Our Journey (the Fourth Book in the Her Weakness series)

Chapter 83

Clarke's POV

Lexa and I shoo Octavia out of our room and get dressed. I walk over to her when I finish, silently helping her put on the rest of her clothes. Lexa looks up and meets my eyes.

"Clarke?" She murmurs. "What is a bachelorette party?"

I sigh. "I don't know what Octavia and Raven are going to do, but essentially it's a party celebrating the end to your unmarried life. Usually if it's a male and a female, there'll be a bachelor party for the guy and a bachelorette party for the girl. But since we're both women, we both get bachelorette parties."

Lexa's brows furrow. "For the male and female ones, you have implied that they are separate parties. Does this mean we will be separated?"

I take Lexa's hand in mine. "I won't let that happen, babe. I promise."

I hold the door to our temporary bedroom open for my beautiful fiancée, who kisses my cheek in thanks as she passes me. Octavia and Raven are waiting outside our bedroom, leaning against a wall, talking. They perk up when they hear us and I narrow my eyes suspiciously. We hadn't even mentioned wanting a bachelorette party, yet here we are. That means either they have something up their sleeve, or they're planning on getting us so wasted that we barely remember today and have monster headaches tomorrow. Or both. Knowing them, it's probably a mixture of both. Especially since neither of them have stopped grinning.

"What are you guys up to?" I ask, reaching out and taking Lexa's hand.

"Nothing," Raven says unconvincingly.

I hum disbelievingly. "You aren't planning on splitting us up, are you?"

Raven shakes her head. "Nope! We know that you love nerds would hate to be separated, so we decided not to even bother. Now come on, let's get going."

I give her a searching look. "Why are you in such a hurry?"

"Um. Monty and Jasper made the good stuff."

"Oh Gods," I groan. "The last time I drank that I couldn't remember half the day. And I only drank it that night!"

Raven grins widely. "That's what makes it the good stuff. Anyway, we have a surprise for you!"

I give her a searching look. "The kind of surprise that we actually want or...?"

"You'll love it," Raven says confidently.

I hum, not quite believing her but knowing she believes herself. She and Octavia lead us out to the woods, which I find suspicious but Lexa just shrugs when I give her a look.

We get to a clearing in the woods, where some of our friends are gathered. Including people from the hundred, as well as Lincoln, Nix, and Ryder, and some others from our travels. To our surprise, that includes Luna.

"Luna!" Lexa says, a smile lighting up her face as she hugs her older sister. "It is good to see you! I did not think you were coming until tomorrow!"

"And miss my strisis (little sister) getting drunk with her soon-to-be houmon (partner, wife)? Of course I came early." Luna winks. "And I wanted to see your reaction to what Raven and Octavia have quite originally been calling 'the surprise.' "

"What else could we call it without giving it away?" Raven retorts.

"Pretty much anything. There is nothing that would give this surprise away," Luna deadpans.

"She's right Rae," Octavia says. "This isn't exactly something that any of us expected, I doubt it's even a possibility on their minds."

"... Like the possibility of this party being normal and not something that we won't remember tomorrow?" I suggest almost hopefully.

"Nope! We're all getting hella wasted tonight! That's actually how we convinced Nix to come. She wasn't sure you guys would want her here, but she did want to try this Skaikru drink we said would knock her out if she drank too much."

"Bell! Light the fire and lets get this party started!" Octavia shouts at her brother.

"I'm not that far, you don't have to shout." Bellamy sighs as the Skaikru kids begin to cheer at Octavia's words.

He lights the large, intricate pile of sticks. It's a bonfire in moments and the light and heat is unnecessary, as it's not that cold and during the day, but it's still beautiful. I know Lexa likes fires too.

"When will this surprise be revealed?" I ask Octavia as Jasper and Monty start passing out drinks. They have piqued my curiosity.

"Soon, probably?" Octavia shrugs and looks to Raven.

Raven nods. "Soon." She looks into the trees and smirks. "Very soon. Prepare to be amazed."

"Oh my gods. Raven, did you hire a magician?" I sigh.

"No, but that's an amazing idea. Why didn't we think of that?" Raven pouts at Octavia.

"We can do that when we have our bachelorette party." Octavia says, nudging Raven, who grins widely at her.

"And strippers?"

"You know it!" Octavia says and high fives her.

"Do we have to go?" I ask. I don't really want to see strippers. The only person I want to see is Lexa.

Octavia must be able to read my expression. "Yup! Just because we can't order from the menu doesn't mean we don't get to admire the dishes!"

Raven nods and then she must see something in the distance because she points. "See! There's the surprise now, coming this way!"

Octavia covers my eyes when I try to look and I protest, but she keeps her hands over my eyes. Lexa makes a surprised noise, so I guess Raven must be doing the same for her.

I hear someone walking towards us, and the people around us are still partying so it probably isn't someone here to do anything weird. Hopefully.

"Okay, open your eyes!" Raven says as Octavia removes her hands.

I blink my eyes open. My mouth falls open, my heart leaping to my throat. How in the world?

"Anya?" Lexa asks softly, her voice breaking.

Next chapter, more of this! Anya's back, like I said :D I wouldn't tease you guys like that. Next chapter, we'll get to where they talk about how she survived! Now I'm off to go on Tumblr and low-key panic about babysitting for the first time in... An hour and a half! Thank you all for reading and for your amazing comments! Stay awesome!