Chapter 12: Trying Truth.
Author's notes: I remastered the first 11 chapters and made some improvements. So this content was previously in an older chapter, but here's the revisions and such with a lot of addition earlier on. New content will be out soon.
With the hacking completed Alex felt totally out of her game. Not only had Piper created a sentient lifeform, but now it was staying with her in her apartment and could access all her encrypted files without a second thought about it. Then on top of that Piper already knew how to talk to the beast and have it hack stuff for her without any restrictions.
Alex had a hard gut feeling telling her this was when she should smash her computers before Piper's creation took off to become worse than skynet, but she was overthinking this, and just needed to relax and have a drink. Piper was having such an unexpected influence on her, totally sending her equilibrium into massive disarray. But alcohol would cure that problem.
Alex padded across the carpet to the refrigerator and pulled out a bottle of champagne as she skillfully popped the cork. She paced back to Piper and poured her a glass as she sat down across from her at the exquisite mahogany table in the center of the dining room area.
"So do you always have champagne on ice or what?" Piper posed with a coy smile.
So sexy, and so innocent. She was blushing again.
"Actually yes, because I am always prepared," Alex replied as she drained her glass, trying to cover up her rosy cheeks..
"Apparently you sure are prepared since you sure showed my former roommate not to fuck with you. I'll make sure not to cross you."
"Likewise, that computer of yours is like nothing I've ever seen. I do really have to hand it to you; you truly are the wiz after all."
"Well I did tell you I was the wiz and all…"
"Sure, but lesson one as a capitalist, a person's word is just noise, nothing more, nothing less."
"That seems a little pessimistic, I mean to me my word is always my bond," Piper countered.
"Sure," Alex replied skeptically as she refilled both their glasses. "I'm sure you told your parents you'd go to your classes, but I feel like that bond lost value faster than Zimbabwe currency. And besides there aren't many people who really do what they say at all anymore, that's why it's just noise to me. Words mean nothing when they come from most people."
"Well I think that should change. People should tell the truth more," Piper announced as a wave of hypocrisy shot through her as she blushed again.
"Well look at you being the self righteous one of us right after you just broke several laws without a second thought. I mean hacking and fake id's are lying in a way, aren't they?"
"Maybe," Piper said with a sigh as she stared down into her glass pensively. Alex could sense Piper's mood change instantly from soaring spontaneity to something that seemed so somber. Alex refilled her glass as well as Piper's gently, trying to reassure her.
"So what is it? You just got so quiet so quickly," Alex murmured.
"Oh I'm just thinking,"Piper replied blankly.
"Hey don't get so distant on me here, if you have a problem just let me help," Alex smiled genuinely with more emotion than she expected. But maybe that was just the champagne.
"It's just… I don't know what the problem is really. I just… I just feel so lost in what's right and wrong right now, it's just all so complicated."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean I just feel so confused about what I should and shouldn't do, and what I should and shouldn't think. I mean I think crime is wrong, yet I hack without a second thought. I tell myself it's different for me to do it, but deep down I just don't see how? And then my parents are always against me and what I want, so am I wrong to defy them or not? My dad is always about nothing but money and grinding greed, so I think that's bad and hate people like that, but then somehow you're different. It all just doesn't make any sense to me," Piper finished, flustered.
"Hey it's okay," Alex soothed. "None of us are perfect and the world can never simply be black and white. Really nothing is good, nothing is bad, it just is. I know it sounds crazy, but think about it. If I go around labeling the world those labels are just rules in my mind that distort reality arbitrarily. In the end I think it's all about acceptance of what truly is without imposed rules," Alex mused thoughtfully, as she felt the alcohol begin to slur her words ever so slightly, her ambitions starting to lose their traction.
"I think you make a good point, I just feel so lost."
Oh that made her want to take Piper into her arms, kiss her until she couldn't worry anymore with Alex to shield her from the world; but she couldn't do that.
"Well I'll be here for you, I mean we're roommates after all and I own this place, so rent is a flat nothing for you."
"Really," Piper beamed at Alex. "You're letting me stay here with you for nothing at all?"
"Nothing but your company so I don't get lonely really."
"Ha that offer just seems too good from a self-proclaimed capitalist. You must have some sort of ulterior motivation. Hmmmm, maybe my old bitch of a roommate was right, maybe you are trying to get some lesbian action out of me after all."
Piper giggled lightly at her joke, but saw something dark flare in Alex's eyes. Alex glanced away from her as her cheeks turning a vermilion pink.
"Alex, are you okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine," Alex replied but couldn't hide the noteable knot of a sob in her voice.
"Alex, what's wrong, is it something I said…" Piper paused as the realization struck her like a two ton missile to the face.
Idiot!
"Yeah, now you know the truth. It's official, now you know the freak that I am."
"No Alex, you are a perfectly fine human being however you feel or..."
"No, no, you don't get it," Alex scoffed. "I am such a fucking idiot. I never see the truth even when it slaps me in fucking face. I'm just so naive, swept away because of the way I feel..."
"Alex, it's okay, I can accept you the way you are…"
"But I really can't accept you the way you are, that's my problem. Uhhh, this always happens to me but I never see it coming until it's always too late. Now you're staying with me and I have to tell you…"
"Tell me what?" Piper urged, her body clamping up.
Could it be?
"Piper, we both know I'm into you. Ever since we first met I started to fall for you... I should have seen this coming and I'm sorry that you're now stuck with me, but…"
Piper turned stiff as the true realization hit her and washed through her feeling her with a warm sensation deep down fueled on pure excitement waiting to shoot free.
"I'm really sorry Piper, I didn't want this to happen, but it all happened so fast…"
"Alex."
"I just I really started to feel something so strong for you and I wanted to…"
"Alex," Piper snapped even louder.
Alex cringed at the commanding tone in Piper's voice. It cut through her more painfully than cold steel or bullets ever could. Clearly Piper was disgusted with her and probably was unwilling to be friends now. Alex let the pain flow through her as she turned towards Piper slowly.
Tears coursed down her damp cheeks as the pain rippled through her full being, the loss of such beauty shaking her normally composed figure. Alex couldn't bring herself to look up, all she could do was stare down dejectedly as the sobs coursed through her in violent but miniscule spasms.
"Alex," Piper repeated slightly softer.
"What is it?" Alex replied as she brought her eyes to look into Piper's.
She was just in time to be pulled into the embrace of Piper's gentle lips. The kiss was mind shattering to Alex as she felt Piper fill her body with rays of hadronic heat. Alex could barely kiss Piper back in the excitement of the moment before she pulled away. Alex looked up at Piper with absolute astonishment.
"So now you know the truth about me as well, something my parent will never accept and that I've been hiding for a long time. Well now I'm done with living that way. Now you know I'm a lesbian as well, so let's have some fun," Piper purred as lust poured deeply into her rich tone.
Alex merely stared back at Piper with the truth just sinking in. Piper felt awkward for a moment with the long silence before Alex spoke. "Fuck yeah this'll be fun."
And in a second Alex had Piper's fabulous body in her embrace tight embrace.
