Author's note: Sorry for not updating sooner. I was going to update yesterday but then the site went down :( But I'm trying to update more often again. In this chapter I wrote something about college. I'm not familiar with American education system, so please don't mind the mistakes. Enjoy!

Finally Piper gulped and leaned forward. There were only inches between them. Piper closed her eyes and leaned forward again. This time her lips met Alex's.

The kiss was tentative as their lips moved in sync. Piper had dreamed about Alex's lips since the last kiss, but reality was so much better. Piper pulled back and looked at Alex's eyes. They were a shade darker than before. Piper grabbed Alex's face and kissed her again.

This time the kiss was more intense and Piper tangled her fingers in Alex's dark hair to keep her in place. Not like Alex would have gone to anywhere. Alex responded to the kiss passionately, this was so much better than she had imagined.

Finally the kiss broke because of their need of air. They stood closely and breathed heavily, foreheads pressing against others.

They were both happy. Very happy.

"What are we doing", Piper asked quietly.

"I don't know. Let's talk about this after work, okay?" Alex said as she caressed Piper's cheek gently.

"Okay", Piper whispered.

They heard someone walking towards Piper's office and jumped apart.

"Ah, here you are", Caputo said as he stepped into the room. "I got a job for you."

"Yes, finally", Alex said excited.

"There is this professor who is probably selling drugs to students. I need you to go there for a few days so you can gather the proofs and get the guy."

"We need to go to school? As students?" Alex asked raising her eyebrows from surprise.

"It's college. So you don't need to pretend to be teenagers", Caputo laughed.

"Oh, okay."

"The principal of the college told me about this, so you could today go to talk to her and arrange for details. Then you go tomorrow to study", Caputo said as he gave Alex the principal's name and the college's address.

"Cool", Alex said as she took the notes.

"Let's go", Alex said to Piper as she went to her own office to grab her things.

"So, you must be Alex and Piper", the oldish lady said smiling. "I'm Mrs. Bell, the principal of this college, but please call me Wanda", she said smiling as she shook their hands. "Please sit down."

Alex and Piper sat on the chairs in front of Wanda's desk.

"So, there is a professor who is selling drugs to students?" Alex asked as she took her notebook.

"Well, I think so. I saw him once with a student. I didn't see properly, but I'm pretty sure that he was selling drugs", Wanda explained.

"Okay, what's this teacher's name?"

"George Mendez", Wanda said and Alex wrote it down.

"Okay, what subject does he teach?" Alex asked.

"Math"

Alex asked couple of more questions until Wanda added them to couple of courses. Piper had math and psychology and Alex had math and literature. They thought that they would raise less suspicions if they took different courses. They were added with their fake names, Lucy and Kate.

They left the office and got to know the school. They checked where their classes were and when they found the classrooms, they decided to leave.

"So, where do you want to go?" Alex asked when they were sitting in a car again.

"Oh, right, yeah", Piper said. "Umm, I don't know? We could go to my place?" Piper asked.

Alex raised her eyebrows. She knew that Piper didn't mean what first popped in her mind but couldn't help herself. "Wow Pipes, isn't that kind of fast?"

Piper's eyes went wide. "What? No! I mean yes! But that wasn't what I meant", Piper stuttered.

Alex laughed. "I know. I'm just fucking with you."

Piper just stared at Alex. "Asshole."

Alex smirked. "I know. But yes your place sounds good."

Piper opened the door of her apartment and they stepped in.

"Do you want coffee?" Piper asked as she went to the kitchen.

"Sure, thanks", Alex said as she followed.

She sat down at the table and waited the coffee. Soon Piper brought two cups of coffee to table and sat too.

"So..." Piper trailed off. How do you even start this kind of conversation?

Alex sipper her coffee. "Okay, I'm just going to say what is on my mind", she started. "I like you. It would be extremely hard to work with you just as friends."

"I know. I like you too", Piper said smiling.

"Even if I really like kissing you, I think we should take it slow. It would just be awkward if we rushed into something and it wouldn't work. We still need to work together at least five months", Alex said thoughtfully.

Piper nodded in agreement. "It's probably for the best."

"But I would really like to see where this is going", Alex said smiling.

"Me too", Piper was smiling ear to ear. They were going to try this. "One more question. Is this some secret or..." Piper asked.

Alex laughed. "This is not a secret. But I was thinking that it would be better not to spread it around just yet."

"Yeah, yeah of course. I just thought about Polly. She is probably going to talk to me soon because of Larry so I was just thinking", Piper said chuckling. She needed to thank Polly. Without her pushing Piper and Larry together, the kiss wouldn't have happened.

"Oh yeah, it's totally fine. I think that my mother is probably going to know soon too. I promise, she has some super power", Alex said.

Piper laughed. "Your mom is just something else."

"Yeah, I don't know if it's a curse or a blessing", Alex mumbled.

"Definitely a blessing."

Alex was glad that Piper liked her mom. "Okay, now when I'm here, wanna watch a movie?"

"Sure."

They picked a random movie and went to couch.

"So... what does 'taking it slow' actually mean?" Piper asked curiously.

Alex raised her eyebrow. "I don't know, what did you have on mind?"

"Am I allowed to cuddle you when we watch the movie?" Piper asked shyly, biting her lip.

She was just so cute, Alex thought. "Yes, you can cuddle me", she said smiling and wrapped her arms around Piper.

Piper smiled and snuggled to Alex's side.

After a couple of movies Alex realized that the clock was already past 9pm.

"I'm probably heading home now", Alex said as she stood up.

Piper looked at Alex with her puppy eyes."You could stay a night?"

"Oh, no. That's far from taking things slow. If I stayed, I wouldn't be able to keep my hands to myself. So, I'm going to leave now and pick you up at 10am so we can go to study", Alex said laughing.

Piper pouted. "Can I have a goodnight kiss then?"

"Fine", Alex said as bend over to kiss Piper's lips softly.

Piper however grabbed Alex's face and kissed her hard. Alex was surprised but after recovering the shock she responded eagerly.

After a while Alex pulled away. "Okay, now I'm going to go when I'm still able to."

Piper smirked knowingly at Alex and loved the effect she had over the brunette.

"So, are you ready?" Alex asked as they were sitting in the car. The car was parked in front of the college, where they would be studying in couple of minutes.

"Yeah, this is so strange. Are we like friends?" Piper asked.

"Yeah, that's probably the easiest", Alex said.

They got up from the car and walked to the building. They found easily the classroom where the math was taught thanks their yesterday's exploration.

They stepped into classroom. There were only couple of students, thought the class would start only after ten minutes. They got curious looks but no one talked to them. They sat about middle and waited for the class to start. The students began to appear and finally a middle aged man came and shut the door.

"Hello again. I've been told that there is a couple of new students and that's why I'm introducing myself. I don't really care who you are and we aren't in a high school anymore, so you can just stay quiet and listen", The man said sounding bored.

"I'm George Mendez and I'm teaching math here. That's all you need to know", he said.

Alex and Piper glanced at each others. He obviously didn't like his job.

The class was over pretty quickly. Thought Mendez looked bored, he knew how to teach. Piper and Alex felt weird for just sitting there and studying the things they already knew but they played their part.

Everyone stood up and was starting to leave. Piper and Alex packed their things and were leaving when a voice stopped them.

"Hey."

Alex and Piper turned around and saw a young red head standing there. She quickly checked Alex out and Piper felt her temper raising.

"Who are you? I haven't seen you before", the red head said.

"I'm Lucy and this is Kate", Alex introduced them.

When Alex didn't say that Piper was her girlfriend the red head's smile widened. Piper was sure that she would punch the girl soon.

"I'm Rachel", the girl said flirtatiously.

Alex saw Piper throwing angry glares at Rachel and couldn't help but smirked. "Nice to meet you."

"So, how did you end up here?"

"I'm just taking couple of courses of math and literature. I thought that it would help to get job", Alex lied easily.

"Interesting", Rachel said.

Piper looked at her disbelieving. The only thing Rachel was interested in was Alex's cleavage. Piper squeezed her hands into fists.

Alex saw that and decided to put a stop to this. She found Piper's short temper kind of amusing, but they needed to keep it low.

"Okay, we need to go now. See you later", Alex said as she turned.

"I hope not", Piper said quietly as they walked out of the classroom.

Alex couldn't help herself. "She seemed kinda nice."

Piper's neck spun around so quickly that it could have broken her neck. She stared at Alex angrily. Alex couldn't have been not noticing Rachel's intention.

"Jesus, I was kidding. You look like you are going to kill me", Alex said only half joking. "You were totally jealous."

"I was not", Piper exclaimed.

"Oh, yes you were. If I hadn't left, you would have punched the poor girl", Alex laughed.

Piper glared at Alex. "I didn't like the way she was looking at you", she said finally.

Alex smiled. She liked that Piper was already possessive over her even when they weren't officially together. "I know. If she had looked at you the way she was looking me, I would have reacted the same way."

Piper smiled at Alex's confession.

"Okay. What are we going to do now? When do you have your next class?" Piper asked. Time to get to the business.

"It's at 1pm. Yours? I think we should just keep eye on Mendez", Alex said quietly.

"I don't have today. The class is only Monday, Wednesday and Thursday", Piper said.

"Ahh, you can just hang around his class or if he goes somewhere try to follow him while I'm at the class?" Alex said.

"Sure", Piper said and Alex went to her class.

"Hey", Alex said as she found Piper sitting on the bench.

Piper looked up from the notes she had been writing about Mendez. "Oh, hey. How was the class?"

"It was awful. I almost bored to death. Anything with Mendez?"

"Who is the overdramatic now?" Piper laughed. "But nothing much. He was just in the classroom until left couple of minute ago."

"Well, hope we get something tomorrow. Are you hungry?" Alex asked.

"Yes! I'm starving", Piper squealed.

Alex laughed. "Okay, my mom owns the diner near here. We could go there?"

"Your mom owns a diner?" Piper was surprised. She never thought about Diane's profession before.

"Yeah, she worked there before and now she is the owner since the last one moved", Alex explained.

"Ahh. Does this mean that we can have free milkshakes?" Piper asked hopefully.

"It means that we can eat there for free", Alex laughed. Piper loved food. How could she eat so much but still be so slender?

"What the fuck are we waiting for then?" Piper asked as she hopped up.

"Alex!"

Alex was immediately met with her mother's greeting when they sat down into booth. She smiled at her mother. "Hey mom."

"Ah, you brought Piper, I see", Diane said smiling knowingly. Alex didn't bring anyone expect Nicky to the diner. "So, what do I owe this pleasure?"

"We were working near. Or studying is maybe better word, but yeah then we became hungry", Alex said.

"Okay, what would you like?"

"I'm taking cheeseburger with fries and strawberry milkshake", Alex said without looking the menu. "What about you Piper?"

"I'll take the same, thanks", Piper said smiling. She was hungry.

"Okay, coming up", Diane said smiling as she left.

"Why your mom is working, if she owns the place?" Piper asked curiously.

"She likes working here and thinks that the employees like her more if she is working too. She really doesn't realize that everyone likes her anyway", Alex smiled.

"She is amazing", Piper said, secretly envying Alex's and her mother's connection. She had always hoped that kind of mom.

Alex saw something flashing in Piper's eyes, sadness? But it was gone as soon as it had appeared.

They talked about random things until Diane came back with their foods. "Here you go", Diane said smiling mischievously as she put the foods on the table. "It came some problem on our milkshake machine, but you can share right?"

Alex glared at her mother. She knew what she was doing. It didn't really disturb Alex, but she hoped that her mom would at least try to be subtle.

Piper didn't even notice thought because she was already eating her food.

Alex just shook her head. "Thanks."

Diane smiled sweetly and left.

Alex started to eat too.

"It's good", Piper said as she popped a fry in her mouth.

Alex smirked. "I know."

Piper took the milkshake and drank almost half of it.

"Hey! You do realize that we are supposed to share it?" Alex said grabbing the milkshake.

Piper pouted. "But it's so good."

"Those puppy eyes can get you almost everywhere, but I'm not letting you to drink the whole milkshake", Alex laughed.

"Fine", Piper huffed.

They continued eating and Alex kept the milkshake beyond Piper's reach.

Piper got an idea. She ate her last fry and sensually licked her lips. Alex's eyes glued to her lips.

"I'm still hungry", Piper said. "Can I have you fries a little?"

Alex's mind was imagining those lips and that tongue on her own lips and just nodded her head.

Piper leaned forward and was reaching Alex's fries until at the last moment changed her direction and grabbed the milkshake. Satisfied, Piper leaned back again and smirked, holding the milkshake.

Alex woke up from her trance and stared Piper disbelieving. "That was not fair", Alex said glaring at Piper.

Piper was smiling overly sweetly. "What wasn't fair? I didn't do anything", She said as she sipped the milkshake, licking her lips slowly again.

"Tease", Alex murmured.

They were unaware of the pair of green eyes looking at them. Diane was behind the counter and looked closely at them. She was sure that there was something between them. They looked each other differently and Piper's performance and the way Alex was reacting to that was far away from friendly.

Diane smiled to herself. She was right from the start. She needed to talk to Alex soon.

Alex and Piper were getting up and leaving when a voice stopped them.

"Are you just leaving without saying goodbye?" Diane said faking hurt.

"Yup, that was pretty much the plan", Alex said smiling.

"Don't even try. Piper, is it okay if I borrow Alex for a while?"

"Yeah, sure. No problem", Piper smiled.

Alex let out of sigh, she knew where this was heading. "You can go wait in the car, I won't be long", she said as she gave the keys to Piper.

Piper left and Alex sat down again. Diane sat opposite of her smirking. "You seem close."

Alex rolled her eyes. Yup, her mother knew. "Yeah, whatever."

"Is it?" Diane said, enjoying her daughter's discomfort. She never really had the chance to tease Alex about her love life.

Alex stayed quiet and waited for the 'I told you so'.

"It's good to know that you have finally admitted that you like her. I'm assuming that she feels the same way?"

"Mom! Look, I don't know... It's... complicated? I don't know, we are figuring it out", Alex explained as she fidgeted her glasses.

"What's complicated? You like her, yes?" Diane asked.

Alex was feeling very uncomfortable in this conversation. Even if her mother was her best friend she wasn't used this kind of conversations. She nodded even if Diane already knew the answer.

"And she likes you?"

"I... I guess?" Alex thought about it for a while. Piper had told her that she liked Alex. "Yeah, she likes me", she continued.

"Then what's there so complicated?" Diane asked. How could Alex be so brilliant and then times like this she could be so stupid?

"We have to work together. It would be just awkward as fuck if it wouldn't work", Alex exclaimed.

"Jesus Alex! You just don't realize it, do you? She is over her heels for you. I don't know her that well, but I can already tell that she is an amazing woman and if you just give it a shot, everything would work out just fine! I didn't raise you to be such a coward! Go talk to her and ask her on a date", Diane laughed.

"But-"

"No buts. Now go", Diane shooed.

Alex rolled her eyes. "Fine, but if this doesn't work, I'm accusing you."

"Don't be ridiculous. It will be fine", Diane said reassuringly.

Alex left and went to her car. She opened the door and slumped into the seat. "One time. She saw us together one fucking time and she already knows. Like I said, superpowers", Alex complained.

Piper laughed. Surprisingly the idea of Diane knowing didn't bother her at all. "So, what did you talk about?"

"Nothing much, she just talked about things and I realized something."

"What?"

"This could go completely wrong, but I don't want to believe on it, so... I really don't want to take it so slow anymore. But if you want that's okay too", Alex said as she looked at Piper's eyes.

Piper smiled. "I don't want to take it slow either."

"Good, this doesn't mean that we have to rush things, but I was just thinking that we could go on a date?" Alex said unsure. She realized that she had never taken girl to an actual date.

"I would love that", Piper said smiling widely.

"Okay cool. It's on me, so how does this Saturday sound?"

"Perfect", Piper said as she leaned forward. "Am I still allowed to kiss you before that?"

Alex laughed. How could Piper be same time so cute and so hot? "Yes", She said as she put her hand on Piper's cheek and leaned forward.

Their lips connected and Piper's lips parted, allowing Alex's tongue inside. Their tongues didn't fight for dominance, they just swirled around each other. Both of them just enjoyed the feeling.

They broke apart and Piper was sure that she would never get enough of Alex.

"You are definitely allowed to kiss me", Alex said smirking.

Thanks for reading! Please review and tell me what you would like to happen or if there's something to be more. Thank you also for the previous reviews and ideas. :)

-Iina