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There’s no way she can be that oblivious right? She must know. But Kara’s sure she doesn’t and suddenly that’s not ok anymore.
“Are you serious?” Kara huffs out, eyes on Alex, who looks just as surprised as Lena and Maggie by the outburst.
“What?”
“Are you not even going to comment on the fact that Lena is spending the night here again?”
Alex looks from Kara, to Lena, then back again, confusion clear on her face.”…Is she not allowed to?”
“Of course she’s allowed to,” Kara huffs out another breath. “But don’t you find it odd that she’s spending the night again?”
Alex only looks more confused. “Should I?”
“We spend nearly every night together.”
“I…okay?” Kara can tell Alex still isn’t getting it. Why is this so difficult? She needs Alex to see the truth.
“It’s not just that. She has a toothbrush here, she has clothes here. I have clothes and a toothbrush at her place too. She even has one of my hoodies!“ Kara turns to Lena with a smile on her face. “Which I totally know you stole, by the way, and I already have my eye on one of yours in return.”
Lena laughs, a fond smile on her face even if she looks slightly embarrassed. Kara reaches out and takes her hand before she turns back to Alex. “Don’t you think that’s odd for two people who are just ‘best friends’?”
“I…” Alex’s eyes dart between Kara and Lena, eyes falling to their joined hands before she looks over at Maggie who raises her eyebrows at her.
And then Kara sees it, the realisation dawn on Alex’s face, and all she can think is finally.
“And she finally gets it,” Maggie grins, voicing Kara’s thoughts. She bumps her shoulder against Alex’s. “Took you long enough.”
”What do you mean ‘it took me long enough’?”
Maggie raises her eyebrows again and Alex’s eyes flick back to Kara’s. “Wait. You thought I didn’t know that you two were dating?”
What?
“What?”
“Oh my God, is this why you kept looking at me after you two did something cute together?” Alex’s eyes dart to Lena’s, to Maggie’s, then back to Kara’s. “You think I didn’t know?”
“I….” What? There’s no way that Alex has known this whole time, is there? Surely she would’ve said something if she had. Even Maggie didn’t think she knew! “But you didn’t say anything! Even Maggie said you didn’t know!”
Maggie speaks up and she looks just as confused as Kara feels. “I asked you the other night about them. You told me they were close, you made it sound like they were just friends.”
“Of course they’re close. They were best friends before they were dating.”
“No, no, no.” Maggie says, shaking her head. “There’s no way you figured this out before me.”
Kara’s eyes go back and forth between Maggie and Alex, looking for some sort of lie, some sort of clue that they’re joking. Because, honestly? It’d make more sense for Alex and Maggie to have been playing them this whole time than for Alex to have figured it out. She sees no signs of that though, just confusion on Maggie’s face as she watches Alex.
“When did you know?” Kara cuts in. Because thinking about it now, she was the one that had argued for Alex in the first place. She was the one that had been worried that Alex would figure out she was dating Lena and it was only Maggie that had convinced her otherwise. It had been Alex’s behaviour these last couple of weeks that had caused her to believe Alex is oblivious but if she has known all this time, then she has no real evidence in the first place to support Maggie’s theory.
“Since the day you invited me out for breakfast last month. I assume you started dating sometime around then?”
Kara’s mouth falls open as she looks at Alex. “That was the day after we first kissed.”
Kara hears Maggie’s small gasp followed by a quiet “no way” but she ignores it.
“But you didn’t say anything?”
“Neither did you. I’d assumed that’s why you invited me to breakfast, to tell me you two were together. You had the biggest smile on your face and you wouldn’t stop talking about her. But then you didn’t mention anything and honestly? I thought you knew that I knew. And movie night last week proved that. You two were being so disgustingly adorable that I just assumed you were being open about being together now since Maggie was there too. I mean you still hadn’t explicitly told me but I just thought it was common knowledge. I saw tonight even Winn and James knew.” Alex pauses to look at the three other people in the room. “Did you really think I didn’t know?”
Kara looks over at Lena who squeezes her hand again. “Was I really that obvious? That day at breakfast?”
Alex smiles. “It was no secret that you had a crush on Lena.”
Kara’s mouth drops open again. Alex knew about that too? Was she that obvious? Did everyone else know? Did Lena? They hadn’t really talked about it, not beyond Kara kissing her then both of them admitting they had feelings for each other. Had Lena known their whole friendship that Kara had had feelings for her? That was a question for another time though. The focus now was on Alex.
“But,” Alex continues. “I knew that day something was different and it look me about five minutes to figure it out. She makes you happy and I could tell that something had changed between the two of you because of how much happier you were that morning. It was so obvious, I thought that was your way of telling me.”
Kara blushes. Is she really that obvious with her feelings? Or maybe Alex just knows her that well.
“Who are you and what have you done with my girlfriend?”
Alex rolls her eyes as she nudges Maggie in the side. “I know you think I’m clueless at times and maybe I am but I know Kara and there isn’t anything she can hide from me.”
Kara’s still slightly in shock as Alex turns back to her and Lena. “I’m happy for you both. I haven’t been able to say it because I was waiting for Kara to bring it up but I’m really happy for the two of you.”
“Thank you,” Lena says, giving Kara’s hand another squeeze.
Kara huffs out a breath. “I can’t believe you knew. All this time we kept wondering if you were going to realise but you knew all along!”
Alex grins, clearly proud of herself for figuring it out so quickly. “You know you could’ve just told me the truth in the first place.”
“It was more fun this way,” Maggie cuts in. “Well it was until we found out you knew all along.”
Maggie pouts as Alex presses a kiss to her cheek. “Serves you right for trying to trick me.”
“We weren’t trying to trick you!” Kara says. ”We just wanted to see if you could figure it out on your own. How long it would take. Everyone else worked it out on their own so we assumed you eventually would too.”
Alex grins. “Turns out I’m smarter than all of you.”
“I wouldn’t let it go to your head. You couldn’t figure out that barista was flirting with you even after she gave you her number.”
Alex blushes as she turns to glare at Lena. “I thought that was meant to be our secret!”
Maggie raises an eyebrow at her so she’s quick to clarify. “Not the flirting. The fact that I didn’t realise until Lena pointed it out.”
“Good.” Maggie turns back to Kara. “See, I told you your sister was oblivious.”
“But not when it comes to me,” Kara grins. It feels good to be right, about this at least. It just proves how well Alex knows her.
“Yep. Which is wonderful and all except when I can tell that you’re thinking about Lena in a less than friendly manner so now that we’re actually talking about this, I’d very much appreciate it if you could refrain from doing that around me?”
Kara’s cheeks go red and she sees Lena’s do too. The flush extends down her neck and Kara’s mind wanders for a moment and she has to look away before her thoughts can really get away from her.
The raised eyebrow that greets her when she turns back to Alex tells her she’s been caught anyway.
“And that’s our cue to leave. You two kids have fun.” Alex actually shudders when she realises what she’s just said and Maggie laughs. “Except not too much fun because…You know what. Never mind. We’re just going to leave.” She takes Maggie’s hand and practically pulls her from the apartment. “Bye! I love you! I’m happy for you both!”
The door slams shut behind them and Kara’s shocked into silence for a moment thanks to Alex’s abrupt exit. When the shock wears off, she laughs. “Well, that went better, and entirely differently, than I was expecting.”
Lena shakes her head. “I can’t believe she knew all this time.”
“Oh Rao.” Kara groans. Has her sister really been that perceptive when it comes to her? “Does that mean she’s known every time I’ve thought about you in her presence?”
Lena raises her eyebrow, a smirk on her face. “You think about me often?”
“All the time.” Kara admits with a shy grin on her face. “Even before we were together.” Then she laughs. “No wonder she left in such a hurry just now, I’ve probably traumatized her.”
Lena’s eyes widen. “Really? That often?”
Kara nods.
“And you were thinking about me just now? That’s what made her leave?”
Kara nods again.
“Care to share your thoughts?”
There’s that smirk back again, playing on Lena’s lips, and Kara wants to kiss it off. She takes a step closer to Lena. “I was just admiring the blush on your neck and thinking about kissing you there.”
Lena grins as her free hand comes up to play with the hem of Kara’s shirt. “I think you should probably get on with that then.”
Kara really loves this confident side of Lena, one that comes out when it’s just the two of them. It’s different to the confident woman that runs L-Corp. This is the confident woman whose eyes are bright and voice is warm as she smiles at Kara and Kara knows that this is someone only she gets to see.
Kara leans down slightly so her lips her hovering just over Lena’s. “I was thinking we could start here and I could work my way to your neck later.”
Lena hums in approval, her lips brushing gently against Kara’s as she speaks. “I like the sound of that.”
“Good,” Kara says before she presses her lips firmly against Lena’s, getting the kiss she was denied earlier thanks to Winn. But that doesn’t matter now, the only thing that matters is that Lena is kissing her, all other thoughts can wait.