"Hey kid, you even home right now?"

Alex looks up from her plate where she was mindlessly pushing around the food she had been given, and straight into the green eyes of her mother,

"Hm? Yeah sorry mom, just… Thinking…" she trails off, her mind wandering back to Piper, her eyes stray to clock, she'd be here in an hour.

Diane watches her daughter's eyes and follows them to the clock on her kitchen wall, turning back to Alex she looks at her with much softer eyes,

"What time is Pipes gunna be here?", she asks, trying to catch Alex's eye.

Alex frowns, of course her mom sees straight through her.

"In an hour," she tries to say it carelessly, "Why?"

Her mom stares at her, choosing not to push Alex further on this. She'd seen the way Alex acted around Piper, watched her ever since she was younger. She adores that girl.

Diane also thought she saw something in Piper when she was around her daughter, whenever she was asked about Larry her face would fall, but it would light up tenfold when Alex was brought back into conversation. Piper was a lovely girl, and she's never seen Alex look at someone the way she looks at her, she just hoped they would work it out without Alex getting hurt, she'd had enough of that in her short life.

"Well I'm going for my late shift in a few, so you kids have the house to yourselves for the night. There's beers in the fridge, and tequila in the cupboard. Don't tell Piper's parents, they hate me enough already." She laughed as she stood up from the table,

Alex grinned, she could always rely on her mother to give her a good time, she also felt a pang in her chest at the notion of her buying tequila, she knows it's Piper's favourite.

"Thanks mom, don't worry about Piper's mom… she hates everyone… even Piper."

They both laugh as Diane picks up her bag, she ruffles Alex's hair back and leaves, closing the door behind her and leaving Alex to her thoughts.

For some reason she feels nervous, Piper has been around her house millions of times, for sleepovers, parties, the lot. But recently, she'd noticed a change in Piper, and it filled her with hope that she tried to crush down every time it tried to grow.

Alex is midway through deciding what to wear when she hears a knock at the door, standing in the mirror in black skinny jeans and boots, her top half is covered only with a bra. Raising one brow at herself in the mirror, Alex decides to answer the door the way she is.

When the door opens, Piper is standing in leggings and a hoodie that's way too big for her,

She looks fucking adorable.

Alex smiles at her as the thought goes through her mind, she smiles widely at Piper, giving her a smirk when she gives her a flustered look at her state of undress.

Piper can't help but rake her eyes down Alex's torso, she's seen her in her bra plenty of times, why is this any different? But now, she was really looking. She noticed how nicely her breasts pushed together in her black bra, how thin her waist was in comparison, how soft she looked.

A blush crept over her face as she shook herself out of her trance and grinned up at Alex, pretending her meltdown didn't happen, she ducks under Alex's arm and walks into the house,

"Why please, Piper – won't you come in?" Alex asks sarcastically, earning her a stuck out tongue from Piper.

Alex makes easy conversation, asking Piper what she's wearing and offering her a drink, putting two shots of tequila in front of her on the countertop.

"You got tequila!" Piper's eyes lit up, and she saw off the two shots in front of her in record time.

Much time and several shots and beers later, Alex props herself up on the bed as Piper throws one of her famous drunken rants towards her.

"Larry doesn't even know what he's doing when we're in bed though, he just… shoves things at me and rubs hisstuff on me, you know?"

Piper swayed slightly, squinting and shaking her head at Alex, who wasn't listening to a single word she was saying.

Piper had been strutting around her room in her underwear for the past 10 minutes, 75% of the tequila bottle had gone, mainly into Piper's system, and Alex has drunk her fair share of beers too.

Alex watched her as she did her routine to get ready for the party, even tipsy she could still go through the motions without a problem. Piper stood in front of the floor length mirror in Alex's room, holding up two different outfits in each hand, comparing them on her body. Alex was sitting on the bed, the beer making her forget to be sly about checking Piper out. Her eyes roamed over the back of Piper, the way no clothes separated Piper's neck from her shoulders, the curve at the small of her back, the way her little waist dipped in the middle, but most of all, Alex stared at her ass. The underwear Piper was wearing left little to the imagination, and Alex was thinking about how much she'd like to pull the offending item off with her teeth when she realised Piper had been watching her stare in the mirror the whole time.

Piper watched her, she saw the heat in her eyes as they raked over her body; and she liked it.

Her stomach did flips when she saw the way Alex was looking at her, like she was starving and Piper was her favourite food.

When Alex met her eyes, she looked embarrassed, but didn't look away.

"Enjoying the view?" Piper asks, maintaining eye contact,

Why did I say that?

A logical voice passes through Piper's head, but is soon chased away by the voice of tequila,

Because you want her to say yes.

Alex cocks her brow in surprise at Piper's question, she didn't know if she was playing with her, but the look Piper was giving her was deadly serious.

Alex smirks, she didn't know if it was the tequila talking for Piper, but whatever it was, she liked it.

"Very much," she whispers, her voice raspier than she would have liked.

Alex felt like time had stopped, she stared into Piper's eyes in the mirror as she stood before her in nothing but underwear, and Piper was looking right back.

Piper shivered at the way Alex's voice sounded, and the confession on her lips rang through her head.

"Good," she whispers, then she catches up with herself, realising how quickly the situation was escalating. She looks towards the two outfits she was considering earlier, choosing the black skin tight dress, and dragging it up her legs and over her body.

All that was left visible to Alex now was the slit of skin on Piper's back yet to be covered by the zip of the dress. She looked away, frowning.

Good? What does that mean?

"Zip me up?"

Piper's voice pulls her back to the present and she finds her watching Alex with a soft expression, turned over her shoulder, maintaining eye contact directly rather than through the mirror.

Alex stood up, not saying a word, and made the few short steps towards Piper. The blonde turns again, to stare at Alex behind her through the mirror. Alex moves her hands to the zipper at the bottom of Piper's dress, just above her ass. Her knuckles skim the smooth skin as she grasps the zip, and she freezes, meeting Piper's eyes once more in their reflection.

Piper stood stock still, an electric current ripping through her body at the point of contact between her and Alex. She runs her eyes over their reflection in the mirror, Alex was taller than she usually was because of her boots and Piper's lack of heels, and she can see how close Alex is to her back.

She wanted to turn around, wanted to kiss her. She wanted to feel Alex pressed up against her, wanted to hear the sounds she'd make as she was being touched, the words she would say to her.

Alex watched the calculating look on Piper's face, her breath caught in her throat.

When Piper met her eyes again Alex let out the breath she'd been holding, the fire in Piper's eyes burned through her, right to the bottom of her stomach, where it unfurled and caused a warmth to spread through her.

Piper heard the breath catch in Alex's throat and all reason went out of her mind. Larry didn't matter anymore, her mother didn't matter anymore, all that mattered was Alex.

This is your chance.

Piper span around. With one arm clutching the still open dress to her chest, she curled the other around Alex's neck. A moment passed as she stared up at Alex's face, less than a second, and she saw the fire she felt in her own eyes reflected back at her in Alex's. Without another thought, Piper stretched up on her toes and finally, finally, pressed her lips to Alex's, feeling the softness beneath her.

And without even registering the absurdity of what was happening, Alex kissed her back and took her waist in her hands, resisting the smile that tugged at the corner of her mouth.