Clarke POV

It was nearly 9:30pm when Clarke's phone rang. She hoped for a call of Lexa and was even more surprised when she saw Raven's name on the display. "Raven? Hey." – "Hi. Clarke? Okay uhm I don't know if you knew that already but Lexa's birthday is on Wednesday and we planned something today when the two of you weren't around. Aaaand we need your help. Okay here's the plan…"

The following two days passed without any special incidents. Clarke did her best to spend most of her time with Lexa. It was an incredible feeling to just do normal things like going to school or having lunch in the cafeteria with her friends and… with her. The most wonderful thing about it was the fact that everybody seemed to be surprised by Lexa's behavior. Especially Octavia and Harper supported the new love. "Your love melted her frozen heart", Harper joked once and Octavia kept calling them "Clarke and Lexa… Clexa, the inseparable". It was amazing.
The only one who seemed to be everything but pleased with the situation was Anya. Every time she was around, Clarke had the feeling that the other girl tried to keep Lexa busy, so that Clarke was not able to talk to Lexa at all. When she finally had a quiet moment with Octavia, she decided to get it off her chest. Clarke told Octavia everything that was going on, how Anya's behavior changed from friendly at the beginning to really cold now that Clarke and Lexa spend so much time together. To Clarke's surprise Octavia was more understanding than expected.
"Anya is probably just jealous. I mean before you moved here, she was the only one who was really able to talk to Lexa. After the accident I mean. They do have this connection we never understood. Like sisters. And Lexa was always so quiet. Never shy but… secretive. Even Lincoln was kinda helpless at times. We all were." Octavia paused and smiled supportive, her light eyes sparkled typically. "But then you came along and you brought out something we haven't seen for months. There is this special bond between you and her. She never let anyone in before, she kept saying that 'love is weakness' but you… you changed her." Clarke swallowed and could not help but smile back at Octavia when she heard this opinion of one of her closest friends. "What I wanted to say is…Everyone can see that, Clarke. Including Anya. And it's been barely a week since you two first met. I mean… wow. Where will this lead you two? Clexa. I ship it. Even if Anya keeps acting like that… Don't worry. The Lexa I know won't let anything or anyone come between you two." Clarke's smile widened and turned into a grin. Clexa. It was definitely the right thing to talk to Octavia about the situation. A friend like Octavia was always able to make her smile again. "Thank you, Octavia, I really needed some support. You're the best." – "Hey, did I miss something? I thought I was your number 1?" The familiar voice let Clarke's heartbeat jump for a second. Lexa. Her whole body reacted to the arrival of the other girl. Every time. She smiled back at Lexa, while Octavia chuckled quietly next to her and came back on her feet. "Don't worry, Lexa, she's all yours", she assured within a second and walked towards the school's library, still smiling. "See you two later."

Lexa POV

Lexa sat down next to Clarke on the bench and looked curiously at the blonde's face. It was a warm spring-day and the birds sang their songs while they enjoyed the short break between the lessons. "Is everything alright? You kinda fled from me earlier, didn't you?" There it was again. Clarke bit her lips and Lexa knew immediately that she held something back, but instead of being honest, she just said: "No. Don't worry. I just didn't want to interrupt your conversation with Anya. That's why I decided to keep Octavia's company." The blonde shrugged and Lexa was anything but convinced but she did not ask any further questions. Clarke would talk to her if it was something important – that was something that never changed between them. "Alright then. What do you think about spending the day with me? We could study for the upcoming exams and once we are finished take a walk on the beach or something?", Lexa suggested, placing her hand gently on the other girl's arm. But Clarke just shook her head and Lexa began to get a bit worried about her behavior. Clarke usually loved spending every second with her. No matter where they were.
"It's not that I don't want to spend my time with you", the blonde girl explained, when she saw Lexa's confused face, "but let's not go to the beach today. If we do that every time it won't be special anymore. And I want it to be special." For sure an excuse, Lexa thought, but she nodded unconvinced. "What do you think about studying for the exam at my place and a city stroll afterwards?", Clarke added and Lexa nodded once again, with a small smile now. "Sounds like a plan."

Clarke POV

The last two lessons – geography with Mr. Pike (oh the irony, he teaches the subject about the earth again…) – were annoying and seemed to last longer than 90 minutes, but Clarke was happy enough to sit next to Lexa and Lincoln, who were both really good at reading maps and all the other things you needed to do in a geography-lesson. What a surprise, Lexa was born to be good at everything that had something to do with strategy for wars etc. Including maps, the earth structures… Clarke felt like an idiot. At least some of the others – like Harper and Jasper – were also not really good, so Clarke was not the only victim of Pike. He turned out to be one of these teachers who liked to ask especially the students to come to the blackboard who had the most problems to answer his questions. "A tyrant, just like he was when he was the chancellor. All hat and no cattle. He loves to be more powerful than others. Can't believe your people really voted for him", Lexa kept saying with a confused face. "I guess they just thought that he might be able to change something. They wanted the Skypeople to be powerful without your help", Clarke whispered back. That was for sure no excuse for all the things Pike did...
For Bellamy Mr. Pike always was the "nasty little runt" behind his back. Lexa and Clarke agreed with each other that this was indeed very funny, referring to the fact that Bellamy supported Pike in his other life... "I guess we can't judge them for who they were. Everyone acts differently when it comes to surviving", Clarke added, while her finger slowly drawed invisible lines on the back of Lexa's hand. "Not everyone. Not you", Lexa answered.

When the school bell finally rang, Clarke recognized the conspiratorial glances of her friends. Today was Tuesday, the day before the big surprise and everyone was happy that Clarke kept her promise to keep Lexa busy today, although Clarke had the feeling that Lexa already knew that something was going on. "It is called 'the commander's 7th sense'", Lexa answered once when Clarke asked her about the fact that she always knew about surprises before anyone could even plan them. I bet it is her sharp sense again, Clarke thought, packed her things and waited for Lexa.

While Clarke and Lexa studied together at Clarke's house and went to the city afterwards, their friends prepared everything for the cozy get-together at the shore on the next day. Harper and Monty were busy placing all the candles on suitable locations, Jasper and Bellamy talked with Lincoln about the possibility of a barbecue and Octavia and Anya were busy ordering everyone around.
The only one who did not participate was Raven. She sat on one of the rocks that marked the end of the private part of the shore and watched the waves of the ocean. Something was different today. Disturbing. As if something big was about to happen soon. Raven could feel it in her left leg. It always itched in a moment like this.
If only she had known that the next day would change everything.