Say something

Lexa gets two new messages but she knows if she doesn't respond to Anya quick enough she will get angry and Lexa does not want to deal with an angry Anya so she ignores them for now.

Lexa (11:24)
I can tell you that my roommate is not a creep and she has not done or said anything to hurt me and she won't. You don't have to worry, she is different.

Anya (11:24)
What does that mean?

Lexa's not entirely sure how to explain that without saying that Clarke is special and if she tells Anya that she'll just jump to conclusions and interrogate her about it for hours, she might even drive to Arkadia to find out for herself.

Lexa (11:27)
She is just different.

Anya (11:27)
Lexa don't be all secretive, you can tell me about her. 

'No, I really can't.' Lexa says to herself.

Lexa (11:28)
I really don't know enough about her to tell you right now. All I do know is that she is kind, caring and funny, she's nothing like the last two roommates.

Lexa receives a few more new messages but again she ignores them.

Anya (11:29)
Are you telling me that you and her are becoming friends?

Lexa (11:29)
I'm telling you that my roommate is a nice person, I'm also telling you that this conversation is over because it's almost noon and I haven't eaten yet.

Anya (11:30)
Fine, be like that but you know I will find out eventually and don't starve yourself, go eat.

Lexa (11:30)
I'm not starving myself, I had a lot of messages to reply to thanks to you so I couldn't get anything to eat yet.

Anya (11:31)
You know your phone is portable, right? You can use it while you're eating, technology truly is amazing.

Lexa  (11:31)
Ugh, bye.

Anya (11:32)
Bye little Lexi.

Lexa spends a few more minutes reading the other messages she got while she was talking to Anya. They all say pretty much the same thing, that Anya needs to stop jumping to conclusions so quickly and that they are sorry for doing so too but they are happy to hear that her new roommate is great. Alie adds to her message that her offer still stands for Lexa to call her if she ever needs to talk. Lexa thinks about how lucky she is to have such a caring family. By the time she's finally done replying to everyone it's just past noon and she is starving.

She decides that she'll go for a run after breakfast so she throws on her black basketball shorts and a grey tanktop.

She makes her way to the kitchen. When she enters the kitchen she finds Clarke cooking their breakfast, Raven sitting on the countertop, Octavia is standing between her legs with her back to her, Raven has her head resting on top of Octavia's head, her eyes are closed so Lexa thinks she's either asleep or exhausted.

"Hey Lex." Octavia is the first to greet her. Her eyes focus back on her phone after she does.

As soon as Octavia says her name Raven's eyes snap open. "Morning Woods."

Clarke turns to face Lexa with a beautiful smile on her face. "Hey, did you sleep alright?"

Lexa gives Clarke a smile that is just as beautiful and nods.

"Good. Breakfast will be ready soon." She turns back around to the frying pan.

"Damn Woods, you make shorts and a tank top look so hot." The other two girls look at Lexa.

Lexa turned red from embarrassment and looked at the floor.

Clarke hadn't noticed Lexa's outfit the first time she looked at her. As she looked at her she had to bite her own lip at the sight of Lexa's strong arms and toned legs, a small bit of Lexa's stomach was showing where her tank top wasn't fully pulled down. Her tank top was just tight enough that Clarke didn't have to try too hard to imagine how toned her stomach was, she had her hair braided like she had the previous few days, Clarke agreed with Raven, she did look hot.

Raven grabbed Octavia's head and turned it towards Clarke. Octavia had to fight the urge to giggle seeing Clarke practically drooling as she checked out Lexa's body.

Raven pulled out her phone slyly. "I'm going to call this one lustful Clarke." She whispered in Octavia's ear as she showed her the picture of Clarke she had just taken. 

Octavia couldn't stop the laugh that came out of her after that.

Lexa and Clarke looked at her wondering what was after happening. They noticed Raven holding her phone in front of Octavia. "What's so funny?" Clarke asks Raven because Octavia is still laughing.

"Nothing, just another dog video."

Clarke accepts the explanation and gets back to cooking their breakfast.

Lexa gives Raven the same suspicious look she had given Octavia yesterday.

Octavia finally stops laughing and sees the way Lexa is looking at Raven so she tries to distract her. "Are you going working out today Lex?"

Lexa nods and points towards the door.

"Oh, you're going to a gym?" Octavia asks figuring that must be what she's saying.

Lexa shakes her head and tries to work out a way to tell her but before she can Clarke speaks up. "You're going for a run?"

Lexa nods, one of the many good things about Clarke understanding her is that she spends less time trying to think about odd ways of explaining things to the other two girls.

"Oh, that's fantastic." The three girls are confused by Octavia's enthusiastic reaction. "Do you want some company? You can say no if you want, I haven't done any exercise since I moved in here, these two never exercise and they're not great at motivating me to do any so I'm slowly becoming one of them."

"Hey!! I exercise....sometimes." Clarke looks at Lexa almost guiltily after she says it.

Lexa wants to tell her that she doesn't need to exercise, that she's perfect just the way she is but she doesn't know how.

Clarke seems to just know what Lexa wants to say. "Thanks Lex." She has a big beaming smile showing.

Lexa feels her heart flutter. Even when she doesn't know how to say what she wants Clarke knows what she's thinking.

Raven and Octavia have no idea what just happened between the two. "What are you thanking Lexa for?" Octavia asks.

"Lexa doesn't think I need to work out."

Raven holds back a smirk. "Is that right Woods?"

Lexa nods, a big smile on her face after hearing Clarke confirm that she did know exactly what she was thinking.

"Ok well if I'm going to be eating meals made by two of the best cooks in all of Arkadia then I need to start working out again, so would it be ok if I tag along Lex?"

Lexa nods, she liked spending time with these girls individually just as much as she liked being around all of them at the same time.

"Hey Griff do you want to be lazy with me while these two get all sweaty?"

"Sure, we'll steal Octavia's secret junk food stash while they're gone." Clarke grins cheekily.

"If there is even just one thing gone from it when I get back I'll murder you both."

"O, we're just trying to help you, if we steal all your food you won't get to eat it all and then you won't have to work out to make up for eating it. It's not like me and Griff want to eat all that chocolate."

"Don't touch my food." Octavia warns.

"No promises." Clarke states. "Ok ladies, your breakfast is ready."

Again Octavia and Raven narrowly avoid knocking the blonde down as they lunge towards their plates and head over to the couch. Clarke hands Lexa her plate and they join the others.

While they eat they discuss working out a plan for who cooks and when. In the end it's decided that Clarke and Lexa will take turns, Clarke cooked breakfast so Lexa will cook their dinner. Any time one of them doesn't feel like cooking they'll get take-out instead which Octavia and Raven agreed to pay for as payment for the many free meals they will get from Clarke and Lexa.

After breakfast Octavia and Raven try to slip away before they get stuck washing the dishes again only to be stopped by Lexa running to block the door again, crossing her arms over her chest, she gives them a stern look and they both turn around, gather the plates and disappear into the kitchen.

Clarke high fives Lexa for trapping the girls again.

The two girls return to their own apartment after completing their task. Octavia goes into her room to change into her workout clothes and find a better place to hide her stash before she leaves.

Raven has a quick nap on the couch. She was exhausted today because she stayed up most of the night trying to think of new ways she could drop hints to Lexa and Clarke.

Thirty minutes later they returned to the other apartment. Lexa is just inside the door tying the laces on her shoes, Clarke is in her bedroom. "Ready to go Lex?"

Lexa nods at Octavia.

"Ok." She turns to Raven. "You behave yourself while I'm gone, ok?"

"Me and Griff have spent time alone together before O, this isn't our first play date, I'll be my usual wonderful self as always."

Octavia glares at her.

Raven throws her hands up in surrender."Ok, ok, I'll be good, promise."

"You better be, I'll find out if you're not." Octavia whispers this to her but Lexa hears it, she is confused about why she would need to threaten Raven like this but she chooses not to question it.

"Just go already." Raven starts pushing both Octavia and Lexa out the door. As soon as she closes it she calls out to Clarke. "Where are you Griff? It's rude to leave your guests all alone."

Clarke enters the room. "I was just grabbing my phone. You were alone for like two seconds."

"Well those two seconds felt more like two years to me so I thought you had abandoned me." Raven pretends to wipe away a tear.

Clarke starts clapping her hands as loudly as she can. "What an amazing performance, Raven Reyes you are the next Meryl Streep."

Raven bows and they both start giggling. They move to the couch and sit on opposite ends facing each other. "Last night was really fun Griff, I don't know how but Lexa just made it more fun than usual, she really is a perfect addition to our group."

"Yeah she's great. You and her seem to be great friends now." Clarke doesn't hear the jealousy in her own voice but Raven notices it.

"Yeah, she just gets me, you know? She even likes that I call us the fierce four."

Clarke groans at the new name Raven has given them. "You know how lame it is to call us that, right?"

"Lexa doesn't think it's lame, our numbers are even now it's no longer two against one, Lexa's on my side so it's a draw and I can call us that whenever I want."

"Ugh how on earth did I end up living with someone that's just as nerdy as you?"

"She's not a nerd, she's a total badass."

"Is Raven Reyes defending someone's honour?" Clarke acts shocked. "I think you might really like her." She tries to cover the worry she feels by plastering a fake smile on her face.

"Nah, she's super hot and all that but we're just good friends, she's not really my type." Raven sees Clarke relax after that.

"Oh really?" Clarke had a real smile on her face now.

"Yeah, it really is great having her as a friend though."

Clarke hums her agreement. "She is so amazing, she fits in so well with us, it's like we were missing this part and now we're whole, you know?"

"That was so corny Griff." Raven chuckles. "But you're right."

"She's the best roommate I've ever had."

"Wait, the only other roommates you....Hey!!!" Raven hits Clarke with a cushion. "I was a good roommate."

"I'm just kidding Raven, you were a great roommate."

"Damn right I was." Raven's facial expression turns serious. "She's good for you Clarke, she gets you in a whole different way than me and O do. You get her as well, It's good that you two have each other."

Clarke hums. "There's just something about her, you know? Well actually there are a lot of things about her that make her so...so incredible."

"Like what?"

"One thing is that she makes me feel safe, I don't know why but it feels like nothing in this world could hurt me as long as she is by my side."

"Lexa will never let you get hurt, she'll protect you if you need her to." Raven smiles thinking about Lexa's protective side showing yesterday. "Even though me and O are just across the hall we still feel better knowing you have someone here that will look after you."

"She's really special."

"I know we've only really known her for three days now but you seem happier since you two met."

Clarke thinks about it. "I am."

"That's really good Clarke, I'm happy for you."

Clarke hesitates for a moment before she speaks. "I was thinking about asking her to come to moms house with us for dinner on Saturday. I think mom would really like to meet her."

"That's a great idea Griff." She squeezes Clarke's shoulder lightly to reassure her. "It'll be great and having Lexa there means I won't spend hours nagging you and O to leave so I can get home to see her."

"Are you sure you have no feelings for Lexa?"

"I have feelings but they are purely platonic." Raven places a hand over her heart making a silent promise to Clarke that she doesn't have any interest in being in a relationship with Lexa.

"That's great." Clarke proclaims happily.

"Great?" Raven bites back a smirk.

"Um, I mean..." Clarke tries to think of a reasonable explanation.

Raven can see that Clarke is trying to cover her feelings so she speaks before she can. "Have you told mama Griff about her yet?"

Clarke instantly relaxes when the subject is changed. "I told her that she's a great roommate and friend."

"I think Lexa would like to know more about you so she'll probably want to go with us."

"I hope so." Clarke says as she gets off the couch. "Let's go see what we can steal from O's stash."

"Might take a while to find it, I'm pretty sure she moved it." Raven and Clarke make their way to the other apartment.

Lexa looks over at Octavia. She's always been competitive, her and Lincoln used to run together back in Polis and they would always race each other. She thinks she could beat Octavia easily so she agrees.

"Ok, on three. One...two...three."

Lexa bolts forward immediately taking the lead. She runs a good distance before she looks back to see how far behind Octavia is. She was surprised to find that the other girl was actually quite close to catching up to her. She hates to lose so she forces herself to run as fast as she possibly can. She reaches the building a few minutes later.

Less than a minute after Octavia reaches the building. Lexa is standing with her back against the wall with one foot propped up on it. When Octavia gets closer to her she pulls her arm out in front of her and pretends to look at her imaginary watch.

"Oh stop it, I wasn't that far behind you." Octavia leans against the wall next to her taking a moment to catch her breath.

"Apart from how smug you are about winning that was fun, thanks for letting me come with you."

Lexa nods and gives Octavia a small smile in response.

Lexa nods again giving her a bigger smile this time. She's thankful Octavia joined her, over the past two years she had never run alone, Lincoln would always go with her. She thinks she wouldn't have enjoyed this run if she had gone alone and she's happy to have a new running partner.

"Great." Octavia thinks about something before she speaks again. "Now usually I would use this alone time to give you the best friend speech but you're my best friend now too and I know you're not going to hurt Clarke. Instead of doing that I want to thank you for what you've done for her and for being our friend but mainly the Clarke thing."

Lexa gives her a curious look. Octavia can see that she's confused by what she said.

"Clarke had a rough time a while ago and she just wasn't the same after that but then you showed up and she's back now, she's the Clarke I grew up with, it's like those bad memories can't hurt her when you're around." Lexa smiles hearing this, she never wants to let anything hurt Clarke and she's glad that she can help her even if she doesn't know how she is doing that.

"She's even happier now than she was before that shit happened to her. Me and Raven have really missed seeing her like that, I know her mom has missed it the most and you'll be her favourite person in the world when she finds out that you've done that. She's happy again because of you Lex, so thank you for being you."

At this point Lexa is fighting to hold back tears. She found it incredible that these girls liked her for who she is and now one of them is thanking her for that too, it means so much to her. Octavia notices this and puts her hand on Lexa's shoulder giving it a light squeeze. Lexa smiles softly when she finally managed to stop the tears from falling.

"I like spending time with you Lex. Before we interrupt Clake and Raven do you want to come hang in my apartment for a while? You can even have some chocolate from my stash."

Lexa happily nods at Octavia.

"Want to race up the stairs?"

She nods again ready to beat Octavia for a second time.

Meanwhile in Clarke's apartment.

Clarke and Raven had returned to the other apartment after failing to find Octavia's stash. Raven has been speaking about Lexa's car for quite a while, telling Clarke every detail there is to know about that type of car, Clarke already knows all of this being a fellow car nerd but when Raven talks about cars she's like a kid in a toy shop and Clarke loves seeing her so excited. Somehow everything that they spoke about in the last hour has included Lexa in some way, Clarke wouldn't complain about that though.

Raven stops speaking when she hears what sounds like people running in the hallway. Clarke and Raven both make their way to the door to find out what was going on, when they open it they see Lexa standing outside the other apartment with a smug look on her face.

"I will beat you someday Lexa, it's going to happen."

They look down the hallway and see Octavia walking towards them with her shoulders slumped in defeat.

Clarke makes her way over to Lexa's side and taps her on the shoulder lightly. Lexa turns to face her. "Hey." Clarke looks at her with a goofy grin.

Lexa gives Clarke a small wave and her own goofy smile. They stand there staring at each other again.

Raven realizes that she is too close to them to take a picture but if she moves she knows they'll notice and their moment will end.

Octavia sees the disappointment written all over Raven's face and it only takes a few seconds to understand why she looks like that. She pulls her own phone out and snaps a picture of the two with Raven beside them looking overjoyed as she looks directly at Octavia.

After spending a little more time enjoying watching the two of them Raven finally speaks up. "How was the run?"

"Good apart from Lexa beating me, twice." Octavia pouts.

"Damn Woods, you beat O in a race?"

Lexa nods and looks at Clarke as if she was waiting for approval from her.

"Good job." Clarke whispers to her.

Lexa smiles again.

"O's like a fricking tiger, how the hell did you beat her?"

Lexa shrugs. 

"O's a tiger but Lexa's a lion." All three girls look at Clarke after she says this.

Raven is the one that asks her to explain. "Huh?"

"Lion's are a little faster than tiger's but both are strong, powerful and amazing."

"Aww Clarkey you are too sweet." Octavia blows a kiss to Clarke.

Lexa looks at Clarke affectionately.

"What am I Griff?"

"You are a monkey. You're always making people laugh, you've got a cute face and you throw stuff when you're angry."

"What's Clarke then?" Octavia asks Raven.

"Hmm maybe a koala because of how clingy she gets when she's sleepy."

"Or a cat because she's grumpy when you wake her up.

"A dog because she's loyal and cute." Raven notices Lexa giving her a jealous look when she calls Clarke cute.

"Oh I got it she's a cute and cuddly panda." Lexa sends the same jealous look to Octavia, she quickly tries to distract her. "Lex, what do you think Clarke is?"

Lexa turns and faces Clarke again. She looks at her beautiful blue eyes and her blonde hair, she thinks for a moment before she flaps both her arms.

"A bird?" Clarke asks her.

Lexa nods. She pulls some of her own hair over her shoulder to show Clarke, then she points at her own eyes, then looks and points up to the ceiling.

"My hair and my eyes remind you of the sky?"

Lexa nods again. She inhales and exhales dramatically.

"And air?"

She holds her hand out flat and moves it from side to side slightly telling Clarke that she is almost right. She inhales a long breath of air and smiles after she exhales.

"I'm like a breath of fresh air?"

Lexa nods her head enthusiastically.

"Wow." Clarke almost whispers this as she stares deep into Lexa's eyes.

"Well fuck, Woods just put all of our suggestions to shame." Raven is now standing beside Octavia, they both watch the other two girls amazed by what they just heard.

After a moment of silence Clarke speaks again. "I think of nature when I look at you, I can see all the colours of a forest in your eyes, you are beautiful and I find everything about you fascinating." Clarke didn't think she would confess all of that. Her cheeks quickly turn a deep shade of red, she lowers her head to hide it.

Lexa stares at her with wide eyes. She is shocked that someone as wonderful as Clarke would say such beautiful things about her.

Octavia and Raven are on the verge of tears as they hold each other in a side embrace too happy to even try to pretend like that was not a big deal. "Take a picture, quick." Octavia whispers to Raven. She does as she had been told and smiles when she sees that the picture captures the moment perfectly.

'This is the perfect time to say something, speak to her.' Lexa thinks to herself. Her mouth opens slowly.

Octavia and Raven's eyes go wide as they notice this. Up until now they didn't know if Lexa could speak, they're still not sure but they know that she's trying to.

Clarke still hasn't looked up from her hands and is completely unaware of what Lexa is trying to do. "So...what's the plan for today?"

Lexa's mouth closes quickly when Clarke speaks.

Octavia and Raven are disappointed that Clarke stopped Lexa from speaking but they know it wasn't intentional and they knew that she would try again when she was ready. Lexa was trying and they were happy about that. "Well me and Lex planned on spending some more time hanging out on our own before we interrupted you two, I'd still like to do that if you would Lexa?"

Lexa tears her eyes away from Clarke to give Octavia a quick nod.

"Are you trying to steal my best friend from me, O?" Raven looks suspiciously at her.

"I don't have to steal her away, she's my best friend too, remember? You two already had some bonding time with Lex, I want that too."

"Ok, then you have my permission to hang out without me."

Clarke glances at Lexa while the other two spoke, she found green eyes looking at her and her cheeks started to heat up again. She looks away as quickly as she can focusing on her other two friends again. "You two have fun, we'll see you later." Clarke moved forward and grabbed Raven's arm pulling her into her and Lexa's apartment before she could say anything else.

Lexa is confused by what just happened and looks to Octavia for an explanation but she just shrugs and leads the way into her apartment.

As soon as Clarke closed the door she leaned back against it and closed her eyes, she was relieved that she couldn't say anything else to Lexa now.

"You ok Griff?"

"Yeah just um, tired I guess?" It comes out as a question.

"Me too. Want to go nap until O and Woods come back?"

Clarke doesn't answer she just starts walking towards her bedroom with Raven following behind her. They both drop down onto Clarke's bed and almost immediately fall asleep.

 
A little while later in the other apartment.

Lexa and Octavia had been slowly making their way through Octavia's entire stash, agreeing to run a little longer tomorrow to compensate for eating so much. Lexa got to see Octavia's victory dance when she discovered that the other two girls hadn't found her stash. They had some awful horror movie playing on the TV, they discovered that they both enjoyed watching terrible horror movies and that they both believed there was no such thing as a scary horror movie.

They were half way through the movie when Octavia decided to speak to Lexa about what happened in the hallway. She grabbed the remote and muted the TV.

Lexa looked over at Octavia wondering why she would do that.

"I want to tell you something but I don't want you to be worried when I do, will you promise me that you won't run away from us if I tell you?"

Lexa nods warily.

"Ok so in the hallway a while ago me and Raven noticed something..." Octavia trails off trying to think of a good way to say this. "We saw that you were trying to speak to Clarke."

Lexa looks like a deer caught in headlights, she hadn't thought about Octavia and Raven watching them in that moment.

"You don't have to worry I'm not telling you this because I'm trying to force you to speak I just wanted to let you know that we still like you Lex. Whether you speak or not we're still going to be your friends, that's not going to change. If you want to speak that's your choice and you shouldn't feel like you have to unless you want to." Octavia sees Lexa's expression change, she looks like she is relieved to hear all this.

"I do want to know something though." She waits for Lexa to nod before she continues. "Do you trust us?"

Lexa has spent a lot of time over the last couple of days thinking about this, she knows the answer, she just hasn't admitted it to herself yet. She feels sure of her answer now so she nods.

"Good, we trust you too." She smiles. "We're your friends now and that means if you have a problem or you just had an awful day we are here to support you if you need us, you can come to us to help when you're struggling and we'll do our best for you." She puts her hand on Lexa's knee and squeezes it lightly. "Even if you just need us to sit with you watching terrible horror movies, we can do that, ok?"

Lexa gives her a warm smile.

"And as for Clarke, me and Raven won't say a word to her about this and if you get caught up like that again and you don't feel ready to talk yet you can just give one of us a look and we'll distract Clarke but even if she does realize what you're trying to do she'll wait until you're ready, she won't push you, you know that right?"

Lexa has a wide smile forming before Octavia finishes speaking, she still nods when she's done though. Everyday these three girls just get more and more amazing. The fact that Raven and Octavia are willing to keep this secret from their best friend for her really proves that she can trust them. 

"Ok that's all the serious stuff done with, let's get back to watching this truly awful movie." She gives Lexa's knee another squeeze before she grabs the remote.

Two hours later.

"Clarkey? Raven?"

"Kitchen." They hear Raven yell back.

They make their way in there. "Hey, where's Clarke?" Octavia asks Raven who is slumped on the countertop with an almost empty cup of coffee in front of her. 

"She's still asleep, she told me to wake her up when you two got back but I can't move from this spot, I need to get as much caffeine into me as I possibly can." Raven jolts up when she thinks of something. "Hey Lexa would you go wake Clarke up?"

Lexa points at herself wondering if Raven really was asking her.

"Yeah you."

Lexa shakes her head vigorously and points at Octavia.

"No I need O to help me with something so she can't do it. Please Lexa you would be doing me a huge favour and I would be so grateful."

Lexa reluctantly nods before she turns and leaves the kitchen. She makes her way down to Clarke's room, she freezes in front of the door, unaware that the two girls are watching her from a distance, she takes a deep breath before she knocks on the door. When there is no response she knocks again a little harder this time hoping it will be enough to wake Clarke. 

No response again she's just going to knock again when she hears Raven shout from the kitchen where her and Octavia have hidden from view again. "You have to go in Woods, Griff's a heavy sleeper."

Lexa takes a shaky breath before finally opening the door. She enters the room and finds Clarke wrapped tightly in her blanket snoring softly, Lexa thinks it's the cutest snoring she's ever heard. 

She stops herself from taking a quick glance around the room, she thought it would be an invasion of the other girls privacy to do so while she was asleep.

She doesn't want to sit on the bed without permission so she moves to the side of the bed close to Clarke and kneels down. She places her hand on the other girls arm and gently shakes her. It doesn't wake the sleeping girl so she tries again a little harder this time.

"I'm still tired Raven, let me sleep." Clarke falls silent again for a moment. "Wake me up when Lexa comes home."

'Home.' Lexa repeats the word a few times in her mind. A fond smile crosses her face. She shakes the girl one more time before she finally opens her eyes.

Clarke frowns as she opens her eyes thinking Raven is the one keeping her awake. As soon as her eyes adjust to the sunlight she spots Lexa, her frown is replaced with a soft smile. "Hey, you're home."

Lexa's smile widens hearing Clarke say this, she nods and finally removes her hand from Clarke's arm.

"Why are you kneeling on the floor?"

Lexa motions to the bed then shakes her head and lays her head onto her hands pretending to sleep.

"Oh you didn't know if I would be ok with you sitting on my bed while I was asleep?"

Lexa nods.

"You are welcome in my bed anytime Lexa." She thinks about what she said for a second before correcting herself. "ON!!! On my bed, in my room...Oh." She realizes that this is the first time Lexa has been in her room. "Do you like my room?"

Lexa looks around the room slowly. She sees a small desk with a laptop and some books on it. Photo frames are scattered around the room, some have pictures of Clarke with Octavia and Raven in them, the others are of people Lexa doesnt know yet, she spots a few with two people who look to be older than anyone in the other photo's she assumes they are Clarke's parent's. 

By the window there is a small table with an easel next to it, the table is covered in various art supplies, a few canvases are stacked against the wall with their backs facing out so Lexa doesn't know if they are used or blank, there is a canvas on the easel that has been used, it appears to be a painting of a creek, Lexa wonders if the creek has some significance to Clarke or if it is simply an image she created in her mind.

Clarke sits up in her bed and watches Lexa as she studies the room, she notices how fixated Lexa's eyes are on the painting, she remembers how fascinated Lexa was by the sketch she had done on her note. "Do you like the painting?"

Lexa nods, her eyes remain fixated on the painting as she does.

"It's dry, you can touch it if you want."

Lexa looks at Clarke for confirmation that she means it, when Clarke gives her a small nod she stands up and walks over to it. She looks back at Clarke once more for reassurance before she slowly reaches forward. She moves her index finger along the surface of the water before she moves her hand to the top of the painting running two fingers over the leaves on the trees above it. She thinks she can almost feel the texture of leaves as she does.

Clarke watches in awe as Lexa examines every inche of the painting. From the look on Lexa's face she thinks that she is picturing herself standing at the creek.

The two are so engrossed in their own little world that they don't see their other two friends at the door. Raven takes another picture, Clarke watching Lexa with a clear look of admiration on her face and Lexa is angled just right so that her look of wonder and intrigue is clear in the photo.

When Lexa removes her hand from the painting she studies it for just a few more seconds before turning back to face Clarke. They lock eyes.

Raven snaps another photo of them, she knew there would be another photo to take soon enough so she didn't bother putting her phone away after the last one.

"Lexa, I..." Clarke can feel tears in her eyes. 

Lexa worries when she sees Clarke's watery eyes, she sits on the bed next to her and places one of her hands on Clarke's knee.

Clarke realizes that Lexa is worried about her. "Don't worry Lex, I'm not sad I'm happy, I feel happy because of you."

Lexa feels an unexpected surge of pride when Clarke tells her this.

Clarke puts her hand on top of the hand Lexa has on her knee. "Thank you."

Lexa searches her mind trying to figure out what she did that made Clarke happy.

"No one has ever looked at my art the way you do. My friends and family tell me they like it but the way you look at it and touch it makes me feel like my art is...special." Clarke looks away from Lexa feeling somewhat vulnerable.

Lexa opens her mouth to try to speak for the second time that day. She wants to tell Clarke that her art is special, that it makes her feel like she's really standing at the creek in the painting. She tries but no words come out.

'Speak to her, this is important.' She says to herself. She tries again but no sound will come out of her.

'Say something, anything.' She tells herself.

Octavia can see from her spot at the door that Lexa is struggling. "We need to help Lex." She whispers to Raven.

Raven nods before strolling into the room. "I see you managed to wake up sleeping beauty without losing any of your limbs, I'm impressed, Woods."

"Hey!! I'm not that difficult to wake up." Clarke protests.

Octavia followed Raven into the room and stood beside her. Lexa gave them both a thankful look, Raven winks at her and Octavia gives her a thumbs up.

"Bullshit, you're so grumpy when you wake up." Octavia adds.

"I'm not." Clarke whines, she looks at Lexa. "I'm really not that bad, these two just don't wake me up as gently as you do."

"We used to be gentle but you would just shout at us and then you started to get violent so we had to start being a bit rough to get you out of bed." Octavia explains.

"It's much easier to get you into bed than it is to get you out of it." Raven quickly realizes how that sounded. "Oh shit sorry Griff I didn't mean it like that, fuck."

Clarke chuckles at Ravens embarrassment before hitting her with a pillow. "You better not mean it, I am in no way easy Reyes."

Raven grabs the pillow and tries to hit Clarke but she manages to avoid it.

"No, we're not having a pillow fight." Octavia takes the pillow away from them. "Time to get out of bed Clarkey, coffees ready and we're all going to the park for a picnic later." Octavia announces.

"Really? We haven't done that in a long time." Clarke asks, excited about that plan.

"Yeah me and O thought it would be fun, do you want to do that Woods?"

Lexa nods, she hops off of the bed and offers her hand to Clarke to help her up too.

Clarke accepts her offered hand. Once she's off the bed neither one of them let's go of the others hand. They get lost in each other's eyes again. Raven pulls out her phone and takes another picture.

After another few seconds of hand holding and staring Octavia clears her throat startling both girls out of their trance, they both let go of their hands and look at their other two friends. "You two get caffeinated, me and Raven are going to go shopping and get everything we need, ok?"

Lexa stands up straight and salutes Octavia, Clarke copies her and then Raven does too. Octavia rolls her eyes at her three friends. "At ease soldiers."

They go their separate ways getting ready for their day together.

Later at the park.

They all sat on the large blanket they had spread out. Lexa lay down with her elbows proped up looking at the sky, Clarke sat facing Lexa drawing in her sketchbook, Octavia was lying down on her back with her hands tucked under her head listening to music and Raven was lying down using Octavia's stomach as a pillow looking out at the lake.

Raven raised her hand to poke Octavia in the side. "Will you come for a little walk with me O? I need to stretch my legs."

Octavia just nods and stands up after Raven does.

Raven mouths the words 'ask her' to Clarke before her and Octavia walk away.

Once they're gone Lexa looks over at Clarke.

Clarke knows Lexa's watching her and she smiles before she looks at her. "Want to see?"

Lexa sits up and moves closer to her. She was astonished by the drawing Clarke had done. It was like looking at a photo of herself. The detail was incredible. She held her hand out and looked at Clarke silently asking if she could take the sketchbook for a moment. She handed it to her and Lexa immediately started moving her index finger along the lines.

Clarke found herself watching Lexa move her finger around the drawing, wondering what she was thinking about while she did.

Octavia and Raven were stood at the lake not far from the two other girls. Octavia was using Raven as cover to hide her phone while she took a picture of the two. "We'll have three full scrapbooks by the end of the week if they keep being so cute."

"We? So you're going to help me make the scrapbook?"

"Yes, even though it is a super nerdy plan and only mom's in the eighties make scrapbooks I am totally on board with it."

Raven squeals and throws her arms up in the air in triumph. "Our scrapbook will put all those eighties mom's scrapbooks to shame."

Clarke and Lexa look at the other two when they hear Raven's squeal. Lexa looks at Clarke for an explanation but she just shrugs. "So do you like the drawing?"

Lexa smiles looking back down at the drawing, she looks over at Clarke and places a hand over her own heart.

Clarke stays silent for a while, working up the courage to ask her. "Lex, I was wondering, are you busy on Saturday?"

Lexa thinks for a moment, trying to remember what she was supposed to do on that day. When she remembers she nods, she sees that Clarke is clearly disappointed about her answer.

She wishes she didn't have to call her family on Saturday but she can't break promises. She briefly wonders if she could get them to change it to Sunday but she knows that if she tries they will want an explanation for it and she can't tell them about Clarke yet, she's not ready for all the questions they will ask her.

Clarke notices that Lexa looks like she's feeling terrible about it, she also sees that she is deep in thought. She places her hand on Lexa's shoulder to bring her back out of her thoughts. "It's ok Lexa, I was just asking to see if you wanted to come to dinner at my mom's house with me, O and Raven."

Lexa feels worse knowing Clarke wanted to introduce her to her mom.

Clarke realizes that she is even more upset now. "You can come with us another time, ok?"

Lexa relaxes a little knowing that this isn't the only time Clarke will ask her to come with them but she still feels a bit bad about it.

Octavia and Raven return from their walk. Raven raises her eyebrows silently asking Clarke if Lexa would be joining them. Clarke looks at Lexa before answering, she doesn't want her to see her respond to Raven because she thinks it might make her feel worse about it. She gives Raven a sad look, shakes her head and mouths the word 'busy'. Raven gives her an apologetic look before sitting back down on the blanket. Clarke shrugs in response. 

Octavia sits down next to Raven facing the other two. She notices straightaway that something's bothering Lexa, she nudges her knee with her foot getting her attention. "You ok?"

Lexa gives her a slow and weak nod.

Octavia looks to her other two friends for some sort of explanation. Clarke has a sad look on her face as she looks at Lexa. Raven shakes her head telling Octavia not to ask anything else.

"Emm, oh, there's a great ice cream parlour not too far from here, who wants ice cream?" She asks instead.

Clarke and Raven send a thankful look to her, Lexa seems to cheer up slightly at the mention of ice cream.

"Ok, let's pack up and head over there then."

Later that night.

They had spent the rest of that day driving around in Clarke's Nissan Versa. It was originally her mother's car but she had given it to Clarke when she started college and bought herself a smaller car. They decided that they would spend the rest of the day giving Lexa a tour of Arkadia.

Octavia chose to be the driver and Raven had sat in the passenger seat leaving the other two in the back seat. Lexa had been more interested in watching Clarke than she was in seeing Arkadia's landmarks. The same was true for Clarke, the two would occasionally catch each other staring and shyly look away.

They all enjoyed the tour, Raven had been acting as their tour guide, making up crazy stories about each landmark which made the tour far more interesting than it would have been if they were listening to real stories about them.

They had stopped for take-out on their way home after Raven's stomach made an angry grumble. They ate their food in Octavia and Raven's apartment while watching a few episodes of friends.

When Clarke found herself having difficulty keeping her eyes open she decided it was time for bed.

Her and Lexa made their way over to their own apartment.

Lexa was waiting for Clarke to say goodnight before going to her bedroom but instead Clarke held on to her wrist and pulled her towards the couch.

When they were both seated Clarke let go of her wrist. "I just want to make sure that you're not feeling terrible about not being able to come with us on Saturday. I knew there was a chance that you would be busy and that's ok, you don't have to feel guilty about being busy and it wasn't a one time offer Lex you can come with us any other time, ok?"

Lexa nodded. She hadn't realized that Clarke had picked up on how guilty she had been feeling about it but she realizes that she should have, it's Clarke after all and she understands Lexa better than anyone else in this world could.

"Good. When you do come with us you don't have to worry, my mom is just like me, O and Raven, she'll like you just as much as we do, she'll probably ask you to be her best friend too." Clarke chuckles.

Lexa smiles listening to her.

"Now that we cleared that up I think it's time for bed."

Lexa nods in agreement.

"Goodnight Lex." Clarke waits until Lexa gives her a small wave before getting off the couch and heading to her bedroom.

Lexa goes to her own room. When she finally climbs into her bed she thinks about everything that happened today. She tries to come up with some explanation for why she couldn't speak. She trusts these girls there should be no reason for her not to be able to speak now. 

She thinks about it for quite a while before she falls asleep but she can't come up with any explanation.