The Sleepover
Clarke's POV
It’s been three weeks since Lexa Woods smashed my face with a door and not much has gotten better. I’ve been eating lunch with the group everyday and I feel bad for the rest of the group who have to listen to me and Lexa bicker. The first day it was because she kept hitting on me, but now she seems to hate me just as much as I hate her. I try to be the bigger person but she is just so damn frustrating.
The rest of the group is great though...well minus Finn. He’s another one who won’t stop staring at my chest. At least he doesn’t make my blood boil. One thing I have to say about Lexa is that once she realized I wasn’t interested in her romantically, she stopped hitting on me. But Finn. He just keeps staring at me and it’s getting kind of annoying.
Octavia and I have fallen back into our old cycle. After school, I go over her house and we do homework and hangout. I’ve told her about my life in L.A. and she’s filled me in on life in Polis. Bellamy still lives at home so I even get to see him. I’ve missed them. The Blake house was like my home away from home.
It’s Friday night and I’m sleeping over Octavia’s. We were going to do a little movie marathon until Lexa texted her and asked what she was doing. Then Octavia decided to extended the girl’s night invite to Lexa and Laurel. I don’t mind Laurel coming here. The older Woods sister has been nothing but friendly to me. Regrettably, we haven’t had much time to talk. We only have Calculus together and she has a different lunch period than us. Still though, I have a feeling we could become good friends. Lexa, on the other hand, is a whole other story.
“You don’t mind that Lexa will be here right Clarkey?” Octavia asks as she finishes painting my nails. Of course I mind, but Octavia is my best friend. I never met anyone in L.A. that I got closer with than Octavia, except maybe Raven. So for Octavia, I’ll play nice with Lexa... or at least I’ll try to.
“As long as she behaves, I’ll be nice to her.” I say and I really do mean it. I won’t start with Lexa if she won’t start with me.
“You two are something else. I’ve never seen Lexa get so heated. She’s usually pretty laid back.” Octavia says with a glint in her eye.
“Yeah well I guess hate can do that to a person.” I mumble.
“Yeah something like that.” Octavia says mischievously with a smile on her face. I narrow my eyes at her but no matter how much I ask her what she means, she won’t tell me. Ugh, this is going to be a long night.
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Lexa gets here and I found my mouth watering. It’s still hot outside so she’s wearing a crop top that shows off her abs and her arms. I may hate Lexa Woods but I can’t stop my body from reacting to her. I school my face before she sees my reaction and she saunters in with that same shit eating grin that I hate. Behind her is Laurel. Sweet Laurel with a book in her hand and her overnight bag.
“Where’s your dufflebag Woods?” Octavia calls out.
“Didn’t bring one. I usually sleep nude anyways. Hey Griffin, mind if I share a sleeping bag with you? I promise I won’t bite unless you’re into that sort of thing.” Lexa teased and I just rolled my eyes. At this point, I knew she was just kidding. Lexa wasn’t pushy about her advances like Finn.
“Oh Lexa, shut it. We shared a duffle bag.” Laurel rolls her eyes and playfully pushes her younger sister who just shrugs with a smirk on her face.
“Offer still stands Griffin.” Lexa calls out and winks at me, plopping down on the opposite couch.
“If I ever wanted to contract something, you’ll be the first person I will call. Until then, it’s a hard pass for me.” I call back, joking of course. I might not like Lexa too much, but we both can tell when we are fighting and when we are teasing each other. This is one of those rare times where we are teasing.
Laurel snorts out a laugh and Lexa pouts. “Are you slut shaming me?” Lexa mocks offense. “Why Miss Griffin? How could you?” I’m about to sass her back until Octavia cuts me off.
“Alright enough you two. We are going to have a nice sleepover so that means separating you two. Laurel, you sit on the couch with Clarkey. And I’ll sit on the other couch with Lexie here.” Octavia calls out from the kitchen, as she walks in with a bunch of snacks.
“Let me help you with that.” Laurel comes to Octavia’s rescue and grabs the popcorn bowl and pop tarts from her struggling hands.
“Thank you. At least one of the Woods has manners.” Octavia jokes, sticking her tongue out at Lexa.
“Hey! Why is everyone picking on me?” Lexa grumbles out, snatching a pop tart from the box.
“Because you’re such an easy target.” I tease and Laurel snorts again. God, she’s such a dork. It’s so cute.
I look over at the older Woods and smile and she smiles back. I can hear Lexa grumbling about ‘just starting the movie already.’
We decide on ‘The 40 Year Old Virgin.’ It’s a fun time. I think me and Lexa are starting to get along better. Tonight we didn’t even fight, just some teasing all in good fun. Laurel kept mumbling little sarcastic comments during the movie. She’s much funnier than I thought she would be. Octavia had to shush us a few times. From the corner of my eye, I see Lexa staring at us with a scowl on her face. I’m not sure why but she looked like she was sulking a bit.
“How about we liven this party up a bit?” Octavia asks and Lexa enthusiastically nods.
“And how would we do that?” I dumbly ask.
“Well I have a bottle of tequila in my room.” Octavia whispers, making sure her mom who just went into the kitchen can’t hear her.
We all say sure and make our way upstairs. Somehow I wind up sitting on the floor next to Lexa. She smells really nice..like apricots maybe. She rolls her eyes when she plops down next to me and complains about how this is the only seat left. It’s true. Laurel is already next to Octavia on the other side of the room.
“So shots?” Lexa asks and Octavia smirks. The younger Blake pulls out a couple of shot glasses from her bottom drawer and locks her door.
“To old friends and new ones.” Lexa says loud and cheery, staring right at me. I smile at her fondly. A warm sensation fills me chest and it’s not from the alcohol. Maybe Lexa is just like Lincoln said..half asshole, half this amazing wonderful beautiful girl with a heart of gold. Ok, maybe he didn’t say exactly that.
“Oh and to good sex of course.” She adds in and I almost choke on my tequila. Everyone laughs including me. Lexa could be a good friend, nothing more of course. I don’t want to be another notch in her bedpost. But, friends...I can definitely live with seeing Lexa Woods annoying smirk a little bit more. That’ll just stay my little secret for the time being though.
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“So Clarkey, tell us about the hotties in L.A.” Four shots later, Octavia asks and I bit my lip and look over to Lexa and then Laurel. Laurel is staring at me, clearly interested in the question. Meanwhile, Lexa just grabs her phone and starts snapchatting some girl.
“Umm I mean there’s not much to tell.” I laugh awkwardly. There really isn’t. I didn’t really date much in L.A. Not many people were my type.
“Oh come on! Give us some details on your ex boytoys.” Octavia slurs a little.
“Well I dated this boy Wells for two months my freshman year.” I state shyly.
“Wow how cute. Did he like totally hold your hand? Two months, that’s basically forever.” Lexa says in a fake sickeningly sweet voice before going back to her phone. Ugh, why does this girl have to be so frustrating?!
“Lex.” Laurel lightly reprimands her sister before turning her eyes back to me. “Continue Clarke..but only if you’re comfortable.” She smiles gently at me and I duck my head so she can’t see my blush.
“I mean other than that, there was this girl Niylah. We met the summer before my sophomore year. She was a senior at some public high school across the tracks. It was a casual summer fling that ended when she went to college that fall.” I say a little shaky. Octavia doesn’t know I’m bi. Nobody in Polis does, actually. Lexa always jokingly hits on me, but I don’t even think she realizes.
“Clarke, I didn’t realize you were into girls too.” Octavia says a little shocked but she’s still smiling.
“Too?” I say a little confused.
“Oh yeah I’m bi. When me and Lincoln broke up a couple months ago for a few weeks, I kissed this girl Mel at a party. We ended up making out a few times. I was always curious about girls even as a kid.”
“Yeah I remember you had this obsession with Sabrina from Sabrina the Teenage Witch.” I giggle, remembering how Octavia would always rave about how pretty Sabrina was.
“I actually forgot about that! Yeah, that was definitely my first crush on a girl and I didn’t even realize it.” Octavia laughs.
“What about you guys? When did you realize you weren’t straight?” Octavia looks around at all of us, including Laurel.
I gulp. I didn’t realize Laurel wasn’t straight. I mean I knew Lexa was gay. She’s very open about it. Laurel is a much more private person it seems.
“I must have been 15.” Laurel said with a smile on her face. “I just made out with my first boyfriend, Oliver Archibald. He was two years older and was very experienced with kissing. So it wasn’t necessarily a bad kiss. Still though, I realized in that moment that I wasn’t into guys. I actually ran away crying and Lexa found me in the barn an hour later. We ate ice cream and she stayed with me even though she hated the smell of the cows.” Laurel laughs and shakes her head.
“Aw, so what happened with Oliver?” I ask curiously. Lexa seems like a good sister, but I won’t tell her that.
“Well we split amicably. A few months later, I met this girl named Luna at a party. She lives in the town over. We dated for a bit and yeah the rest is history.” Laurel shrugs, a small little smile still present on her face.
“Ok, you’re up Woods.” I say and bump shoulders with Lexa playfully. She looks surprised that I initiated any form of contact with her. I think I see her blush a little, but I must just be imagining things.
“I’ve known for as long as I could remember. I didn’t come out until I was 14 though. Actually, a month after Laurel did. She kind of was my role model back then. She gave me the courage to love myself.” Lexa says quietly and rubs the nape of her neck.
Laurel reaches out and squeezes her sister’s hand. “I love you sis.”
“Love you too.” Lexa smiles and looks over unsurely at me. I can tell she feels vulnerable. I have a feeling that she doesn’t like feeling vulnerable. I’m starting to realize I don’t know a lot of the enigma in front of me that is Lexa Woods.
“Okay I love that we’re bonding through our mutual love for vaginas, but what do you say to pausing this convo and taking more shots?!” Octavia whisper yells and pours the liquid into the glasses for another round..or three. Oh what a night this has turned out to be.