Everything's Changed

42

Lexa woke early the next morning, only because she was on a different time zone. The three hour time difference still didn't matter. It was ten back home and only seven in San Francisco.

Lexa got up out of bed and grabbed her phone off of her nightstand, stepping over Clarke to get out of her room. Once she was done with that, she headed to the bathroom across the hallway to brush her teeth and wash her face.

As she walked, she checked her phone for messages. Luckily she had very few notifications- a few from the group chat and a few from Anya.

Anya- Morning, u leaving tonight?

Lexa sat her phone down and got her toothbrush and toothpaste out of the drawer and typed in a response quickly.

Lexa- no. we leave tmr morning

She shut her phone and finished brushing her teeth. Then getting a washcloth out of the closet and started washing her face.

Anya- So, plans?

Once Lexa finished, she picked her phone up and walked through the hallways as she looked at her phone. She never hit a corner, knowing her way around the house so well. She chuckled and whispered to herself "You'll never guess."

Once Lexa got to the end of the staircase, she turned the corner into the kitchen. She was surprised to see her mother sitting at the counter with a cup of coffee and her laptop, not surprising though. Lexa shut her phone off and sat it on the counter, hoping to catch her mother's attention.

She looked up from her laptop screen to see Lexa. She took a sip of coffee and went back to her work. Lexa cleared her throat, still hoping to get her mother's attention.

"What?" The annoyed tone came.

"I was just saying morning." Lexa said in a calm tone, as she was taught. She was to never raise her voice at her parents because that's how she was taught. It was like being the child of a parent who works for a very important and very dangerous, feared man and when they joined for dinner, you had to be on your best behavior.

"Well, off you go." Indra glared.

Lexa took a seat across from her mother at the dinning table and leaned on the table. "I wanted to tell you I'm leaving tomorrow."

"I think I have got that concept."

"Is father going to be back tonight?" Lexa asked with a slight of hope.

"He should be."

"Good, because I want Clarke to meet him." Lexa smiled a bit.

"Your father strongly dislikes the Griffins as much do I. They're a bad family with much debt to pay and they owe much to our family and many other families. They're part of a bad gang that murders and they pay other assassins outside of the gang to kill, to not leave a trace of their gang behind." Indra said in a icy tone.

"I know you're only talking about her father." Lexa said.

"Her mother is also in debt to us."

"How does father know them?" Lexa asked.

"Your father was starting out in the filming business, as you should know, and then Jake, Griffin's father, was also in the film business at first too." Indra started. "He was also in the gang too, due to his father. Jake and your father became pretty close in working together on this project. Things led on and there was an affair between him and Jake that was not intentional and this was when I met your father and we started dating. Jake hadn't forced it or anything, they were both drunk, but then Jake used that opening to steal money from your father and then he threatened to murder all that was valuable to your father."

"That's a lot to take in." Lexa sighed. "You know what happened afterwards?"

"Yeah, we had kept watch on him after the threats ended, which went on for five months. He had found a woman, Abigail Griffin, and left his father's gang to be with this woman. He was killed five years after his daughter was born. Rammed by a Sim-I, only killing him, intentionally."

"That's dark. Do they still owe debts?"

"That's not a discussion for now."

"But..."

"ALEXANDRIA, ENOUGH!" Indra shouted.

//

Lexa had the windows rolled down as she rested her right arm onto the door and the other hand on the steering wheel. The music was blaring loudly on a class-rock station as both girls sat silently, thinking deeply.

Before Clarke knew, they had parked, off the road. "Why are we parked off the road?"

"It's a surprise." Lexa smirked.

"You're not going to kill me?" Clarke raised a brow.

"No." Lexa chuckled and grabbed a blanket from the trunk. "Come on, follow me."

Clarke followed Lexa down the gravel trail that lead into a clearing that seemed to be overlooking the city of San Francisco. The sun was setting and it was definitely a beautiful sight. Lexa laid the blanket down on the grass and laid on it. Clarke joined Lexa, only sitting crisscrossed.

"You know, our fathers had an affair." Lexa chuckled, breaking the silence.

Clarke looked at her wide-eyed and only Lexa could laugh at the expression. "It was before your father met your mother."

"Haha, my father had sex with your father." Clarke stuck her tongue out at Lexa.

"Ew, you made it sound worse than it is." Lexa scrunched up her nose.

"That's what I'm here for."

"And here I thought you were here because of me." Lexa made a hurt look.

"Of course I am, I'm just joking around."

"Good because I have a question for you."

"And that shall be?" Clarke asked.

Lexa sat in silence for a second, leaving Clarke a bit curious. "Lex, you there?'

"Yup." Lexa nodded. "But, when we had sex..."

"Oh good lord." Clarke groaned.

"No, listen." Lexa chuckled. "Were you sexually frustrated?"

"OH MY GOD." Clarke started laughing as her face turned red.

"I'm just kidding." Lexa laughed at her. "Although that was cute."

"Was not." Clarke said, still flushed.

"Okay, here's the real question..." Lexa said. "WILL."

"Will what?"

"You."

"Be"

"My"

"Girlfriend?"

Clarke nodded and responded with a kiss. "You could've just like asked me normally."

"I know, it was just funny.

//

"Lexa!" Her mother called from the kitchen.

Lexa walked into the kitchen, Clarke trailing behind her. When she saw her father sitting at the dinning table, her eyes went wide. She was happy, but not.

When her father noticed Clarke, he could only nod. "We'll talk before you leave tomorrow, alone."