Chapter 1
Raven wakes up with a loud beep noise. She breathed in frustration and got up from the bed. Still sleepy she checks her phone and then her eyes get wide. She had slept too much and now she was so fucking late. Quickly she put some clothes, her leg brace and her boots. Before leaving the room she checks herself. Well, her hair was extremely messy, she wore blue jeans, her black boots and a black crop top under her red jacket. She heard a familiar noise from outside. Great, she thought. Clarke was already in front of her house. She didn't have time to eat or fix her hair. She left a frustrated sigh while taking her backpack and her phone.
"I'm coming!" - she yelled for the girls in the car. If Octavia kept pushing that button all her neighborhood would wake with not so great moods. She looked at her kitchen looking for something rapid or a junk food to eat in the car.
"Dammit '' she forgot she didn't go grocery shopping. How great, the brunette thought was interrupted by the noise again. Quickly she takes her phone and her keys and goes to the car.
"What the fuck Octavia!" she yells at the girl in the front seat. The blond in the driver seat had a look like 'I tried'. She sighed.
"What happened, babe?" Octavia, noticing her anger, turned to the brunette in the back seat with a soft voice. Clarke was already driving, her favorite band album as background noise. Something inside Raven was screaming that it would be a horrible day. She had to run and now she is feeling the consequences on her leg.
"I woke up late and didn't have time to do breakfast" Raven said, looking out the window trying to brush her hair with her fingers.
"I forgot to do grocery shopping" she said so low that the girls in the front seat almost didn't get. They were already in the school block and Clarke parked.
"Sorry for yelling at you, O" Raven said leaving the car with her backpack on her shoulder. Octavia just passed her arm through the shoulder of the taller brunette while they walked in direction of the school gate. Clarke put an arm into the backpack and took off a cookie package almost throwing at the pair who was still side hugging.
"Oh you're perfect blondie" Raven said with a smirk already putting a cookie into her mouth.
"See, O. Take some notes" she said, mocking the little brunette who relieved the hug and now started a sequence of hits in her arm.
"Ease, ease, those are my work tools!" She said, trying to escape from the slaps.
"What's happening now?" Monty said, confused at Clarke who just watched the little fight.
"Just don't... let the couple be," Clarke said sitting in the grass with the rest of the group. There was Monty, Jasper and Harper leaning on "their tree". The front of the school was full with teenagers sitting and chatting. It had a large extension of grass with some trees besides the parking area.
A very recognized car passed by, making it ways to a marked spot. Well, it was just a spot like all the others but everyone in school knows who owned it. The car stopped and then a leather jacket girl left by the passenger seats.
"Clarke!" A hand passed through the vision camp of the blonde. Raven laughed at the expression of her face.
"Every day is the same thing jeez!" Raven said looking at the direction of Clarke's gaze. Ok, she had to admit Lexa was pretty but her friend's reaction was too much for her. Well, Clarke has been in love with Lexa for so long that Raven didn't remember a moment that her friend wasn't talking about her crush. She watched the brunette put her backpack on her shoulder and walk slowly in the direction of the school gates. Quickly another girl joined her. But she was a little bit different. The first girl had tanned skin and long wavy hair, she used a black jacket and destroyed jeans and had a 'don't mess with me' rock vibe. The other girl, who happened to be the driver by the keys on her hand, had a mix of hippie, indie, artsy vibe, was wearing a black jeans and a black loose t-shirt, and converse in her feet. The rounded black sunglasses on her face just reforced her hippie aesthetic. Her hand with lots of rings in those fingers adjusted a jeans backpack on her shoulder. Her curly hair was perfectly messy and Raven thought if this was a real thing. Like, how could she look like she didn't even care about her looks and also seem so perfect put together?
Well, the answer to this must be in the Woods' blood. The Woods siblings were known, not just in school. They happened to be the most popular in the school not just because they were extremely rich and their last name was really in a board in the principal's office, as one of the donors of Polis High School, or for being extremely beautiful and easily be the hottest girls on school, or even for having a Instagram with a lot of followers, but besides all of this Lexa was in the soccer team, and scored every game, and Luna won most medals in swim competition in the history of Polis high school.
"Raven, are you coming?" The brunette was startled by the bell. She didn't respond Clarke just linked their arms to walk, as the blonde was already linked with Octavia. The classes started a month ago or so and routine had already been settled, so the three of them walked together until Clarke's class and then the two brunettes made their way to history class, Raven quickly sat and grabbed her book.
"Little Blake!" Lexa greeted the cheerleader soon as she walked in. Octavia smiled and walked at the girl leaning on her table. Raven just ignored. Octavia was popular too, something about being the captain of the cheerleaders. She learned that the girl knew a lot of people and a lot of people greeted her by the hallways, mostly the other cheers, and the team's players. She started a light conversation with Lexa about the next game when Niylah unintentionally not-so-unintentionally pushed her lightly on her shoulder while passing through her seat, the girl lost her balance and stepped back. Niylah had a smirk on her face but Lexa grabbed her, stopping the fall.
"Don't you have eyes?" Octavia yelled at the blonde. What the girl didn't see was that in her almost fall she pushed Luna's arm who was sitting behind Lexa.
"Did you lose your mind, Blake?!" Luna yelled at Octavia, making the class look confused. Luna wasn't like her sister, in fact she always stopped her from getting into fights or arguing. Octavia was startled by the girl next to her when she noticed she messed with whatever she was doing on her notebook.
"Miss Blake and Miss Woods sit down and calm your nerves'' they all hear Mr Jaha as he walks in. Blake just uses this as her way out and sits behind Raven.
"What was that?" Raven asks, lightly turning her head to face Octavia. Who came closer and whispered "no idea".
"I'm gonna kill that Niylah girl" Octavia whispered "she made me push Luna, if I die because she makes me piss a Woods I will end her, just Luna who already hates me!" Octavia finished. Raven looked at the other side of the room. The messy haired girl didn't seem into what Jaha was saying, her attention was on whatever she was doing on that notebook.
"I don't think she ever hated you" Raven whispered "you have that paranoia since i can remember"
"I'm sure she hates me, just you and Clarke can't see it!" Octavia said a bit loudly what grabbed some attention.
"Miss Blake, do you have something to share with the class?" Octavia quickly waved her head with a "no sir"
"Miss Reyes?" Jaha said. Raven turned her head toward quickly, she felt the whole class gaze into her. Luna's gaze as well as suddenly she left her notebook.
"No sir" she said and Jaha got back to write what he was writing before this. Turning her head to whisper Octavia again, her eyes met Luna's who looked curious. And then in a blink of eyes her expression changed and she turned her head to face Jaha. Octavia brushed Raven's brown hair and put it behind her ear, turning Reyes' attention back to the girl sitting behind her. Blake seems to notice that too because she whispered.
"I told you she hates me"
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Raven searched for a memory of contact with the curly Woods. She knows she isn't with Blake every hour of every day but they spent a lot of time together and nothing happened while she was near. She knows for a fact Octavia can be hot headed and impulsive. She could get into fist fights as she already did once with Ontari, but now that she stopped to think about it, she never really had an interaction with Luna. Ever. She already did with Lexa, who is super cool and could be a great sister in law if Clarke stopped being so Clarke. She remembered one time a few months ago. She was in her locker with Clarke talking about their science project or something like this when Finn showed up. She didn't remember why or how...well, why is just because Finn is a dick, he started to insult Clarke, she got in the way and argued back. Never would she let him talk that stuff to her friends. She remembered she walked forward to intimidate him and he pushed her away. It wasn't hard but with her bad leg a forced step back made her fall into the ground. There weren't a lot of people in the hallways. Just a few who got dismissed before the bell. She saw a backpack fall next to her. And just as quickly as it fell she saw a figure pass by and hit Finn in the face once, twice. Finn took a few steps back and he leaned against the lockers. He seemed mad his nose was bleeding and now he tried to punch the figure. But it was faster, she, now Raven could see clearly, he tried to hit her but just punched the air and that counterblow just got her more aggressive. She hit him on the gut twice and a brunette held her. She whispered something to her and she seemed calm.
The fight girl turned to her and helped Raven to get up. It was Luna Woods. Raven was so confused, why would Luna fight? She means, she didn't know the girl but Luna's Instagram stories were all about meditation and peace.
"How are you?" She asked, looking at her face, searching for something. Raven let a grin. Now there's a crowd and they probably have seen everything.
"I'm fine, how Are you? You get yourself into a fight." Raven said looking at her bruised knuckles. Her messy hair was even more messy. She saw Lexa was there too and she talked to Clarke. Lexa was the person who stopped Luna. That was a fucking plot twist. Before she could ask about her hand, Octavia ran through the crowd and took Raven's face into her hands examining.
"What happened? Are you okay, babe?" The smaller looked angry. "I'm gonna end Finn"
"Everything is fine, Luna got herself into a..." she was saying when she looked at where Luna was. Her backpack wasn't next to Raven anymore, neither was the girl, she was already turning the hall. Lexa looked in the same direction as Raven before putting a gentle kiss at Clarke's forehead and running at her sister. Raven just stood there trying to assimilate what the fuck Just happened. Later she found out that even if there was no teacher to testify, the gossip around the school about Luna getting into a fist fight with Finn, who in that time was the captain of the basketball team, made her get a few days of detention. Raven left a sigh, there was this day and no other.
.....
The morning passed by quickly and now it was Raven's favorite part of the day. The extras class part. She was in some of them, she was in the mechanical lab, astronomy lab and the robotics lab. She knew it was too much but she was trying to have some good things to put in her application for college. And right now she had awesome projects for each of them. It remembers her passing by the secretary, she greeted the old woman behind the desk.
"Hey, Sally, did my part arrive?" She asked, checking the lists on the balcony. The one of the requirements, where she saw her name written down a few times. The school was very nice, it had a system to supply the extras class, every week a lot of new stuff arrived for the class, so they could have every part, instruments or chemical things they needed for their learning. But Raven needed some more. She already knows how things worked there since she's been in the mechanics lab since sophomore year. She requested a part, any part, even the expensive ones. And they arrived in 15 days, well sometimes it took more, sometimes less, that's why she always passed by the secretary.
"Not all, but that one" the woman said, checking for the code to fill in her archives.
"Here kid" she gives the latina girl a box, and Raven's smile wide. It's like Santa Claus. The older woman searched for something in a box before she grabbed a knife and cut out the package. Raven thanked her and took that metal part. She loved that school system, she never would get tired of saying it. She took her papers and left the room. Well, her robotics assignment expired in two weeks and her mechanics, in one. She could use other parts but she needed to do the best work ever. She couldn't understand her classmates doing boring little things and the worst part is that they think they're the best. She walked through the hallways checking her notes. Well, She needed to fix a calculation or two before it ended but she would do it in a blink. With her new piece she could finish her project by tomorrow. She was now almost in the pool hallway, the school's architecture was pretty amazing but that hallway was amazing, naturally the classes' hallways had lockers on the both sides of the wall but that one just had in one side, on the wall's side. The other side has a big glass panel that allows sunlight to get in, mainly because on the other side of the painel there's the pool. Anyway, it would've left her to work on her competition project, yes Raven is on the mechanical competition but just because if she win, what is almost sure, it would be a great deal. Her thought was interrupted by a gasp. And then she felt something collide with her. Or someone. Everything was so fast, one moment she was doing a summation and then she was on the floor. Why is she wet? She looked at her shirt and then to the girl in front of her.
"Sorry, sorry, oh my God I'm so sorry" the girl said while getting up. Raven had to blink sometimes to believe what's happening. Luna was in front of her, her hair was extremely wet, and the messy curls were now soaked. Actually she was all wet. She was in a bath suit, and damn she looked fine. Raven tried to control her eyes, she knew Luna was hot, because of her Instagram posts, the girl used to post a lot, on her vacations, on her pool party, in the Beach, surfing, anyway, she already seen her body before but in front of her was almost as her brain screamed for her to look. She shook her head when Woods offered her a hand to help get up. She accepted and passed her hands in her jeans as if it would clean somehow. Luna was really trying to keep cool but she had just slipped on the wet floor, fallen and for everything to get ten times worse she took Raven with her. Luna noticed how the girl tried to clean her jeans. Her hair was messier than the normal, probably because of the fall. The brown falled over her shoulder in cascade, she took some time watching before a realization hit her. It was beautifully loose. It was different. Not that she never used like that but it's not like yesterday when she had a ponytail with two loose parts into her face, or the day before when she had a ponytail with a small braid or the day before when she used just a loose bun, but who cares right. It's not like she is paying attention anyway.
"Are you okay, Raven?" She asked the girl.
"Yeah" the brunette said with a tiny smile before her attention changed. She was looking at the floor behind Luna. It's when Woods notices the floor next to them. It was wet, there's paper all over the floor, her towel was laying a few steps away and then two metal pieces a bit further. She couldn't identify what's on Raven's mind. The girl in the red jacket took the pieces of the ground and looked at it sad.
"Oh I'm sorry, is it broken?" Luna asked with a soft voice. Receiving just a sad nod from the other girl.
"There's a way to fix it?" Luna asks, already knowing the answer. The Latina girl started a phrase but somehow stopped, right before starting mumbling a lot of nonsense. Luna looked at the girl confused, she knew she was speaking alone but she focused on understanding whatever was happening. She understood some numbers and some random letters. She blinked a few times looking at the girl. She did take Raven's papers off the ground and look at it. Just a lot of numbers, and a lot of random letters with some arrows, some of the numbers were circled, that must mean something, she thought. Some big strange words have been spoken before Raven woke up from her thoughts. She looked even sad. Maybe tired.
"Nevermind" Raven takes her papers from Luna's hand.
"Even if I could, it would pass my assignment day limit" Luna nodded her head in understanding. She was sad that she had broken Raven's metal stuff. She didn't know what was that but she didn't want the girl to be sad, or lose her assignment.
"I'm really sorry, Raven. I'm Luna" the wet girl said, with a small smile. Raven just smiled, she knew her already duh. Who didn't. But how does she know her?
"I Know" Raven said and the girl just smiled embarrassed maybe? "How do you know me?" Raven finished the phrase and yes, Luna was definitely embarrassed. Luna thought a little bit, I know you because you're the smartest in the class, because you've made the chemistry class explode once, because I seriously have a crush on you...
"Because you're Octavia's Friend" Luna said, receiving a questioning look. "And Clarke's friend, who happens to be the only subject my sister talks about" Raven laughed, that made Luna also smile.
"I get it," Raven said. Looking at her wet paper. She started to move forward signing the end of the conversation. And Luna almost shouted.
"So... Tomorrow I will throw a party at my house, you should come '' Raven let a small smile. She already knew about the Woods's party, and she already knew she couldn't go.
" You must have known as you're Octavia's friend and Lexa always tells the cheerleaders first..." Raven smiled, Luna seemed cute, she thought. But then she ignored the feeling that maybe the girl was nervous about calling her to the party, obviously not.
"But yeah you should come"
"I'll try" was all that Raven said. She knew she wouldn't. There's no way she would go to that party but she said it anyway. Luna smiled and crossed the hallway into the change room. She probably was going there before the bump, Raven thought. Somehow she forgot about her deadline continuing her walk slowly to the lab with a shy smile. Then she caught a sign of the lab's door and realization hits her.
She was so fucked.