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Chapter 7
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Lexa Woke up in the middle of the night to find that her arms were wrapped around Clarke as she cuddled her from behind, as she went to pull away to move to the other side of the bed she felt Clarke stir next to her and grab a hold of the arm Lexa had around her waist.
"Stay." Clarke mumbled sleepily, keeping hold of her forearm.
"Clarke…" Lexa said with uncertainty.
"Its cold. Stay" She continued to mumble, still half asleep "Please."
"Okay." Lexa agreed and moved closer to Clarke so she could get herself comfortable again.
"Better?" Lexa asked quietly and Clarke nodded and hummed approvingly in response as she fell back to sleep her hand loosely resting on the arm wrapped around her waist. Lexa sighed quietly to herself, as good as this felt, she knew it was a terrible idea. It was all supposed to be fake and just to help out the random girl who had helped her out of being hit on all night by Jasper – yet here she was cuddling with her in bed with no one around to see. At least she could pass off the kissing and playing with her hair as being for show. To convince Raven and Abby that it was all legit. But this was just the two of them. It wasn't for show and this was becoming a lot more complicated than Lexa had anticipated when she had agreed to help Clarke out.
When Lexa woke up again at around 7am she still had her arm around Clarke's waist spooning her. She let herself have a few more moments like this before she finally pulled away. Clarke's brow furrowed at the loss of contact but she didn't seem to wake up. Lexa grabbed her phone off the desk next to her before heading to the bathroom to wash her face and wake herself up. Her phone buzzed on the counter, grabbing it quickly hoping the vibration on the ceramic hadn't woken anyone up. She answered the phone quietly as he headed down the stairs to avoid waking anyone up with her talking
"So how are you and the hottie getting along?" Anya teased her from the other end of the phone as Lexa headed outside to make sure she didn't disturb Abby and Marcus either.
"Her mum hates me." Lexa let out a groan and Anya gave a short laugh.
"Is this because of your little rumble in the dirt with Clarke's Ex-boyfriend?
"Maybe… Wait. How did you even know that - never mind - Lincoln probably told you." She let out a sigh "But yes. She's under the impression I'm some kind of thug." She said with embarrassment.
"Could've been worse."
"How could it have been worse?" Lexa questioned with disbelief.
"Well you could've lost to Clarke's Ex boyfriend and embarrassed yourself." Anya let out a laugh.
"I suppose that is true." Lexa conceded. That would have been embarrassing.
"But seriously, other than that, how is it going?"
"I feel like you already know all about what's happening from Lincoln."
"That's true. He said you both are very convincing." Anya informed her.
"We're supposed to be." Lexa said defensively.
"But like are you sure you're actually faking it still?" Lexa remained silent in response. Was she still faking liking Clarke in a girlfriend type way?
"Lexa?" Anya said pulling Lexa back out of her thoughts.
"I don't know." Lexa said with a sigh.
"Okay well… why did you fight with Finn?"
"Because he was saying all of this terrible stuff about Clarke and she's nothing like what he was saying. She's amazing." Lexa began to babble but Anya Let her keep going "and he cheated on her. Like seriously what kind of idiot would cheat on her. She's not only pretty, she's smart and funny and-"
"Lexa. I'm going to stop you there and tell you this as simply as I can so that I don't need to explain it to you again. You. Like. Clarke." Anya said emphasising each word and Lexa let out a sigh.
"You know I'm right." Anya pointed out when she heard Lexa's sigh on the other end of the phone. "You should talk to her."
"I talk to her all the time." Lexa deflected.
"I would hit you if I was there." Anya stated "You know what I mean. Tell her that maybe your feelings aren't exactly being faked anymore."
"Maybe." Lexa paused, "I'll think about it."
"Good. Cause I don't want to hear you complaining about not telling her when you had the chance when you get back."
"What if I do tell her and she tells me she's not feeling the same?"
"Then I'll have a tub of ice cream waiting for you when you get back. And you can complain about the whole week if you want."
"Okay. I'll keep that in mind." Lexa said and saw that the back door was opening, with Clarke coming out still looking half asleep as she rubbed her eyes and yawned. "I have to go though."
"Is Clarke there?" Anya teased her, knowingly.
"Goodbye Anya." Lexa responded and hung up the phone putting it back in her pocket as Clarke came over towards her.
"You're up way too early." Clarke mumbled
"Sorry, I really did try to not wake you up." Lexa said apologetically.
"My bed got cold actually. I didn't actually hear you get up." Clarke gave a small laugh as she sat down next to Lexa "So what has you up so early anyway?" Clarke questioned "or are you really just up this early all the time?"
"Mostly it's just because I'm up early all the time – so its just a body clock thing really. I was going to come back to bed but I got a call from Anya and I didn't want to wake everyone else up."
"You should come back with me now then." Clarke pointed out with another yawn as she rested her head sleepily on Lexa' shoulder. Clarke really had worked wonders on that shoulder last night Lexa realised as there was no pain in it this morning.
"I could just get breakfast." Lexa countered and Clarke just shook her head against Lexa's shoulder.
"My mum will probably be up soon. I don't want you to have to deal with her one on one yet."
"I think I can handle a conversation with your mother, Clarke." Lexa huffed.
"I just don't want my mum to corner you alone and ask you all sorts of uncomfortable questions."
"I think you just want someone to keep you warm." Lexa countered with a smile.
"Maybe." Clarke admitted as she returned the smile. "You were very good at it." Lexa let out a quiet sigh.
"Alright. I'll come join you for like another hour or something." Clarke smiled brightly in response "but then I'm getting breakfast." Lexa informed her.
"Okay – I can work with that." Clarke stated and entwined her fingers with Lexa's dragging her back to the house.
When Lexa awoke to her alarm Clarke was resting her head on her chest and grumbled at the sound of Lexas phone going off. Lexa quickly reached over to the bedside tale to turn it off while Clarke continued to rest her head on her chest, letting out another grumble at the movement from Lexa.
"Clarke" Lexa whispered but received just a mumbled incoherent sentence back. "Clarke." She said again a little louder this time "You've got to get off - I need to eat." Clarke responded again with incoherent mumbling – obviously still half asleep as her hand slid slightly up Lexa's shirt, resting her hand on her stomach. Lexa's body stiffened at the contact before her stomach let out a grumble, causing Clarke to let out a laugh.
"Okay, I think your stomach is definitely telling me its time to get up." Clarke teased her lightly as she rolled off to the side allowing Lexa the space to get up.
"I did tell you I needed to eat." Lexa pointed out as she got herself out of bed.
"I was comfortable though." Clarke hummed. "but-" she continued as she got out of bed "I'm not going to let you starve just so that I can be comfortable and warm in bed."
"Good to know." Lexa said looking over towards Clarke with a smile.
"Besides" Clarke began with a teasing look on her face "I wouldn't have got anymore sleep with your stomach making noises that loud." Lexa looked at her sheepishly as Clarke laughed quietly. "Come on." She motioned for Lexa to follow her downstairs. "We'll go find you something to eat."
"Oh man." Raven moaned out, stuffing her mouth with melted marshmallows that she had been heating over the stove "So good."
"Would you like to be alone?" Bellamy said with a laugh and Raven just flipped him off continuing to eat the marshmallows in her mouth.
"That is not exactly 'breakfast'." Clarke said as they walked into the kitchen seeing the rest of them already around the table.
"I'm eating it in the morning. So it is breakfast." Raven said putting another marshmallow in her mouth.
"What were you in the mood for?" Clarke turned her attention to Lexa. "we've got Coco pops, Cornflakes, Fruit Loops and Wheaties. Otherwise there's toast. Or if you want something hot I can do eggs." Clarke offered. Lexa shook her head.
"No, that's fine. I'll just have some wheaties." Lexa advised as she made her way over to the cupboard where Clarke was.
"Go sit down." Clarke said nudging her lightly with a smile on her face. "I'll get it for you."
"But –" Lexa began but was cut off by Clarke.
"Just think of it as a thank you." Clarke said and Raven raised her eyebrows.
"A thank you for what?" Raven teased with a smirk. Clarke rolled her eyes as she poured a bowl of Wheaties for herself and one for Lexa.
"Nothing like that." Clarke assured her. "Just you know, for the whole Finn thing." Clarke added with a shrug as she put a bowl down in front of Lexa.
"Oh." Raven began "I jut figured you would've thanked her for that last night." Raven said with a wink.
"I didn't say I didn't." Clarke pointed out.
"Good, cause like – Lexa deserves some loving after dealing with that whole situation." Raven said while Lexa just tried to avoid eye contact with the rest of the table as she ate her cereal in silence.
"That is very true." Clarke said with a smile as she placed her hand on Lexa's knee, to try to say a non-verbal sorry for the conversation happening right now.
"So, I was thinking after last night and seeing Lexa take Finn down, do you think she could beat Bellamy's chin up record on the monkey bars down at the park?" Raven inquired,
"I don't know…" Clarke said looking at Lexa's shoulder with concern "She injured her shoulder a bit last night."
"No. Its fine now." Lexa pointed out and Clarke hummed in response – not believing that her shoulder was really that much better.
"Do you think you can beat Bellamy's record? You know what. I think we should have a one on one chin up face off after breakfast!" Raven said enthusiastically. "What do you say Bell?"
"I mean I'm game if Lexa is." He offered, looking over towards Clarke and Lexa.
Lexa shrugged "Sure, why not."
"Then it's decided. Chin up face off after breakfast!" Raven exclaimed and popped another marshmallow in her mouth. "My money is on Bellamy. Mostly because Clarke gave the insider tip away about Lexa's shoulder."
"You just want her to lose because she beat you at Mario Cart." Octavia chimed in with a laugh.
"Okay, rude." Raven said trying her best to sound offended.
"But not wrong." Octavia noted
"Don't let me down, Bell." she said as she placed a hand on his shoulder encouragingly.
"Okay. So, is it first to 100 or do we just keep going until one of us can't anymore?" Lexa asked turning attention away from the monkey bars her and Bellamy were standing under to look over at Raven.
"Yes, first to 100 or whoever lets go first loses. Simple enough." Raven paused for a moment "Wait until we get to our spectators spot. And then I'll count you guys in and then you can start." The two of them nodded in response.
The rest of them all headed over to the other end of the park and sat on the other playground equipment around the park so that they could watch the challenge unfold.
"Okay. Ready, Set. Go!" Raven Called out to them and The began lifting themselves up and lowering themselves down at the same pace, after about the first 10 Raven turned to Clarke.
"Are you sure she hurt her shoulder?"
"Well it was hurt last night." Clarke said "She did say it was fine now though so you may have backed the wrong one." Clarke said as they watched Lexa continue to move through the chin up motions effortlessly.
"Well at least it's a good show no matter what you're into." Raven said with a smirk and Octavia pulled a face.
"That's my brother!" she exclaimed looking mortified at Raven's comment.
"Just pointing out facts." Raven said simply "Seriously though -" She continued as she looking towards Clarke "-is she like an energiser bunny or something. How is she making that look so easy."
"She works in a gym, genius. You did not pick a very good challenge if you wanted her to lose so you could somehow feel better about your Mario Cart loss." Clarke said with a laugh.
"Damn it." She exclaimed disappointedly before her eyes brightened up as she thought of an idea. "Okay then, she needs a handicap."
"Oh?" Clarke said with curiosity. "And what is that going to be exactly?"
"You." Raven said with a smirk.
"Me?" Clarke questioned and Raven hummed and nodded in response.
"You're going to go over there and distract her."
"You want me to help Lexa lose this challenge?"
"You can't tell me you don't want to run your hands all over her. I mean even I'm impressed right now." Clarke looked down trying to avoid Raven's gaze.
"Okay, fine-" Clarke said getting up "-but you owe me."
"Please." Raven scoffed. "You owe me for giving you an excuse to get your hands all over her right now."
Clarke walked over in Lexa's direction who looked at her with a puzzled expression but continued her chin ups on the bars
"What are you doing, Clarke?" Lexa looked at her sceptically.
"Well, Raven really thought you were going to lose because she thought your shoulder was injured."
"I did tell you it was fine." Lexa said with a grin as she pulled her self up on the bar again.
"You have been known to lie about your pain." Clarke pointed out. Lexa conceded the point as she gave her a brief nod of her head.
"So has she sent you over here to tell us its over?"
"No." Clarke said and didn't elaborate so Lexa paused on the up part of the chin up and looked down at Clarke with questioning eyes
"Then why are you over here?"
"Well, Raven is under the impression I can distract you, and then you will lose."
"Oh? and how do you plan on doing that?" Lexa challenged her.
"Well, I mean given what happened last night with the massage, I think I have a good idea on how to distract you." Lexa was glad, at this point, her face probably looked flushed from the work out already. "I just don't really want to go in that direction without your permission." Lexa breathed out a laugh and then looked over towards Raven who was looking over towards Lexa and Clarke expectantly. "Think of it as an added part to the challenge?" Clarke offered.
"Okay, go for it." Lexa advised "I just hope Raven isn't too upset when I still win." Clarke let out a quiet laugh in response as she slid her hand up under Lexa's shirt over her stomach and could feel her muscles tense at the touch as Lexa's breath hitched.
"Am I allowed to bring up that over confidence of yours when you fall off?" Clarke teased as Lexa's ears went red.
"Your hands are cold." She defended weakly. They really weren't though and Clarke continued to run her hands over her stomach, her fingers tracing over the definition of her abs.
"Right." Clarke teased.
"Shut up." lexa sighed out looking up towards the sky, trying to avoid any visual of Clarke in front of her as she continued her chin up routine. That turned out to not be a great idea in hindsight as it just made Clarke's and slide down her stomach closer to her waistband. Lexa let out a groan at the contact.
"What's happening back there?" Bellamy asked trying to look over his shoulder so he could see what was happening behind him.
"Nothing!" Lexa exclaimed loudly. Clarke let out a laugh.
"Are you doing okay over there Lexa?" Raven called out from across the park with a smirk and Lincoln let out a laugh as he saw the glare Lexa sent Raven's way. Lexa shut her eyes again and went back to trying to ignore the presence of Clarke's hands running over her stomach.
"This was a terrible idea." Lexa groaned out as Clarke's hands slid around to her sides before her hands then returned to just above her waistband
"Did you want me to tell Raven I gave up on distracting you?" Clarke offered as she went to pull her hands away
"No!" Lexa exclaimed quickly as she opened her eyes and before she knew what her body was doing her legs had wrapped themselves around Clarke bringing her towards her. Clarke looked up at her with a surprised look that quickly turned into a teasing smile when she noticed the blush forming across Lexa's face.
"You're enjoying this." Clarke said with a smirk and she moved her hand to play with the waistband of Lexa's pants
"No! Yes! I mean, maybe. I don't know." Lexa squirmed at the contact, which just made everything worse, since she still had her legs wrapped around Clarke's waist. She was enjoying it. But she was getting increasingly turned on and she wasn't sure how much longer she could keep this up.
"Well, which one is it?" Clarke said sliding her hand slowly up Lexa's shirt getting a groan out of Lexa before sliding her hand back down to her waistband.
"Yes. God yes." Lexa admitted quietly with another groan as her stomach tensed under Clarke's touch. "Raven's going to get her win." She conceded and Clarke raised an eyebrow.
"So you were being over confident?" Clarke teased her again.
"I thought I had more self control than this, but apparently not." She let out a sigh as she let herself drop down from the bars onto the ground so she was standing in front of Clarke, who still hand her hands under Lexa's shirt.
'Yeah!" Raven yelled out excitedly "Looks like Bellamy is the winner." She said coming over to the three of them with Octavia and Lincoln following behind, both of whom were shooting questioning glances at Lexa and Clarke. "Well actually Clarke's ability to get her girlfriend turned on is the real winner here – thank you Clarke." Lexa sighed at Raven's comment bending down to hide her face against Clarke's shoulder. "But Bellamy won the competition. Sorry I had to play dirty Lexa. But I'm sure you didn't really mind losing this one." Raven teased with a wink at Lexa.
"It's is definitely not the worst way to lose." Lexa mumbled as she pulled back from Clarke.
"Now you two can come join us over there. I hope neither of you smell bad." Raven said pointing towards where they had been sitting to watch the chin up competition.
"Okay, while you guys do that I think Clarke and I are going to go get a few bottles of water. I'm sure Bellamy and Lexa could use one." Octavia said looking pointedly at Clarke who just looked at her with a slight look of confusion but agreed anyway.
"Good idea." And before she knew it Octavia was dragging her away towards the house while the rest of them went and sat down.
"Okay, what was that?" Octavia asked seriously as they got inside the house.
"What was what?" Clarke shot back
"You and Lexa."
"Raven said to distract her…" Clarke pointed out.
"Yeah, but in case you didn't notice. Lexa is now crazy frustrated – I can't imagine that's a lot of fun for her. I mean I know she agreed to help you out but like… maybe relax on that side of things. You don't want to kill her with sexual frustration…" Octavia said seriously.
"No… I definitely noticed." Clarke said with a small smile.
"She's Lincon's best friend." Octavia warned her "don't be a dick."
"I'm not trying to be." Clarke stated "The first time it happened it wasn't even on purpose-"
"The first time?" Octavia exclaimed "What do you mean first time?"
"When I was helping her with her shoulder last night."
"Oh my god! Clarke, Have you two –" Octavia began before Clarke spoke up
"No! No, we haven't done that." Clarke told her.
"You were happy Raven gave you an excuse to touch her!" Octavia let out a laugh.
"Shut up." Clarke said looking sheepish as she passed a bottle out of the fridge to Octavia.
"Unbelievable." Octavia continued to laugh. "if you wanted to date her you could've just actually asked her out."
"I didn't even know her then, Octavia. I was literally just trying to stop Jasper from awkwardly hitting on a girl who did not seem into it at all."
"And now you want to kiss her." Octavia teased with a laugh as Clarke threw the next bottle at her "Was there cuddling last night?" Octavia asked with a smirk when Clarke blushed and threw a third bottle her way Octavia knew the answer.
"Seriously Clarke. Just talk to Lexa. She's into you. She walked straight into a pole when she first heard about how much noise you make in bed. I Don't think that was a coincidence." Octavia said trying to contain her laughter. "I can't believe the two of you cuddled with no one around and nether of you turned around to be like 'but there's no one here? We don't have to play the part now.'"
"It was cold." Clarke defended weakly.
"That's what you told her wasn't it? Seriously you need to talk to her. We're supposed to be heading back tonight, so you should talk to her while were here." Octavia said pushing Clarke towards the door now that they had the bottles of water in their hands.
"Okay, I'll talk to her. Just stop poking me." Clarke said with a laugh as she moved out of Octavia's reach.
"You'd better. Or i'll have to hit you for being an idiot." Octavia teased her as they headed back towards the group. Once they joined them they passed the bottles around Lexa and Bellamy began drinking theirs right away. Clarke leant down behind Lexa.
"Can we go somewhere to talk?" She said quietly so the others couldn't hear them. Lexa nodded and put her bottle of water down before standing up looking at Clarke with a little bit of nervousness and concern in her eyes.
"If you go back to the house, just know that we all know what you are doing." Raven told them when they stood up together. Octavia elbowed Raven in the ribs knowing that this was probably Clarke choosing to talk to Lexa as they had spoken about.
"We're just going for a walk." Clarke said seriously and Raven just looked at her with her eyebrows raised, unconvinced.
"Whatever you say Griffin." she said with a smirk and received another elbow in the ribs from Octavia. "And would you stop that." she said looking at Octavia and pushing her arm away from her as Clarke and Lexa headed away from the group towards the sea.
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End Chapter 7
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