Time hop to later in the school year. This is takes place about March, which is also when we see MHS compete in the State Championship. Also someone requested that I do some kind of jealousy scenario or Clarke cheering Lexa on in one of her basketball games, so I'm gonna do both since they both fit into the chapter. Please Review!
March comes around along with the playoffs. Lexa and Octavia are able to take care of the team with Raven's absence. With Raven no longer a part of the team The Big Three becomes The Terrific Two. The pact that the three friends agreed upon is upheld. Lexa and Octavia still agree that they will not separate for college. Raven feels bad about being the reason The Big Three broke up, but she made a decision and she is going to stick with it. She and Wick will soon be finding out whether they will be having a boy or a girl. Their friends are very helpful and are saving money to build a nursery for the baby. They are even helping debate names.
When the Bulldogs destroy their opponent in the semi-finals a party is held at one of the senior's house. They make all the players wear gold sashes and blue plastic party crowns to school the day after the big win. They lead a procession through the halls during seventh period. Students line the halls, clap, and chant for their team. When Lexa sees Clarke standing next to Raven chanting "BULL-DOGS, BULL-DOGS, BULL-DOGS!" she goes to her and sweeps her up into her arms and kisses her cheek. Clarke giggles uncontrollably at the public display of affection.
"Will I see you at the party tonight?" Lexa shouts to be heard over the shenanigans in the hallways.
"Yeah. I'll be there. Go, you're going to get left behind." Clarke says gently pushing her girlfriend back towards the procession. Lexa reluctantly goes.
Hours later the house has already filled up and many are already half-drunk but those who are sober stand by the front door awaiting the arrival of the basketball team like photographers at a red carpet event. Clarke is among them.
While she is waiting she feels someone approach her and stand to her left. She turns to look at who it is and she finds a familiar red-head.
Costia.
"What are you doing here?!" Clarke shouts to be heard over the loud music.
"I came to get drunk and bang my girlfriend in a closet. Why else would I be here?!"
"She is not your girlfriend." Clarke says through gritted teeth.
Costia probably doesn't hear her because mid-sentence the front door opens and the team emerges, Octavia leading at the front. When Lexa comes into view she glances back at Costia who is jumping up and down and cheering just like everyone else. Lexa walks in front of them and just when it appears Costia is going to reach out and try to hug Lexa she actually for the girl behind Lexa. Clarke is sure her name is Mary who is a junior. Clarke feels a surge of relief and a surge of anger wash over her at the same time. Lexa notices and grabs her to drag her into the kitchen.
"Hey, what's wrong, baby?" Lexa asks. She attempts to calm Clarke down by running her hand up and down the blonde's arm.
"She just gets under skin."
"Who's she?"
"Costia!" Clarke nearly shouts in frustration.
"She's here?" Lexa raises an eyebrow.
"Yeah did you not see her, she was standing right next to me."
Lexa moves closer to the girl she loves and holds her close "I only have eyes for you." She says softly and kisses Clarke's forehead. They stand like that for a few more minutes before Octavia comes in and pulls Lexa away to play beer pong. She looks back to see that Clarke has already found someone she knows and has struck up a conversation.
A few hours later Lexa is very drunk from playing quarters and Clarke (the designated driver) is still sober. Clarke collects Lexa (and Lexa's car keys) and drives toward their neighborhood.
Clarke is stopped at a redlight when she looks over at her drunk, sleeping girlfriend.
She whispers to Lexa "You are so beautiful. Especially when you're sleeping, even though you're hair is messed up and you're drooling right now." She quietly laughed to herself then tears start to form in her eyes "I am so scared. What's going to happen to us when you have to go to college? You're probably going to go to some big-shot basketball school on the other side of the country. You won't have any time for me. You'll be busy with classes and basketball and your future. Hell, I'll just be an afterthought. I'll be the girl you tell your kids about in 15 years because I was the high school sweetheart who got left behind when you went off to build your life." She smiles to herself. "Oh my God, look at me. I'm talking to you when you aren't even conscious and I'm getting mad at you for something 15 years into the future that you probably won't even do."
Clarke pulls into Lexa's driveway and somehow (probably magic fairy dust) she gets her into her room by way of the window. Lexa becomes more cognitive when Clarke makes her drink a whole bottle of water.
"I love you." Clarke whispers in Lexa ear as she tucks her into bed.
"I love you too." Lexa whispers back and pulls the blonde into her arms for a hug.
Clarke holds her for a moment before climbing out the window and across the street to her own house. She gets ready for bed and as she brushes her teeth a text comes through.
Favorite Basketball Player: I would never be too busy for you. goodnight babe :*
Clarke nearly has a stroke when she reads the message from the brunette. She heard the whole damn thing.
Clarke does her best to avoid Lexa for most of the weekend, which isn't too hard because Lexa and Octavia play basketball the whole time. Since Octavia is occupied and she is avoiding Lexa, Clarke decides she should visit a very pregnant Raven.
Clarkey: hey im coming to see you, do you want me to pick u up anything from the store?
Rae: dill pickle chips, coke, super hot salsa, birthday cake ice cream and some skittles
Rae: thanks
Clarke shows up with Raven's strange grocery list and finds her friend in the nursery they have all been working on.
"When do you guys find out the sex of the baby?" Clarke asks as she sets the grocery bag on the table and sits down on the floor next to Raven.
"At the appointment next Saturday."
"Have you thought about names?"
"You can't tell anyone I said this, especially Octavia because she'll have a cow. Got it?"
"Got it."
"I think I want to name the baby after Lexa. Because she's been the best during all of this, better than Wick on most days. And if something happens to me or Wick I know that she'll take care of my kid. I think it might even be possible that she already loves this baby more than I do." Raven laughs a little through the tears forming in her eyes.
"That might be the sweetest thing I've ever heard. But it's also completely true." Clarke smiles at her friend. "And I know she'd be honored if you named your child after her, Rae. What does Wick think?"
"He's kind of been letting me do what I want so far. He just wants me to completely satisfied with everything, and the best way to do that is to let me do it myself. He does most of the dirty work though." Raven nods.
"Thats nice of him, very gentleman-like."
"Yeah." Raven agrees then changes the subject. "Okay, enough baby talk. Where's your other half, you guys are like never apart. What happened?"
Clarke chuckles. "Well, funny story actually." Clarke goes on to tell the story of ranting to Lexa while she was 'asleep' and then the text and her almost heart attack.
"I'm so embarrassed. And I don't know what she'll say. And then what if she's mad at me for avoiding her the whole weekend."
"Trust me. She and Octavia have been in basketball mode for 72 hours straight. When they aren't playing basketball, they are watching basketball, when they aren't doing that they are sleeping. And when they are sleeping they are dreaming about basketball. Hell they probably even make their scrambled eggs look like a reverse layup. She didn't notice you were avoiding her." Raven says.
Clarke chuckles because it is all very true."Well, now what?"
"Go talk to her."
"I can't she and Octavia are practicing. I can't just walk in there, interrupt her practice, and demand to talk to her."
"Why not?"
Clarke opens her mouth to rebuttal but then realizes Raven is right (like always).
Clarke stands up from the floor and marches down the stairs.
She hears Raven behind her yelling "Go get your girl, Clarkey!"
That gives Clarke all the confidence she needs to go and do exactly that.
As Octavia slowly dribbles closer to Lexa who has taken up position at the top of the three-point arc she smiles knowingly at her teammate.
"Bring it, Blake." Lexa says as Octavia approaches.
Suddenly Octavia explodes into action and attempts to go right by Lexa on her way to the basket. But before she gets too far Lexa taps the ball out from Octavia's possession. She takes possession of the ball and dribbles all the way to the other end of the court and executes a perfect layup, Octavia in tow.
"And that's how you bring it, Blake." Lexa collects the ball and passes it to Octavia who is now out of breath.
Octavia begins to say something but then the door to the gym opens and Clarke appears. She gestures to where Clarke stands "I think someone wants to talk to you, Woods."
Lexa turns and finds the blonde standing there with an orange gatorade in her hand and a determined look on her face.
"You know you could've just called." Lexa says as she leads her girlfriend outside to a bench in front of the building.
"I can't bring you your favorite after workout drink over the phone." Clarke says as she hands the gatorade to the older girl.
"Thank you." Lexa smiles and takes a long swig of the sports drink.
"Okay so I'm sorry I acted so weird after Friday night. I was embarrassed about what I said and I didn't want to talk about it because I was still scared about everything but I think-" Clarke was cut off when Lexa pressed her lips to hers. Clarke can't believe she allowed herself to go a whole weekend without the feeling of her girlfriend's lips on hers. She'll never let that happen again.
"You talk too much." Lexa smiles and softly kisses the blonde again.
"But we need to talk about this."
Lexa sighs and pulls away from Clarke. "I know. I've been avoiding it too." She looks at Clarke then turns her attention to the ground in front of her. "I'm scared too."
Clarke is taken off guard by the revelation.
"I'm scared that I'm going to go away and I'll never get to see you because you'll go off study art like you've always wanted to do. I'm scared that basketball will just takeover. I'm scared you'll go off to some college and meet someone and…" Lexa trailed off from there, tears welling up in her eyes.
"Hey, look at me. That's not going to happen. There is no one I'd rather be with." Clarke brings her hand up to cup the side of Lexa's tear-stained cheek.
"So what do we do now." Clarke asks.
"You know, you could always go with me."
"W-what?" Clarke stutters.
"To whatever college I end up at. You could find something to major in there or at another school nearby. You could come with me." Lexa looks back at Clarke with promise in her eyes and Clarke can't deny that she looks absolutely stunning right now.
"That...that sounds awesome." Clarke is ecstatic but then realization hits her. "But you don't even know what college you're going to. How are we going to-" Clarke trailed off and Lexa picked up where she left off.
"I'll find out where I'm going before the end of the month. But we take it day by day. I pick my school, you pick your's and we go from there." Lexa assured her.
Tears formed in Clarke's eyes and her voice left her. She could only nod as Lexa held her in her strong arms.
"We'll be okay, baby." Lexa assures her.
A week later the Bulldogs are in the State Championship game. Lexa and Octavia each have 25 points and they are beating the Knights by 46 points.
The clock winds down and the crowd gets louder and louder. Lexa looks up into the student section and sees Clarke cheering her on.
The buzzer goes off, confetti falls, the crowd chants, and the team runs from the bench to tackle Lexa and Octavia.
Everything seems to be in slow motion as a feeling of victory overtakes everyone. The students from the stands rush down to center court to meet their team in celebration. Somewhere in the chaos Lexa finds Clarke.
"You did it, babe!" Clarke shouts and embraces the taller girl.
"No. We did it." Lexa says referencing the whole school as being the we.
Lexa and Octavia hold the trophy high in the air so that everyone would know that they are the rightful champions.
If they didn't have their choice of colleges before, they do now.
Lexa exits the building where the game was held. She walks to her car and finds Clarke sitting on the hood waiting for her. In her hand the blonde held a small bouquet of midnight supreme roses.
Lexa blushed and wrapped her arms around her girlfriend, completely bypassing the the flowers.
"Thank you, for everything." Lexa says into Clarke's hair.
"Don't thank me now. You can thank me by taking me to Starbucks."
"You plan on having a late night?" Lexa raises her eyebrows at the younger girl as she climbs into the driver's seat.
"Damn right." Clarke smiles and leans over the console to kiss the brunette on the cheek. "But we can't stay up too late because Raven has an appointment in the morning at 9:00."
"Damn it, Raven. Why did your being pregnant have to interfere with my getting laid?" Lexa says to Raven who isn't even there.
Clarke laughs at her girlfriend's antics. Lexa thinks it is the most beautiful sound.
Yeah! They won! Okay so what did you guys think? Should Raven have a girl or boy? Names? What about college? Should Clarke go with Lexa? I want to have your opinions on how the story should go. Thanks for all the follows and reviews!
-a.s.