A/N: Deja vu anyone? Sorry I missed updating yesterday (I can't remember if I also missed the day before, either way however, I apologize)... as an apology I will of course post the next four chapters, which finishes off this story anyway. More from me when we get to the end. Enjoy lovelies xx
Lexa took in a deep breath, standing outside the dorm room. She was trying to think of encouraging thoughts that might make it easier for her to enter the room, but knowing that it was either now or later was less encouraging than if it were now or never. Shaking her head at herself, she finally lifted her hand to the door handle and opened it without permission. It was the way of her and her friends, anyway.
She was expecting to find her friends half asleep, exhausted from Monday, or doing homework. Honestly, she didn't know what she would find, but she definitely didn't expect to see Anya topping Luna on the latter's bed, both of them wearing minimal clothing. Lexa stared for a whole second or two, in completely shock, before slamming a hand over her eyes. "Oh my god!"
She heard someone fall onto the ground – Anya no doubt – as well as a shriek from Luna. "Lexa! What the fuck! Knock!"
"I'm sorry if I wasn't expecting you two to be in such a compromising situation! The last I heard about this situation was that you were seeing what would happen," Lexa stated, keeping her eyes covered until she got the okay to look. She heard them both fumbling around for clothing now.
"Yeah well, we saw," Luna said for both of them, "especially yesterday for Valentine's Day. We did a lot of seeing what would happen."
"Luna!" Anya exclaimed, and Lexa heard Luna snort with laughter.
"Oh my god..."
"Alright, we're decent," Luna announced. Lexa dropped her hand, crossing her arms self consciously over her chest as she looked between her two friends. They were now seated on their own beds, a smirk on Luna's face and Anya avoiding eye contact with either of them. Anya hadn't ever really struck her as someone to be so shy about something like this, but she supposed that it made sense at this point.
"Did you need something?" Anya finally asked, and Lexa realized that she had just been standing there.
"Yeah, right. Sorry. I need to talk to you both about something, and I figured that now was a good time, because I know that your guys' classes are over," Lexa explained, leaning against the dorm room door and deciding that she would stay there so that it was easy to face them both.
"Well go ahead, you've already interrupted our afternoon," Luna prompted. Her tone was light and joking, however, and Lexa was glad for that.
Clearing her throat, the brunette took in a deep breath. "I got into New York University."
"Wait, seriously?" Luna exclaimed. "That's amazing, Lexa! When did you find out?"
"Last Thursday. I wanted to wait and tell my mom first, which is why I didn't say anything to you guys. I would've told you yesterday, but I was busy all day with Clarke, so." Lexa looked at Anya, but couldn't read her expression. "Clarke and I have decided that we are for sure moving. We're probably going to drive up to New York with everyone one weekend coming up so that we can look for apartments."
"That's seriously so awesome, Lexa," Luna repeated, a smile across her face. "I'm so happy for both of you. You deserve this."
"You really do," Anya agreed, and finally she smiled. "I mean, I'm going to miss you like crazy, but you do deserve this. And so does Clarke. You both deserve to be happy, and I think this should be good for you. And I mean, it's an excuse for us to visit New York. You just have to promise to visit here too."
Lexa grinned. "Of course I will, you weirdo." She felt something like elation, and adrenaline, building up in her chest as she realized that her two best friends were entirely supportive of her. It felt more and more real the more she talked about it – the more people told her that she should do it. She wanted this so badly, and the pieces were falling together nicely.
"Good, because I've known you practically since we were born, and it totally wouldn't be fair if you just disappeared on me," Anya insisted. "You've got this, Lex. You and Clarke are going to own New York between the two of you. Not to mention everyone else. NYC needs to watch out."
Luna laughed. "I'm already imagining Raven and Octavia just tearing through it."
"You guys are seriously the best," Lexa told them fondly. "Clarke and I haven't told anyone else about this – except for Finn, because he was involved in my Valentine's Day gift to Clarke with her art room door... it's complicated. But yeah."
Anya lifted an eyebrow. "What are you getting Clarke for her birthday?"
"Dinner, and sex."
"Wow, blunt," Luna said with a chuckle.
Lexa's lips turned up in a smirk. "Well, we always do our big gifts on Valentine's Day, and we're being careful with spending because Clarke's obviously down a job. But it turns out that my dad wrote my mom a check to help me with college. I think I should probably thank him at some point, but not right now. I'm not supposed to know about it."
"That's really nice, though," Anya stated, nodding in approval. "I guess life is finally starting to make up for throwing so much shit at you."
Lexa bobbed her head in a nod, sighing happily. "I'm ready for this. For something positive and good to be happening. I feel like this is really good. I just feel... really good."
"You're such a dork," Luna said, shaking her head and laughing. Suddenly, all their phones buzzed and, furrowing their eyebrows, they all moved to check them.
Group Message: "The Gang"
Octavia – YO! We going out for drinks on Friday for Clarke's big 24th?
Clarke – Ha. "Big".
Lexa – Not opposed, except SOME of us still aren't 21, so I guess we know who are designated sober drivers are. -.-
Raven – Don't you guys have fake Ids? I could've sworn that we all drank the shit out of Clarke's birthday last year.
Clarke – I didn't :-)
Bellamy – We could do drinking/partying as a night in. The bar here sucks anyway.
Jasper – OH did you guys see that there's that new place opening up? It's a club, I'm so fucking hyped.
Luna – You guys are all moving, how can you be excited about something that won't even be open until summer?
Jasper – Oh, good point.
Finn – I can be excited! No moving for me...
Clarke – You wouldn't survive NYC, Finn :P
Octavia – Yeah, you belong out here where you can hammer together pieces of wood and call it a job. :D
Finn – Rude.
Bellamy – Back to Clarke's birthday?
Raven – Not opposed to a night in if it's good with Clarke. But I ain't buying the alcohol.
Monty – I got you guys covered. Where we doing it at?
Clarke – Not our place. There's no way I'm letting you guys trash our apartment and then sleep all over it.
Raven – Wow, you love us so much.
Luna – Well, dorm's not an option, so I guess it's up to you oldies to figure it out :)
Jasper – We aren't that old.
Finn – My place is tiny, not gonna work.
Raven – You guys are impossible. We can go to my place, as long as you all are cool with crashing on the floor. I'm not sharing my bed with any of you assholes.
Raven – Except for Clarke, because it's her birthday celebration.
Raven – On second thought, Clarke would want to sleep with Lexa and there's not room for three of us on there, so yeah you all would need to sleep on the floor.
Lexa – I feel the love Raven 3
Octavia has added Lincoln to "The Gang".
Lincoln – O told me you guys need a place for Clarke's party? I've got a spare room so there would be room to crash. And that way I can make sure that you guys don't get my little sister too trashed :-)
Anya – Hey, for the record, I stopped drinking. No getting trashed for me.
Raven – Ha, that makes one of us. That would be awesome Lincoln!
Clarke – Works for me. Thanks Lincoln :)
Octavia – YAY! Why didn't we have Lincoln in this group message before anyway? :(
Monty – You're the one who made this group, so I don't think any of us can answer that.
Lincoln – Wow, O. I take personal offense. :(
Octavia – Come over tonight and I'll make it up to you ;)
Raven – *gags* Oh sorry I just vomited a little in my mouth my bad.
Octavia – It's okay, Rae, I know you're just jealous of my relationship :-)
Raven – If I was jealous of anyone's relationship, it would be Clarke and Lexa's, not yours.
Lexa – Aw :)
Clarke – We're goals, I know.
Lexa – Oh btw.
Lexa – I'm calling a mandatory meeting at the WH tomorrow night. Cancel your Tuesday plans.
Raven – Darn, I had so many important, fun plans on my Tuesday night. -.- What's this about?
Lexa – I guess you'll find out when you show up :)
Octavia – Clarke is like a thirty second walk away from me, does she know? Can I torture the information out of her?
Lexa – If you want to die, sure.
Luna – Ooh, protective Lexa. This is new.
Clarke – It's hot ;)
Lexa – ;)
Anya – Ew. Get a room.
Clarke – We have one. Lexa's just currently not in it. :(
Lexa – Is that your low key way of asking me to come to the WH right now?
Raven – Noooooo I don't want to hear you guys having sex a room over from me! STAY AWAY!
Lexa – :^)
Raven – NO.
Clarke – Don't tell my gf what to do _
Bellamy – You guys are blowing up my phone, shut up.
Finn – What he said.
Lexa – Mean :(
Clarke – Losers.
"Alright, Lex, we're all here," Octavia stated, as everyone settled into the couches in her room, "what's this meeting for?"
Lexa was seated on one of the couches next to Clarke, facing the rest of her friends. The only people missing were Luna and Anya, but they both already knew what Lexa was about to tell everyone. The brunette glanced at her girlfriend, who grinned widely, and then green eyes turned back to look at all their friends. "I got accepted to NYU."
Raven was the first to react, immediately jumping up and exclaiming. "Fuck yes! That's awesome!"
"Wait, so you guys are officially going to New York with us?" Octavia exclaimed as her eyes bugged out.
Clarke nodded. "We're going to New York with you guys."
Everyone broke out into cheers and congratulations. Octavia babbled something about them celebrating, and Bellamy interrupted her to say that they were already celebrating Clarke's birthday on Friday. They came to the consensus rather quickly that the celebration could be for both Clarke's birthday and the fact that they were moving, and Monty said something about just bringing extra alcohol for the extra celebration.
Once all the talking at once sort of settled down, Lincoln cleared his throat and looked to Clarke and Lexa. "So we were all planning on driving up to New York next weekend to do some apartment shopping and stuff. You guys in?"
"Definitely," Clarke agreed. "A group road trip sounds fun anyway."
"There's eight of us going," Raven said, glancing around at the group, "so we could technically take Bellamy's car and go all together."
"Do we want to all take one car? If we have to all go to different apartments and stuff, shouldn't we all take separate cars?" Jasper asked with a frown.
Bellamy shrugged. "I mean, we could get taxis there or walk a lot, get the full NY experience. I don't know how fun it would be for all of us to be driving through the city in four cars. Plus, I think that a lot of us are getting places together. I mean, O and Lincoln are getting a place. Clarke and Lexa are getting a place. I don't know what the rest of us are doing."
Raven frowned. "I think that for the first time since the beginning of college, I'm going to have to move in with someone. But it seems like all my go-to roommates are taken." She glared playfully at Lincoln and Lexa for stealing Clarke and Octavia, and Lexa stuck her tongue out at her, leaning into her girlfriend a little.
Finn chuckled. "Well, I've gotta get back to work. Good luck planning everything, guys. I'm really so happy for you all."
"Thanks, Finn," Clarke said. He got up and exited the room as they all sat quietly, and then Octavia looked at the rest of them with concern.
"Do you think that he's upset?"
"I'm sure he is a little bit," Bellamy said sadly. "But I guess there's nothing we can really do. He wants to stay here, and he has a lot of opportunity here, I think. He wants to go into construction after all, and I think he's been trying to get work helping with the city engineering department and stuff."
"It's kind of sad, knowing that we're leaving people behind," Monty commented. "I mean, Finn obviously, but also even Harper and Miller and Murphy. We've known them for years, and it's weird to think that they'll all be staying here."
"Luna and Anya," Lexa added, and everyone nodded along.
Lincoln sighed. "We'll have to throw one last mini bonfire with them all before we leave. Something like the first time that we all came together – at the one that Murphy threw that we all went to."
"Fuck, that feels like ages ago," Raven breathed out. "This is going to be one crazy experience."
"We've got this," Octavia said strongly, "and we're going to get through it with flying colors, okay? We're all ready to grab life by the fucking throat and command it. We're in control for once."
Clarke grinned. "It feels nice."
"I still wish I at least had living plans," Raven muttered, only half joking.
Jasper frowned. "Monty and I were going to get a place together. Do you think we could get one for the three of us instead? I mean, maybe four of us. I know we thought that Bellamy could live with us, too. I don't know how pricey that would be, but if we all split the rent..."
"I mean, you could always get a place on campus too, Raven," Monty suggested.
Raven hummed thoughtfully. "I guess if I could somehow get a single room that would work. I could go back to living in a dorm for a year. At least while I'm still finishing my major. Then when I'm done paying for college I could get an apartment."
"Yeah, because it will probably be pretty hard for all four of us to get a place together that's like, comfortable for four people," Bellamy reasoned.
Lexa let out a breath. "This is why relationships are nice. You only need an apartment big enough for one person."
"We might have to get a bigger place though," Clarke reasoned, "because I'm going need an art studio. Or else we're going to be really fucking cramped."
"Point taken."
Octavia shook her head. "Okay, for the first time, I'm actually stressed out by this. Let's take a break. I could use a beer."
"We should probably go home," Lexa said, looking her girlfriend, "because I have class tomorrow."
Clarke nodded. "What she said." The two of them stood, and Octavia jumped up and grabbed them both in a surprise hug.
"I'm so glad that you guys are coming with us. Seriously, I'm like ten times more excited now!" She jumped back with a grin across her face. "See you guys later."
"Bye," Lexa said with a light laugh, grabbing Clarke's hand and gently pulling her toward the door.
"See ya!"
"Shots! Shots!"
Clarke pushed the door of Lincoln's apartment open and saw Raven and Octavia excitedly eyeing the shots lined up on Lincoln's coffee table – apparently the start to their night.
"Jeez," the blonde started, "not even half of everyone is here yet, and you already wanna start taking shots?"
Raven glared at her. "Just because it's your birthday tomorrow and this celebration is for you doesn't mean you're allowed to be a party pooper."
"I don't mind taking a shot," Lexa admitted, "as long as we're crashing here tonight. Because it's Clarke's celebration, so I'm obligated to be a sober driver."
Clarke rolled her eyes. "Fine, I'll do a shot too."
"Yes! Party Clarke time!" Octavia exclaimed, as Lincoln came out from his bedroom with eyebrows raised.
"Did I miss something?"
"Clarke's going to party hard!"
"Not hard," Clarke corrected, stepping into the room completely with her girlfriend and closing the door behind them. "One shot. I'm not going to deal with a hangover on my birthday."
"What are you guys doing for your actual birthday tomorrow?"
Clarke looked to Lexa, who just shrugged. "You know. Dinner, sex, the usual."
Raven scoffed. "It's hard to believe that you were once that innocent little teenager who sat all quiet and embarrassed when we caught you with Clarke."
"Yeah well, I've grown up," Lexa stated proudly, before sticking her tongue out at the older girl. Raven stuck her tongue out right back, and Octavia rolled her eyes.
"Children, all of you."
There was another knock on the door, and then it opened without any permission. "We have arrived!" Luna exclaimed, coming in and pulling Anya along behind her. Lexa noticed how Anya tugged her hand away from the brunette as soon as they were in sight of everyone else. "Oh, party hasn't started yet. Good. Ooh! Shots!"
"Hey, An," Lincoln greeted, smiling at his younger sister. "I haven't seen you around much lately."
Anya shrugged weakly. "I've been busy and kinda stressed. School and life, you know? We should hang out sometime – get some sibling bonding time. I... kind of have some stuff I wanna talk to you about anyway."
"This is not the time for seriousness," Octavia interrupted, crossing her arms. "This is party time!"
They decided to take their first shots without waiting for the rest of the group to show up, and when Monty, Jasper, Finn and Bellamy finally did make an appearance, they took their own shots and the party began. It was the normal deal – they all mixed drinks with the excessive alcohol provided by Lincoln and Monty and ate the pizza that someone ordered at some point. Octavia also surprised everyone by pulling a cake out of Lincoln's fridge at some point, and they drunkenly sang Clarke a happy birthday once the time hit midnight. Clarke and Lexa were not particularly drunk, though they both let themselves relax a little bit. After all, they were celebrating, and it wasn't like they had to drive the next morning.
As always, Clarke stopped herself when she knew that she should drink no more, and began drinking water. Lexa followed her lead at that point, because she knew that Clarke would just water down her drinks at that point anyway. Neither of them would feel good in the morning otherwise.
The night ended with them all picking a place to fall asleep. Clarke and Lexa claimed the bed in Lincoln's spare room, after promising their host that they would not have sex in it. Monty and Jasper ended up sleeping on the floor in the same room, Lincoln and Octavia took his bed, obviously, and the rest of the gang sprawled around the living room.
Lexa was the first one awake the next morning, happy that she didn't seem to have much of a headache. She realized with a frown that she and Clarke were laying some distance apart, and she scooted across the sheets, pressing soft kisses to Clarke's neck to wake her up. The blonde slowly stirred, and finally forced her sleepy eyes to open. "Hi," she mumbled tiredly.
"Happy birthday," Lexa whispered, nudging her girlfriend's neck with her nose and pressing another kiss to her pulse point. She felt Clarke sigh contently, so she pressed her body closer to the blonde's and gently sucked on the skin on Clarke's neck.
Clarke gently pulled Lexa's face away from her neck and brought their lips together. Their tongues immediately began to invade each other's mouths, and Clarke took control, pushing Lexa onto her back and straddling her. Lexa groaned, pushing her hips up slightly, and then pushed Clarke up lightly.
"Lincoln said no sex in the bed," she murmured.
Clarke raised an eyebrow. "But it's my birthday."
"Jasper and Monty are on the floor."
"Okay, what about the spare bathroom's shower? He didn't say anything about that. And I could use a shower – I'm pretty sure that someone spilled some vodka on me last night."
"You do smell a lot like vodka."
"And I probably got it on you, so we obviously both need a shower, and can't wait until we go home." Clarke batted her eyelashes and smiled cheekily down at her girlfriend, who grinned.
"Okay, fine."
They both got off of the bed and slipped into the bathroom in the room. Lexa turned on the shower while Clarke began to strip, and when she turned back around, the blonde was already naked and immediately attacked Lexa's lips with her own. Lexa released a wanting moan as Clarke began to take on the task of removing her clothing. When they were both naked, they stumbled into the shower and closed its door behind them.
Clarke pressed her thigh between Lexa's legs, grinding it into her purposefully. Her lips and tongue muffled the moan that Lexa tried to release. Lexa's dull nails dug into her back, scraping down the skin there until they were on her ass, and Clarke began to kiss down her jaw and neck and to her shoulder as her thigh rubbed Lexa's center.
Lexa's hips began to rock and her breathing sped up. Clarke finally replaced her knee with her hand, enjoying how Lexa whimpered in the split second that there was nothing against her. "Fuck," Lexa gasped, her hips pushing forward into Clarke's fingers. "Clarke!"
Clarke began to move her fingers faster and with more force, Lexa came quickly, muffling her moan by burying her face into Clarke's neck. She bit some skin there slightly and Clarke squeaked. Just as Lexa came down from her high, she abruptly shoved her own hand between Clarke's legs and the blonde stumbled at the sudden feeling.
Lexa pushed Clarke up against the shower wall, not teasing her girlfriend at all as she worked her fingers in and out of the blonde. "Fuck, Lexa!" Clarke exclaimed, throwing her head back. "Fuck! Fuck!"
"Shh, you're going to wake everyone up," Lexa murmured, reveling in how loud she could make Clarke. She was always teased for being noisy, but honestly, Clarke was just as loud as she was, if not louder.
"I don't fucking care," Clarke gasped out as Lexa's left hand squeezed her breasts appreciatively. Clarke's body tensed and lurched slightly as she came, and she let out a final moan before relaxing. "Fuck, Lexa..."
"Mm, happy birthday," Lexa murmured into her girlfriend's neck, pressing soft kisses across the wet skin and then slowly dropping down lower, her fingers still buried inside Clarke.
When Lexa's lips reached Clarke's breasts, she began placing hot, wet kisses across them. "Lexa," Clarke murmured.
"You're so beautiful," Lexa whispered against her skin, before taking one of her nipples into her mouth and beginning to move her fingers again. Clarke moaned, and Lexa went slower this time, knowing that Clarke was probably sensitive now.
Clarke's breathing increased again, and she was panting and moaning by the time that Lexa's lips had reached her center, and her tongue joined her fingers in between Clarke's legs. "Jeez, Lexa," Clarke gasped out. Suddenly, there was a knock on the bathroom door.
"Stop having sex in there! Some of us need to pee!" The tired, hungover voice came from Raven, but Lexa didn't stop what she was doing.
"It's my birthday," Clarke shouted, "go pee somewhere else!"
"I can't, because Lincoln and Octavia are having sex in his room and I'd have to go through their room to get to the bathroom!"
"Sounds like your p-problem, not mine!" Clarke exclaimed, before releasing another moan and tangling her fingers into Lexa's hair. "Fuck!"
"Guys! This isn't cool!" Raven whined. Clarke's body tensed up as she moaned, and Lexa could feel her girlfriend tightening around her. She finally came again, just as Raven was pounding on the door furiously. "I take it back, you aren't relationship goals at all. You're sex animals! Let me go pee!"
Lexa carefully pulled herself out of her girlfriend, sucking her fingers clean and standing up in front of the blonde. "Happy birthday."
"You already said that," Clarke murmured, pulling Lexa in for a soft kiss, "but thank you."
"You fucking assholes, I am breaking down this door in a minute!"
Lexa stepped away from her girlfriend. "We're coming!"
"That's what I don't want you to do!"
Rolling her eyes, Lexa shut off the water and opened the shower door. "Not the kind of coming I meant."
They quickly dried off with some of the towels hanging in the bathroom and then pulled their clothes back on, exiting the bathroom in record time. Raven was waiting outside the door, bouncing awkwardly in an attempt to keep herself from peeing. "Fuck you guys," she growled, pushing past them into the bathroom and slamming the door. That noise finally woke Jasper and Monty, who groaned as they rolled over.
"Am I dead?" Jasper whined.
Clarke chuckled, grabbing Lexa's hand and pulling her through the room and out into the main room, where the rest of their friends were finally starting to wake up due to Raven's yelling and probably the sex noises coming from Lincoln's room. "We should make our hungover friends some breakfast," Clarke suggested.
"Why? We can't cook to save our lives, and it's your birthday," Lexa muttered, not interested in trying to make food for anyone.
Clarke hummed thoughtfully. "Well... I guess we could order pizza again."
"Sounds like a plan. But we should go home soon, so we can laze and binge something on Netflix before I take you out tonight."
"Okay, we can be out of here by one," Clarke agreed, smiling softly at the brunette. "So what, no going to the warehouse to sex it up anymore?"
Lexa fluttered her eyelashes innocently. "I didn't say anything about what we'd do after dinner. It's your choice of course." Clarke grinned.
"I love my birthday."