Clarke had been in a mood all day after that customer.
What a prick? As if he couldn't find anything more demeaning to call her than princess. Even her Dad had never called him his princess.
(She had always been his little peanut because when her mother accidentally discovered her pregnancy she was only a few weeks along. Clarke had only been the size of a peanut.)
Grumbling, she grabbed her sketchbook in efforts to keep drawing, but she suddenly had very little interest in the ornament she had been trying to capture of paper. Sighing she shut her book and propped her head on her hand on the counter.
This was going to be a long shift.
Unlocking the door to her shared apartment, Clarke dropped her keys on the bowl on the side table next to the door. It was like Raven was a stray cat because the second Raven heard the click of metal on ceramic, she pounced.
"Clarkey! You're never gonna guess whats up!" She grinned and Clarke groaned. Raven only got this way on special occasions. Those occasions usually meant that Clarke was about to get drug out somewhere in heels and watch every guy at one the scene try and go home with her friend. While sometimes amusing, mostly just boring and uncomfortable.
"Please tell me we aren't going clubbing. Or dancing. Or drinking in general." She moaned dropping her bag on the floor. Raven stuck out her bottom lip.
"C'mon thats no fun! You just sit around and study then go to work at that shitty little store. Don't you wanna go have some fun?" Raven begged, clasping her hands together in front of her chest and sticking out her bottom lip.
"Raven I'm honestly too exhausted for fun. And there was this real asshole at work and honestly I just wanna crack open a bottle of that shitty Copper Moon and watch Ted Talks all evening." Clarke said, exasperatedly as she sagged her shoulders. Raven grimaced sympathetically.
"OK. Maybe we can go check out that new pub another time?" She suggested and Clarke gave a sigh of relief.
"Thanks Rae. I swear I'll make it up to you. I just had a really shit day today." Raven laughed.
"Yeah, you seem to be having more and more of those." Clarke chuckled as she threw her coat on one of the bar stools at the breakfast bar.
"Tell me about it."
"So tell me about this asshole from work. Was it another flustered soccer mom?" Raven grinned and Clarke threw her head back and laughed.
"Nah," She said grabbing a bottle of their cheap wine from the cupboard. "Some dude, maybe our age? came in yesterday looking for a wreath, so I sold him one. then he came back today on his period because apparently "The wreath was wrong and his sister didn't like it"." Clarke quoted in her meanest face. This time it was Raven's turn to throw her head back and laugh.
"Wow, sounds like a piece of work. On the upside you have class tomorrow!" She grinned and Clarke smiled.
Class for her was one of the better parks of the week. She really only went 4 times a week before or after work and tomorrow was Art History. It wasn't her favourite class but there was a cute guy in that class that had seemed to take a liking to her.
"Now c'mon, we need to watch us some Firefly." Raven stated, grabbing Clarke's had and 2 glasses and leading her over to the couch. Clarke groaned.
"Raven, come on, the medical info in that show is so flawed!"
"Look just because they're using future tech doesn't mean it's flawed. It just means we haven't discovered it yet! And besides! The Zero G is the best part! It's the only show to get it accurate that there isn't sound in space!" Raven protested and Clarke sighed. At least she would have her cheap box wine to keep her happy.
The next morning Clarke got up at 8. She groaned at her alarm clock and slammed the button. She had an hour before class and she already felt like that wasn't enough a towel she hopped in the shower and washed her hair, letting the scalding water soother her muscles and redden her skin. Stepping out of the shower and wrapping the towel around herself she brushed her teeth and ran into her room to grab her clothes. She could hear Raven start to get up and she grimaced at the sight of her unruly hair. She quickly brushed it and threw her black converse on. Still not satisfied with her hair she grabbed a hair tie and began braiding her hair back in a french braid off to the side.
Her mom always braided it like that when she was younger, and out of habit she kept braiding it like that.
As she walked out into the living room she grabbed her bag and an apple as Raven walked out of her room.
"Mornin' Sunshine." Clarke teased and Raven gave her the death stare. Clarke grinned. She only called Raven that when Raven seemed to be at her most irritable. The first time Clarke called Raven anything other than her name was in 9th grade when Clarke had called her a "Pretty Bird". Raven had flipped a shit and demanded that Clarke never call her that ever again. it wasn't until years later that she learned that "Pretty Bird" had been the name coined for her by her abusive step-mother, Nigel.
"Shut up Picasso." Raven mumbled, making her way over to the coffee machine. Clarke chuckled, as she grabbed her jacket and her keys.
"I'll be home latee tonight. Sinclair asked me to close up shop." Clarke called over her shoulder as she opened the door.
"Paint something amazing!" Raven called and Clarke laughed.
"It's Art history today!" She said as she shut the door.
The drive from Ark to Corvallis only took about half an hour. Clarke was pleased that she has left early enough to pull into a drive in Starbucks and grab a coffee before leaving town. Ark was still tiny compared to Corvallis or Seattle but Clarke lover the small town feel. It made her feel safe and the comforting woods of Oregon made her feel more at home that the towering sky scrapers of Seattle ever did.
Clarke grimaced when she noticed the menu had changed. It was only November 17th and Starbucks had already changed to it's full blown candy cane craze.
"Welcome to Starbucks how can I help you?" A perky young voice chirped.
"Hey, do you guys still have any pumpkin spice lattes?" Clarke asked as she crossed her fingers.
"Yeah we do! But only for a little while till the pumpkin runs out." The voice said and Clarke grinned.
"Sweet, can I get a grande latte and a chocolate muffin?" she asked, happy that her day was off to a great start.
"That'll be $6.89. Pull up to the first window."
"Thanks." Clarke said as she pulled up, to see a very young brunette at the window. The girl opened the window and moved to hand Clarke the debit machine.
"Here you g- shit! I mean, uh, sorry!" the girl squeaked. and Clarke laughed reaching out and somehow managed to catch it before it fell.
"It's cool. Octavia?" She said reading the girls name tag. Octavia blushed.
"Sorry, I'm new here. Second day. Can you tell?" She said shyly and Clarke laughed.
"Not at all. You're doing great! But if you could keep me in constant supply of pumpkin spice that'd be phenomenal." She winked and Octavia laughed.
"I know right? I'm not sure why it's always in such demand but it's so good! It's still November! We shouldn't be worried about "peppermint mocha's" for at least another 2 weeks!" Octavia protested.
"Exactly!" Clarke gasped and the two girls laughed before Octavia handed Clarke her coffee.
"Here you go! have a great day!" Octavia beamed and Clarke grinned.
"You too!" She waved as Clarke drove off to University.
OK! Chapter 3 done! So excited that you guys are liking this story. I'm trying to get all my ideas down before I do anything else and I set the story a little bit back from Christmas just to make sure that we'd have enough time to play around and meet the characters. I have no idea how long this story is going to be because I've just started having a lot of ideas and feelings about where I want this to go. Originally i figured around 5 or 6 chapters but now I'm thinking maybe longer? Hopefully that'll be ok with you guys ;)
Anyways I'm super excited about The 100 reunion because right now it's only 2014-11-19 for me so I know that when this comes out the reunion episode will have already aired but I'm super pumped! Everyone is loosing their mind over that hug so this'll be a great episode!
Anyways hope you guys like the story so far. Remember to leave a review with any suggestions or ideas that you want to see in the future and I'll do my best! :)