Everything's Changed

36

Clarke woke up the next morning, alone, but her clothes were still scattered around the room. She got up and gathered them all and changed into some comfy clothes. She put on a lowcut tank and boy shorts.

Clarke made her way up to the kitchen were Raven and Octavia were. "Someone getting it on?" Raven teased Clarke.

"You can't say anything, hypocrite." Clarke shot back.

"You're right, I can't." Raven grinned. "But this is big."

"And I don't wanna make a big deal about it." Clarke said.

"The hell you don't." Raven rolled her eyes.

"Well, we leave tomorrow morning." Octavia said, changing the subject. "Sadly. What're we doing today?"

"Shopping and hanging around the cabin?" Raven said.

"Sounds like a plan."

"Cool, go get Lexa and everyone else up." Raven said, pointing to Clarke.

"Why's it gotta be me?" Clarke groaned.

"Because you're easy for people to like." Raven shrugged and Clarke trudged off.

Clarke went and got everyone up and to the kitchen, Everyone but Lexa. Lexa was nowhere to be found and it was like a game of hide n seek. "Anya, have you seen Lexa?"

"No." Anya said. "Think she went on a run."

Clarke gave her a thumbs up and went to sit on the front porch. She waited for Lexa to return to the house but she never came. Clarke would wait though. Clarke would wait a millennial for Lexa. Clarke could wait for forever.

Clarke got back into the house to see Lexa on the back porch with a cup of coffee and staring into the distance. Clarke stepped onto the back porch and sat in the rocking chair next to Lexa's.

"Hey." Clarke said.

"Morning." Lexa replied.

"Raven made a plan for the day." Clarke said. "I think we're going shopping."

"Okay." Lexa said. "I'm going to stay here. I've got some things to do."

"Do you want me to get you anything?"

"Uhm, taffy logs?"

"I think we're buying like a dozen of those boxes." Clarke said. "Got a bunch of people and we want to take them back to Arkadia with us."

"Sounds good."

"You should go."

"I have a few things to do..." Lexa trailed off.

"Just a few hours?" Clarke begged.

Lexa took a second to think. Would she rather go shopping or spend her alone time, thinking about her future. As her parent would tell her, "live in the moment." Although Lexa never really thought of that.

"Sure."

//

"Raven, I think we bought too much." Octavia groaned as they walked into the house and Abby and Marcus behind the teens.

"We can't fit it all in the car." Lexa said.

"But we have Bell's car." Raven winked.

"Typical." Bellamy rolled his eyes.

"Clarke, we're leaving. Hope you had a good birthday. I'll see you Christmas." Abby have her daughter a hug. "You guys watch out for her."

"Will do Ms. Griffin." Raven grinned.

"More like she'll be watching you." Octavia snorted and every chuckled.

"Whatever," Raven pouted. "Better start packing things up."

Everyone nodded and went their own ways to their bedrooms to pack all of their belongings into their bags. That is until Lexa knocked on Clarke's door.

"Come in."

Lexa shuffled over to Clarke in a nervous way. Like she was scared. "Uh.."

"Look, if it's about what happened last night, it's fine." Clarke said. "We probably both regret it."

"No, no never," Lexa stuttered. "I just don't know what to do now."

"Aw, the flirt is head over heels." Clarke teased.

"Shut up." Lexa blushed.

"Anyways, you were saying?"

"Uhm, maybe we could, uh, try a few more dates?" Lexa mumbled.

"I mean, if you want." Clarke grinned. "I would wait even if you wouldn't want to."

"That's too much to ask for." Lexa said.

"I'd wait a century for you." Clarke said and wrapped her arms around Lexa's waist.

"Or a lifetime." Lexa added.

"Of course." Clarke giggled.

Lexa leaned in to kiss Clarke and Clarke didn't pull away. Lexa changed her angle, deepening the kiss. "Ew, no." Raven said at the door and the two split. "You're supposed to be packing."

"Shut it." Lexa snapped and Raven just grinned.

"I love ruining sappy moments." Raven giggled.

"Go away." Clarke and Lexa chorused.

Sorry for the short chapter! I've started on the second book. This one is probably going to have ten to fifteen chapters left depending on how I plan the rest out. Next chapter is going to be Thanksgiving so like less than a month time skip and then probably pre-Christmas and then Christmas. After the Christmas chapter(s) will probably be New Years and then Lexa's birthday and graduation. The second book will be out once I finish this story. It will probably be out immediately after I finish! Thanks for reading!

-AJ