Hey Princess

Cue The Alarms

This is a chapter with a little less Clexa (of course there's some, but that doesn't make up the whole chapter). There's a lot of the Raven and Anya ship and the Woods sister relationship. 

Lexa POV

"I'm serious! It's like, a real thing where if producers want to kill off a character it's going to be the gay character. It helps if they have a partner so that the shock value will be higher. It's called the Bury Your Gays Trope, look it up I swear," she rants. Her face has gone slightly pink from too much passion and not enough air. She looks adorable, waving her arms wildly trying to convey her point. She's been doing this all through class and she's continuing the discussion through our walk back. I don't mind in the slightest.

"I just don't think that's a thing. The showrunners would want to strategically kill off characters, not just the gay ones," I respond back. Secretly, I think she convinced me thirty minutes ago but I have an act to keep up. So I play up my denial which only makes her more determined.

"Remind me to show you the Autostraddle article. And Buffy The Vampire Slayer," she says with a tone of finality. I just shrug and laugh quietly. She looks up at my face and starts laughing too. I stop at her locker, disappointed that we've gotten here so quickly. Damn my long legs.

"Have fun at lunch," I say, trying to mask how much I'm going to miss her.

"You could always join us..." she leaves the invite hanging in the air.

"You know I can't," I respond back ruefully.

"I know."

We continue to just look at each other, with unsaid regrets bouncing back and forth between us. I look around the hallway. It's completely empty so I make a rash decision. I lean in and kiss her very quickly on the lips. As I go to pull my head back, she quickly moves her arms around my waist, keeping me close to her. I stay there for a second but eventually have to pull back.

I turn on my heel and walk away, towards the cafeteria and away from my happy place. I sit down next to Anya and silently begin to eat my sandwich. I tune out the conversation, opting instead to put in earbuds and daydream of a world where I could eat lunch with Clarke.

I feel a sharp tap on my shoulder and turn my head to see Anya giving me a concerned look. I pull out an earbud and hear her ask, "Are you ok?"

I nod in response but put my headphones back in and continue daydreaming. I appreciate Anya's concern but I can't actually give her an honest response.

Suddenly I feel a sort of tension crackle through the air. I look up to see the source of the commotion. It's one of the Ark girls, Raven, I remember her being friends with Clarke. Clarke obviously has a close bond with her, so I'm interested to see why she's here. I pause my music right as she's walking up to me. No wait, not me, she's walking up to Anya.

"Hey Anya," she says, almost nervously. I glance over at Clarke and she's grinning. Now I'm confused. What's happening?

"Yes, small bird?" Anya says with the famous Woods Family Smirk™ and Raven laughs. It seems like this is an inside joke between the two of them.

"So I was wondering since you're my official Grounder tour guide, would you would want to guide me to a party on Friday at Octavia's house?"

Ah, so that's why she was so nervous. And probably also why Clarke was so worried about being the only single one. Was that the only reason she asked me? Because her friends were all doing it? Am I just the latest "in" fashion trend? Instead of shoes or puppies, bring your Grounder to your next social occasion??

No stop doubting yourself, Lexa. The kiss you shared, that was not nothing. These feelings are mutual. Just keep telling yourself that. Don't start the doubt. Not like last time.

I glance back to the scene and Anya seems a little shocked and I can almost see a smile break through her serious expression that seems to always be in place when she's in a possibly vulnerable situation.

"Well I guess if you don't have an adult guardian there then you'll get into lots of trouble," she teases.

"Who said I won't get you into trouble," Raven says, raising an eyebrow suggestively. I clear my throat and lean my head subtlety, gesturing to all of the other people uncomfortably listening to the banter. Anya's face flushes but Raven just laughs it off.

"I'll text you the details later Grandma, if you can figure out how to work your cellular telephone. By the way, I'm wearing red, so if you want us to look classy I recommend you try to coordinate," she says and walks victoriously back to the Ark table. Maybe now that Anya has a date, I can tell her about my own.

"That means you're on Aden duty Friday," Anya whispers, leaning closer to me to avoid our little brother. 

"Sorry, no can do," I reply, ending my debate about whether I should tell her now or just show up to the party and surprise her. 

"No can do?"

"I might've gotten an invite to the party already," I say cautiously.

"Would you look at that, my little sister almost has more game than me. So when's Clarke picking you up? Do you think she'll want to go with Raven and me?" she says, not even hesitating at the fact that after almost a year of not even speaking of emotions I just got asked out and said yes. 

"Why do you assume it's Clarke?" I say, slightly awed at my sister's perceptiveness.

"Because I have eyes dumbass. And so do you. You wanna know how I know you have eyes? Because you're always aiming your heart eyes in the direction of that Arker. You may not have feelings a lot but when you do you are not subtle," she laughs. 

"Ugh, fine you got me. So what're we gonna do about the littlest Woods?" I ask, changing the subject. We glance over to see him shoveling school "mystery meat" into his mouth. He looks like an animal. A small, adorable, harmless animal. 

"Well if we bring him along we'll have to supervise him the whole time. And I don't know what clean, wholesome activities you and Clarke think you get up to, but I'm pretty sure we're all going to be a little... busy," Anya reasons.

"How about we get Lincoln to look after him?"

"No go. Octavia asked Lincoln to go to the party a little while before you came in for lunch. But she did it privately, which is better than what just happened with Raven," Anya says disapprovingly.

"You love it," I laugh at her. 

"Repeat that and I'll make Aden supervise you the whole Friday night," she threatens back.

"Sorry mom," I apologize playfully.

She shakes her head in fake frustration. I nudge her shoulder and we both crack up. This is the most I've smiled in a while. I've got an amazing girl who seems for some reason to be into me and my sister is accepting my new feelings after such a long break. Of course, I should know better than to even think about being happy because-

*Cue the alarms blaring around school interrupting both my happiness and my thought process*

Guess what? I updated. Because instead of studying for my finals I decided to do this. Hope it was worth it!