Clementine:
"Can we go and ask your grandfather about it?" I questioned, and he started picking at his lips, confused.
I remembered he had told me all of this just a few minutes earlier.
"What, do you think he won't help us?" I asked, but he stayed silent.
At that point, I realized he probably did not know either.
"Why didn't you accept the deal your father offered you?" I asked. "Why didn't you take it and leave, saving yourself?" I mentioned the deal his father had made for him to leave the Academy and start over somewhere else.
The question made Ian snap his head up to look at me.
He then closed one eye, as if trying to understand me.
"Do you really think I would leave without you?" he asked. "No, Clementine. There is no starting over without you."
His words, the gentleness in them, and the affection he showed made me smile.
My smile slowly faded, though, because I was not sure we would ever get the chance to start over.
