Author's Note:- I do not own the rights to these characters. I do not own the rights to my title; it is St Augustine's famous quote, also used by St. Thomas Aquinas in relation to naturalism theory.
Good lord, I actually managed to get a chapter up on time.
FULL DISCLOSURE: There might be some funny terms or spelling in this chapter - it's not incorrect, it's NZ spelling and grammar. There are also some things I have a different term for in comparison to what many people in the US, UK and even Germany would. You guys are the majority of my audience, so I apologize. I think you would call a changing room a 'dressing room'? Feel free to PM me if I have used any other 'Kiwi' terms which may not be familiar to you :)
This is PART ONE.
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Piper awoke first, twisting her head gently as she lay to stir herself. She felt a resistance and realized Alex's arm was wrapped around her. Alex was also tucked in tight behind her, her ragged breathing tickling the back of Piper's neck.
Piper turned slowly under Alex's arm to face her. She looked at Alex's face and felt a surge of concern. Alex's forehead was creased in a frown and her eyes were moving rather wildly behind her eyelids. Piper considered letting her sleep but only for a second. It looked like Alex needed to be woken to relieve her from whatever nightmare was holding her captive in the depths of her endless thoughts.
She kissed Alex's eyelids gently, kissed the tip of her nose far slower, and then rested her lips on Alex's.
Alex fluttered into life, looking straight at Piper's sweet face. Her eyes were looking all over Alex's half naked body underneath the covers, which she had peeled back slightly.
"Good view for a morning, is it?" Alex smirked.
"The best," Piper smiled, snuggling her body closer to Alex's.
Alex pulled Piper flush against her with the arm that had been wrapped around Piper over the course of the night. Piper breathed out against Alex's collarbones as she felt a rush of desire flood through her when their bare tummies pressed hard together. Alex breathed low, pushing her tummy out to minimize space between herself and Piper. Piper breathed again, pulling Alex's forehead down to meet hers. They breathed in time together, gripping hard to each other's limbs.
"Pipes," Alex rasped out, pushing her hair off of her face.
"Yah," Piper replied quickly.
"I want to spend the day with you today."
"Al," Piper rasped back. "It's Thursday, can't we wait until the weekend?"
"No," Alex said insistently. "I want to treat you today. I want to spoil my girlfriend."
"Oh, Alex," Piper whispered.
Piper slid her hands down from the sides of Alex's face to her jaw. She lifted Alex's chin and pressed the tips of her lips against Alex's. She breathed hard against them, allowing the sexual tension and desire to build. After just a few moments, neither Alex nor Piper could take the tension anymore. Alex lunged forward and closed the space, hungrily slipping between the gaps in Piper's lips. The two began to kiss hard and then soft, pulling away and then pushing in. Alex slid the arm, which was still around Piper, flat down Piper's back. Her palm curled up and under Piper's ass cheek, grabbing a handful and introducing the tip of her tongue to Piper's parted lips. Piper moaned and opened her thighs involuntarily. Alex ceased the opportunity and turned her body slightly to push her thigh between Piper's thighs. When Piper dropped her pelvis again, she found Alex between her and moaned again. She began to move her front against Alex's bare thigh, kissing under Alex's jawline. Piper's lips searched slowly and purposely for Alex's sweet spot behind her ear. Piper found it and sucked with wide, wet lips. Alex growled, squeezing Piper's ass harder. Piper moaned into Alex's ear, nibbling on her earlobe and sucking to ease the sudden biting sensation. Alex lost it, closing her eyes and bowing her head underneath Piper's in submission.
"Piper, no," Alex begged.
"No?" Piper chuckled in surprise, resuming the sucking motion on Alex's trigger spot.
"I'm throbbing, Pipes. I can't think."
"Who needs to think?" Piper laughed. "I can soothe the throbbing, you know. All you have to do is ask."
"Save this for later. I will think about it all day," Alex growled.
"Is that a booty call?" Piper winked, having pulled away to look Alex in the eye.
"You'll have to find out."
"Okay," Piper mouthed, leaving a final searing kiss on Alex's lips.
After a morning of pancakes whilst still in panties and watching The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Alex dragged Piper into the shower.
"Alex, come in with me!" Piper called from the bathroom, only two doors down from hers.
"Too much temptation," Alex called back, laughing at Piper's attempt at luring her into the steamy room.
"If you don't take care of me, then I'll just have to imagine it's you."
"What do you mean, Piper?" Alex asked, wary.
"I mean that if you won't touch me, I'll touch me."
Alex got up and ran-walked to the bathroom, bursting through the creaked open door. She caught sight of Piper bent over the sink, her bare body exposed to Alex at the door. Alex saw the tips of two fingers appearing and then disappearing between Piper's legs, and her elbow lifting and falling in sync with the two fingertips.
Alex's knees got weak and she fell back on the doorframe, trying to look cool. Piper looked at Alex in the mirror and continued her ministrations.
"Touch me, Al," Piper begged.
Alex felt a strangled moan catch in her throat as she took Piper's naked body in. Alex wanted to nonchalantly walk up behind Piper and stand against her butt, grinding herself against Piper.
Instead, Alex turned to her left and turned the shower on cold. She walked up to Piper, took hold of her arms and pulled her up straight.
"I'll fuck you tonight, just be patient," Alex growled in Piper's ear.
Without waiting for a response, Alex turned Piper around and led her gently into the shower.
"Al!" Piper screamed. "It's freezing!"
"It looked like you needed to cool down," Alex quipped, closing the door of the bathroom behind her. "Clean yourself up, we're going into town."
Alex, where are we going?" Piper asked, stepping aside for a tall, suited man striding down Lambton Quay.
"I'm taking you shopping," Alex replied simply.
"Shopping?"
"Yes."
Alex stopped short outside a two-story, high-end shop. It seemed to specialize in evening wear, such as evening gowns and men's suits.
"Come on, Pipes," Alex said, taking Piper's soft hand in hers.
"Oh, Al," Piper marveled.
In every obscure corner of the store were beautiful dresses, set up in scenes to reflect the occasion they may be seen in. Low lights, fairy lights, and occasional spotlights lit up the black walls of the store.
"Pick any one you like, Pipes, I'm taking you out tonight."
Piper couldn't say anything. Instead, she walked over to the nearest dresses and lifted the soft material up into her hands and allowed it to run through her fingers.
"Beautiful," Piper whispered, but loud enough for Alex to hear.
"You're telling me," Alex whispered back, cocking her slightly and smiling.
A man in a tailored suit approached the pair with a bottle of Moet champagne and two glasses hanging upside down from his fingers.
"Can I offer you a drink, ladies?" he asked politely in a thick New Zealand accent.
"Sure," Alex nodded.
Piper was still in awe of the shop and the dresses she could see arranged around the store. Alex winked pointedly at the man and curled her finger towards herself, indicating for him to pour the drinks and give them both to her. He bowed his head slightly and smiled, handing them both to Alex.
"Let me know if I can help you with anything else," he continued to smile, turning and backing away.
"Here that, Pipes? Anything else you want, just say so and it's yours."
"Oh, Alex," Piper gasped, turning around and running to Alex's arms. "What is all of this for?"
"For you," Alex replied.
Piper looked up into Alex's eyes, rubbing her hand over Alex's collarbones and then onto her shoulder.
"We're going to this law event tonight. It's fancy dress, at Foxglove down on the waterfront."
"Foxglove?" Piper breathed, her eyes widening with surprise.
"Only the best for my girl," Alex chuckled, tickling Piper's chin with her finger.
"Well," Piper smirked. "I better look like I am worth going to this trouble for."
Piper turned, swaying her hips as she walked over to a display of blue dresses.
"Blue?" Alex queried, following her to the setup.
"For my eyes," Piper answered simply.
"Your beautiful, inquisitive, warm eyes," Alex sighed, eyes softening as she took Piper's beautiful form in.
Piper didn't turn, instead closing her eyes and smiling widely into the dark like a schoolgirl with a crush. She shook her head to get herself together and began to finger through the display. Her eyes locked on a tight navy blue gown with an ancient Greek God styled neckline and a diamond cut out where her cleavage would be seen. There were several smaller diamonds trailing down the abdomen area of the gown. It appeared as though the gown would begin to flow more freely once it had fallen over the bottom of the person wearing it.
"Alex, it's this one," Piper announced, taking it off the hook and holding it out to show Alex.
"Pipes, you haven't even tried it on," Alex chuckled, rubbing her hands up and down Piper's arms.
"Are you saying I am too fat for it?" Piper mock-gasped, pulling back from Alex.
"Oh, don't be so precious," Alex laughed, giving Piper a playful shove. "Go and try it on then."
"Yay!" Piper squealed, trying to walk calmly over to the man who had poured them the drinks, which she had long since set down on a nearby table.
Alex smiled, watching her girlfriend trying to contain her palpable excitement at the prospect of dressing up and going out.
Just as she finished admiring this woman, her phone began to buzz in her pocket. Alex frowned and pulled it out of her pocket. Her office number read on the screen and she swore, seriously considering avoiding the phone call.
"Fuck it," she mumbled, sliding the white button across the bottom of the screen. "Hello?"
"Alex, hi! It's Jack," a man replied.
"Hi, Jack," Alex confirmed, releasing a breath she wasn't even aware that she was holding.
"We weren't aware that today was a day you were going to work from home."
"It wasn't, but I thought that since I am seeing you all tonight as well, I needed to have a bit of a break."
"Typical, Alex," Jack laughed. "Well, an envelope has arrived on your desk. It says 'urgent' on it."
"Oh?"
"Yeah, weird right?" Jack paused, waiting for Alex to jump in.
Alex didn't.
"What do you want me to do about it?" Jack asked, finally.
"What do you mean?" Alex asked, feeling suddenly disengaged in the conversation.
"Well, do you want to come by the office to pick it up? Do you want me to bring it tonight? Or, do you want to risk it and leave it for tomorrow?"
Alex stayed silent on the end of the line, wishing that if she stayed quiet enough this entire situation would go away.
"Alex?"
"Bring it tonight," Alex instructed. "But keep it quiet, I don't want anyone else knowing about it, okay?"
"Uh, sure, Alex," Jack said hesitantly.
"Well, it said 'urgent' didn't it?"
"You're right, I'm sorry, Alex."
"That's fine, Jack," Alex sighed. "I'll see you tonight. Thank you for calling."
"No worries."
Alex pressed the red telephone button at the bottom of the screen and hung up. She rolled her eyes and tucked it into the back pocket of her Levi black skinny jeans.
"Alex!" Piper called from halfway across the store.
Alex snapped out of her wallow and searched for the location of Piper's voice.
"Alex, you have to come quickly!"
"Coming, Pipes!" Alex called, spotting her blonde hair under the escalator in a large ballroom-styled changing room.
Alex stepped behind the curtain into the vast, open changing room and drank in the blue lust that was Piper.
"Pipes," Alex went to speak, her voice catching in her throat.
"It's good, right?" Piper beamed, running her hands down her body.
"You have no idea," Alex replied.
Alex had no idea about what was in store for her when she read the contents within that envelope, but for now, that wasn't what was important. Piper deserved everything she had to give, and Alex would give Piper her all.