The next day passes by pretty quickly. It's finally Friday so i have the whole weekend to myself because Bellamy is always out working. The only thing that's been at the front of my mind all day is clearing the air between the new mechanic, Raven. I mean she was really sweet and I would like a chance of being friends with her, I felt a connection between us like I knew her or that we've been friends before, however I've been racking my brain and there's no rational explanation so I try to shift my thoughts onto other things.
That's when Lincoln calls me. "Hello there beautiful, how are you doing" I sit smiling widely to his little compliments. "I'm very good now baby how are you." We spend the next few hours talking about everything under the moon. We talked about our final homecoming too and what we'd wear even though I can tell I'll change it at least 30 times before I'm happy. Oh complicated me, you gotta love it.
It was approaching 5pm and I came to the realisation that the garage would be closing shortly and I didn't wanna miss Raven otherwise that meant I'll have to wait till Monday, which I couldn't do because I needed to get it off my chest. I'm not exactly sure why it bothered me so much.. I think it's because I hate giving off the wrong impression, especially people I've just met.
I clear my thoughts and get in my car driving as quick as I can to make it to the garage in time. On my way I rehearse exactly what I'll say to her and I didn't stop until I had it perfect.
As I approach the garage I see her just locking up so I run over to her and take the opportunity to scare her from behind and I was greeted with a shriek "OH MY GOD, YOU BITCH" I can't help but burst into a fit of laughter at how scared she was, it was more than I expected giving the badass vibes you feel when you're around her. When I'd finally channelled the willpower to stop laughing I did so because we needed to talk. "Hey, Raven I just wanted to talk to you about yesterday-" She quickly interrupts me "Oh, what about yesterday, is your car not working again?" I snigger "No it's not that, I just feel like I blew you off yesterday and that wasn't my intention I just had a lot on my mind and I felt like I knew you before we met so that's why no words seemed to come from my mouth. I just want to apologise and say I'd love to be friends with you" I end my explanation with a nervous smile unsure if the response I get.
My nervous smile was met with a bright one. "Oh good I wasn't quite sure but I told myself that you must've had other things going on." I just nod my head "So we're good now" I question. "Always was." Then something occurred to me, if I want us to be friends we should hang out and what better time than the present. "Hey Raven, do you have plans tonight?" She shakes her head "I was just gonna walk home and hang with my pal Netflix" "Do you wanna get dinner with me? I wanna go somewhere that isn't a garage to see you" we both smile and she responded quickly "Oh, I would love that.... but as you can see I'm not really dressed for the occasion." I look at her from head to toe. She's in her work clothes and she looks way better than I do right now, so I decide her to compliment her on that "You look beautiful, you don't even look like you've been working today.. You look kinda like you're about to go film a porno that involves a hot girl mechanic." I blush and realised that the latter of my sentence wasn't just said in my head, but to her too. But she smirks and says she'll take it as a compliment, which I highly relieved with.
I took her back to her place which was beautiful, it was simple, but it was beautiful. I told her that I liked it and I was met by a disgusted face "You like this? Really? I've barely moved in yet there's so much to do still." She groaned in the process of a 360 degree turn "I can always help, I love interior design. I'm thinking about majoring in that, but I'm not too sure.." I continue to look around as she interrupts me in my footsteps "Well.. would you like to help" I practically damage her eardrum accepting her offer. This was like my dream, I've always wanted to do this and now I had the opportunity.
She finished getting ready and then we took her car to the restaurant and left mine at her place. We dined at this beautiful sushi restaurant after I discovered sushi was her favourite food and by the expression overtaking her face my choice was perfect. Throughout the whole dinner she was thanking me for bringing her here and allowing her to experience her first sushi restaurant in LA. The whole night was amazing, I loved every minute of the dinner, we discovered so much about each other and quickly began to realise how alike we really were, the only downside to it was that at some point the amazing night had to come to an end. I paid our bill as my treat and she made me promise that she'd pay for next time which I reluctantly accepted.
The drive home didn't consist of much talking but it was a comfortable silence, every now and then we'd make small talk but it would've made no difference if we had because we were comfortable in each other's company. When we approached her apartment building she asked me to stay for with messages from Bellamy, Clarke and Lincoln so I decided it would be best to call it a night and go home.
When I got back I decided to call Clarke back first so I unlocked my phone and started FaceTime, when she picked up I was immediately flooded by questions of where I had been for hours, who I was with and why I didn't respond to anyone's calls or texts. From this I guessed both Bellamy and Lincoln had rang her to see where I had gone, I really didn't see the big deal. I decided to tell Clarke the story about yesterday and how that led to me being gone all evening. She could tell by the smile on my face that I was happy but then her eyebrows furrowed for a moment "I best not be replaced Miss Blake" I laughed, how could I ever replace my best friend "I promise." We stayed talking a little bit about her and how her relationship was progressing with the girl she met on vacation and I told her how happy I was and that I wanted to meet her. She was happy that I approved of them because we're both such an important part in each other's lives. She was more like a sister than my best friend however cliché that may sound it was the truth.
I decided it was time to sleep because I couldn't keep my eyes open much longer so I ended FaceTime and opened up my messages to send both Lincoln and Bellamy an identical text.
Me: Hey sorry I didn't reply, didn't mean to scare you. I went to dinner with a friend, I'll speak to you tomorrow, goodnight.
That was the last thing I can remember before drifting away into a deep sleep.
