Mz Fitz: what is your blood type? My blood type is AB, it's very rare so maybe I might need one. ;p
This chapter will be in the 3rd person's objective. Enjoy!
Piper lay awake until dawn, trying to understand what happened earlier. How could she respond that way to her? She knows the brunette wants her, she knew that from the first week she was here, with how she looks at her like she's going to pounce on her. That or destroy her. She doesn't understand why she gets this feeling of being so vulnerable around her. Defenceless. Like Alex can own her. She's potent but she exudes this magnetic energy that's so prevailing, Piper admits to herself that she's intrigued by it. Even though all the warning signs are there, to stay away as far away as possible, she just can't help herself. The other woman can be so compelling especially now that she found out tonight that the brunette can be very charming as well. Not to mention that she's very easy on the eyes too. Gorgeous and very dangerous at the same time. Piper knows very well what the powerful brunette is capable of, she has, after all, been on the receiving end of her wrath before.
But tonight she's more confused as to how the other woman raised such turbulent, consuming emotions out of her, how she managed to take her in her arms and sweep away all of her plans, and get past her guard and her sense of decency.
Piper rolls over, burying her face in her pillow. From this night forward, Piper thinks that she will carefully avoid being in that kind of situation again. Any future contact with her will have to be brief, impersonal and just civil. Her mistake, and she will never, never make it again, was that she enjoyed her company so much tonight, been so disarmed by her relaxed persona, that she had started thinking of Alex as a friend.
Friend! She thought bitterly, rolling over onto her back and stare at the ceiling. Piper thinks a snake would make a more trustworthy friend than her! She's so unpredictable. One moment she's trying to intimidate and patronize her, then next moment she's seducing her. She thinks that the enigmatic woman would even try to seduce a nun inside a church if she put her mind to it. She would go to any length to make any conquests, Piper is sure of this. The harder Alex has to try, the more difficult her prey makes it for her, the better she seems to enjoy it.
All these thoughts were circulating inside Piper's mind while Alex, who was on the other side of the house was also tossing and turning inside her room, trying so hard with all her might to get some rest and not to break down the door, storm inside Piper's room and show the blonde girl all the want that's pulsating in every nerve inside her body.
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Piper brushes her hair while sitting in front of the dresser as she watches Miss Claudette talk while arranging some things inside the room.
"Her papa was a tyrant and abusive to her when she was growing up, I was the one who was always left to comfort Miss Alex when they left on one of their trips. And they left her all the time when she was little." Miss Claudette answers Piper's question about the Miss's family as she folds some clothes to be put inside the drawers. The old lady is careful about offering some information about Alex's background, knowing how she doesn't like telling people about her life story. But the old lady knows that maybe this would help make Piper understand her Miss a little and not hate her so much if she knew what she was really like.
"Miss Alex was a very sweet little girl. She even knew the names of all the people that worked for her father, down to the gardener and greeted them all the time." Piper finds it hard to imagine a cute little girl, walking around the grounds of her house cheerily greeting everyone. It's so different from the grown up Alex that she has come to meet.
The first time Miss Claudette tells Piper her Miss's name, she found it pretty and strong at the same time and thought about how much it suits the brunette. Although they haven't called each other by name, Piper knows that the other girl knows hers as well.
"One time, when she was six years old, she asked me to bake a cake for the driver's wife when she learned that she was giving birth at the hospital. She would always bring little flowers for me when she was outside playing." Miss Claudette continues as she places a dress to hang inside the cabinet.
Piper smiles at the thought of that and thinks to herself how a child can grow up and become so different. The old woman answers that question as if she had heard her thoughts."I use to wonder a lot how he could have fathered such a sweet little child. But despite being a hard man, Alex loved him so much. She would stay up late at night just to wait up on him, or whenever she knew he would be returning but every time he was supposed to, he never failed to disappoint her. Setting her aside or only noticing her when he finds something to criticize her about. Oh, but despite all that, Alex idolised her father so much. It broke my heart watching her all those times."
"Where is he now?" Piper wonders. Miss Claudette catches Piper's eyes in the mirror and realizes that she has said enough. Alex would be mad at her if she knew she had been telling Piper about her childhood.
"Oh! Would you look at the time! It's almost lunch and I still haven't told the other maids what we need to cook." She says as she hurriedly puts the clothes away, but before she reaches the door she turns to Piper once again and asks, "Are you ready for tomorrow?"
Miss Claudette had informed Piper this morning when she brought her breakfast that Alex wants to take her somewhere tomorrow morning. Piper was reluctant at first, thinking how Alex could just snap orders at her and tell her what she wants without asking. But Miss Claudette was always good in reasoning with her and explaining Alex's side. Like right now when the old woman was telling her the story of her Miss's childhood, Piper can't help but feel charity over the little girl who was so sweet that she'd ask her maid to bake cakes for other people. She has to admit, she's intrigued by Alex, not only to what her real role in all of this that's happening in her life is, but also to who she really is. There's something about the brunette that fascinates Piper, like looking into a fire, she knows she will get burned but it's so enigmatic that it still makes her want to touch it. She intends to find out everything while she's here but she has to be careful.
"Yes, tell her I'll be ready." Piper says decidedly.
"Oh, I almost forgot, Alex wants you to join her for breakfast tomorrow." Miss Claudette adds before closing the door.
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The next morning, Alex thought of trying to make amends with her guest because of how badly she treated her the other night. When she saw Piper enter the dining hall, she goes directly to her and waves to show her where to sit. Piper decided to wear a jacket when she left the villa because it was a little chilly this morning. Alex goes behind Piper and startles a little her when she suddenly politely inquires, "May I?" to take her jacket off for her.
"Thank you," Piper replies civilly, pushing back the jacket as she unfastens the zipper with as much speed as possible because she can feel Alex's hand on her shoulder. Her touch reminded her of the way Alex had held and caressed her the other night.
During breakfast Piper sat across from Alex while maintaining a cool, formal silence between the two of them. Alex attempts to talk to her but the blonde girl's distant and polite gestures annoy her.
Miss Claudette walks in to bring out the fruit on a very large tray and then sets it on the table quickly so she can get back to the smiles at the thought of Miss doesn't go unnoticed by Alex but she mistook the smile, thinking that the girl across her was beginning to warm up.
"I hope that smile is a sign that your opinion about me has softened." Alex drawled lazily.
Piper snaps her head around. "I have no opinion on you," she lied.
"I know you have a very strong opinion of me, Piper." She says chuckling. She'd rather banter with her if it means that she will hear what the blonde girl thinks than have her treating her aloofly. After what happened the other night, she's sure Piper will distance herself and be more guarded around her. She must find another tactic to catch her interest.
As for Piper, it was the first time that she had heard Alex mentioning her name. For sure, she thinks, it is to get a reaction from her, to feel closer. She must watch out for her next move. But she reminds herself that she must not be intimidated by her hostess.
Breakfast is like a feast.
Piper was toying with her scrambled egg, feeling so full from eating so much and feeling uncomfortable from being seated across from Alex. Alex's playing a hostess this morning with a natural, relaxed elegance that Piper reluctantly admires. Alex was taunting and goading her all during breakfast that by the time they were drinking coffee she is forced to break her self-imposed silence when she notices that Alex has been staring at her. "It's not polite to stare at someone that way." She tells her, while meeting the brunette's eyes.
"Well, you will find soon that I don't have many good manners." Alex says while grinning at Piper's angry face.
"Yeah, you have the manners of a barbarian." Piper says calmly, while Alex throws her head back and laughs.
Alex wants to keep her talking so she thinks of a question that would pick the blonde's interest.
"I was wondering if there is any particular game you would enjoy other than chess?" Her amused, dark brown eyes lock onto Piper's in silence.
"Yes," Piper says, boldly returning her gaze. "Darts."
A sly smile flickers across the brunette's features. "If I had any darts, which I don't, I wouldn't dare to be within your range."
"I warn you that I'm very excellent at it." Piper continues.
"Which is why, I would not care to be within your range." Alex says pointedly, grinning and lifted her cup to her as a gesture of salute. Piper accepts it with a nod and gives her an irrepressible sideways smile.
Alex watches her, wanting more than anything to snatch Piper into her arms, to kiss the laughing mischief from her lips until she's clinging to her, melting with desire. She leans back into her chair and relishes the knowledge that she has finally battered down Piper's wall of cold indifference.
"We're leaving in an hour. I want to take you island hopping." Alex says in her usual commanding tone which never fails to catch Piper's attention. It angers her a little how she never asks but just merely states whatever she wants, but she chose to stay quiet.
"We can talk better in a relaxed and beautiful environment, and maybe get to know each other better with no one else disturbing us." Alex tells her.
It was on the tip of Piper's tongue to retort that the last thing she wants is to be somewhere with her alone. She still hasn't figured out this whole emotion that Alex brings out of her and she doesn't want anything to happen that would confuse her even more. She's in such an emotional turmoil, she can't trust herself to speak.
Alex stands up and walks behind Piper's chair, bringing her the jacket.
"I'm not cold anymore." Piper informs her, trying to shrug the jacket off and take it from Alex's hand.
"Let me!"
Infuriated by her imperious tone, Piper stands up but takes the jacket away from Alex. But when she struggles with it Piper's temper ignites, sending a flush of hot color to the soft curve of her cheeks. "You are so rude... over bearing..." She clamps her mouth from frustration and rage when she sees the glint of laughter in Alex's dark brown eyes.
"Go on," Alex encourages," I believe you left off at overbearing."
She's itching to slap the mocking grin from Alex's face but instead she draws a long breath and says. "You know, I hated you from the first moment I met you and even if I did agree to be friends, my hatred still intensifies with every encounter since then." Piper says while staring fixedly at her.
Alex studies her face for a long silent moment and thinks that maybe she should stop taunting the blonde so much. "I'm very sorry to hear that," she says softly." "Because I thought that you were the loveliest, most enchanting creature God ever created."
Alex is startled with what she just said. There's no use hiding her attraction from the blonde but she's not ready to reveal any real feelings yet.
Piper's surprised too by the gentle caress in the brunette's voice, she searches her face for signs of sarcasm but finds none.
Seeing that she still has Piper's full attention, Alex takes the chance to use the situation in her favour by reaching out to trace the blonde's cheeks with her forefingers. "And the other night when you were in my arms, you gave no signs of this hatred that you say… In fact, you seemed to enjoy it."
With that last words Piper's softening features return to being angry. "I didn't enjoy one bit of it! In fact... I found them.." Piper desperately searches for the right words to use, hampered by the truth that they both know, her traitorous body did respond to her caresses that night. "I found them... disturbing!"
Alex brushes her knuckles along her chin, up to her earlobe, sending shivers down Piper's spine. "Those were very disturbing for me as well.." Alex murmurs quietly.
"Yet you didn't stop even if I told you to!" She yells in an outburst. "Even now, this very minute, I can tell you're waiting for an opportunity to... to pounce on me!"
"True," she admits. "I'm drawn to you like a moth is to a flame." Her forefingers press against Piper's trembling lips, tracing them, wanting nothing more than to feel them again on her own.
Piper swallows and quickly looks away. Sirens are blaring inside her head again, just like every other time Alex got this close to her. She feels so confused and miserable. She no longer feels so sure that Alex is a person that she must stay away from, yet feeling not anymore sure of that either.
"If you don't mind, I'm tired. Can I go back to my room first before we leave?" Not wanting to appear rude cause despite the different emotions that Alex brings out in her, she reminds herself of the once sweet little girl that this fiery woman in front of her was. And she must have some admirable qualities somehow for choosing to help her and make her stay in her house.
Alex nods at her and says. "I'll let you know when it's time to leave," before completely dismissing her.
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Yesterday Alex was informed that her parent's yacht is not available because it needs some fixing so she asked John to call a family friend who owns a vacation house at the other island and owns a boat they can use. The family doesn't live there so they sometimes rent out their boat.
Afterexactly an hour the boat arrives, and after docking, Alex sees from afar a familiar looking face she knew when she was a teenager from social functions she had attended with her parents. As the figure closely approaches her she can make out that it really is Larry Bloom, the son of the rich family who own this boat.
Why is he here? And why is he the one operating the boat? The last time Alex heard about him, he was in Europe doing god knows what.
He approaches her with a wide smile on his face. "Hi, Alex! It's so good to see you! I hope you still remember me?" He greets the brunette with enthusiasm. Yeah, Alex does remember him but the last time she saw him, he didn't look this good. He was a scrawny little kid and had a bad haircut but right now, the one standing in front of her looks so different. The grown-up version that's standing in front of her is undeniably handsome, with black hair and piercing, gold-flecked brown eyes.
Alex gives him a polite smile. "Yeah, of course I remember you." She needs to satisfy her curiosity as to why he's here so much that she doesn't even wait for him to explain and asks him herself, "Why are you here?"
"Well, I just arrived two days ago. I'm vacationing here and since I heard yesterday that you needed a boat, I decided to operate it myself so in that way, I can catch up with an old friend and go around the islands at the same time." He beams.
Alex does not like his idea one bit and is about to cancel the whole thing but when she turns around she sees Piper already approaching. She's wearing a yellow floral dress that matches the color of her hair and makes her look like she's shining while making her way toward the two of them.
"Who is that lovely lady right there?" Larry asks, Alex completely forgotten in front of him, as if he was completely hypnotized by Piper's appearance alone.
Alex decided, she doesn't like Larry one bit.
Piper, completely clueless as to what the two were talking about before she arrived just smiles at Larry, thinking he might be Alex's acquaintance.
Larry is obviously waiting for Alex to introduce the two of them but the brunette is still preoccupied in her contemplation on cancelling the whole plan that she doesn't see right away,how with a complete ease, Larry steps in front of Piper and takes her hand to shake it.
"Hi, my name is Larry. Alex and I know each other from way back and I'll be happy to take you two beautiful ladies around to see the island." Alex watching Larry,becomes annoyed that all this time he hasn't let go of the blonde's hand.
She is about to say something but she sees Larry already ushering Piper onto the boat, talking to her about how beautiful the island is and that he can't wait to show her the places that he knows they might like.
Cursing under her breath, she follows the two of them onto the boat, looking at Larry's smiling face and wanting to wring his neck with her bare hands. But what she hates even more is the look that Piper is giving Larry back.
This is not how she planned this trip to go. She hates how this day is going already.
I'm bringing in a little competition for alex and see how the two will be hehe : ) The next chapter will follow shortly. I just divided this into two chapters so I can post something for you guys already. This will serve as a preparation for the next chapter.
tell me what you think.
