The party
Clarke took a look around. The party had only been going on for a couple of hours and her head was already spinning. She smiled and heard Bellamy laughing
"Rae" he put his arm around her shoulders and pointed at Clarke "she's drunk"
"No, I'm not" she replied, trying to put a serious expression on her face and failing miserably
Raven laughed as she got herself another drink "I love drunk Clarke."
Suddenly, the music changed and Justin Bieber's Let me love you started playing. Clarke yelled and grabbed Bellamy's arm enthusiastically
"DUDE, THAT'S OUR SONG"
She dragged him to the center of the room while Raven rolled her eyes. They always made the same choreography with that song, and Monty had played it on purpose. He smiled from his corner of the room and Raven sighed, yet she took out her phone. She had to record that performance.
Clarke and Bellamy started slow-dancing for about three seconds before they looked like they were going to kiss, moment when Bellamy dramatically pushed her away and clutched his chest with a painful expression on his face. Clarke looked surprised and about to cry while he kept walking away in slow-motion. When the chorus came back though, she grabbed him by the arm and pulled him close so they could slow-dance again. Then she was the one to walk away, leaving Bellamy over-acting his fake heartbreak.
Monty and Jasper, as well as the other people they knew cheered them while the rest stared without knowing whether to laugh or cry when the grotesque performance escalated to the point of them fake kissing and proposing to each other when the song came to its end.
"Thank you, New York!" Bellamy saluted their audience, Clarke laughing by his side.
On the other side of the room, Octavia dropped on the sofa, exhausted after dancing non-stop for hours on her less than comfortable shoes. Lexa sat as well, half on her lap, half on the sofa
Octavia softly pushed her aside, but Lexa leaned into her
*She doesn't like me*
Octavia narrowed her eyes, trying to focus on Lexa's moving hands. She grabbed Lexa's jaw and turned her face towards her, pointing at her lips and speaking slowly while trying to sign at the same time, not sure of her ability to do so in her current state
"I know you prefer to sign, but please talk," she pointed at Lexa's mouth this time "cos I'm kinda drunk and I don't think I'm gonna understand"
Lexa sighed "Veronica doesn't like me" she pouted and pointed at the girl, who was flirting with a tall, dark haired boy "she has a boyfriend."
Octavia looked at the girl disgusted and then back to Lexa "You know what? You're way too pretty for her. And smart. And nice. And pretty."
"You said pretty twice" Lexa hesitantly smiled
Octavia shrugged "That's why you're too smart" and began tickling her, and didn't stop until they were both crying from laughter and gasping for air. Lexa kissed Octavia's cheek
"And this is why you're my best friend"
When she looked back at the improvised dance floor without noticing the expression on Octavia's face, Lexa raised an eyebrow. Lincoln was staring intensely at both of them, and approached them after a while. He half-smiled while making a reverence
"Milady, may I invite you to join me on the dance floor?"
Lexa laughed when Octavia looked confused
"O, you gonna stay here all night or come back to dance?" He said smiling widely
Octavia stood up and was headed towards the dance floor when she turned around
"You not coming, Lex?"
Lexa stood up walking the opposite way
*Gotta pee*
Octavia nodded and ran back to the dance floor, dancing to Rihanna's Work as if her very life depended on it. Lexa walked a few more steps before realising she had no idea where the toilets were. Great. She'd have to explore.
The place was so crowded it was impossible to find anything, so she decided to go upstairs. She hesitated, but decided not to open any closed doors, just in case, and kept searching until she saw a blonde girl knocking at a door and slurring something she couldn't figure out, but she supposed was rushing whoever was inside. Lexa was about to ask the girl if she knew whether there were other bathrooms when the blonde turned around and they saw each other's faces.
"Oh, shit" Clarke bit her bottom lip nervously "Shit shit shit. You're the deaf girl."
Lexa raised an eyebrow.
"I..." Clarke pointed at herself "I don't know if you can, like, do the lip-reading thingy, but, um...Sorry, I was an asshole the other day."
Lexa rolled her eyes and nodded, crossing her arms
"I..." Clarke knocked again at the door, obviously uncomfortable with the situation "I mean, it's not like there's nothing wrong with being deaf or anything, like, for me it would be terrible going deaf cos I play the violin, but it's not like a thing that limits you or anything, I just thought you were being rude and like, I was going to be late for class, and, shit, I obviously didn't know you were deaf or I wouldn't have said that, cos it was like offensive, not like it's a negative thing, but I..."
"Shut up" Lexa sighed
"WHOA. You can talk?" Clarke's eyes flew wide open. Lexa nodded and knocked at the door. Whoever was in there was taking quite a long time. She was about to knock again when Clarke stopped her. Anger showed on Lexa's face before Clarke spoke again, this time trying to vocalise and exaggeratedly gesturing to try and make it easier for Lexa to understand her
"Yeah, so...Um you can't hear it, but, um, they're" she made a quite obscene gesture with her hands "inside there"
Lexa sighed again, sat on the floor and kept drinking. She had no idea of how much she'd had to drink, and she honestly didn't care. Her night couldn't probably get any worse.