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I lay in bed staring at the ceiling waiting for kenny to come go to sleep. "I wish we had TV still" I think.

"Kenny!" I shout sleepily.  "What's is it clem?" Kenny asks opening the door looking alarmed.  "I can't sleep!" I complain.  "Just wait a sec darlin' I'll be there as soon as I finish what I'm doing.

Kenny's pov :

"Hey luke I gotta go to bed, clem says she can't sleep" I tell luke.  "Why can't you just have one more drink ken?" Luke asks. "Your drunk just go to bed luke please!" I pled. "Ok fine. Night ken ken." Luke says. "Night brother" I tell luke before heading off to bed.

(Back to clem ' s pov )

"Hey kenny" I say happily.  "Go to sleep please clem" Kenny begs. "Not until you go to sleep first." I tease. "Ok but you have to promise you won't stay up all night" he says.  "I can't promise anything" I joke. "Well I'm going to sleep now. Night darlin." Kenny says pulling the cover over himself.

"Kenny?" I ask. "What clementine?" He asks slightly annoyed.  "I'm cold do you have any other blankets?" I ask him. "No luke has the rest." He answers. 

*5 minutes later*

"Kenny?" I say. "Yes darlin'?" He responds. "Can you hold me?" I ask innocently.  "Sure, if you'll go to sleep." He says. "I will. I promise, kenny, I promise." I make clear. "Then come here" Kenny says. I scoot closer to him and he wraps his blanket around me. "Hey look it's a pig in a blanket." He remarks. "Hey" I say messing up his hair. "Oh no not my hair it took me forever to comb it" he says sarcastically.

"In the morning can I brush your hair. It's almost as long as mine." I ponder. "Yea, but in the morning.  Please go to sleep " he pleds. "Ok fine I will" I reply wrapping my arms tightly around him. He does the same.

*in the morning*

"Morning kenny!" I shout. "Mornin' darlin'" he replies.

"Lukey?" I ask. He groans and rolls over. "Kenny is luke ok?" I ask nervously.  "Yea. He's just hungover. He drank a bunch last night." Kenny tells me.

"Kenny, can I brush your hair now?" I ask. "If you can find a hairbrush " be replies. I run to my room and grab my hairbrush out of my duffle bag.

"I'm back.  Sit over there please." I say pointing to the couch. "Yes ma'am." He jokes siting on the couch. I sit behind him and brush the tangles out of his long hair. Not as long as mine yet but getting there.

"Ouch. Don't pull so hard." Kenny says in pain. "stop being such a baby" I say and stick my tounge out at him.  "So kenny. How old are you?" I ask him. "Uh 30 the last time I checked, why clem?" He answers.  "Nothing just asking." I remark.

"How old are you clem?"Kenny asks me. "19 I think" I reply. I snicker at the fact that I forgot what day my birthday was.

" Luke should be getting up any minute now." Kenny says. "What's for breakfast?" I ask him. "Is there any deer and peaches left?"Kenny asks. I sigh at the though of eating the same boring meal yet again.

"Yes" I say droopily. "What is it. You don't like deer and peaches?" He asks and gives me a hug. "I guess I can deal with them" I say smiling.  "No darlin' if you don't want it I'm not gonna make you eat it. I'll find you something else." He tells me caringly.

"No really it's fine I like deer. It's the peaches I don't care for." I assure him. He nods and sets our bowls down at the table.

We both eat in utter silence before we hear luke groan, "morning guys, i feel like crap". "You look like crap too" I say teasing him. "Well thanks clem. You are looking very pretty this morning." Luke remarks.

I blush slightly. "Clem. Guess what today is" Kenny says. "Tuesday" I say looking at my old pocket calender. On today I had to marked as "my birthday". How did I forget about my own birthday.  "No clem it's your birthday you big dummy." Kenny says and playfully punches me in the arm.

"Can we go to town before it gets to hot outside?" I ask eagerly. "Woman will always wanna shop. Zombie apocalypse or not" Luke jokes. " Yea luke and we're going to take our little lady shopping." Kenny says with a smile. 

"So how old are you clem. 20?" Luke asks.  "Yea. I'm surprised you remembered" I say with a laugh. "if this plague or whatever is causing the dead to walk never happened we probably would have never meet eachother." Luke says. I let my mind wonder, probably a little bit too far. I fall out on the floor crying.  Kenny jumps out of his chair and picks me up and carries me to our room.

He closes and locks the door behind him. "What's wrong clem?" He asks trying to calm me down. "I saw....

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