"Clarke?" Raven yelled walking into the apartment after work, "Finn?"

"He's not here." I called back.

"Great!" She smiled walking cheerily into the kitchen, "I gotta tell you about these guys from the Café!" I raised my eyebrow in question waiting for her to respond, "Okay yeah I know Finn… blah blah blah." She told me before continuing, "Anyway these two guys came into the Café today one had blonde hair, dark brown eyes and some facial hair going on." she said motioning her hand around her face as she lamely tried to describe him.

"Alright."

"No Clarke, listen! So I go over to take their orders and he just stares at me. His friend ordered but he just sat there when he finally snapped out of it he avoided me for the rest of his meal! It was so weird dude."

The apartment door bursted open interrupting any further conversation about the man from the Café as Finn, Jasper, Monty, Murphy and Miller came pouring in. "Afternoon ladies!" Finn beamed making his way over to give Raven a kiss.

I walked away from the two making my way towards the living room for game night, "You're going down Griffin." Murphy laughed pulling his controller from the bag.

"Really Murphy?" I rolled my eyes, "Name one time you've ever beaten me?"

"New Year's eve 2013, Mario Kart!" he announced happily.

"That doesn't count! You wouldn't pause the game! I was in the bathroom puking my guts out!"

"Not my fault you're a light weight." He laughed as everyone poured into the living room. We started off playing Mortal Kombat two challengers at a time until everyone but Murphy and I had been eliminated. "Like I said Griffin, you're going down!" he yelled we were tied and this was the match that decided the champion. His character grabbed me doing its x-ray move sufficiently lowering my health, but it wasn't enough a few moments later and his character was hardly standing with the words, 'Finish him!' strewn across the screen.

"What was that Murphy?" I asked in the cockiest tone I could muster.

Murphy huffed in response before tossing a bag to Jasper and saying, "Blunt." In no time one was rolled, we had formed a small circle while we waited and passed it gradually around.

"Puff, Puff, Pass." Jasper reminded us with a goofy grin. Soon it was gone, Raven and I ushered people out of the apartment afterwards both for different reasons. She wanted alone time with Finn. I wanted alone time with my bed, I hadn't been able to sleep the previous night so even though it was early I needed to crash.

My next few days were spent either sitting on the roof late at night drawing or spending time with Monty and Jasper listening to them talk about their new neighbors Bellamy and Wick. They describe Wick as a quiet and slightly grumpy guy, the grumpiness was most likely only towards the boys though they knew not personal limits. They described Bellamy as bossy and opinionated. I wasn't in any rush to meet these new angry men so I told the boys not to bring them over, not to invite them to any parties and not to talk about Raven or myself to them.

On Wednesday shortly after Raven had arrived home Lincoln had called inviting her to dinner saying their older brother Tristan and Tave's brother would be over as well, Finn however apparently didn't get the memo and showed up at the apartment shortly after Raven had left.

"Oh, Hey Finn." I said looking over from my spot on the couch to his wandering form in the apartment, "Raven's not here."

"I know." He told me spreading his arms out across the apartment.

"Did she not tell you?"

He began making his way towards the couch to sit by me, "No she did."

"Oh." Was all I could manage before turning back to my game. We sat in silence for a while, he just watched me play Skyrim for about thirty minutes before I could feel his eyes on me, "Can I help you Collins?" I asked looking over at him in annoyance.

"I don't know can you Clarke?" He said licking his lips looking down at mine.

"What the hell are you even talking about?"

"This." He said grabbing my face in an attempt to kiss me.

I quickly pushed him away jumping off the couch, "What the hell Collins?! Get the fuck out!" I screamed pointing towards the door.

"Clarke," He said getting up slowly moving towards me, "Just calm down."

"I'd advise you not to move any closer!"

"Just chill out Clarke."

"Just get out!" I yelled again. Soon two boys came barreling through the door, Murphy and Miller. Both boys looked from me to Finn and back to me, "Get him out of here!" I told them throwing my controller in Finn's direction.

"You heard her." Murphy said walking towards Finn, "You want to do this the easy way or the hard way." He paused looking back at me again, "I don't know what you did but I know Raven is going to get pissed. I know that Jasper and Atom may get pretty pissed too. So I suggest before anything else happens you leave so I don't have to explain to your girlfriend and brothers why you're all bloody."

Finn glared at Murphy and Miller before walking around them and leaving the apartment, "Thanks guys." I said quietly looking down at my hands, I wasn't going to cry or anything I just needed to be alone for a little bit. Without looking at the two of them again I tuned out of the room heading for the window in my bedroom so I could make my way to the roof.

I sat on the roof staring up at the night sky wishing I had something to sketch it out with, but unwilling to go back into the apartment. I sat up there against the brick wall for what seemed like hours before Raven found me, "Clarke?" she asked walking towards me, "You okay?" I nodded in response. "I've been home for about an hour; I just started calling you, heard your phone in your room then saw the window open…" she trailed off and sat beside me, "What's going on?"

"Nothing." I told her unable to decide what to do or say about the situation.

"Okay then," she paused looking up at the stars, "I guess I'll tell you how my night went." I turned my head slightly towards her so that she'd know I was paying attention. "You remember those guys from the café?"

"Yeah."

"And Monty and J's new neighbors?"

"Mhm."

"Well, they're the same people." My eyes widened slightly as I turned to look at her more, "Their names are Wick and Bellamy. Both age 25. One is an engineer, the other a history teacher. Wick is the one that stared at me, Bellamy is Tave's brother."

"Damn."

"Yeah so we live right across the fire escape from the café boys…"

We sat in silence starring up at the stars for a little longer before I spoke, "Speaking of the café boys…"

"Oh no which one? Atom? Jasper?"

I shook my head 'no', "Finn…"

"What about Finn?" she asked concern covering her face.

I sighed pausing for a moment to look away from her, "He tried to kiss me." Everything went quite. When I finally looked over at Raven her face was a blank mask.

"Let's have a party." She said bitterly, "I need a drink."

"It's almost ten…" I trailed off looking at my dad's watch, "And it'd Wednesday night."

"So… We're having a party. We're not inviting Finn." She told me before climbing back down the fire escape and into our apartment I quickly followed her down, "You go get the idiots." She told me referring to Monty, Jasper, Murphy and Miller, "Invite anyone decent you see in the building… I'll call the others."

I nodded to her before I walked out the door, I turned down the hall and knocked on Murphy's door but no answer came. I stood there for a few moments before pounding music began pouring out of my own apartment. I decided then that no one could possibly be home or they'd be out by now so I turned to walk around the building to Jasper's. I walked slowly taking my time passing the elevator I saw Lincoln and Octavia getting out, I nodded towards them acknowledging their presence as they headed towards the apartment before continuing my short walk to 204. I stopped in front of the door rapping lightly on the door. Moments later Jasper popped out looking confused, "Party, stuff happened; your brother's not invited." I said quickly.

"Atom?" He asked the confusion growing.

"Finn." I stated. The confusion didn't leave his face but he didn't ask any further questions he invited me in where the other three were sitting around the TV eating pizza and watching hockey. He told them there was a party, that Finn wasn't invited and turned off the TV. Once everyone was ready they headed out once again, passing the elevator the second time reveled Atom and a blonde stranger, "Hey." I said trying to get his attention. Which failed. "Dude?" I asked again. "Blonde guy!" at that he swung around and looked at me with a raised eyebrow. "Wanna come party?"

"Uh, I gotta work tomorrow." He replied turning back towards his apartment.

"So do all of us." I said motioning to myself and the group of guys I was with, "My friend is kind of having a bad day and she wants to have a kick ass party, she told me to invite a bunch of people. Do you really have anything better to do? I mean yeah you can sleep, but you could also come party and have fun."

He stood there for a few moments, gave our group a once over and said, "Maybe some other time? I see those two goons all the time-" he said pointing to Jasper and Monty, "- so I'm sure it'll come up again. I really gotta go to sleep." With that he turned on his heel and walked away.

I huffed in defeat before motioning for the boys to follow me, you could hear the music playing through the entire building it wasn't quite at all. We busied ourselves between the Xbox, beer pong and dancing for the next few hours. I had been on a team with Jasper, we were against Miller and Atom. Sadly they won, being the light weights we were we stumbled around for the next few hours laughing like children. It was like nothing else existed and nothing bad had happened until someone knocked on the door, bringing both Raven and I back to reality, "Can you answer it?" she asked me, "If it's him, I don't want to see him." She slurred leaning on the counter.

I begrudgingly agreed to answer the door wishing as I walked towards it that no one had to open it at all, I was expecting Finn, expecting an argument. I opened the door to a guy with olive skin, messy brown curly hair and dark chocolate eyes that were accompanied by freckles. He was wearing blue and grey plaid pajama bottoms, a black t-shirt and an annoyed look on his face. I smiled slightly leaning into the door way and putting a hand on my hip, "Can I help you?"

"If you could turn down the music that'd be great." He said in a low bitter voice.

"Or." I said walking slightly into the apartment, "You could come in."

He quirked an eyebrow at me before growling, "I have classes to teach tomorrow, I need sleep and your music is preventing that from happening."

He was a teacher so this must be, "Bellamy?" I asked.

He looked at me in shock shaking his head, "Yeah."

"Raven told me Tave's brother lived across the fire escape and was a teacher…" I trailed off looking at the floor for a moment and then back to his face, "She's in here ya know." I told him pointing behind me.

"That's nice." He said running a hand through his hair, "Can you please just turn down the music?"

"You're more than welcome to come in and turn it down." I informed him walking away from the door leaving him standing in the door way with a confused look on his face.