Chapter 15
Lexa watches Clarke go inside of the classroom and cannot hide the big smile on her face as she is walking back to her car. She feels very confident now and is sure that things are going to turn out to be okay. She just knows it. As she arrives at her office, her secretary was on the phone with someone but hangs up immediately as she sees her.
“Oh Ms. Woodson, I am instructed to remind you of the video statement that should broadcast today.”
“Damn it! Was that today? I totally forgot about that. Thank you very much Laura, I will call my PR director immediately.” Lexa answers and disappears in her office.
She calls the PR team and they tell her that everything is pretty much prepared. Lexa takes a last look over her statement, she wrote herself. Doesn’t look too bad, let’s hope she doesn’t stutter or anything. She takes the elevator to go to the 8th floor where a make-up team is already waiting for her.
“Really? Is that necessary?” Lexa asks annoyed. She hates it when people tell her to wear make-up.
“Yes Ms. Woodson it’s really essential that you look flawless today. I mean, you do every day but now we have to put some more effort into it than usual.” One of the make-up artists says and he takes Lexa’s laugh as an agreement, so they get to work.
Fortunately the make-up isn’t very obvious. It just makes her eyes seem a little darker and her eye lashes longer, not so bad after all. Like 20 minutes later she is sitting at a desk, a camera directed at her face and her statement on a sheet of paper laying in front of her. She is ready to do this with the hope that all the accusations are finally going to stop. Lots of people wearing headphones are talking rapidly with each other until one of them holds up a hand and counts down from five to one. Lexa sees the little red light on the camera go on and knows she is live now. She tenses up her whole body as she starts to speak.
“Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is Lexa Woodson and I am the CEO of Woodson Corporate. The way you might associate my name is with the many headlines that appeared in several tabloid magazines about me and a woman named Clarke Griffin. I am speaking here to you to tell the truth. Yes, I am dating a woman with the name Clarke Griffin but she is not, or ever was, a prostitute. These accusations have been spread by Costia Chase, who is indeed an ex girlfriend of mine. I am no longer attached to this woman nor do I have any further romantic interactions with this person. I do not want to do any harm to Ms. Chase but her attempts to negatively influence my private life have forced me to take actions against her.” Lexa paused for a few seconds, looking at the next lines of her statement but she doesn’t think that they would truly express what she really wants to say. So, she pushes her sheets aside and notices the PR Team exchanging worried looks and whispers, but this is how she wants to do it because she knows it is going to convince the people more than coldly spoken words.
So she continues “But I don’t think that these formalities are going to be sufficient in this situation. I want you all to look at me as somebody who has a deep emotional world even though it cannot be seen often. Clarke Griffin is the woman I truly love and our relationship is based on mutual respect for each other. She is someone I couldn’t live without, she is cheerful, kind and smart. She is the one thing that keeps me going. If you all look into your hearts you will find this exact same feeling for someone you used to love or still love. It is important that we should look beyond all these labels but rather find a way to stand together as one. The games that women play to put each other down or to make them feel better about themselves even though other people are suffering is not the right way to act on our feelings. This is not who we are and I believe that we can do better than that. Let’s not believe in hate. Let us believe in something that will conquer hate and that will always bring out the best in us. Let love win.”
As Lexa speaks these sentences she can feel how her eyes fill more and more with tears but she tries to hold them back. The red light on the camera goes out and she starts to blink very often to get rid of the blurry vision.
Everything in the room is quiet as Lexa gets up and says “I hope it was all to your expectations. Thank you very much for doing this for me ladies and gentlemen.” She knows that she has just shown everyone a side of herself that she has been trying to hide. She always thought that an emotionless attitude will give people the impression that she is not dominated by fears or personal interests. But since she met Clarke everything in her feels warmer and she doesn’t have such a hard time anymore to show who she truly is. She thinks this is the best way to live her life from now on. Just being happy and don’t having to feel guilty about it. Her phone starts to ring and she picks it up only hearing sobbing at the other end.
“Hello?” Lexa asks confused.
“Lexa… I just saw your broadcast. Oh my god it was so beautiful. I love you so much. You are the best person on this planet.” Clarke cries.
The brunette is secretly smiling as she says “I am happy you liked it. I spoke right from the heart. This is going to show people that I truly love you Clarke.” Clarke is still not able to answer because she is blowing her nose loudly at the moment.
“Thank you Lexa, thank you for believing in us.” The blonde says with a heavy hiccup.
“Of course princess, I’d do anything for us. Thank you very much for calling me. I will come by your apartment after work and we can have dinner together.” Lexa replies.
“I’d love that.” Clarke says before they say goodbye and hang up the phone.
Lexa is sure now that things are going to get better and deep inside of her she really thinks that Clarke is the one she wants to marry one day.