As kids we all love to play games, some are more entertaining than others. You can play all of them but there is one game. A game that you never, never should play even when it is your best friend who suggests it. The purpose of this game is to burry yourself in a block of cement.
This outrageous game started with a pretty house, a pretty school bus with no driver, a pretty tin box and a pretty girl.
In fact, this game began earlier with the ugliest word Lexa ever heard which means nothing at all. Metastasis, a word Lexa doesn't understand as a seven years old. Nonetheless, she hates it because the word makes her mother cry and Lexa's tiny heart aches whenever she sees the person she loves the most in the world cry.
There are other words Lexa hates for example the word 'ChubbyGriffin' don't try to get the meaning of it because it means nothing and everything bad. For Lexa, it means that her best friend is being bullied and is hurting. For Lexa it means that Clarke's blue eyes are shining with tears.
This game started one morning when Lexa was going to school and run into her mother's bedroom to kiss her before leaving. She finds her laying on the bed with a pretty little tin box in hands.
"What is it mom?" Lexa asks jumping on bed with her mother.
"It's a treasure" Her mother whispers and Lexa's green eyes brighten.
"Really?" Her eyes grow wide with eagerness and her mother nods.
"It's a beautiful box, a beautiful treasure" Lexa says studying the box.
"You like it?" Her mother asks happily and Lexa smiles "Yeah, very much"
"Then keep it. It's a treasure from me to you"
Lexa hugs her mother tightly "Thank you mom, what about you? Don't you want a treasure?" Lexa asks thoughtful.
Anya smiles at her "I already have one. You're my treasure, Lexa" Lexa climbs further on her mother's lap and kisses her when her father barges in "It's time to leave, the school bus is downstairs Lexa" He fists her shirt and drags her out of her mother's reach. Lexa's heart breaks each day a little bit more whenever she has to leave for school because she is always taken away from her mother.
Indeed, the school bus is already outside but the driver is not inside. Lexa can hear a bunch of kids screaming all at the same time names and the word she hates the most. They are all laughing looking from the school bus' windows at Clarke who is kneeling on the ground collecting her books while the driver is helping her.
Lexa notices Clarke's pretty face and red cheeks glistening with tears and her heart aches. She walks closer to her with a friendly smile "Clarke?"
"You're mistaken, you mean ChubbyGriffin?" Clarke spits back angrily.
Lexa looks back at the bullies who are still making fun of Clarke and decides that Clarke too needs something special, something precious that may brighten up her day so she chooses to share with her the only precious thing she owns, the tin box her mother just gave her.
"Thanks" Clarke smiles at her.
"You'll lend it to me from time to time?" Lexa asks knowing that she might need it one of these days. She gave it to Clarke so they could share it.
"If you want it, prove it to me. Dare or not?" Clarke challenges Lexa.
And this is how the game really started.
Lexa looks defiantly at Clarke and runs to the school bus. She pulls down the hand brake and jumps out. The school bus starts moving heading straightly at the Jaha's house; the prettiest house in the neighborhood; and the kids start screaming freaking out and crying.
Clarke's eyes widen in shock, she can't believe Lexa just avenged her and made the bullies cry and piss their pants. She looks at Lexa who winks at her "Game". Clarke smiles and pushes the tin box back in Lexa's hands.
Soon, Titus comes and starts punishing his daughter, hitting her "What did you do? What did you do? Are you going to answer me?"
"Nothing" Lexa cries out then when she sees Clarke she cries for her help "He's hitting me, Clarke"
"No, don't!" Clarke boldly interjects standing between Lexa and her father "You don't have the right. Stop it. Stop it" Clarke insists.
Titus can't stand his daughter disobeying let along call for help the Griffin's daughter. He pushes her yelling at her too "Shut up, I'm talking with my daughter" Titus looks back at Lexa "Lexa, answer me!" He orders before hitting her again.
Lexa looks at Clarke "I don't want him to hit me"
"He won't. Dare!" Clarke promises and starts helping Lexa to get out of her father's death grip. It only ignites Titus' anger and he slaps Clarke instead and takes his daughter away. Lexa looks back at Clarke and throws the box back to her, she dared her and she proved herself. Titus never liked Clarke even before this incident.
From that day, the game was set up by itself. If Clarke had the tin box, she could dare Lexa for a challenge. When Lexa achieves it, she wins back the box.
Then, it is Lexa's turn to dare Clarke so she can win. This is their game, the one that always brought a smile back on their faces and of course always got them in trouble. A game they invented together. A stupid game? Maybe. But it was their game. They set up the rules and have to comply with it.