Clarke was waiting outside of Jaha's office even though lessons has already started. After Bellamy had left, Finn had been whisked away to the nurse's office and Raven had spoken to her.
"Listen, was all that stuff true? About you and Finn.." She trailed off and Clarke was worried the girl was about to cry. She wanted to hate her but instead all she felt was sympathy. Finn had played them both.
"I'm afraid so. I'm sorry, I had no idea about you and him." She admitted truthfully.
"No." Raven shook her head and tried to look confident. "Why would you? He probably never even mentioned my name."
"I'm sorry." Clarke repeated.
"Tell your boyfriend thanks. He had that punch coming for him. I'm disappointed it wasn't me though." Clarke smiled at Raven's comment. She bet Finn would have come off just as bad if Raven would have gotten to him.
With that Raven had gone in the direction Finn had been taken off in and she left Clarke reconsidering her choices about the whole fake-dating Bellamy thing.
"What are you doing out here, Princess?" Bellamy teased walking out of the Principles office.
"Waiting for you. What the hell did you think you were doing back there?" She pulled on his arm to get him to look back at her and he swerved around.
"I was defending you and before you say anything, he deserved it. And you deserved better than him." Bellamy let out this thought and then realized how odd it sounded it context. However Clarke didn't seem to notice, she was too angry.
"We're in school! The whole reason we're doing this is so I keep out of the spot light and so it's less messy. You've made it a million times worse."
"I didn't do it to make things worse, I did it because I was angry!" The bell sounded and Bellamy and Clarke feel silent as people started to filter out of their classes.
"Bellamy this can't carry on for long. You can't make it seem like we're desperately in love by punching Finn in his face, otherwise we can't break up quickly." Clarke reminded him in a hushed tone.
"Yeah.." Bellamy spotted a very wounded looking Finn being escorted by a nurse most likely to the hospital and realized how stupid he was about to be. Finn looked over and without hesitation Bellamy placed his hands on Clarkes jaw and leaned down and kissed her.
She responded almost instantly, tightening her grip on his arm as Bellamy threaded his fingers through her hair and ran them over her shoulder.
Clarke broke away and turned around to see Finn being taken away and looking very pissed.
"Now he's got the message. No more punching." Bellamy stated, trying to ignore this gut feeling that he should just forget Finn and kiss Clarke again.
"That wasn't part the of the plan." Clarke said sounded wounded.
"Plans aren't always the best. What's wrong with a little chaos?" Bellamy smiled and decided it was time for a new idea.
"I'll pick you up after school today okay? There's some things I think we should discuss. Out front." And he walked away from her, because if he stayed he would have kissed her again. And this time he wouldn't have any other excuse except he wanted to.
Bellamy waited patiently outside of school, half expecting Clarke not to turn up after the dick move he just pulled, but even though she was late she did turn up.
After a brief hello and nothing else they headed to Bellamy's car. Unsure of where to take her Bellamy stopped at the first place he saw that would be quiet, which was a deserted park.
"Come with me." Bellamy said and wondered off to sit on the swings, remembering how much Clarke used to love swinging. Clarke sat beside him on a slighter higher swing.
"We need to rethink our plan." Bellamy pointed out, very gently starting to swing.
"I agree. Should we just stop it completely?"
"No!" Bellamy said a bit too quickly. "No, I think that would look weird."
Clarke narrowed her eyes. "What are you suggesting then?"
"We can't just pretend to be together at school with no physical contact or change at all, and then ignore each other at home. What if one of our parents found out? Wouldn't they ask questions?"
"So what are we going to do Bell? I didn't think this through." Gladness washed over Bellamy at the sound of his old nickname, encouraging him to vocalise his idea.
"Don't say anything until I've finished explaining." Clarke nodded. "The way I see it is that if we just act normal, people are gonna think you're just using me for a rebound."
Bellamy took a deep breath. "I propose we actually sort of date." Clarke went to say something but he stopped her. "You've been with Finn for a long time, he's been your only boyfriend. I want you to experience dating because it'll get you over him a million times faster."
Clarke wasn't sure what to think about the idea. "Obviously we both know we're not dating. This is not a real relationship and it won't be. The same rules apply as before, except maybe I get to put my arm around you every once in a while, or kiss you on the cheek. Nothing like today I promise."
"So what would happen?" Clarke asked.
"We'd go out to places together. I show you what actual datings like, because you said it yourself Finn wasn't romantic. At home we can hang out, no funny business. I could really use your help studying and Octavia too. You can used to dating again, and we can piss Finn off. Besides..I've missed being your friend in all honesty Clarke. It would be nice to get back to how we used to be."
Clarke smiled and thought the offer sounded perfect. The closer friends her and Bellamy were, the easier it would be to pretend to be together. "That could be doable. But no kissing right? Only in life or death situations?"
"Life of death. Deal."