Everything's Changed

6

Clarke had walked into the classroom for the first class of her day. She was in language Arts first. Clarke had been doing okay in language arts at her old school. Clarke was barely passing most of her classes, but that was because she couldn't think.

Her teacher, Mr. Pike, was a very laid back guy. He wasn't too strict but he took the class very seriously. He liked to joke occasionally. He had a darker skin tone and he wasn't tall for a male. He was at least five, seven or five, eight. 

"Good morning." He had said as Clarke walked into the classroom. 

"Morning," Clarke mumbled as she stopped at his desk.

"You are Clarke Griffin?" Mr. Pike asked.

Clarke nodded as Mr. Pike was going through some papers. He kept going through the papers until he stopped. 

"You will be sitting next to Lexa Woods over in the back corner." Mr. Pike said as he looked up at Clarke. Clarke nodded as if she understood. "Here are your books." Mr. Pike said as he gave her a Literature book and a notebook for notes. 

"Thank you," Clarke mumbled as she walked towards her desk in the back. 

The girl who was sitting next to her wasn't there in class yet. Clarke sat down and put her books in the book holder under the seat. Clarke had only brought a pencil but nothing else. The class started to fill up quickly after Clarke had sat down. 

The girl sitting next to her had sat down in the desk and she leaned over to someone on the other side of her. Clarke had noticed her brunette hair but she didn't know if she had run into her. Nothing came up in her brain though. 

The girl leaned over to Clarke and gave her a piece of paper. It was a small ripped off piece of paper from a notebook. It had read: I'm Lexa, you? Why had someone asked her for her name if they didn't know her? The brunette girl had to be popular.

Clarke wrote on the paper. Clarke. She handed the paper over to the girl and she instantly started to write. Clarke glanced over to see her smiling. Why was she smiling? Clarke thought. Clarke cleared her mind, trying to pay attention to the lesson. 

"Open your books to Les Miserable on page forty-five." Clarke barely heard what he had said but she did. 

Clarke opened her literature book as the girl sitting next to her passed a paper over to her. Clarke ignored it as she glanced through the chapters. There was a lot of Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe. Clarke finally turned to forty-five and looked at the paper. XXX-XXX-XXXX the paper read. It was a number. 

Why would someone give her their number? Clarke thought. She tried paying her attention back to the lesson but it was a fail. She watched as Mr. Pike was writing the assignment on the whiteboard.

Mr. Pike had dismissed the class as Clarke was gathering her books. She had only one class left for the day. It was astrology. That wasn't usual. 

Clarke had walked back to her dorm which wasn't that long of a walk. When she got to the dorm, no one was there which was a relief. Clarke entered her room as she saw a note on her bedside table. 

Hey Clarke! I hope you had a good day. Want to get lunch when we get back? XXX-XXX-XXXX ~Octavia

Clarke wasn't interested in having lunch with them but she put Octavia's number in her phone just in case. 

Me- Gonna skip out on lunch. Sorry -Clarke

Octavia- Okay, are you going to eat?

Me- Yeah, just gonna go do a few things first.

Octavia- Okay. See you later tonight? Party at Bellamy's rented house tonight if you are interested.

Me- I'll think about it

Octavia- text me if you want to go

Me- Okay, see you.

Clarke fell asleep on her bed quickly after she put her phone on the bedside table.

It was around six and Octavia and Raven were standing in Clarke's room. Clarke woke up and saw Octavia and Raven standing in her room. "What the.." Clarke's raspy voice managed to say. 

"Come on! Get up!" Octavia said happily. "We're going to Bellamy's party!" 

"I never said I was going," Clarke said as she rubbed her temples. 

"Well, you're new and people want to meet you!" Octavia said trying to convince her to change her mind. 

"I'm not a social person." 

Octavia and Raven grabbed Clarke and pulled her out of bed and got out her a decent pair of jeans and a long-sleeved crop top. Clarke sighed as they exited the room. 

She put on the black crop top with two stripes going to the sleeves. They had laid out boyfriend jeans that were barely ripped but enough to look good. She slipped the jeans on and walking into the living room.

"Let's go!" Raven shouted as she grabbed her keys and exiting the dorm, Octavia following her. 

Clarke followed right behind Octavia. They exited the building and Raven's car was parked right next to the dorm. It was a 2014 Acura NSX. It was a shiny metallic black. Clarke got into the back seat behind the passenger seat and watched them pull out of the driveway. 

Raven turned the radio on as they began to sing along loudly and carelessly. 

 "I wanna f-woop, woop woop, but I'm broken-hearted
Cr-cr-cry but I like to party
T-t-touch but I got nobody
Here on my own" 

Clarke couldn't help but laugh at their horrible singing. It was horrible to the human ear and probably worse to an animal's ears. They kept on singing and singing. For once, Clarke was having a good time.