Chapter 1
**Clarkes POV**
There was a knock on the door. Clarke couldn’t help but sigh as she put her paint brush down for the fourth time in what felt like ten minutes. She stood and walk to her room door, she took a deep breathe in before opening the door, putting on a perfect fake smile.
“What’s up Luna?”
“Hey sorry, where are the scissors?”
Clarke walked around her and into the kitchen to the same drawer she had just shown her earlier which held knives and scissors. She grabbed the scissors and turned passing them to Luna who looked slightly embarrassed.
“I should have looked there, sorry again.” Clarke just nodded and went to walk back to her room when Luna stopped her.
“Hey want to keep me company while I unpack?” Clarke couldn’t help but glance quickly towards her room where her painting was waiting for her. Her hand itched paint, she clenched and unclenched it, looking at Luna who was watching her.
She nodded her head slightly, if she wanted this living arrangement to work she would have to try, and she needed it to work.
Luna smiled brightly, she did her best to return it but wasn’t sure if she succeeded or not. She followed her into her room where Luna pointed for her to sit on the bed, which was more than half covered in things. Clarke pushed some of the things to the side to make room for herself.
She watched silently as Luna returned to unpacking, they didn’t talk which made her wonder why she wasn’t getting work done. She needed to finish enough pieces for her gallery opening in a few weeks. Right when she was contemplating her get away Luna interrupted her thoughts.
“So I never asked, what happened to your last roommate? I mean there’s no dead body hidden anywhere right?”
Clarke couldn’t help but grimace at the question, she had been hoping to avoid this. Luna looked at her expectantly though and it was a genuine question. She let out a sigh deciding to tell her the truth.
“I have lived here for about a year, my college boyfriend and I got it together our senior year. He recently decided that he wasn’t a one woman kind of guy so he had to move out.”
She watched as Lunas eyes widened, but what she hated was the look of sadness on her face. The look that said poor Clarke couldn’t keep her man.
She shook her head, she knew that wasn’t how most people saw it, but she couldn’t help but let that be the first thought in her mind when she told someone.
“Well good riddance to the asshole!”
Clarke couldn’t help but let out her first genuine smile towards Luna. “Thanks.”
“No seriously, you are hot! If I didn’t have a girlfriend I’d totally be hitting on you right now.” Lunas eyes widened at her own words and her cheeks flushed. “I mean umm, can you take that in a non-creepy way?”
Clarke let out a laugh watching as Luna began rubbing her face with her hands in embarrassment. “Don’t worry, I take it as a compliment.”
Luna just nodded her head and tried to focus back in on packing, Clarke watched her for a moment, she was pretty, with big auburn hair, dominant eyebrows and pretty brown eyes.
“So what brings you to the big apple Luna?”
Clarke noticed the smile the question brought to her face.
“My girlfriend got into Columbia for grad school, I didn’t want to say goodbye to her you know? Long distance just doesn’t work. So when I started asking around about apartments and Octavia told me she knew someone who needed a roommate I knew it was meant to be.”
Clarke nodded understanding, she didn’t like the idea of long distance relationships either.
“How long have you guys been together?”
Luna looked at her and began blushing again which made Clarke raise an eyebrow in question.
“You are going to think I’m crazy.”
Clarke shrugged, “Maybe but who I am to judge you?”
Luna smiled before she began explaining. “We didn’t meet until our last semester senior year, I had seen her around before, I mean how couldn’t I? She’s literally the prettiest girl ever, and that’s my unbiased opinion trust me.”
Clarke let out a laugh, “Yeah you sound completely unbiased.”
Luna just shrugged, you won’t understand until you meet her,” She picked her phone up looked at the screen and sighed putting it back down.
Clarke watched her, she couldn’t remember what it felt like to be excited by a text or phone call from someone, or disappointed when she got neither.
“Seems like she’s always busy though. I mean, if your significant other moved to a new city to be with you wouldn’t you at least text them back in a timely manner?”
Clarke put her hands up in surrender, “I don’t think I should be the person you ask for relationship advice from.”
Luna just smiled and shook her head.
“Why didn’t you just move in with her?”
“She likes to take things slow, I don’t want to push her too far you know?”
“Right you haven’t told me how long you guys have been together.”
Luna gave a small laugh, “Sorry got distracted, we have been together almost five months.”
Clarke put every ounce of strength she had into not making any kind of face, while her mind was thinking that was completely insane, she didn’t care how pretty this girl was according to Luna, you don’t change your entire life for one person especially in that short amount of time. It was completely insane.
She didn’t do anything but nod her head in acknowledgment.
Luna laughed, “I can see how crazy you think I am Clarke, it’s okay, I’m in love and love makes you do crazy things.”
“I wouldn’t know.”
“Have you never been in love?”
Clarke shrugged her shoulders and looked up at the ceiling. “I thought I was in love with Finn but it couldn’t have been. At least I hope not because if that’s really what love is then life sucks more than I thought. I mean love, real love it should be amazing it should feel amazing, it should be everything shouldn’t it? Finn wasn’t everything.”
She looked down to see Luna watching her, “Then it wasn’t true love.”
“Do you think your girlfriend is your true love?”
Luna gave a small sad smile, “I think she is my true love, but she has to figure out if I’m hers or if she has already had hers.”
Clarke was curious about what that meant, it made Lunas girlfriend sound complicated, and complicated when it came to a relationship did not seem like a good thing. Before she could ask though Luna changed the topic of conversation.
“So, you and Octavia met in college?”
“Yeah, there were too many freshman so her, our friend Raven and I got forced into a triple. We have been inseparable since. You knew each other in high school?”
Luna nodded as she began folding clothes, “Yeah, we were never really close but she was pretty cool, maybe we can get close now.” She shrugged her shoulder, “I could use more friends here, you know? Make the transition easier.”
Clarke nodded, she was originally from the city but the idea of going somewhere new and basically alone scared the crap out of her.
“I always thought her brother was hot but don’t tell her that.”
She laughed and just shook her head.
She looked around the room before standing, “I have to get back to work Luna, it was nice talking to you.”
Luna gave her a small smile, “Thanks for keeping me company for a bit.” Clarke nodded before walking out of the room and closing the door behind herself.
When she got to her room she laid back on her bed, glancing over at the blank canvas she had been staring at before Luna interrupted her. She hadn’t been able to make anything good in a while. She needed some kind of inspiration and soon.