Okay soooo to all my "Noise Complaint" fans don't stress that story will also get a few more chapters. With all of the love I got I couldn't pick myself so I am going to give each story a few chapters till I figure out what I want to do lol Big notes for the chapter is this will not be a sports story but it will be involved. You will understand more once you read and also this isn't a big Clexa chapter more of a build up till the next chapter. I wrote this about 5 times and I still don't fully approve of it yet but I cut it short so I have more written after this already. Thank you for all the support and don't forget to leave me some feedback on what you like or don't like and all of that good stuff.
Clarke sat at her kitchen table staring at the football. She had no idea what to do with it and she also had no idea how she'd end up running into the brunette again but just looking at the football made her smile. Tapping the sticker on the table she heard the front door opening knowing for a fact that is was Raven and she was prepared to kill her already.
"Griffin my beautiful roommate how are you this fine evening?" Raven walked in smiling seeing her best friend sitting at the table glaring at her.
"Kick me, really Raven?" Clarke held up the sticker not even giving her best friend a chance to cover.
"I… well… where did that come from?" Raven spotted the football sitting on the table and she knew for a fact it didn't belong to either of them.
"Not the point the sticker Raven." Clarke held up the sticker trying her hardest not to laugh or tell her best friend exactly what came out of the stupid sticker on her back today.
"It wasn't me." Raven held her hands up trying to claim innocence.
"Hmmm really than I guess I have to find someone else to thank." Clarke shrugged her shoulders heading towards her bedroom.
"Thank, wait what the hell." Raven dropped her bag hopping the couch to stop her best friend.
"I never thought a joke would go so well." Clarke took the sticked and slammed in on Raven's forehead laughing when the girl took a few steps backwards.
"Ouch you asshat." Raven pulled the sticker off slapping it on the back of her best friend again.
Raven watched her friend who was still holding the football only to sit it on her dresser like it was a prized possession and it made her start wondering again where the football had come from. Her friend worked out but she never really one to invest in a sport. Growing up together they both did their fair share of them but nothing ever stuck.
"So what is with this thing?" Raven snatched up the football off the dresser before her best friend could stop her.
"Raven put it down now." Clarke glared at the brunette ready to kill her.
"Hmmmm so something happened today. You said you needed to thank someone and it all starts with this football." Raven circled the ball not seeing anything special on it. If anything it was just a football.
"Raven if you make me take one more step than necessary for that football I will make sure to kill you myself." Clarke pointed at the football and than to the dresser as if a message to put it down.
"Spill it Griffin or I pop the football." Raven watched the shock in her friends eyes and it made her even more curious.
"You couldn't pop a football if you tried." Clarke put her hands on her hips raising an eyebrow.
"Nope but this could." Raven pulled out her new lucky pocket knife that she had recently claimed.
"What the hell Raven." Clarke knew her best friend had a thing for sharp pointy objects and blowing stuff up but watching her pull out a knife like it was normal had her a little worried.
"It's my new favorite toy." Raven opened it and closed it tapping on the football.
"Oh my god okay I'll spill just sit the damn ball down please." Clarke threw her hands up but the last thing she wanted was to lose the football for some reason. She had no idea why or what it meant but she felt like it was special.
"Smart princess." Raven teased hearing her friend huff out air.
"Shut up." Clarke sat down on her bed patting it waiting for Raven to take a seat.
"I will guard this ball exactly where I am." Raven leaned against the door waiting to hear how the football came about.
"Well your kick me sticker lead my right into this extremely sexy brunette and her friends." Clarke watched Raven's head pop up from behind the ball with a grin.
"Did you just say sexy brunette and her in the same sentence?" Raven was excited. Her best friend needed a little sexy in her life and hearing that it came from her joke made it so much more worthy.
"Yes I did well I mean there were two beautiful brunettes and a huge attractive man but the one brunette had eyes that I swore melted my skin. Raven they were so green and she was so fit like I could seriously see each muscle the woman had in her stomach." Clarke was rambling on not even noticing the shit eating grin her best friend was currently wearing.
"Don't you dare." Clarke stopped talking when she heard the brunette crack with laughter.
"I sooooo did this. I knew I was good but damn I am freaking amazing if I can get you talking like that with a kick me sticker." Raven fist bumped the ball like it was her partner in crime.
"You stop, but I will admit if it wasn't for your sticker I don't think I would have met her but I also don't actually know her name or how I will ever see her again." Clarke thought it over again almost wanting to pout. The only thing she knew was the brunette and her friends like to play football at the park.
"Well how did you end up with this?" Raven tossed the football at her best friend watching her catch it with ease.
"Just like that." Clarke laughing thinking about how she had caught a football more in one day than she had in like several years of her life.
"You caught the girl's ball?" Raven cracked the joke knowing it wasn't funny but she couldn't stop herself.
"Geez you are a two year old but yes I caught the girl's ball. Well actually she saved me from a whole day of humility with the damn sticker you stuck on my back and than I caught the ball." Clarke spun the ball around in her hand thinking over her day again.
"Annddddd" Raven sat down this time curling up against the wall with a pillow.
"I don't know I mean one second I was drinking my coffee walking in the park and the next second I was being charged at and heard yelling before I ended up with coffee on my scrubs and a football in my arms." Clarke leaned back putting her hand over her eyes shaking her head.
"So what is with the football then?" Raven pushed for as much as she could get because seeing her best friend all flushed and frustrated was the best thing ever.
"She gave it to me as an I owe you because the other brunette who is Octavia had told her that I dropped my coffee all over myself because I caught her long ball I think is what she called it and I guess that is impressive." Clarke shrugged not even sure if what she had said made sense.
"Wait Octavia is that what you just said the other girl's name was?" Raven sat up quickly almost stunned.
"Yeah she said her name was Octavia. Kind of a different name but really pretty." Clarke was confused now seeing the gleam in her best friends eyes.
"Oh my god Clarke one second." Raven ran out of the room in shock.
Clarke sat on her bed hearing her best friend dig through something from somewhere. She had no idea what was coming but by the sounds of it Raven knew something she didn't know and that kind of scared her.
"Her?" Raven jumped back on the bed handing a magazine to her best friend.
"Octavia Blake." Clarke read it off out loud knowing the girl on the front of the magazine was exactly who she had run into this morning.
"Is it her Clarke?" Raven nudged trying to find out if her best friend had just ran into probably one of the best forwards of all time.
"Yes that is her. Who is she?" Clarke started flipping through the magazine seeing as it was a health and fitness one it had her confused on why her best friend even had it.
"That is Octavia Blake she is probably the best forward or striker on the planet. She has like almost a 100 goals at her age including the national team like I can't even." Raven was so excited she wanted to jump off the bed and dance.
"Ohhh well that makes sense on why she is so damn athletic." Clarke knew she was searching for a different brunette in the magazine but she had yet to spot the woman.
"She took a break from soccer to help open up a new fitness center for the youth with a friend. I don't know if she will even go back to playing in the national league or anything but you just ran into one of the greats of all time." Raven grabbed the magazine back almost jealous of her best friend meeting someone she was amazed by.
"She's so young." Clarke said it outloud not even realizing it.
"Ohhh yeah she went into the league at like 18. A lot of people were shocked because she skipped the college route." Raven started to wonder who the brunette was that her best friend all wrapped up now.
"Interesting." Clarke looked at her best friend realizing she was thinking the same thing as her.
"What's her name?" Raven said it outloud.
"I don't know but they called her the commander." Clarke watched her best friend go all shock face again.
"You met the commander?" Raven all but fell off the bed.
"What the hell am I missing here?" Clarke was confused.
"You do realize you just ran into the dynamic duo right?" Raven was beyond jealous now.
"Raven I went to med school so dumb the sports convo down for me a bit here." Clarke threw herself back on her bed grunting.
"Clarke seriously the commander…. Were talking like 182 shutouts with I can't even count how many golden glove awards that woman has." Raven ran out of the room again only to come running back in with a stack of magazines this time.
Clarke sat on her bed seeing more magazines than she could count but what she did notice was the brunettes face on several along with both her and Octavia in several and a few with some guys she didn't recognize. Picking up one she spotted the brunette holding a kid in the air with a smile on her face that had her wondering if it was her kid or not.
"It's her younger brother." Raven tapped the picture almost knowing what her best friend was thinking.
"This says she doesn't play anymore." Clarke flipped through a few of the pages.
"Nope she left the game. Everyone was shocked because she was in her prime but she decided once the little guy came into her life that it was time to invest her time somewhere else." Raven picked up a different magazine handing it to her best friend.
Clarke read the front of the magazine. The commander left the game to start youth centers following her custody battle of her little brother. She wanted to bring light into the world of youth for every kid out there who didn't have much or just needed a way out she wanted to give that to them.
"Dynamic duo." Clarke spotted the brunette with Octavia and the title that was given to them.
"I can't believe you caught her football." Raven watched her best friend glare at her.
"Shut up I am not that dumb of a blonde. You do know that I passed med school at the top of my class." Clarke held her head high enjoying her moment knowing it was more about the football catching than her smarts..
"You know with you possibly going into pediatrics if that is what you choose and this youth center thing you could start a new dynamic duo." Raven wiggled her eyebrows at her best friend.
"Ohhh my god get out of here." Clarke picked up a pillow slamming it into her best friends face.
"Ouch." Raven snatched the pillow back tossing it at her friend.
"Don't be a baby." Clarke laughed seeing Raven pout.
"Pshhh I have a early shift or this wouldn't be over." Raven pointed between the two of them like it was a warning.
"Suuureeeee." Clarke stacked all the magazines putting them on her dresser next to the football.
"Make sure you don't you know ruin any of my magazines if you do some extra.." Raven jumped shutting the door when she saw the shoe heading towards her face.
Clarke shook her head laughing. She knew the reason her and Raven had been friends for so long was because they fit each other. She was the level headed slightly serious one and Raven was the spontaneous jokester. Tapping the magazine and then looking back at the football she wondered if she could even fit into the brunettes life. They lived in different worlds but with one similarity and that was their love for kids.
Lexa spun around in her chair with a football in her hand. She couldn't get the blonde out of her head. It had a been a few days and she had secretly made a few runs to the park hoping to catch the blonde again but she had yet to see her. It had killed her mood just a little seeing as leaving the girl with just a football meant that she had no idea how to find or contact that girl. It wasn't one of her smoothest moments but then again she could blame Octavia for that.
"You know your obsession with footballs lately makes me wonder if you were ever a soccer player." Octavia had been watching her best friend sit spinning the ball around in deep thought.
"Do you have to scare the shit out of me every time you see me." Lexa cursed the brunette under her breath.
"I knocked but you didn't hear me and I wonder why?" Octavia had noticed that her best friend had been a little different since the park but she hadn't really said why or what happened with the blonde after they left.
"I'm just stressed over the opening and the contracts and papers. My thing has been catching and kicking balls for a living not this stuff." Lexa waved all over her desk.
"Calm down. Well know Anya has all this corporate lawyer stuff figured out it's what she does. You will just have to sign on the dotted line and write the checks." Octavia laughed a little seeing her best friend roll her eyes as she put her feet up on her desk.
"Can't I just get back to the youth center and start there. That is where my heart is." Lexa pouted she didn't want to be behind a desk. If anything she truly hated it.
"Tell me what happened with you and princess and I'll cover your phone calls this afternoon so you can go to the center." Octavia knew it was a bribe her best friend couldn't turn down.
"Ughhh I told you nothing happened." Lexa threw her hands back twisting in her chair again.
"You are a lying little shit. I can see that little sparkle of hope in your eyes." Octavia pointed pushing the football on the desk at her best friend.
"Has anyone ever told you that you are annoying." Lexa glared at her best friend seeing her smile.
"It's my middle name right along with bitch." Octavia said it proudly.
"Fine okay geez. We talked I didn't get much out of her but I tried to find some way to make sure I could talk to her again so I gave her my football as an I owe you statement but nothing else." Lexa watched her best friends jaw drop.
"Wow soooo not smooth commander. How do you plan on seeing her again if you don't even know her name?" Octavia started laughing. If anything her best friend was known for being charming and smooth.
"I don't know O. I froze I didn't even know what to say when she started to leave. I mean she laughed and I am sure she thought it was cute." Lexa put her hands over her face making weird noises.
"Well she mentioned a hospital so I am going to assume it's at Ark Memorial. I mean what other hospital is anywhere near walking distance from the park." Octavia was thinking it over how she could find the blonde for her best friend. It wasn't often someone caught the eye of her best friend unless it was just a random girl who was an all out soccer fan and if anything that was a one nighter. If anything she had a feeling the blonde had no idea who she was so that mean she didn't know Lexa either.
"I know but I can't just walk up in there trying to find her O and I already checked the park." Lexa let it slip from her mouth seeing her best friend sit up straight.
"You did what?" Octavia knew she had to have the cheesiest grin ever on her face.
"Stop." Lexa pointed knowing she just blew up the situation.
"You seeked her out already OHHH MY GOD. The commander has a crush on the princess. I was over here thinking maybe it was random but it's not" Octavia all but clapped her hands in excitement.
"I don't even know her to have a crush on her Octavia." Lexa tried to deny the claim but it was partially true. She really did want to see the blonde again so maybe it was a tiny bit of a crush.
"I got recon get out of here." Octavia jumped up heading towards her own office thinking of ways to get her best friend and the blonde together again.
Lexa got up from her desk shaking her head. She had just opened up way more than what she had time for but knowing Octavia she wasn't going to let it go no matter what so she might as well let her try and hunt out information why she headed to the center to help with the leftover construction.
Clarke sat in the ER tapping the paperwork that sat in front of her. It was her forms in which she declared herself in pediatrics. She knew she had other skills and that she would be able to apply in two specialties but she was just up in the air because of her father's wishes and her mother pushing.
"You know I look better than that paper right?" Clarke turned seeing Raven smiling at her.
"You do know that being overly cocky isn't cute right?" Clarke loved the fact that her best friend could make her smile no matter what.
"It's the truth though I mean look at this." Raven spun around in her uniform showing off her whole self while laughing.
"Why are you here?" Clarke raised an eyebrow knowing her best friend was up to something.
"Why do you have to ask like that?" Raven got defensive knowing that her best friend was on to her.
"Umm because you never come into the ER you hate this place." Clarke stood up pushing her papers down into her file knowing she wasn't going to be signing anything just yet.
"I just wanted to come see my best friend." Raven smiled her best hoping she would be able to sneak the flyer in her friends paperwork showing the grand opening of the center that she knew the commander would be at.
"Yeah I don't believe you." Clarke laughed seeing her best friends face look offended.
"Girls really?" Clarke turned seeing her mother looking at both of them with an get your ass back to work face.
"It's my fault I totally was just poking at her regarding her paperwork right here but I'm on my way out." Raven took the flyer slipping it into the paperwork while picking it up and waving it before putting it back down and hightailing out of the ER.
"You do know she isn't just my friend but the best technician here at the hospital right?" Clarke felt a little defensive for her best friend because her mother always accused her of being a bad influence.
"You are both on the clock let's just get back to work sweetie. Also she is right you should fill out that paperwork sooner rather than later. I'm thinking neurology or maybe cardiology. You know mother like daughter. " Clarke watched her mom pick the file back up handing it to her with a smile plastered on her face.
"Ughhh." Clarke took the file watching her mom walk away. Part of her wanted to rip it in half but the other part of her knew she was never going into either of the fields her mom wanted her in so she might as well give up on pleasing the woman all together.
"I'm looking forward to that and not even for the players." Clarke looked at the head nurse completely confused.
"Excuse me?" Clarke had no idea what the woman was talking about.
"The flyer for the youth center. It should be huge in this area." Clarke flipped her folder spotting the flyer sticking out of the other papers she had shoved in it. Looking over the flyer she saw it was for a grand opening at a youth center nearby and it had dynamic duo written on it showing a picture of the same brunette who had been stuck on her mind lately.
"Lexa Donovan" Clarke said it outloud seeing the commander written across the magazine along with the brunettes real name.. Seeing the girls bright smile and the little boy with a soccer ball in his hand like he was the proudest boy in the world made Clarke smile.
"Are you going?" Clarke looked up again startled not realizing the nurse was still looking at her.
"Ohhh umm no I'm probably working." Clarke made up an excuse not even knowing for sure if she was on shift.
"Too bad it should be fun and I heard the VIP tickets are sold out for the event as well." Clarke was curious she couldn't stop herself from asking.
"VIP?" Clarke asked tipping her head sideways as she watched the nurse grab the flyer opening it up.
"It's a free event for everyone but you can get VIP tickets to meet the dynamic duo. I think all the money they raise is going to be donated to a few of the school's athletic programs around here. I don't know how they are doing it but those two are saving our youth." Clarke grabbed the flyer back from the woman smiling watching her walk away.
"I hate you Raven." Clarke looked at the flyer again seeing the brunettes face she folded the paper putting it in her pocket.
Lexa stood with a paintbrush in her hand looking at the blank wall. She was suppose to come up with something for a few of the walls but she had yet to figure anything out because art was not her talent. If anything she barely knew how to draw a stick figure. Making little dots of color she rolled her eyes knowing it would get painting over and hearing the soft laughs behind her she knew the crew was laughing at her.
"Really guys?" Lexa turned around seeing a couple of the guys with water in their hands laughing.
"I think my kid could do better than that commander." Lexa glared at one of the guys before turning back around seeing her little dots laughing at herself.
"Okay but really we all know I can't do this stuff." Lexa stuck down the paintbrush tipping some of the paint over on the plastic hearing the guys laugh again.
"I give up someone has to figure out this wall." Lexa tossed her hands in the air totally over anything involving paint.
"HEADS." Lexa looked up seeing a soccer ball come flying her way. Tapping the ball down with her chest it hit the paint bouncing in the air she took the ball with one foot tapping it around so everyone could see. If she was going to get laughed at for painting at least she could do is show off with a little footwork. Thinking it over she tapped the ball in the direction of the wall before blasting it directly at it. Watching as the ball hit the wall it splattered checkered marks on it along with spray. To her it actually looked pretty cool and then it hit her.
"That's it." Lexa grinned knowing she figured out the wall.
"What is it?" Lexa turned to see Lincoln walking towards her in which he was the one who fed her the ball.
"We're going to have the kids play kick the wall with paint." Lexa shook her head knowing it was risky but that was the whole point in her business.
"Really?" Lincoln looked at his friend was nodding her head while smiling like a child.
"Yup why not let them have some fun with this white walls and all I have to do is keep helping them and give them a safe place to be when they need it." Lexa was proud of what she was doing and she knew it had to do with her past and her little brother.
"LEXXIIIIILOOOOOO." Lexa turned around hearing her nickname for one person and one person only.
"Aiden my little man." Lexa ran a little forward to meet her little brother. Holding out her fist she watched her brother smile and fist bump her back before they went into their little handshake dance.
"Sometimes I can't believe I'm even seeing this." Lincoln said it outloud. Him and Lexa had been childhood friend and she was never one to smile and do little dances with kids when she was younger if anything she couldn't stand kids.
"It's because I'm special." Aiden pipped in knowing it was true.
"That's right little man but now tell me why you are out of school early?" Lexa stood stern after their fun dance trying to figure out why her little brother was out of school and how he got to the youth center.
"I ummm well I got in trouble." Aiden looked down at his feet.
"Tell me what happened." Lexa bent down tipping her little brothers chin up making him meet her eye.
"I blocked the kids shot at school just like you do." Aiden smiled being proud of himself.
"Than why did you get sent home early?" Lexa hated being the stern mean adult figure but she wanted her little brother to succeed.
"We little boy shoved me down and told me I was nothing but foster child junk so I got back up and shoved him into the ground making him cry." Aiden shuffled knowing he was going to get in trouble.
"Aiden I'm proud of you protecting yourself but you have to remember fighting isn't the answer." Lexa patted her little brother on the shoulder.
"HA says the commander." Lincoln mumbled it under his breath knowing his friend was known to be a fighter on the field.
"You shush." Lexa turned around seeing Lincoln laughing.
"I just want to be like you Lexiiilooo." Aiden smiled brightly.
"You are just like me Aiden but I want you to be better than me okay and that means keeping your temper in check and just talking to your teacher about it okay." Lexa stood up ruffling the boy's hair.
"Okay I'll go to the teacher next time." Aiden jumped like he was trying to ruffle his sister's hair.
"Let's go we have some construction to look over." Lexa dragged the boy in front of her walking with Lincoln into the back of the center.
"How did you get here Aiden?" Lincoln spoke up looking around not spotting Octavia who was usually the one who picked Aiden up after school.
"I walked." Aiden shrugged it off like it was nothing.
"YOU WHAT?" Lexa stopped in her tracks hearing what her little brother had said.
"They sent me to the principle's office and told me I was going home so I just walked out and headed here." Aiden looked at his sister seeing her mad face.
"I'm sorry." Aiden wasn't sure what to say.
"Ohhh no it's okay I am going to be having a word with your school later on today." Lexa shook her head in disbelief. Pulling out her phone she text Octavia giving her the just of the story and to deal with the school knowing she would be the overly strict aunt.
"Ohhh look this is sooo cool." Aiden ran forward running his hands across the netted soccer walls.
"This is our sports center buddy." Lincoln spoke up leading them through the finished areas staying away from the parts that were getting touch ups.
"Look Leexxiiiloooo it's just like you." Aiden took off running towards what was the goalie section of the wall.
"Aiden that isn't finished." Lexa spoke up loudly jogging after her brother.
"OUUUCHHHH" Aiden fell down crying immediately.
Lexa followed Lincoln as they both took off running towards the little boy who was crying on the ground.
"He stepped on a nail." Lincoln looked at the boy's foot seeing the nail was lodged in his foot pretty good.
"It's okay little man were going to take you to the hospital okay." Lexa circled around to pick up her little before she felt a sharp pain rocket through her foot.
"Sooonnnnnnn of a BITCH." Lexa said it loudly looking down to see that she had not only stepped on a nail as well but she had a board hooked to her foot.
"Bad word." Aiden said between crying.
"Looks like we're taking you both to the hospital." Lincoln stood up who was trying not to laugh at his friend was looked like she had just got shot compared to the little boy on the ground crying with a smile on his face.
"Who the hell leaves shit out like this." Lexa bent down wanting to punch the ground but she stopped herself for her brother's sake.
"Bad word." Aiden pointed at his sister again.
"Ughhh now let's go." Lexa pointed at her brother telling Lincoln to pick him up and so would figure out so way to hobble to the car with the wood attached to her foot as well.
"Here." Lincoln held out his arm feeling Lexa grab onto it he pretty much hauled both of them out of the gym area and towards the parking lot.
"Remind me to start doing your workout regimen." Lexa grunted when she got into the car trying to move the board so she didn't rip it out of her foot right away.
"It hurts Lexxxiilooo." Aiden held onto his foot.
"I know little man but a doctor is going to fix us up real soon." Lexa tossed her head back against the seat biting her lip she had no idea how the boy wasn't crying anymore and she was totally being a baby about it.
Clarke stood in the ER filling out papers. She had just sent off a couple who got into a fight over board game and she couldn't help but laugh but also wouldn't mind it being relationship goals minus the broken nose. They were both happy and smiling even with the husband having tampons stuck up his nose.
"Raven." Clarke spotted her best friend bolting across the ER with X-ray folders knowing she was trying to hide.
"Sorry busy right now Clarkey." Raven smiled knowing that her best friend had seen the flyer by now.
"No you don't." Clarke caught up with her best friend snatching the x-ray folder from her friend causing both of them to stop.
"Fine you take the x-rays into room 4." Raven shrugged her shoulders.
"No Raven this is about that flyer. You did that on purpose I know it." Clarke poked her best friend in the shoulder.
"Work is calling me." Raven grabbed the folder back flipping it open to look at what seemed to be nails in two different feet. Looking at the name on the side of the sheet she slammed it shut shoving it back into her best friends hands.
"As a matter of fact it's my break time enjoy." Raven all but skipped off knowing that somehow her luck was right on track even with her best friend flipping her off.
Clarke muttered to herself wanting to kill her best friend was right back on her list to do even if she didn't mind seeing the face of the brunette again. Flipping through the file in front of her she scrunched her face up seeing two different feet with nails in each other them. She wasn't sure what kind of family she was about to walk in on when she swung the door open still peering at the file.
"Hi my name is Dr. Gri.." Clarke stopped dead in her tracks spotting no other than the brunette she had been thinking about all day or more like every day since she had left the girl. Seeing a little boy holding his foot smiling and the brunette having a board attached to hers she felt like this was going to be just as interesting as the last time they met.
Okay there it is... I hit with you a long chapter and not 100% Clexa I hope you don't hate me. Also my first time writing in a kid so bare with me on that lol Either way I hope you enjoyed it and I hope to have a new chapter out for this story and Noise complaint sooner rather than later. xoxoxo