For the Fans

Chapter Five

Freshman POV
When I woke up Lexa had gotten up and everything from movie night was cleaned up. I sat up and rubbed my eyes and my phone was full of notifications. There were several instagram dm's from LGBT accounts that I had never heard of or followed, as well as a post that Octavia had tagged me in. There were also texts from our group chat, all of which were from Octavia.

GROUP NAME: The Three Musketeers

Octavia (6:07 PM): Clarke you might hate me, but I did a thing

Octavia (6:07 PM): I mean it's not entirely my fault, but like I did a thing that you might not forgive me for

Octavia (6:07 PM): So as Raven and I were getting ready to leave, I looked over and you were cuddling with Lexa, like arm and leg around her body, her smiling in her sleep, a wholesome gay thing, so... I took a picture of it.

Octavia (6:08 PM): But I didn't just keep the picture to myself, I posted it, to my main account. AND I KNOW THAT IT WAS DUMB BECAUSE YOU BARELY KNOW HER AND I HAVE A BIG FOLLOWING

Octavia (6:08 PM): It was just so, fitting and I'm sorry

Octavia (6:49 PM): It's official the post has blown up, god Clarke I am so sorry, I have lesbian and LGBT accounts dming me, but I don't know what to say, I sent them all to you

Octavia (6:51 PM): Pls don't hate me...

This CAN'T be happening. I go onto instagram and look at Octavia's post. The caption reads: woke up to find this in adora's bed. In addition it had a pleased emoji, there were over 25 thousand likes, TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE (with some bots) LIKED HER POST?!

I shake my head "No, no no..."

I scroll through the comments. Many of which are positive such as: what a cute couple!!, ugh I want this, and even some that are asking who the two people in the picture are.

Luckily, no one had responded with Lexa's instagram, if she even had one. I go through my dm, all of them were saying that they had come from Octavia's original post and that they were wondering if they could repost it.

One of them caught my eye in particular.

FROM: @letsgo_lesbians

letsgo_lesbians: Hey there! I came right from @warrior_octa's post after she said that you were one of the people in the post. I didn't want to invade your privacy and I know how weird it can be getting dms from people that you've never met before, but I wanted to ask if there are any other photos of you and your girlfriend! I went through your account (srry if that's weird) and noticed that you didn't have any pictures together so I wanted to come directly to you. I'm a video editing account and wanted to make an edit for you guys, as long as I have your permission. I totally get if not, but I thought it would be fun for me.

I sat there for a moment pondering, I only had one other photo of Lexa and I from earlier that day, there was nothing else.

Lexa walked in and looked at me, smiling. She had a bag of food in her hand and raised it up, "Food's here!"

What if I got Lexa on board with this and she agreed to be my fake girlfriend?

"Lexa, something happened," She looked at me confused, "Octavia is a social media influencer and while we were sleeping she took this picture, but it blew up. People think that we're together, I haven't responded to anything because I didn't know how to"

She just looked at me and shook her head, "Have her take down the photo."

I pull out my phone and show her the post and all the dms that I had gotten. She just sits in the chair in silence. She twiddles her thumbs, not making eye contact with me.

"At this point there's no way taking it down is going to do anything, I've gone through some accounts that liked the photo and it's already been reposted," I sigh "I'm so sorry Lexa."

She doesn't say anything, just sits there staring down at her lap.

After a couple minutes, she breaks the silence.

"So what do we do," She finally looks up at me.

"What if we faked it," I feel myself blushing, if I wasn't already embarrassed, I was now.

Soccer Player POV

How could something like this happen. The one time I'm actually starting to like a girl the entire relationship is going to get ruined.

"Clarke there's something that I have to tell you, before we decide on that," Don't do this you idiot, she's going to hate you forever

She looks at me.

"What is it?" Her voice is so soothing, like if she whispered sweet words it would put me right to sleep.

"I-" I stop myself

If I tell her now, she won't want to fake it, or do anything at all for that matter. She'll avoid me for the rest of the year and it will become the most awkward situation.

"Nevermind that, ignore me." I take a deep breath, at least a fake relationship would be better than ruining something that we have now. "How do we fake it. What are the rules, the circumstances, how far do we have to go to get people to believe us?"

After planning out how our relationship would work we drafted a short agreement, so we wouldn't go behind each others backs.

RULES AND REGULATIONS

Both of us are allowed to be in other relationships and see other people if we feel like it so that way we aren't restricted romantically or sexually
- One picture to display relationship on preferred social media once or twice a week
- Never tell anyone about relationship being fake
- Public displays of affection (PDA) when in public, but within the dorm everything can go back to normal
- PDA must occur at parties
- At the end of the school year, relationship ends, there's a clean break-up and we can remain friends
- No responding to dms regarding relationship without knowledge of the other person
- No using relationship for personal gain or business endeavor

X_LEXA__WOODS X_CLARKE__GRIFFIN

"Is this even going to work?" I ask

"At this point, parts of the school have probably seen the photo and if anything goes south we can just call it off," Clarke says standing right in front of my chair

"Do we even need to do this? Can't we just come out and say like we're just friends, just roommates?" She sighs and thinks for a moment.

"I think it would be fun to string everyone along, no?" String everyone along, including me.

"You make a fair bargain, you have my word Clarke." I smile a bit.

Although initially we said no personal gain, maybe a fake girlfriend wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.