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Lexa and Costia had known each other since they were fifteen. They had been best friends for three before they decided to take it the next level.

Lexa was sitting on her couch watching old reruns of Charmed with her best friend. They were cuddling as they always did, Lexa mindlessly curling Costias hair around her finger. She looked over at her best friend, her heart began to beat faster the more she watched her.

“Lexa, the show is on the television, not my face.” She said smiling while bumping her shoulder into Lexas.

Lexas face turned very red from embarrassment, she tried to cover her ears so Costia wouldn’t see. She got up to go get a drink, and when she returned she made sure to put more space between herself and the other girl. That did not last long.

Costia just moved closer to Lexa once again grabbing Lexas arm and putting it around her shoulders. Lexa sighed, she was trying to give herself space from her best friend. Their other friends had begun to make comments on how close they always were. Lexa had not yet told anyone that she was gay, not even Costia.

When she told Costia she didn’t want the girl to think about all the times like this where they were just relaxed, and see it as if Lexa had been taking advantage of her. So Lexa once again removed her arm from around Costia and brought her legs up onto the couch wrapping her arms around them.

Costia looked over confused, Lexa saw and just shrugged in response, turning her attention back to the show.

“Lexa?” Lexa looked up and saw Costia was watching her, she slightly nodded her head so that Costia could keep talking.

“Are you upset with me? Did I do something wrong?”

“No, why would you think that?” Lexa knew she had been physically pulling herself away from her friend but nothing else had changed and she didn’t think Costia had really noticed it anyway.

“You have been acting strange, you keep pulling away from me, I mean you’re here, but not like you usually are, you are always thinking and moving away.” Is it because of everyone teasing us about each other?”

Lexa took a deep breath and put on her mask, which Costia saw right away.

“Oh no don’t you use that face with me.” She grabbed Lexas shoulders and shook a little. “I’m your best friend, you don’t get to cover what you really feel with me!”

Lexa looked down trying to relax herself. “She kept looking down thinking about what she should say next while Costia waited.

With a determined face on now Lexa raised her eyes, “It is not what they say that bothers me, I think I do like girls, and I wanted to tell you, but then they started talking and I didn’t want you to think I was using you or anything.”

Lexa waited for a response, waited for Costia to get up and walk away. Instead the other girl was just studying her again. Lexa felt her ears going warm again.

Costia moved closer to her, when Lexa almost moved away again Costia grabbed her arm. “Do you like me more than a friend Lexa?”

Lexas heart was beating so loud that she swears Costia could see it if she tried, Lexa didn’t say anything, just stared blankly at her bestfriend.

Costia sighed and brought her other hand over Lexas heart, Lexa knew she felt how fast it was beating. Lexa began to look everywhere but at Costia, trying to figure out what she felt in the short amount of time. She closed her eyes trying to tune out Costia.

When she thought she was relaxed enough to answer the question she opened her eyes and saw that Costia had moved even closer only about 6 inches between their faces. Lexa went to move back, having Costia so close to her was confusing.

But then Costia grabbed Lexas neck and closed the distance between their lips. Lexa froze shocked but then relaxed when she felt the softness of the other girls lips on hers for the first time. The kiss was soft questioning, but once Costia felt Lexa kiss her back it intensified.

Costia licked Lexas lip asking for entrance, and when Lexa opened her mouth in answer the kiss deepened, both girls exploring each other in a new way.

When they finally broke away, Costia leaned her forehead on Lexas and just whispered, “I like you too.”

Lexa layed in bed her alarm having gone off at 6:30 Am so that she would have to time to run and shower before class. It had been three years since her and Costias first kiss, she wondered if Costia remembered. Lexa missed Costia, but more as her best friend now than her girlfriend.

They had only been dating almost a year when they separated for college. They had sworn up and down that they would make it, that distance would never be a problem for two people who were meant to be.

Lexa rolled out of bed and began to change her clothes. Runs helped her wake up, made her feel like mornings had a reason.

She always did the three mile loop around campus, which took about 20-30 minutes depending on how fast she decided to run. Today it took extra-long, Lexa just wasn’t into it, her mind always returning to Costia.

When she got back to her room it was almost seven. She ran into the shower try to fast and efficient. She began to think about the paper she had to talk to Clarke about trying to decide on which characters she would like to write about.

She began dressing for class and made it there at 7:55, she went to grab two empty seats when she heard her name being called.

“Lexa!” It was Clarke, who apparently had gotten there before Lexa could. She made her way over to the girl and sat down.

“Good morning.” Lexa looked up seeing the girl was trying to make peace. She cocked her head to side and looked at Clarke questioningly who began to fidget under Lexas watchful eyes.

“Good morning ClarKe.” Lexas eyes widened at the way she said the girls name, it sounded off to her, but she couldn’t figure out why.

Clarke just smiled in return and began to listen to what professor Kane began lecturing about.

Lexa could not concentrate and she couldn’t figure out why. So she began to doodle in her notebook, infinity sign after infinity sign. The she realized she needed to talk to Clarke about the paper, so she grabbed a blank piece of paper and wrote the blonde a note.

Clarkes POV

This was the first class that Clarke had been able to concentrate. She was finally getting into this class it was interesting,

A paper was suddenly thrust onto her book, she looked up and glared at Lexa who simply pointed to the paper.

Clarke looked down and read the paper.

“We have a paper coming up, we need to talk about it later on.”

Clarke wrote back,“When are you free?”

Lexa looked at the paper and took a moment to think. “Not until later tonight, I have classes and practice.”

Clarke took the paper, trying to contemplate how she wanted to do this. She sighed and wrote her number on the paper. “Text me when you get out of class so we can meet up.”

Lexa read what Clarke wrote and nodded her head, taking her phone out to save Clarkes number.

Clarke went back to taking notes until Kane announced it was the end of class. Clarke looked over and saw Lexas blank page. Lexa began to pack her things to go.

“Hey, take my notes and copy them.” Clarke extended her book to Lexa who just looked at the book and back to Clarke assessing the situation. Clarke took another step towards Lexa and shaking her book at the other girl. “You can give it back when we meet up for the paper.”

Lexa took the book from Clarke and just nodded before making her way out of the room.

Clarke walked out to see Finn watching Lexa walk away from the room. She stopped to study him, to see if his face revealed anything, but he just shook his head in her direction, and turned to see Clarke watching him.

“Good morning! I’m starving lets go.”

He put his arm around her shoulder and began leading them in the opposite direction of Lexa. “That girl you were watching, do you know her?” His arm tensed for a second before relaxing on her shoulder again.

“No, why?”

“That’s Lexa the partner from hell. Were you checking her out?” She was teasing him, she knew he wasn’t.

“Hell no, she has pure bitch face, not my type of girl at all. Besides why look at other girls when I have you?”

Clarke tensed up. “Don’t talk about her like that, you don’t even know her right? Besides she may have a mean face on all the time but her eyes are beautiful.” She didn’t mean to add that last part it just kind of slipped out. It even shocked her, she knew she noticed Lexas eyes but christ, she didn’t know she liked them that much until she said it.

She looked over at Finn who was looking at her with question in his eyes, she just shrugged in response. “Just don’t talk about people you don’t know.”

“Right, okay babe. What do you want to eat?”

*** Lexas POV***

Lexa was exhausted! Practice had been brutal, Indra must have been in a bad mood or something because she hadn’t worked them out that hard in ages. It was now 5:30 and she needed to get some work done.

She grabbed her bag and pulled out her notebook, along with Clarkes. Flipping through the pages noticing that Clarkes book had more art than notes. She was actually really talented. Lexa went through every page of the notebook more than once before she actually started to take notes.

After she was done copying the notes she decided to text the other girl to figure out when they were going to get together for the paper.

Lexa: This is Lexa. When are you free to work on the paper?

She put her phone down, thinking about going to shower when her phone rang almost right away.

Clarke: Are you free now?

Lexa: Its Friday night you don’t plan on drinking and going out to another party?

Clarke: I wasn’t drinking that night, and no I rather get some work done, so are you?

Clarke: Free I mean.

Lexa rolled her eyes, she really did want to shower and watch Netflix the rest of the night, but finishing that paper as soon as possible sounded good.

She figured if she told Clarke to meet her in thirty minutes she would have enough time to shower.

Lexa: Meet at 7 in main library?

Clarke: See you there.

Lexa got up and went to shower groaning about how sore she was the whole time, secretly hating Clarke for every movement she made, she could be showering to go to bed instead of the stupid library.