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Clarke definitely hadn’t meant for this to happen. She thought it would be funny, and it was for about five seconds. But as soon as she looked at her mom’s face, she knew she had made a huge mistake.
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Clarke was not prepared for how the dinner was going so far. It was goinggood. When her mom decided that she wanted to get to know Clarke’s friends, she was expecting the most awkward hour and a half of her life, especially because Octavia extended the invitation to her annoying older brother, Bellamy. The weird thing though, they were half an hour in and it wasn’t awkward at all. Her mom joked with Raven, talked science with Monty and Jasper, and somehow found a way to make every single person at the table feel included. By this point, Clarke had let her guard down thinking nothing could go wrong. That was her first mistake.
Clarke’s whole group of friends knew about her sort of rivalry with the older Blake. They had seen just how intense their arguments could get, but knew in the end that they actually had fun with it. They liked pushing the other’s buttons. So when Bellamy got down on one knee beside the table to pick up the napkin he dropped, Clarke took the chance to pretend he was proposing to her.
“Oh my gosh, Bellamy, I- I wasn’t expecting this!” Clarke shouted as she swiftly stood up from the table, turning towards Bellamy.
“What are you tal-” Bellamy started, but was interrupted by Clarke saying, “Yes, yes, a million times yes!”
After that, Bellamy caught on to what she was doing and played along, their friends smirking at the scene they were causing. Of course, that’s because they knew none of it was real. Abby on the other hand…
“Clarke, why didn’t you tell me you were dating Bellamy? This is great! I mean, how long have I been telling you to settle down? You two are going to be so happy together, I can just tell,” Clarke’s mother had the biggest smile on her face that Clarke had seen since Jake had passed away.
Clarke felt so guilty. How was she supposed to tell her mom that it had been a joke? That her and Bellamy were probably the exact opposite of ‘in love’? She was going to hell for sure.
Good thing her and Bellamy had somehow gotten down the non-verbal communication thing, because Clarke managed to get the message across to Bellamy that they couldn’t give up the jig just yet. The look Bellamy gave her next summed up exactly how she was feeling. Nice job, this is going to be a long night.