. "It's going to make everyone feel better. We're going to atone."

Tenn hesitated for a moment, then turned to AJ, "How do you think we're going to do that?"

AJ motioned him to follow outside of his room and into the courtyard. Tenn didn't realize that it was barely morning.

"What is your plan?" Tenn asked.

AJ looked around the courtyard, "We're gonna clean this up, and start boarding the walls, and putting back up the bricks, just like we were supposed to."

Tenn was very tired, he never woke up this early before and was ready to tell AJ "No", and go back to bed. However, he couldn't resist that the idea was good, and he knew that it was his fault too.

"Ugh," Tenn shook his head. "Okay."

AJ started jumping in excitement, "Yay!"

"Don't say 'Yay,'" Tenn deadpanned.