Chapter 2
She glanced down at her phone as it buzzed again reminding her to check her text messages, she ignored it again and went back to reading the assignment on her computer.
“Your phone is driving me crazy.” She looked up and stuck her tongue out, but grabbed her phone anyway.
Luna: Are you busy tonight?
Luna: I really want to see you.
She looked from her computer back down to the phone with a frown on her face, she couldn’t see her tonight she had too much work to do.
“Is it Luna?” She simply nodded in response.
“You haven’t seen her yet.”
“No.”
She didn’t look up she knew the face he would have.
“Lexa, your girlfriend moves to the city to be with you and you couldn’t even see her the day she moved in?”
“Lincoln, we have an exam in the morning, shut up.”
When she looked at him he was just shaking his head at her, “You could have spared an hour.”
“I haven’t spared fifteen minutes to eat and neither have you. I will see her tomorrow. I just need to focus right now.”
She picked up her phone trying to think of the best way to let her down, Luna was sensitive sometimes.
Lexa: I can’t tonight L I miss you. 2mm for sure.
Luna: You are lucky I like you so much
Lexa: I am
She put her phone in her pocket and stared at her computer without actually reading anything.
“I can’t, I need something to eat Lex.”
“Then eat something.” She didn’t look up.
“We have nothing to eat.”
“That’s because you ate everything.”
She was waiting for Lincoln to respond when she got knocked in the head with a throw pillow.
“Lincoln! For Christ sake I should have moved in with Luna!”
He was standing bent over clutching his stomach in laughter, she just huffed and placed the pillow behind her back, he was so annoying sometimes. Yet she couldn’t stop the small smile that came to her face from the sound of his laughter.
When he finally calmed down he watched her a moment, she could feel his eyes on her but did her best to avoid looking at him. She felt the couch shift next to her but still refused to look.
“Lexa.” She ignored him.
“Lexa, we both know why you couldn’t live with Luna.”
Her head snapped up and her eyes went wide with surprise before she felt her anger rise.
“Don’t.”
“You have to tell her.”
“It will pass, I just need time, it’s nothing.”
“Lexa when she came to visit a couple of weeks ago, I had to wake you up from the couch so you could sneak into the bed before she woke up.”
She closed her computer and stood up but he gently grabbed her elbow to stop her from moving.
“Come on don’t be like this.”
She closed her eyes trying to calm herself down.
“I don’t want to talk about this.”
“Fine, come on, lets just order something in.”
“Order whatever, I need a minute, let me know when the food gets here.”
He nodded his head, and let go of her arm, she walked into her room closing the door behind her. She looked around quickly before laying herself down on the bed.
She didn’t want to think about this, she didn’t want to acknowledge how she couldn’t give Luna what she deserved, but she would do her best to try because Luna was a good person who cared for her so much.
She took her phone out of her pocket trying to decide what to do.
She sighed and clicked the face time button, it only rang a few times before there was an answer, there was moment of shifting around before she saw Lunas face.
“Hey babe, I thought you were studying?”
“I am, I just needed a quick break so decided to call you.”
Luna smiled brightly at that and she gave her a small smile in return. It was hard for her to be really happy, but Luna made it a little easier. Luna made her want to try, but it shouldn’t be that hard to be happy.
“How is the unpacking going?” Luna just sighed loudly in response, flipping the camera so Lexa was now looking at her room. Her bed was covered and so was almost all of the floor.
“So it isn’t going?”
Luna flipped the camera back to her face where she now had a pout, she looked cute.
“I’m trying it’s just a lot, maybe it’s a good thing you aren’t here, you would only distract me.”
Lexa laughed lightly, “I would not distract you!”
“Lex have you seen yourself? You are very distracting.” She couldn’t help but roll her eyes. “Seriously!”
“Okay Luna, how is the roommate?”
Luna lowered her voice when she started talking, “She seems nice, and she hasn’t yelled at me even though I’ve bothered her multiple times already, her name is Clarke.”
Lexa lowered her voice when she responded, “Why are we whispering?”
Luna let out a loud laugh making Lexa laugh with her. Sometimes Luna was enough, in these small moments she was what Lexa needed, it’s why she decided to really give her chance five months ago. If she could never truly be happy the way she once was she would take these small moments as they came as few and far between as they were.
“Oh I got a real laugh!”
Lexa just smiled and nodded in response.
“I love your real laugh.”
She didn’t know what to say to that so she said nothing as she watched Luna walk around her room moving things around and folding clothes.
She looked up when there was a knock on the door, “Yes?”
Lincoln opened the door and glanced in, “Dinner is here.” She nodded.
“Hey Lincoln!”
Lincolns eyes widened and he threw himself next to Lexa on her bed.
“Hey Luna! How’s it going?”
“Egh its going.”
“She’s lying she has barely gotten anything done.” Luna glared at her through the screen.
“She’s a liar!” Lincoln took the phone and moved away from her.
She heard a knock on a door through the phone, but Lincoln kept her phone out of her view and reach.
“Come in Clarke!”
“Hey, so tomorrow Octavia, Raven and I are going to a club, do you want to come?”
“Sounds fun, do you guys want to come too?”
“I’m in, Lexa?” She just nodded. “Lexas in.”
“Yay! It will be fun, Lincoln , Lex say hi to Clarke.”
Clarke must have looked at the screen because next thing she heard was, “Damn your cute, Lincoln is it?”
Lincoln laughed and gave Clarke his flirty grin. Ew.
“Yeah, see you guys tomorrow, we have to go now. Bye babe!” With that Lexa walked out of the room leaving it to Lincoln to hang up and follow her out.
She saw there was Chinese food on the kitchen table and began serving herself, she had sat down and was beginning to eat when Lincoln made it out of the room.
“Finished flirting with her roommate?”
“I wasn’t flirting, she’s hot though, but she’s blonde so not my type. I think you would like her.” Lexa just rolled her eyes and didn’t make a comment.
“Luna was sad she didn’t get to say goodbye to you by the way.”
“I yelled goodbye when I left,” She shrugged her shoulders.
“You know she didn’t see you and you didn’t see her, she wanted you to actually say hi to Clarke.”
She couldn’t help but roll her eyes again, “I will meet her in person tomorrow it’s no big deal.”
Lincoln just shook his head at her but she ignored him, it was no big deal, they would all see each other the next day. She would be the dutiful girlfriend and get to know Lunas roommate and her friends, hopefully it wouldn’t be too bad.