Chapter 13
Clarke awoke the next morning with quite a headache and her whole body ached. Her mind was still foggy and her sense of balance nonexistent. So she staggered into the kitchen, put a piece of toast in the toaster, turned on the coffee maker and poured herself a glass of orange juice. She calmly ate her breakfast and after a shower all she felt was like someone had eaten her and spit her back out, which was a significant improvement from before.
Suddenly a thought occurred to her and she hoped it had all been a dream. She unlocked her phone and searched through both her messages and her phone list. When she had done both, she groaned in annoyance and slapped the flat of her hand against her forehead. Immediately she wrote a message to Lexa, the whole thing visibly uncomfortable for her. She had never done anything like this before, and certainly not to a friend. The brunette must have been very uncomfortable.
>> Hey Lexa. I'm sorry for my behavior yesterday. I'm not usually like that. If I offended you, I really have to apologize to you. I'm sure that wasn't nice for you yesterday, and in the middle of the night at that.<<
Shortly after, she was called via video phone.
"Hey Clarke."
Contrite, she replied.
"Hey Lex."
"It's all good Clarke. After all, I asked you to check in with me no matter what time it was, even though I was surprised when you stuck your naked butt in the camera. Or started showing me all your moles." She started laughing and the blonde abruptly changed her face color. She didn't remember that at all. The butt yes, the rest was gone.
"Did I do anything else that I'd better remember and then erase from my memory?"
"I just managed to keep you from a nude dance, otherwise that's it." Lexa looked at her seriously. Clarke's features derailed, demanding the attention of the brunette, who suddenly began to snort abruptly.
"Bullshit, I'm just fucking with you. None of that happened."
She rolled her eyes. "That wasn't funny."
Lexa tried to remain serious, but she couldn't, so she started laughing again.
"I couldn't help it, and you weren't very far from either... The only good thing was, you fell asleep so fast that you couldn't have done anything serious. So relax."
"It's still uncomfortable for me. I'm usually much more reserved when it comes to bare skin. Mine and others'."
"You were pretty drunk, I think most people have done things they regret, and you only did it to me, after all. Well, Niylah probably wouldn't have been too bad either."
"I think I would have been lynched then, though by her flame Ontari. Niylah herself would have gotten a laugh, guaranteed."
Surprise was written all over Lexa's face.
"You're not with her anymore?"
Clarke shook his head. "We never were. We like each other, had sex, and now we're just friends."
The blonde wondered, as Lexa did, why she had never mentioned anything. But she had somehow had other things on her mind that had kept her more busy, and it hadn't been that long since they stopped dating. The brunette remained silent, deep in thought, and finally the two of them said goodbye again, Lexa had to go again, the shooting break was over.
"Oh man Clarki. If you're drunk and calling stars half naked, we really need to go party sometime, that sounds fun." Raven giggled like a school kid. "So how much did you show her? And did she go right along with it and pull Blank, too?"
The three women strolled around town, each holding a coffee, while the Latina teased Clarke. O` joined in Reye's laughter, only the blonde herself didn't find it quite as funny."It was so uncomfortable for me, and it still is. You just don't do things like that."
"Cheer up," Octavia tried to reassure her while Raven was still laughing. "I'm sure she would have said something if it had been too much."
"Or too little," the Latina interjected, earning only a scowl from O`.
"She's dating her acting colleague. I guess she won`t have any interest in Clarke then, let alone women. They've been seen together more than once, and they seem to get along well."
"Where did you get that info?" The blonde was taken aback; Lexa had never mentioned anything. Didn't she trust her after all?
"From a gossip magazine, but really you're sitting at the source, shouldn't you be the first to know?"
The woman addressed raised her shoulders.
"We haven't necessarily had it from her dates lately. She hasn't told me about it, and I don't pay much attention to smears like that. If she really is dating him, that's fine. The main thing is that she's happy, and I don't think she has to tell me everything either."
She was still a little offended, should it be so, she would have liked her to tell her about it. But it was Lexa's decision.
"How's it going between you and Linc?" she inquired instead, and immediately loud little hearts appeared in Octavia's eyes, well, they would if that would work.
"He's super romantic. Yesterday he picked me up from work and we went out to the countryside on his motorcycle. There we had a picnic and counted shooting stars. The man can cook and not only that." Smirked she meaningfully.
"Boah O` you're so disgustingly happy, I'm going to get another sugar shock soon," Raven contorted her face.
"You're just jealous, we'll just have to find you a victim sometime too."
The black-haired woman laughed and Reyes looked at her confidently.
"Please, I can pick my men, even now with the gimp leg. I sway my hips a bit and they run after me with their tongues hanging out." Demonstratively, she wiggled them. "Any man would be lucky to have me."
"Are you sure you mean men and not dogs?"
Raven was about to retort something when Clarke interrupted them both.
"You two are really impossible. I can't go anywhere with you guys." The blonde shook her head and Octavia looked at her indignantly.
"What did I do now? I'm not bragging about my hips." Demonstratively, she thrust her hands into those same ones.
"No, but if you could, you would tell us every detail regarding your sex life, every position and where and what he did and how..."
The addressed woman raised her index finger to say something in reply, but instantly fell silent again. Clarke was right in her statement, so O` just shrugged and changed the subject.
"Say, when are you going to meet Bell, anyway?"
"He texted me yesterday asking about Friday. He's coming into town then and we're going out for dinner, I'm curious. Will be weird for sure, after all we've known each other for so long."
"Ooooh, Clarke and Bell babies. They're sure going to be cute with that fuzzy black hair, tanned complexion and your blue eyes." The Latina looked at her in rapture.
"Can't you be serious for once? First you come with Lexa and whether she pulls Blank and the next you want me to make babies with O`s brother." The blonde rolled her eyes, but Raven skillfully ignored it.
"I don`t even want to be serious, that`s life enough. Besides, you're young, enjoy it. Now, relax. You're just way too easy to annoy lately."
"You know I'm leaving work soon, of course I'm tense."
"So when is it?" the black-haired girl wanted to know.
"Two more months and I'm already freaking out, even though I'm almost done and it's just a matter of finishing touches."