This is just a little something that popped into my head! Consider it my way of celebrating!
June 26th 2015
Clarke trudged wearily towards the small locker room where med students stored their belongings, a familiar exhaustion weighing her body down and making her bones ache. Her eyes burned, a headache blooming in the back of her head, her feet beyond saw, numbness setting in. It had been a long day, a long week and an even longer month. But she had reached the light at the end of the tunnel, she was looking forward to three whole blissful days off. Three days she swore she would not leave her bed for, it would be easy enough to bribe Octavia to bring her food. The locker room was relatively quiet, two other med students Clarke vaguely recognized, were huddled in a corner chatting about something excitedly. Clarke cast them a questioning look but didn't have the energy to inquire further.
She opened her locker immediately digging around for her phone, her life essence, she was embarrassed to admit that she struggled to be without it through her long shifts. Always feeling disconnected and out of the loop. She switched it back on and placed it down again while she began to change from her sweaty scrubs. She was pulling on her George Town University hoodie on when her phone began buzzing incessantly, message after message lighting up the screen.
She reached for her phone again curious to see what was going on, hoping she hadn't missed something important.
Four messages from Raven, eight from Octavia, two from Jasper, one from her Mother and Bellamy as well as five new snapchats. She opened Octavia's messages first.
Octavia:
WE ARE GETTING OUR GAY ON TONIGHT ITS TIME TO CELEBRATE!
GAY MARRIAGE FOR THE WIN!
CLARKE? WHY AREN"T YOU REPLYING HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS?
THEY LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE
EQUAL RIGHTS BAAAABY!
NOW IF WE ARE BOTH SINGLE AT 35 WE CAN MARRY EACH OTHER! WINNING!
*Rainbow emoji*, *rainbow emoji*, *girls holding hands emoji*, *boys holding hand emoji.*
MEET US AT GROUNDERS TONIGHT WE"LL BE THE ONES BASKING IN THE GLORY OF THE RIGHT TO GET MARRIED!
Clarke dropped onto the bench behind her locker, hand covering her mouth as she re read Octavia's messages again making sure her tired brain hadn't read them wrong. The overwhelming exhaustion she felt moments ago forgotten. A smile tugging at her lips and butterflies dancing in her belly. Still unsure if she was really understanding what Octavia was saying.
She opened Raven's messages next her smile grew as she read them, they followed the same pattern as Octavia's just with more explicit language. Unable to contain her excitement and happiness any more she jumped from her seat and whooped loudly, throwing her arms up high and fist pumping the air.
"Boom baby!" She hollered. Another med student had joined her in the locker room he looked at her like he was worried that she had lost her mind. Clarke couldn't bring herself to care or to wipe the smile from her face. She just wiggled her eyebrows at the other student and continued her happy dance.
Calming down a few moments later, her phone recapturing her attention, she opened the message from her Mother.
Momma G:
Happy day today my girl! Still along way to go but it's a start!Love you, Mom xx *rainbow emoji*
Clarke felt happy tears welling in her eyes, she was so lucky to have such supportive amazing people I her life. She quickly replied to her Mother before starting a group message with Octavia and Raven.
To Octavia & RayRay
WHO'S READY TO PARTAAAAY!? I'LL SEE YOU LADY LOVING LADIES AT GROUNDERS AT 8! BE THERE OR BE STRAIGHT!
With renewed energy Clarke gathered her belongings from her locker, slipping her backpack, her smile grew as she checked all the new snap chats her friend had sent her. Her favorites being the one of Jasper and Monty kissing with the caption 'Finally. = rights', and Octavia and Raven also lip locked with a rainbow flag wrapped around them, a photo the definitely had help taking.
She all but skipped to her car, her steps light, her smile big. She dodged several people on her way as she scrolled through her Facebook page. More tears threatened to spill, she was utterly overwhelmed by the amount of support in her news feed, rainbows, rainbows everywhere! Facebook had never looked so pretty...or gay.
As she turned on the car Lady Gaga's Born This Way blasted through the stereo. Clarke drove home bopping along, tapping her hands on the steering wheel. She knew what her Mother had said was right, there was still along way to go for true equality to be achieved but tonight she would celebrate the monumental victory with her friends.
"Lexa!" Anya burst through their apartment door startling Lexa, who was sitting on the couch wrapped in a fuzzy blanket engrossed in a text book that Anya was sure weighed more than Lexa herself.
"You're going to rip the door from its hinges one of these days," Lexa scolded not looking up from her book.
"What is this? What's going on? What are you doing?" Anya exclaimed, violently waving her arms around gesturing towards Lexa.
"Studying," Lexa answered blankly.
"I'm confused." Anyway paused. "Have you not heard the news?" Anya hadn't expected Lexa to be jumping for joy, she wasn't the type, but she had expected the girl to be a little more excited.
"Yeah I did, it's great, Uncle Gus and Wayne can get married now." Lexa said smiling slightly at the thought of her Uncle marrying his long time partner. She quickly buried her head back in her text book, turning her body away from Anya, trying to end the discussion.
"No!" Anya exclaimed. "No, no, no, no!" She shook her head in disbelief before yanking the text book from Lexa's hands, followed by her glasses. Carelessly placing both items on the coffee table.
"Hey stop! What are you doing?!" Lexa protested. "You're acting like a child!"
"No! I am not letting you sit at home and continue to mope! Especially tonight!" She pulled the blanket roughly from Lexa's shoulders.
"I'm not moping!" Lexa argued, wrestling with Anya for the blanket, she didn't win. Anya tossed it across the living room.
"You totally are! And I'm sick of it! Costia was a bitch and she didn't deserve you. So you are going to get up-" She pulled Lexa from the couch. "-and go put on something slutty, because we are going to celebrate this momentous occasion" Anya pushed a disgruntled Lexa to her bedroom. "Just think of all the girls who will be out tonight! It's the perfect night for some rebound sex!" Anya started going through Lexa's wardrobe, tossing her a short black dress.
"I don't think lesbian rebound sex is what they had in mind when they changed the constitution," Lexa rolled her eyes.
"Shush! Go into that bathroom and do not come out until you are ready to party," Anya ordered, shoving Lexa roughly into the bathroom.
"Well I just wont come out then!" Lexa called, smirking.
"Lexa you have been out since you were fourteen so I find that hard to believe! Anyway I am not above coming in their and stripping you myself!" Anya yelled back.
"Jeez, relax, calm down." Lexa relented. Okay maybe Anya was right. It had been three weeks since she came home to find Costia, with her head between another girls legs, in her bed. Maybe a night out was exactly what she needed.
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