The Broken But Strong

Dwindiling Girl

(Clementine's Pov)

I woke up to the feeling of my cheek being poked. I opened my one good eye to see AJ looking at me and smiling as I sit up and smile at him a bit.

"Hey what's up?" I asked.

"Nothing, you just slept in later and I was making sure you were ok." He says and I look at him.

"Shit really?" I asked and he nods as I get up from the bed and I look around the room a bit. I went and grabbed my bag and grabbed AJ's gun and he looked to me as I handed it to him and he nods as he placed it in his back pocket. I get up and I stretch a bit as I look to him as he heads to the door.

"Fuck." I mumbled as I got up and we headed outside.

"Afternoon sleeping beauty." I hear and look to see Violet as she came up to us.

"Sorry I just."

"Nah you're good, we expected you to sleep in." She says and I nod a bit.

"But you're in luck, Brody and I were just about to go fishing, and AJ wanted to come with.... So if you want." She offered and I nod at this.

"Sure that would be great actually." I say as she nods and heads to the gate and I watch AJ run up to her as I walked with him.

"What is a fish?" He asked and she looked at me.

"Well it's an animal that can live in the water.... I didn't do so well in biology." Violet says as we walked out the gates and headed more into the woods.

"What class did you do well in Vi?" Brody asked.

"History, mostly in the major wars and discrimination eras which is all of them." She says.

"You know Clementine's friend Lee use to be a teacher." AJ says and I look at him and then to them as I nod.

"Yea he was a college professor." I say as we walk more.

"You know I always thought that I'd want to go to college, be the first in my family with a college education, show I was better than them.... But they'd still be better than me." Violet says and I look at her.

"Why is that?" AJ asked and she looked to him.

"My family mostly worked their whole lives, heck my grandfather was helping his dad build broken cars for a living, and he was just about your age too." She says to him.

"Really?" AJ asked and she nods as we walk.

"I wanted to be a history teacher." She says.

"What did you want to be Clementine?" Brody asked and I chuckled.

"It's stupid." I reply.

"Come on tell." Violet says.

"Hmmm, well I wanted to uh.... I wanted to be a... princess." I say and Violet chuckles a bit.

"Frilly dress and tiara?" She asked and I nodded.

"But also a Sword, A warrior princess." I say and she nods.

"Well, you're half way there." She says and I nod at this.

"Well I was eight when this happened, now that I really think about it, I would like to be a doctor... just like my mom." I say.

"So how did your parents uh... die? I mean if they are." Brody asked.

"They were on a trip in Savanna.... They never came home." I tell her.

"Oh, I'm sorry." She says.

"Nah it's fine, I was never supposed to find them but when I did..... it wasn't the best case." I say.