thanks dad...
Chapter 2
A month had gone by since the start of school, and Clarke was exhausted to say the least. She had just presented her last assignment of the week and was glad the weekend was finally upon her. She made her way over to the soccer bleachers; it had become her weekly spot, where she would wait for her father to finish his meeting, sketching whatever came across her mind, while the soccer team practiced.
Over the month, the blonde had been working hard to adjust to high school. All of her teachers loved her; she was always quiet in class and would sometimes reluctantly answer questions. To her surprise, her classmates were all nice and friendly, none of them thought she was weird yet; she even made a ‘sort of’ friend, wells.
wells was in her history class, every time he got the chance to talk to her, he would ask her how she was doing and offer up his notes to her, she would always decline, but he never stopped. It was nice she’d think. No one had ever been that nice to her up until then, so she decided that maybe wells and her could become friends, why not? They started sitting together at lunch, and sometimes they would go to the library and work on their homework together. It was nice.
She looked up from her sketchbook, when the coach blew his final whistle. That meant that her father would have finished his meeting. The team started going down to the lockers and she caught Lexa trailing along after them with a somber expression on her face, weird. She shook her head out of it, gathered her stuff and made her way to her dad’s car.
Jake was already at the door when she got there, one look at her he knew she was exhausted.
“I’d say this calls for some rocky road” he winked at her
Clarke grinned at him but was skeptical “mom would kill us”
“I won’t tell if you won’t”
They made their way to their favorite ice cream parlor in no time. Both got 3 huge servings of rocky road and sat down. Just as Clarke was about to have her first taste, the door to the shop opened and in came Bellamy Blake who was dragging behind him a very stubborn Lexa. Clarke immediately looked away, but not before her father could notice and look at her excitedly.
“So you want to tell me who they are?” he asked her.
“Dad, they just go to school with me”
“Then why don’t you go say hi” her father looked at her like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
“Because they probably don’t even know I exist” Clarke lied, she knew Lexa knew her. The brunette was still sitting next to her in every English class, and kept up her habit of cracking jokes whenever she got bored, something Clarke secretly looked forward to everyday.
“Well they obviously do, seeing as they’re making their way over here” her father smirked standing up “I’ll be in the bathroom see ya”
Clarke didn’t get a chance to protest as suddenly a very cheerful Lexa stood in front of her.
“CLARKE”
“Hi Lexa” she smiled up at her, and looked to Bellamy who was just confused at this point, looking at Lexa like she was insane.
An awkward silence fell over them for a couple of seconds, when Bellamy finally looked at her and spoke.
“Hi I’m Bellamy” he extended his hand confidently.
“Clarke” she replied, shaking his hand hesitantly.
“Do you go to school with us?” the tall boy asked
“Yeah, me and Lexa have English together”
At the sound of her name being said Lexa who had been looking at Clarke with the most stupid grin on her face whipped around
“YES, English, right” she had zoned out, and didn’t know what they were even talking about.
“So who were you hear with” Lexa asked regaining herself
“That would be me” a voice from behind Lexa and Bellamy said.
They both turned and were taken aback as they saw their physics teacher standing right in front of them.
“Mr. Griffin” the two of them exclaimed.
“Miss Woods, Mr. Blake, I see you know my daughter”
“daught- YES Clarke, of course” Lexa smiled up at him.
Jake turned to his daughter “well Clarke, your mom called, said she’s having some car trouble and we need to go pick her up from the hospital before we go home…” he trailed off knowing his daughter wouldn’t like the idea of driving an hour away to ark memorial.
Apparently Lexa sensed the blonde’s exasperation and offered
“Mr. Griffin, Bellamy and I would be happy to drop Clarke off home when we finish eating” she kicked Bellamy “right Bellamy?”
“Right, of course sir”
Jake regarded them for a second then looked to Clarke who had “DO NOT SAY YES” written all over her face.
“young man, I presume you have a licence. Correct?” jake adressed bellamy
“of course sir, got it in the summer” bellamy replied proudly.
“GREAT THEN” he declared “I’ll leave you kids alone, text me when you get home Clarke” and he was off, just like that.
Clarke was going to kill her father, it wasn’t that she didn’t like Lexa, but her and Bellamy had obviously came here together, she didn’t want to interrupt whatever plans they had. Regardless, she looked up at them and forced a smile to her face.
“Lex I’m gonna go get the ice cream, you want the usual right?” Bellamy asked
“Yeah, sure” Lexa replied offhandedly. She sat down across from Clarke and remembered why she’d been pissed just 10 minutes ago which didn’t go unnoticed by Clarke.
“Everything okay?” the blonde asked
At the sound of the soft voice Lexa relaxed again, she didn’t want to come off as a whiny little baby in front of Clarke.
“Coach Titus just told me that I’ll be benched for the first half of our opening season match against mount weather” she said casually.
“What?! Why?! You’re like the best player on the team” Clarke said without thinking.
Lexa looked up at that “not that I’m not” she said smugly “but how could you possibly know that”
Clarke flushed “well I…”
“Lex they didn’t have any vanilla ice-cream left so I got you chocolate” Bellamy interrupted.
Lexa turned her attention to him “great, yet another disaster today” she said dramatically.
Bellamy shook his head at her antics “ignore her Clarke, she gets overly whiny whenever she doesn’t get her way”
Clarke laughed at that while Lexa shot him a glare. The dark haired boy sat down and the 3 fell into an easy conversation about school and random subjects. Every now and then Bellamy would tease Lexa about something and Clarke would laugh. The blonde was surprised to find herself enjoying their company; they didn’t make her feel like an outsider even though it was obvious that the two were really close. She suddenly found herself wondering what they considered each other… were they just friends? Or was there something more? She couldn’t tell. “Snap out of it Clarke, it’s none of your business” she thought.
They soon finished their ice-creams and were heading towards Bellamy’s car while Clarke gave him her address.
“Hey Clarke, are you coming to our first game next Friday?” Bellamy asked as he started up the car.
Clarke hadn’t thought about it but now she was contemplating going. One look at Lexa’s hopeful smile and she found herself nodding “yeah, wouldn’t wanna miss Lexa in all her glory… on the bench” she joked surprising herself.
Bellamy burst out laughing while Lexa gaped at her.
“I’m just teasing” she laughed “but yeah, I’ll be there”
Lexa spent the whole ride to Clarke’s house, glaring at Bellamy who was still laughing. When they got there Clarke thanked them and got out.
As she looked around her drive through she noticed that her father’s car was already there. Surprised she made her way inside her house to find her dad sitting at the TV watching some movie.
“Dad… what are you doing here?” she asked hesitantly.
“What do you mean Clarke” her dad asked innocently.
“Shouldn’t you be on your way to get mom?”
“oh, no your mom’s shift doesn’t end until midnight” he continued when he saw her looking at him like he’d gone crazy “I just lied so you’d get to spend more time with your friends. Aren’t I the best dad ever!?”
“WHAT?! DAD YOU ARE COMPLETELY INSANE”
“Well it worked” Jake said unbothered by the whole situation.
The blonde continued staring at him like he’d gone mad. But honestly she wasn’t surprised, this wasn’t the first time her father had intervened in her ‘social life’, at this rate she should expect her father to become her wingman the day he deems her old enough to date.
“You’re impossible” Clarke said as she went up the stairs to her room. Sleep, I need sleep.
It was game day, the team was gathered up in the locker room waiting impatiently to get out and start the game.
“GUYS… and Lexa” Coach Titus regarded her. Lexa simply shrugged.
“This is it; THIS is the game that determines what the remainder of your season will look like. Our enemies need to see us as a threat, A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH. Don’t screw this up…”
“YES COACH” the whole team shouted.
Just then, some guy walks in, “it’s time” he says and rushes off. The team cheers excitedly as they start making their way to the field.
Lexa stays behind for a moment, ‘it’s not like they need me right now’ she thinks as she makes sure her shoes are well tied for the 100th time. She isn’t nervous, Lexa never feels nervous because of soccer, but it’s the wait that frustrates her. She can’t just sit there and watch her teammates play without her.
“It’s not because you’re not good enough, but you’ve never played with the team before Lexa. Sitting out the first half will let you see how well they function together.” her coach had explained to her a week ago. She still didn’t understand, sure this was new to her but Lexa always adjusted quickly to anything involving the sport.
It was too late now; she would have to go up there, put on a smile and wait. So she did just that.
‘YOU IDIOT, PASS THE BALL’
‘BLOCK HIM HE’S GOING TO SHOOT’
‘THE GOAL IS THE OTHER WAY YOU INCOMPETENT PIECE OF SHIT’
Those were just some of the thoughts that ran through Lexa’s mind as she sat on the bench and waited for the first half to be over. There were 5 minutes left and the score was 0-1 to mount weather. Lexa now understood why Coach Titus wanted her to see how they played together, BECAUSE THEY PLAY LIKE MORONS. Poor Bellamy, he was the only one good enough to keep the ball at his feet for more than two seconds. The tall boy had been running back and forth trying to create opportunity after opportunity for his teammates to score and none of them could cease it.
Finally the half time whistle blew and Lexa got pumped. It was time for her and Bellamy to show everyone how well they played together.
“Clarke, remind me again why we are still here… we’ve watched half of it and you don’t exactly strike me as the type of girl who’d want to watch our soccer team get their ass kicked” wells huffed from beside Clarke where they were sitting at the front of the bleachers. The blonde had convinced him to tag along so she wouldn’t have to go alone.
He was right, normally she wouldn’t be caught dead at a sports event; it just wasn’t her thing. However she found herself cheering on her school team the second the adversaries had scored their goal, she was too invested in this game and knew there was no way she was leaving now as she saw Lexa step up on to the field and take her position as a forward.
“Shushhh, it’s starting back wells. You can go if you want to I won’t mind I promise” she said without looking back at him.
“it’s fine, I’ll stay” Clarke thinks she heard him say as she stood up and shouted, “LEXA” Clarke was too excited to see the brunette playing, for her to worry about being weird at the moment.
Thankfully Lexa heard her and looked around spotting her and flashing the blonde one of her biggest smiles. Clarke felt her face flush wow it must be cold. She sat down as the game started back.
It took a couple of minutes, but from the moment Lexa was able to get the ball, she looked at Bellamy and the whole game changed. The two worked together like thunder and lightning, the ball was going from one to the other in a blur and none of the other players, including their teammates, could keep up. It was amazing Clarke thought as she held on to the edge of her seat. Moments later the whole crowd lit up as Lexa ran towards the left side of the field and kicked the ball high enough for Bellamy to only be able to head the ball right into the opponents net.
“YESSSSSS” Clarke’s shout was barely heard over the sound of the roaring crowd. She saw the dynamic duo congratulate each other with a pat on the back as if what they had just done wasn’t completely amazing; because it wasn’t over, they still needed to score at least a goal in order to win. And they did.
With their combined efforts, Bellamy was able to score one more goal, and Lexa ended the game by scoring 2 more within the last 4 minutes of the match.
The supporters were on their feet the second the final whistle blew, running towards the field and lifting the duo high up on to their shoulders. It was madness.
Polis high was never known for the best soccer team, their last season was embarrassing to say the least, they had won a single match over the course of the season and that was only because the team they were up against had gotten disqualified for cheating.
Clarke stood back with a smile on her face watching as Lexa celebrated with everyone. Suddenly she found herself thinking “what am i was doing here?”. She didn’t belong here, not really. She felt like an outsider. She was brought back to reality by a tap on her shoulder.
“Clarke, come on we can go now, please” wells looked at her pleadingly. It was obvious how much he didn’t want to be there and had only stayed for her.
“Yeah, let’s go” Clarke agreed rapidly.
Clarke glanced one more time at the soccer field before following Wells out, towards the buses that would take them home.
Lexa was ecstatic; her dream had just come true. Sure it wasn’t the most important match but for the brunette, this meant everything. It meant, that everyone would finally accept her as a real member of the team, that they would respect and appreciate her and now, she could start focusing on bettering herself and moving forward to greater things.
She looked around at the masses of supporters around her and Bellamy, cheering in celebration to their phenomenal performance; she was overwhelmed by it all. Suddenly she remembered seeing the blonde at the start of her run, as she turned around to where she knew Clarke should be, she felt an unexpected sadness wash over her when she only saw a glimpse of blonde heading off in the direction of the parking lot. Not knowing what came over her; she maneuvered her way out of the crowd and ran straight to the buses.
She caught Clarke just as she was stepping onto one of the buses, with a guy she’d never seen before, right behind her.
“CLARKE, WAIT” Lexa practically shouted. The unsuspecting blonde whipped around at the sound of her name being called.
“LEXA? What are you doing here?” the blonde replied looking confused.
“Well I saw you leave, and I wanted to know if you’d wanna come to the celebration party Bellamy is throwing at his house tonight” Lexa blurted out. She hadn’t exactly planned on saying that but she found herself wanting to spend more time with Clarke, and that was the first thing that came to her mind.
“Me? Why?” the blonde was completly confused by now.
“Well it’s a party, all the team’s gonna be there and they invited their friends, and we’re friends … right? You can even bring your friend with you” Lexa gestured to wells.
The blonde looked unsure, so Lexa continued more confidently “come on it’ll be fun, I promise” she finished flashing her a wide grin.
The blonde still couldn’t understand why Lexa would possibly want her to be there but she found herself seriously considering going. Her parents wouldn’t be a problem they were practically begging her to go out these days. However looking at wells she knew that all he wanted right now was to go home; yet what she didn’t know was that the young man would probably go to the ends of the earth for her, so when she asked him if he wanted to go, to her surprise he immediately nodded.
“I guess we’ll be there then” Clarke said, still unsure this was actually happening.
“GREAT, um it starts at like 9. Give me your number, I’ll send you the address” it came off as more of a question and Lexa internally smacked herself. She didn’t know what it was about the blonde that made her a bumbling mess but she hated it.
“Yeah, okay” Clarke gave the girl her number.
“Well, I’ll see you tonight then”
“Yeah, tonight” Clarke smiled and stepped up onto the bus with wells, to go home and get prepared. This should be an interesting night.