Author's note: Hey this is my way of coping with 3.07... Sorry if I messed up anything about yoga I don't know a lot about it. Anyway hope you enjoy it there will be more sometime this week. Reviews are always welcome. I don't own the 100 if I did Lexa would have lived. Lexa deserved better.
Clarke awoke to the harsh sound of her blaring alarm. She turned toward her cell phone to turn to off. Four text messages were on the front screen. All from Octavia.
Hey Clarke I'll be there in ten.
Clarke I'm downstairs ring me up.
Clarke!
Clarke! Get Up!
Clarke rolled her eyes; she had completely forgotten she was supposed to meet O this morning. She groaned as she heard the buzzing coming from her phone again. The call was from Octavia.
"Hey" Clarke answered slowly beginning to leave the sanctuary of her bed.
"Clarke come on! Your still in bed aren't you!" Octavia scolded.
"No no I'm not in bed." Clarke said as she made her way over to the closet taking out some fresh yoga pants.
"Standing in front of your closet in your underwear doesn't count as out of bed Clarke." Octavia said impatiently, "I thought you wanted to come to yoga with me today?"
Clarke sighed feeling guilt for lettering her best friend down for what was probably close to the thousandth time.
"I'm sorry O. I'll be down in five"
"Great!" Octavia stated sounding happier as she hung up the phone.
Clarke looked around for the one and only sports bra she owned through the mess of clothes that were strewn about the floor of her one bedroom apartment. She really ought to clean. But what was the point. Octavia was the only one who ever visited and she didn't care how messy Clarke was.
She finally found the bra lying on her couch in the living room. She tried to remember the last time she had done any sort of exercise and found herself remembering …. She pushed away the thought. If she started to think about that she would never leave the house and she would leave Octavia disappointed yet again.
She pulled on an old band t-shirt and headed toward the door grabbing her keys off the table next to the door as she went.
When she got downstairs she found Octavia waiting for her at the bottom.
"Someone finally let me in" she explained pulling Clarke into a hug, "Its good to see you!"
Clarke managed a small smile, "You too O."
"I swear you're going to love this class. The yoga instructor is gorgeous."
Clarke raised her eyebrows at her questioning her motives.
"And she's a great teacher." Octavia said quickly.
They began walking outside of the old apartment building and down the street toward the yoga studio.
"So remind me again what turned you onto Trikru yoga studio?" Clarke asked.
"Lincoln" Octavia answered smiling widely.
"Of course your new beau." Clarke said smiling more easily now. "I really do need to meet him one of these days."
"Well you would if you came out with me more often." Octavia chided teasingly pushing her. "I miss hanging out with you" her face became more serious a sense of reality washed over Clarke not wishing this line of conversation to continue she pointed toward the building just ahead of them.
"We're here aren't we?"
The yoga building was covered in paintings of trees and nature. The word Trikru scrawled on the top of the building in dark brown.
"Looks like an interesting place. How does Lincoln know about it?"
"He grew up with the owner." Octavia opened the door into the studio which was much larger than any yoga studio Clarke had seen. There were many rooms all designed in a forest theme. Everything looked and felt very natural and calming.
"They just do yoga here?" Clarke asked Octavia hanging her purse on the coat rack next to the door and kicking her shoes off into the corner of the room she had followed Octavia into.
"No they do Tai chi I think probably other stuff too." Octavia followed suit hanging her bag and pullover sweater onto the coat rack.
Octavia and Clarke grabbed two Yoga mats from the shelf at the back of the room and unrolled them at the back of the classroom. Even the mats were decorated with images of trees.
"Gosh they really like nature here eh?" Clarke noticed.
"Ya well you got a theme might as well stick with it. Makes them stand out other places anyway. And its pretty cool."
"Ya it is." Clarke nodded agreeing. She and Octavia began to stretch as more women began to enter the classroom.
"So how many times have you been here?"
"This is my second" O answered as she pulled her leg back behind her stretching her calves. "It really helps relax you."
"Mm" was said trying to copy Octavia's stretches. "So Lincoln does yoga?"
"Ya amongst other physical activities." Octavia smiled, "Hot right?"
Clarke laughed, "You always did like em sweaty."
A voice boomed throughout the room suddenly, "Ladies!"
All the students immediately fell silent and focused their attention onto the woman standing in the front of the room. Her hair was tied back in many braids, her green eyes sparkling as the sunlight from the left window hit her face. She smiled gently to the women in the class.
"I see we have a new face." She walked toward the back of the room nodding toward Clarke.
Clarke felt her heart begin to race, not enjoying attention being brought to her by a woman she had never met.
"And welcome back Octavia. I'm glad you enjoyed our first class." She smiled warmly toward her continuing to walk past them and around the rest of the room greeting many of the other woman.
"She sure knows how to command a room." Clarke whispered toward Octavia.
"shh" Octavia hushed her smiling at Clarke's entranced gaze on the instructor.
As she began the class Clarke began to worry about how out of shape she would look, feeling odd that she would feel embarrassed in front a woman she didn't know. She tried hard to stay focused and keep with the other students.
After the instructor had gone through some stretches she began doing some yoga poses. Clarke watched slowly quickly picking up each one finding that they were not so difficult for someone as inflexible and out of shape as she. She watched the class go into downward dog and heard the beautiful brunette instructor say, "For those of you who would like a challenge you can stretch one arm up while holding the pose."
Feeling cocky Clarke attempted this. It started out fine but she could feel her body begin to tremble, before she could put her arm down to regain her balance she felt herself roll backward knocking Octavia over in the process.
Clarke got up looking apologetically at Octavia who looked as though she was going to burst out laughing. Trying to maintain some composure and not interrupt the class they both went back to doing the pose. Clarke glanced toward the teacher to see if she had noticed. The instructor caught her gaze and smirked at her and mouthed "nice one". Clarke felt her face flush and looked down toward the mat below her.
The remainder of the class passed without incident; Clarke and Octavia very sweaty from the class. They began to slowly pack up and chat about the class.
"Way to go trying falling over the first class." Octavia laughed placing the rolled mat back onto the shelf, "Trying to impress?"
Clarke glared at her but chuckled a little, "It looked easier than it actually was."
Octavia laughed more, "Clarke you're a complete clutz, walking shouldn't look easy to you."
At this Clarke burst into laughter until she heard a voice behind her, "How'd you like the class?"
She turned to find herself gazing into piercing emerald eyes. She found she had completely lost her voice and did not answer the question only managing, "uh muh"
The brunette raised her eyebrows at the blonde turning her face to look behind her at Octavia.
Octavia couldn't help but laugh grabbing onto Clarke's shoulders to shake her back into reality, "Sorry she's recovering from that fall she took earlier."
The brunette grinned widely, "That was quite the fall. I must admit I was surprised to see you attempt the more challenging pose on your first class."
Clarke finally finding her voice said, "Ya I got a little to ambitious" she turned her eyes away from the instructors to stare down at the ground.
"That's alright nice to see some enthusiasm in new students. I'm Lexa by the way. You must be Clarke." Lexa extended her hand.
Clarke glanced back at Octavia piercingly wondering when Octavia had told this woman about her and what exactly she had said. Octavia grinned back. Clarke turned back toward Lexa and took her hand.
"Its nice to meet you." She smiled finding her emerald eyes again. She couldn't help but notice how beautiful they were.
They released their hand shake but Clarke continued to stare. "Did Octavia invite you to our party tonight?" Lexa asked holding Clarke's gaze.
"Oh um no?" She wanted to turn back toward Octavia but felt that she could not look away from Lexa.
"Well you are more than welcome to come. It is Trikru's anniversary. We have been open for an entire year. There will be food made by my good friend Indra, she is a marvelous chef, as well as a band… All the students are welcome."
"Sounds great" Clarke said nodding along realizing that she was agree to go to some party with a bunch of people she did not know. Something she would not have planned on doing when she got out of bed.
Lexa smiled widely, "Great I will see you tonight then. It was nice to meet you." As she walked away it seemed she suddenly remembered Octavia again, "Oh and good to see you to Octavia." She smiled as she walked out of the room.
Octavia grasped Clarke's shoulders excitedly, "She was definitely hitting on you! And you're coming to a party Clarke! Oh my God we need to get you new clothes."
Clarke allowed herself to be yanked away by her best friend as she ran through the events in her head again. Was Lexa hitting on her? And had she really enjoyed it? She felt a knot inside her stomach for the first time in a long time. She could not wait to see the woman again. This was both exciting and worrying all at the same time.