Ericson's Care Home

She's Back

Clem pov
I know its been over 2 weeks and Violet's calmed down about it but I'm still pissed at her dad. I just can't believe any parent could do that. Anyway, she's okay now.

But there is a positive in all of that shit, since that day we've been having cuddles alot more. It just feels right when we do it, and I love the way she'll fall asleep if we door late. She looks so calm and peaceful and-

"Get the fuck out of my room!" I don't even need to look to know that a certain redhead has returned. "Not your room anymore." I calmly respond, not even turning around.

"I don't care. Go." She says as she walks over to me and spins my chair around. "Gabe's downstairs." She says with a wink. I told her I used to have a thing about him to stop her asking if there's anyone I liked. At the time I wasn't interested in anyone, that's all changed now.

"So?" I ask. "I thought you liked him." I smile at knowing she still thinks this is true. "Nah, I told you that so you'd leave me alone." I get up and grab my phone from my bed. "Where are you going? I'm not done here." "I am."

I walk into the lounge and sit down next to Louis. "How're you and Vi going?" He asks. "Yeah, really good. Thanks for asking Lou." He smiled at learning this "I'm glad." He says. I look down at the floor saddened. "What's going on Clemmy?" I shoot a glare at him for using that nickname. "Okay. Sorry. I forgot, no Clemmy." He puts his hands up in defence. "Seriously though, I can tell you're annoyed or upset at something."

I shuffle in my seat. "She's back." I simply say. "Who?" "Minnie." He looks at me and stares into my eyes. "Oh. Wonderful." He says sarcastically. "Look, I know what she did was fucked up. But, maybe she's changed." He said trying to convince himself more than me. "Pfft! No. The first thing she said to me was 'get the fuck out of my room' not changed a bit."

Just then she walks in. Great. She walks over to me and Louis. "When did this happen?" She's referring to how close Lou and I had got. I didn't even realise we were practically hugging. "It didn't." I say as I get up and leave the room. I don't wanna be in a room with her any longer than necessary.

"Hey Clem!" I jump at this, turn around and see Gabe. Amazing, Minerva and Gabe. "What?" I ask as I keep walking past him. "Wow. Okay. What's up with you today? Minnie said you were acting weird." This makes me beyond angry. "You know exactly why I'm being like this today! You two being back brings back shitty memories, caused by you two. I walk off in a huff and head to the roof.

I sit with my legs dangling off of the edge, remembering what they did to me.
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Flashback, Clem pov
"Hey AJ"
"Hi Minnie"
"Why Are You so weird?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Just that you're really quiet and distant, its pretty weird. Do you know where Clem is?"
The boy looked at her, confused at why she randomly said all of this. "Kitchen I think." He told her.

"Clem."
"Gabe." I gave him a small smile. I didn't have a thing for him but I had to admit he was pretty cute.
"Can I talk to you about something? Outside."
"Yeah. Okay."
We both headed out and sat on a bench that was out of sight from the house.
"So. What's up?"
"Nothing's wrong Clem. Not yet anyways." A red haired girls walked from behind a tree. Great.
"So why am I here? What's going on?"
She slapped me. Hard. "What the hell Minnie!"
"That'll teach you to throw away a home while the rest of us are stuck here."
What the fuck.
She went for me again. This time a full on punch to the stomach, making me collapse to the floor. She just kept going. Punching, kicking, even as far as spitting on me. It had hurt so much I didn't even realise that she'd stopped.
"Tell anyone about this and there'll be more of this." She threatened as she walked away with Gabe. He looked shocked but that was no excuse to stand there and do nothing.
I tried to stand but was met with a sharp pain shooting through my leg. "HELP! ANYONE!" I tried to get help, but with all the screaming and crying I couldn't make any noise loud enough to get any attention.
It was only when Louis noticed that I hadn't been home for a few hours that I wasn't found by him.
I wanted to tell him what happened, I really did. But i just couldn't. And Lee could never find out. I made up a lie about me climbing a tree and falling. That was the end of that.
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"Clem? Clem, oh my god. What's wrong?" I snapped my head to the door and saw the one person I was actually gonna talk to now. Violet.

"What's going on?" I feel my face and notice that I've been crying for ages. "Nothing. I'm fine." I'm trying to convince myself more now. "No you aren't. Talk yo me. Please Clem." She grabs my hand and wipes away my tears with a brush over my face with her fingers.

I told her everything, all about Minnie and Gabe. The tears started falling again. I start to shiver at the memory. I hate this. I hate her. "That's, that's horrible Clem. Do you know why she did it?" I frown at this. "Yeah. She said it was cause I had a perfectly good home and I threw it away while everyone else was stuck here." I could see violet getting more and more angry by the second. "Vi."

"What the actual fuck Clem. That's horrific." She tightened her grip on me and I snuggled up closer if that was even possible. "Can I sleep in your room tonight? Please." I speak up. "She doesn't know about us yet. I don't really want her to know where I am." I explain. That was part of the reason anyway. "Of course Clem. You don't need to ask by the way. You need to anytime, you can come in and see me." I let out a huge smile. "Thanks Vi. The same goes for you too."

We get closer as we look to each other. We're inches away from each other. I grab her neck and pull her closer, she does the same. We kiss. Its slow and meaningful, its a kiss that says 'I'm here no matter what' from both of us.

We pull apart and look at each other, mouths still open. "I love you Vi, so much." She's smiling presumably at the fact she knows I'm better now. "I love you so much too. A lot. C'mon, I think food's ready." I grab her hand as she leads me to the kitchen.