Beyond Our Horizon

Chapter 2 - Practice

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Clarke is seated in her final class of the day, English. She enjoys this subject a lot but not as much as art. Her art classes are every other day so today there wasn't one.

The teacher, Ms. Anya stands at the front of the room explaining proper punctuation. Though Clarke is trying hard to pay attention, she can't help but let her eyes wander around the room. She sees Murphy in the back of the class chewing on his pencil. Gross. On the wall, there is a poster of a forest with big white words that read We Are Grounders. Clarke isn't sure what it means but couldn't care to ask the teacher the reason behind it. On Clarke's right sits Octavia and Raven. The two are passing notes back and forth like third graders with hundreds of secrets. Clarke smiles remembering the days before homework and the stress of tests.

Seeing her other friends in class is nice, but the thing that really interests Clarke is Lexa. This is the only class the two have together. Lexa has seated two rows to Clarke's left at the front of the room. Clarke can't stop thinking about what she might have seen at lunch. Had Lexa blushed or was that just her imagination? The brunette is facing forward and looks to be paying attention to Ms. Anya. Clarke follows suit. Might as well try to listen.

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The bell rings waking the class up from their daze. Murphy bolts up from his chair and is out of the room before anyone else is out of their seat. The room snickers quietly as Ms. Anya dismisses them all, shaking her head slightly. Clarke chuckles and exits the room with Raven and Octavia who are both holding hands. After the trio grabs their backpacks and jackets from their lockers, they make their way through the school to the back door. Out there is the field where the lacrosse practice will be. "See you guys later," Octavia says as she gives Raven a quick kiss and walks in the direction of the locker room.

The girls head towards the bleachers where they can already see Bellamy, Emori, and of course Murphy. He was really eager to make it out of that classroom. All the other seats are empty. No one comes to the lacrosse practices.

"Coming through!"

Clarke and Raven turn just as Jasper comes crashing between them with Maya in tow. "Well, she finally caved," Raven whispers to Clarke. Maya looks back at the two girls with a small smile on her face, which makes all three of them burst out laughing. Raven and Clarke follow behind and make it to the bleachers. They all take their seats as Monty and Harper arrive.

"Hey, loves birds!" Jasper shouts to them.

"Look who's talking. I see she finally caved," Monty returns.

"That's what I said!" Raven laughs.

"Oh come on, he's cute and has liked me since 7th grade," Maya replies.

"How did you know that I liked you in 7th grade!" Jasper looks wide-eyed at Maya. She slowly turns towards Murphy and Raven. "You guys really can't keep your mouths shut, can you?"

"No sir," Raven and Murphy reply in unison. Just as they say that the lacrosse team start making their way onto the grass with their sticks in hand, and to Clarke's delight half the team were wearing sports bras. She quickly scans the field searching for Lexa. Clarke takes a short glance at Raven who is watching the team, on second thought, probably just Octavia.

The team huddles around the coach, Ms. Indra, as they get their instructions for the day's practice. That's when Clarke finds Lexa standing behind some girls. The brunette is also in a sports bra. Clarke can feel her cheeks blush and look down to hide it. Her mind jumps back to lunch when Lexa blushed. If she even blushed. Does that mean Lexa likes her? Clarke already knows Lexa is gay. Some rumours were going around last year and Octavia did Clarke the great favour of asking Lexa the truth one-day during lacrosse practice. But even if Lexa is into girls. Would she ever like Clarke?

A/N  Hey guys. Sorry for updating so late! I couldn't find the motivation to write more but I will try to now. If anyone has any plot ideas, ships, or characters you want to see just let me know. <3