Ehy guys! I wanted to thanks all those who have put the favorites or have followed the story, seriously, thanks. And in particularly at soulterror for the reviews that left, I really enjoyed. So guys, I'm not sure if I'll continue the story, just to let you know, but we will see. I hope you like this chapter. Enjoy it!
All she wanted was a second chance and Clarke was decided with all herself to try to earn it.
She was aware that she didn't know the other girl or at least not fully, but the point was just that. She has always had a small part of her that wanted to know her and after having talked for a while with the stranger, the small part has become the essence that of Clarke.
She had no idea how to fix the mistake she had committed because she didn't knew nothing of her. She had seen the girl several times at the park and only once at school. With Anya. The blonde knew that she shouldn't involve anyone else but she maintained Anya as a last resort.
She really hoped to meet the girl at the park, thinking that the universe would have been on her side for a last time.
That's why at seven o'clock in the morning she was at the entry of the park, with her sweatpants, a light sweater and two cups of hot chocolate. She remembered seeing the girl run under the rain two weeks ago, she hoped to meet her again this morning and to explain to her how their possible friendship was important for her.
"You're a stalker now?"
Clarke jumped at the sound of the voice, not expecting someone to come from behind her, but happy to know that after all she was right on the girl.
"I was waiting and I'm not a stalker, I'm just someone trying to correct their mistakes. And geez, what time do you wake up to run?" The girl asked, handing the cup at the brunette with a slight layer of sweat on her forehead. She could see the pink cheeks for the effort, the green eyes with a hidden emotion that she couldn't recognize. "It's hot chocolate, I hope you don't mind. It's not poisoned, I swear."
Lexa looked at the girl across, didn't expect the girl in front of her, let alone the perfect stranger with a cup of hot chocolate just for her. She was pleasantly surprised, she admit it to herself, despite that made her vulnerable. What has made her even more surprised was the fact that the blonde wanted to try to make a friendship with her.
"Thanks, I didn't expect to find you here."
Clarke smiled, she was happy to be able to surprise the girl, even more happy for the fact that the girl had not sent her away. Yet.
"Well, I don't have many ways to show you how sorry I am for what I did last time, at least I have the element of surprise on my side." The girl said to the brunette, without ever looking away from her eyes. She felt as if she could get lost looking at them, studying them. She could see how many things they tried to hide and she wanted to discover them all, one after another.
She wanted to be someone for the girl, she was determined that if she had a chance would show at her what she saw with her own eyes when she looked at her.
"And the chocolate." Lexa smiled for the first time, unaware that she was making the blonde so happy to review that smile after so long.
"And the chocolate. Only for special people though." Clarke replied, without worrying. She was tired to be worried, she just wanted to be her friend.
Lexa was happy to be already red for the race that she had done previously, so that the stranger couldn't notice that actually made her blush.
Lexa Woods doesn't blush for what people say. Never. She is Lexa Woods.
"So what have you planned for today?" Clarke asked, noting that the other girl wouldn't answer. She thought she saw her blush even more, but immediately erased the thought, she didn't want to dwell too much on details like these, she didn't want to stay even more disappointed if the girl would decided not to talk with her anymore.
"Well, nothing special. You?" Lexa said, still smiling at the girl. Despite she repeated in her mind that the stranger wouldn't have asked her to do something together, she hoped it more than anything else, forgetting all the anger that she has felt during the week.
"How about if we resume from where we left?" Clarke asked hopefully, wanting with all herself know the girl.
"First I need a shower." The brunette smiled, raising her fist in the air mentally, deciding that she would be happy now, without regard to how things would go.
Clarke on the other hand, not caring how she appeared to the other girl's eyes, shouted a little "Yey!" with a fist in the air. She was happy, she wanted to show it at the brunette, she wanted her to understand how much she really cared.
Saying that Lexa was surprised is an understatement. She didn't expect a certain reaction from the blonde. The attitude from the girl, made her feel something inside that she couldn't explain and this never happened to her before, she hadn't no experience with all this emotion and stuff and whatever this was. So she decided which it would have been a thought for another time. All that mattered at the moment was the blonde in front of her, with a wonderful smile and the contagious happiness.
"I'm glad to be able to improve your day." Lexa joked again, starting to walk and rolling her eyes to the other girl's childish behavior. Although she had done exactly the same things in her mind.
"Oh please, don't overdo it now." The blonde replied, immediately putting up with the other girl, and still smiling. Clarke was undecided whether to wait for the girl at the park or go with her, but she didn't want the girl thought she would blow her off again, so quickly she said "It's okay if I'll take you home? I mean, you can stop me before we get to your home and then I'll wait there. I just want you to know I'm not going to run away and we could use that time to know each other a little bit"
The blonde spoke all of a breath, without giving Lexa time to answer, she wasn't sure she could take no for an answer.
"If you had given me the chance to answer to you I would have said that it's ok 20 minutes ago." The brunette teased, surprised by the ability of the other girl to speak so fast. Also surprised for herself for having understood all that she had said.
"Fine! Good, and it wasn't 20 minutes." Clarke muttered, embarrassed by the situation, but still happy to be able to go with the girl.
Lexa was glad to be able to spend time with the stranger. For the whole week she did nothing but try to push away from her mind the blonde without any real result, she was glad to be able to give a truce at herself. She was glad to finally know something about this complete stranger who always seemed to draw her towards her.
"So, you haven't told me yet at what time you get up to run." The other girl's voice brought her back to reality, remembering that the person that was invading her mind was right next to her, trying to have a real conversation.
Lexa smiled at the question, surprised that actually mattered at the blonde.
"It depends on how I go to sleep the night before, the week that I spent, as I slept. Usually at five, so that I can see the sunrise and when sometimes I feel too exhausted I decide to sleep for another hour. " The brunette said, looking straight ahead.
Clarke was surprised by the response, particularly on how the girl would get up so early to watch the sunrise.
"An extra hour makes you feel less exhausted? Really?" The blonde joked, not believing at the girl.
She smiled, understanding how someone could seem it strange. "My six are for you like.. Midday." Lexa joked, looking at the blonde with a smile.
Clarke looked at the girl by her side, raising her right eyebrow she was asking for an explanation, but received only a smile wider. The blonde decided to let it go for this time, giving a slight push with her shoulder at the girl, shaking her head and smiling.
"So what do you prefer, the sunrise or the sunset?" She asked, changing the subject.
"I don't have a preference, I find both sensational moments. And as if one would represent the beginning and the other represents the closure of that beginning, but not the end. I'm not able to describe it. But what I think it's that I can't really enjoy the dawn without the sun or vice versa. You? " The brunette concluded , looking at the stranger straight in her eye.
Clarke mused on the other girl's words. She was aware that the perfect stranger was much more than just beauty, but she couldn't help but remain struck by the passion with which she spoke.
"I think I'm beginning to get a fresh perspective, I'll let you know when I'll know more" She said, unable to formulate a thought that had any sense.
Lexa smiled, shaking her head at the girl by her side.
They sat in comfortable silence for a while, until Lexa didn't realize that they were almost at her house. The brunette was glad that at home there was just Anya and she definitely was still asleep.
She gestured to the blonde to tell her that they had arrived and the girl stopped on the spot, deciding that she would wait her out, don't wanting to exceed any boundaries.
"Come on, it's cold out here and I have to take a shower. I will not wash myself with the thought of you here in the cold." The brunette said, without turning around to look at the stranger and heading home.
The blonde smiled at the words of the girl, happy that the stranger after all, worried about her.
Lexa took the girl for her bedroom, glad to have almost a obsessive-compulsive behavior in regard to the order in her room.
"Make like it's your room, I will not take too long. You can turn on the TV or whatever." Lexa said, taking her things and closing the door behind her.
Clarke found herself alone in the stranger's room, glad to be able to see a little piece of her world. It was exactly as she expected, except for the wall full of books. She found herself fascinated by all the books that the brunette had in her room, surprised to see a section entirely for comics. Clarke would never have believed that she would be a nerd. An extra bonus, Clarke thought.
One book in particular caught her attention. She remembered that it was the book that she was reading the first time they met at the park. She picked it up, curious to know what the girl had been so focused and interested throughout the afternoon. When she saw her drawing amidst the pages, she couldn't stop the smile that broke out in her face. She felt as if the gesture meant something. The brunette could have put the drawing anywhere, at any place, in any other book. Instead she took exactly this. She barely had the time to read the pages on which the design was placed, before she heard the door being opened.
And Clarke wasn't prepared for what she saw.
Because what she would never have expected to see was the perfect stranger into a pair of skinny ripped jeans, a black lace bra and her hair tied with braids that started on both sides of her head.
Lexa has never worried about her body, never. She knew she had a pretty good body but she has never given too much weight. But she was happy to see the growing redness of the blonde and her eyes on her pretty toned tummy.
"Sorry, I dropped the shirt as I was leaving." Lexa explained, in her state of almost nudity.
Clarke said nothing, unable to form coherent sentences. She just stood there without any human capacity. Just nodding her head.
When Lexa turned to put the shirt , Clarke couldn't help but notice the muscles flex of her back and the tattoo that stretched from the lower back to the shoulders of the girl.
"Oh my God, it's beautiful." Clarke exhaled, walking quickly the distance between her and the brunette and observing the tattoo more closely. She wanted to touch it, to trace it with her own hands. But she didn't want to make the situation embarrassing, not as if it wasn't already, but still.
Lexa was left with the shirt half way, not expecting that the girl's eyes were still on her. "Thanks. It's the solar system, with some more details.." The girl explained quickly, not wanting to dwell too much on the tattoo.
Once the brunette put her shirt, she turned around, being closer than she was expected from the other girl.
Clarke didn't move from her spot. She picked up the book she had in her hands and said "If there wasn't a continuous interplay between opposites, the world would end, mh?"
"Heraclitus knew his business." Lexa joked, taking the book from the girl and looking at the drawing which lay between the pages. "Do I thanked you for the drawing? It's great."
"Yes, you told me something while you were running away. But thanks, I had a really good subject." Clarke smiled, happy to know once again that the girl liked her drawing.
Lexa looked up at the blonde. "Do you want it?" She asked at the stranger, referring to the book she had in her hands.
"Really? I'd like to read it."
"Of course, I finished reading it long ago, it made me think about many things." Lexa said, handing the book to the girl and going to the closet looking for something heavier.
Clarke just nodded in response, had no doubt that the girl stopped herself to think about a differente range of topics. She was pretty sure she could feel the girl's relationship with the world much deeper than people who she usually meets.
"Here, take this jacket, it's cold outside." Lexa said, giving at the girl a blue jacket.
"Oh someone cares?" The blonde joked, accepting with a smile the jacket that the other girl was giving to her.
"I don't want to have faults on my shoulders if tomorrow you will have a cold. I'm saved once already." The brunette replied, referring to the day that they remained in the rain for who knows how long.
"Mhh" said the blonde girl, not beliving even a single word of what the other girl had said. She was glad to get something heavier. She felt the scent of the girl on the material. She smelled of berries and strawberries.
Lexa raised only her eyes in response and started to head downstairs, not minding whether the stranger was following her or not.
"So, I was wondering if do you wanted cook something here and then go to the park?" The brunette asked , not sure of the other girl's plans.
"Actually.." The stranger began, uncertain whether to tell the truth or not at the other girl. She didn't want to scare her, but she didn't wanted to lie to her either. She thought for a while until she saw the curious look in her green eyes.
"See.. Actually, I might or I might not have prepared already something.."
"So you had taken for granted that I would rather be with you than have any other plans?" Lexa asked, using almost the same words that the blonde used for the first time with her. She didn't know whether to be offended by the actions of the girl or simply happy.
"Not really, I would have stayed at the park anyway! I wanted to stay at the lake and draw.. I only cooked a little more if you had accepted." The stranger said , quickly clarifying that she hasn't given anything for granted. Even less her.
Lexa thought for a bit, don't really know what to think. She knew for sure that she wanted to spend time getting to know the girl or just spend some time alone with her, in total silence. She realized that the silence that was emerging between them, it was not an uncomfortable silence, but simple tranquility.
"Fine." Eventually she agreed, rolling her eyes once again at the girl.
She heard a "Yess!" by the other girl and then a small murmur "If you continues to rolling you eyes as well, eventually they will remain locked in that manner."
Lexa smiled at the childish behavior of the girl, heading for the front door and keeping the door open for the stranger. "After you.. My lady." And then she thought at the childish behavior of the girl. In that moment Lexa realized that she was being really inconsistent with what she did and thought.
Her face was hurting for how much she was smiling, but she couldn't care less. She motioned with her head in thanks and before that Lexa could close the door she heard asking "So.. Batman or Superman?"
She thought with a smile that she had a long day in front of her.
