"How was the train?" Lexa asked her friend, who looked relieved to be walking.

"Ugh. Alright, I guess. It went by so slowly, though, because I was doing homework the whole time, and homework is not a task that makes time fly by," Anya replied. "This place is so cool, though. I can really see the appeal."

"Any chance you're considering coming here for law school?"

Anya shrugged. "I totally would, I mean some of the best law schools are pretty close to here. Actually, NYU is up there, so it's totally possible that I end up going there. Though, money is a factor. I don't know how much my parents are willing to put up, but since they really want me to be a lawyer, I wouldn't be surprised if they paid for most of my law school as well. If they don't, though, then I might end up just going to the University of Virginia. It's in state tuition that way, and it has a good law school. Tied with Berkeley."

"Well, if you can come to New York, you should," Lexa said with a supportive grin. "Though, I guess I could manage to vacation back down to Virginia every once and a while to hang out with you."

Anya laughed. "You sound so excited for that."

"What kind of food do you want? I'm starving, I just got out of work and hung out at the train station for a while waiting for you to come in," Lexa admitted.

"You didn't go home?"

"No point. I think Luna's out, and I don't think Clarke would've gone home just to spend the whole evening in alone unless she was going to paint," the brunette explained. "It's fine, though, I just wanna eat. So what will it be?"

"Um... pizza?"

They ended up at a pizza place that was an easy walking distance from Penn Station, and then found themselves walking lazily down the street as they ate their slices of pizza. People were rushing around the sidewalks as per usual, but they managed somehow to not get run over by anyone. "How are you parents?" Lexa found herself asking. "I heard that Luna got to meet them officially recently."

"Yeah, they're fine. In the beginning of summer, they were being pretty sensitive and snappy, because of Lincoln leaving, but they've relaxed a bit now," Anya answered with a shrug. "I haven't talked to them much, actually. I agreed to dinner with them, and then realized how uncomfortable it might be, which is why I asked Luna to come with me. Though, I think that just made it more uncomfortable in general."

"Why? Did they not like her?"

"I don't know," Anya admitted. "I think it got weird when she mentioned her college situation – aka, didn't do a STEM major, only got a two year degree... yeah, my parents are big fans of that. I always thought that our parents were about equal when it came to viewpoints on people and school, but somehow you ended up with the way cooler parent. How did that happen?"

"I guess the universe set that up so that she could compensate for my absent father," Lexa answered, amused.

"Have you talked to him at all?"

Lexa furrowed her eyebrows. Had she not mentioned any of her current family drama to Anya? She recalled mentioning it to her mother over text a few nights ago, but her mom was very busy with the start up of the new semester, so that's the most conversation they'd had in a while. Making a mental note to call her mother soon, she turned her thought back to Anya. "Um, yeah. His crazy wife called me, freaking out about how I was talking to Aden... and then Anthony came up and well... apparently, he and his wife are getting divorced. He said it's best for them and for Aden, but Aden doesn't know yet. Clarke and I agreed to babysit him next weekend while they're doing the official divorce and moving out stuff. They also think that will keep Aden from being really upset when they tell him about the divorce."

Anya frowned. "Wow. That's... intense. At least he's got a sister like you. It's always nice being a younger sibling and knowing that your older sibling always has your back. I know Lincoln will always be here for me, no matter what."

"Yeah, I'd love to be that for him. I think he's pretty lonely – I mean he has friends, but I think we all kind of know that middle school friendships don't always last forever, and they're not always the healthiest things ever either," Lexa reasoned. "Anyway, yeah, that's my current family situation. So I'm here trying to help my little brother while you're trying to keep your parents from knowing that you have a tendency to sleep with a woman?"

Anya's expression immediately darkened, but something about it told Lexa that she knew that this conversation would be brought up at some point. "Look, Lexa, I don't want to talk about Luna this weekend."

"Okay, neither do I. Frankly, I've been doing that a lot lately, talking to her about you and you about her."

"She talks to you about me?"

"Of course she does, Anya," Lexa answered in a rush, exasperated slightly. "She can't talk to you about you, so she talks to me. Granted, I try to get her to. I don't want her to keep everything bottled up. I also don't want you to keep everything bottled up. I get if you don't wanna talk about it very much, An, but you need to let me just tell you one thing."

Anya nodded, staying silent.

"Your parents don't know about you and Luna being together right now, and admitting how you feel to her wouldn't change that. And in two years or so, you'll be moved out of Polis officially, and you won't have to even work to keep it a secret from them. I know that that's why you won't open up to Luna – that, and maybe you still feel like you can't accept yourself, like you're not up to par just because you like her as more than a friend. But either way, I know that you care about Luna, and you are hurting her. She loves you, and you know that, and you might think that she knows how you feel about that, but she doesn't. And she won't, unless you talk to her. I'm not joking around and pushing you to ask her to be your girlfriend, and I'm not trying to judge, all I'm asking of you is to talk to the girl you're dating about how you feel about dating her," Lexa finished, taking in a deep breath after all of her breath was depleted.

Anya's eyes were watery, but she sniffed and wiped at them before any tears could fall. "Fuck, Lexa. Why do I always screw shit up so badly?"

"You don't always. Just sometimes." Her tone was teasing, and Anya released a weak laugh, shaking her head, but Lexa was talking before she could say anything, "And you haven't completely screwed anything up yet, okay? You just need to talk to Luna, for real."

Anya let out a deep breath, and it was at this point that Lexa realized that they'd both finished their pizza slices. They dumped their trash into a nearby garbage can, and Lexa gave her best friend a smile. Anya returned it, though her eyes were still slightly watery. "Um, Lincoln said he had plans with Bellamy, Jasper and Monty tonight, but he said that Octavia would meet me at the apartment if I just texted her."

"Let's see where she is then," Lexa suggested, grabbing her phone due to the assumption that Anya didn't really feel like talking on the phone to anyone. It rung twice before the brunette answered.

"Sup Lexi-Loo?" Octavia asked brightly.

"Are you home? Anya and I just finished eating and she said Lincoln's out tonight?"

"Oh, yeah, he is. I'm at Raven's dorm on campus. Your girlfriend's here too, you should just meet us here and then Anya and I can take the subway back home and Clarke can drive you," Octavia suggested.

"Sounds good, see you soon." Anya raised an eyebrow. "They're on campus, at Raven's dorm. She and Clarke, I mean. We can meet them there. Are you ready for your first subway experience?"

"Can't we take a cab?"

"No, subway's more fun," Lexa teased, grinning. "Come on."

When they finally got to campus, Lexa told Anya briefly what she liked about all of it – the classes and the campus itself. Anya seemed to like it, and Lexa wasn't very subtle about the fact that she would love her best friend to choose NYU for law school.

They made their way to Raven's dorm, and heard laughing coming from inside of it as they approached the door. Lexa knocked once, hearing a loud, "Come in!" and then opened the door.

"Hey, hey!" Raven chimed brightly. "Hey Anya. Long time no see."

Clarke and Octavia were sitting on the floor of Raven's room, and Raven was on her bed. "Hey," Anya returned, smiling at the group. It was pretty safe to say that Luna had always integrated a bit better into the bigger group than Anya had, but Anya always had an anchor, so she never seemed very put off by it.

Lexa sat by her girlfriend, who gave her a pleased peck on the lips in greeting, and then the brunette asked, "So why are we all here in Raven's dorm?"

Octavia smirked. "Well, I walked in on Rae Rae here fucking some girl earlier, and then when I found out that this girl has taken Raven out twice and I hadn't heard about it, I got kinda pissed. And then I felt like an idiot for being mad, so Clarke came with me to apologize to her. And now we've just been too lazy to get up, I guess. Plus, Lincoln's out, and you were out with Anya, and turns out that Clarke is such a sap that when she's at home without you, she gets all sad."

"Aw," Lexa cooed playfully at the blonde next to her, whose eyes narrowed.

"You'll pay for that, Octavia."

"Oh yeah, how so?"

Clarke paused, keeping up her glare as best as she could as she tried to think of something to use as a threat. She ended up coughing awkwardly and muttering, "Somehow."

"Where's Luna?" Anya asked curiously in a quiet voice, and Clarke gave Lexa a curious look. Green eyes met blue ones and did her best to silently answer the question there, and when Clarke just nodded once, she assumed that it must've worked.

"I think she's been out exploring New York or something," Raven answered, and Clarke nodded.

"She texted Lexa and I earlier today and said she wouldn't be back at our place until late, so we shouldn't wait up for her. Except that she forgot that she doesn't have a key to the place, so we have to wait up for her anyway," Clarke commented with a tight smile.

Lexa chuckled. "Luna is always a fun character, huh?"

"She's a great drinking competitor," Raven commented.

"She said something about maybe going out drinking with you tonight, but I guess she just decided to be on her own all day."

Raven hummed thoughtfully. "Yeah, well, she didn't ask me at all, so I guess she did. Unfortunately, she and I won't get to compete during this visit then, because I am not getting plastered while Niylah's there. You guys are all such drunk idiots that I can't afford to become one as well and embarrass myself."

"What if Niylah wants to drink?" Octavia questioned.

Raven sniffed. "Well, then I'll take care of her. I can't be sloppy."

Clarke faked a cough, saying, "Whipped."

"Don't tease me! I'm not – "

"Hey, Rae," Lexa interrupted, "with the amount of teasing you've done to literally all of us, you really can't be complaining right now."

Raven just narrowed her eyes in annoyance, and Lexa grinned at her, leaning into her girlfriend happily.

Later that night, Clarke was in the shower when Luna got back to the apartment, so Lexa had to clamber out of bed in her pajamas to let her in. "Hey, Lu. Raven said you never asked her if she wanted to hang out with you tonight."

Luna shrugged, entering the apartment and going straight for the couch. "Yeah, I thought I'd just be alone instead."

"Are you okay?"

"I was just kinda bummed hearing about Anya coming up. Mostly because my first instinct was to be excited, and then I realized that she probably doesn't even wanna talk to me. So I decided to just explore alone, and then she texted me about an hour ago from Octavia's place I guess, and asked me if I wanted to get breakfast with her tomorrow," Luna admitted, flopping down onto the couch comfortably.

Lexa was only slightly surprised. "Are you going?"

"Yep."

"Okay well... I hope everything goes okay."

Luna gave her a small smile. "Thanks, Lex. I'm gonna go to bed, Anya's an early riser and I won't give her the satisfaction of teasing me because I'm late."

"Got it. Goodnight." Lexa returned the smile and then disappeared back into her room. She sincerely hoped that her two best friends could work everything out.

Clarke and Lexa laid curled up in their bed, without clothes. They'd fallen asleep naked the night before, though they hadn't actually engaged any other activity other than sleeping. It was just sometimes a lot more comfortable to curl into each other and feel each other's bare skin against each other. Upon waking up late into Saturday morning, Lexa peeked out the door of the bedroom to confirm that Luna had gone out like she said. Once they were sure that they were alone, they got up to throw some sort of breakfast together, not bother to dress.

They'd ended up trying to make eggs, succeeding despite the fact that Lexa's over easy egg ended up scrambled, and Clarke's over medium egg ended up over hard. Afterwards, they made coffee and cuddled up in their bed, finding something mildly interesting on Netflix that they hadn't yet seen. Then the immediate effect of the caffeine ended up pulling them into sleep, and Clarke woke up first.

She muted the TV and looked down at her girlfriend fondly. She knew that Lexa would wake up pretty quickly – coffee naps didn't last long anyway. Leaning down, she placed a fluttery kiss on Lexa's shoulder, and then carefully began to pull herself away from the brunette. Just slightly, causing her girlfriend to groan in annoyance and try to pull closer. Clarke, however, just rolled on top of the younger girl, pressing her lips into her neck.

Wanting Lexa to wake up, Clarke pressed her hands against Lexa's sides and traced her figure. Lexa was soft and nice, and Clarke would never get enough of touching her and feeling her. Just as her hands reached Lexa's hips, the brunette murmured, "What are you doing on top of me?"

"It's comfy up here," Clarke claimed, ducking her head down in between Lexa's boobs and pressing kisses there. "We've been naked for like a solid twelve hours and haven't had sex, too, which is totally a problem."

"Oh is it?"

"Yes, because tonight we're going out, and we might end up drinking and coming back and just sleeping."

"Since when have we ended drinking by not having sex?" Lexa asked, chuckling but arching her back slightly as Clarke's lips against her skin turned into lips and tongue. "Clarke, Luna's probably gonna be back soon."

"Which is why we should have sex now before she does," Clarke reasoned.

Lexa hummed thoughtfully. "I guess that makes sense."

Clarke pushed herself up slightly, and Lexa pouted at the loss of the comfortable weight against her. Clarke stayed straddling her, however, looking down at her with darkened eyes. "You're so beautiful."

Blood rushed up into Lexa's cheeks as she bit down on her lower lip. No matter how many times Clarke complimented her, she would never stop blushing. It still sometimes seemed impossible that Clarke could find her beautiful – Clarke, who was sexy and intimidating and physically flawless. "Oh. Thanks."

"You're such a dork."

Lexa bit down on her lips harder, because Clarke's hands were resting on her hips, her fingers tickling the skin there slightly. "Maybe, but you love it."

"Of course I do," Clarke agreed. She bent down and met Lexa's lips in a hot kiss, and Clarke began to trace the curves of her body again, causing her to arch up slightly at the entrancing touch of her girlfriend. When Lexa couldn't breathe, she tugged her lips away, panting already and releasing a quiet moan when Clarke's tongue began to find its way down her body.

She didn't go lower than Lexa's belly button, however, and eventually came back up to Lexa's lips, meeting them in another searing kiss. Lexa's hands now found Clarke's waist, dragging the pads of her fingers up the smooth skin until she got to soft boobs, which she squeezed happily.

Clarke released a silent gasp into Lexa's mouth, pulling up and away when she realized that Lexa was touching her. "No touching," Clarke declared, grabbing Lexa's hands and holding them up above her head. Lexa's chest was rising and falling rapidly, and Clarke dove down to meet it with her mouth again, releasing Lexa's hands again. The brunette did her best to not touch the blonde, but she gave up when the burning in between her legs became too much. At that point, she buried her hands into messy blonde hair and pushed downward pleadingly. "Please, Clarke," she whined, and Clarke didn't argue, going for Lexa's center without question. Her right hand held down Lexa's hips as her left hand's fingers found their way to her opening and her tongue began to tease her clit.

Lexa's entire body burned and her breathing became quicker and quicker as Clarke's fingers moved in and out, and her tongue played with the sensitive ball of nerves in between her legs.

"Fuck! Fuck, Clarke, f-fuck!" Lexa heard herself shouting, One of her hands escaped Clarke's hair, finding her own breasts and kneading them purposefully as she felt herself getting so close. "Oh shit, Clarke, I'm so close, fuck!"

Her whole body tensed as she let out a euphoric cry, and then she abruptly began to come down, her vision spotty. She knew quite well why this orgasm had hit her so hard – for the past week, they'd been keeping their sex quieter and slower for the sake of their house guest. Knowing that Luna was gone was, apparently, a perfect way to return back to normalcy.

"Fuck," Lexa breathed out in a puff of air.

Clarke was sucking Lexa's liquids off of her own fingers, and then settled back on top of the brunette, resting her head on her chest and looking at her girlfriend curiously. "Told you that this needed to happen."

"Hey, I'm not complaining," Lexa murmured happily. "I'm just slightly bummed that I'm going to have to get up at all to get ready for tonight. I'd much rather stay in bed with you all day."

Blue eyes brightened, as though she didn't already know this to be a fact. "I love you, Lexa."

"I love you, too."

Clarke looked uncertain for a moment, clearly debating whether or not to say something, and she bit down firmly on her lower lip. Lexa furrowed her eyebrows a little, her hands going to Clarke's back and rubbing it softly. "You okay?"

"You know. Just trying to figure out how I got lucky enough to end up with you," Clarke whispered.

"You're crazy. You are way more of a catch than I am."

Clarke shook her head. "Babe, don't even try to argue with me. I was broken until I met you."

"No," Lexa argued firmly, "you were not. You got out of your dark times without me, and you may have been still bruised from it all, but not broken. Never broken. And you're not broken now, and you wouldn't be broken without me."

"I'd be broken if I had to lose you."

Lexa's face softened. "Well, it's a good thing that you won't have to lose me then, isn't it?"

"Hey! Femslash couple number one has arrived!" Octavia exclaimed happily as Clarke and Lexa approached them in front of their usual hangout club. It seemed that all the boys had arrived, as well as Lincoln and Octavia, and Clarke and Lexa were the first of the last half to show up.

"Femslash?" Lexa asked, furrowing her eyebrows.

"Yeah, it's like, code for girl on girl," Octavia replied.

Clarke gave her friend a concerned look. "Do I want to know why you know that?"

"I've spent lots of time on the internet, C."

"Right..."

Jasper smirked. "What kind of things are you looking at on the internet then, O?"

"I don't know if I like where this is going," Lincoln commented with a raised eyebrow. Octavia just grinned mischievously, leaning up to give her boyfriend a kiss. "Didn't Raven wanna introduce her bae to us all? Where the fuck is she?"

"Oh hey, it's femslash couple number two," Bellamy pointed out, nodding to Luna and Anya, who were approaching the group together. They hadn't come back to Clarke and Lexa's apartment at all, and Lexa had texted Luna only to confirm that she was coming to the hangout. She hadn't asked about the stuff with Anya, but now it was clear that they'd spent the whole day together.

"Hey, guys," Lexa greeted them with a wide smile. "What did you guys do today?"

Anya looked to Luna. "Lu took me to all the super cool places she apparently discovered while scouring the city all week. I have to say, this city is pretty awesome. At least, very alive."

"I wish I had more time for stuff like that," Monty commented. "It does kind of suck that it can't be like a vacation here, since we're living here. But I guess off days like this are what make it so fun."

"Yeah," Luna said, "well, I for one can't wait to move here someday. On the other hand, it is nice to just be here and not be working or anything. But you know. Now that Anya's here, I had to take the liberty to taking my girlfriend out on the town."

Lexa raised her eyebrows, and everyone else in the group looked just as surprised as she did. "Girlfriend, huh?"

Anya scowled. "Don't give us that look, okay?" She was clinging to Luna's hand suddenly, and it occurred to Lexa that the attention probably still made her uncomfortable. She just gave her best friends a wide grin, and then the group's attention was pulled away from the two of them as Octavia noticed Raven and Niylah approaching.

No one had gotten a real look at Niylah, other than Octavia possibly, so Lexa's first instinct was to analyze her appearance. Not in a judgmental way, of course, but just in general. She was a few inches taller than Raven, with wavy hair a color between blonde and brunette. For some reason, Lexa could easily imagine Raven and this girl as a couple, which she supposed shouldn't be surprising, since Raven's hand was intertwined with the girl's.

"Hey, Rae!" Clarke was the first one to break the silence that had washed over them, as the pair approached. "And you must be Niylah. I'm Clarke." Niylah smiled brightly, and Clarke took the liberty of introducing everyone else as well. "This is my girlfriend Lexa. That's Octavia and Lincoln – I think you met the former in a weird situation yesterday. Then Luna and Anya. Bellamy, Jasper and Monty."

"It's so nice to meet you all. Raven talks about you all like you're her family," Niylah commented, smiling briefly at the brunette next to her, who flushed a little.

"Yeah, I guess I sorta like them," she muttered, and Lexa found herself smirking. Yes, Raven had found the one who would make her into a sap, that much was clear.

Octavia grinned wildly. "Now that we're all here, let's head inside so that we can at least get some drinks. And I'm gonna need some dancing tonight, that's for sure."

The majority of them ended up at the bar for a while, sipping drinks and talking amicably. Niylah adjusted to their group fairly easily, especially as they all took turns asking her about things and striking up new conversations. Clarke asked her briefly about med school, mentioning that she'd considered once in middle school becoming a doctor, until she realized that she wanted to be nothing like her mom and decided against it. Plus, art had always been her passion.

More than once, Niylah got Raven to blush or fumble over her words a bit, and Lexa couldn't stop smirking every time it happened. Especially when she said to Monty that she'd taken Raven out to see a cheesy romance movie and the brunette had actually teared up at the end. Raven immediately tried to deny it, but her entire face lit up like a red traffic light, and she received her fair share of teasing. After all, they had much teasing to make up for considering how much she'd dished out over the years.

The whole night wasn't spent grilling Niylah and Raven, though, because at some point, Luna tugged Anya off onto the dance floor, and Clarke turned to Lexa with her slightly glossy blue eyes lit up in excitement. "Dance with me, cutie?"

"Hmm, maybe."

"Oh come on, you'd had three drinks by now, you should be all over me," Clarke teased.

Lexa smirked. "Mm. Well. Maybe you just don't do it for me anymore."

"Oh really? You mean earlier today when my face was between your legs, that just didn't do it for you?"

Lexa felt her face flush at the same time that a fire began in between her legs. "Okay fine, let's dance."

The music was loud, and pulsed in time with the flashing lights. The noise and movement of the crowd, along with the alcohol in her system, made Lexa feel incredibly hyped to dance. Plus, dancing with Clarke never had a downside. Especially not now, when Clarke was clearly horny and Lexa was, well, also horny. And for nearly an hour straight, they moved along with the beat on the dance floor. Most of their dancing was just their bodies pressed against each others, grinding and feeling each other up probably way too much. Were Lexa a few drinks deeper in, she may have pulled Clarke off somewhere and tried to have some silent, sneaky sex. Not that it would've worked if they had tried.

By the end of the night, most of all of them were tipsy to drunk, though Anya was completely sober as per usual, and Raven and Niylah were both relatively level headed. Luna had been put off by the fact that she couldn't have a drinking competition with Raven, but had gotten over it pretty easily once she realized that that meant that she could stay more even with her new girlfriend.

They ended up all outside of the club together, laughing at some joke that Jasper had just rattled off, and started splitting off in groups. Luna and Anya decided to split up and head to the separate places they were staying, and when Luna, Clarke and Lexa climbed into a taxi headed for their apartment, Luna caught them up briefly on what had happened between them.

It was mostly lots of emotional back and forth between them, before confessions were made, along with promises and apologies, and voila, here they were. Not completely fixed, of course, as they both had efforts to make, but Lexa was happy that her friends were happy, and that was that.

It was into the early early morning when Clarke and Lexa finally fell back into bed together, stripped of their clothes and not hesitating to make love to each other. They forgot about Luna in the next room, letting their pleasures be noisy and drawn out, but by the time they finally collapsed into each other and passed out, everything just felt right.