Rose red ink

Petunias

Clarkes POV

It was a normal Saturday, a little windy, but normal. I had just finished my coffee and was headed to work, normally I would drive because the heat would be blazing down on me, but like I said, it's a bit windy today.
So I walked to work wearing my dads old graphic-T, and a pair of jeans with some pretty revealing holes in them.
As I was approaching the street I worked on the wind blew my hair to one side of my face and for a moment I was blinded by a blonde and pink mix. I successfully moved the hair out of my face but failed to focus on my steps as I was fixing my hair, I tripped over a flower pot and landed on a few more. The flowers below me were crushed, I scanned my surroundings and knew that I was about to be scolded by the florist who had a shop exactly next to mine. As I had suspected she burst through the front door leaving the bell ringing, she looked down with her mouth covered with her hand.

"Oh-no my petunias!" She whimpered.

I stood up trying to wipe the dirt off my jeans and out of my shirt. I looked down at the damage I had made and it was as I had expected, crushed flowers and soil everywhere.

"Hey, I'm sorry, that's my bad I wasn't watching where I was going." I said guilty

"It's no big deal, I'll just-" she sighed "plant some new ones." She was disappointed that was obvious, her hair was down and all over the place but she was looking rather dressy. She wore dress dress pants and had on a white Tshirt with a black jacket intop.

"I guess that's the good thing when flowers mess up you can plant new ones, with tattoos once you screw up you better be expecting a lawsuit." I joked, she giggled with her hand now curling over her mouth. "I'm clarke." I extended a hand to her shyly "your shop neighbor."

"Pleasure, I'm Lexa." She took my hand and smiled

"Hey I'll help clean this up." I gestured to the mess

"No honestly it's fine." She said moving a piece of her hair behind her ear.

I refused to listen and started scraping the first from the ground back into the flower pot. Almost a millisecond after I started she got down on her knees and helping, she kept telling me that I didn't have to and that she could do it, but I decided not to listen. After a while I guess she got hot because she took off her jacket showing off an amazing tattoo on her upper arm. After everything was cleaned up and we were about to go to our separate shops I said:

"I love your tattoo, you should let me give you one sometime." And I walked away feeling flirtatious as ever.

Lexas POV

I rolled my eyes with a smile at the words she obviously pulled out of her mouth, she walked away with her shoulders back and head up obviously feeling confident. It was a risk but she was clearly a risk taker, by that I mean she doesn't think much or thinks to much.
I took the broken flowers back to my studio, I tried to revive them but the stems were broken and the petals had gone brown from being pushed down. I sighed and pushed the dead petunias to the side, I was finishing up trimming my bonzi tree when Raven came in.

"Hello Raven." I said not taking my eyes away from the small tree

"Hello. Oh no what happened to the petunias?!" She yelled

"The tattoo girl from next door fell on them." I told her

"Oh-NO!" She yelled again "I had planted those." She pouted into a chair

"I know but she was really nice about it and helped clean up."

"Ooooo, she was 'nice' huh?"

"Shut up, do you do anything other than try and set me up with different girls?"

"Did you flirt back." She said tilting her head with a grin

"No...she walked away to fast."

"So you didn't even have a chance to charm her?"

"Can you shut up, I need you to go pick up some more seeds from the store." I demanded

After working a couple hours in my studio it was my shift to work the register.

"Finally." Miller said as I entered the shop "I need some food. Some girl from next door came in here with a drawing for you, it's on the register."

"I was thinking around the lines of this for the tattoo. :) -Clarke"

I read out loud looking at the outline she had drawn, it was so gorgeous but I could never imagine myself getting something like that. But it would give me an excuse to go knot her shop, and see her.

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Hey hey y'all started a clexa fic Hope you enjoy it.

-Alyssa