Hope you guys liked the first chapter. I'm not sure how long this story will be, but hopefully it will last a while. Let me know what you think, again if there are any errors, let me know.
Lunch ends up being used to discuss my mysterious new roommate.
"I swear she must be some kind of super human experiment, grown in a lab." Octavia says around a mouthful of peanut butter and jelly.
Raven gives her a disgusted look, "No, she's defiantly normal human, did you see those scars when she was doing the pull up test. I don't think a super human would have scars like those." Raven did have a fair point. Lexa was covered in white scars that contrasted with her tanned skin like a white streak on a black canvas.
"There's probably a perfectly normal explanation for how she got those scars. Also, we know she's been playing football probably before she started high school, so we can assume she has been working out since middle school. And I'm sure having to play with all guys all the time hasn't hurt either."
"Clarke shut up, you just want to see the rest of her."
"Yeah Raven's right, you're going to have to either learn to control your gay since you'll be sharing a room with her or ask her out or at least kiss her for God's sake."
"Octavia! Fuck off will you? I don't even know anything about her yet accept for her stats from Polis, a few rumors, and what she looks like. I haven't even heard her speak yet, if anything you guys need to drop it. I can handle her on my own." I finally get out, because really what do I really know about Lexa Woods?
"Handle who Clarke?" I literally face palm as Bellamy Blake walks up to our table dumbs his tray next to his sister and starts to shovel food into his mouth.
"That new girl, what was her name, Lexa?" He spits along with half the food in his mouth.
"Yeah Clarke here is crushing hard on the transfer girl from Polis." Octavia enlightens him.
"Ah so we are talking about Lexa. Well good luck with that Clarke, if the pictures of her are even remotely accurate, at least half of the student population will be after her within a week." I just roll my eyes and turn back to my own sandwich. "But hey, if you want you can invite her to the first underground party this year. I plan on having it on Saturday as a kind of welcome back get to know the freshman drunk kind of thing." Bellamy says this last part in a whisper, looking around to make sure no one else heard him.
"Of course she's going to ask Lexa, and count us in Bellamy, I love getting my party on!"
"You are such a dork Octavia, honestly if I didn't know you played varsity and are a badass I would have thought you collected pony stickers in your free time."
"Sorry O, but I totally agree with Raven on this one. Actually now that I think about it, didn't you coll-" Before Bellamy has a chance to finish his sentence, Octavia has her hand firmly clapped around his mouth and is stabbing him between the ribs with the other one. At the sight of the two siblings fighting, Raven and I burst into laughter.
After lunch, the day was pretty uneventful. I had French while Octavia and Raven had AP American Literature and then Octavia and I had trig while Raven was in AP Physics which was supposed to be her free credit, but whatever. Then we have our science classes, which are all different. Octavia is taking Chemistry while Raven is in Astronomy, and I'm taking AP Anatomy.
I take a seat close to the back of the room but where I can still see the board. Professor Gustus walks through the door just as the bell rings. He looks around the room finally introducing himself and the class when everyone gets quite. Its 5 minutes later when none other than Lexa walks through the door, a large duffel bag thrown over her shoulder. Professor Gustus stops talking, turns and looks Lexa over, crosses his arms over is large chest, and leans back against his desk.
"Ms. Woods, how nice to see you. And if I may be so bold, but why are you late to class on the first day of school?"
"Sorry Coach, but Indra stopped me in the hall to give me this," At that she hefts her bag, inadvertently showing off her arm muscles.
"Sorry to hear that Ms. Woods, but that will be 2 extra laps at practice. And you will address me as Professor Gustus in this classroom. Now take a seat. I think there is on open next to Clarke." And with that the room breaks into low murmurs some of which I manage to make out while Lexa puts her bag by the door and starts to make her way towards me and the empty seat at my lab table. Most of the chattering is just about her transferring Junior year, but there are also murmurs of why people think she transferred. Most are just speculation, but one peaks my interest. A boy named Cage is snarking about some car crash that happened last New Year's Eve.
I'm distracted by what he's saying as Lexa finally sits down next to me and Professor Gustus starts talking again. I try to focus on what he's saying, but my eyes keep wandering over to the brunette next to me who seems to be solely focused on what Professor Gustus is saying and writing on the board and not the chatter about her from everyone else in the class.
The bell finally rings which signals the end of the school day and everyone sprints out of the classroom. Well except for Lexa and I. I watch her make her way up to Professor Gustus as I finish collecting my papers and books.
"Gustus, I have a few questions."
"That would be Professor Gustus to you, we are still in my classroom." You can see Lexa physically bristle at being corrected.
"Professor Gustus," she bites out and he just sighs, "I was wondering where my room is since I didn't get any kind of information this morning."
"Well Lexa, Clarke here can help you with that as you'll be rooming together." They both turn to me and I offer a small smile in her direction. She returns it with a current nod.
"Nice to meet you Clarke." Formal, curt so far what I've heard is true, but I'm still holding out hope for her to prove those rumors wrong. I reply with a simple 'hey.'
"I was also wondering when practices were and what I need to wear. Also where I should change. Indra failed to tell me when she handed me my equipment earlier."
Professor Gustus just chuckles, "Of course she did. Practices are Monday thru Friday from 4:00 until 7:00. You can wear any kind of workout clothes you want for now since we'll just be conditioning and running drills for the next couple of weeks, after that everyone will get their practice uniform along with your actual game uniform and equipment. And you can change in the girl's locker room. I'm sure Clarke wouldn't mind showing you as she has practice tonight as well." Lexa nods to Professor Gustus as he finishes explaining and then turns to look at me.
"Um well Professor Gustus, I had a couple questions myself." He nods for me to continue. "I was wondering if you had the additional material that we talked about last year. I want to get started on it as soon as possible."
Professor Gustus sighs as he moves behind his desk and riffles through some of his drawers before he come out with a new textbook, thick packet of papers and a substantial workbook.
"Clarke, you do know you don't have to do this right? The work load you are taking on now with all of your AP classes is plenty of stress for now. Maybe we should wait until next year to do this." He gestures to the stack he is holding.
"Sorry Professor, but I need to do this. I don't think I'll have any problem keeping up in my other classes and if it does get to be too much, I can just postpone what I don't finish until next year."
"Clarke, you and I both know that you'll finish this even if you are struggling. There is no way you won't, you'll do anything you can to make everything work even at the sacrifice of yourself. I just don't want what happened last year to be what happens this year, that's all." And he does look genuinely concerned, but I really don't give a shit at the moment.
"Thank you for your concern Professor, but I think it's time for Lexa and I to head back to our room. We need to get ready for our practices." That wasn't a lie either, it's already 3:30.
Professor Gustus sighs again, the man really does that a lot, "Alright Clarke, but if you need anything, please let me know? You know you can always come talk to me."
"Right, right, I know, see you later Professor." I call over my shoulder as I grab Lexa's arm and drag her out of the classroom and in the direction of the dorms. As we make our way to our room, Lexa doesn't say a word about the Professor and I's conversation which I'm eternally grateful for.
Our dorm room is on the top floor of the 5 story ancient brick building. I've had the same room since moving here after middle school. The room itself is a corner room so it's bigger than the other rooms and has two windows, one on each wall with a bed underneath. It's also possible to get on the roof which apparently is off limits to students. There's this old fire escape on the outside of one of the windows that if you get on, lets you climb up the 3 feet of building to get to the roof. I spent a lot of time up there Freshman year, just wanting to be alone and draw. Of course that rarely happened because whenever I would get in one of my moods, Raven or Octavia would come find me and drag me into their dorm room to share some of the alcohol that Octavia always has, curtesy of her brother.
I finally manage to get the door open, sometimes the lock sticks, and surprisingly, Lexa's trunk is already in the room. I look back at her, cocking one of my eyebrows in silent question and she just shrugs.
"I'm not sure how it got in here. I left it in the dean's office this morning. He told me to go straight to class and that he would take care of it." I just shrug, I don't really care how it got in here as long as my stash is still here. Right my stash. At the end of Freshman year, Bellamy wanted to keep all his contraband at school, something about increased security next year or whatever, and since I was staying the summer, my room would be the perfect location. He and Octavia cut out a hole in the wall underneath my headboard and cleared out the insulation to make room for everything. He forgot about it over break and ended up bringing new stuff the next year so I got to keep everything. And at the end of last year, he just gave me whatever he had left over. So now I have a rather large stash of things that could get me in a lot of trouble if one of the staff found.
I check my stash as I hear Lexa open and riffle through her trunk, probably looking for workout clothes. Luckily my stash is all there so I strengthen up open my own trunk, grab some shorts, a t-shirt, and sports bra.
"If you're ready I can show you where the girl's locker rooms are."
"Thank you." And with that we exit our room, I turn and lock the door, then we're off to the field. By
By the time we make it to the locker room, most of my squad has already changed and you can hear Indra's voice yelling at the boys to run faster. I hear Lexa mutter how she's going to be in so much trouble. She must change in some kind of world record because by the time I stand back up and turn around, she's running out of the locker room fully dressed.
As she runs out the door, the whole locker room can hear Indra yelling at Lexa.
"Woods! There better be a God damned good explanation why you're late! No? Then that's 4 more laps plus the 2 warm up laps and I heard you were late to class and got 2 more! Better hurry up! No one is late to my practices!"
I'm pretty sure we all cringe at Indra's words. Lexa now has to run 2 miles plus the one she already ran in P.E. I hope she makes it through her first practice.
The next chapter will be out tomorrow.
