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Lena opened the door to Kara’s apartment with her spare key and was engulfed with a tight hug as soon as she stepped inside.
“Hi darling. Sorry I’m late.” She hugged back trying to close the door that was still wide open.
“It’s okay. I missed you.” Kara said with a pout still evident on her tone and sighed in relief as she nuzzled herself on long dark hair.
“I missed you too Kara. I’m sure they all want to be here if they could.” She reassures her as she pulled back a little, gently caressing Kara’s cheek with her thumb.
Kara nuzzled herself back to Lena’s shoulder and said with a huff, “Says the one who literally just got back from a business trip. Thank you, but you’re tired, we can just---”
“I wouldn’t miss this for the world.” She says in a beat. Still holding her best friend who seems to forget that friends don’t intimately hug each other this long. Not that Lena’s complaining anyway.
It was probably how Lena was slumping forward Kara that made her think she’s tired. Several meetings with old misogynists and proving them wrong every day for a week can do that.
But as exhausted as she was, when she received a message from her best friend that the rest of the gang won’t be able to make it, she made sure she was dropped off directly at the blonde’s apartment as soon as she arrived.
She may be tired but being there for Kara who’s acting like a kicked puppy for not having their friends over was worth it. Being held by the strong blonde like she clung to her for life felt home and she’d choose this over her thousand-dollar mattress any day.
Kara smiled and squeezed her one last time before leading her to the couch, “I’ll get you some clothes. I can’t concentrate if you look like that.” She gestured shyly to Lena’s three-piece suit.
Lena raised her brow in question, her lip slightly raising in the corner “ A Super distracted by a Luthor in a suit, what would the news say?.”
“Oh, shut up.” Kara answered with an eyeroll as she continued her way to her room.
Kara returned in a gust of wind holding a pair of sweatpants and NCU hoodie, “Take your clothes off then we can get started.”
It’s a little too late when she realized how that sounded and the smirk Lena is sending her way told her she won’t get away with it.
“My, Kara Danvers I didn’t know you want to be that in charge.
“Th-that’s not---I mean---”
“Relax darling. I was just teasing.” Lena grinned with a glint in her eyes and continued to unbutton her suit on the couch.
Realizing that her genius best friend is going to strip right in front of her, Kara’s blue eyes grew wide and frantically looked away and clarified. ”Lena, go change in the room or something, not here!” Oh Rao.
The blush she knew was creeping up her neck won’t go away anytime soon, and she knew the CEO was having too much fun with this.
Lena just shrugged and continued to unbutton her shirt “You have X-Ray vision; you can see me changing anyway.”
Kara huffed turning her back completely away from her friend just to find herself looking at the mirror across the room. The very same mirror that was reflecting her half undressed best friend.
Oh Rao no.
Kara groans internally and closes her eyes shut as she tried to calm herself down. Lena is going to be the death of her.
No matter how frequent the teasing is, Lena never failed to catch her off guard. None of it helping in toning down the pining for months now.
“Ready?”
She opened her eyes not because of the question itself, but because of how close it was to her ear and how Lena is currently hugging her from behind, body pressed firmly at her back.
“I---uhh---” Kara melting right there with how cozy her best friend was leaning her head on her shoulder.
“Come on Supergirl, let’s get you fed.” She whispered to her ear softly and left Kara standing in the living room as red as a tomato.
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“I can’t believe Winn missed out on this.” Lena muttered as she aligned the camera towards the dining table.
The area the camera was framing was made sure to be void of any pictures or belongings that could easily point out whose place it was.
Kara in her Supergirl suit squealing in excitement as she looked at the food sprawled on the entire table, all reserved just for her.
“He can just mope once it’s out anyway. It’s Supergirl’s first Mukbang Video!” Kara squealed as she stopped herself from reaching over the feast in front of her with grabby hands.
It’s these kinds of moments that Lena finds herself enthralled with the silliest things her best friend does that makes her not-so-platonic feelings grow even further.
Whether it’s crying over puppies or Supergirl being caught excited for cotton candy, It’s just a lost case, really. She’s long over the desire to get rid of the butterflies going wild on her stomach whenever she’s with Kara. Anything Kara does just makes her heart swell.
She’s looking at her caped friend through the camera and catching herself smiling as she does.
“Hey.”
“Hi.”
“Uhmm…why are you smiling?” the blonde asked the CEO as she continued to sit across the table.
Kara’s cheeks were dusted pink as she tried to distract herself with the feast in front of her.
She got caught. Nothing more embarrassing than playing dumb after being caught red handed anyway.
One of the things Lena does best is making it look she’s not even fazed despite of the drum of her heartbeat ringing in her ears.
“…Nothing.”
You. Is what she was planning on saying but her mind did a last-minute U-turn.
Supergirl holding her chopsticks grinned at the lens knowing Lena’s looking, “Really? Your heartbeat says otherwise.”
It’s when her raven-haired best friend looked at her directly with a raised brow that her words sunk in, “I- I mean---I just---”
“Kara Danvers, have you been listening to my heart?”
Always. It was unspoken but both knew what the answer was.
“I…yeah. I-it calms me down when…things get a little too overwhelming. It lets me know if you’re okay. The next thing I knew, it’s easy to point out from everyone else’s---yours… a-and Alex’s I mean.” The heroine stated without looking at her friend and just poking at the raw meat in front of her.
Kara could tell Lena held her breath and her heartbeat ticked up another beat,
“I…I’m sorry I didn’t mean to---”
“No Kara, it’s alright…I really want to give you a hug, but I don’t want to cry since I’m afraid I’m not wearing waterproof mascara.”
“Uhh…screw that. I’ll wash it for you later. C’mere.” Kara in all her Supergirl glory stated as she placed her chopsticks on the table and opened her arms.
That’s all Lena needed to leave the camera on its tripod alone and cross the table towards her best friend.
Kara didn’t get to stand from the chair she’s on when she was engulfed with Lena’s arms and perfume washing over her.
“Thank you.”
“No Lena, thank you for being here today and for everything. You have no idea how much it means to me.” How much you mean to me. Kara squeezed her as hard as she could without hurting her.
“So, when I was away, how many times did you listen to my heart?” Lena asked as she pulled away keeping her arms locked behind her best friend’s neck.
The blush on Kara’s cheek returned in full blast, “T-that’s---I didn’t---”
Lena just smiles further at her flustered best friend she’s undisputedly in love with. Maybe it’s just overwhelming to keep all her feelings for the blonde in front of her that she just took the blonde’s cheek and kissed it.
“Ready to film your first Mukbang video Supergirl?” Lena asked as she walked back towards the tripod trying to hide her own blush with how brave and intimate it was for a friendly kiss.
Kara tried to cough the redness in her cheek, still trying not to look at the CEO directly. “Y-yeah.”
It’s several minutes in the recording when Supergirl was moaning with every bite when Lena couldn’t control the smile and blush creeping her face.
There was no surprise when Supergirl’s first Mukbang Video became trending in only a few minutes from the time it was uploaded.
The thumbnail of Supergirl eating her heart out with an evident lipstick mark on her cheek was what made people watch and share the video across all social media platforms over and over. Lena could, with no effort at all get the lipstick mark edited out of the video. Kara knew that too, but both decided to leave it as is.
It was a week after the question ‘Who's the woman behind the kiss mark?’ filled the tabloids and internet that Lena finally shares the same video link on her IG account with a simple caption “Mine.”
She almost broke the internet at that. She was only claiming the kiss mark, but deep down she knows she wants the blonde heroine on the video too.
A woosh from her balcony and her favorite blonde holding a bouquet of flowers in front of her later, Kara finally asked, “Lena, can I call you something else?”
“Is it because I’m a Luthor?” Lena mocked offended.
Kara rolled her eyes, bouquet of flowers still in hand. “Rao, way to ruin what I was going to say.”
“You asked me a question darling.”
Kara sighs as her confidence depletes with the adrenaline. “L-let me do that again.”
Lena just nods and giggles when Kara; in all her suit and glory was literally going to fly out of her balcony to re-enter the same way she did earlier.
“Kara, please stay and just say it.” She chuckles with a slight shook of her head.
“This isn’t really how I was planning to ask you out.” The words were out when Kara’s blue eyes widen. “I-I mean… this is…I was---”
Kara’s accidental confession finally pulled a string in Lena’s hopeful heart and decided to just save her best friend from further stuttering in her attempt for a pick-up line. “Kara, can I place a nametag on you?”
“A nametag? Why?”
“Because I want to call you mine and put one on me too then call me yours?” Lena stated with a shy smirk, hoping for her blonde heroine to at least answer instead of just silently blushing with her mouth open.
“I---uhhh---Yeah. Wow! That was…Is that how pick-up lines work? Because it really worked. I mean you should maybe teach people to uhmm---”
“Kara, please shut up and come kiss me.” Lena demanded with a defeated sigh as she ushered her favorite heroine towards her.
Kara, in all her suit and stuttering mess, finally walked towards Lena with a wide smile and did just that.