A/N: So I actually finished this several months ago but completely forgot about it. So enjoy! I'll try and update the final chapter next week!
Please review as it encourages me to write! Thanks xx
"Raven, are you in?" Clarke shouted as she walked through the door of her shared apartment with her best friend.
"KITCHEN" Raven shouted back.
Sure enough, Clarke found her best friend crouched over the fridge wearing a large frown upon her face, she was looking particularly grumpy today. Clarke dropped her bag on the floor and slid down onto one of the chairs by the table.
"Why do we never have any food in the fridge?" Raven groaned, as she settled on a box of cereal.
"Because you eat it all." Clarke rolled her eyes, "Anyway, I have more important matters to discuss with you."
"Go on." Raven said, taking a seat matter of factly opposite Clarke.
"Lexa."
"Who?"
"The girl from tinder, you called her commander good looking or something like that." Clarke blushed.
"Commander gorgeous from the planet green eyes! You matched with her?"
"Just now, should I say hey?"
"Absolutely not. Firstly you should wait an hour or two- you don't want to seem too keen. Secondly, why would you ever start with 'hey'?"
"Um, isn't that how most people start conversations?"
"Tell me Clarke, what is the most important part of a book?"
"The ending?"
"Nope, the first line, you have to grab the reader's attention, otherwise no one would bother reaching the ending." Raven stated.
"So you're saying that I have to come up with a good conversation starter otherwise I won't get a date?"
"A date? That's optimistic with your track record," Raven laughed, "Babe, at this stage we're just hoping for a reply."
"You don't think I can get a date?" Clarke said raising her eyebrow.
"10 bucks says you screw it up." Raven smirked, "And when you do, I get her number." she winked.
Truth be told Raven wasn't interested in Lexa, but she knew exactly how to push Clarke's buttons and push her into action in case she backed out of messaging the girl. Besides, the two friends had always had a friendly level of competition between one another, it motivated each of them, helped them thrive and achieve their goals. In fact it was scientifically proven to do so. So Raven didn't see the problem in nudging Clarke a bit in the right direction, even if it was at the expense of Raven losing a few dollars.
The competitive glint in Clarke's eye shone as she stuck her hand out and accepted the bet.
"Oh it's so on Reyes. In fact I bet you $20 I can get HER to ask me out by the end of the week."
"Deal." Raven winked, "Hey, I have a conversation starter for you, how about; 'Hi I'm Clarke, but I have a fantastic, intelligent, gorgeous friend called Raven who I've heard is good with her fingers, here's her number'."
"You forgot modest as well." Clarke scoffed.
"Should I be concerned about how often you make that joke?"
"Probably."
"So what are you going to start with Griff?" Raven smiled before scooting her chair closer to Clarke so she could see the phone.
"You're going to help me?"
"Well I reckon you're going to need all the help you can get."
Lexa was lying in bed, nursing a rather horrific hangover when her phone buzzed indicating that she had received a new message. She groaned at the bright light of the intrusive object and opened it to see that it was a notification from tinder. Then she remembered she had matched with Clarke and before she could feel excited about it, she groaned and prayed that she hadn't sent anything embarrassing last night when she was out drinking with Anya. This thought alone sent dread to her stomach and it took her a few seconds to psych herself into opening the app. When she finally did, not only had she not done anything embarrassing but she also realised she had received a message from Clarke.
When Lexa opened the message she wasn't sure if she was still drunk or just hallucinating. Nevertheless she snorted back laughter as she read the message.
CLARKE:
I want you to paint me green and spank me like a disobedient avocado.
Lexa blinked several times, unsure what to reply before smirking to herself and typing out a reply.
Meanwhile, Clarke was once again chasing Raven around their apartment, this time wielding a half empty cereal box and several oranges and shouting profanities at her best friend.
"You messaged her that?! THAT?" Clarke screamed as Raven skirted around the kitchen table, narrowly avoiding an orange to the head- which only made Raven laugh harder.
"You wanted memorable- I gave you memorable!"
"THERE'S MEMORABLE AND THERE IS PSYCHOTIC!"
"It's still better than starting with 'hey' at least she'll remember you."
Oh yeah there's no way she's ever going to forget the crazy girl who asked to be spanked like a naughty vegetable-"
"-Disobediant avocado-" Raven corrected.
This only angered Clarke further who threw two more oranges at Raven and the (now empty) box of cereal. Clarke then turned on her heel and stormed off into the kitchen, away from Raven who was now hiding behind the sofa. When she saw Clarke leave, Raven crept out from behind the sofa and ran towards her room- which happened to be right next to the kitchen where Clarke was waiting for her, with a big tub of guacamole in hand and a menacing smile on her face. Raven stopped dead in her tracks, and put her hands up in surrender.
"Now Clarke, don't do anything rash, we're all friends here." Raven chuckled nervously backing up slowly into the wall behind her, "NO CLARKE PLEASE, I JUST GOT MY HAIR DONE YESTERDAY."
"Should have thought about that earlier then shouldn't you?" Clarke laughed dangerously, a menacing glint in her eye.
Then she emptied the contents of the tub on the top of Raven's head, slowly dragging it down and mushing it in her face. Raven gasped and Clarke started laughing hysterically. However, this was interrupted by Clarke's phone dinging on the kitchen table. They both looked at each other before scrambling over towards it to see what the message was.
LEXA:
I like it when you talk guacamole to me.
"Oh Clake baby, she's a keeper."
"Shut up and go clean the mess you made."
"The mess I made?!" Raven started but exited the room at the pointed glare Clarke was giving her.
CLARKE:
Well played, that was incredibly smooth of you… However, I do have a confession, my roommate Raven wrote that message not me.
LEXA:
It was one of the stranger conversation starters i've received, but tell her it made me laugh.
CLARKE:
Oh no, I wouldn't want to inflate her ego too much. Between you and me though, it got your attention didn't It?
LEXA:
You did that all by yourself, you're breathtaking.
Lexa cringed slightly at herself, was that too forward? What if she wasn't interested in her in that way? Her head was still pounding as she buried herself further in her bed and groaned. Why did she always let Anya pour her drinks? Lexa lay there a while longer, mulling things over in her mind until she checked her watch- It was almost twenty past eleven, she needed to get up soon for class. It also meant that it had also been 15 minutes since Clarke replied. What if her forwardness had meant she'd blown it so soon?
Lexa got ready, and left her apartment at a slow jog, she could have taken the subway but it was close enough to run and hopefully the exercise would help stimulate the release of endorphins in her brain so she would felt slightly less terrible. As much as she loved it, she wasn't sure she could face a two hour lecture then an hour seminar when she was this hungover. She inwardly groaned, this was going to call for a coffee- or two.
She cut through central park and continued her jog. Still no reply from Clarke, she hoped she hadn't freaked the blonde by being too forward. She heard Anya's voice in her head telling her to get a grip and to stop freaking out and she rolled her eyes, Clarke had a life outside of her phone, she was sure she would reply later. At least Lexa hoped she would.
After practically inhaling her coffee she trudged into her lecture hall and slumped down next to her best friend, who she was happy to see was as hungover as she was. Lincoln groaned and rested his head on the desk.
"Why do we always let Anya buy us drinks?"
"Because she has a fancy exec job that pays a lot and can afford to buy us drinks?"
"Ah I knew there was a reason"
Lexa checked her phone and there was still no reply, she sighed and turned her attention to the front of the class where her professor had started talking. Throughout the class Lexa checked her phone four more times for a message and was just giving up hope when her phone lit up. She grabbed it straight away before reading the message. She couldn't hold back the snort of laughter that burst from her mouth as she read, causing several of her classmates and her professor to stare pointedly at her. She blushed and mouthed a silent apology before re-reading the message with a grin on her face. Lincoln narrowed his eyes curiously at his friend's behaviour, but remained silent.
CLARKE:
Sorry for the long reply, its just your natural beauty radiated from my phone and I instantly acquired a tan so I had to apply aloe vera.
LEXA:
I just laughed out loud in class… and believe me I don't do that much. Was that you, or your roommate?
CLARKE:
Unfortunately for you that was all me, I really am that lame.
CLARKE:
But in other words I think you're breathtaking as well.
LEXA:
You're right that was exceptionally lame, but i'm glad to know that we find each other mutually breathtaking
CLARKE:
I'm even better in person, just wait until you meet me ;)
LEXA:
Was that an invitation?
CLARKE:
If you play your cards right.
LEXA:
And what do I have to do to play my cards right?
CLARKE:
I don't know, impress me in some manner?
LEXA:
And what if you don't impress me?
CLARKE:
Oh I will, you see apart from my terrible jokes, obvious breathtaking beauty and obnoxious roommate, I'm also pretty awesome.
LEXA:
Well I suppose I'll have to be the judge of that
CLARKE:
Okay I have a game, why don't we play 20 questions? But by the end if you're impressed by me, you have to ask me on a date.
LEXA:
Deal, okay I'll start you off with an easy one-
What did you want to be when you were five years old?
CLARKE:
Not sure my exact age but I remember my dad taking me to see an art exhibition when I was younger about feminist artists and I fell in love with the messages they were conveying
CLARKE:
It inspired me so much, I decided that's what I wanted to do. So that's my dream, I know I may not be out there saving lives like a doctor and some people might not consider being an artist a real job, but if a young girl looks at my work and realises that it's okay to be who they want to be then that's awesome.
LEXA:
Wow
CLARKE:
Oh god, I probably sounded so big headed or whatever, I'm still at college and in the struggling artist phase but that's my dream, hasn't really changed since I was five years old.
LEXA:
Not at all, I was just going to say at this rate I'm not going to be able to get to question 20 before asking you out.
LEXA:
In our current political climate, girls are going to need someone to inspire them.
CLARKE:
My turn question two, what did you want to be when you were five?
LEXA:
No repeat questions!
CLARKE:
Just answer the question Lexa.
LEXA:
Okay fine, I also had a dream when I was younger…
CLARKE:
Go on
LEXA:
You have to promise not to laugh
CLARKE:
I make no such promises
LEXA:
Okay well, I just really really wanted to be taller.
CLARKE:
Hahahah you're a dork, did your childhood dreams come true?
LEXA:
Well I'm taller than I was when I was five so in that sense yes?
LEXA:
My turn, question 3, what was the last book you've read?
" am I boring you?"
Lexa's head snapped up to the front of the class and a blush spread across her face. Her professor was staring at her, she quickly put away her phone and turned her attention towards the front of the lecture theatre.
"No sorry." She muttered but put her phone away, her face turning crimson.
—-
Clarke and Lexa had been exchanging messages for the past two days now and Clarke was really enjoying their conversation thus far. They had covered a variety of topics with their game of 20 questions and they were now on question 14.
Meanwhile, Clarke had taken Raven's advice into account and had decided her fitness was not what it used to be and was on her way to meet her friend Octavia who was on practically every sports team on campus. She met Octavia on the university campus before her friend made her do two laps of the track field. She was currently regretting her decision to meet her friend when a reply from Lexa came.
LEXA:
My question, what's your full name?
CLARKE:
So you can stalk me on Facebook?
LEXA:
No…..
CLARKE:
Clarke G, you'll have to guess my surname ;)
LEXA:
Greene?
CLARKE:
Nope, my question, what was the last text you received?
Lexa checked her phone and inwardly cringed, it was a message
LEXA:
This is embarrassing….
LEXA:
This was from my cousin "Lexa please tell me you're going to get laid soon because I genuinely can't handle you being single and a massive loser"
CLARKE:
Omg hahahaha it sounds like her and my big headed roommate would get on perfectly!
LEXA:
Is Raven into girls because if so they would fit perfectly ;)
CLARKE:
She most definitely is, I think we should set them up ;)
CLARKE:
Anyway my question to you is, and not to ask a horribly cliche question, but what do you do?
LEXA:
I'm in my final year at Columbia
CLARKE:
Oh cool, I'm in my final year at NYU. What are you majoring in?
LEXA:
I study PPE, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, I'm particularly interested in how they relate to history though.
CLARKE:
And how's that?
LEXA:
For example how events in history may have shaped modern day politics and economics and even the way in which we think. And how these events in history make shaped the human race into who we are today. Say there was a nuclear apocalypse and only a small percentage of the human race survived, how would philosophy and politics change over time and what would happen to economic theory?
LEXA:
Sorry I get a bit carried away at times, there are just endless possibilities and I turn into a bit of a nerd hahaha
CLARKE:
It's refreshing to talk to someone who's so passionate about something.
A few days had passed and Lexa and Clarke had been exchanging messages almost constantly so much so that it had started to irritate those around them. For Clarke she had been distracted during lunch with Octavia and Raven, had found herself staring at Lexa's pictures and had taken to sketching her. Whereas Lexa had become increasingly distracted during class, and Lincoln found her blushing and smiling a whole lot more.
"If you giggle one more time Lexa I swear to god we're going to have to host an intervention."
"I did not giggle!" Lexa exclaimed.
"I have to agree with Anya, Lex it's almost sickening to watch you at times."
"So are you ever going to ask her out or are you just going to stare pathetically at your phone screen the rest of your life?" Anya said with a roll of her eyes.
"We agreed we would play 20 questions first then if we were impressed with one another I would ask her out then."
Anya stared blankly at her, blinking twice before turning to Lincoln.
"They're playing 20 questions, seriously?" Anya said, staring blankly at her, "20 questions, seriously? Are you 14 Lexa, just ask her out!"
"Hey we're actually on the last question now!"
"I think it's nice" Lincoln smiled softly, "A bit lame but still nice."
CLARKE:
So I was thinking my question 20, final question, I've realised that I've said a number of embarrassing chat up lines and I think we need to even the playing field.
CLARKE:
My question is what is the worst pick up line you've ever heard.
LEXA:
Honestly I don't think anything will get as bad as yours about aloe vera..
CLARKE:
You didn't find that charming? Damn!
LEXA:
I thought it was pretty adorable to be honest
LEXA:
Hey Clarke
CLARKE:
Yeah?
LEXA:
Do you have any raisins?
CLARKE:
This is the worst pick up line you're right….
LEXA:
Answer my question Clarke
CLARKE:
No Lexa, I don't have any Raisins
LEXA:
How about a date?
CLARKE:
I'm quite literally rolling my eyes at how terrible that was.
LEXA:
I think you find me endearing, now answer my question
Clarke blushed, and reread the past few messages again, was this Lexa's way of asking her to go on a date? It certainly seemed like it. Lexa was right, she did find her endearing, but also infuriating and cocky and as much as Clarke wanted to shout 'YES I'LL GO ON A DATE WITH YOU' from all the rooftops in New York, she also didn't want to give Lexa the satisfaction quite yet.
CLARKE:
What question?
LEXA:
You just have to be difficult don't you?
CLARKE:
I have no idea what you're talking about Lexa.
LEXA:
Fine, don't answer that's fine by me
CLARKE:
Ask me again
LEXA:
Ask what again?
CLARKE:
Now whose being difficult? Just ask the damn question again
LEXA:
Clarke (Gomez, Greene?) will you go on a date with me?
CLARKE:
I would love to go on a date with you Lexa. P.S. You're going to have to keep guessing x
LEXA:
Gray? Goodwin? Gordon?
CLARKE:
Nope, nope and nope
CLARKE:
And Lexa?
LEXA:
Yes Clarke?
CLARKE:
I told you you'd be impressed by me ;)