I looked at my watch again, it had only been 3 minutes since I last checked it. I looked up to the arrivals board, her plane had landed 10 minutes ago. Lexa was never one for rushing and I was never one for waiting. As I tap my foot impatiently I see a big crowd come towards me, I leant on the barrier and squinted my eyes, determined to see her see her in the crowd.
"Clarke!" I heard her before I saw her. Pushing through the crowd, Lex stumbled infront of me, dropped all of her bags and collapsed into my arms, "I've missed you so much."
I wrapped my arms around her, blowing her hair out of my face, "I missed you too Lexa, I can't believe you're here." I let go of her and took the opportunity to see how much she had changed. She had cut her hair short, well, short for Lex. Her traditionally long brunette locks were resting above her shoulders, showing off her sharp jaw line which framed her face perfectly. Breaking out of my haze, I reached down and grabbed her belongings by our feet. "Come on, the car's waiting, and I need to introduce you to someone!" Lexa looked at me as a sly smile spread across her face.
"Why Clarke, have you been getting down and dirty without my seal of approval?" I laughed at that.
"Lex, you're the one who has always told me to spend less time at work and more time for myself, this girl was the first person to bring out my real self since moving to America. I honestly think you will love her." I got nervous thinking about their introduction, but if Lexa is going to be working for me and living with me, then she would have to meet Alice sooner rather than later.
"I dunno Clarke, I'm not sure anyone will be good enough for you, but that might just be the biased best friend talking. The lesbian in me wants to know if shes hot."She said, winking at me.
I laughed in response, "she's drop dead gorgeous, so hands off!" Lexa looked back at me and smiled knowingly.
"So let me guess, blonde hair?" Yet again, I laughed at her.
"I'm not that predictable am I? But yes, you are right, shoulder length, a bit longer than yours, wavy, light and just feels amazing when you run your fingers through it." I found myself running my fingers through my own hair just thinking about it.
"I'm not saying you're predictable, you're still surprising me with your choices to this day. No, what I'm saying is that you, my dear, always go for blondes." I nudge her shoulder and look at her teasingly.
"Not always."
She cleared her throat and looked at me, "I do not have any idea what you are talking about Clarke." As we finally reached the car that was waiting for us, I opened the boot and waited for Lexa to help me out.
"Hmm, I'm sure you don't have any idea what so ever what I'm talking about." She flushed, and turned away putting her suitcases in the boot and closing it.
"So anyway, I would have thought a big hot shot like you would have your own driver to help out in times like these."
I look over at her, "for starters Lex, unless you want to drive, you're getting in the wrong side and secondly, I think once I've settled down and gotten used to directions and where everything is I think I may start to, but I figured the only way to get to know a place is to get lost first."
Lexa shook her head at herself and wandered round to the other side. As I climbed into the drivers side, I put the key in the ignition and let out a small giggle at my friends antics. Once she climbed in and strapped up I set off with home being my destination.
"Its about 30 minutes drive from here, so do your magic babe and select the perfect song for this moment." We always had our own roles in our friendship, and anything to do with music or arts was always left up to Lexa, I was always the one to sort out anything which took more than five minutes worth of planning. I looked over to her and saw her biting her bottom lip, something shes always done when shes hard at thinking. I returned my gaze to the road just as music started to fill my ears, Imagine Dragons. We grinned together and sang alone to On Top Of the World.
As I pulled up to my building I turned to Lexa with a big smile on my face, "we're home!"
"You live here? This is huge!" I opened the car door to get out, reached across and squeezed her hand, "we live here."
Acting like a child on Christmas, Lexa scrambled out the car and ran up to the door, "Clarke! Chuck me the keys so I can go inside!" Shaking my head which was currently far inside the boot sorting out all of her bags, I was not shocked at how excited she is.
"Lexa can you please come and get your shit out of my car first, I'm not doing this on my own!" I looked up expecting a reply, but found nothing but an open door where my friend was supposed to be standing, "Lexa?"
I closed the boot, forgetting about her suitcases and ran up stairs to find her standing next to a familiar looking blonde, my familiar looking blonde,
"Clarke, there you are, come on we don't have all day." She turned around to my familiar looking blonde and smiled at her, "thanks for letting me in, would you like to come upstairs? I'd let you show me around wherever you wanted. By the way, I'm Lexa" She finished with a wink.
Before I could step in and say something, "Unfortunately my girlfriend wouldn't really appreciate it" came from the blondes mouth.
"No she wouldn't. Lexa, this is Alice, the girlfriend. Alice, this is Lexa, the best friend." I moved to stand next to Alice and let out a proud smile as the smile on Lexa's face dropped.
Alice turned to me and kissed me on the cheek, "I wasn't expecting to see you, but hey baby, I missed you." I blushed under her words, Lexa and I aren't used to showing our emotional side to each other.
I gave a small smile to Lexa and ran my nose alongside Alice's cheek, "I missed you too baby, can you give me a few hours to sort Lexa out and I'll call you?" I spoke quietly so only Alice could hear. Alice agreed and walked to the lifts.
I turned around and start to walk back to the car, "Lex can you give me a hand with your bags please? There's no way I can carry all of this by myself."
Lexa ran infront of me and stopped my in my tracks, "I am so sorry Clarke, I had no idea, I can see why you snatched her up." Showing such guilt in her eyes, I knew I could never be mad at her for something out of her control.
"It's fine babe, how are you supposed to know what she looked like?" I throw her a smile so she can move on, "I'm honestly not annoyed, I trust her, you weren't to know, why should I hold it against you?"
She rubbed the back of her neck as she looked up at me, guilt still showing across her features, "are you sure?" I reached forward and threw my arms around her neck.
"Yes, I'm sure. Although as payback, you can grab the heavier bags." I winked at her and grabbed the two lightest bags and start walking up to the lift, "and put some effort into it, I would like to get this done before sunrise!"
It took 8 trips and 2 hours before all of the bags were out of my car. Lexa had collapsed onto the sofa as I walked into the kitchen and cracked open two bottles of beer for us.
Walking back into the living room, I held out a beer in Lexa's direction. "Want the grand tour now or later?" She grabbed the bottle from my hand and used said hand to pull her up from the sofa.
"Come on, lets get this over with!" She sarcastically sighed at me and walked away with an extra swing in her hips, "So, tell me which room Alice will be sleeping in?" She teased, throwing a wink at me, I threw a cushion in return.
"The room to the left, which also happens to be my room. Although if we are being honest, she's also been sleeping in the extra bedroom, which will be your room, the sofa and the kitchen."
She stopped in her tracks, "Oh Clarke, you best be talking about actual sleeping or else you're going to be scrubbing my room from top to bottom."
I tilted my head sideways, "so you remember the mess I make then I'm sleeping then?" She blushed again and peered over to where the bedroom doors are.
"Well, when you're actually sleeping, you snore and kick, and I suppose it can get pretty messy sleeping next to you." She teased in return. I saw her walk to the room to the left, I followed her, curious as to where she going.
"So that's my room, its a bit bigger than your room, and it has the fire escape on it, but I gave you the walk in wardrobe. I hope that's okay?" It felt weird having Lexa in my room, I hadn't been alone with her in a room with a bed since the night I like to tease her about. I could tell she could sense the awkwardness in the air, she turned around and looked at me with a glint in her eyes.
"I would have thought that it would be messier, knowing how you get when you," she looked to me and smiled, "sleep." She took my breath away. That was the first time she ever acknowledged our night to me, and to do it with such ease and banter, made my heart jump. I followed her with my eyes to see her walk into her own room, which was directly across the hall from mine. "Cat got your tongue babe?"
That woke me up, "No, no, I'm just," I stopped, thinking of my next words carefully, "processing." With my head held high, showing no sign of how her words affected me, I took a swig of my beer and walked to my dresser. Knowing she was watching my every move, I placed my beer down and took my top off in one quick movement. I heard a hitch of breath as I unclasped my bra and threw it in the hamper. Pulling out a tank top, I turned my back to Lexa and threw it on, not wanting a give her more of a show than she already had. I grabbed my beer, took another swig and with an innocent look, walked to the kitchen.