Chapter 2
Her phone was buzzing like crazy. It was Saturday already and the group chat was imploding. She read the messages not caring much. It was just them deciding in which car they would go. And then fight who was going to ride. Raven laughed at some jokes before throwing her phone in the bed. She was tired. She went to shower to take all that dirty and grease of her. She spent her weekends working at a mechanical shop, they didn't pay her much, actually almost nothing at all, but work there was a great way to test her knowledge and, besides some small things, she enjoyed it. She just needed that warm shower to relax her muscles from being all day under a car. Once she finished she put a pijamas and got into bed. She checked the hour 21:30. She put a series on Netflix and scrolled through her group chat. It seems that Bellamy didn't want Octavia to leave with the clothes she was wearing and Clarke was already in her front door. There's a photo from the car where Bellamy was with her over his shoulders, like a heavy package. She laughed, her friends were just insane. The other day was much the same. She was already working for a few hours when her friends gave a life sign. They start gossiping about the party and deep inside she was sad she didn't go. They were making fun of Octavia vomiting, Jasper dancing, Clarke leaving the party and not wanting to tell what happened. Raven rolls her eyes. Such stubborn people. Both of them. Lexa and Clarke. They literally date without even kissing. Raven sighed in frustration. Octavia fought with Niylah. That surprised Raven. She went to Instagram and the first picture was of their friends. Double tap. The second was Lexa, amazing as always. Double tap. She went to stories and looks like everyone went to the Woods party. She watched a few and got back to work. She left early because of low movement. And went to the grocery store, she needed some food in that house. Her father was all she had, but he worked a lot to keep the house, and save money for Raven to go to college. He was a good man, she just wished things went different. Because of that he was never home, he just left some money on the kitchen table and left for another shift, but she really loved him, she admired him. Once everything was bought she went back home to try to do her homework before she slept in it again.
....
The trio left the car and walked side by side to their three. They were the first of their group to get there what was not anormal.
"Are you guys going to the game?" A very excited Lexa showed up, she asked the group but well, Octavia is a cheerleader so she will be there, and her gaze was directed into Clarke's eye.
"I wouldn't miss for nothing," the blonde says, making Octavia turn to Raven covering her mouth. These two were impossible.
"Maybe if I shock their heads they will kiss" Octavia said laughing low to not interrupt. A few months ago she would have made a joke or blown up the moment somehow but that was then, now she was just tired of these two useless in front of her. Lexa didn't even get too far when Clarke turned to her friends.
"Did you guys see how hot she gets in those pants?" Raven just rolled her eyes and thanked the bell for it's perfect timing.
"See you guys later bye" Raven says, walking faster as she could away from those two. She smirked at Octavia who had English with the blonde now. Clarke was amazing, beautiful, smart but when mentioned Lexa Woods she got stuck as a broken CD. Blake just answered with a middle finger and turned her attention back at the Romeu on her side. Raven got 2 classes before she had one with one of her two best friends. Raven had chemistry now, it would be normal if her teacher got into class. But other men entered and quickly introduced himself as the substitute teacher. He started to write on the board while the class settled down.
"What's this? How're your project doing?" Octavia asked, looking at a few pages of sketch and calculation. "Did you get your part?" She asked the girl. She loved to hear about Raven's projects, she loved to see her excited about her stuff even if she didn't really listen to it, she just used to nod smiling while the girl was speaking a lot of things she doesn't understand. She remembered that time that Raven tried to help her cheerleader stunt by analyzing the force of the spin with her weight so she could land more easily. Such a nerd.
But it really helped her, on that Reyes' way to do things.
"Actually, I did. But it broke and it will take another 15 days to get another part here and the assignment is this Friday" Raven says copying into her notebook and ignoring the glance that the smaller girl was giving to her.
"What? How did it break?" Raven bite her lip before answering.
"Well, I was walking back to the lab, distracted doing some math and I bumped into Luna and we fell because she was wet and the floor was also wet" Octavia raises an eyebrow waiting.
"That's it, we fell, the part fell, it broke, now I'm fucked" Octavia blinked a few times looking at her ex. Raven and Octavia dated for a while, they seemed pretty happy but they broke up and no one knows why. Clarke did try though but that just seemed to piss her friends more. And with some time they get along again, as friends. Clarke doesn't know why still, but if her friends are okay so is she. But because they dated, the blonde and everyone else could see that their friendship was different. Was a friendship built in a relationship so they both were extremely caring in a different way, in a deeper way. Clarke understands that, after all they kissed, and fucked and bonded, she didn't expect less than that with her friends. Sometimes Griffin suspects if they were making their way back, but in the meantime she is happy with their weird friendship.
"And you did nothing?" She whispered screaming at her.
"Don't you scream at me!" Raven whispered screaming back, they faced each other for a while before a noise in the front. Someone cleared his throat.
"So you ladies mind about explaining at class the exercise?" The substitute teacher said, giving Octavia the pilot pen. The cheerleader was red as her uniform. Octavia was never good at chemistry, she was good at French though. Raven could see her panicking inside. She grabbed the pen and left her sit. Today she was wearing an oversized red sweatshirt instead of her jacket. She noticed the way he looked at her leg as she walked at the board. She started doing the exercise while explaining every little bit with a patient of a tutor. She did even the small calculation for those who aren't keeping up. She smirked as she put the answer at the end of the board.
"So class, do you have any questions?" Raven says sassy pointing at a raised hand.
"Can you explain again how it turned into that?" Raven looked at the substitute teacher before explaining the periodic table. With her job done she gave him the pen and walked back to her seat. The class went mad and started clapping and hitting the tables or making moves as mic drop. Argh, she hated substitute teachers.
...
History class ended and she went to the others, and then chemistry and now she made her way to English class. She just stopped by her locker to grab her assignment and by the time she got there Monty and Jasper was already there. At least she had some friends in this class, geography was a nightmare without her friends. The teacher entered the room greeting everyone and sitting at her desk. Raven was distracted in her own world when she heard her name.
"Here!" She answers the call as the teacher goes on alphabetical order.
" I know class started weeks ago and you all know your classmates but for the next assignment I wanted something different" she said as she walked through the room collecting the assignments, she stopped her speech sometimes with low 'thank yous' when she received the paperwork.
"Knowing this is your last year, or at least I hope so" she said, making the class laugh " I created a different assignment, you all will have a month or so to do. I will pair you guys with someone randomly, and no, it will not be none of your friends" with that some students boo her, but the teacher smiled. She was one of the coolest teachers in school and her classes were always in a light mood. She leaned against the table while speaking.
" this year is all about memories and about bonding. The next assignment will be inspired by an ice breaker, each week you will receive a "challenge" and then I want you to write a small report about the week with your partner. I'm not sure if it will be 4 weeks or more yet but in the end, when all challenges end you'll have to find a text, a quote, a poem, a music, anything, that is write, inspired by how you know your friend and write a text telling why did you choose it, how do you think it remembers your friend. So for example if I'm writing about Finn, I could choose something about sports and explain it is because he's a player or so, but please imagine a better development explanation." The class laughed at the teacher and at Finn's grinn by being picked for the example
" that will not have a limit of lines or anything, I want to see how you guys express yourself, and explain yourself, it's all about creativity and a good development of writing."
Raven looked at the woman making quick notes at the paper, she liked the assignment's idea, but God, don't let it be Wick, she repeated it in her thought. She watched the woman say some names, some of the pairs looked happy and high fived each other, and some looked annoyed as they left their chair to sit beside their pairs. Her thought was interrupted when she heard her name. She blinked a few times looking at the woman in front of class but she already was naming the next pair. She looked confused, she surely should pay more attention. Something took her from her thoughts. One chair was put beside her with a loud noise and then a body with messy curls rested on it.
"Hi"
The girl said but Raven was still looking confused
"I'm sorry" With that Raven was back to reality. She frowned. Why was she sorry? Probably she didn't want to do the assignment with her.
Great. Amazing.
"For the other day" the girl seems to read her thoughts. Right. Her project part. She was still grieving it she just didn't want to show Octavia she was. She knew the brunette very well to do it.
"Oh that's fine, I will do something about it, don't worry" don't worry? Was she worried? Raven was freaking out with her 'inside outs'.
"So shall we begin?" Luna Woods asked and that was the first time Raven noticed her voice. It's not like she hasn't heard it before but now she was extremely near, with that smirk of hers and that low raspy voice. Raven licked her lips and opened her notebook.
The teacher gave the pair the first challenge, a paper with lots of questions.
"So what's your favorite color?" Luna asked the first in the list.
"Red" Raven said, causing Luna to try to contain a laugh and failing. The Woods left a "who could guess" whisper. Raven looked attacked until she looked at herself. She was wearing a red sweatshirt, her pencil case was red too, but in a darker shade.
"It was a coincidence, I don't have many red things" Raven said jokingly. Her phone buzzed into her pocket. It was O's message, she will meet her at lunchtime and she will pass by her house later. Raven raised her gaze to find Luna with a smile and a raised eyebrow. Raven frowned at that. And looked at her phone again. She had a red phone case. She smiles and waved her head.
"And you miss judge, what's your favorite color?
"Ocean blue" Luna answered and Raven wondered, it was a very specific and quick answer. She writes down and keeps going. They were in the fifth question already.
"Can you stop that?" Luna asked, touching Raven's hand, stopping her to write. Raven looks at the touch and Luna retracts her hand.
" I feel like I'm in a job interview, or in therapy, everything I said you make a note is making me crazy" Woods said in light humor. Trying to look at the notes.
"Sorry, how am I supposed to remember all that?" Raven said not so sorry. The Latina showed her the page. It was an A5 notebook, on the top the title was just "Luna" with a beautiful handwritten letter. There was a small moon doodle at the end of the page, and some arrows with her notes.
Luna laughed because of the things written down. Ocean blue. Beach. Sushi and pasta. Allergic to pineapple.
"That's some really important notes" Luna mocks, making Raven laugh. The bell rang, and they started to organize their materials.
"You didn't come" Luna said. Raven needed a second to understand.
"Yeah, I didn't." Raven looks like she will continue talking while they walk shoulder by shoulder to the cafeteria. Before she could go on, a pretty blond shows up in front of her. She says something but that's definitely not english, or french as the language Raven is studying. She watched Luna respond in that language. Her voice was lower and sexy, Raven thought. As Luna finishes she turns to Raven.
"I need to go, see...something, we finish later?" Woods said as Anya grabbed her hand moving her away down the hallways. Raven felt something was wrong, there was too much urgency in her voice but she ignored and kept going on her way. Soon she sees the table that her friends are in.
"What's up nerds'' Raven says as she sits with her food next to Monty, across Clarke, who are sitting beside Jasper and Harper who talked about a TV show or something. Before Clarke answers, Octavia in a not so good mood sits down. Hitting her food on the table with unnecessary force.
"Hey bitches, and wife" she says, the last part turning to Raven.
"What's all that about?" Raven asks cleaning something in O's face.
"English stupid assignment!" Clarke answers for Blake, trying to imitate her voice. Her best friends are in the same English class but her. Is that a personal attack or what?
"Who're you paired with?" Raven asks.
"A girl named Indra" Monty said.
"Wells" Harper answered.
"Maya '' Jasper says with a mouth full of food that makes the group do disgusted faces and some of them throw him some fries.
"Hey!" he said, throwing a fry back to Blake and Harper. The group just laughed, their friendship was awesome.
"You guys are good, I got the fucking Niylah" Octavia said clearly upset.
"I mean that's not just bad luck what the fuck universe" she complained with hands in the air. Such a drama queen.
"She hates me!" Octavia tried to prove her point and her friends gave her a 'seriously' look.
"You always say everyone hates you!" Harper pointed out the obvious. And Raven laughed pointing to the smaller brunette as she said "I told you".
"I got Lexa '' Clarke said in a low voice while she lifted the cup to her mouth. She was hoping that Octavia's drama would take the attention, but it was not what happened.
"You what?" Raven almost screamed. What made some people look at their table.
"You must have been born with your ass turned to the moon" Octavia said pissed. "Why were you guys paired together? I mean, you know each other already" she said curiously.
"I would say they know each other very well," Jasper said with a smirk making Clarke blush.
"Oh my god she's blushing!" Monty said and the whole group laughed.
"Stop!" Clarke said trying to make her friends lower their voices but they already had a lot of curious looks. Clarke looked around and her eyes stopped in a brunette who watched her a few tables away. She was stunning, Clarke thought. She observed her smirk fade away when Luna said something. That made Lexa frown and her table laugh. The blonde watched her group, Lexa was sitting at the populars table. On her side there was Anya, and Lincoln and across her was Luna and the rest of the seats were some cheerleaders and a few faces that Clarke recognized from the soccer team and the basketball team.
"I mean, that was funny but Jasper is right" Raven said, making Griffin turn her attention back to her friends, who were still mocking her.
"Can you repeat please, I need to record for future reasons" he said, receiving a middle finger from the latina and more laughs.
"Seriously, Clarke and Lexa have been dating since the end of the last year" Raven tried to explain. "Why would the teacher put them together?"
"We are not dating!" Clarke yelled whispering. Well, actually they kind of were. Clarke waits for the team's captain to leave the training for them to hang out. They would go to the movies or just to the brunette's house. But none of the two had made a move. Clarke wouldn't ever make the first move and with the Woods' reputation she doesn't think the girl want more than friendship with her. Maybe the reason the teacher put them together is because most of that happened in the summer recess and classes just started a month ago. It was not like they're walking through the hallways holding hands. Even if that was what Clarke wanted.
"You guys went to a Italian restaurant on a Saturday night" Octavia said rolling her eyes.
"I mean she doesn't like me like that, okay" Clarke said and the group stopped the jokes.
"You deep down know that's not true, but and you?" Octavia said comforting Griffin and changing the subject. The blonde thanked her with a small smile.
"I got Luna Woods" Raven said simply, eating her food.
"The one who broke your thing?" Blake said with angry, she really could make a plastic knife look threatening. The group looked confused.
"What? When this happened?" Clarke said, and that was her time to yell whispering. She knew Lexa but she didn't really know Luna. She used to go to her house but she never interacted with the curly haired. She was always in Lexa's room. Besides the family dinner, when Luna was there, with her, Lexa and Ms. Woods. But she didn't think about Lexa's sister breaking things, she was popular but not a bully. Plus she had this 'good vibes' aura, Clarke thought.
"It's not a big deal, I bumped into her, she was leaving the pool so we fell on the wet floor, and the part broke" Raven explained.
" It was my fault, I was distracted, she was pretty cute actually, she invited me to her party" Raven finished putting some fries on her mouth ignoring her friend's gaze. They all stopped and blinked a few times.
"Raven, we were already invited, you said you're not going" Clarke said with a questionable look. Raven knew this look, it was her 'what are you not telling' Griffin's look
"I know, but she invited, it was not a 'oh hey party at my house everybody can come'" with that Octavia let a smirk.
"Do you have a crush into Woods?" Blake teased, whispering the last two words as if it was her bank password, making the latina uncomfortable.
"Crush? Are you talking about me?" A voice said behind them. She turned to see Ontary and her brainless side girls. Ontary was the female version of Finn, must be why they're friends.
"What do you want, snake?" Blake said already on her feet facing the other girl.
"Oh honey, sit down, okay, I don't want to waste my nails on you" Ontary said, already leaving with a smirk and her girls. Octavia left a groan. She hated that girl. Yeah maybe she wasn't so paranoid after all, there were a lot of people in that school to mess with her nerves. She sits back and they forget about what they were talking about which leads Jasper to talk about his annoying new TV show.
...
After Anya talked to Luna, both girls made their way to a very mad Lexa. It seems like she was close to start a fight with some sports guy, based by his jacket. Luna knew Lexa would win. She and her sister had fight classes since they were little. Their parents put them in because in the fourth grade Lexa went home back with a purple eye and Luna was not much better, she had bruises all over her arm, they wanted their girls to be able to defend themselves. It was a great way to deal with frustration too. Sometimes they used to fight together, nothing serious, they just liked to challenge each other. That's why she knew just Lexa's right hook would knock him out. She already had a little taste of her hits. She saw the boy's team get closer, just three more guys besides the one Lexa was yelling at. Luna was pretty good at fighting too, however she didn't like violence. She believed her skills would be best used if it was for defense. That was not how Lexa thought tough. Her sister was a lot hot headed and used to start the fights. Anyway, Luna was ready. If that guy, or the others try something, she would fight too. She slowly got closer to her sister who was facing the other guy, and put a hand in her arm. She knew Lexa didn't need to turn to know it was her. And she knew by being there, Lexa wouldn't start this fight.
It was this strange bond they have.
Even if they're not blood related. The Woods family adopted Luna and Lexa when they're both 5, they haven't ever seen each other before that day but they understand the other girl. In a few weeks they got inseparable. They used to calm each other down when they had nightmares. They slept in the same bed for a long time even if the Woods had given the girls huge individual bedrooms. They were like twins, without the belly part. Luna would eat the parts of Lexa's hamburger she didn't like. Lexa always got herself into fights and Luna always had the gift to calm her down. The Woods made the girls learn their culture language, for being so little they couldn't write yet, and they didn't want them to lose their link with their past and culture. Lexa always helped Luna with the words and pronunciation, and Luna with Lexa's horrible grammar.
She loved her sibling more than anything in the world.
Her presence seemed to calm down the brunette. Lexa let him go and turned around leaving the fight. The siblings exchanged a look before Lexa took her backpack off the floor. Luna sighed, she knew that for the others' perspectives they were just two rich girls who got spoiled the whole life, two rebels without a cause.
"Look there, the dykes are chicken-hearted"
But, well, Luna never gave a fuck about what the people thought anyway. The curly girl flew into him, throwing him against the lockers. Lexa just gave her sister a 'wtf' look before putting her backpack on the ground and facing the other boy who tried to take Luna off his friend. With a side glance Lexa could see the boy who she was arguing before had a hand in his bloody nose and a scared look, Lexa stepped back to avoid a punch, and when the boy's friend went for her she simply gave him an effortless punch and he fell. She looked up to see Luna ending another boy and the one who left just turned around and left. Lexa watched her sister fix her hair and walk away by her side.
"What?" Luna was bothered by her sister's gaze. Lexa just smiled harder and waved her head.
"Luna Woods, who would thought" Luna just let a shy side smile while they walk to the cafeteria.
"Ah shut up Commander" she said, receiving a mock look on Lexa's face. She gave this nickname to her when they were little, Lexa was very angry about life and got herself in a lot of fights, mainly because the kids made jokes about them, but Luna was always the pacific one. Everytime she got into a fight she said it was her Commander's mood. They used to laugh about it.
"Did you see that Luna started the fight, right?" Lexa turned to Anya who just arrived, Lincoln and Roan got there a few seconds later talking about basketball, ignoring the massive fight that just happened.
"I filmed it!" The blonde said what made them laugh. But Luna quickly made an angry face taking a deep breath.
"I don't know why I let myself leave my inner peace" she said eating her food. Anya just hit her shoulder lightly as she always does when Luna starts her meditation chat. The curly girl just rolled her eyes. She didn't regret it though.
"Lost something there, sis?" She said with an annoying smile as she looked at where her sister's gaze was. Clarke's table obviously. She had to admit her sister's girl was pretty, her hair was in one braid and she turned to look at Lexa's direction blushing hard. They would make a great couple if her sister wasn't so dumb. She let her eyes go to the girl on the other side of Clarke's table. Raven wasn't using her red jacket or her red sweatshirt. She was in a crop top and laughed about something Octavia said.
"Did you, sis?" Lexa asked back with a goofy face. Luna just turned her attention back waving her head.
"Do you know Anya... I just saw this one here start a fight one time besides today" Lexa talked with the blonde and now more people are sitting at her table. She knew the majority, but she didn't care about them, just her friends next to her. And talking about them, the rest just arrived, Echo, Gaia and Niylah sat beside them but they're too occupied blaming Echo for something. They're probably right, Echo does the greatest shits, Luna thought.
"When?" Lincoln amused by the story.
"Last year" Lexa said simply looking inside Luna's eyes. She knew what her sister was doing with that smirk of hers.
"You know Lexy, it would be so much easier just get up and ask Clarke out, you wouldn't have to watch her like this" Luna said and her friends laughed hard.
"I will when you have the balls to..."
"Don't you finish that sentence!" Luna said harshly but Lexa just ignored, she knew she was kidding. Or maybe she just likes to play with fire annoying her sister. That just made her smile wide and blow a kiss with a wink making Luna roll her eyes and groan.
Ugh she would defend her sister in a thousand of fights but that girl was annoying as fuck.