The Pipe Of The Sink
When I woke up the next day I found myself floating on the bed. The pipe of the bathroom’s sink next to our room had blown up, flooding the floor and the sheets.
"I wish I was back home right now" I said turning to Bellamy with a sarcastic smile on the face.
He was on his knees under the sink, completely wet, trying in vain to fix the pipe.
"We'll need to call a plumber, I can’t make it all by myself" Bellamy said.
"Today’s Sunday, you seriously think there will be anyone willing to fix this mess?" I asked rhetorically.
"I saw an hardware store while coming this way, I could try and see if it’s open and change the pipe" said a voice out of nowhere. It was Lexa, standing still in front of us. She got closer to the sink and, bending down on her knees, watched intently the pipe.
I found myself staring at her with my jaw dropping down, unable to believe that she really knew what was happening.
"You know how to change a sink’s pipe?" I asked her.
She turned to face me and smiled. "Yeah, Clarke, I do know how to change a sink’s pipe" she replied half laughing.
Bellamy frowned his eyebrows and stood up from the floor coming towards me. He dragged me into our room while Lexa, still on her knees, was studying the whole thing. "Why don’t you go with her? One hour and you’ll be home again" he tried to convince me.
"Okay, okay. I’m going with her. Don’t ask me anything else though" I said pointing my index at his chest. "You know I can’t stand her" He smiled and planted a soft kiss on my lips. As I pulled away I felt a pair of eyes staring at me and, as I turned, I saw Lexa looking at us. Embarrassed I moved away from Bellamy.
"It’s okay if I come with you?" I asked, hoping she would say that I shouldn’t have worried, that she could have gone by herself.
"That's fine by me" she replied not believing what she had just heard.
"I’ll be ready in ten minutes" I informed her slowly becoming aware of the fact that I was still waring just a shirt and some underwear.
"I’ll be waiting outside" Lexa said.
Her and Bellamy left the room giving me some space. I quickly put on the first pair of shorts I saw and, without putting a bra on, I put on a blue tank top. I picked up my hair in a bun and, still wearing flip-flops, I left the room, heading for the door.
"Where is everybody going today?" Octavia asked, sat at the kitchen table eating cereals.
"Good Morning to you too" I said in a hurry, trying to do this thing as quickly as possible. I took the car keys and left the house.
"Thank you for the answer!" I heard the voice of Octavia just before closing the door.
I saw Lexa leaning against the wall watching the beach across the street.
"Come on, let’s go" I told her approaching the car.
She quickly run up to the car and went to the passenger side. Within seconds we were on the street and the silence was rather embarrassing. The only sentences that we exchanged were used to explain the route I had to do.
"How’s going at Uni?" she blurted out.
How did she know I was going to Univeristy? We had never talked about that. We usually never talked about anything. I turned towards her raising my eyebrows.
"I heard Lincoln and Octavia talking about that" she replied, answering my silent question.
"University’s fine. Lately I’ve been doing many exams, but except that one thing, everything’s fine" I said. "And you’re still working as a teacher in primary school, right?" I asked her.
"Yep, that’s me. I actually really like doing this job" I saw her smiling. "Kids are little rays of sunshine and, even though I’d like to jump off a cliff sometimes, they never fail to make me happy" she said. She kept on talking but I was distracted by the fact that she looked so enthusiast talking about her job. In that moment I wished that, someday, I would have been happy like her while talking about my profession. That surely wasn’t as simple as it seemed.
"Oh, it’s right there" she said, pointing through the window at an hardware store, which, fortunately, was opened.
"Thank God" I said relieved.
Once inside the store I didn’t have to open my mouth a single time, not even to pay.
"How do you know all of this stuff?" I turned to face her just outside the store.
"It’s not that hard, you know?" she said, smiling.
Why was she always smiling? I was acting all bitchy and she smiled at me. I would have never smiled to myself.
"If you say so" I said laughing.
The trip back home wasn’t as I expected. Lexa seemed very interested as I talked about my dream of becoming a lawyer and, more important, she respected my ideals.
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"All done, see?" Lexa said turning to face me while sitting on the floor with a wrench in her right hand.
I caught myself staring at her and I blushed immediately. "You’re really good at this stuff" I said.
"Well, thanks" she replied with that typical smile on her face.
"Now we can finally catch up with the others at the beach" I said moving from where I stood, trying to find a bikini in my room.
"Yeah, finally" I heard her saying.