Renting happiness

With this kind of mindset she is heading to Clarke’s apartment after work. She walks up the stairs to her flat and rings the doorbell. Lexa hears loud music from the inside, so she rings again and again until the music stops and she is hearing someone walking up to the door. The door opens and the half of Clarke’s face appears behind it.

“Lexa? Why are you here? Don’t you have to work or something?” she says and tries to close the door again but Lexa puts her hand on the door to push it open.

“Please Clarke, let me talk to you about everything that happened. Let me explain it to you. I will tell you everything.” the brunette begs.

Clarke just sighs but opens the door so Lexa can come in. Clarke walks up to her couch and sits down looking at her girlfriend with a pretty pissed off face. Lexa sits down as well and looks into these blue eyes she loves so much.

“Clarke, I am sorry for what happened today and how I handled it. I just didn’t know what to do. I haven’t seen her in years. I didn’t even know she was still in town. Can you forgive me for being so foolish and for not telling you everything?” Lexa asks with a broken voice.

“Of course I do Lexa.” Clarke says softly as she looks into the brunette’s face. Lexa just smiles and kisses Clarke very gently.

“Okay so, now I want to know what actually happened with you and Costia. If we hadn’t been in public I would have been worried that she might just takes out a knife and stabs both of us while laughing manically.” Clarke says.

“Well, it’s been like 1 or 2 since the last time I actually saw her and that was right after our breakup. It was a pretty bad one, the kinds of breakup that always show you how not to do it. She was my girlfriend for a few months until I met this other girl that I liked very much. It all started as something very innocent but after while I realised that I liked her better than Costia. Things got out of control and I had sex with her one night as both of us were very drunk. So, after all of this went down I went to Costia’s place to talk to her and found her in bed with that very girl that I liked and had sex with. You can imagine how confused I was. As I confronted Costia with it she said that her cheating didn’t even matter because I cheated on her first, so we were even.” Lexa tells Clarke who is listening with a very stern face.

“Oh wow, that is a horrible thing to say.” Clarke says.

“Yeah, it took me a long time to get over that and it was even harder for me because Costia just wouldn’t leave me alone. She wanted me to take her back and everything. I refused in the beginning, told her to stay away from me but she didn’t. So I gave her another chance. The second time was worse than the first, she really acted like she was in love with me. I gave her lots of presents, took her to parties, paid for all her expensive clothes just to be cheated on again.” Lexa says trying not to think of how painful all of that was for her."

“Are you kidding me? You gave her everything and she still cheated on you? I mean I thought she was a bitch before but now she really seems to be a horrible person.” Clarke says very shocked.

“Yeah, that’s what I think too. So of course after all of that I broke up with her for good that time but she has been trying to manipulate all my relationships that came after this. It was never obvious but I knew it was her. She tried to convince them that I was a horrible cheater and wouldn’t want them anymore after while which is not true. I made a mistake I admit that but I was willing to tell her the truth and we would have worked around it. I never meant to hurt anybody.” Lexa stops talking because her voice starts to get shaky and her eyes fill with tears. Clarke gets closer to her girlfriend and lays her arm around her shoulders.

“This time of your life is over Lexa and it will never be like that again. I would never do these things to you and I would never believe Costia when she says those things. This bitch comes my way again I will fight her, so that she will think twice about it next time before she plays someone like this again.” Clarke says. Lexa smiles at that and wipes her tears away.

“You are amazing Clarke.” She says and kisses her trying to show her all the love she has for her in her heart. Clarke is kissing her back and almost immediately bites Lexa’s lip while she is pulling her closer. Lexa moans and pushes Clarke onto the couch and gets on top of you still kissing her passionately.

“Ugh Lexa I missed you so much.” Clarke whispers as she is grinding her hip against Lexa’s.

“I missed you too baby.” Lexa replies.

After they are done and lay sweating next to each other on the couch, Clarke is turning to Lexa and asks

“Why don’t you spend the night here? It is pretty late to drive home again and you can have one of my shirts for sleeping.”

Lexa smiles and kisses her again “I’d love to.”

“Awesome! Then it’s a sleepover!” Clarke cheers, gets up and walks into her room to get Lexa some comfy clothes. “I hope you’re okay with one of my fandom shirts.” Clarke says as she hands Lexa a shirt where “Mrs. Daryl Dixon” is written on it with some blood stains around it.

“What kind of fandom is that supposed to be?” Lexa asks confused.

“The Walking Dead silly! I totally have to binch watch all of my favourite shows with you.” Clarke rants while Lexa is changing.

They are spending the evening together and watch some of Clarke’s favourite movies, which Lexa has never seen because she is not really into most movies, but she likes the one that Clarke showed her. When it is time to sleep they both cuddle in Clarke’s tiny bed and Lexa falls asleep still asking herself how she could get this lucky.

A weird noise is waking Lexa in the early morning. It wasn’t even really bright outside as she opens her eyes. What was that weird noise? After a few seconds she realised that it was her phone. Who the hell was calling her that early? Don’t these people know that she needs to sleep as well at some point? She gets up without disturbing Clarke and looks at her phone. Within a second she was wide awake. She has over 30 missed calls and 6 messages from her secretary showing on her screen. What happened? Lexa looked at Clarke making sure she was still asleep and walked into the other room, so she could call her secretary.

"What is so damn important that you need to call me at like 5 in the morning?” Lexa asks aggravated as soon as she picks up the phone.

“Ms. Woodson I am so sorry but hell is breaking out here. I’ve been sitting here all night trying to get rid of all the journalists and tabloids that call your office non-stop.” her secretary explains in an almost crying voice.

“What are you talking about? Why would journalists try to call my office?” Lexa asks confused.

“You don’t know about it? There were lots of articles published about you in almost every famous tabloid magazine online.” the secretary explains.

All the colour disappears out of Lexa’s face and she hangs up the phone to get online immediately. She didn’t lie, no matter on what tabloid website she goes, all she sees is pictures of her and Clarke from the charity event and ball with the caption “Is the successful Lexa Woodson really dating a prostitute?” She reads quickly all the articles and in all of them they say that Clarke works as a prostitute and that Lexa probably cannot bond with ‘normal’ women anymore after the horrible break-up with her ex-girlfriend Costia.

“You got to be fucking kidding me!” Lexa said out loud as she read that. There it was again, Costia still tries to manipulate her life but Lexa never thought that she would go that far.

“Lexa…? What is the matter?” Clarke is standing in the door still looking very sleepy.

Lexa doesn’t answer and just shows Clarke her phone so she can see for herself. She needs to think of what to do, of course did Costia think that she was clever telling all these lies about her. But Lexa is planning on turning it around, she just doesn’t know how yet.

“What the actual fuck?!” Clarke yells as she is finished reading the article. “This has to be some fucking joke. I am not a prostitute! What the fuck is this bitch thinking? I will end her god damn life!” Clarke continues to yell.

Lexa just sits down and buries her face in her hands saying “I am so sorry Clarke. I never wanted this to happen.” Clarke sits next to her and puts her hand on her thigh.

“Don’t worry about it Lexa we will find a way out of this. I know we will.” Clarke assures her.

“Thank you very much.” the brunette says before both women start to discuss what would be the smartest thing to do now in this situation.