Everything's Changed

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They all sat on the couch on the main floor, talking and drinking. The laughing and story-telling felt as if it'd never end. Clarke was laughing a lot and Jasper and Monty noticed. They were happy that Clarke was getting back to her old self. Things went downhill, slowly, after her father passed. Then there was Cage.

"Ok, now that we're all like half drunk, seven minutes in heaven time." Anya slurred.

"Sure." Octavia said. "But you're like completely drunk."

"Pshh, nahhhh." Anya giggled.

"She's drunk." Lincoln and Lexa deadpanned.

They all gathered around in a circle, on the floor, knee to knee. Bellamy grabbed an empty beer bottle and sat it in the middle of their lopsided circle. "Birthday girl spins first."

"One, birthday isn't until Wednesday. Two, curse the birthday excuse." Clarke groaned and spun the bottle.

The bottle span around and around. Clarke was hoping it would be Raven or Octavia, knowing they'd just laugh the entire time. She also knew they were dating and no one would try to make a move. The bottle slowed it's spinning motion and landed on Lexa. The bottle was almost pointing at Lincoln but it was pointed, just barely, at Lexa.

Clarke internally groaned and chugged down the last half of her Bud Light. She got up and so did Lexa, walking into one of the main floor bedrooms. Once they entered, Lexa shut the door and turned the lights on.

Clarke turned her phone on and started the timer. "Okay, how does this game work?"

"I'm a first time player too." Lexa sighed. "Don't ask me."

"Well, we could play twenty questions." Clarke said and jumped onto the bed, crossing her legs.

"Sure." Lexa said and crawled onto the bed, facing Clarke and crossed her legs.

"What's you're favorite color?" Lexa asked.

"Forest green." Clarke said. "Always loved that color. It was my dad's favorite too. What's yours?"

"Blue." Lexa said. "The color of the ocean."

"Uhm, favorite band?" Clarke shrugged.

"Guns N Roses." Lexa said. "You?"

"I'm more of a Pink Floyd or AC/DC person but Twenty One Pilots and Panic at the Disco is fine."

"I could stand the last two for a while and then my mind would be internally screaming." Lexa said as Clarke chuckled. "Favorite meal?"

"I love my mom's homemade lasagna."

"Squid salad with grilled shrimp, California rolls, and rice is the best."

"An Asian food person, aye?" Clarke raised a brow and Lexa nodded.

They sat there in silence and Clarke looked at her phone. 5:07 left. They've only been in there for two minutes and she was already freaking out. She had no idea what else to say. Then her mind went back to Halloween, Jasper's party.

Flashback:

Clarke sat out on Jasper's back porch with a bottle of Monty's moonshine. She was remembering things she didn't want to remember. Yes, she gave advice not to drink the moonshine but yet she broke her advice. She wanted to clear her mind with the moonshine, but it didn't help at all.

Clarke finished the bottle of moonshine and threw it into the creek and heard the glass bottle shatter on the rocky outline of the lake. She grabbed the next bottle and took a sip. It wasn't moonshine but it was peach wine that Jasper's girlfriend, Maya, brought.