Chapter 11
She had just made eggs when she heard a knock on the door. A few hits against the door making a recognized beat. She opened the door without asking, she knew who was at the door bell. Raven smiled as Octavia, in black destroyed jeans and a checkered red flannel, hugged her tight as if they didn't see each other for days, it was just an afternoon. Reyes smiled internally, Octavia had the key of her house but after she entered it noiselessly scaring the shit out of her a few times, they decided it would be better if she knocked at the door when she hadn't texted earlier. You know, just like normal people do. Her heart thanked the act. She let the girl pass through and they made their way to her kitchen without a word.
"I made eggs, but what do you think about popcorn and nutella?" Raven said normally, noticing how Octavia's shoulders were low. She didn't need to ask to know what probably had happened. She smiled as the girl smiled. Food always comforted the black haired one.
"Please!" Blake said watching around. "Today is your turn to choose the movie"
Her head tilted to the side as she touched the brunette's hair.
"This is sand?"
"Yeah, Luna and I were on the beach for the assignment" she shrugged, her hands quickly putting a package on the microwave, turning to face the smaller girl sitting on the desk. Literally, sitting on the desk, her legs were waving. Raven smiled at the view, it was funny how people could think they know the girl, they create gossip around her but don't know one percent about what Octavia was without her red uniform.
Actually, internally Raven wished she wear less her uniform, she loved her 'rock vibe' that was more like 'i'm a fucking drummer with a damn cool motocicle'.
A pleasure noise came from the girl's mouth and she knew she was right about nutella.
The Nutella package is already on her hands as she hits the spoon lightly on her lower lip, thoughtful.
"So...tell me about her" Blake said, turning her hair into a knot over her head.
"What do you mean?" Raven said trying to sound cool and miserably failing. Octavia just gestured in frustration, rolling her eyes.
"How's your assignment doing?" Blake tried differently. The popcorn 'pop' noises filling the silence that was settled.
"Do you really want to talk about my assignment?" Raven asked, getting closer. Blake wasn't fooling her, she could see through her green eyes. She just laughed sadly, licking the spoon out of her mouth.
"Babe, please I don't really want to talk about my shit auntie, my shit cousin or my own assignment, you know shit life in general, please tell me about your beach day"
The microwave beep cut Raven's speech before it even started. This happens more than she would like, they enter this sad competition of who got the real shit life. Octavia's house isn't exactly warm, she lives with her aunt's house since her parents died, but she actually prefers the term 'the satan's house'. She was really expecting Raven's turn to argue, she got up to grab a bow while the brunette scratched the popcorn package. After a quick move, the bow was full and Raven licked her burned fingers. She really should have waited more, she thought making her way to her room.
"You know, Luna is… different from what I expected" Octavia raised her eyebrow, she was expecting a lecture or a better shit life argument. She turned her head to face Raven and her small side smile.
"This is good, I think, right?" Blake said before filling her mouth with the biggest amount of popcorn that she could fill in.
"I don't even know what I expected, but it's like" she was gazing at a random point, holding a full nutella spoon that was waiting for her thoughts to finish the sentence to be eaten. "She can break all my expectations before I even have them, she just explode it all being ten times better"
Octavia smiled at the sound of Raven's laugh. All her shit life worries that haven't evaporated soon as she laid on that bed were fading right now.
"It sounds like it was a good beach day huh?" Octavia asked and Raven remembers her hair was still gross, but the biggest part of her wanted to stay in bed. She would do this later.
"Yeah, I mean, it was so fun" she sighed remembering "all moments with Luna are funny, you know, she is really…" Her big smile faded suddenly and she waved her head turning to Octavia, that was with her head leaning on her hand watching her.
"I just, you know since the accident I haven't… "
Octavia just stands there waiting for the youngest to keep her thoughts. Raven sighed glaring at the ceiling.
"Tell me about the beach, it was cold?" Blake tried, taking her eyes off Raven just to get another full spoon and turning back. She was surprised earlier today when she found out Raven was going to skip the class. Not because Raven is a right person, she's literally their bad influence, but because she skipped the astronomy class. Her favorite subject!
But imagine her surprise to know that she was skipping it to go to the beach. The fucking beach! She always has to fight a damn battle to convince the girl to go to the Clarke's pool with them.
"Wow it was awesome, I missed it so much, really" she smiled at the other girl laughing at her own thoughts. It warmed her heart, she was so proud of her. She knew Raven doesn't like to wear shorts or bikinis and, she knew… she hated the fact that Raven thinks her brace turns her less... something. Anything.
She was happy, and for it Octavia mentally thanked Luna for having instigated it.
"So this means that you don't want to go to the beach with me but with funny Luna you do?" Octavia asked, raising an eyebrow. She wasn't lying. In fact, she was being harshly honest but her lips had a curve and her tone was light. Raven laughed. She moved to get near the smaller girl and hugged her, leaving kisses on her cheek.
"I will go on the beach with you anytime you ask"
"Nah, now you have a surf girl to take you to the beach" Raven laughed hard but deep down she knew there's true in Octavia's acid jokes. She holds the girl searching for her eyes, sighing.
Sometimes she forgets about everything they have in common. Besides a lot of things and the best obsession on motorcycles, they're a quite pairing, two broke girls with abandonment issues.
"There's no reason to be jealous or freak about this, I'll never leave your side" Raven said locking her eyes on the green ones, she tilted her head and a smile started to grow on her lips "even when I got on my period and start crying about my crush on my favorite actresses" she ended earning a laugh from Octavia that punched her on her arm.
"Ouch, I'm all soft here can you respect this?" Raven said her hand covering the hurting spot. She laughed once more, she knows Raven isn't the most open person but she couldn't hold it, it was already a habit. She rubbed softly the spot as if by doing this the girl's pain would fade and Raven smiled.
It wasn't hurting that much.
Well, it wasn't a pain at all.
"Sorry, spacewalker"
Raven smiled at the small girl. She was just this tiny puppy that needed constant affect. And even if Raven wasn't so different from it, she wanted to care for her, protect her from the world and specially from her awful family. She knew she couldn't fight anyone with her busted leg and jail or a lawyer sue was the last thing she wanted, so Reyes' way to do it was that. And deep down she knew it was for good her too, having the girl's company at nights.
"I can forgive you if you give me this flannel shirt" Raven said, a huge playful grin on her face. Octavia let her mouth open in an exaggerated fake offended look.
"I will take it anyway" Raven shrugged, turning the TV on to start their film night.
"Only over my dead body" Octavia said, receiving a challenging look. Raven turned to focus on the Netflix page and her searching for the movie.
"And how is everything going with Nyilah?" Blake just shrugged.
"Let's just say I don't really want to kill her anymore…" Raven smiled. There's something behind this statement that makes her want to joke but she holds.
"So, Luna huh…" Raven turned to the girl playing with the edge of her flannel shirt. "She took you to surf, where did you take her?"
"I didn't yet, she was first. I'm thinking about it, I don't think it's a good idea to take her to fix a car" She said, laughing hard as she pictured Luna in her mechanic's clothes. Octavia laughed together but stopped opening her mouth.
"It's not a terrible idea, you're sexy working" she said with a mischievous smile, making Raven laugh hard again, embarrassed.
"I know" And then Octavia's eyes wide.
"So you can't take Luna to the mechanics shop but you took me!" Octavia said pushing her shoulder lightly.
"You love motorcycles, I thought it would be cool, it wasn't?" Raven argued gesturing. At this point they had already forgotten about the movie night.
"It was" Octavia agreed. She was remembering that day when another realization hit her and her eyes went wide again. "Raven Reyes, so you knew from the start I thought you were sexy working and you took me on purpose to fix a motorcycle, I dated a player!"
Raven thinks for a moment under Octavia's green shocked stare, her own smile on her face as she waved her head at Octavia madness. She laughed once more as Blake was still frozen looking at her. Such a drama queen, Clarke is losing her time not casting O for the new theater play, Raven's thought but her chest was warm. I mean, inside it, a warming feeling filling her. Octavia just waved her head smiling at her dorkiness and stole the tv remote from Raven's hand. She took too long, now she lost her turn to pick the movie. This will probably start a fight about Octavia choosing the movie three times in a row, and probably will end with them agreeing about next be Raven's turn.
Just like today should be.
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"Why are you dressed like that?" "And wet?" Lexa asked excitedly as soon as the girl walked in. Luna just kept on her way to her room ignoring the mischievous smirk on her sister's face. She entered the room and took her wet shirt off, she was still in her bikini. Lexa was laying on her bed with her phone on her hand.
"The right question is: what were you doing and with who? Was it with Raven?" Lexa asked with an annoying smile.
"Please say yes, I bet that you-"
"I was at the beach and no, we just did our English assignment" Luna said trying to contain her sister's madness but her grin said otherwise. She put her hand on the chips package that her sister was holding, pulling out a handful of it as she rolled her eyes at her sister's 'Oh my Gods'.
"So? how it was?"
"you kissed her?"
"it was a date?"
"Do you think she likes you back?"
"Probably because mostly girls have a crush on us"
"I TOLD GAIA SHE'D LOSE HER MONEY"
"YOU KISSED HER?"
"WHY AREN'T YOU SAYING?"
She just rolled her eyes, smiling at her sister's madness and a little embarrassed. She wished so. She wished it so much she even paid much attention to her sister's sentences. But It wasn't a date right? It was hard to call Raven to her party, imagine calling her out? She didn't have enough courage. Even though it was a new feeling for Luna, she was always the first move person, she never had a problem with girls before but now she had this voice telling her Raven probably wouldn't accept anyway so it's an impossible scenery.
She sighed remembering little fragments of the day. She and Raven 'surfing', that was more like Luna struggling to keep Raven equilibrate holding her waist as she was worried with the board balance, and all that in the end resulted in five seconds on the wave. How it felt heavy having the girl tied on her with arms and legs, sure, Raven's weight was nonexistent because of the water but the warmth of the girls' arms around her neck existed, and required her focus to recover her ability to breathe. And how she was addicted to her laugh. It's funny to think a few weeks ago she would never imagine spending a day like today or...telling her sister about a crush. And it's even funnier that the feeling that existed before she actually talked with the girl, just growed. Well, it exploded every scale and that for sure scared Luna. She had already entered her bathroom when she heard Lexa stop her nonsense.
"Talking about English assignments...I need your car" Luna heard Lexa say as it was not a big deal. Her car, the beauty that she left in the garage today, but it was for a good cause. Her eyes wide, she was talking about her baby! What the hell Lexa did? She opened the door abruptly, holding her gaze at the brunette's green eyes. Lexa just frowned, smiling and Luna breathed relieved, she didn't do nothing, at least yet.
"What? Why?"
"I need to take Clarke to my favorite place" Luna rolled her eyes. That's not what she asked. She wonders if everyone is enjoying that assignment as she was or if she was just lucky. This assignment is amazing. Her day was amazing. Gosh, Raven is amazing. She sighed leaving her thoughts before it got lost.
"Yeah, yeah yeah" she knew everyone has the same weekly challenge "BUT YOU CAN'T DRIVE"
Lexa looked at her as she wasn't telling everything and Luna raised her eyebrow.
"That's why I need you to drive us there" Lexa said quickly with a huge smile and her hands in please. Luna just watched that scene rolling her eyes.
"But your girlfriend can drive" Luna teased her with her form to mention Clarke but what she said was true. Her sister was really weird.
"But I don't want her to know where it is before we get there!" She just turned to get her shower leaving it slightly open to continue talking to Lexa.
"So are you confirming Clarke is your girlfriend?" Luna replied with a mocking tone.
"Arghhhh, just drive us there!" Lexa yelled. Luna opened her shower letting the water hit her shoulders. She sighed and nodded her head. There was no meditation in the world that could bear Lexa.