It was a cool summer's morning, and the Griffin household was stirring. In fact- it was hectic. Everyone was running around, making sure they had exactly what they needed.

"Raven, do you have your pain medication?"

"Yeah, Abby I got it." Raven was not a morning person, and had a high level of sass when she addressed Abby Griffin.

"Clarke! Honey let's go!"

"I can't find it! Mom, I can't leave without it!" She came running downstairs in a fit of anxiety.

"Leave what, honey?"

"My sketch book, Mom! It's the only thing that keeps me sane when you guys-" Her dad came into view, dangling a battered, leather covered book in front of her face. She blushed feeling a sense of guilt rush over her.

"…Thanks dad."

"Jake, honey, is all of our stuff in the car?"

"Yes, sweetheart, the Blake's have already left, so we need to go now. I'd rather not miss a flight, taking us to a one month cruise."

They all piled into the car, as Abby barked a checklist for everyone, making sure they have everything.

"Raven your brace!"

"Chill, Mrs. G. I wouldn't have been able to get to the car if I didn't have my brace."

"Right. Okay we're good. Totally okay."

Jake Griffin took his wife's hand into his, "everything is going to be okay. Relax. That's what this trip is for."

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"Octavia, will you wake up? We have to leave in 20 minutes." Her brother threw a pillow at her in attempt to stir the girl.

"Good, that means I have 15 more minutes to sleep."

"Oh, no it doesn't. Your ass is getting up right now." Her brother walked to the bed and picked his sister up and flung her over his shoulder.

"Bellamy, you asshole! Put me down or I swear to god I will end your fucking life."

"Octavia Jamari Blake! I don't ever want to hear you speak to your brother like that again!"

Bellamy set her down at the bottom of the stairs, and blocked her way so she couldn't run back up to her room. "I am not going to miss our flight because you wanted to sleep more. Get your ass into the bathroom and get ready."

"Bellamy Atticus!" Mrs. Blake spoke, "Jesus Lord, how did my kids get to be so corrupted?" She trailed off the end of her question, as if asking herself, rather than her family.

Octavia gave one final glare to her brother and walked into the bathroom. She took her sweet time in hopes to piss her bother off even more. She heard her dad come barreling through the house.

"Okay Blakes'! Let's get a move on!" She heard a pounding on the door, but it wasn't Bellamy on the other side. "Let's go, Octavia!" She heard her dad yell. She could live with pissing off Bellamy, but she couldn't piss off her dad. Mostly because she was daddy's little girl.

"Coming daddy!" She yelled back, quickly finishing up in the bathroom, and running to meet her family in the car.

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The Griffins arrived at the airport in perfect timing. They went through bag check, then security, and they finally reached their gate, and were greeted by a happy, but not-so-happy, Blake family. The men shook hands, first Jake and Matheus (Mr. Blake), then Jake and Bellamy. Raven and Clarke moved to sit next to their best friend, Octavia.

"I swear, if I don't kill Bellamy by the end of this trip it'll be a fucking miracle." The group went off into their own sections. The guys, the moms, and the girls. There was an announcement that they were boarding the plan, and the group waited respectively before boarding.

"As much as it sucked waking up at the ass crack of dawn, I'm beyond excited for this trip." Raven said as the three girls took their seats. Clarke took the window, Octavia sat in the middle, and Raven took the isle.

"I know. A one month cruise around the Caribbean? And with my best friends? It doesn't get better than this."

The plane took off and in the next few hours, they would be in Orlando, ready to get to the loading dock for their cruise.

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It was hectic as everyone tried to push their ways onto the ship: it was gigantic, and classy, and just down right amazing. Chandeliers hung from the low parts of the ceilings, and the ship stretched up so tall you got dizzy from staring. Eventually the Blake-Griffin group managed to get on together and make it to their rooms. Octavia, Raven, Bellamy, and Clarke, had an adjoining room. Clarke and Raven on one side, Octavia and Bellamy on the other. They all settled in and threw on their bathing suits, ready to tan on deck. As they all left the room together, then ran into their parents coming out of the rooms just across the hall.

"Alright kids here's the rundown. Today we have the day to ourselves. Basically do whatever, as long as you stay out of trouble." He narrowed his eyes at the three girls, who responded with offended looks, but before they could protest, Jake continued. "Dinner is at 7 every night, and everyone will be going every night. When we dock and go to land we must know where you are at all times. Please do not max out our cards by giving us an immense bill to pay at the end. Be considerate, okay?"

The kids all nodded and started on their way. "Oh and kids? Please be careful with drinking? I'm aware we're on international waters, but you're all still under aged in our eyes." They all smirked.

"We'll try dad." Jake sighed because he knew that was the best answer he was going to get. The kids walked away and made their way to the deck. Bellamy set his stuff down on a chair and left to go scope out some girls, while Clarke, Octavia, and Raven, all laid down in the sun.

"So, who's trying to get laid on this cruise?" Raven asked and Octavia shot her hand up into the air.

"You best believe I'm going to find me a hunk to sleep with when I want it."

"What about you Clarke?"

"Probably not, but hey a lot can happen in a month. If it does, it does. If it doesn't, no big deal."

Raven scoffed.

"Lame." Octavia retorted. "We'll find you someone, Clarke. Guy or Girl? We'll make it happen." The three talked and argued all day as they lay down on their chairs. After about an hour of tanning, Clarke finally spoke up.

"Pool anyone?"

"Yeah, it's kind of hot, I could use a good dip in the pool."

The three made their way over to the pool area and entered in the shallow end, moving to an underwater ledge to sit down.

"This water tastes weird…" Octavia said as she made a face, spitting water out of her mouth.

"That's cause its salt water, you bimbo." Clarke told her, a slight chuckle to her voice. They saw Bellamy in the corner of the pool, talking up some red-headed chick. In all honesty he could probably do better, but hey his choice right? The girls waded in the water as they people watched across the deck.

"Holy shit." Octavia and Clarke said in unison as they watched two people approach the deck.

"Do you see that guy?" She asked as her jaw dropped to the bottom of the pool. Octavia was looking at the most beautiful man she has ever seen. He was the definition of tall, dark, and handsome. His body was chiseled by the Greek Gods themselves, and he had a smile that lit up the whole boat deck, it was as if this man was the sun to brighten up the day. Octavia stared at this beautiful man, her jaw still open in awe.

Clarke; however, was looking at the girl he was with. She was shorter, but her long legs, her long sexy legs, stretched on for miles. Her hair fell in curls on her shoulders and back, covering what looked to be multiple tattoos. Her eyes were a piercing shade of green, and her body, oh her body was magnificent. Her black bikini complemented her sun-kissed, tan skin perfectly. Her stomach was toned with abs and a slight sparkle of sweat, her legs were muscular, and her arms were defined. Clarke ignored everything else around her, all she wanted to do was stare at this girl forever.

"Will you two stop drooling? I'm pretty sure this pool isn't salt water anymore. Also who are you staring at? I don't see anyone that strikes-" Clarke gripped Raven's face, her eyes never leaving the beautiful, sun kissed girl, and turned her head in the direction of the two people.

"Oh shit. Hot dayum. What I wouldn't give to be on top of both of them right now." Clarke and Octavia nodded, agreeing with their friend.

"Dibs." Clarke and Lexa called at the same time. This trip should be interesting.

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"We need a plan to get their attention."

"Just go up and talk to them…" Raven said.

"No, Raven, are you insane? We'd just look straight up desperate." Octavia paced the deck in front of their chairs. "Okay well we saw the people they were with. What if we went through them? Started a conversation, became friends. We're bound to meet them if we become friends with their friends."

Raven moaned while Clarke contemplated. "Clarke?" Octavia looked over at her friend.

"How are we going to get to the friends?"

Octavia pondered for a second, thinking hard. "We run into them on accident! Start up a casual conversation, ask if they want to join us for a drink, bam friends!"

Clarke nodded slowly as she processed this plan, "Okay, that could work. Are you sure we're not over thinking this?"

"Of course you-"

"Absolutely not." Octavia answered. She looked up towards the pool area and spotted the group. It wasn't just the hot guy and girl anymore, they now had two more girls and one guy by their side.

"Goddamn they're all so attractive. They have to be related. Oh my-" Octavia's face dropped, as she continued to look she saw her brother walk over to the group. "Bellamy is there! Right now!" Clarke and Raven shot up.

"O, this is our chance, let's go!" The three of them left their things and walked over to Bellamy who was talking to the insanely attractive group of five.

"Bellamy!" Octavia shouted as the three walked over to them. He looked over and smiled at them.

"Well looky here, the golden trio has managed to grace us with their presence." He bowed at the three of them. "How was the tanning?"

"Great how was the flirting?" Bellamy tensed and Clarke looked over to see one of the girls with her head buried in her chest, trying not to laugh. Octavia most definitely messed that up, and Clarke couldn't help but choke back a laugh.

"Why you laughing, Princess?"

"No reason." She said chuckling. She looked up and caught the eyes of the girl from earlier. Clarke swallowed hard, she was lost in her gaze and didn't want to let go, but to her disappointment the other girl didn't want the same thing, and she dropped her gaze from Clarke's eyes to her lap.

Octavia turned to the group, "Hi! I'm Octavia, this is Clarke, and Raven, and this is my annoying brother, Bellamy."

"I'm Anya," said a tall, skinny girl with dirty-blonde hair, the one Clarke had caught laughing into her chest, "this is Echo," she pointed to the blonde haired girl to her left, "that's Lexa, Gustus, and Lincoln. Gustus is my brother, Lexa and Lincoln are brother and sister, and Echo is our cousin. We're all cousins." They are all related. And the two hottest ones on the ship are brother and sister.

"We were going to go get some drinks, would you guys care to join? It'd be nice to make some friends on this trip." Octavia eyed Lincoln and smiled, the muscular dude returned it.

"I'm in," he said standing. The others mimicked.

"Sure why not." The only one who didn't stand or say anything was Lexa.

"Lex, come on."

"Eh, I don't really want to go."

"Can you please attempt to be social for once?" Her cousin, Anya asked. Lexa didn't answer, she only glared at her cousin before rolling her eyes and standing with the rest.

"Lead the way," Lincoln said to Octavia with a smirk on his face.

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The group dispersed when everyone needed to get ready for dinner. Clarke decided to wear a simple blue sundress, with sandals. Octavia and Raven chose something similar, while Bellamy wore a white button down, with the sleeves rolled up, and black board shorts.

"My God, you look like a total Frat dude." Raven teased.

"Maybe that's because, I am?" Bellamy responded sharply, not wanting to deal with Raven's shit.

They met their parents in the foyer before the dining room. They asked about their days making casual conversation when Jake waved to someone.

"Indra! Titus!" He walked over to greet the two random people, and brought them over to introduce them.

"Guys this is Indra and Titus. They will be joining us for dinner, along with their families." Leave it to Clarke's dad to make new friends and bring them to dinner all in the same day.

"How many more are we waiting on?" Jake asked, his large smile never leaving his face.

"Five kids, and one adult." Indra spoke very strongly, Octavia was mesmerized by the woman. She just looked tough.

"Sound like a handful."

"You have no idea…" Titus added. Clarke got the feeling that when something didn't go his way he would be someone you didn't want to deal with.

"Here they are." The group turned their attention to the people approaching them, a huge smile forming on Octavia's face.

"So you're the mysterious group we're eating dinner with?" Lincoln asked with a gentle smirk.

"Long time no see." Bellamy said greeting Anya. Lexa was standing next to her brother, looking less than amused.

"Wait, you guys know each other?" Abby asked as the parents all looked between the kids.

"We met earlier today." Clarke told her mother, "We all hung out for a little bit."

"Well what are the odds of that?" Jake said excitedly. He reached out his hand to the tall blonde women standing next to Echo, "Nia, very nice to see you again." They introduced their kids to the adults. It was clear to see that Indra and Titus were Anya and Gustus' parents, and Nia was Echo's mom, but Lexa and Lincolns parents seemed to be missing. They all made their ways to the back of the overly large dining room, adults at one table, kids at the other.

They all took their seats, Octavia next to Lincoln, and Clarke away from Lexa. Clarke noticed while getting drinks that Lexa was not the social type at all, and was a little bit rude. But that didn't stop Clarke from thinking about how gorgeous this girl was. They ordered their food and the table grew loud as they all talked over each other.

"I'm not saying Wick is a bad guy, I'm just saying I don't know him. And you have a bad track record with guys." Bellamy was lecturing Raven on her new found relationship with a guy named Kyle Wick.

"Not as bad as Clarke's" Raven retorted.

"So true." Bellamy and Octavia agreed, chuckling in unison. Now everyone at the table was listening to the conversation.

"I do not have a bad track record! The only bad one was Finn."

"Whatever happened with you and him, Princess? I never got the full story." Bellamy asked.

"He cheated on me like seven times, all with different girls." Clarke spoke animatedly

"I swear I'll beat the s-"

"Relax, Bellamy, Clarke got her revenge." Octavia said with a smirk, while Clarke sported an evil smile on her face. Octavia chuckled and Raven said, "Oh this is good."

"What'd you do?"

"I slept with his sister." She shrugged with a devilish smile. "After I broke up with him of course…"

Lincoln and Bellamy's mouths dropped, Anya and Echo were smiling at each other with a look only they knew, Gustus just stared, clearly unimpressed with everything.

Lexa's eyes were wide in surprise, and Raven and Octavia just cackled with laughter.

"How'd that go over with Finn?"

"Oh he was fucking pissed." Raven answered.

"Bell, you should have seen his face! I wish I was recording."

"Clarke how on earth did you even think of that?"

She shrugged again, "His sister was hot, I was mad. Let me just say the sex was great. Way better then Finn ever was." Lexa choked on her water, sending her into a coughing fit.

"So…Are you, bisexual Clarke?" Echo asked with the same smile that she was giving Anya earlier. Lincoln smirked as well, and Clarke took a sip of her water nodding her head, "Yeah."

"Good ole Clarkey here gets all the babes." Raven stated patting Clarke on the back.

"Really now? Well isn't that just funny because-" Anya was silenced by a foot to her shin. "Ow! What the fuck?" She said turning to Lexa, who just glared at her. Everyone but Echo and Lincoln, who were trying to contain their laughter, seemed to be confused by the action. They just chuckled to themselves.

"That really fucking hurt."

"That was the point." Lexa said sharply, taking a sip of her water. Clarke eyed the girl suspiciously, and Lexa glanced at her quickly before turning her gaze else wear.

"What Anya was going to say was," Echo began. Lexa's eyes shot up to her cousin.

"Oh boy." Lincoln laughed and Octavia gave him a confused look, along with everyone else at the table.

"Is that good ole Lexa here, is also interested in girls." Echo finished and Lexa slammed her face into her hands. Clarke tried to hide her surprise, Lexa was seriously uncomfortable, but she couldn't help it. Raven didn't try to hide it though. Her jaw was wide open, as a gasp left her lips. She went to say something when Clarke stopped her. She put a hand on her shoulder and shook her head, eyes stern. Lexa noticed this and wondered why Clarke was doing that, she had been a little rude to the girl earlier today.

"Can I ask you some questions?" Raven quickly said ignoring Clarke's gaze.

"Raven seriously?"

"What? I have some questions for the girl!"

"Raven she obviously doesn't want to talk about it."

"What? Are you not open about your sexuality?" Raven questioned innocently, once again ignoring Clarke.

"Raven."

"No I'm open. I just don't feel like it needs to be everyone's business." Lexa finally spoke as she glared at her cousins.

"She's right, it doesn't." Clarke agreed and Lexa shot her gaze over to Clarke, blue eyes meeting green.

"Clarke you were literally just telling us all about sex with your ex-boyfriends sister."

"Yeah because I don't care that people know about that. Lexa clearly does and it bothers her. So if you want to ask questions, ask me. Not her." Clarke defended and Lexa felt a weight off her shoulders. This girl, who she barely knew, and was rude to, was defending her when she needed it. Their gazes met again and Lexa nodded her thank you. She was definitely going to be nicer the Clarke from now on.

There was a prolonged silence that fell over the group, and it was a little bit awkward. Anya cleared her throat before speaking, gaining everyone's attention.

"So, how old is everyone?"

"Clarke, Raven and I are 18, Bellamy is 20." Octavia responded, "What about you guys?"

"I'm 20." Anya said.

"21." Echo stated after Anya. Gustus wasn't planning on answering, so Anya spoke for him. "Gustus is also 21."

Lexa and Lincoln didn't answer yet and Anya had a slight smirk on her face.

"Lexa and Lincoln are 19." Clarke and Octavia looked over at each other quickly before Clarke asked, "You guys are twins?" She asked with a tone of surprise.

Lexa nodded with a sly smirk.

"Who's older?" Octavia asked after a slight pause in the conversation.

The siblings responded at the same time.

"I am." Said Lexa.

While Lincoln said, "It doesn't matter." That caused their cousins to laugh, even Gustus, leaving Lincoln very annoyed.

"We're twins, it doesn't matter."

"Yes it does. I'm older." Lexa said, and by her tone Clarke could tell she was provoking her brother. Lincoln really does not like being the younger one.

"By three minutes!"

"Still." Lexa shrugged and this made Clarke laugh. Lexa turned to Clarke and her stomach fluttered. Lexa wasn't going to lie, when she first saw Clarke walk up on the boat deck, she thought she was beautiful, and whenever she looked into the ocean blue eyes of Clarke, she was lost at sea—figurative speaking of course. The two gave each other a soft smile, when Lexa felt a light kick to her leg. She turned to see that Anya had a suggestive look on her face after seeing the girl's interaction.

"Kick me again and I'll rip your foot off." Lexa mumbled to Anya so no one could hear. Anya leaned in close, to whisper in her cousin's ear.

"We all know you have the hots for Clarke, we could see it when the girl first walked up. Make your move Lex. A month on a cruise with a beautiful girl like Clarke? What could be better?"

"You staying the fuck out of my love life that's what." Lexa whispered in response, as she turned to her food. Anya smirked, and did the same. As dinner went on Lexa could see Clarke stealing glances at her out of the corner of her eye, and Lexa thought maybe Anya was right. She lifted her head up and caught Clarke mid-stare, watching the girl burrow her head into her chest, acting like nothing happened. Lexa smiled.

'Anya may be right. But I can't let her know that, I'd never hear the end of it.' Lexa thought to herself. And she began to think of a way to get Clarke alone.