New York City - Summer 2003
Piper opened the door of her apartment in Prospect Heights and took a big breath relieved after a weekend with her parents. She dropped the bag on the floor and laid down on the couch rubbed her forehead betraying the headache that lurked there all day.
"Hi, you are back early" - Polly smiled and sat down in the couch - "how did it go with your parents?"
"Oh well, my mother kept criticizing my hair, my clothes, my skin... "- Piper said yawning - "and my father wants me to re-think graduate school or take a career path seriously. So I had a great weekend" - Piper said sarcastically - " I need a job"
"Ouch, sorry Piper" - Polly said rubbing her leg- " I can ask around again …"
"No, don't worry. How were the training and the apartment search going?" - Piper asked.
"Nothing yet on the apartment. I have to keep commuting from Connecticut" -Polly said sighing - "the training thing went well."
"Why don't you hang here this week?" - Piper said- "that way we can go out or whatever. I will start looking for a job as a waitress or something while I figure out what do I want. I will start today. Can I put you as my reference?"
"Of course, Piper"- Polly said smirking- "I can't stay, but I am back on. Wednesday? I have a late internship training thing. I think I will give up the search until after I finish the internship"
"Ok, I will start with the resume before I procrastinate" - Piper said stretching.
Piper wrote an half-assed resume thinking it should be good enough and left. She dropped her resume unsuccessfully in a couple bars & restaurants near her apartment in Brooklyn; her frustration was rising due to the continuous "no hiring" answer everywhere. But she needed a job, anything just to keep her father from pressuring her into going back to graduate school to become a professor in a university or worse a lawyer. She couldn't decide what to do next in her career or even life, of course; she couldn't financially depend on her parents forever. That she would be serious about a career but she just graduated a little over a month ago and felt like she was allow to take some time to figure it out and it wouldn't be that difficult to find a temporary job, right? Piper reasoned as waited on the platform of the A line for the subway. Maybe she will have more luck in Midtown or Madison/Broadway. Piper fruitlessly dropped off her resume in a bunch couple of places in Soho feeling more and more discouraged, but still she pushed the door open and walked into the next bar.
"Hey you!" - Piper heard a raspy voice - "Laura Ingalls Wilder" - Piper instinctively turned around. Her blue eyes bumped into a woman with jet black hair with blue tips, alabaster skin, thick black framed glasses and very smug smirk.
"We are skipping America before the apocalypse, wanna come?" - Alex saw the cute blonde with the bohemian, naive air walk in and couldn't resist drawing attention to her table. The girl had college grad, good girl written all over her and could be a perfect mule.
"Sorry?" - Piper answered self-consciously, staring at the woman red lips who were curved in a smug smile.
"What can I get for you" - the bartender asked.
"Hi, I was wondering if you are hiring?" - Piper said turning her attention to the bartender.
"No, sorry" - He says and started to walk away.
"Well, can I leave this with you?" - Piper tried to leave her resume.
"Honestly, it just going to end on a drawer somewhere" - The bartender said
"Oh, well" - Piper said her eyes drawn to the table where the dark haired woman was laughing. Maybe she would stay have a drink ...maybe if she did….. - "Can I have a margarita then?"
"That I can do for you" -The bartender said as Piper sat down in the bar sensing the woman's eyes on her and pretending not to be aware it.
Alex's eyes were glued to the blonde, so predictably everyone in her table noticed, and the usual digs followed. Alex stood up walking toward the girl after listening to the blonde order a margarita. The table erupted in a chorus of "go, go, go then" but Alex smirked ignoring them and walked confidently toward the girl with her beer in hand.
"Is a little cold for a Margarita don't you think?" - Alex said smirking and leaning in the bar. The blonde was beautiful. Piper attention turned to the dark haired woman looking at the woman's half smile... or was it a smirk? Piper noticed the piercing green/gray eyes behind secretary glasses were twinkling amused. God! that woman was gorgeous.
"Let's see this" -Alex grabbed the resume on the table; the blonde had an air of freshness and naivete, but the intensity of the brilliant blue eyes caught Alex off guard. - "Steve Greek Cuisine, Le Grand Fromage...bullshit, bullshit" - Alex laughed uninhibitedly - "you need a lesson on fudging a resume"
"Do you work here?" - Piper asked a tad shyly, her eyes roaming the dark haired woman's face, full of curiosity and something close to awe.
"Are you fucking kidding me?" - Alex said amused.
Piper was flustered and didn't know how to respond. The woman's raspy, throaty voice it was so damn sexy...well Piper corrected to herself, everything in this woman emanated confidence and sexiness.
"Manager Polly Harper"- Alex said smirking and enjoying how fluttered the blond was - "nobody name Polly Harper is put in charge who is that really?"
"Is my friend!" - Piper smiled completely smitten with the woman beside her.
"You have never waited a fucking table on your life, have you?" - Alex said reading the blonde as an open book.
"No" - Piper answered ignoring the teasing, looking at the woman's lips, eyes.
"So" - Alex said reading the resume- "Piper Chapman. A Smith grad with excellent listening skills, passionate about making dinners feel good...uhmm that sounds kind of dirty" - Alex said teasing and signaling the bartender to put Piper's drink on her tap. Alex thought this Piper girl was fucking hot and adorable, and it was going to be fun to seduce her - "Safe, clean and careful when handling food and drink" - Alex laughed loudly again. Piper snatched the resume away unable to take the dark haired woman's teasing anymore.
"I like that on a woman " - Alex said enjoying the blonde's reaction. Alex changed her voice to throw the blonde, Piper off - "What else do I need to know about you?"
"Who are you?" - Piper watched her enthralled and couldn't help to be intrigued by this woman.
"My name is Alex" - Alex said all teasing gone and catching herself watching Piper's amazingly beautiful eyes.
"What do you do, Alex?" - Piper answered flirting back with the mesmerizing woman - besides making fun of strangers in bars?
"I work for an international drug cartel" -
Alex said seriously giving her automatically answer. It was a test, a trick that Alex learned from her boss and it always worked in measuring people.
Piper felt shocked… Is this for real? Is Alex going to offer her drugs? Is that why she approach her? Piper smile died and considered leaving when Alex let out a raspy, husky full laugh so contagious that Piper had to laugh with her even if she wasn't sure if the whole thing was a joke.
"So are you moving to Berlin, with us?" -Alex said amused. The blonde girl was intrigued and attracted enough, not the leave, but the uneasiness was also evident. So Alex tried to distract the girl from the obvious train of thoughts flashing in bright, blue eyes.
"I don't know all that collective guilt can be very oppressive don't you think? " - Piper smiled deciding that Alex had to be joking about the drug cartel- " plus I look ridiculous at the Oktoberfest drinking beer, and I enjoy tequila more."
"Ah, but you will so good in a lederhosen" - Alex smiled letting her eyes roam down Piper's body appreciably.
"Are you making advances or being amorous, Alex?" - Piper said smiling.
"Kid, undeniably making advances and….planning on making a lot more!" - They laughed together.- "and since you already like german writers, you would definitely…..come.." - Alex said smiling and let the double meaning drop.
Alex continued teasing her while they talked about pro and cons of moving to Berlin, german writers and other great countries to live in if Bush won in 2004 that were not predictably Canada. Piper discovered that behind that tattooed badass rockabilly chick was not only an extremely charming woman but well read, travel and smart. Piper was bewitched by how Alex would emphasize words with the arch of one eyebrow or needlessly adjusting her thick black glasses or by that smug smirk that Piper would find irritating in anyone else but in Alex she found endearing. In fact, Piper found that almost everything about Alex intriguing and alluring. They had easy rapport and one of those conversations that moved shiftily and flawlessly from one topic to the other, keeping her so engaged that neither noticed when Alex's friends left or that the bar was almost empty until Alex made a joke about sleeping in the bar without being drunk.
"I will hail you a cab, is late" - Alex said smiling. She had a great time; the blond was hot and smart. She got to the curb and in 5 minutes a cab pulled over. She said something to the driver. "So Piper.."- Alex said leaning in. Piper felt the air catch on her lungs.
Alex smile widens, and she stroked Piper's cheek, her breath caressing the blonde's lips. Alex got closer moving her hair away and kissing Piper on the soft skin where her pulse was throbbing. Piper felt herself dampen. Alex drew herself back, and something changed in her eyes but before Piper could find the meaning it was gone and the now familiar smirk returned to Alex's lips. Alex told herself that didn't need a mule at the moment; that Piper probably would be made terrible at it and a small seed of regret lodge herself in the pit of her stomach. Alex leaned in closer, opened the door of the cab and inhaled Piper's scent.
"See around, Kid" - Piper was frozen in the middle of her own sensations when Alex opened the door of the cab, help in and was gone before she could say a word.
Alex closed the cab door and let her go. She had to admit that she found herself mesmerized by the shades of light in Piper's eyes, by the way Piper looked at her, by a primitive, basic, magnetic need to take Piper and fuck her until neither could breath.
Alex hadn't planned to let go of the blonde without her number or any way of contacting her. She had planned on charming, seduced Piper and then enlisted the blonde as one of her mules. Alex's first impression had been spot on. Piper was a college grad from an upper-class family that had never had to endure any hardship, and yes Piper was a little self-absorbed, a little entitle and waspy like most of the girls she recruited. But Alex sensed more in Piper. Maybe she was tired of being around dim-witted people, Alex told herself as she walked away and now a girl, ok, a hot girl with a brain left her mesmerized and horny. But Alex already had too much in her plate, Sylvie, the mules, Alex couldn't involve herself with another woman. Well, it wasn't like she could do anything about it now.
Fuck! Piper cursed echo in the cab, when she realized that she didn't have Alex's number, and the only thing she knew was Alex was her first name. Piper frowned thinking that she had told Alex a lot about herself but besides the fact that Alex was stunning, well read, made her laugh with a sarcastic, dirty sense of humor, interesting, no no, no interesting, enthralling, captivating, hypnotizing, FUCK…. but besides that she actually didn't really know anything about Alex and now she would probably never find out. Piper felt a stab of disappointment, why didn't Alex gave her number? She felt like Alex was attracted to her…... Maybe it was the clothes, and maybe she did look like a character of a little house in the prairie, Damned!
Polly had begged Piper to go with her and a group of her work friends a hot new club in the Meatpacking district because Polly had a crush on one of her co-workers and needed a buffer. Piper, on the other hand, could not get Alex out of her head, so she agreed to go if they stop by the bar before hand. Polly was so excited about this guy that she forgot to grill Piper about it. They arrive, and Piper kept glancing at the entrance every time somebody came in and felt dejected when it wasn't the dark haired woman. Piper resigned herself that maybe she wouldn't see Alex ever again. Polly noticed her constant looks towards the door, but Piper deflected her questions until they arrive at club Polly forgot all about it. Piper picked her clothes carefully thinking that she may bump into Alex. She wore skin-tight black jeans that show off her curves and ass and a cream top that dipped low on her back. Piper danced, drank and talked with everyone but her mind kept drifting back to Alex
"Polly, I going to get something to drink" - Piper said in her ear- "Do you want something?" - Piper asked, but Polly shook her head.
Alex had watched her for the last 10 minutes, so her eyes follow when Piper stood up and had enjoyed seeing her talk, laugh with her friends from a distance. Piper looked more confident, less shy and even sexier than the day in the bar; Alex felt that the attraction again so when she saw Piper walk to the bar she followed the blonde.
Piper waited by the crowded bar to order when suddenly somebody was invading her space and standing too close to her back.. Piper was about to turn around when she heard a voice very close to her ear. Even in that loud, crowded place Piper knew to whom that raspy, sexy voice belong too.
"Hey, Kid" - Alex said unprepared for the force that hit her square in the chest when Piper turn around with a smile that crinkled the corners of her eyes, scrunched her nose and uncovered a pair of dimples. It was so fucking adorable that it made want to kiss Piper senselessly - "looking for a job?"
"Hi Alex, no just here with friends" - Piper said a blush creeping up her cheeks when Alex caught her checking her out. But Alex looked even hotter and sinfully sexy in black leather pants, black graphic t-shirt, black leather boots, her hair loose in soft waves. The intense look behind Alex's secretary glasses and a smug smirk in her red lips send a shiver down Piper's spin.
"Great" - Alex let her eyes suggestively room down Piper's body - "you definitely don't look like a little house in the prairie character today" - Alex said playfully, tilting her head just so, arching her eyebrows, smirking, a small dimple on her right cheek - "wanna dance?" - Alex didn't wait for an answer but held her hand, taking her to dance floor.
They moved into each and away in an unspoken ritual, eyes lock bright smitten blue to sparkling mischievous green, arms moving, hips grinding. Alex fingers skim every expose part of her skin in an almost indiscernible caress that send electric shocks thru Piper body. Alex brushed over her collarbone, her neck, her expose back, the small strip of skin between her pants and hips making Piper feel like her body pulsed at the beat of the music. Piper wanted to kiss away Alex's smirk and vanish that smugness, that arrogance, that knowing look in Alex's eyes. Piper felt an invisible thread dragged her closer until her lips were an inch away from Alex's lips but just before Piper leaned in for a kiss. Alex danced away, grinning. Piper understood her game, so she turned around, never tearing her eyes away from Alex's until her back molded to Alex's front, her head turned to gazed into those hungry green fierce eyes. Alex's lips were a breath away from her neck when Piper danced away avoiding them and Alex laughed with relish, arched her eyebrow in a silence "oh, so you want to play" question that felt like a challenge. Piper smiled wickedly with the thrill of seducing that stunning woman throbbing in her veins. They continued to playfully tease each other; the world reduced as if it was only them, their eyes, their hands, their bodies and at the same time the world was magnify by that unknown energy pulsing through, between and around them. Neither of them gave in; Alex's eyes were gleaming with pleasure when Piper felt a hand in her arm, a familiar voice cutting the haze of lust in her thrumming body. Piper felt a bit miffed to be interrupted. She wasn't gone long, what could Polly possibly want?
"Hey asshole" - Polly yelled and Alex just arched her eyebrows, stopped dancing, shifting her body and standing behind Piper nonchalantly - you left me alone all night.
Alex relaxed, bend down slightly and whispered in Piper's ear that she will be back, walking away.
"You were supposed to be with me and help me win over Chad. We are leaving; I am staying over with Chad.. Are you coming?" - Polly asked
"I didn't leave you alone; you were all over Chad already! Why are you guys leaving?"-Piper asked Polly- "We just barely arrived" - Piper didn't want to leave not when she could enjoy Alex company.
"Are you kidding me?" - Polly said laughing- "maybe that tall chick has made you sweat away your brain cells! It been hours already, and I have to work tomorrow!"
"I will stay; you have fun with Chad!" - Piper said
"Are you sure?" - Polly asked- "are you going to get home ok? Are you drunk? Who is she?" - Polly asked her protective side flaring up.
"Alex, she is Alex" - Piper cannot help, but giggle- "I am not drunk, don't worry!" - Piper said goodbye to her, Chad and the rest and turned around to search for Alex. Suddenly Alex's felt arms in her hips and that raspy voice.
"Looking for me, kid?" - Alex said pulling back to the dance floor. They kept on dancing the night away until their bodies were about to collapse.
"Do you want to have a drink?" - Piper whispered in her ear. The dance floor was emptier, and it feels like hours since Polly left.
"Sure, Kid" - Alex said smiling without the smirk, thinking how can Piper be shy and seductive at the time? Alex ordered a Steamroller and Piper a Margarita. Alex couldn't help, but teases Piper again about the margarita - "Trust me?" - Alex said in a way that sounded more like a statement than a question. Alex talked to the bartender for a minute and then ordered a "Copa Verde."
Piper tried to pay for the drinks, but Alex already said to put on her tap. Piper protested, but Alex just wave it over with the next time sending a thrill down Piper's body. Alex asked to wait for her, and Piper watched as Alex strutted across the room, the way she moved with confidence, a hint of arrogance like she owned the place made Piper heart race faster. Piper kept her eyes on Alex as she spoke to a group of young people before returning her attention to the bartender. By the drinks were ready, Alex was already back by her side. They sat on a table nearby. "Ok, Piper" - Alex said taking a sip of her drink with a teasing grin- "do you like?" - Piper wanted to say she liked Alex a lot but instead tasted the green drink tentatively.
"Is amazing, really delicious"- Alex got closer, ignoring her nerves and kissed her in the corner of her mouth, almost touching her lips- "Thank you."
"You welcome, Piper. You should try new things once in a while." - Alex said jokingly.
"Too risky" - Piper answered, a laugh dancing in her eyes - "I may want them to become my regular thing very fast and then don't have any way to reach it" -Piper said biting her bottom lip.
"Well Kid, a challenge is a good thing. You wouldn't want it to become synonymous with unremarkable" - Alex replied eyes glinting with amusement playing along- "or worse boring!"
"I am pretty sure some new things never risk that fate" - Piper said staring into Alex's eyes- "You are only 3-4 years older that me. Why do you call me kid?" - Piper asked teasingly, changing the subject- "do you want to grow up to be just like Bogart? ...or it's Rick that you are emulating?" - Piper, a ghost of a smile, tugging her lips.
"Maybe I am wiser beyond my years, KID" -Alex smirked. - "Who would want to be Rick? He lost the girl twice… plus I don't do self-sacrifice …"
"Ah. but it ended in a fog" - Piper said smiling - "maybe they meet again….."
"I don't like ambiguity, And fuck later and maybe" - Alex smiled widely- "Certainty and now is always better. Now Bogart in the other hand pick up Bacall when she was 19, and he was 45….. That is something I could definitely aspire to" - Alex laughed throwing her back - "Here is looking at you, kid!" - Ales said eyes twinkling as she raised her glass in a toast.
They flirted, banter and end up having one of those conversation that moved out from the serious to the meaningless seamlessly, divulging bits of biographical information. Alex told stories about the strangest things had had happened to her in her trips all over the world and how she enjoy the experience of trying new foods everywhere. It was so different to what Piper who was used to travel with friends or family and they were always reading Zagat & New York Times or Lonely Planet reviews. They laughed together and Alex assured her that's not the way to savor a new place or have an adventure and how she enjoyed a bit of risk and unpredictability plus it always lead to discovering amazing things or at least collecting great story. Their drinks were finished, and Piper said that she really needed to go. They walked out of the club, together.
"Thank…"- Piper said grinning- "It was great to see..to watc...to dance with you. You are a great dancer" - said Piper, feeling herself blush.
"Well, thank you" - Alex said smiling-" I glad you enjoy it, the seeing, watching and the dancing" - Alex arching an eyebrow and chuckling.- "Let's get a cab. I ride with you is too late for you to go all the way to Brooklyn alone."
"Won't be it to out of the way?" - Piper asked still smiling- where do you live?
"If you wanted to know where I live ...you just have to ask" - Alex said chuckling.
"I didn't mean it like that… plus you are the one taking me home" - Piper said smiling.
"I'm just doing a community service because you are new to the city"- Alex said enjoying seeing Piper squirm nervously- "I live at edge between Noho and Nolita."
"You are closer it makes more sense if I drop you home….. "- Piper said
"No, like I said it part of my community service" - Alex said smiling.- "I am in charge of making sure naive hot girls that just moved in don't get swallow by the city."
"I am not that naive" - Piper said chuckling- "but thank you.."
Alex's hand guided her out by the small of her back as they stepped to the curb to wait for a taxi. After 5 minutes they were sitting together in the cab on their way to Piper's apartment gazing into each other eyes in a comfortable, expectant silence. Alex whispered to the driver to wait for her after when they arrived. Piper felt that stab of disappointment again as she had assume that Alex was gone come up with her or at least try. She liked Alex more than anyone in a long time. Wasn't Alex interested in her? They were standing in front of the stairs of the brownstone.
"Alex" - Piper said nervously biting her bottom lip and deciding to ask Alex to come up- "Do you want….." - Piper stopped talking when she felt Alex's breath closer.
Alex cradle her face, skimming her thumb over her soft cheek and then leaning in to kiss Piper. Alex's lips were soft against hers, nibbling, coaxing Piper's lips to open and slipping her tongue inside her mouth in an intoxicating mix of soft lips and a hint of ravishing passion. Piper couldn't have enough; she wanted Alex closer. So she tangled her hand in Alex's dark hair, pulled Alex closer and moaned inside Alex's mouth. Piper felt Alex hands stroke her back, her sides and drag her closer until the kiss became fiercer, hungrier making her knees weak.
"Here" - Alex said breaking the kiss away panting she slipped a napkin in her hand- "Call me" - Alex said with a smug smirk that made her smile.
Alex brushed her lips against Piper's neck and got in the cab. Alex felt her heart beat fast, she didn't expect the kiss to feel that intense, she hoped the blonde called her soon. Piper walked up the stairs of the brownstone building and noticed that the cab didn't drive off until she opened the door; It made Piper beamed. Later Piper laid in bed putting Alex's number on her cell phone deciding to call Alex in three days, Saturday. She didn't want to look too needy.
On Thursday, Piper woke up late in the afternoon, taking a quick shower and deciding to keep looking for a job. She took the subway to Tribeca dropping her resume without luck. She impulsively got off at Bowery station convincing herself that it was because easier to find a job in the area and not because Alex lived close by. Piper talked to a couple managers until she felt in urgent need of a break. So she stopped in a Bookstore ordered a caramel latte and browsed around until she found an interesting book about the Latin American literary boom and its writers. Piper sat in one of the comfy chairs to read and drink, oblivious to everything but the book in her hands.
".. We went around without looking for each other, but knowing that we went around to find each other..." - Alex whispered in her ear. Piper turned around with a beaming smile.
"...She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste..." - Piper answered, grinning.
"Is it serendipity" - Alex laughed, seating on the arm of the blonde's chair, her arms brushing casually with Piper's- "or are you stalking me?"
"That's the first time somebody quoted Cortazar to me" - Piper said beaming- "and no stalking as I don't know where you live."
"Oh, so you would if you knew well I live?" - Alex laughed and Piper rolled her eyes- "I saw the book you are reading that' why the quote came to mind. Is that why you haven't called, kid?" - Alex pushed her black rim glasses needlessly up the bridge of her nose.
"Of course, I thought if there is someone that doesn't need lines to write is definitely Alex" - Piper said looking directly into her eyes. Piper loved those outrageously sexy glasses of hers. They laughed together at their nerdiness. - "do you like latin american literature? or just Cortazar in particular?"
"No, I just love to read"- Alex said with a half smile- "But I do like some stream of conscious writers..."
Alex sat on the arm on Piper's chair. Casually stroking Piper's arms with her fingertips or holding a strand of blonde hair between her fingers as they discussed stream of conscious book, their favorite latin american authors and books they both loved. Piper loved how Alex never took her eyes away from hers and all the had insightful opinions, sarcastic remarks and even Alex unstoppable need to tease her. They laughed and talked, at one point walked around the bookstore taking favorite books from the shelf and reading favorite passage to each other. Piper noticed how every time Alex read something particularly sentimental she would smirk, make a sarcastic comment or a joke like there was something offensive that needed to be counter instantly. They strolled around the bookstore for a while only interrupted, time to time, by the ring of Alex's cell. Alex would always pick up, mumble "business" and step away.
Alex was happy for the chance encounter and for the opportunity to discover that Piper's appeal increased with every encounter. She stimulated her, charmed her, and it made their time together relaxed, fun, captivating. Alex wanted to prolong their meeting, so she asked if Piper want to squeeze a tube of toothpaste from the bottom up and go for dinner and a movie and Piper laughed accepting. They walked to a movie theater that was having a silent film week so when Alex suggested "City Lights" Piper agreed. They laughed so hard during the movie that they were almost crying. Piper got a bit emotional Alex slipped her arm around the blonde's shoulder and teasingly whispered in her ear that Piper was was a big softy that was giving wasp a bad reputation.
They waited until the seats emptied, before standing to leave. Alex's dragged her glasses up, perching them in her hair and kissed Piper roughly pushing her against a wall her talented hands slipping seductively under the sweater and grazing Piper's skin. Alex's lips moved to her jaw and down to her neck. Piper felt the dampness underwear that she had been there since bumping into Alex earlier, increase until it was uncomfortable and tantalizing. Alex returned to her mouth kissing now tenderly before pulling herself back. Piper pressed an open mouth kiss into her wild pulse.
"Uhmm... We better go, Kid" - Alex said her eyes dark with desire, she laced her fingers with the blonde. Piper felt her nipples harden and the wetness between her legs increase just by the way Alex looked at her. They walked out of the movie theater deciding to have pizza for dinner.
They strolled out of the Cinema Village towards nearby Arturo's talking about their favorites silent movies ordering pizza and beer, seating to enjoy the live jazz and buoyant atmosphere. Alex told her that The Wind and Lonesome were two of her favorites. Piper began a long sidetrack about the impact of silent movies on films, how many of great silent films like Alex's favorite or the Crowd, Sunrise, Metropolis and Un Chien Andalou were complete commercial failures, when ironically those films had achieved the highest range, power and purity of expression. Alex listened silently smirking amused by Piper as she rambles on and on until Alex could resist it and fiercely kissed her. They were breathless by the time they broke it off.
"So why did you choose City Lights instead of The Wind that was running at the same time? " -Piper asked curiosity after a while of trying to catch her breath.
" Well, I didn't know if you liked Silent Movies" -Alex said chuckling - "but even if you didn't you had to be a moron and asshole if you didn't enjoy City Lights" - Alex said smirking - "so I took a chance"
"You are an asshole!"- Piper said pushing her on the arm as they laughed and ate.
Alex told her you about sitting in Films & literature classes and she could hear the regret in her voice that she tried to hide behind a joke about not being able to afford college. Piper was amazed and told her that she was the smarter, most knowledgeable and well-read person Piper knew. Alex laughed casually noting that Piper probably didn't know enough smart people. Piper told Alex about her own experience at Smith joking about life in campus and her parents insistence on graduate school. Both were astonished to have spontaneously revealed so much about themselves, but still the conversation keep flowing effortlessly. They stayed a bit over an hour, but Alex got a call and told Piper that she had to go. They walked out together, kissing again deeply and hungrily.
"How about we squeeze that toothpaste tube from the bottom again and you call me?" - Alex said against her lips.
"Ok" - Piper whispered. Alex worried her bottom lip and kissed her again before getting in the cab. Piper went home smiling widely at the perfect date that wasn't date, images of Alex danced in her head all night.
The next day when by quick and Piper still hadn't found a job, so she was tired, bored and frustrated. She look at the time and notice it was 7:30 pm. Maybe she could call Alex and asked her out for dinner even if it was late but Alex seem to be the spontaneous kind of woman. It was impulsive but what the hell. Piper dialed nervously, listening to the ringtone.
"Vause" - Alex said in a serious, cold and disinterested tone.
"Alex" - Piper said almost in a whisper. Piper realized that she missed Alex's voice and that she had a dangerous case of lust.
"Hey, Kid" - Alex said, her tone changing to that light and teasing.
"Yes, it's Piper" - Piper said anxiously- "Are you busy...?"
"No, Kid" - Alex said smiling- just relaxing at home at the moment.
"I wonder if we could…" - Piper heard the smile in Alex's voice. But still felt her stomach flutter. What if was it too much?
"Do you want to come over?" - Alex asked hearing Piper voice drift around nervously- " if you don't mind seeing me in my pjs" - Alex said laughing.
"Yes, I want to. I really don't mind..." - Piper said hurriedly. Alex gave her address - "I am already in Nolita, by Broome and Bowery, so."
"Oh, so you are just coming for a pit stop?" - Alex asked.
"No, I just…" - Piper said stuttering, relaxing when she heard Alex chuckling- "you really are an asshole."
"I think you really like that about me, Kid" - Alex said chuckling- " Just go a couple of blocks up towards Houston I will text you the address. See you in a few" -Alex said before hanging up.
Piper reached Alex building quickly pushed the intercom and waited for Alex to buzzed her in, once inside she rode the elevator up to the eighth floor and fidgeting with her clothes and smoothing her hair. Alex opened the door barefoot, wearing a black silky robe that reached mid-thigh, leaving her long tone legs bare, underneath it a black tank top peaked out. Alex waited until Piper stepped inside, her usual smug smirk and ridiculously sexy secretary glasses firmly in place. It made Piper want to beg Alex to fuck her against the floor and disregard 22 years of waspy training or any self-control. It was a shame; she wasn't able to use drunkenness as an excuse..
"Hey" - Alex said skimming the blonde's cheek with her thumb before leaning in to kiss her cheek- "Do you want a glass of wine?" -Alex said walking to the kitchen.
"Yes, please" - Piper walked around taking everything in.
The apartment was big sharing the top floor with just one other apartment. It had high ceilings, warm colors of brown, greens and tans in the furniture and walls. On the far back corner of the apartment, the walls had exposed bricks and beams broken apart by shoji style sliding doors that were at that moment open, revealing what looked like an office. The place scream Alex with her eclectic color and modern and tribal art, vinyl records, an old turntable, mementos of her travels and bookcases crowded with books in the messy state of someone who regularly reads. There were bookcases in almost every wall some reached her ceiling; other were small bookcase doubling as side tables, it could have seen as clutter but instead looked charming, and inviting. Piper stood by one of the bookcases, reading the titles and tracing the spine of the books with her fingertips admiring the voluminous and diverse range. When she felt Alex breath in her neck, Piper turned around and accepted the glass of wine that Alex offered. Piper sipped her wine and told herself to say something that they should be talking. They always had things to talk about, even now she would love to ask her about the carved sculpture in that corner, the unique rug or about any of beautiful lithographs around the walls. But Piper couldn't. They were gazing intensely into each other eyes and all the words seem irrelevant and impossible to grasp, her heart drummed fast against her chest, the unmistakable wetness between her thighs loudly announcing her arousal.
Alex felt the heat projecting of Piper body, the desire apparent on Piper's eyes and for a second she considered just fucking Piper. Alex was dying just to do that but instead Alex reined in her desire and decided to tell Piper about her business, again. Alex liked her and for whatever reason wanted her to know before they do anything else. Maybe it was a force of habit. It had been years since she slept with anyone beyond one night stand without the intention of mixing work and pleasure. Alex repeated to herself that it doesn't mean anything that she is just bored, tired and wanted something different. Still honesty is not her style, but she felt compelled to be.
"Piper, I like you" - Alex said perching her glasses up in her hair stroking Piper's neck with her fingertips and standing close - "I want to be honest with you and maybe, fuck, probably you will run in the other direction and forget about me." - Alex said looking directly into her eyes.
"Maybe I will run but I know that couldn't never forget you" -Piper answered truthfully.
"I work for an international drug cartel" - Alex said gazing directly into Piper's eyes.
"You weren't joking the night we met?" - Piper asked with incredulity in her voice.
"No" - Alex said simply.
Alex noticed how her face changed like she is Bambi lost in the fucking forest those big blue adorable eyes widening with surprise. It was evident that Piper was making an effort to compose herself. Alex internally smiled seeing a tiny speck of curiosity beyond the confusion, bewilderment and cautious.
How can somebody like her be a drug dealer? Piper searched her piercing green eyes for that mischievous light that comes into them when Alex was teasing her, but they are sober and serious. Shit ! Shit! She fucking liked Alex how can this smart, sexy, funny, incredibly well-read woman be a drug dealer? And why the hell would Alex be honest about it?. What kind of criminal was honest? Those two things were incompatible. Maybe Alex wanted something from her? Maybe that the angle, but...
Alex stood cold, collected and patiently silent, never taking her eyes away from Piper.
"Ok...and you are telling me because …"- Piper asked.
"Because I wanted to tell you" - Alex said calmly, her body almost brushing the blonde.. Alex could see every thought reflect back at her in those big clear blue eyes.
"So, you don't want to involve me in any way?" - Piper asked curiously telling herself it was ok, it wasn't like more than a fling, right? If she didn't get involve what was the harm? - "even remotely?"
"No" - Alex answered seriously- "unless is your lifelong dream to be involved" - Alex smirked- "Anyway, I want you to also know….."
Piper stopped Alex by tangling one hand in her raven hair, pulling Alex closer and kissing Alex, hungrily.. Alex stroked Piper's back, breaking the kiss and looking at Piper to assure herself.
"You blush like a teenager with a crush" - Alex whispered in her ear grinning and taking the cup of wine away, leaving it on the bookcase.
Alex kissed her, taunting Piper with her tongue, her teeth, her hands stroking fondling with Piper's breast as their mouths crashing hungrily in another kiss her other hand stroking Piper's ass.
"Ale.." - Piper moaned inside Alex's mouth- "Alex, I want you."
Alex pushed her to the bedroom, walking backward and sideways so they didn't have to stop kissing. Never breaking contact as much as possible their hands touching everywhere, she undressed Piper desperately, pushing the pants down, pulling up Piper's top and bra off. Piper pushes off her black robe, caressing her beautiful breast over the black tank top, feeling the wetness in Alex's pussy over her boyshorts. They collapsed on the bed kissing, groping, moaning into each others mouths Alex broke of the kiss, taking off her glasses and putting them in the nightstand. Piper wanted, need to feel Alex skin against hers. She tried to take off Alex's clothes, but Alex stopped her, taking Piper's hands from her body and holding them about Piper's head with one of her hands.
"Piper" - Alex said kissing the side of her arm - "let's make this time all about you.."
Alex gently sunk her teeth into her bottom, pulled and then slid her tongue inside her mouth, kissing Piper avidly, she broke the kiss moving down, flickering her tongue over her nipple, alternating between sucking it, kissing and worrying it until Piper moaned loudly wordlessly demanding more. Alex moved her mouth to her other breast, one hand touching down the blonde's body, reaching down caressing her thigh. Alex loved how responsive Piper was, squirming and moaning underneath her with the simplest touch. Piper felt her body tight with unreleased tension and throb with pleasure as Alex trailed her fingers over the wet lips of her cunt, her thumb barely stroking her clit.
"Please, stop teasing" -Piper begged, her voice raw and desperate, all pretense went- "Alex, God!" - Piper cried out- "please just…!"
Alex pushed two fingers inside her pussy in one single stroke; she groaned finding Piper dripping wet and increased the rhythm of her fingers. Alex kissed her neck, nipping down her chest, sucked her nipples, thrusting a third finger and curling it inside her pussy, hitting the soft spot inside it.
"Oh, fuck ...Al" - Piper cried out moaning words incoherently.
Piper trembled, quiver her back arching off the bed with a string of moans, her hands grasping at Alex desperately reaching for her back. Piper gripped hard to the raven hair that spilled down Alex's face with each ripple of pleasure, over and over in a long, intense, mind-blowing orgasm. Alex fingers never relented, holding Piper close and nestling her face in the blonde's neck, kissing it as she shivered feeling Piper orgasm ripple under her body. Alex slid out her fingers from her pussy, once Piper's body weakly slacked into the bed. Alex's fingers were gently tucking the messy blonde hair away from the other woman face, their breathless panting melding. Alex pulled up the sheet and covered them. Piper opened her eyes, smiling contently and propped herself up to kiss her.
"Hey"- Alex whisper.
"Hey"- Piper answer smiling.
Alex touch was gentle even tender, her green eyes luminous with woman was full of contradictions. It was mind boggling and alluring as hell Piper pulled her face closer and kissed her, again.
"I am not done with you" - Alex said against my lips,
"Really?" - Piper said gasping, feeling a new wetness pooling between her thighs.
Alex kiss became rougher; their tongues were searching each other. Piper moaned, tangling her hands in her raven hair. Alex began her journey down Piper's body, her tongue sliding to the side of Piper's breast reaching Piper's nipples biting them softly and then soothing them with her tongue, her head disappeared under the sheet. Piper moaned in pleasure feeling her hot breath brush against her pussy. Alex kissed the inside of her thighs, her tongue traveling of the small patch of skin between her thigh and pussy. Piper arched her back, moaning as lust ran throughout her body, her hand gripping her raven hair.
"Alex"- Piper moaned lifting her hips.
"You are so wet" - Alex chuckled into her pussy, sending a ripple over.
Alex started kissing up her pussy, sucking her outer lips lightly, Alex's tongue parting them, stroking with the tip of Alex's tongue around her clit, circling it without touching it until her legs shook with undiluted anticipation and frustration. Finally, Alex's lips close around her clit, sucking her tongue alternating between flickering her clit with the tip of her tongue, to long broad brushes. Alex kneaded her breast and flatten her tongue in entrance of her cunt pushing deep to drink of her wetness all until Piper bucked against her mouth. Piper fumble around gripping the sheets, the headboard, arching her back, feeling the a bubble built inside her, expanding violently and filling every single space inside her, making it harder and harder to breath. It was like Alex knew exactly where to lick, suck, kiss, driving faster and faster until Piper came undone trembling, shaking world bursting inside and around her. Alex kept licking softly dragging out the last drop of lingering pleasure only stopping when she felt that Piper was wholly spent. Alex slid her head out of the sheet, kissed Piper's navel and wiped her dripping chin and lips with her forearm.
"Oh my god.." - Alex said delighted dropping her chin between her and looking up with a crooked smirk and gleaming mischievous eyes - "Horrible, wasn't it?"
"The worse" - Piper replied panting, stroking her cheek and pulling Alex up to her lips. Piper moaned in her mouth - "you are really bad at that" - Piper said as they kissed again- "can I do you?" - Piper asked softly stroking her nose against Alex's nose and caressing her forehead with her lips.
"You don't have to ask" - Alex answered laughing softly and kissing her again, still hovering over her body.
"I never...really" - Piper said still a bit out of breath, nervously, seating against the pillows.
"Gone down on a woman before?" - Alex asked dropping next to her and resting her weight on her arm with a wide and bemused smile on her face.
"I mean...no" - Piper answered with that wide-eyed sheepishly, dazzled look on her face that drove Alex crazy.
"What kind of a lesbian are you?" - Alex asked chuckling and touching Piper's breasts.
"The boob touching kind" - Piper replied smiling with a playful glint in her eyes.
"All right, well..." - Alex laughed softly with a naughty spark in her eyes- "are you ready to take the plunge, so to speak?"
"Are you going to coach me thru it?" - Piper answered stroking her hair, tucking a bit behind her ear and again, drawing her mouth closer
"Yeah" - Alex answered smiling against her lips. They kissed softly, hands on each others necks, pulling the other one closer. Alex cell phone rang - "uhm... shit" - Alex murmured against her lips, kissing her again and again, not wanting to pull away from the kiss. Alex growled, breaking the kiss and seating next to Piper glancing at the screen in her cell phone- "uhmm, shit" - Alex said putting her glasses back on - "what time is in Amsterdam?"
"I have no idea"- Piper replied stroking her beautiful raven hair and gliding her hand down to Alex's arm..
"Ok, give me a second" - Alex said kissing her. Piper held Alex by the neck, kissing Alex again and again, pulling away from the bed not wanting to let Alex go - "I am sorry is business" - Alex said sighing- "I will be right back" - Alex stood up, putting her robe on while walking out of the bedroom - "Do you want a glass of water?"
"Is that part of it?" - Piper answered loudly- "hydration?"
Alex chuckled, moving away to the office answering quick questions about drop dates, and giving instructions on delivery dates. She was direct, straightforward and laser focus when it came to business, but right now she found her mind a little distracted because of the hot blonde waiting for her in bed.
Piper stretched in the bed and looked around the bedroom for the first time. It was like the rest of the apartment, vibrant, eclectic with books perched around the space. She waited on the business call still feeling the ghostly remains of Alex' touch all over her skin. Piper wanted her to come back so they could fuck until they couldn't breathe anymore. Piper picked up a blue souvenir that looked Russian from the side table, examine it and put it back. She felt somebody staring at her and looked back to see a black hooded figure in the hallway.
"What the..."- Piper started to say astonish and scare. The figure was a woman that jumped in the bed.
"Alex..." - Piper yelled. The woman punched her in the face and dragged down to the floor. Piper tried to push her off, put the stranger kept hitting her and trying to choke her. Alex had just finished her call when she heard Piper yell her name; she ran to her bedroom seeing the commotion on the floor.
"Jesus" -Alex yelled, walking fast towards them- "what the fuck! Stop ! Sylvie!" - Alex tried to pull her away from Piper - "Stop it Sylvie" - Alex finally was able to drag her away and bend down to check on Piper - "Shit. Jesus" - Alex stood in the middle of them. Fuck! What was she going to do now?
"She attack me!" - Piper said freaking out, holding the sheet around her body and blubbering.
"Are you fucking kidding ?" - Sylvie said, stepping up to Piper.
"Stop" - Alex said forcibly while turning around to face Sylvie, stepping between them to keep them apart - "Piper .."
"She just broke in here" - Piper rambled on holding her injured cheek.
"I live here!" - Sylvie yelled outraged. Piper turned around looking at Alex stunned.
"She does" - Alex answered staring at Piper directly in the eyes.
"That's my girlfriend, you whore" - Sylvie said pointing at Alex.
"No" - Piper said astonished.
"Get her the fuck out of here" - Sylvie said in the tone of somebody who wasn't surprised by the situation. Alex turned around and looked at Sylvie.
"Ok. I will. I am going to get her out of here and then we are going to talk" - Alex said calmly pushing Sylvie back and away from Piper.
"I said get her out" - Sylvie yelled exasperatedly- "now!"
"Sylvie" - Alex follow Sylvie up to the bedroom door - "come on, Sylvie."
"Your girlfriend?" - Piper asked barely recovering from the shock. But of course she had a fucking girlfriend! Asshole!
"It's complicated, Piper" - Alex said, turning around to face Piper.
"This is so fuck up!" - Piper picked up her pants from the floor and put them up without dropping the sheet.
"I am sorry" - Alex said awkwardly- "I should have said something."
"You think!" - Piper said loudly without halting her search for her the rest of her clothes.
"Are you hurt?" -Alex asked Piper with concern reflecting in her eyes - "Did she hurt you?" -Alex touched her cheek.
"She punched me in the face" - Piper said pulling away from her hand- "Yes It hurts! Fuck, where is my other shoe?"
"I kept seeing you around" - Alex said sheepishly while helping Piper search for her shoe - "and then when you called…"
"Ok stopped it" - Piper said picking up her scatter clothes from the floor- "you are making it worse."
"Here" - Alex said giving her the bra- "did you find your other shoe?"
"Forget it!" - Piper angrily walking towards the hallway, her clothes and a shoe in her hands, her body still wrapped around the sheet.
"Well, you can't walk home without your shoes" - Alex said loudly - "They are nice shoes" - Alex finished awkwardly.
"There are from Marshall's" - Piper said throwing the shoe hard towards Alex and, hold the handle of the door in her hand- "Fuck you" - Piper yelled slamming the door.
Piper was fuming; she couldn't' believe her nerve. Piper put her top on, fixed her pants, stuffed her panties and bra on her bag and walked out, ignoring Alex's voice calling her name. Fuck her and her girlfriend!
Alex followed her out but saw only a blur when Piper slammed the entry door. Alex wanted to follow her but thought it was useless, the image of Piper taking a cab without shoes made her wince. Fuck!
"How dare you bring that woman to our apartment?" - Sylvie yelled- "you had not right..."
"Sylvie, I am sorry" - Alex said striving for her most reasonable voice- "we had agreed we could see other people. What are you doing here, by the way, you weren't suppose to be back until tomorrow afternoon?"
"I finished early! This what you do when I am not around? Fuck you Alex" - Sylvie said throwing a glass into the wall- "not in this apartment, not in our bed. Plus I didn't want to but you basically said it had to be this way, or we couldn't be together."
"Calm down" - Alex said in an icy voice- "yes, it's true but you agreed. You never clarify that I couldn't bring anyone here. Now that I know your rules, it won't happen again."
"Why do you need to fuck other women?" - Sylvie said coming closer until there were only inches apart.
"Not only I don't believe in monogamy. I want the liberty to fuck whoever I want without any guilt trips pretenses or charades" - Alex answered fastidiously - "and is also good for business as a lot of the women I fucked end up becoming mules. But the most important point is that I never lied to you, you accepted that being with me meant being in an open relationships. Look Sylvie, are we having fun? Don't you enjoy spending being with me?"
"Yes, but I love you Alex" - Sylvie whispered.
"And I loved being with you, babe" - Alex said leaning in to kissed her.
"Don't! you have her all over you!" - Sylvie said pulling away.
"Fine, but you need to call down, I hate it when anyone tries to control me… " - Alex said - " Let's just stop arguing and go to sleep."
Piper waited for the elevator that decide to take forever. Only her could have the fucking luck to have the best orgasm of her life and the woman who made it happen no only worked for an drug cartel , no a drug cartel, an international drug cartel but even worse had a girlfriend, a girlfriend who was serious enough to live with her and who punch her in the face. But of course Alex had to have a girlfriend, how could a woman like that be single? She stomped out the lobby barefoot and luckily was able to get a cab quickly and right in front of her building. When she arrived in her apartment, she slammed the door, took a couple of beers to her bedroom slamming every door within reach fell into her bed to drink and rage. Fuck Alex and her girlfriend. Her blood was boiling with anger. Fuck both of them!
One week, one week and Alex still had that pair of big blue eyes tattoo in her mind. She laid there next to her girlfriend and thought about Piper how her eyes would lock with hers sheepishly, full of curiosity, awe and desire. At first sight Piper seem like any other recent college graduate, waspy, a bit entitle, but there seem to be layers of her under that polished surface. She remembers how Piper would light up just about anything, how sometimes, how Piper would scrunched her face before snorting and busting out laughing. How Piper body just responded to even the simplest of brushes from her hands, how Piper felt under her, how smelled and tasted when she came. Alex wanted to call her because she wanted more of the blonde, but she knew it was unlikely that Piper would ever want to see her again. So she pushed those thoughts away and stood up, walking to her office.
One week, one week and all her thoughts well full of that flaming gorgeous, smart, sexy asshole. Piper had started a job as a waitress in Soho. But even that didn't distracted her mind from wandering to Alex. Everything about Alex seem to occupy her mind not matter how hard Piper tried the sound of Alex laugh exploded inside her brain like Alex was standing next to her. She would read book and wonder maybe Alex would like it or maybe she read it, she woke up wet every morning, wanting Alex. It was like Alex had bewitch her. The asshole worked for a drug cartel, an international drug cartel AND had a girlfriend. Piper repeated to herself every time she wanted to pick up the phone. But something about Alex, just made her feel like maybe Alex wasn't a complete asshole. Maybe it was the craving of her body driving her to find extenuating circumstances but Alex felt so real, so honest, so warmth, even sweet sometimes. Piper shook her head and repeated the asshole mantra, but her blood boiled and she had to admit that It wasn't anger anymore but pure, unaltered lust.
Another week past and Alex couldn't stop thinking about Piper; she left Marshall's red shoes in her closet between her own and always peaked at them, like a souvenir of a memory. She was tempted to call, but it had been two weeks and Piper's silence was loud and clear, and she could understand that Piper probably thought she was the worse person on the planet. She decided to push out of her mind, go out and just try to make Sylvie happy and whine less.
Time only made the need to see Alex stronger; it became a borderline in obsession. She didn't want to call Alex for some reason a "chance" encounter seem safer, a smaller wound to her pride. So she went the bar, to the club where they danced, to the movie theater where they saw the movie and strolled "casually" near her apartment building but never stumble into Alex probability because the international drug cartel didn't keep 9 to 5 hours. Piper found a gay bar practically across from Alex's apartment and began stopping by assuming that Alex would eventually drop by but so far Piper hadn't had any luck making her almost give up but after seeing a flyer for an upcoming burlesque she decided stop by for the last time, that's when she saw her; Alex was sitting laughing bounteously and doing shots, friends and the girlfriend were sitting next to her. The sight of the psychotic girlfriend made her stomach flinch, but Piper kept peeking glances towards them until Alex walked out towards the restroom. After a minute Piper took a big breathed in and followed her.
"Hey" - Piper said after shamelessly checking out her ass. Alex hesitated for a second that made Piper smile widen as it was hard to shake the woman's cool confidence.
"Hey" - Alex said surprise to see her. Alex let her gaze traveled up and down Piper's body. Alex checked behind her to see if Sylvie was nearby and stepped closer to Piper- "What are you doing here?"
"Oh" - Piper said the raspy voice send a shiver down Piper body- "I just..uhm...heard about the burlesque show" - Piper answered awkwardly tapping on the poster.
"Oh" - Alex smiled gazing into those big beautiful eyes she had thought about so much.
"You?" - Piper asked.
"My friend Rachel is in it" - Alex said - "she does this routine with a Ray Romano puppet" - Alex said chuckling- "it surprisingly sexy" - Alex pushed away her hair and they laughed out loud together, until it die down and all it remained was an awkward silence, nervous tension crackling in the air, circling them - "Look, uhm..I am really sorry about that night, Piper. I am not a shady person. "
"Oh, come on" - Piper said moving to the other wall- "don't worry about it. I mean... I've never been punch before, its probably a good life experience" - Piper looked at her lips. Right now, Piper just wanted to kiss her. Alex laughed softly.
"I meant it" - Alex said serious again, she felt this profound need for Piper to believe her -" when I said things were complicated" - Alex moved slightly closer - "I am new to this relationship thing and I don't... I don't know the rules."
"That's the whole problem, isn't it?" - Piper said flirting- rules aren't any fun.
The bathroom door opened, and they stepped back from each other. Alex closed the door and stepped closer again unsure if the whole thing was really coincidence or if the blonde wanted something from dropped her eyes to the floor and gathering all her remaining courage move in to be so close that she felt Alex's breath brush over her face.
"Listen" - Piper said flicking her eyes between Alex lips and eyes - "I don't want to stand on the way of true love I mean if that's your future wife out there by all means tell me to back off." - Piper said looking behind the glasses and into her darken eyes- "But you pursue me and I liked it. I ne... I never felt... "- Alex arched her eyebrows, smiling smugly with a sense of achievement- " You know I never thought of myself as a really sexual person but ever since... "- Piper said stepping closer, placing her lips in Alex's ear - "I want taste what you taste like... "
Alex felt herself shiver; her head suddenly wrap around a cloud of lust, her underwear abruptly damp. Piper waited breathing in every single one of her breaths. Fuck, this girl was something and if damn it if she was going to miss out in discovering every single layer of the blonde and enjoying it while lasted, Alex thought deciding to make her move; Alex held Piper's cheek, delicately and pressed her lips to her, until her tongue demanding entrance as her hand slither down from the blonde's neck to her breast which Alex cupped and fondled over the pink top. The kiss grew deeper, hungrier, more intense. Piper felt her body come alive; her knees weaken, desire burn in her. They stop kissing, and Alex opened the bathroom door and dragged Piper into it.
Alex locked the door and pushed Piper against it, kissing her anxiously, grinding her hips against hers. Piper's hands tangled in her dark hair, drawing Alex, so there wasn't any space left between their bodies. Alex took her earlobe between her teeth and tugging it as her hand slip underneath the pink top, her fingertips warming Piper's skin, wiggling under the bra and touching her harden nipples. Alex moved her other hand away and down stroking her pussy over the seam of her jeans.
Piper's hands slide under Alex's t-shirt pulling at her bra, touching her breast while the other hand moved below the hem of Alex's pants. Alex held her wrists over Piper's head with one of hers pushing them against the door.
"Wait" - Alex growled out, unbuttoning Piper's pants and wiggling her hand into them, touching Piper over her panties- "you are so fucking wet."
"Yes, but let me touch you, please, now - Piper said whimpering against her neck. Alex let go of her hands and guided one under her pants.
Piper awkwardly pushed a hand inside Alex's pants, grazing her wet pussy and smiling widely when she heard Alex let out a moan. Alex moved the blonde's flimsy underwear to the side dipping into Piper's pussy, gathering her wetness up to her clit and moving her fingers slowly in circles. Piper fumbled trying to push her hand deeper inside, finally able to brush her fingertip over Alex's clit. They swallowed each other moans by kissing fiercely, driving each other crazy in each wonder kiss touch and caress but still the faint, unfulfilling touching left them both throbbing with the need for more.
"Piper, fuck...please" - Alex moaned loudly against Piper's lips. Piper pulled her hand out, flipping around and pushing Alex against the door and then kneeling down in front of Alex and trying to get rid of her pants. Alex shook in anticipation, helping push the pants down to her ankles, her hands clenching her blond hair to bring her mouth close to where Alex needed it. Piper closed her eyes, inhaling her smell, kissing her pussy just above her clit and then touching it with the tip of her tongue, before licking a couple of times before increasing the pressure softly.
"Yes, god…" - Alex moaned arching against the door- "you are doing gre…"
"Alex, are you ok?" - Sylvie asked knocking at the door. They stopped. Fuck! Sylvie.
"Everything is fine Sylvie!" - Alex said trying to catch her breath -" there was a line. I will be right there."
"Ok, babe"- Sylvie said- "are you sure you are ok?"
"Yes, please let me use the fucking bathroom in peace" - Alex said pulling Piper up from her knees.
"Ok, Ok. Sorry!" - Sylvie said. They heard steps walking away and silence.
"Fuck! Sorry, kid"- Alex said pressing her forehead against Piper's- I won't let that happen again.
"Don't worry -Piper said hugging Alex tightly, pressing her face to Alex's neck trying to normalize her breath.
"Can we go to your place?" -Alex whispered softly in her ear.
"Yes, we can" - Piper answered relieved to be able to see her tonight.
"Send me a text to remind me of your address and I will be there in 30-40 minutes max "- Alex said kissing her.
"Ok" - Piper smile naughtily- but remember you owe me, twice now.
Alex laughed. They washed their hands, fixed each other clothes and hair and Alex walked out first but not before kissing her.
When Piper arrived at her apartment, she organize a bit, changed into her sexiest underwear and pajamas. She drank beer, feeling her body vibrated with pent-up desire. Her roommate was sleeping soundly so when the intercom buzzed Piper answered quickly.
"Hey, Kid "- Alex said her voice husky- "is me."
Piper pushed the bottom, opened the door and waited leaning on the threshold. Alex came up the stairs quickly with that arrogant smirk on her face. Piper pulled her by the lapels of her leather jacket kissing her hard right in the middle of the hallway. Alex responded ardently moaning in her mouth.
"My roommate is sleeping so let's be really quiet"- Piper whispered against her lips.
"Well, Kid" - Alex smirked- "that's going to be difficult as you aren't very quiet when you come" - Alex said with a smug smirk on her face- "at least not with me and I am planning to make you come many…"- Alex said kissing her- "many…."- Alex kissed her again- "many times." - They laughed and Piper pulled Alex in.
They reached her bedroom and Piper immediately closed the door and cradling Alex's face and pulling into a passionate kiss, wild, reckless energy bursting inside her. Their mouths fasten, opening, parting with each moan allowing their tongues to find each other. Piper craved all of her and couldn't move her hands quickly enough. Piper took off her jacket, pulled out her t-shirt and tried to unfasten her bra but couldn't so she pulled it up. Piper pushed to her bed, straddling Alex's hips as her mouth tasted, sucked, nipped and kissed her neck. Alex moaned, straining against her, stifling a laugh and finally flipping their positions until Alex was on top of her.
"What is the hurry?" - Alex murmured pulling her into a long, drawn out kiss- "Are you going somewhere? Or you just spend the last 40 minutes imagining everything I would do to you?"- Alex whispered against her lips between kisses- "I bet you are soaking wet right now" - Piper took her by surprise and rolled over, so she was on top of her against.
"Let me, you owed me my turn and I want you...I need you so much" - Piper dragged her lips away, kissing Alex's neck down her half-naked chest, dipping her mouth, nipping, kissing and circling her tongue around in her breast without touching her nipple -"I bet you soaking right now" - Piper murmured mimicking Alex's words and chuckling over Alex's nipple before sucking it.
A wave of pleasure ripple through Alex as Piper sucked her nipple so gently that it was torture and then harder, faster, tugging softly. Piper hands brush her skin, moving down Alex's body, her lips following the trail left by her hands, she kneeled down stroking Alex's thighs, taking off her boots and placing a open mouth kiss in the sole of Alex's feet that made Alex squirm and whimper. Piper peeled off her jeans, dragging it down her hips, Piper's teeth pulling the soft skin at her lower belly, sucking the side of her thigh, kissing her hipbone, her mouth trailing behind every inch of exposed skin. Alex trembled when Piper's tongue brushed the back of her knees.
"Do you still need coaching?" - Alex asked breathlessly and teasingly.
"You tell me"- Piper answered.
"Oh, confident now, eh?" - Alex said amused- "Don't dismiss my coaching….." - Alex said slightly breathless- "….I am kind of an exper…:" - Alex's voice cached in a moan when she felt Piper's tongue licking, and then her mouth sucking her clit.
Piper buried her nose in Alex, intoxicated with the wonderful smell of Alex's cunt. It made Piper wet just by laying there between Alex's thighs. Alex gripped her hair pulling her deeper. When Piper's tongue flattens, licking her pussy the from bottom to top and back, she felt Alex body tremble and her own pussy throbbing in pleasure.
"Oh, god, Piper …"-Alex moaned- "please, don't …."- Alex said body buckling under her hands.
"Don't what? Don't stop?" - Piper whispered, her tongue traveling up her inner thigh- "don't keep going?"- Piper said her mouth an inch away from Alex's cunt. Piper exhaled cool air into Alex wet pussy.
"Don't...fucking stop "- Alex tremble, shiver against her.
Piper started licking her wet cunt from the bottom, reaching the top and parting Alex's lips with her own, sucking, licking kissing around Alex's clit never touching it, her tongue driving Alex crazy with pleasure. Piper sucked, licked, nibbled and then flickering tongue until she felt Alex's body tremble, her hands roughly pushing her head closer as Alex edged to the brink when Alex inner muscles clenched, Piper pushed two fingers inside her, thrusting while finally flickering her tongue over Alex's clit and then sucking it making Alex come fast and hard with long groan. Piper slipped a third finger inside, thrusting deeper, over and over until Alex's back arched again and Alex felt herself bursting again, her body imploded with pleasure so sharp, so hot that left her breathless, dazed and disoriented. Piper drank her wetness, lapping at it until Alex body stopped convulsing and then moved up Alex's beautiful, tone body, gently kissing her thigh, her stomach, her nipples, and finally kissing Alex's lips, tenderly.
"Are you sure you haven't done this before?" - Alex asked panting.
"No, never" - Piper said nuzzling her neck- was it good?
"Couldn't you tell?" - Alex said still breathing heavily.
"Well, yes but I mean compared to... "- Piper said blushing.
"It was fucking amazing compared to everything" - Alex said stroking her cheek- "so much that I am sure you are lying….."
"I am not!" - Piper said propping herself up - "I might have researched it….. and maybe I read a few articles..."
"You did?" - Alex laughed uncontrollably.
"You are making fun of me "- Piper said moving away irritated.
"No, I think you are fucking adorable" - Alex said pulling Piper back to her side, kissing her and laughing - "and I think all that research, reading had to be exhausting.." - Alex said kissing her "-... I have to show you the proper ….appreciation."
They spend hours filled with sex, teasing, banter and brief moments of sleep. Alex made her come again and again and again until Piper lost count and Piper always returned the pleasure.. They fucked voraciously, gently, violently and tenderly. Piper discovered that her body would awaken every time she found a caress, a touch, a small piece of skin that made Alex quiver, that nothing was more erotic than hearing Alex whimper, moan, beg in pleasure and that when Piper smelled her, when Piper tasted her own pussy would awaken and throb.
Piper smiled into the pillow feeling her body sore, sensitive and wonderfully tired. It was still dark outside when she turn around and found Alex fully dress next to the bed. The room smelled like undiluted sex.
"Hey, kid "- Alex said sitting next to her, caressing her naked back in circles- "I have to get going."
"Ok" - Piper took her glasses from the nightstand, sat up to be an eye level and carefully slip them into Alex face-" I want to see you again...I mean... can I? do you?"
"I do"- Alex said cradling her face and kiss her softly - "Stay in bed"- Alex said against her lips- "I will call you. Soon."
Piper smiled, closed her eyes and buried her face on the pillow recognizing something else lurking behind. it. The room also smelled like Alex. Piper took a big breath inhaling deeply until everything from her every pore of her skin to every cell in her blood, was full of Alex.
Alex reluctantly walked out, closing the door of the small the apartment behind her. She was surprised at how amazing the sex had been and more than eve she wanted more of Piper. She felt different. Was she actually different or was she so bored with Sylvie that it made another woman feel different? Fuck, how long had she been with Sylvie? 5? 6 months? She wouldn't have fallen into the fucking u-hauling, lesbian trap. It was all her own fault. Alex arrived home and was barely closing the door when Sylvie's voice came crashing down on her.
"Where were you? You were fucking someone, right? "- Sylvie yelled, ragging - "was it the blonde or you already have a replacement? Do you even think about me? Do even care how... "
"Jesus!, Sylvie" - Alex threw her jacket on top of the sofa-" we are in an open relationship! What part of that you don't fucking understand? Yes, I was with somebody. It doesn't matter who….this is what is means to be in an open relationship. You don't like it. There's the fucking door" -Alex strip and when to take a shower.
Alex stepped into the shower and let the images of the night fill her. God, how long had it been since she had a night that good?! She let the water run over her body and laughed, feeling her body saturate and sore. After she took a nap and when she woke up she worked, ignoring a sulking Sylvie giving her a much welcome "silent treatment" when she was up to date with all the days movement, Alex smiled and decided that she need to buy Piper the most beautiful shoes in 9 1/2 she could find.
What would had been nothing more that a brief sexual fling had become a quenchless desire, a need that seem insatiable and all-consuming. Four weeks had gone by, and Piper was giddy her days were nothing more than a dizzy blur, and the encounters with Alex were the only thing that was luminous and clear. Piper knew that they were nothing more than fuck buddies, every time they were near they fucked each other brains out; well, ok, maybe they spent more time together than fuck buddies should normally spend; and sure they talked endlessly about books, politics, movies, music, in fact about everything but Sylvia and her business, everything else was fair game, swapping opinions about whatever came to mind, teasing each about to death, always eager to know, to discover the world and see through each other's eyes. Sometimes they would lapse tell a story a memory that was unwittingly too meaningful, too naked that mean they were recklessly approaching intimacy, and a compulsory joke was made, always, awkwardly trying to diminish it. But they both knew It happen. And Piper knew that definitely wasn't normal "fuck buddy" behavior but Alex wasn't normal, and she liked her, so she think about too much.
But then they were all the ways Alex threw her off balance. Like when she open her apartment door to find a box with a witty note about missing shoes, regretted "punch in face" life experience and fucking her when she was wearing her new shoes. And Piper didn't know what she loved more, the note or the amazingly beautiful Manolo Blahnik strappy sandals, almost the same color of Marshall's' shoes she left at Alex's house. She didn't think Alex was trying to "sweep her off her feet" but if they haven't seen each other lately Alex would drop by the restaurant and seat at her section to have a fleeting conversations while she worked and Alex ate; or Alex would come to her place with a new book she read and thought Piper would enjoy leaving it behind with a casual remark about discussing it later; or that time Alex casually called telling she would pick her up later to see the "that" play, "that play" being the same Piper had casually mentioned days ago when she unsuccessfully tried to get tickets before they sold out and when she gushed out her thanks Alex only reaction was to teased her about the many ways Piper would have to pay Alex's back if it sucked; or when Alex had to out of town for a week in a "business" trip to D.C. and brought back a tin box of Berger cookies & a can of crab house crunch for her pronouncing them "favorites from the local area" and making Piper laugh when said mention a plastic Lincoln memorial keychain Alex had originally considered. And it hasn't the shoes, or the play or any or the other stuff in fact she would had been very happy with the plastic key chain, it was Alex herself and Alex way of doing things. Because what actually killed her was the way Alex remember what she said not matter how insignificant or the sudden tenderness in the way Alex tucked her blond hair behind her ear, or touched her neck or cheeks in unexpected moments and places or the way Alex looked at her so softly, so lovingly.
So Alex didn't try but she kinda, somewhat had swept her...because Piper felt herself getting closer, wanting more, even if she didn't know exactly what the more was but she wanted it but then there was Sylvie who lived in her apartment, Sylvie who slept in her bed and last minute changes or cancellations because of Sylvie., constant calls from Sylvie every time they were together and even if Alex always glanced at the screen of her cell and ignored it it bother her and even if Alex explained that they had an open relationship Piper felt uneasy, a seed of need growing inside of her and if she imagine Alex with Sylvie she felt herself going crazy with anger and she didn't know what to do with any of that.
Piper had been introduced to John, an all around nice, handsome guy by Polly in one of the few nights Piper went out with her and her work friends. She knew Polly suspected that something was going on with her, but she never had a chance to interrogate Piper as she was busy with the internship, commuting, looking for an apt and Chad. Piper wasn't surprise when John called her to go out on a date, because Polly had the same compulsive need to set Piper up that her mother but and even if Piper didn't particularly want to date or go out with anyone but Alex but she accepted because she need a distraction. Her cell rang when she was finishing getting ready. It was Alex. They rarely planned in advance to see each other; Alex was aware of her work schedule and would call her an hour or two before coming over or picking her up. Piper thought about not answering but then felt ridiculous, they were honest with each other, and there was no reason to feel uncomfortable. Alex had a girlfriend. They were just having sex, incredible fucking sex but just sex.
"Hey "- Piper answered.
"Hey, Kid" - Alex said. Piper could feel the smile in her voice- "do you want to go out? Or would we stay in tonight?"
Footnotes
Prospect Heights is in Brooklyn. Ok. So I decided to have Piper & Alex in NYC even if the script said Northampton for several reason, 1) I am not familiar with Northampton but I know NYC; 2) It doesn't make sense to me that Alex lived in Northampton and never meet Piper before when Northampton is a pretty small college town and Alex is in the business of recruiting girls like Piper, 3) I would assume that Alex travels to different colleges towns as not to recruit in the same place and raise suspicions and 4) Alex's apartment in the all the flashbacks feels like NYC, this is entirely subjective but to me they feel and look like NYC.
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, H. Böll
Both quotes are from Hopscotch, J. Cortazar