Chapter 10
PROMPT: Things you said on the phone at 4 AM.
“Clarke, it’s four in the morning,” Lexa whispers, inching away from Raven in the bed so as not to wake her. She rubs at her eyes and yawns as she presses the phone to her ear. “Is everything okay?”
“I can’t sleep.”
“Did you turn on the fan in the hotel?” Lexa asks. “You know the sound always helps you sleep.”
“It’s on,” Clarke tells her. “I just … I miss you.”
Lexa smiles sleepily and presses her face into her pillow. “It’s only three more days.” Yawning again, she adds, “But I know what you mean.”
“You miss me?”
“I do.”
“Wake Raven up.”
“Clarke, no,” Lexa says. “She stayed up late watching horror movies, and it took forever for her to go to sleep. She kept talking about spiders in the popcorn or something. I don’t know.”
Clarke groans into the phone. “Just wake her up,” she whines. “I need to hear both your voices or I’ll never be able to go to sleep.”
Sighing, Lexa rolls over. “Fine.” She scoots back across the mattress and wraps her free arm around Raven. “Raven,” she murmurs, squeezing Raven’s thigh and pressing light kisses to her shoulder.
“Mm,” Raven hums, pushing her ass back against Lexa. “That feels nice.”
“Wake up, Raven,” Lexa says, kissing her again. “Clarke is on the phone.”
“Clarke?” Raven mumbles, and Lexa can hear Clarke’s soft laughter through the phone. “Time is it?”
“Too early to be on the phone,” Lexa tells her, and Clarke snorts.
“Hey!” she hears her say. “Put me on speaker phone.”
Lexa does so, and Clarke’s voice comes through loud and clear a second later. “Sorry I woke you guys up.”
“S’okay,” Raven says, rolling over so that her forehead presses to Lexa’s and they are crowded around the phone where Lexa places it on the pillow. “You okay?”
“I can’t sleep.”
“She misses us,” Lexa says, and Raven gives a sleepy smile.
“We miss you too, babe.”
“You think you can sleep now?” Lexa asks Clarke. “Since our voices are so soothing?”
“Your voices are soothing, and it definitely helps.”
“Go to sleep,” Raven tells her. “We’ll call you in the morning.”
“We love you,” Lexa adds, and they hear a soft sigh from Clarke’s end.
“I love you too.”