"No! Don't you go! Don't you fuckin' leave me!"
And with those nine words, all the feelings that Piper had cast aside for so long were brought back. Bubbling to the surface and letting awakening all the old feelings that Piper had for Alex, all those years ago, feelings that never actually went away.
"Okay," Piper said as turned and walked back to the dryer. "I'm here." Piper said. The way Alex said it, was the same way she had when she had asked Piper not to leave. And the look on her face. She seemed so scared, like Piper was the only person who could save her. Essentially she was, but would Alex have had the look on her face if it was anyone else?
As Piper was trying to get the dryer open, she kept thinking back to how she had left Alex behind, and how she had regretted it immediately. She remembered on the plane, she wished that she could have turned back, gone back to Alex, told her how sorry she was, and gone back to home together.
She hadn't done that, and now, here they were, Alex locked in the broken dryer, and Piper, trying to unjam the door to get her ex-girlfriend out. Piper wasn't pay much attention to what they were saying until Alex said;
"What, you expect me to wait for you to come around?"
"Come around?" Piper responded. "As in 'get back together', come around? Are you kidding me? I'm engaged."
"Right." Alex said, almost laughing.
"You know what, do not confuse this. Maybe, just maybe, we will get friendly again, maybe." Piper had said, trying to hide her feelings behind the tools she was holding.
"We were never friends, Piper." Alex said, gazing at the blonde through the dryer door.
"We weren't?"
"No! Not for a second. I loved you! I loved having sex with you." Alex had told her.
Piper looked up at the tall raven haired woman, glasses on the top of her head, eyeliner swept across her eyelids, mesmerizingly. Piper could hardly hold back the words. I still love you. But she couldn't bring herself to say them. Instead, she pushed them aside and got back to trying to fix the dryer.
-X-
That night, all Piper could think about was the look on Alex's face. It was true, they were never friends, and she knew soon enough, she wouldn't be able to hide it anymore. Piper still loved her, and she couldn't stop thinking about the sex that they used to have. The sex they both loved.
Soon enough Piper would break, and she would go back to the tall, gorgeous, amazing woman she had never stopped loving, she knew it…it was only a matter of time.