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Chapter 10
A few weeks had passed since the Finn incident, there's no further interaction after that, all is well. Clarke's friends are thankful by it because they just couldn't let that man invade Clarke's life again. Probably, Lexa did made herself clear to Finn and probably because it's Christmas break that's why they don't see the man anywhere.
Good thing he wasn't around because Clarke's friends won't let the man slipped this time, they know how to act if they'll ever see him.
Clarke, Raven, and Octavia we're doing some Christmas shopping all together, obviously.
"How about this, do you think Anya will like that?" Raven pointed out the necklace in the glass case of some store in the mall.
Octavia and Clarke groaned, but still looked at it. Their friend, aka Raven, has been looking out for Anya's gift for the past half of an hour and she still not finding the right one.
"Yes, she will, for the hundredth time Raven." Octavia said and gave Raven a tight smile.
Seriously, the necklace is actually beautiful. It's a rose gold plated, leaf shape and it has those small details that really pop out the design of the necklace. Anya will really love this because she's kind of a nerd for those kinds of stuffs.
Clarke smiled as glances one last time in the necklace and turned to Raven. "That's the one, Raven. She'll love it." The blonde gave Raven her genuine smile and that's all Raven's need, the confirmation.
"Sure she will Clarke." Raven said appreciates Clarke's honest opinion and calls out for the saleslady.
"Finally." Octavia sighed.
"Let her be O, it's not always we see Raven all this sweet to someone." Clarke grinned as she looked at Raven pays for the item with that smile on her face.
"We've been picking out a gift with her for the last half an hour." Octavia pointed out.
"Well, stop whining because we're done with it. Now, what are you getting Lincoln huh?" Clarke said and nudged her.
"I don't even know, maybe a shirt that will buffed out his muscles." Octavia said with that serious face and grin.
"Anyways, I don't want to know." Clarke cringed playfully.
"What are you guys talking about?" Raven said enthusiastically.
"Some potential gifts." Clarke shrugged. "Happy with that?" She asked her friend.
"Yup, got it all wrapped up in a box and all I need is her answer."
"It's not like you're going to ask her to be your girlfri-" Clarke stopped what she's saying and come into realization.
Raven grinned as she looked at her friends reactions. She just walked out of the store and heads out to their next station.
"Holy shit!" Octavia said finally and dragged the also shocked Clarke towards their walking friend.
"Are you going to ask her?!" Octavia asked.
"No, I'm going to ask her to marry me." Raven sarcastically said.
Clarke's hand connected on Raven's head because of that. "Answer her dumbass."
"Yes, okay. I'm going to ask her to be my girlfriend. I mean, we've been dating for a couple of times and I really feel alive when I'm with her. You guys know I'm always like that, but it's not like that, when I'm with Anya everything just felt right. I really like her and I just don't want to let her go. I know it's kind of fast, but it's just how it is." Raven stopped walking and looked at Octavia then Clarke. "When you meet the right person, you'll immediately know it. How can I let go of it right?"
Did Raven just gave Clarke an advice? Clarke looked at that grin on Raven's face. Yup, definitely an advice.
"What have you done to Raven?" Octavia keeps poking Raven's cheek.
Raven laughed and held Octavia's hands. "Shut up Blake."
"You've been all soft to Anya." Octavia teased her friend.
"I'm not the one who's soft to someone." Raven pointed out and gave Clarke a teasing.
"Hey! I can't help it, it's Lexa." Clarke shrugged.
"I'm not saying, it's Lexa." Raven grinned.
"Whatever." Clarke rolled her eyes and looks around the mall to find a certain store.
"You got it so bad Clarke." Octavia snickered.
"Of course she does." Raven agreed to her friend.
"I'm not the one who's going to ask someone to be her girlfriend." Clarke said as her smile got bigger when she saw the store from the distance.
"In my defense, I'm not going to ask her right away on Christmas week, that's just way too boring. I probably do it, maybe next year and at least I have the will of power to do it." Raven said.
"Don't start Rae." Clarke groaned because she knows Raven had been lecturing her about her feelings towards Lexa for the last couple of days.
Octavia rolled her eyes by her friends' bantering about their love lives. "Are you even going to give that necklace to Anya?"
"Nope not yet, definitely not on Christmas, I'll give her something else and I know what I'm going to pick Blake. So, don't go whining about me for being 'way too picky' which clearly you are too." Raven said.
"Okay." Octavia replies as she crossed her arms.
"You guys are done? I would really like to buy Lexa a gift." She grinned thinking about it. Clarke walks towards the store she's been looking at. Her friends followed her and shook their heads.
"She's going to hate you Clarke." Octavia warned, but chuckled as she looked at the store.
"That's the spirit Griffin. I'll buy some for our house too." Raven laughed knowing Lexa might really hate Clarke if she'll give her those expensive stuffs.
"Shut up you both, it's just a teasing part. But it wasn't my real gift, actually she'll appreciate those too, even she'll have to be embarrassed." Clarke turned to her friends and the three of them entered the store, Bed Bath & Beyond.
After the three of them bought some candles and god knows what in the store. They head up into their next stations. This time they'll buy some gifts for their family.
In the store, Raven keep asking Clarke about Lexa and Octavia's was just right there agreeing in every question that the brunette's firing. But all Clarke did was gave them both a cold stare and picked out some good scented, expensive candles that she knows Lexa will love.
"Speaking of Lexa," Clarke starts and both of her friends immediately looked at her. "I invited her in our house on Christmas and my mom agreed."
"Of course you did." Raven shrugged looked at for some stuffs.
"We're also invited in that too, right Clarke?" Octavia asked as she looked at for some potential gift for her brother.
"Actually yes because it's a small party with friends, but Lexa is staying the night or two." Clarke innocently said and put her mom's gift in the basket.
"Did Anya agreed to that?" Raven asked clearly not knowing about Clarke's plan having Lexa over their house.
"She did, Lexa told me that Anya will be gone for about two or three days to visit her family. But Anya will be in our house on 24th, so she could spend some hours with us." Clarke appreciates Anya for staying a little while with them, she turned to Raven. "You really are lucky by having her."
"Remember when Raven was gaping about that 'geek woman' she's having a crush with, aka Anya. Now, she's about to become her girlfriend." Octavia is really happy for her friend because she knows Raven deserve all this. "Well, just don't get too confident that she'll say yes."
Raven knows Anya is a great woman and she's thankful because her friends are all in the same page as she is with Anya. She turned to Octavia and trapped her into a headlock. "Of course she'll say yes Blake!"
Clarke grinned and happy with these kind of moments with her friends, but she needs to remind them they're still in a store. "Okay kids, stop now. People are staring at us." She chuckled as she see Raven gave Octavia a smack on the head. "You can kill her later Rae."
"Raven! I have a basket in my hand." Octavia groaned.
"I'm not done with you." Raven said and released Octavia.
"Thanks a lot with the help Clarke." Octavia caressed her neck.
"You're welcome." Clarke knows Octavia's laughing in the inside by what just happened.
They all gathered their needed stuffs and they all agree that they will buy their gifts for one another, between the three of them, in their own so no one could peak. How could someone ruin the excitement, right?
Children.
Clarke decided to buy her gift for Lexa in that time too so she could have an alone time to think properly about it.
Suddenly
"I can't stop myself by thinking about the commander." Clarke said out of nowhere and she deadass sensed the sudden weight in the air. Raven and Octavia seems like the deer caught red handed.
Raven looked at Octavia and she knows she's bad at this kind of stuff, lying. But she got to suck it up because between her and Octavia, she's good with words, maybe. "Still think it's Lexa?" Raven asked and Clarke looked at her if she's serious. "I mean, yes of course you still think that. You have any plans to get it out from her?" Raven mentally cursed herself. She's literally rambling words that could danger Lexa's identity.
Clarke eyes Raven properly and try to read the sudden awkwardness of her friend.
"What Raven means, maybe you should talk about it with Lexa so you know, the curiousness in you will lessen. Right, Raven?" Octavia dryly laughed and gave her friend a knowing look.
"You've never been more right." Raven copied the action and awkwardly smiled to Clarke.
"Right..." Clarke knew there's something going on between both of her friend, but she won't just pry them.
"Let's go home and wrapped up some presents!" Raven's suddenly back from herself and that made Clarke shook her head.
Maybe there's nothing going on, maybe? Or she's just trying to cover it up. Well, Clarke need to stop being so curious with everything.
"I hate wrapping." Octavia groaned and yes she do hate it even she loves Christmas.
"You love it O." Clarke chuckled when Octavia glared at her.
Clarke led their way to the parking lot, leaving her friends behind her.
"You almost screwed up." Octavia hissed because she knows Lexa wouldn't like that.
"I know, okay and also I know that Clarke thinks we know something. So you also need to be careful." Raven reminded Octavia. She really is worried that Clarke might find about Lexa being the commander from them and obviously it's not their place to do it.
"I'm not the one who rambled back there." Octavia pointed out.
"Wow, thank you so much for the support O."
"I should remind you that I had your back."
Raven sighed by that because she knows Octavia's right. "I thank you."
"That's all I want to hear. Just so you know, that commander will fucking kill you once you slip." Octavia told Raven. She might love the idea Raven being killed, but she still love her friend. Raven won't just know that though.
"Definitely noted."
Clarke was the one who drove them back to the Blake's household to wrap up some gift. Bellamy wasn't there, probably in Gina's house, yup his girlfriend.
They just messed with each other like what friends do and share some stories that one another knows already, but still funny for them.
Definitely, everyone's dream to have a friendship like that.
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"Anya, stop groaning every time you finishes wrapping a gift, it's annoying." Lexa huffed in annoyance because apparently her best friend is being a pain in the ass at the moment.
Anya put down the scissors and looked at Lincoln for a save. "Don't look at me because Lexa's actually right." He shrugged as he continues what he's doing.
"Is that why you came here Linc? To be Lexa's backup, like always, nice." Anya rolled her eyes, totally messing around.
"Awe An, you're still my favorite." Lexa mouthed a 'sorry' at her cousin Lincoln.
"It's fine, I accept that long time ago." Lincoln knows Lexa and Anya is way more too close than him and Lexa, but no one is looking for a competition here because they all support each other.
"Drama king." Anya said lowly, but she made sure Lincoln heard her.
"I heard that."
"That's the plan." Anya said folding the wrapper on the thing she's wrapping.
Lincoln looked at Lexa. "I know she's still the same so don't be surprised." She said.
"Unbelievable." Lincoln said.
"You're me every time when I'm with her, but worse than that." Lexa loves Anya but she couldn't deny the hard headed best friend she got.
"You both are talking about me like I'm not here." Anya knows both of her friends loves cornering her.
"That's the plan." Lincoln mocked what Anya said.
"He did that." Lexa snickered and high fived her cousin.
"I hate you both." Anya groaned and continued what she's doing.
Lexa knows that Anya won't be talking to them for a good five minutes by what just happened. So, she decided to ask Lincoln some things. "How long you'll stay here? Not that I'm kicking you out already, just asking." She shrugged.
"Maybe until next year and before your classes kicks in once again, I'm out of here for good." He decided to take some time with Lexa and Anya because dearly missed them both.
"You'll stay in for Christmas?" Lexa asked and felt dumb by that.
"That's what I said, isn't it?" Yup, she really did felt dumb.
"Well, I may or may not will be gone for one or two days." Lexa forgot to tell Lincoln about her plans with Clarke and Anya is the only one knew about it.
"It's fine, I could just be here in the apartment and watch something on television." Lincoln is an understanding man and he knows the long of his visit is really shocking, but who could blame him?
"But you know, on 24th you're invited in Clarke's house for a little get together. Anya is too, you know about her being away for three days to visit her family. She's such a sucker for Raven so that's why she's staying for a little while." By that Lexa knew Anya will speak up.
"That is not true and let me remind you that you're staying in Clarke's house, on Christmas day." Anya defended herself and she saw that Lexa's cheek became beet red and now Lincoln has that curiosity once again, even he knows Lexa likes Clarke.
"Aren't you going to tell me about that?" Lincoln put down the finished wrapped gift aside and looked at Lexa.
Lexa rubbed the back of her neck and laughed nervously. "Actually I will, just not knowing how to." She said truthfully.
"You like her right?" Lincoln asked.
"Oh she does, tell her Lex." Anya know Lexa will be annoyed by that, but when Lincoln knows, maybe he could help her. Definitely wants Lexa to confess sooner.
"Tell me what? That you like Clarke? It's so obvious." Lincoln shrugged.
"Yeah, that's righ-" Lexa was cut off.
"Not that, the other one. Lincoln should know about it." Anya grinned and not wanting to meet the cold stare coming from Lexa.
"I have no idea what's going on." Lincoln said.
"Me too." Lexa agreed to what her cousin said.
"Want me to say it then?" Anya put down the scissor in her hand and didn't wait for Lexa's reply. She just went for it and knows Lexa wouldn't mind, maybe just a little. "Lexa is being two people at once."
Lincoln wrinkled his face, totally confused. "What?"
"To cut the long story short, Clarke has a friend called the 'commander' an anonymous person, no one knows who is it, but well Lexa is that anonymous person and basically she likes Clarke. Raven and Octavia knows it, so am I and you. We've been telling her to tell Clarke, but you know how hard headed Lexa is. That is all." Anya shrugged and went back to what she's doing.
"You're such an ass Anya!" Lexa shouted lowly and it actually fine for her if Lincoln knows.
"You're welcome." Anya continued to scissor the wrapper.
"You're being two different person at once, actually no, you're being two person and you're friends with Clarke in both." Lincoln tries to run his words in his head and realized it's all the same.
"Linc, you know that's both the same, right?"
"I know Lexa, but the thing is how could you manage tha-"
"Two phones." Anya cut him off and Lexa just want to smack her best friend now.
"That's clever." He smirked.
"Oh my god, I didn't told you about it just to be proud of your cousin." Anya exasperatedly said. "Can you just tell her to grow a pair and let Clarke know about it."
"Which one? Liking Clarke or being the commander?" Lincoln asked innocently and Anya suddenly turned to him.
"If you won't say a word to Lexa, I suggest you pack your bags and get out of here." Anya made herself clear, but the two people in the room know she's being dramatic.
"Oh well, your best friend just threatened me to be kicked out in this apartment. So, I better work out with my words now." Lincoln sighed.
"Anya, you're really an ass." Lexa gave her friend a tight smile.
"You appreciate me Lexa." That's true, that's why Lexa just shook her head.
"Anya's right, you know that." Lincoln starts and Lexa couldn't argue with that first statement. "I'm sure that you're serious about Clarke and not just playing with her. I know you Lexa, the way your eyes lights up when you're with her or someone mentions her name, that's the side of you that really matters. I've been here for small figure of time, but I immediately suspect that there's more in that friendship of yours with Clarke, the night incident was one of the evidence. I may not know about why you did become an anonymous friend to her, but I know for sure you had a good reasons by doing it." Lincoln stops for a while and made sure Lexa's looking at her truly. "You know Anya, your other friends and I are here for you if you ever needs us to do something. We will help you no matter what. So, I suggest you better start thinking about telling her that you like her and that you're the commander. She'll be fine with it." Lincoln gave Lexa a smile and it was returned.
"At least Lincoln and I are in the same page." Anya said out of nowhere, that's what they needed in this kind of moment, the small bickering side.
"I know both of you are right and yes I will tell her sooner." Lexa gave Anya a knowing look and she received a nod. "Let me breathe some air, okay?"
Every person in Lexa's surroundings is all right. She just need to gain the confidence, once again.
"I can't believe you're finished wrapping up your presents." Anya shook her head because it's like she still has tons to do.
"Well, I'm done too." Lincoln said.
Lexa stood up from the ground and put the wrapped gifts she made below their small tree. "Would you mind helping her Linc?"
"Not all, it's the least I could do." Lincoln went beside Anya and start wrapping.
"Yeah that's the least you could do by eating my last pint of ice cream last night." Anya slightly shoved Lincoln's shoulder and laughed when the man scissor the paper the wrong way.
"Okay Children, I'll be in my room. If you need anything just knock, please." Lexa chuckled by the used words of hers.
"Just don't get too excited texting Clarke as the commander." Anya said and she knows it's true. She really is about to check on Clarke.
"Shut up An and you too." Lexa said when she saw Lincoln laughed by what Anya said. "But Linc, thanks for saying that, I appreciate it so much."
"No problem Lex."
That's Lexa's cue to leave the living room and went to her room.
Lexa sighed when she closed the door. She let herself leaned on the frame for a little while.
"Night, commander hot stuff."
Those words still ringing through her mind since those words left Clarke's mouth that night. Lexa doesn't know if Clarke is even awake that time or maybe half asleep. Still, what if she knows already.
Maybe it just came up randomly or Clarke really suspects something. Raven and Octavia's actions from the day they went in their apartment to make Lexa confess is still a prominent memory. Lexa is not that dumb not to think that there's something going on there.
Lexa kept that memory in her and didn't let anyone know about it. She knows if she told her friends, the banters and advises will fly through her face.
Again, she sighed and went on her bed. She reached out for the phone she's using when she's talking to Clarke as the commander. She just need to be at peace at the moment.
Commander: How are you today Clarke?
Lexa waited for a moment, until a buzz came.
Clarke: I'm actually doing good, just went for a Christmas shopping with Raven and O. You know I wish I could give you one.
She smiled by that because she knows Clarke is really is a grateful person to the people she's friends with. Lexa, as the commander, means a lot to think that Clarke sees her as a friend.
Commander: Maybe you could save that in the other time.
Clarke: C'mon, let me meet you.
Commander: You know I still can't do that.
Clarke: My nickname for you really suits you.
Commander: That's what I've been told.
Clarke: But you have an intention to do it right?
Commander: To meet you?
Clarke: Yes.
Commander: Of course I do.
Clarke: That's all I needed to know.
Lexa closed her eyes and took a deep breathe in and then opened her eyes once again. She really needs to tell Clarke.
Commander: You can hold me into that.
Clarke: I sure will do commander. Got to wrapped up some presents now, I'll see you around, maybe not.
Commander: You will.
That was Lexa's last reply to Clarke and she put her phone back on the nightstand.
She knows it's always been cycling, every other day. She's been thinking about telling Clarke, it's keep going and going. Lexa doesn't even know what to feel. She feels like she's about to explode by it.
Plus, her friends keep telling her it's fine that she do it. Confidence in her grows by that, then her anxiety attacks again and she just couldn't fight that.
Then it might sound a little soft, whenever Lexa thinks about Clarke she couldn't just ignore the things she wanted to do with her friend. Like holding her hand freely, sleeping on the couch, do cute things with the blonde, like what girlfriends do.
Would Lexa sacrifice all the things she had with Clarke for the past months just to reveal the truth? To tell Clarke that she's the commander and her friend might hate her?
Or on the brighter side.
Lexa will tell it all and Clarke would be okay by it and give them a try.
Yup, Lexa definitely wants to hold Clarke hand freely, let Clarke know all the truth and wants them to give it a try.
Lexa smiled and knows she just made her decision, her friends would be proud of her. She just needs a perfect plan for it.
Probably y'all are tired of my ANs, but well I got to say this. Obviously we're all coming into an end. This is a fluff ride with y'all, maybe?
So, basically my fic is all happy, some parts are not. I just want all my characters to be happy. And I know y'all want Lexa to do her thing that will happen. Please, like Clarke doesn't suspect or anything.
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