20 - SURPRISE

"It's so beautiful here."

They finally got at the top of the waterfall. The whole group stood on the right side of the water, looking at the beautiful view.

"O, can you take a photo of us?" Clarke looked hopefully at Octavia and handed her phone as she nodded.

Clarke and Lexa stood at the end of the rock, but in the way that they were still safe from falling down. They stood there just looking at the view and holding hands as Octavia took a position behind them, trying to take the best shot that would show the perfect look for the view.

As Octavia told them that the picture was ready, they decided to changed the position for another one. Octavia walked a bit closer to them, while they turned to her, but not completely, only their sides were shown. They slowly started to leaning in to a kiss, so that Octavia would take also a photo of their faces really close not only on each other.

But before Octavia could find some good position Ms. Simons came between them interrupting the photo shoot.

"I could've agreed on hands, but I won't agree for this. It's a sin and I won't allow it on this trip." She got between Clarke and Lexa, harshly ripping them off. Octavia totally shocked just stared at her, but this time Lexa decided to fight her teacher.

"You're agreeing on Octavia and Lincoln doing such a shots, but we can't?" For the first time Lexa exploded from the hate that Simons kept putting in them.

"It's because they're normal," she pointed at Octavia behind her, not even looking at her. "You both are not."

Her shouts dragged the attention of a whole trip. As Ms. Simons was the only one who got on the waterfall no one was there to stop her. Still, behind Clarke and Lexa gathered their friends, just next to them Raven and Luna. "You too," she pointed at them, looking disgusted.

"They are as normal as I or Lincoln," Octavia finally joined the discussion. She couldn't bare Ms. Simons bullying them all the time anymore. "You are a teacher. You should set a good example." Octavia stood in front of her friends. "Perhaps our principal would want to know that he hires a homophobe."

Ms. Simons opened her mouth in shock. Then closed it, opened again to just walk away from them and announced that the trip was coming back. The students weren't happy about it, but they didn't dare to complain, neither to the teacher or the group.

Lexa and Clarke hugged Octavia tightly, thanking her.

"I won't just stand anymore watching her bully you. Now take each other's hands and let's go, cause I'm hungry and the dinner is waiting for me."

They all burst out laughing from her.

***

"SURPRISE!" They all screamed as Octavia with Lincoln entered the door.

Octavia stopped, clearly shocked, and just stared at them. The tears showed up on her face and big smile rose on it. She looked at Lincoln and then walked to her friends for a hug.

"I can't believe it." She looked all around. "I thought you guys forgot."

Raven laughed. "Could we ever?" She took something from behind her. It was a small box. She handed it to Octavia. She took it and before unpacking it, she pulled her friend again. Raven smiled and wiped her tears. "Unpack it!" She grinned excited.

Everyone took some seat as Octavia stood at the center of the room. One last time she looked at Raven and started unpacking it. As she was the only one who could see it she just frowned and looked at Raven, narrowing her eyebrows even more.

"Is that..." she took it out and showed us. "Is that a... what even is that?"

Raven stood up and walked to her. She took the thing from her.

"It's like many different tools in one." Raven grinned at her, proud of her idea.

Octavia stared at it for a moment, confused. After a seconds she just smiled and pulled Raven in to another hug.

"I don't know how to use it and I probably won't need to, but I love it. Thank you, Rae!"

As none of them forgot about Octavia's birthday and they all had some presents for her, they spend their whole time till the dinner watching Octavia unpack presents and then they just talked, having some fun as much as they could, considering they had like half an hour plus not so big room.

Eventually they had to go to restaurant. The dinner was good and after it they had like ten minutes to take everything they needed for a small trip to the city next to them.

The road took them only twenty minutes and they all got out of the bus.

"Alright kids. Attention for a moment." Ms. Simons stood in front of a big group of all students. "You're gonna pair up for a groups counting at least two persons and with this group walk around the city. Does everyone understand me?" As everyone slowly, quite bored nodded she continued. "Good. Assembly is within an hour." She looked at students for a slight moment, clearly avoiding the group and walked to other teachers.

"What are we gonna do?" Octavia looked at all of them, smiling excited.

Lexa and Clarke looked at each other for a second.

"I think we're gonna start alone..." Clarke smiled, but as she noticed Octavia's not so happy expression she added quickly, "but we're gonna catch up."

Lexa put an arm around Clarke. "No worries," she added and smiled to.

"Alright, lovebirds. Go enjoy each other." Octavia nodded and they walked away.

Slowly walking through the city, holding hands they just admired the view of it. The girls decided to buy something for Abby and then find their friends again.

"I don't know, Klork... Maybe this calendar?" Lexa took one and showed it to the blonde.

Clarke took it and looked through all twelve pages. She nodded.

"It is beautiful... and mum was actually complaining that she'll need one." She stared at Lexa. "You think, she'll like it?"

Lexa smiled. "It's your mum, Klork."

Clarke chuckled. "Come on. You've been living with us for three months."

"I think she'll love it."

Clarke nodded and they headed to the cashier. But peace was not given to them as they turned around and saw Finn.

"Well, well, well. Look at you, two." He smirked.

They both sighed. "Just let us be, Finn." And they pasted him. The girls actually thought that he really let them be. He wasn't as easy. They did pay for the calendar and got out of the shop, but on the street he approached them again.

"Where do you think you're going?" He stopped just in front of them.

"To McDonald's. That's where." Clarke angrily tried to move him, but Finn was too big for her.

"Come on, Clarke." He put his hands in the air, laughing. He sounded like some psychopath. Seriously. It wasn't the Finn that Clarke was with before. "We had some good time together." He took a step to Clarke, but Lexa slipped in between them. "See?" he asked, and looked at Clarke through Lexa. "Your girlfriend is willing."

Lexa's jaw clenched.

"I swear to god, back off..." she mumbled, quietly, and slightly pushed him away.

He looked shocked at his torso where her hands landed. He stared at her for a few seconds and wanted to push her back, but she swang in the way that he missed.

"Finn, I'm warning you."

Her voice was quiet, but serious. Clarke has not heard it before, as Lexa didn't have to use it. It might scare her a bit in a normal situation, but now she was quite impressed. She didn't know that her girlfriend was capable of it. She sounded like she could hurt Finn in any second, really easily.

Finn seemed like someone just took control over his body.

On the warning he didn't back off as requested. He smiled lunatically. He started getting closer to them. Lexa didn't hesitate for a second. Her hand formed in a fist, like her mother taught her years ago, and perfectly hit the bottom of his jaw. He felled on the ground. His mouth started bleeding uncontrollably, but it worked. He stayed on the ground, looking at her in a horror. Unfortunately, Finn wasn't the only one who was looking at them.

As Lexa grabbed Clarke's hand and wanted to come back to their friends she suddenly stopped, as she noticed the person in front of them. Miss Simons.