For almost two days Lexa had been constantly staring at phone. Wondering what she could possibly say to Clarke that would sound smooth and collected, much unlike the blond was at their first meeting. The memory caused Lexa to smile, which (because she was sat watching a movie with her best friend) seemed very random and slightly weird.
"What's got the ice-queen smiling. Or who should I say?" Anya smirked.
"Nothing" Lexa tried to respond causally, but it came out as more of a mumble.
This made Anya scoff and turn so her body was faced towards Lexa.
"Yeah sure. Come on spill the beans" Anya teased, elbowing her lightly in the ribs.
Lexa paused for a second and thought about the consequences of telling her best friend. 1. She would be teased forever. 2. If she ever did meet up with Clarke, Anya would make sure to tell embarrassing stories. But on the other hand, she would get to tell someone about Clarke.
"Ok right I was at the park the other-"
"Why were you at the park? It's outside you know, and you don't do outside." Anya chucked, causing Lexa to frown at the interruption.
"If you're going to interrupt then I won't tell the story." Lexa said, reaching for the remote to play the movie.
Anya rolled her eyes at her friends stubbornness and took away the remote before Lexa could get to it.
"Oh for gods sake just tell me the story, I know you're dying to."
Lexa chose to ignore that last part, only because of how accurate it was.
"Ok. I was at the park the other day you know casually strolling around. Then I heard this woman start screaming, and I saw a little girl running towards a pond. So long story short I saved her from drowning, the mom, Clarke, asked if she could take me out for coffee, I asked for her number, told her I'd call her. And I haven't..." Lexa trailed off awkwardly, knowing how annoyed Anya got when she didn't call people back.
"Wow heroic. And come on why haven't you called her! When was this?"
"2 days ago-"
"2 days! Right you are calling her now, screw movie night I'm not letting you go until I see you talking to her." Anya demanded, taking Lexa's phone from her and scrolling through her contacts before she reached Clarke.
"It's late, she's probably already gone to bed." Lexa tried to argue, but once Anya had an idea in her head you couldn't get it out.
Before Lexa could snatch her phone back, Anya pressed the call button on Lexa's contact page. Causing Lexa to hit her friend repeatedly whilst it was beginning to ring.
"Why. Did. You. Do. That!" She exclaimed, extenuating every word with a hit on the arm.
"Hey violence is never the answer!" Anya put her hands up in self-defence
Suddenly the ringing stopped and a voice caused both girls to freeze.
"Hello?"
Lexa recognised it as Clarke's, but was too afraid to answer it. Fed up of Lexa's awkwardness, Anya took the phone from her hands and spoke into the receiver.
"Hi this is Anya, Lexa's friend."
Lexa's eyes widened in panic, and she began to wrestle her friend for the phone.
"Yeah Lexa is just here, I'll pass you over to her."
Throwing the phone at Lexa, who almost dropped it out of clumsiness, breathed a sigh of relief that Anya didn't say anything else.
"Hi Clarke, yes it's Lexa this time." She chuckled, finally bringing the phone to her ear.
"Hi Lexa. How are you?" Clarke asked, rather too formal for Lexa's liking.
"Yeah not bad. Sorry I didn't call you sooner. I was just worried I'd catch you at a bad time, or-"
"Or she was just too nervous to call you because she already loves you!" Anya yelled from the kitchen.
Lexa prayed Clarke didn't hear, but the chuckle from the other end told her otherwise.
"It's ok don't worry about it. I wish I would've got your number though. Katie hasn't shut up about you for two days. I think even her teachers are fed up of her talking about Lexa the hero" Clarke giggled.
Lexa reminded herself to do everything she could to hear that laugh again, it made her stomach erupt with butterflies.
"Thank you again for doing what you did." Clarke added.
"Stop thanking me, I just did what any other person would've done." Lexa smiled.
"Oh stop being so flipping modest!" She heard Anya call out again.
"So umm...When do you want to go out for coffee?" Lexa realised the boldness of her words too late.
"Shouldn't I be the one asking that. You did save my daughter from falling into a pond."
Lexa could hear the smile in Clarke's voice, which was quickly reciprocated by the brunette.
"When are you free?" Lexa asked.
Clarke went silent for a second, thinking about her diary.
"I can do this Thursday? If that's okay with you?"
Unknowingly to Lexa, Clarke was crossing her fingers. She wanted to see the brunette beauty as soon as was possible.
"Yeah I'm free then. I'll pick you up at 7?" Lexa asked, starting to feel the nervous butterflies in her stomach.
"I thought we were just going to go for coffee?" Clarke chuckled.
"Well I thought considering I practically saved your daughters life, I might deserve a little more than coffee." Lexa joked, hoping Clarke wouldn't take her seriously.
The laugh on the other end of the receiver put her at ease.
"Maybe you do. I'll text you-"
Suddenly Clarke stopped talking, making Lexa very curious. She could hear Clarke further away as if she'd put the phone down, and another voice talking.
"Sorry Lexa, Katie is here and she demands to speak to you. You don't have to if you don't want too."
Lexa could hear Clarke getting slightly flustered, and decided to calm the other girls nerves.
"No no it's fine, I'd love to talk to her."
Lexa heard a few movements before a little voice piped up from the phone.
"Hi Lexa!"
Lexa had to stop herself laughing immediately, finding the little girl just too cute.
"Hi Katie, how are you."
The new name caught Anya's attention, and she mouthed the word 'who?' To which Lexa told he she'd tell her later.
"I'm good! Momma said I can't go to the park tomorrow. And I said can I go if you were there, and she still said no!"
"She didn't did she!? Well I'll have to sort that out with her won't I?" Lexa gasped in a childish voice.
"Yes you will." Katie confirmed, and Lexa guessed that she was nodding her head as well.
Suddenly Clarke's voice came back on the phone. "Sorry about that Lexa. But you two better not gang up on me." She joked.
"I won't don't worry" Lexa laughed along with Clarke.
"Anyway, thanks for talking to her. And I'll text you my address for Thursday."
"Can't wait." Lexa flirted.
Immediately after she hoped she didn't seem to forward, or too eager. But Clarke either didn't notice, or felt the same.
"Me too. I've got to go now and put Katie to bed, she really should've gone to sleep almost an hour ago. I'll see you on Thursday."
Lexa again could hear the smile in Clarke's voice.
"See you on Thursday. Bye Clarke."
After pressing end call, Lexa felt like she could squeal with excitement. Although that soon disappeared, once she saw Anya reappear. Boy was she in for a whole lot of questions.
Thursday couldn't have come slower for Clarke. Though work had been keeping her busy and her mind distracted, she frequently found her thoughts returning to the brunette. Even her class had noticed something different about her teacher. They had interrogated her, but Clarke refused to tell them anything. She didn't want to jinx it.
Katie had also not stopped reminding her about Lexa. It seemed her daughter had taken more of a liking to the green eyed woman than Clarke herself had.
On Thursday evening, Clarke was in a panic. Katie was sat in the living room watching frozen to keep her occupied, whilst Raven and Octavia were rooting through the blond's wardrobe to find her an outfit. So far it had proven a failure, due to the limited nights out Clarke had had since her daughter was born.
"It's a lost cause! There's nothing for me to wear." Clarke sighed dramatically, or at least Octavia and Raven thought she did.
"Gods sake stop being melodramatic." Octavia rolled her eyes, still pulling out items of clothing onto an ever increasing pile of tops, jeans and dresses.
"Can't I just go in a shirt?" Clarke tried to reason with them.
"Ummm...No" Raven stated bluntly, turning back to Clarke's now almost empty wardrobe.
Falling back on the bed in exasperation, Clarke felt like it was hopeless. Until a gasp from Octavia brought the blond sitting up straight.
"Bingo! See I told you we'd find something!" Octavia announced.
As she pulled out the small blue dress, Clarke gave her a pointed look.
"I'm not wearing that" She grabbed the dress from Octavia's grasp, inspecting the style and length. "I don't think it will even fit me. I bought it before I gave birth to Katie"
"There's only one way to find out. We'll be waiting." Raven said, pointing towards the bathroom.
"Can't I just get changed in here?"
"Nope you need a big entrance, now go on you're running out of time until the date!" Octavia pushed her in the direction of the bathroom.
"It's not a date!" Clarke called out behind her.
Raven and Octavia scoffed jokingly, knowing that even if it wasn't. Clarke wished it was.
Both girls chatted between themselves whilst waiting for Clarke to return. Their conversation was halted once the bedroom door swung open.
Both of them opened their mouths in shock. Clarke was stood, hand resting against the doorframe with a smirk on her face. The deep blue dress came up to about mid thigh, it fitted snugly but not too tightly around her figure and had a reasonable neck line. Didn't show too much cleavage, but at the same time wasn't too covered up. It was more of a summery dress, but it suited the occasion just the same.
"Damn girl!"
Clarke blushed at Raven's comment, and immediately began to rethink the outfit.
"It's not too much is it? What if she decides to go casual, or-"
"Stop it now, you're overthinking. Just wear that, be yourself and she'll fall for you no problem." Octavia reassured.
"I don't want her to fall for me, it's not even a date." Clarke blushed, scratching the back of her neck awkwardly.
"You're good at lots of things my friend, but lying isn't one of them." Octavia laughed.
"Now come on, we've got a lot to do before lover girl arrives!"
Lexa almost rethought ringing the buzzer to Clarke's apartment, but her desperation to see the blond again fought against her nerves.
Pressing the button Lexa waited anxiously for a reply.
Knocking on her apartment door, Lexa heard a few shuffles before it swung open. Her jaw almost dropped when she caught the appearance of Clarke, but she managed to contain herself. Instead she smiled widely, causing the blond to blush and her friends to push her out the door wishing her a good time.
"You look beautiful Clarke." Lexa admitted as they walked out the building into the cold night air.
Clarke shivered slightly and chuckled "Yeah I probably should've worn something warmer. You look lovely as well."
Lexa looked down at her appearance, wearing the outfit that Anya had had no say in otherwise she would've been as cold as Clarke.
"Are you ready?" Lexa asked, offering her arm to link.
Taking it, she hoped not to eagerly, Clarke smiled before adding. "Definitely."