May we (never) meet again

Chapter 4- Yesterday's memories

"You're joking, right?" The woman stopped combing Lexa's hair, like she was doing for the last 10 minutes, while her friend told her everything, and by everything she means literally everything, about what happened at her last ball.

The two of them met by accident many years ago. The Princess was barely five when she met her friend at one of the political meetings her father forced her to attend with him. Lexa stood next to her father in silence and listened to another uninteresting discussion about their agreement with floukru that they made earlier.

Floukru, with their current leader Luna, was one of Trikru's most trusted allies for more than a decade. Their kingdom honoured peace and hard work, rather than weapons and wars like Azgeda did. Floukru traded mostly fishes and handmade jewellery for Trikru's materials like wood for their boats, dyes, animal fur and wool or cotton when it was in season. Luna was Lexa's distant cousin from her mothers side, which also helped with their political relationship, even though they don't talk to each other often. They talked just when the political situasion requested it, Luna wasn't exactly bad person, just not Lexa's person.

The young girl literally fell right into Lexa, when she tried to catch some colurfull butterfly that was flying around her. The Princess was in absolute shock for a few seconds while everyone that was in the room stopped talking and just stared at them. Lexa didn't even have time to say something, before the other girl started crying from embarrassment and then ran off.

After she gathered herself back up and shruged off the initial shock, Lexa ran after her, without any look at her father who was scowling at his daughter ,because she muddied her clothes, and shouting for her to come back and act like a Princess, after few minutes she managed to find the girl siting outside, still crying with her hands covering her face.

Lexa tried to comfort the girl and hugged her tightly like only a five year old could, while she started to tell her one of her own embarassing stories, just like the mather taught her to do, to make the girl stop crying and hopefully smile again.

Titus and the girl's parents found them a little while later. Lexa's father wanted to punish her for ruining their meetings, but once he discovered that his daughter's new friend is actually Costia kom Trikru, the daughter of one of his most important political partners, he let it slide just that one time.

The two of them were unseparable ever since and remained friends even to this time. At Lexa's 15th birthday, and lots of pleading and begging from the young Princess, her father allowed Costia to live with them and just a few mont's after that she became the Princesses first lady.

Their relationship was very intimate, but only in platonic way. Both of them enjoyed each other's touch ,when they were alone. Costia usually combed her hair and helped to pick out her outfit, they usually spend most ot their free time together and told each other everything. Even though there were rumors about them having romantic relationship, which was strictly prohibited in Trikru so nobody dared to say anything loud to the Princess or her father , they never kissed, if you don't count forehead and cheek kisses, or had anything more intimate together.

Trikru's view on relationships was rather interesting. They valued purity before marriage, even in homosexual relationships, and everything intimate was forbidden before that. Arranged marriages were common and it was rather unusual when you had a choice in that matter. Especially if you was one of the royals or someone that meant something in the political world.

Even though everybody could say no to the arranged marriage, nobody did that anyway, because they knew that saying no would mean a war, or another conflict and a lot of innocent deaths. The consumattion was mandatory the night after their wedding rituals for the marriage to be considered completed.

They were more like sisters/bestriends or even platonic soulmates, Costia was also in a hidden relationship with one of the Trikru knights for a while, but nobody need's to know that just now.

"No, Cos. I'm not joking." The princess sighted and ran her hand through her hair. It was early in the morning, and the two of them were preparing for another day after yesterday's ball.

"So, let me repeat it one more time." Costia started to comb Lexa's hair again, still in a little disbelief about the whole situation.

"You met a complete stranger last night at your ball, while you was pitying yourself on the balcony..." The girl smirked slightly, they talked like that all the time, so she wasn't really worried that she would offend her friend. "A beatiful blonde stranger, with the most unique blue eyes..." Lexa cut her companion of and smiled dreamily to herself. "You're so whipped." Costia chuckled and shook her head a little at her Princesses behavior. She had every right to enjoy it and be the one who would mock her for once.

The Princess didn't even try to decline what her friend said and just groaned in despair. She couldn't help it, even if she wanted to. It seemed like the blonde got really comfortable in her head and didn't plan to leave anytime soon.

"And then you two just danced together? Just between us, who the hell would name their daughter 'Clarke' anyway? Are you sure that it is her real name?" The girl started to carefully braid Lexa's long hair like she did every morning.

"We didn't just dance, it was..." Lexa stopped talking for a few seconds and sighed, ignoring the last two sentences, while her friend patiently waited for her answer.

"I can't even describe it. It was something magical, like the world faded around us. There wasn't anyone else when we danced, even though the room was full of people, and her eyes... her eyes were so, so warm." The princess was a little lost in her head again with a small dreamy smile on her lips.

"That sounds very romantic." Costia grinned happily at her friend's dreaminess. She remembered the feeling, when she was in her friend's position a few months ago.

"But everything ended so fast. I didn't even have time to find out her whole name, where she lived or... literally anything else!" Lexa groaned again at her own stupidity. The evening went so great, but only after the blonde promised her, that she would be on the next ball too and left not so long after their dance, the Princess remembered that she didn't ask any important questions about the blond. Maybe she was even more whipped than she previously thought. Lexa rather didn't mention that the blond was from Arkadia, she loved her friend, but she also knew that this should be her little secret, even if just for Clarke's safety. It was enough for her that she had to explain, why she danced with a complete stranger who 'doesn't mean anything in their world' to her father last night, after he called her to come and have a talk in his chambers when the ball ended. He wasn't very happy about it, but he let it slide with just a single warning. If Titus knew that the blonde, that Lexa danced with, wasn't just a stranger, but also an Arkadian, she wouldn't escape punishment that easily.

"Well, she promised you that she will be back for today's ball, right?" Costia completed braiding one side of Lexa's hair and started doing the other one, while she talked to her friend. Lexa didn't answer, just nodded a little and hummed in agreement.

"Than you have absolutely nothing to worry about, Love. I will make you so beatiful, that the blond chick won't be able to take her eyes..."The girl smirked and turned her friend's head a little, that she could see her wink

"And not even her hands off you." And with that Costia kissed Lexa on the cheek and flashed one of her charming smiles, that she saved specially for the Princess and special situations like this one

The Princess was glad that she had Costia in her life, she didn't know what would happen if they never met. Lexa considered her a familly, maybe even a little bit more than that. She would die for her and she knew, that the other girl would do the same.