A/N: because i can't just not have a valentine's day chapter
It's the day after Valentine's Day, and Bellamy and Octavia are pushing a shopping cart through a wasteland that was once filled with bags of chocolates and conversation hearts. Now, the shelves are near-bare, proof that, like the Blake siblings, people like half off sales on candy.
"I can't believe you spent Valentine's Day with a bunch of kids," Octavia muses, because god forbid she let it drop.
"Tease me all you want, I like volunteering at the rec center." And it's true—Bellamy might not have liked chaperoning a Valentine's Dance and watching kids chasing each other around a dim gymnasium, but he likes spending his weekends working with them. His "Little Brother," Daniel, had been raving about his plans for the dance for the past couple weeks, telling Bellamy all about his crush and insisting he be there in case he needed help. He couldn't just say no.
Octavia snorts at him as she tosses a bag of gummy hearts into the cart. "While you were hanging out with twelve year olds, Lincoln made dinner for me. It was so great, Bell, and after-"
"O..." he warns. He loves his sister more than anything, he really does, and he's glad she's happy and in love, but he has no interest in the details of her relationship.
"Chill. I was gonna say he asked about you." She holds up a heart shaped box and pointed at it in silent question.
Bellamy nods in approval and raises his eyebrows, baffled that Lincoln would even mention him. "What would he want to know about me?"
"Well, you know. The entire time he and I have been dating, you haven't dated anyone." She sets the box on top of their growing pile of goodies.
He's quiet a beat, reading the back of a candy box and considering her words. He could swear he's dated someone in the past year. He's had several meaningless flings, sure, but to his surprise, he can't recall anything more serious. With a sigh, he says, "Yeah, and?"
"And he wanted to know if you're lonely."
"Fuck him, I'm not lonely."
"You have, like, four friends."
Five, he wants to correct. "That doesn't mean I'm lonely, O. I can be single and content."
She stares at him like she's right and he's a loner. The brat.
"I'm not lonely," he asserts, pushing the cart along.
Octavia shakes her head, strolling alongside him. "If you say so…" she sing-songs, and god, she's annoying.
"Shut up," he grumbles, snatching a box of heart pretzels off a shelf.
"What about Clarke?" she asks, and when he glares, she gives that goddamn look again. "Don't act like you don't like her."
"I don't," he lies, because he hates when she's right. "It's none of your business."
She starts snickering, what the hell, and she's poking at his side. "Bellamy's in loooooove."
He shrugs her off stubbornly and his cheeks are hot. "Shut up," he repeats, hitting her with a teddy bear holding a heart.
Octavia giggles some more, clutching the bear to her chest as they leave the Valentine's section. "You should give this to Clarke, she'd love it." She makes the bear dance.
"I don't like her!" And, god, why are they doing this in the middle of the grocery store?
She's still got that shit-eating grin on her face. "Whatever you say, Bell.." She sets the bear in the cart. "Whatever you say."
Clarke's lounging on Nate's bed and fiddling with a Rubik's Cube and being totally not helpful. "I'm telling you, we'll be living on the moon within the next hundred years. It's gonna be awesome."
He huffs noncommittally, scrolling through movie titles online. "You know what would be awesome? If you picked a movie already."
"But am I wrong?" she says instead, because she's annoying.
With a heavy sigh, he pushes his laptop aside and spins in his desk chair, facing her. "Living on the moon would be impractical."
"Impractical, sure, but impossible? No." She motions for him to hand over the computer and he does. "Somebody's going to come up with a way to colonize the moon, and I'm so ready."
"Clarke, no country can claim the moon. It's a global asset." He kicks off from his desk and rolls over to her.
She doesn't answer immediately, busy thinking and typing away. "But, okay, would you go if you had the chance?"
"Why would I? Earth's great. Has plumbing."
She gives him an unamused look and passes the computer back. "Loser. I'd go."
Bellamy notices with a laugh that she's selected a movie about inhabiting the moon. What a nerd. "Of course you would."
They both fall silent as the movie starts up and, yeah, the movie's total shit, but that's okay with them. He's more than content with spending his afternoon watching a crappy movie with Clarke.
"Who's that for?" she asks after awhile, and he has to look up to see what she's referring to. Her eyes are on the teddy bear holding a heart, perched atop his mini fridge. Fucking Octavia.
"It's just a thing O bought today," he tries to brush it off.
Clarke grins and gets up, grabs the bear, and returns. "It's so cute."
He tells Clarke she can have it and silently curses O for always being right.