FOUR: CAREER CHANGE
Clarke wakes up and bolts to the bathroom puking, she leans her head in the porcelain bowl, wondering why she does this to herself.
"Move!" Octavia shouts before launching herself into the bowl. Clarke being the mother of the group who is just as hungover. Holds Octavia's hair back and rubs her hand on her back in circular motions.
"Why do we do this" Octavia moans out in pain, her body heaving once again.
"I got work today" Clarke states tiredly she stands up and walks out of the bathroom and stumbles into her room, Clarke knows she doesn't work for another couple hours but she needs time to work off her hangover.
The boys are sitting on the couch each with a abnormal amount of cereal in a large salad bowls.
"Hey princess" they both chime not looking up from their tv show what seemed to be game of thrones.
Clarke mumbles something back to them we she pulls out aspirin and large glass of water.
Clarke stumbles back into the apartment with pure exhaustion, for some reason today was the day people wanted to shoot each other.
Clarke dealt with a total of three victims who had been shot and the worst part was only one person made it.
Clarke knows to keep herself level headed but she was a wreck, she walks into the apartment without acknowledging anyone. No one takes the hint; throwing herself on her bed she throws off her scrubs and doesn't care to put on an oversized shirt.
"Clarke..." Raven asks hesitantly.
Raven cracked her door open ever so slightly. Clarke makes no move to cover herself, she's just so tired.
"I'm fine Raven, just a rough day at work" she says.
Raven wants to say something but she keeps it to herself, closing the door she can hear nothing. Everyone is at Monty and Jasper's apartment, Clarke smiles and rolls over and tries to sleep off her gruelling shift.
After Clarke falls into a deep sleep she rolls over she hears her door is opened widely. Exposing no one other than Octavia, she jumps on Clarke bed. Almost too happily, Clarke groans at her friend and rolls over.
"You slept all afternoon Clarke!" Octavia whines almost like a child.
"I'm tired"
"That's what you say when you're depressed" Octavia says.
"Why can't you leave me alone" Clarke whines.
"Clarke come out of bed, please?" Octavia pouts slightly, it's hard to believe she can still get away with pouting at age twenty-one.
Clarke finds a headache gracing its presence, she's still slightly hungover. Clarke slowly moving out bed while Octavia handed her grey sweats and a tank top.
Clarke barely has enough energy to put on clothes. Octavia drags her out when she walks into the living room everyone is there.
"Hey Clarke, we got pizza, chocolate and even your favourite movie the note book!" Jasper said patting the couch.
"Why are you guys doing this?" Clarke asked, her eyes were slightly watering. She blinks rapidly and sits down beside Bellamy.
"Clarke you know you don't have to do what your mom wants" Raven said leaning back on the recliner.
Bellamy nods and waits for Clarke to answer, she bits her lip and looks at her hands.
"Uhm... I know but I can't I don't know what to do besides medicine" Clarke said stuttering like a maniac.
"You've always wanted to do art" Bellamy said pushing a tendril of hair from her face. An old habit he can't let go.
Clarke leans into him more by Bellamy caught his mistake, he stops instantly as if he touched fire.
"Maybe I should work and get my degree in art" Clarke says. A smile that could light up this whole room crosses her face.
"Clarke you have us for financial support!" Jasper says.
"Uhm Jasper you have twelve cents in your account.." Monty coughs out.
"Hey!"
"Monty.." both Bellamy and Clarke warn him and just like that Clarke realizes that this is her home.
After the movie is over everyone is lounging on the couches talking aimlessly.
Clarke focuses on the thought of why everyone accepted her back. She knows deep down they are incredibly pissed at her but she finds them being nothing but kind.
"Clarke.."
"What?" She says dazed looking at Raven.
"You know that we've already enrolled you.." she smirked.
"Wait how?" She laughs wondering if her friends had boundaries.
"Don't worry but you start Monday!" She said with another famous smirk.
"Clarke I'm also taking classes so we'll be on the same campus!" Jasper said with a lot of enthusiasm.
"So Clarke are you going back into the dating world?" Monty said wiggling his eyebrows almost suggestively.
"No that's been permanently on hiatus" Octavia said rolling her eyes.
"I'm right here?" Clarke tells then sarcastically.
Clarke can't bring herself to tell everyone that she can't date anyone. Every one she has seen just never compared to Bellamy.
She would never admit that out loud, she lets the laugh at her non existent sex life.
She looks at Bellamy and it's almost a knowing look but they both know they can't go back.
That what's breaks Clarke's heart the most, she'll always love him but he will never love her back.
••••
Clarke wakes up Monday morning overly happy, her phone had been going off non stop. She had eight messages, four from her mother, one from Finn, one from Raven and Octavia.
She doesn't bothering looking at her mothers messages, deleting them without a second thought. She was too happy to quit working at the hospital and now she puts on skirt with an elbow length shirt.
"You're extra happy today princess" Bellamy says leaning on the frame. He wore his uniform, he was a police officer.
Clarke always loved seeing Bellamy in his uniform, she loved how his vest was fit too tightly showing off his arms and chest.
Clarke immediately blushes and coughs, she straightens herself out and walks out with Bellamy following.
"I'll drive you I have protocol in twenty minutes anyways" Bellamy said opening the car door he hops in and unlocks it.
Clarke had always admired Bellamy Blake, if they weren't at each other throats. She originally met Octavia in detention when both girls didn't want to the school pep rally.
Almost instantly they had become best friends, they had so many drunken memories. Octavia and Clarke were best friends in crime.
Even the Blakes mother Aurora had adored Clarke, she had treated Clarke just like another one of her children.
Clarke loved Aurora, she had even grounded her and Octavia. Aurora was more of a parent that her mother in general.
Clarke was in her senior year when Aurora got in a car accident and she was thrown into a coma. She still lies in the hospital untouched; doctors won't let her go.
On serval occasions she has almost woken up from the coma, it was hard on Bellamy and Octavia always having that false hope.
Although Clarke is a nurse there is close to no such thing of almost coming out of a coma. She knows aurora will make it out.
"Here we are" Bellamy said grabbing his Starbucks coffee and taking a sip.
"Thanks for the ride Bell" Clarke said and she froze when she called him bell. He noticed too and smiled back.
"Have a good first day princess" Bellamy said with his signature smirk.