🪩 ·˚ ༘ ┊CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR !  ˊˎ
villain origin story.
( real life, flashbacks )

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𖤐 — CLOVERS APARTMENT

"SHOULD I SCREAM INTO A WALL OR JUMP OUT MY WINDOW?" clover smiled cheekily as she looked over at aspen, who smiled and shook her head back "uhh, maybe don't do that!!"

"but—" "why would you do that in the first place? don't be silly now" the redhead laughed "my plug is out for the week and is laying low. so, i have to buy from my normal shop, right? ONLY thing is that my normal shop is also being shut down!" clover clapped her hands together as she bobbed her head around dramatically

she was feining. bad.

"oh! and i told chris i fell in love with him." she added softly, quietly as she looked around the room avoiding eye contact with her best friend "huh???!?" aspen snapped her head towards clover "you told him you love him, when did you talk to him?" she asked

the questions kept coming

how did you talk to him? who said what? what did he say back? did he text first? did she stand on business? does he love her? are they back together? were they even ever officially together?

it was too many questions, far too many.

so finally, after god knew how long of aspen going on and on with questions, clover held up her hand, with a smile "shhhh" she shook her head, signaling that she in fact was not going to be giving her any answers

because she didn't want to talk about chris and the way he made clover feel for the month and a half they were actually something— possibly something

"oh, okay" aspen smiled and nodded her head before staring down at the empty tray of weed "so.. we have to find a new plug?" clover sighed and looked over at her red headed friend "yeah, and the only other plug i know know... is the one chris brought from for us"

"i feel like the universe is just trying to tell you that you can't smoke weed unless your with him" aspen laughed, clearly joking. however when she looked at clover the brunette was puzzled

she always believed the universe. fate. love. yet, at this point in her life she felt as if it was sending her mixed signals, the own universe. sending her mixed signals

"clover.. you wanna smoke with him?" aspen smiled, because she saw hope for the love that was clover and chris.

a love that was rare and special, something that aspen knew clover never saw within her own parents. a love clover hadn't experienced since deep in her childhood when a boy from out of town visited her town for a field trip

a summer romance she never saw again her sophomore year of highschool.

a boy named anthony, with fluffy brown hair and a smile that made a young, naive clover moore giggle more than ever

a smile and blue eyes that solidified her type for the rest of time.

it was a story that aspen claimed was clovers villian origin story, the story that made her the hopeless romantic she was today.

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𖤐 — CORPUS CHRISTI , TEXAS
4 YEARS AGO

"GIRLS, YOUR JOB IS TO SHOW THE KIDS AROUND CORPUS, AND TONIGHT YOU WILL MEET UP WITH US AT THE BEACH, OKAY?" as a child, clovers mom signed her up for any activity that earned her brownie points with the community

that meant showing the young group of children from out of town around her island. she crossed her arms and looked over at rowen, who was nervous.

at this point in time rowen still hadn't reached her confidence peak yet, puberty was in its awkward stage with her and clover was at the point where her parents were fighting everyday, and couldn't sleep

but the moore family was once again loved and respected, so even though teachers saw her thinner frame and weak smile they looked the other way. the same teachers who called her selfish when she ran away from home years later

"are we seriously going to talk to random guys from houston? for what?" rowen asked as she rubbed sunscreen on her arms. "yes? we have to let loose once and a while, and besides. he's cute, right?" she pointed towards the brown haired boy

his hands were shoved in his pockets as he looked around the beach. clover sat up, lowering her sunglasses as she peeped him and he peeped her, smirking and nodding his head towards her

rowen sat up now, fixing her hair as the beautiful man approached "his friend is coming" rowen stated, eyeing the man beside him "no shit, play it cool" clover forced out through her teeth, flashing her winning smile at him

"hey there" he said, reaching down for her, whether it was to shake her hand or help her off the sand she didn't know, but she assumed it was the second one "what's up?" she asked, grabbing his hand and pulling herself up

"so, you girls supposed to show us the island?" he asked, clover looked over at rowen, who nodded "depends if you wanna see our version of it" she shrugged "better be the cool version" his friend added

"i'm anthony" the guy introduced "clover, moore" she nodded her head, holding eye contact with him as rowen and his friend who went by tj talked

"you got a whip?" he asked "golf cart, let's go" she smiled, looking back to make sure the instructor wasn't looking before hopping on the cart and booking it 

she showed anthony around the entire island that summer, all her favorite spots, all her restaurants, her house and every party that they went to it was electric.

he was her everything, and she was his. she had never laughed like she did with him.

anthony distracted clover from her parents fighting, and she distracted him from the boring camp he was supposed to be at 24/7. yet he was always sneaking off with her

"are you sure you wanna do this?" anthony whispered, looking down at clover as the two laid on her bed, her cheeks flushed as she nodded, her hands on his shoulders

he was her first.
she was his second.

after that anthony left, and the two lost all contact, her first love disappeared and clover turned cold. she was hit by reality, the reality of her family, of her friendships and uselessness in corpus.

the next year she ran away, rowen following soon after once clover found a job as a waitress in california

she never forgot anthony, and maybe a part of her looked for him in anthony.

the closest she got to him was chris
and she hated that she had once again lost another love of her life.

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𝘾𝙀𝙇𝙀𝙎𝙏𝙀 ✧ 𝙎𝙋𝙀𝘼𝙆𝙎!
more clover lore , she's always been that girl :(

this chapter is dedicated to —
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