Chapter 6
Her gaze was lost in a spot far in the hallway, she even forgot what she was doing, stopping her search on her locker. She watched her gestures, she seemed happy talking with Echo, who leaned on the lockers in front of her, excitedly. She saw Luna quickly take Echo's phone from her hand and raise her hand higher as she could from her, even if they're on the same height. The player number 4 didn't let her do, and went trying to reach her phone back, both of them smiling fighting for the phone. She watched the interaction until Gaia showed up and took the phone, effortless, laughing at the soccer girls' confused face. She read the screen and the three started a conversation fighting for a glance at the phone screen.
She hadn't talked to Luna since the day at her house. They had finished their weekly task so there's not a real reason for it, but Raven was intrigued. She didn't know why,she just wanted to spend more time with her, she had enjoyed her company. And now she felt a little vulnerable for showing a part of herself she usually hides.
In school seemed like they even knew each other. Maybe it's because Luna was always around her friends, or maybe she didn't want to be seen with her, Raven thought.
"Ouch" Raven touched the red area in her arm. Octavia could get rude sometimes.
"Tell me everything" the cheerleader said with a wide smile. Ah yeah she forgot to check the messages this morning probably there's a lot of life threats from Blake.
"There's nothing to say,but Clarke must have some news for you" Raven teased, making Clarke red, she had slept in Woods' house again. Octavia eyes are excited. She could be easily the #1 clexa shipper.
"Sorry to disappoint but there's nothing" Griffin said, opening her sketchbook. She tried to close but Octavia was faster and took it from her. There was a sketch of Lexa sleeping. Octavia let an excited yell leave her throat. She opened and showed Raven before Clarke could get it. Raven just smiled, and passed the page, another drawing but Lexa was from far away, leaning on the lockers. Her friend was insanely talented.
"Give me back"
Octavia gave it back with a 'please ask her out look'. They had walk a few steps when Gaia calls Octavia, walking at them with her arms linked with Luna, the two other players behind them, as Niylah has joined their conversation without Raven noticing it. She saw Octavia smile wide and hug the cheerleader that called her. Her gaze found the light brown of Luna, who smiled at her.
"How are you?" Luna asked Raven, ignoring the excited conversation that Gaia and Octavia started without excluding her friends or Clarke.
"I'm good and you?" Raven answered coldly. She didn't know why, in fact, she spent the last day waiting for this interaction but now she was a bit mad. Maybe because if it wasn't for Gaia talking with O, Luna would never do it. But what was she expecting? Suddenly they would become friends?
"I'm great" Luna said before they fell in silence, without taking their eyes away for a second.
"What? When?" Luna breaks the stare turning at her friends and their conversation as she hears a few key words. She frowned trying to catch up with their conversation.
"I can't, we agreed to do our English assignment," Octavia said pointing quickly at Niylah, who tried to say something but was interrupted by O's sentence. The blonde seemed like a child who had their candy denied with a sad side smile.
"You can do it there," Gaia said, shrugged, smirking, her gaze passing through all the girls there until it was directly at Raven who just smiled in a line.
"Tell Hope!" Echo said to Niylah a bit way too excited and the blond and Luna smiled. "And Anya,Lexa..."
Gaia laughed hard but didn't say anything, just turned to see if Octavia would accept the invite now.
"Yeah I think we can do that, right?" Blake was cut by the bell. They all waved and walked at their classes' direction.
……
"Hey" a voice whispered behind Luna. She turned to face Niylah. She was sitting with Echo and Anya at her side, in the big desk behind her for this chemistry class. She glanced at her notebook a few times to finish the sentence she was writing. That class was always funny somehow, she watched Gaia, her pair on her side put the chemical ingredients in the measure cup with her protection glasses.
"Do you think Octavia and Raven are dating again?" She turned completely at Niylah, who was ignoring her group task, letting her pen and her notes.
"How? Seriously?" Luna said fast in confusion "I mean, why?"
Niylah frowned but waved her head. Luna passed her eyes through the class until she found what she was looking for. Octavia and Raven seemed to have fun at their desk surrounded by chemical things like everyone else.
Niylah just shrugged, tapping Gaia's shoulder and making her ask the same question.
"Because of the code? I don't know but I can find out"
Luna was still shocked by the question as Gaia grinned at her friend. Anya and Echo didn't seem to notice or care about their conversation as they're in their own particular universe trying to finish their. By the way, the task that Niylah should be helping.
"Not now" Niylah said, quickly holding Gaia's hand who had her cellphone open on Octavia's chat, ready to find the answer to her friend's question.
"Or like this"
"Why do you think that?" Luna said, still watching the two girls from far, they're sharing an earphone, each one with one earplug and Blake shakes her head on the music's beat. Niylah scrolled through her Instagram and opened a post of Polis' page, the fake one. The first posts were about the basketball game that the boys won, she showed the girls a post with a headline 'old-news couples?'
Luna just rolled her eyes at the mention of that page, but something intrigued her, why would Niylah ask?
She didn't like Octavia and she made sure to show it to everyone in the world.
"But I don't think so" Gaia glancing at her captain and Raven. "Here is saying you're with Anya" Niylah shrugged but didn't deny, making Gaia's eyes wide at the information, but Luna wasn't paying attention anymore, she turned to finish the measure that Gaia was doing before being interrupted. They had a really cool friendship, since first year of high school, and had a code, the girls code. Well, it wasn't a big deal but they liked to call like this because it seemed cool, like a sapphic fight club.
Luna, Lexa, Anya, Echo, Niylah and Gaia had already dated the friends in their group, as they're discovered themselves lgbt, they had developed a few crushes inside the group but nothing serious, actually the fact they dated each other was what made them a group today, like Luna and Gaia, Echo and Anya, Luna and Echo, Lexa and Niylah, Niylah and Gaia and the list goes on.
It was a long time ago, but they created the code, it was basically do not crush the girls they had a crush and it worked very well; they would never hit on their friends' girls but they could if they didn't tell. That was the 'code' about: be honest about your crushes to avoid fights… and for random funny sleepovers.
This all started a long time ago when Niylah and Anya crushed on the same girl. It was chaotic.
So all the girls knew that Echo had a crush on Hope, Anya had a crush on Roan, and Lexa on Clarke, that last one she didn't have to say for them to know, it was explicit.
Well, Roan was not exactly the type of the girls in this group but Echo, as Anya, was bisexual. However, Luna never used it, not because she's okay with her friends hitting on her crushes but because she didn't really care about the girls she had hooked with, it was just fun.
"Luna?!" She heard Gaia shout but it was too late. She turned to see her lab partner but she could see with her side view their mix had gone wrong. Niylah gasped loudly behind her, her eyes wide in excitement. She watched how everything went wrong in slow motion, very wrong as all the liquid started to erupt from the glass in a high and quick gush. She heard Gaia scream trying to stop the gush but this just made all the liquid splash everywhere. The short haired turned to Luna completely wet, not different from Luna but she had her eyes squeezed probably taking a deep breath or counting until ten. Luna just had a hand covering her big embarrassed smile, as Niylah and Echo's laugh echoes at the background.
"I told you it wasn't ready!" Gaia yelled but she was laughing trying squeezing her lab vest in a pointless way to make it dry.
"I didn't hear it!" Luna yelled back and turned to face the teacher with not a good face. She opened her mouth to say something but her attention was changed to elsewhere. Wasn't her intention but her gaze was on the other side of the room, the brunette had her hand covering a big amused smile still in pose of shock but the teacher entered in front of her view. She smiled embarrassed knowing what was about to happen. He had started a lecture about the incident but a voice screamed behind them.
"And this guys is how to make chemistry good" the teacher turned to the voice just to see Raven turn a glass into one bow bigger than Luna's. Way bigger, she had a crazy smile as the liquid started to grow inside. But this one was in an orange color, the teacher didn't have time to say anything when the mix splashed over most of the students and the teacher as well.
"Boom!"
…..
They walked out of the class, she knew the chemistry teacher liked her, in fact, he was one of her orientation teachers and he was trying to make her be the chemistry tutor as well, he was almost begging her to accept, so he didn't send anyone to the principal. Instead, he used this to explain about reagents and their composition. The other students watched them in the hallway with curiosity, everyone soaked or covered by orange spume.
"Reyes!"
Octavia and Raven stopped to see Gaia, Luna ran to them with the other right behind. She had cleaned from mostly spume but her clothes were soaked, she reached them with a large smile.
"That was awesome!" Gaia said laughing, making Raven laugh too. The four walked down the hallway ignoring the stare of the people there.
"Thanks for that!" Luna started gluing her glare on her. "If it wasn't for you we probably would get detention"
Raven giggled, probably she would be too in detention too, but this teacher liked her too much for it. She probably should hear a lot about it from him, though. But deep inside she knows if she accepts being the tutor he forgets about the 'incident'.
"What do you have now?" Raven raised an eyebrow to the question.
"Math" Luna sighed in frustration at her answer, she was walking in the opposite direction she should be going, she still needed to pass by the bathroom to try to clean herself, and pass by her locker to get her a change of clothes.
"I'm going that way" Luna said stopping the walk, positioned in front of Raven making her stop too. "But that's it, thanks" She repeated with a grin, moving her hands as she talked. She bit her lower lip before glance at Gaia behind Reyes and wave her hand, hesitantly.
Raven turned, with a few seconds of delay, to see Luna walk away with Gaia linked on her arm.
.......
All the class stared at Octavia and Raven when they entered. The brunette saw a few others soaked from the chemistry class sitting at their places but Raven wasn't sorry. She always enjoyed the chemistry classes in the lab way more than in the classroom ones, however, today she hadn't any plans to make things go boom.
It just happened.
Clarke showed them the Instagram page as Raven and Octavia sat. It was a post from the mess they left behind in the room, everyone under the orange spume. Raven just laughed low to not disturb the teacher that had already started to talk. She entered Instagram on her phone, hiding it under the table to read the post. She liked it and read the comments below. Ah, she loves to make things explode.
She scrolled down, showing the latest posts, it was one about the mess, another about the soccer game, and a few news she didn't care about, if she could call that news. She saw a few thermometer posts, there were a few people competing for the royalties of the prom, they measured in number of likes so it wasn't very accurate, but Raven searched to like the post she wanted.
In the top fifteen, staring from down to up, she saw Wick on the fifteenth place. How the hell people voted for him? She thought moving forward, there was Bellamy, Harper, Murphy, Anya, Hope, Ontari… people in this school are really insane to put this last one on the top 15, and over Harper, her sweet cheers friend, she thought rolling her eyes, in eighth position was one of the side girls of Ontari, then, Echo, Lincoln, Niylah, Roan, Gaia, Octavia, Luna and Lexa in the first position.
She opened Oc post and liked it, she needed to vote for her girl. She opened Lexa's with a quick double tap and then Luna's, she stared at the post pic after the red heart disappeared off the screen for a few seconds. Waving her head she showed Clarke Octavia's vote post, signing her to go like it and smiled when the blonde understood.
Clarke nodded from her chair, next to Raven who was behind Octavia. She checked her phone, liking the post quickly, not even looking at the other positions, Octavia's and Lexa's. She saw a notification, there were three messages.
Her smile widened.
Lexy ⚽-
Hi, I loved wake by your side
Sorry for getting up in a hurry
You're beautiful on my clothes