Infuriating New Girl

After the fireworks and the kiss on New Years Kara and Lena quickly left the party and returned to Lena’s apartment. Once they got there they had sex once more for the first time in the new year. 

This time after they have had sex instead of laying on the bed with distance between each other they are laying right next to each other, with Lena’s head basically resting on Kara’s shoulder.

“That was nice.” Kara hums.

“I agree.” Lena smiles.

There is a moment silence.

“Can I ask you something?” Kara asks.

“Hmm sure.” Lena hums.

“Why don’t you like me? Did I do something wrong?” Kara asks.

“I don’t want to do this.” Lena says as she moves away from Kara and goes to get up.

“Oh come on Lena! I want to know! You’re constantly like hot and cold with me all the time. Please is it something I did?” Kara asks as she stands up as well.

Lena turns around and gives Kara a look as if she studying her and then sighs.

“Fine. But let’s put some clothes on and talk about this in the living room.” Lena says.

“Okay.” Kara nods as she begins putting her clothes back on.

A few minutes later Kara and Lena are sitting in Lena’s living room area. Lena has made herself and Kara each a cup of tea. Kara is pretty sure Lena only made the tea and made them move to the living room because Lena wants to just stall for time. But Kara isn’t speaking, she doesn’t want to give Lena a stupid reason to not explain herself.

“It happened on the first day of last semester. Before we ‘met’ in computer science class.” Lena says.

“What? How? I..... I don’t understand.” Kara says.

Lena sighs again.

“The morning before our computer science class I’d just come back from getting up early to get food for my apartment. I was getting out my car in front of my place with my groceries in my hands. You then came running along on the sidewalk, you didn’t notice me getting out of my car. I had to then quickly move out the way of you which caused me to hit myself against my car and drop all my groceries on the pavement, some of which broke on impact and others went rolling into the road and got squished by oncoming cars. I yelled at you but you didn’t even turn around.” Lena explains.

“Oh my god Lena!! I’m so sorry!! When I run I have my earbuds in and I listen to music. I totally get into a zone and tune everything else out. If I realised I totally would have stopped and apologised.” Kara says, now feeling guilty.

“Yes, well I didn’t realise you had your earbuds in until a few days later when I saw you running passed me again and I watched you put them in. But anyway, that kind of annoyed me and made me think ill of you. I thought you were totally rude and arrogant.” Lena explains further.

“Okay, but why didn’t you say anything to me in class?” Kara asks.

“I was going to. A few days before our semester began I looked up all the student profiles of everyone in the class, just so I could put names to faces if I needed to. So when you ran passed me and caused that to happen I remembered you were going to be in my computer science class. So before I left for class I found your profile and looked you up. I then saw you were studying journalism to be a reporter and that rubbed me the wrong way as well.” Lena says.

“So you just made that comment about journalism being an easy/bad degree because you were already annoyed at me?” Kara asks.

“Yes and No.” Lena replies.

Kara gives Lena a confused look.

“When I found out about you studying journalism to become a reporter from your profile it rubbed me the wrong way because journalists haven’t exactly got on my good side because of my family. They’ve always rubbed me the wrong way and been very invasive into my privacy. So because of that I wrongly look at all journalists in a negative light. So when you’d already annoyed me and I found that out, it just made me dislike you even more. But then when I sat down next to you I noticed you texting Winn about me as well, and that is something I hate. I hate when people talk or text about you behind your back. It annoyed me even more because I was sitting right next to you. So that just put me completely over the edge and made me hate your guts. So I lashed out. When I’m hurt or confused I tend to do that. It’s an automatic response that has been drilled into me by Lillian.” Lena explains.

“Oh Lena. I’m so sorry. I’m sorry I caused you to ruin your groceries, and I’m sorry for texting about you like that. I promise I didn’t mean any harm by it.” Kara says as she moves closer to Lena on the couch.

“I know, I know. I realised that you weren’t like how I thought you were after I became friends with Winn and James. I’d become friends with them as just a way to annoy you, as part of my lashing out, just like joining the debate team and bribing some members to vote me as captain.” Lena says.

“I knew it!” Kara declares as she throws her hands up in the air, “I knew you did something dodgy! Like I didn’t think that many people would vote against me, despite how bad I did in our debate. I knew something was off.” 

“Yes, and I’m sorry. Like I was saying after I became friends with Winn and James they talked about you and I realised that you are actually a nice person, and I’d probably just made assumptions about you and let innocent accidents get in the way of my judgement. But by then it was too late and my pride didn’t let me stop. Then the whole Andrea thing happened and it just began all over again.” Lena says.

“Okay...... well..... thank you for telling me..... I understand that must have been difficult for you.” Kara says.

“Yes, well I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have judged you like that, or done everything else I’ve done to you.” Lena admits as she takes a deep breath.

Kara looks at Lena and takes her hand, giving her a smile. Lena looks up at Kara innocently.

“How about we start with a clean slate? Can we do that?” Kara asks.

“Yeah. I’d like that.” Lena gingerly nods after a moments reflection.

“Hi, I’m Kara Danvers.” Kara says as she holds out her hand to shake.

Lena giggles and shakes Kara’s hand.

“Hi Kara, I’m Lena Luthor.” Lena smiles.

“That’s a nice name. Want to be my friend?” Kara asks with a smile.

Lena laughs.

“Kara, you don’t just ask people to be friends.” Lena says with a laugh.

“Why not?” Kara replies.

“You just don’t.” Lena says.

The two are then silent for a moment.

“Lena?” Kara asks hesitantly.

“Yeah?” Lena replies.

“I’m serious. Can we..... can we maybe be friends?” Kara asks, now the one sounding innocent.

Lena looks over at Kara and studies her for a moment.

“Don’t get me wrong. You still do some things that annoy me.... but..... I’d like to be your friend.” Lena says.

Kara gets a really wide smile.

“Great!” Kara says.

Lena looks at Kara’s smile.

“Ugh, I’m gonna regret this.” Lena mutters.

“Nu-uh.” Kara says, “But guess what?”

“What?” Lena asks.

“Now that we are actually friends, that makes us friends with benefits.” Kara says with a wink.

“I guess it does.” Lena says as she laughs.

The two women smile at each other.

“It’s late. You can stay the night if you’d like. I’m pretty exhausted.” Lena says.

Kara smiles at Lena.

“Hmmm.... This couch does feel kind of comfy... and maybe if I stay morning sex could be a thing?” Kara asks.

Lena laughs.

“I make no promises.” Lena replies.

Kara smiles at Lena.

“I think I’ll stay none the less.” 

“Great. Well I’ll just get you a blanket and pillows and some pyjamas to borrow.” Lena says as she stands up and heads into her bedroom.

“Okay, thank you!” Kara calls out.

A few minutes later Kara has changed into a pair of pyjamas she has borrowed from Lena and has made herself a comfy ‘nest’ on Lena’s couch.

“Goodnight Kara.” Lena says as she walks out of the living room, turning off the light.

“Night Lena.” Kara replies.

Kara wakes up the next morning to a delicious smell. She opens her eyes and remembers that she slept on Lena’s couch last night. As Kara takes in her surroundings the smell hits here again, making her stomach grumble. Kara then hears a noise accompanied with the smell that simply makes Kara’s mouth water. Kara can hear the frying of bacon, and the smell of it too. Kara licks her lips and gets to her feet. She looks over at the kitchen area in Lena’s open plan apartment living room/kitchen/dinning room. This is when Kara’s sees Lena standing over the stove frying bacon and eggs. Lena then looks up and notices Kara.

“Morning Kara.” Lena smiles.

“Morning. That smells delicious.” Kara says as she approaches the kitchen area and licks her lips again.

“Well don’t get excited, it’s not for you.” Lena replies.

“What?” Kara says surprised.

Lena giggles.

“I jest. Of course I made some for both you and me.” Lena smiles again.

Kara smiles back at Lena.

“However can I thank you?” Kara smirks.

“Oh I can think of a few ways.” Lena grins, “But after breakfast.”

“I look forward to it. Now can I help?” Kara asks.

“Nope. Just take a seat it’s almost ready.” Lena says as she points to the kitchen/dinning room table.

“Okay. I’ll be eagerly waiting.” Kara says and goes to sit down on the table.

A few minutes later Lena brings two plates of breakfast food along with the utensils. Lena has cooked the two of them bacon and eggs with toasted bread and fried tomatoes.

“This looks incredible Lena!” Kara gleams as her mouth waters.

“Well let’s just hope it tastes good then.” Lena says back.

Kara quickly tucks into her food and is met with an absolutely delicious taste. Kara hasn't often eaten a cooked breakfast like this, simply because it takes so much time to prepare in the morning. That said a cooked breakfast is right up Kara’s street, along with the idea of a breakfast burger. Although Kara will admit to herself that these are not the most healthy options. Not that Kara is ever worried about that.

“This is delicious Lena.” Kara says between bites.

“Thank you. I’m glad.” Lena replies with a smile.

“Where’d you learn to cook like this?” Kara asks as she continues to eat.

Lena laughs.

“Kara, this isn’t that hard to cook.” Lena replies.

“Say that for yourself. I can’t cook anything to save my life. Not that it’s a bad thing. Because of that Winn and James never expect me to cook dinner for them if we are all staying in. The two of them handle most of the cooking.” Kara says.

“Why does that not surprise me? I feel like you’d be the type of person that would almost burn down a house cooking a pizza.” Lena comments with a smile.

“That happened only one time!!” Kara says with a sulking voice.

“Oh my god!” Lena laughs, “I was only joking. You have to tell me how that happened.”

Kara lets out a huff.

“It was when I lived back in Midvale with Alex and Eliza. The two of them had gone out for the day to watch some sports thing that Alex was interested in. I didn’t want to go so Eliza left me at home alone. I was 15 at the time. At around lunchtime I got hungry so I got a pizza out of the fridge and put it in the oven. But I then went upstairs and I fell asleep..... I woke up like 2 hours later when I smelt smoke. I ran downstairs and found that the whole kitchen was covered in smoke. Luckily the oven had shut itself off eventually. But it completely smelt out the entire house. Needless to say when Eliza got home I was in HUGE trouble and was grounded for like a month and banned from using the kitchen to cook food ever again.” Kara explains.

Lena laughs once more.

“That is absolutely hilarious Kara! It’s totally something you’d do!” Lena smirks.

“Yeah well it wasn’t funny at the time.” Kara says with a frown.

“Yes well of course not. You got in trouble and lost your pizza.” Lena smiles.

“No I....” Kara begins but stops.

Lena notices Kara has a serious look now and stops smiling.

“What is it Kara?” Lena asks.

“I..... I haven’t ever told anyone this..... but..... when I woke up...... I saw all the smoke and ...... and I had flashbacks to the night my parents died in a fire..... I ..... I froze for a while..... but then I knew I needed to do something.... so I went into the kitchen..... and I took the pizza out of the oven ..... I opened all the windows and doors and then collapsed in a ball and cried..... all I could think of was my parents.... and that maybe the fire was coming for me.... and part of me was upset it didn’t take me....” Kara admits.

Lena reaches out to take Kara’s hand.

“Kara, that’s awful. I’m so sorry. I’m sorry I laughed.” Lena says with a sincere look.

Kara looks up at Lena and smiles a little while gently squeezing Lena’s hand.

“Thank you.... but it’s okay for you to laugh..... it was a funny story.... aside from my flashbacks.” Kara replies.

Lena just gives Kara another smile before she takes back her hand and the two women continue to eat their breakfast. As they continue to eat this time they remain silent, but it’s a comfortable silence. As Kara eats for the first time she has a good look around Lena’s apartment, as Kara has mostly only been contained to Lena's bedroom. That’s when she notices that Lena has an incredible view.

“Wow Lena. That view is incredible!” Kara says as she looks towards the window.

“Well don’t get too used to it. I’m moving in a few days.” Lena says.

“What? Why? Are you leaving National City or something?” Kara asks as panic begins to set in her stomach.

“No, of course not. I’m moving into a house.” Lena explains.

“Why? Why would you want to move out of this place? Do you want more room or something?” Kara asks.

“Sort of. You remember I mentioned I was showing a friend around who might be transferring to NCU a few weeks ago?” Lena asks.

“Yeah.” Kara nods remembering.

“Well her name is Sam, and she is in fact going to be moving to National City to transfer to our university. So I got us the house so we can live together.” Lena explains.

“Oh. That’s nice of you. But I still don’t get why you’d want to live in a house instead of an apartment like this one. I mean James, Winn and I only live in a house because there is three of us and it was cheaper to rent than getting a three bedroom apartment. Not that it is actually cheap.” Kara says.

“Oh well Sam actually has a 4 year old daughter named Ruby. So I wanted for us to live in a house so Ruby would have some space and a garden to play in.” Lena says.

“Wow, that’s so amazing of you Lena.” Kara comments.

“Well, Sam has had it hard. She got pregnant her last year of high school. I didn’t meet her until mid way through our first year at Metropolis University. But when I did meet her she told me how she had a daughter and she completed her high school studies at home while pregnant and then looking after Ruby. Then she explained how she was studying at university during the day while she left Ruby with a nanny she hired because her mother kicked her out when she got pregnant. At the same time Sam was working as a barista between classes, all so she could provide for a Ruby.” Lena explains.

“Wow. She sounds like an incredible woman.” Kara says.

“She is. That’s why after I met her I did some digging into her, as I thought that there was no way Sam could afford to go to university, have a nanny for her daughter, feed and provide for her daughter and only work a barista job. That’s when I found out Sam was taking out large loans just to get by. So I payed off her loans and offered for her to come live with me at my home in Metropolis. She was hesitant at first, but I was pretty persistent about the matter and she eventually gave in.” Lena says.

“Wow.... that’s.... that’s amazing Lena....” Kara says feeling a warm feeling inside herself listening to how kind a Lena is.

“It was nothing. Sam was doing an incredible job and I just wanted to help her. She didn’t deserve to be in all that debt just because she got pregnant at the wrong time and wanted to also go to university.” Lena says.

“I.... I don’t know what to say Lena....” Kara says still shocked.

“You don’t have to say anything. Now I’m gonna go have a shower.” Lena says as she gets up and then places her plate in the kitchen sink.

Kara gets a frown on her face upon hearing that Lena is leaving her alone after their nice conversation. Lena begins to head out of the room before she stops and turns back around.

“Are you joining me?” Lena asks with a smirk.

“Yes! Yes!!” Kara says quickly and excitedly as she finishes off the rest of her food on her plate.

Once Kara is done she gets up and takes Lena’s hand where Lena leads them into her bathroom. Needless to say Kara learnt that shower sex may be her new favourite thing.

Over the next few days Kara and Lena regularly see each other, with Kara sleeping over at Lena’s almost every night. But always on the couch. The two still continue to enjoy having sex. Although Kara has been told by Lena that once she moves in with Sam they’ll have to be more careful as there will be a child around, and Lena did not want to scar her goddaughter. 

Presently it’s a few days before the new semester is due to begin. Winn is once more back in town and Kara, James and Winn are hosting a game night at their place. The group have invited Alex, Nia, Brainy and Eve. However Eve declined the invitation much to Kara’s understanding. She’s pretty sure that Eve is still trying to get over the fact that Kara just didn’t feel ‘it’ for her. Equally Kara did consider inviting Lena and Sam but she wasn’t sure if that would be something Lena would be into. Kara felt that maybe it would kind of go over the line of trying to keep their thing a secret from people. While at the same time Kara is pretty sure that even though she hasn’t met Sam yet she may want some time to continue to settle in with her daughter before she goes out for the evening.

As Kara is waiting for people to arrive she is getting out all the board games and setting them up. Winn and James are out on a booze run. Kara herself has been in a bad mood all day. Actually Kara has been in a bad mood all week, and it totally absolutely has nothing to do with the fact that she hasn’t had sex with Lena in close to a week now, just simply because of Sam’s arrival. Yes, it has nothing to do with that.

Eventually game night progresses and everyone arrives. They all have a nice time and Kara still keeps some distance from Alex. At the same time Kara can tell that Alex is still feeling awkward and guilty because once again she turned up reeking of alcohol. Although, thus far thankfully for everyone Alex hasn’t thrown up like the last few times she’s been at Kara’s place.

The group play Clue which Briany wins on the fourth turn by just making a random guess, much to everyone’s annoyance. Brainy then goes on to explain why it would be stupid for Mrs White to murder someone with a candlestick in the study. After Clue the group move on to monopoly which Winn wins and is incredibly happy about. Admittedly at this point Winn was the only person who wasn’t drunk/tipsy, so his win may have been something to do with that. Then finally after a few hours and a lot of drinks the group move on to a game of truth or dare. They only do this because of how drunk they all are. Everyone knows that you should not play truth or dare while drunk.

“Okay Winn. Truth or dare?” Nia asks.

“Uhhh dare.” Winn says.

“Hmm. Okay... I dare you to remove your trousers for the rest of the game.” Nia says.

Winn frowns.

“A dare is a dare dude.” James says.

“Fine.” Winn huffs and removes his trousers revealing his super hero underwear.

The group all laugh before Winn sits back down in a huff.

The game continues on from there with various truths and mostly dares being done. Eventually it gets to Kara for the third time.

“Okay Kara. Truth or dare?” Brainy asks.

“Uhhh... truth.” Kara says.

“Hmmm.” Brainy says thinking.

“I know!!” James says suddenly, “Where do you keep going at night and then coming back in the morning? Apart from the last few days.”

Kara gets a wide eyed look on her face.

“Dare.” Kara says, suddenly changing her mind.

“Nu-uh.” Nia says, “You can’t change just because you don’t like the truth James asked.”

“Fine.” Kara huffs, “I’ve been going to someone's apartment who I’ve been having casual sex with.” 

“Oh my god I knew it!!” Winn smiles and then turns to James, “You one me 20 bucks!”

James shakes his head.

“Wait? You guys bet on me?” Kara asks.

“Yeah. James told me that you’d been disappearing at night ever since he got back. He thought you had got a girlfriend. I said that it is totally just a sex thing!“ Winn explains.

Kara huffs.

“Well yeah, you’re right.” Kara says.

“So who is it?” Nia asks.

“Nope. The truth didn’t ask that. I’m gonna respect their privacy.” Kara says.

“Awww, come on!” Nia groans.

“Nope sorry.” Kara says.

“It’s okay Nia. We can just get her to tell us on her next round via either a dare or a truth.” Winn says with a cheeky smile.

“And that’s why I think we should call it a night.” Kara says.

About five minutes later Brainy and Nia are leaving after having helped pack all the board games away. Kara has noticed that Alex remained silent during the whole casual sex thing. She’s not sure if it’s because Alex just didn’t want to say anything or if it’s because Alex is pretty drunk. Once Nia and Brainy leave Winn and James head upstairs with Alex remaining on the couch in the living room. Kara can tell that Alex is too drunk to work her way home by herself, so it’s best if she stays the night. So Kara quickly goes upstairs and grabs a pillow and blanket for her sister.

“Here, you can stay the night.” Kara says as she returns and hands her sister the pillow and blanket.

“Thank you.” Alex says in a tired voice as she takes the stuff.

“Okay, well I’m going to bed.” Kara says and turns to leave.

“Is it Lena?” Alex asks, causing Kara to stop dead in her tracks.

“What?” Kara asks surprised as she turns around.

“Are you.... are you having sex with Lena?” Alex asks.

“No.... I..... what..... why would you think that?” Kara asks.

“I saw Lena here the other week when I was here with Eliza. I noticed her in the mirror peak her head into the bathroom.” Alex says softly.

“Alex I....” Kara begins nervous.

“It’s okay... I’m happy for you.. just.... be careful Kara.” Alex says.

“What.... why?” Kara asks too confused to be able to see the irony of the statement coming from Alex.

“Casual sex like that..... it’s..... its tricky..... I know who you are Kara..... you have a good heart..... and I can see you falling in love easily..... so I just..... just be careful.” Alex says.

“I.... uhh.....” Kara says, but before Kara can say anything more she notices that Alex has fallen asleep.

Kara turns off the lights and heads upstairs while thinking it’s absolutely stupid to think that she could ever fall in love with Lena. Yes they are friends now. Yes Lena is beautiful and kind and funny and caring and intelligent. And yes Kara looks forward to seeing her. And yes they text almost every day. And yes looking at Lena makes her stomach feel funny. But there is no way she’s in love with Lena. That’s just simply impossible.