Chapter 5
"Finn, long time no see. Why did you come here?"
"I came to see you, Princess." Clarke rolled her eyes at that nickname. "I heard you're pretty famous, so I wanted to see what's all of this is about. And now I can see, there's nothing special in your paintings."
"So maybe you should go and never come back if you don't like them."
"But honey, I came here for you." Finn laughed loudly. "Come back home with me and you'll never ever have to work again."
"And what? You think I want to show up at your parties so you will be able to show me as your trophy?"
"No, Clarke, you know it's not like that. I've changed." Finn raised his eyebrows and smiled but the blonde only rolled her eyes and turned around to go away, but Finn caught her arm and pulled her to himself.
"Finn, let go. Don't make a scene."
"But I missed you, you won't even give me a hug." He complained with a mock pout and this time Lexa rolled her eyes.
"I think you should go, Clarke made that obvious she doesn't want to talk to you."
"And who are you? Another 'friend' of my girlfriend? I should teach you both proper look of a relationship." He said through gritted teeth. "Maybe if you met a right guy with a nice d-" But he couldn't end what he wanted to say when a fist met his jaw and he stumbled backwards. He quickly recovered himself and looked around to see Clarke and Lexs walking away from him talking between themselves.
"Fucking bitch." He muttered to himself and exited the exhibition.
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Clarke took Lexa's hand and pulled her behind her to the nearest bathroom and threw herself at the brunette. It was their first hug and Clarke quietly wished it wasnt't the last too. In this hug she wanted to say thank you and all these words that cannot be spoken and fortunately, Lexa understood everything. She understood Clarke was thanking her, and understood the blonde wanted to be close to her in need of reassurance. So they stood there what felt like ages until very giggly and breathless Raven barged inside the bathroom.
"That. Was. Awesome!" She exclaimed and hugged both Clarke and Lexa. "And no one even noticed what happened! But they did notice you disappeared, so you should go back there." She pointer her thumb to the bathroom door and Clarke sighed.
"And how I'm supposed to have good mood after this? I won't sell any paintings."
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"You were saying something about not selling any paintings?"
"Oh god, stop. I didn't expect that, really."
"Well, you've sold everything. I think we can go get drunk."
"Sure we can."
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Clarke wasn't drunk so she could heard loud and clear the door to the bathroom opening. And then she heard familiar voice. When she exited the bathroom and went to wash her hands, she saw Niylah standing next to the washbasin. The girl smiled widely when she saw Clarke.
"Clarke, how nice to see you." She purred in delight but the blonde only rolled her eyes.
"What do you want, Niylah?"
"I've got a message for you."
"I don't care about your messages. Get out of my way." Clarke wanted to walk past Niylah, but the girl pudhed her back to the wall and the blonde hit her head with the groan. Then Niylah stepped closer to Clarke.
"Finn says he will visit your gallery soon. And he wants to be friends with Lexa." Nilah said sweetly and exited the bathroom. Clarke touched the back of her head and saw blood.
"Oh god, if this things will keep happening, I'll bleed out!" She groaned and exited the bathroom to find Lexa and Raven. When she told them what happened, Raven was filled with white rage and almost punched some guy who wanted to ask her to dance.
"It's too much, I'm tired of this moron. Can we please call the police? Two weeks ago he left the jail and now he wants to get back there."
"We can't Raven. You know he has the money and I'm sure almost half of the police officers are paid by him not to do anything."
"Plus, we don't have evidence." Lexa said and Raven rolled her eyes."
"I'm genius, I could think about something to show to the police."
"No, you won't. It's dangerous. And illegal. You will end in prison, not him. Did I mention it's dangerous and illegal? Promise me, Rae."
"Do I have to?"
"Yes."
"Really?" Raven whined.
"Yes, really. And your puppy eyes don't work on me, so stop it." "But Lexa's puppy eyes worked..." Raven whined once again and Clarke's eyes widened. "Okay, okay, I promise. Don't hurt me." She quickly said when Clarke was about to yell at her.
"Can we go home now? My head hurts." She touched the back of her head and winced in pain. It didn't go unnoticed by Lexa.
"Clarke, are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. I just want to go home." Then she swayed slightly and Lexa had to catch her so she wouldn't fall.
"I think we should take her to the hospital." Raven said with widened eyes. They took Clarke to the car and drove off towards the hospital. In the meantime the blonde started whining and complaining.
"Take me home, I don't wanna see my mother."
"I don't care. She will take good care of you."
"Lexa!" Clarke whined. "You were supposed to protect me, so protect me from my mum!"
"I can't Clarke. You're hurt so we're going to the hospital."
"Remind me, why did I want you to learn how to say no?" Clarke groaned but soon she noticed her whining and pleading wouldn't work so she accepted the fact she had to meet her mom at the hospital and nothing would have changed that. She was just hoping her hospital visit would go quickly and her mom wouldn't scold her too much.
"Clarke? What are you doing here?" Her mom quickly walked closer to the blonde and hugged her, looking at Raven's and Lexa's sad expressions.
"What happened?"
"Um... Clarke hit her head, and she says it's nothing, but we'd rather have her checked." Raven said sheepishly and doctor Griffin nodded her head.
"Okay, so you two can stay here and I will take Clarke to CT scan." Abby took whining Clarke to do a CT scan and Raven and Lexa stayed sitting in the waiting room. Clarke was sitting on the bed in one of the hospital rooms when her mother came in and smiled reassuringly.
"Everything is okay, it's just a light concussion so I'd like you to take a free day tomorrow and rest."
"Okay, I can do that. Anything else? I don't want you to stop from helping real patients here."
"Oh no, you didn't stop me. Everything is okay. I just wanted to ask, who is this beautiful girl who is here with you and Raven?"
"It's Lexa. She's Raven's friend and Raven asked me if I had a spare room for her. I had, so now she lives with me, because in Raven's house anything can explode, so I think it's safer this way."
"So she just lives with you or are you friends?" Abby was digging further and Clarke quickly noticed the real purpose of these questions.
"She's just my friend, mom. The fact I'm bi doesn't mean I have to hook up with every nice girl or boy near me." The blonde rolled her eyes and Abby just laughed at this.
"Clarke, honey, you know I care about you and I love you. I'm just concerned, it's been a long time since... You know who."
"I know. And I'm great on my own, I've got Raven and Lexa, I don't need a girlfriend. I'm fine, mom."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure."
"But you'd told me if anything was going on?"
"Yes mom, you will be the second person who wil know about my girlfriend or boyfriend."
"Second? I thought mother had privileges."
"Of course, but Raven says she's more important and I don't want her to make boom something in my apartment so I'm going to tell her first."
"Okay. Go on, go home to spend time with your friend, Lexa. But remember, I don't ant any grandchildren soon." She joked and exited the room. When Clarke walked into the waiting room, she saw Raven and Lexa watching something on Raven's phone and laughing their asses off.
"So I could be dead by now and you're watching stupid videos on youtube?"
"They're not stupid, these cats are hilarious!" Raven exclaimed through teras as she tried to calm down and stop laughing.
"Oh look, he jumped of off the table!" Lexa said and they got back to watching videos.
"Can we go home now?" "Sure, just don't look at us like you want to kill us."
"Maybe I do."
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"Clarke, you're tired, go to sleep."
"I can't. My mom told me to wait before going to bed and I will have all tomorrow to sleep."
"So you're going to sit here and yawn all the time?"
"No. I'm going to watch something on the TV. Watch with me?" Clarke made puppy eyes to Lexa and how could the brunette say no? After the movie Lexa tucked Clarke into the bed.
"Goodnight. Clarke."
"Night, Lexa." Before the brunette could reach the door, Clarke's sleepy voice stopped her.
"Oh, Lexa?"
"Yeah?"
"My mom thinks we're together."
"Together... How?"
"As girlfriends. So if she'll be asking weird questions, just tell her we're friends."
"Okay, go to sleep, goodnight."
"Hey Lexa?"
"Yeah?" The brunette rolled her eyes but stopped nonetheless to listen to Clarke.
"Thank you." The blonde mumbled and was already asleep before Lexa could respond.