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No One's Pov:
"You guys really can't skip one night of f*cking each other for this concert?" Clarke asks her best friends frustratingly. Hayley Kiyoko's concert was that night and they had been planning for it since they bought their tickets months ago.
"No! Bellamy has his senior trip this weekend and Octavia's mom has a last minute business trip! We have to take advantage of this!" Raven almost whines as Octavia watches on amused at the fight between her girlfriend and best friend.
Thinking it over Octavia finally decides to chime in. "Sorry Clarke, we haven't had sex in like 2 weeks, and we haven't had the house to ourselves in months. The tickets were cheap anyways it's fine."
Clarke just sits with her arms crossed and slumped her chair like a child put in timeout. She does this because she knows there is no way she will convince them to go and she desperately doesn't want to go alone.
"Guys! What am I supposed to do then? I don't want to go alone, and you two idiots are my only friends! Even if I had other friends, the concert is literally in 4 hours I could never find anyone on such short notice!" Clarke word vomits, revealing to her friends just how nervous she is about this whole situation.
Octavia and Raven look at each other and then look at Clarke like she's a sad little puppy. Octavia gets off of Clarke's bed and sits next to her on the window bench in her room. She wraps an arm around her and gives her and encouraging squeeze.
"You are going to go and get in the shower and wash your hair. I am going to go into your unreasonably large closet and pick out the perfect outfit. And Raven is going to go and pick up the pizza." Raven immediately looks up from her phone at the mention of her name and having to get up and do something causing Octavia and Clarke to laugh. "Then once we eat I'll do your hair and make-up. Then once you're dressed you're going to head downtown, go to this concert and have the time of your life." Clarke nods and gets up and starts heading to get in the shower.
As Clarke walks through the bathroom door and shuts it raven shouts "Maybe you'll meet the love of your life! Anything can happen!" with a laugh. Octavia shoots her a pointed look.
"What? It was funny!" Octavia just shakes her head and goes to Clarke's closet. "Can you be useful and order the pizza and go get it please?" Raven grumbles and begins to walk out the door as she orders the pizza and Octavia just smiles to herself wondering how she got so lucky.
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Clarke exits the bathroom wearing a robe and finds Octavia and Raven waiting for her on the floor. "Finally Clarke! You've been in the shower for 2 hours! And I'm starving!" Octavia looks at Raven as to say shut up and looks back at Clarke to reassure her that it hadn't been nearly that long. They go downstairs and eat pizza and talk about the various trials and tribulations of being high school sophomores.
After their pizza, Raven gets back in Clarke's bed while Clarke sits in her desk chair and Octavia begins her hair and makeup. After 45 minutes Clarke is finally ready and they are standing outside of her car. Octavia decided to go with very light makeup and lightly curled her hair so it almost looked naturally curled. The outfit she picked out was a cream colored lace dress, blue jean jacket and brown cowboy boots. Octavia notices Clarke's uneasiness and grabs her hand and twirls Clarke around to make her laugh.
" I know your nervous but you will be fine. Just have fun." Octavia says as she place a piece of hair behind Clarke's ear and then gives her a hug. Raven joins them and gives Clarke a reassuring pat in the shoulder. After a sufficient amount of encouragement from her friends Clarke gets in her car and starts driving downtown. She plays only Hayley Kiyoko's music because it only seems right, and as the songs continue to play her nervousness begins to dissipate and pure excitement begins to replace it.
Clarke pulls into the venue parking lot and heads toward the doors. On her way she immediately begins to feel the nervousness creep back in. She notices that there is a short line to get in and stands there until the venue officially opens 30 minutes later. When the doors open there is an immediate rush of people inside to get as close to the stage as possible. After pushing her way through Clarke ends up right behind the barricade that separates the stage from the audience. She looks around and it seems as though everyone around her is with their friends and she begins to curse the day she convinced Raven and Octavia to get together. She looks to her left and next to her notices an absolutely beautiful girl. Clarke looked at the girl's face and was absolutely mesmerized. She had caramel colored skin, dark brown locks, forest green eyes covered by glasses, a nose ring that was insanely hot, and a seemingly permanent smirk. The girl is tall and insanely muscular, to the point Clarke could see a slight bulge in her biceps under her leather jacket.
Clarke decides to pull out her phone and text Octavia and Raven to let them know she made it when she felt someone looking at her. She turned to her left and it was the goddess she was trying so desperately to not stare at. "Yes?" The girl blushed and quickly looked down but it was too late because Clarke noticed and giggled.
The girl looked back up sheepishly while rubbing the back of her neck with her hand. "Sorry, I was just looking around to see if I was the only person here by myself and it looks as though you're in the same boat as me. Unless your friends are supposed to be meeting you here. In that case I can try to push some people over to make room for them. Or-" her rambling is cut off by Clarke chuckling and how adorable she is.
"No, I don't have any friends meeting me here. They pretty much dumped me to go have sex at one of their empty houses." Clarke says with significantly less bitterness than before. The girl's eyes widen at Clarke's boldness and that cause her to laugh even more. Seeing Clarke laugh makes the girl laugh.
"Well that's fortunate for them, unfortunate for you. But hey you're going to get to see Lesbian Jesus live and they aren't, so who's really losing here?" Clarke giggles and nods.
"Why are you here by yourself?" Clarke asks the stranger as turns towards her, leans her elbow on the railing and puts her head in her palm. The stranger copies her movements and checks Clarke out before meeting her eyes and immediately looking down and blushing again.
She clears her throat and begins to talk. "Well my two best friends are athletes and they are both busy. One is on the softball team and she had a game tonight. The other is on the basketball team and is on an unofficial visit to a college. So that leaves me here all by myself."
"That sucks but hey look where our friends bailing on us led to. We are front and center to the concert to a great artist. And we both got to meet a pretty cool person in the process." Clarke says sincerely. Lexa smiles mischievously and then begins to look around and Clarke tilts her head to the side. "What are you looking for?"
"That pretty cool person you're saying I've met I can't seem to find her." The goddess says and Clarke laughs hysterically while lightly pushing her shoulder. Once she composed herself she looks at the girl one more time.
"Speaking of meeting, we have been talking all this time and I don't even know your name." The girl face palms which is adorable to Clarke and then sticks her hand out.
"Sorry I completely forgot! I'm Lexa, Lexa Woods." Clarke smiles and grabs Lexa's hand " No worries, I'm Clarke, Clarke Griffin" she says trying to mock the girl causing them both to chuckle. They let go of the others hand after they realized it had been quite a long time and blush while trying to look away. Lexa turns to Clarke and gets a serious look on her face.
In a British accent Lexa bows slightly and reaches her hand out. "Will you Clarke Griffin do me the honor of being my designated concert buddy on this night that Lesbian Jesus will grace us with her presence?" Clarke nods and puts her hand in Lexa's all while laughing so hard that she had tears streaming down her face. Lexa grins and kisses Clarke's knuckles and joins in on Clarke's infectious laughter. Before they could say anything else the lights dim and the base starts to rumble in their ears.
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Throughout the concert Clarke and Lexa sing at the top of their lungs and dance together all through the night. When Hayley Kiyoko began to play "Wanna Be Missed" Clarke got so excited because it was her favorite song. It being the one of the only slow songs, Lexa turned to Clarke and asked if she wanted to dance. Clarke agreed and they turned toward one another. Lexa put one arm around Clarke's waist and grab her hand with the other. Clarke then put her hand on Lexa's shoulder. Twirling, laughing and singing they got through this song and the next and every song following until this attempt at slow dancing was completely unfit for the song playing. As the songs really started to pick up in pace, they continued to laugh and sing and dance together having so much fun. When the concert finally came to an end they decided to both go to the merchandise table together. As the crowed started to rush in various ways, Lexa grabbed Clarke's hand and began to lead the way so they wouldn't get separated. After spending way too much money on merchandise the designated concert buddies continued to walk hand and hand to the parking lot. Lexa walked Clarke to her car. "So designated concert buddy, what did you think?" Clarke's eyes lit up and she began to talk a million words a minute about how amazing the concert, setlist, and Hayley Kiyoko was. Lexa just laughs at her excitement and nods along with everything she's saying. After Clarke finally calms down from her concert high she looks up at Lexa and isn't able to stop the words that come out of her mouth.
" I had so much fun with you tonight and I really don't want it to end. Do you think we can go grab dinner...or I guess it is past midnightso...breakfast together? Or if you would rather go home that's fine. Actually I bet you're tired of me by now...I'm just going to hop in my car and go home. It was nice m-" Clarke is cut off by Lexa literally covering her mouth with her hand.
"I was honestly worried you might talk so much and so fast you'd pass out. Don't get me wrong it was adorable and now you've tasted your own medicine. But I would love to go get dinner/breakfast dinner with you." Lexa said while smiling at the blonde girl.
She slowly removed her hand and Clarke let out a huge sigh of relief. "Thank God, I thought I might die of embarrassment if you would have said no. Well it is late so it would make sense to go somewhere that is closer to where we both live. I live in Bloomington, where do you live? We can try and pick something between the two." Lexa's smile grows bigger "I live in Bloomington too!" Clarke's mouth falls open before she starts to ask questions.
"What? No way!! This is too good to be true! This is awesome! What school do you go to?" Lexa thinks to herself that her face might fall apart from all the smiling that she's doing but she can't bring herself to contain her happiness.
"I go to Wakeford, what about you?" Clarke just looks at her and Lexa is mildly confused until Clarke starts talking again.
"Me too. How is it that we have never met?" Clarke asks in all seriousness because she would have loved to be friends with Lexa before now.
"I don't know but how about we talk about this more at the IHOP on Legacy in front of the movie theater?" Clarke nods and goes to get in her car but she realizes her and goddess are still holding hand. They both look down at their hands then up at each other before blushing and letting go and getting in their cars.
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After a 45 minute drive of both of them freaking out, they arrive at IHOP. Lexa parks first and goes to find Clarke. She sees her looking down at her phone and decides to scare her. She crouches down and begins to crawl toward the door. When she reaches the driver's side door, she jumps up and scares Clarke. She screams and her phone goes flying out of her hand. Lexa falls to the ground clutching her stomach laughing at her new friend. Clarke recovers from being scared and sees that it's Lexa laughing and laughs with her. Lexa finally stands up and opens Clarke's door for her.
They walk inside and are seated in a booth and the conversation immediately starts flowing. "So why is it that we have never seen each-other? We go to the same school, in the same grade, taking the same classes. It is insane." Lexa just shrugs and take a sip of her coffee.
"It might be because I am on the soccer team and we have practice every morning and every day during first period." Clarke nods her head in agreement because that is the exact reason they don't have any classes together. "So you know I am on the soccer team, what do you do at school? I know you're not an athlete. "Clarke scoffs at Lexa's comment. Lexa immediately chokes on her coffee.
"Oh my gosh. I'm sorry I didn't it mean it that in a bad way. I just meant that I know most of the athletes in our school and if you were one we would've crossed paths by now." Clarke nods and continues to sip her orange juice. "It's okay. And you're right, I'm definitely not an athlete. I can barely run to the park down the street without feeling like I'm dying. But I am in the fashion design club and on the debate team. So technically I am an athlete." Clarke says with a smirk. Lexa just looks down and shakes her head and apologizes again for her inability to communicate like a normal person. "So what else do you do besides play soccer?"
"Um I do martial arts during the off season, I'm in the Pre-Veterinary Students Club.....and I kind of write songs in most of my free time" Lexa says quite shyly and Clarke looks at her curiously. "Why do you seem so ashamed about the Pre-Veterinary club thing and writing songs? Which is awesome by the way."
Lexa sits and stirs her coffee for a little while before answering. "All of my coaches, teammates, and even my parents think that I am good enough at soccer to go to one of the top collegiate teams in the country. But they are worried that by choosing such a hard major I may blow my chances at becoming a professional soccer player. They want me to do something like business but I can't see myself being happy with that decision. And then the whole songwriting thing. They all think that I could be using that time practicing to get better at soccer instead. But they fail to realize that song writing truly keeps me sane." Clarke looks at Lexa with sympathy and puts her hand over hers and rubs her thumb over Lexa's knuckles.
"I know we haven't really known each other all that long but I believe that if you have a true passion for something, that's what you should do. Imagine doing what your coaches, parents, and teammates say. And you find yourself working in business after your professional soccer career. After doing something that you love for so long and then doing something you couldn't care less about as your way of income will ruin you. As for songwriting I would just say f*ck them all because you can't be a professional soccer player if you're not healthy mentally " Clarke says with so much sincerity it makes a few tears well up in Lexa's eyes. Clarke just gives her a small smile and continues to rub her thumb over Lexa's knuckles.
"Thank you Clarke. Despite you not knowing me long, you knew exactly what to say." As soon as Lexa said that, their server came with their food. And Clarke just looks amazed at all the food that Lexa ordered. On Lexa's portion of the table there is a 5 stack of pancakes, a 5 egg ham and cheese omelet, hash browns and a crepe. And Clarke had a 3 count of pancakes, 2 scrambled eggs and bacon.
"Are you seriously going to eat all of that?" Lexa looks at Clarke like she's stupid and nods. "Of course. I haven't had food since before the concert yesterday so I'm starving! Plus I'm a soccer player, I'll just run it off later." Clarke immediately starts laughing and Lexa looks so confused.
"It's just I saw this video called, Sh*t that soccer players say and that was one of the things in that video. I thought it was just a stereotype but I guess you guys really do say things like that."
"I know exactly what video you're talking about and everything in it is completely true! But if you will excuse me my food is getting cold and while I would eat it anyways, I would prefer it warm." Clarke just laughs and shakes her head and they both laugh.
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The whole time they were there, Clarke was so caught up with Lexa she failed to notice Octavia and Raven come in. When Clarke first got there she had texted them to let them know that she was going to IHOP with someone she met from the concert. They decided to come and meet her there and were completely surprised at what they saw. Their friend Clarke was laughing and flirting back and forth with one of the hottest and most popular girls in not only their grade but their school. Lexa used to be known for being super-hot, super smart, super athletic, and super sweet. And because of all these things everyone loved her. But their dear friend Clarke seemed to live under a rock and had no idea who Lexa was.
Instead of going and sitting with Lexa and Clarke, they asked to sit at a table that they could easily spy on them. They watched two intensely and they are amazed at how comfortable the two have become in just a matter of hours.
At this point Clarke and Lexa have been done eating for at least an hour and are sitting and talking. Lexa notices Clarke shiver and comes and sits on her side of the booth and wraps and arm around her while asking the waitress to bring a hot chocolate for Clarke. "You're seeing what I'm seeing right? They are literally acting like us. It is so unexpected yet so cute at the same time." Raven squeals, Octavia laughs and tells her girlfriend to be quiet before they blow their cover.
Clarke and Lexa stay in the booth until Clarke finishes her hot chocolate. Lexa pays the bill before Clarke can do anything and gets a glare in return. She shrugs and give Clarke a huge grin, shattering that glare Clarke tried to keep. They walk outside hand in hand and Octavia and Raven try desperately not to be seen. Once the two are out of the restaurant Octavia and Raven turn and look at each other mouths open in shock. "Is this really happening?" Raven only nods in response and they just continue to sit there in silence trying to comprehend what they just saw.
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After they were done eating, Clarke and Lexa couldn't bear the thought of having to go their separate ways so they sit there and talk for a while. At some point Clarke realizes she's really cold and internally curses Octavia for having her wear a dress. Lexa notices and immediately has a concerned expression on her face and is coming to sit next to Clarke. She lifts her arm slightly and looks Clarke in the eyes as of to ask for permission. Clarke nods and is immediately surrounded by warmth and the smell of rain and strawberries. The smell was intoxicating and the warmth of Lexa's arm around her felt completely different than most. Almost comforting in a very familiar kind of way like they had been doing this their whole lives. Like they had known each other their whole lives. They both look at each other and immediately smile and continue their conversation.
On the other hand, Lexa is immediately 100 times more nervous once she puts her arm around Clarke. But once she feels Clarke lean further into her she feels calm again, knowing she did the right thing. Shortly after Lexa sees their server and asks her to bring a hot chocolate with whipped cream for Clarke since she doesn't like coffee. Which is something she learned in their hours of getting to know one another.
Their conversation continues to flow as Clarke finishes her hot chocolate and they both decide it is finally time to go. The server brings the check and Lexa snatches it and pays it before Clarke can even blink, earning her a serious glare from the blonde girl. Lexa just gives her a huge goofy grin causing Clarke to just laugh and put her head on Lexa's shoulder to hide her blush.
Lexa gets out of the booth and puts her hand out to help Clarke up. They walk out of the restaurant hand in hand and still actively taking about anything and everything. Lexa starts to walk Clarke to her car before Clarke stops her.
"Let me walk you to your car this time." Lexa just rolls her eyes and agrees. They walk to her car and as the walk up to an all-black Camaro Clarke just shakes her head. "Of course you would have a f*cking Camaro." Lexa looks at her with one eyebrow raised.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Clarke looks between Lexa and the car and begins to explain.
"Well you're a super-hot super cool soccer player, it would only make sense that you have a super bad a** car like an all-black Camaro." Lexa looks down and blushes and then Clarke realizes what she has just said. Realizing that, she face palms and Lexa just laughs. "Thank you. You're absolutely stunning yourself." Clarke looks down blushing and looks back to find Lexa smiling at her. They just sit and smile at each other for a while before Clarke's phone chimes with a text message. Breaking their eye contact Clarke looks down to see a text from her mom telling her to come home.
"It's my mom. She says I have to get home. " Clarke says dejectedly. Lexa smiles and squeezes her hand. "Don't look so sad! It's not like we will never see each other again."
Clarke chuckles and nods and Lexa brings her into a hug. With Lexa's arms around her shoulders and her arms circles around Lexa's waist, they feel the most comfortable than they have all night. Clarke lays her head on Lexa's chest as they sit there hugging longer than people who just met should. "I really don't want you to go home yet." Lexa says as she breaks the silence. Clarke just hugs her tighter as if to say me too.
"I have to though." Lexa sighs dramatically and lets go. Clarke just chuckles and lets go too.
"Well if you're up for it. I go and work out in the mornings-" Clarke immediately holds her hand up to stop her from talking.
"Yeah not happening. Remember when I said I'm definitely not an athlete. I definitely don't want to work out with one either." Lexa just gives her a pointed look.
"As I was saying. I work out in the mornings at Warren Park on the weekends and you could stop buy and we could maybe go get some coffee or something?"
"I would love that! What time should I get there? And can I bring my dog because I always take him on morning walks and warren park is down the street from my house." Lexa just smiles.
"It is just crazy how we have never met before. Warren Park is down the street from my house as well. But since it is-" Lexa checks her watch. "About 2 AM, I probably won't get to the park until about 9. My work out is about an hour and a half long, so you can get there around 10:30 if you'd like." Clarke agrees and they say their goodbyes. Both of them drive home still in disbelief in how perfect the night ended up being.