Our People (the Third Book of the Her Weakness series)

Chapter 50

Clarke's POV

Raven rubs her hands together excitedly. "Alright. Our question is-"

"Wait." At Raven's unimpressed look, I elaborate. "Can we go somewhere less public for this? Knowing you two, the question is sexual and I don't want a bunch of random people hearing about Lexa and I's sex life."

Raven sighs dramatically. "Fine. Come on, I saw a secluded space earlier."

Raven takes Octavia's hand and leads us through the crowd and into an ominously dark alley.

"You're not secretly a serial killer, right?" Octavia asks. "You didn't take us here to murder us?"

"Nope, we're just here to make our friends extremely uncomfortable by asking them very personal questions they have to answer honestly."

"This is going to be fun." Octavia says excitedly.

"Stop torturing us and just ask us the question already." I groan.

"Fine, miss impatient." Raven says sarcastically. There's a sparkle in her eyes that is making me nervous. "The question is... I wish we had a drumroll for this." At my glare, she holds up her hands. "Okay, okay. Who's the top?"

"Oh my god, Raven." I groan.

"What does she mean?" Lexa murmurs.  Usually I'd find her confusion endearing, but I'm too mortified to feel much of anything else.

"A top is the one who's sexually dominant." Octavia explains.

Lexa flushes, "Oh."

"You have to answer." Raven reminds us like we've forgotten. "Truthfully."

"I know, Reyes. It just depends." I really hope they don't ask me to elaborate on that. This is not a discussion I want to have with anyone. Ever.

"You can't just leave it at that." Octavia complains and Raven nods at her words.

"If you are asking who is usually on top, that would be me." Lexa says and at this point, I'm not sure I'll ever stop blushing.

"Ha, told you Raven."

"On top doesn't mean she's the top." Raven argues before waving her hand that isn't holding Octavia's at us. "Please continue."

"This is just going to drag on, isn't it?" I sigh, loving that Lexa's silently comforting me by rubbing her thumb across the back of my hand. She knows I love that.

"Until you give us a straight answer. Even though that's the only thing in this conversation that's straight." Raven grins as Octavia high fives her for her joke.

"Hilarious." I grumble before speaking up. "Okay. Lexa's usually on top, but I'm usually the top, if that makes sense."

Raven nods, a look of understanding in her eyes. "Ah. I get it. So it's like Lexa wears the pants but you control the zipper. Or something."

"Basically, yeah." I agree.

I roll my eyes as Octavia grumbles under her breath, handing Raven something. Of course they bet on this too.

Lexa moves closer to me, so I release her hand and wrap that arm around her shoulders, pressing a kiss to her forehead.

"Aww, they're so cute." Octavia coos at us, grinning. "Alright, we're done interrogating you. Go be adorable together and have fun."

Relieved, Lexa and I begin to work our way out of the alley, hearing that Octavia and Raven aren't too far behind us.

I move to unwrap my arm from her shoulders, knowing Lexa doesn't usually like touching too much in the sight of others (outside of hand holding, of course). Lexa stops me by resting her hand on mine for a moment.

"Would you like a drink?" I question, speaking a bit louder than normal to be heard over the noise.

Lexa nods and when we get out of the alley, it's clear the celebration is in full swing. Everyone I can see is dancing and laughing, and most have a glass in their hands. It's an amazing sight to see our people so happy. I know Lexa thinks so, too. This is what we work for, what we fight for.

We make our way over to the nearest person that's been hired to give out alcohol.

"Something not too strong, beja (please)." I say, knowing we won't want to get too drunk tonight. We'll want to remember it.

The woman nods, giving us a bright smile and hands us two glasses.

Before we leave, the woman speaks in a heavily accented voice. "Thank you for bringing peace."

"Pro (you're welcome)." We both give her a smile as we speak almost simultaneously.

She laughs at that and waves us away, urging us to have fun.

We find a log to sit on, somehow managing to sit down without me having to unwrap my arm from her shoulders. It's a slightly uncomfortable position because she's slightly taller than me, but we both love it too much for me to complain.

We drink until we've drained our glasses, spending the time speaking quietly or watching people dance.

Once we're finished, Lexa takes our empty glasses and stands. "I will take these back. After this, would you like to dance with me?"

"I'd love to."

Lexa smiles at me and I definitely don't watch her butt as she walks away. After losing sight of her in the crowd of people, I see two women that look familiar. It's hard to tell because they're making out, so I can't see their faces very well. They shift positions, tilting their faces so I can see the one facing me. Holy crap, that's Octavia. I look at the other, seeing the black hair and it hits me like a Pauna. That's Octavia and Raven. And they're making out. In public. Heavily.

Lexa comes back, sitting next to me.

"What are you grinning about?" Lexa asks quietly, a small smile growing on her face that I know is just from seeing me smiling.

I gesture in the direction of Octavia and Raven, not wanting to pint and also hardly believing they figured it out already.

"That's Octavia and Raven."

"Where?" Lexa questions, scanning the crowd. "I do not- oh. I guess they have spoken or at least figured something out."

"I can't wait to tease them about this." I say giddily. I finally have something on them that isn't about their 'obvious but apparently not obvious to each other' feelings.

"Perhaps we should do that later. Let them have their moment." Lexa murmurs.

"Yeah. Instead of rudely interrupting them like they do to us so often, let's dance."

I stand and hold out my hand to Lexa, loving how brightly she smiles as she takes it.

So fluffy. And so much fun to write. Plus Octaven is finally an official thing!! Thank you for reading and stay awesome!