The next morning, Clarke met Raven and Octavia for breakfast in the cafeteria. It was Sunday, and they had decided to explore the campus before their classes started the next day.

"So how's your roommate?" Raven asked Clarke as they walked around campus, each carrying their schedules.

"Total nutjob?" Octavia asked with a smirk.

Clarke rolled her eyes, "No, she's okay actually. I'm still annoyed I lost rock, paper, scissors, but she's okay. She's pretty."

Raven raised her eyebrows and Octavia smirked, "She's pretty?" Raven questioned.

"Hey, not like that, I just met her," Clarke said defensively, rolling her eyes.

"Who cares if you just met her?" Octavia joked.

Clarke rolled her eyes, "Guys stop, she's my roommate. I have to live with her all year."

Raven and Octavia smirked and looked somewhat disbelievingly at Clarke. "I'm not seeing the downside to that, but fine, she's just your roommate."

The rest of the day passed with no more talk of Clarke's roommate until dinner time. It turned out all three girls had statistics together, a basic necessity for all of their majors.

Around six o'clock, they were all back in Raven and Octavia's dorm room. "What do you guys want to do for dinner?" Raven asked.

Octavia shrugged, "We could always go to the cafeteria?"

Raven wrinkled her nose. "Nah. what do you think Clarke?"

"We could go to this diner my roommate told me about? It's really good, I went there last night. It does takeout," Clarke suggested.

Raven shrugged, "Worth a shot."

"How did your roommate know about the diner?" Octavia asked after Clarke pulled it up on her phone. "It's all the way on the other side of campus."

"Lexa's sister went here for college," Clarke said. "Plus the diner does the college dining plan."

The girls agreed on the diner and took the 12 minute walk there, deciding against takeout and actually sitting down. They were placed at a table near the window and ordered their food. They spent the evening enjoying their last day together before classes started and they weren't able to do things like this as often as they had been.

"So, have you talked to Finn yet since he's moved in?" Octavia asked Raven.

Raven smiled at the mention of her boyfriend of two and a half years, "No. He texted me though. I'm gonna go see him tomorrow after my classes."

"Did he say anything about who he got roomed with?" Clarke asked, knowing Finn had been just as worried about that as she herself had been.

Raven sighed, "Yeah. He said his roommate's name is Murphy and is a complete ass, but apparently some older guy named Lincoln put him in his place after he was messing with some girls." Raven shrugged, and the other two girls winced. They all liked Finn; he and Raven had made doe eyes at each other all throughout freshman year of high school until they had finally gotten together.

"That sucks," Octavia said. The other two girls nodded in agreement.

"Hey, maybe you'll get a boyfriend this year?" Raven said to Octavia, raising her eyebrows and smirking as did Clarke.

"Maybe," Octavia laughed, brushing the comment off.

The night continued on with them joking with each other until they were finally forced to head back to their dorms. They all ended up agreeing with Clarke that the food was great.


When Lexa woke up the next morning, it was no longer morning and Clarke had long since left the room. Since she had already spent some of the day before finding all her classes, Lexa had the day to herself. She thought of calling Costia, but she was fairly sure from the texts she had gotten the night before that her girlfriend was still very hungover. Instead, Lexa decided to pull out the stack of books she had bought a few months ago and finally start one.

She looked around the dorm room-her roommate's stuff was still a little haphazardly unpacked and besides, Lexa had no idea when she would be back. She decided on going to the Panera a few minutes away and reading her book there for a while. Plus, the pumpkin coffees were in season early and she couldn't resist.

She grabbed her wallet and the first book from the pile, hoping she would be able to finish it, fully knowing she wasn't going to have time once classes started.

It turned out Panera was over packed, and Lexa only stayed for about a half an hour before she retreated back to her dorm room, deciding she would be more comfortable. She managed to get through her whole first book by lunch time, which wasn't really a monumental task considering how fast she reads. Lunch was one of the protein bars she had shoved under her bed and a bottle of tea. After getting about halfway through her second book, Lexa decided she should probably get up and do something productive for at least a little while. She triple checked her schedule, made sure she had all of her books packed up and decided on her outfit tomorrow.

All the while, she was glancing at her phone every five minutes to see if she had a text or a missed call from her girlfriend. All day there was nothing, and Lexa just hoped Costia was okay. She eventually lit a candle and settled back down to read her book, vaguely wondering when her roommate would be back.


When Clarke got back to her dorm room, the first thing she noticed was that it smelled like cinnamon. She looked over to Lexa's side where she had a Pumpkin-Cinnamon candle burning and Clarke couldn't help smile.

"Hey," Clarke said to alert Lexa, who was reading a book with music playing in the background, that she was there.

"Oh, hey Clarke," Lexa said, moving to turn the music off, but Clarke stopped her.

"No it's fine, you can leave that on if you want," Clarke said. Lexa nodded and smiled before turning back to her book.

Clarke sat down on her bed before getting up again to get her notebook and a pencil from her desk. It was one of the few things she actually knew where she put when unpacking. She sat back down and started sketching their dorm room and random objects around the room. She and Lexa stayed in comfortable silence, until a song came on that had Clarke curiously looking up at Lexa.

Lexa obviously wasn't really listening to to the music, but she looked up at Clarke when she felt Clark's eyes on her.

"What?" Lexa asked curiously.

"Oh, uh nothing," Clarke said smirking, "just this song."

"Wha-oh," Lexa said, blushing once she finally realized what was playing. "I-I bought it when Justin Bieber first came out, I just haven't deleted it." Her face was bright red as she reached for her phone to change the song, but by that time it had switched on its own.

Clarke couldn't help the smile that came across her face at Lexa's blush. It was adorable. "I bought it when it came out too, but it's been years since I've listened to it."

Lexa smirked, the blush fading a bit.

"So, what did you do all day?" Clarke asked her.

"Drank coffee and read," Lexa said, holding up the book in question. "You?" And she found she really was curious what her roommate had done all day.

"Found out where all my classes are. I took my friends, Octavia and Raven, to the diner you told me about for dinner," Clarke told her.

"What'd they think?" Lexa asked.

"They loved it just as much as I did," Clarke said with a smile.

Lexa smiled and nodded, "So what classes do you have?"

Clarke pulled out her schedule and read out her classes, as did Lexa. It turned out they shared psychology class together.

"So," Lexa said after a while, "I got these blue string lights for the dorm if you don't mind me putting them up?"

"Sure," replied Clarke, "as long as you don't mind the days the room smells like paint."

Lexa laughed, "Of course."

The girls spent the rest of the evening listening to Clarke's college playlist and setting up Lexa's lights around the room. It turned out they had a fairly similar taste in music, both agreeing about Imagine Dragons, though Lexa wasn't a Fall Out Boy fan, and Clarke didn't like Lexa's All Time Low music.

It was almost midnight when they both finally fell asleep.