Staring down at her plate she bit her lip as she dipped a piece of buttery toast into the egg yolk. It was childish but eggs and soldiers were one of her favourite foods, she could remember watching her father slice the toast into strips and joking about making sure their 'uniform' was perfect as he slathered them in butter.

After their 'talk' that morning Rachel and Piper had been moving around each other, Rachel didn't seem to mind but Piper was extremely uncomfortable. She hadn't shot the other girl down, she actually liked Rachel, but she was her friend and the furthest she had gotten was a kiss.

She wasn't sure if she wanted to go further, she had ruined a ton of friendships that way, and, if she was being honest, she was running really low on friends she hadn't ... Well... You know.

She wasn't sure how Rachel could be so calm. They had basically decided to not-date. Which wasn't to say they weren't dating but just that they weren't an 'official' item. She sandy really sure what to think of that.

Would they kiss?
Go out?
Fuck? (Though with Rachel it was probably labeled 'making Love')

She was confused as ever, and her eggs were going cold. Also Rachel was being distracting. After her roommate ' ..." Rachel? Rach?! Has the girl left?" Cue eye roll " no Pipe's is stating" cue annoyed grumble "aw come on Tavy" ...' had come out of the shower, a dork called Octavian who looked like a scarecrow and kind of creeped her out but Rachel had hugged, he had been curt smiled and left for work, Rachel had gone into the bathroom.

Two hours later and they were eating brunch , eggs and soldiers, and Rachel was being ... Nope distracting is the only word for it.

Her red curls were damp from her shower and tied loosely on a bun on the top of her head so loose strand's curled around her face, her after shower wear, a pair of cute , it's too early but I'm rich and don't care about heating bills, denim shorts that showed off far too much leg, a dorky Christmas jumper covered in dancing penguins, and leg warmers.

That wasn't the distracting part , except, well, that it was. The distracting part was
Her leaning against the counter he ass pushed out as she watched the eggs boil, how she bent over to take the washing up liquid out from over the sink, the way she...

No, no and nope!

Between everything that has been going on she did not need to be thinking about cute red heads or their cute butts. Even though they were Not-dating. Ugh. Whatever.

Finishing off her egg she tried to manoeuvre around Rachel to rinse her plate off. Of course miss 'stick my ass out' had her ass sticking out as she washed her own dish. She ended up with her thigh on , yes, on, Rachel's butt, her boobs pressing against her shoulder and her arms stretched around her to get her plate into the sink.

"Someone's eager this morning" Rachel murmured trailing one finger up Piper's waist. The thing about borrowing someone's clothes, they knew all the holes and loose strings, clearly Rachel wore this tee a lot because her finger slid along a piece of fabric that was almost thread bar as it danced from her waist across the abdomen.

Shutting her eyes tight to force away images of Rachel throwing her down and them fucking on the kitchen table, and biting her lip against a moan that was trying to escape she breathed deep.

Climbing off of the other girl she patted her shoulder, and smiled, trying not to think about how much she actually wanted to ... Ugh.

"So uh ... The weathers been really great recently "

(...)

Drew cursed every deity she could think of, which was a lot uh private school babes, and swore under her breath.

She was really worried about Piper. She had heard about what had happened at the ball, seen the fall out, and this stupid snow storm was stopping her from being sisterly and nice.

Thalia had come over and she had pried from her girlfriend, who had got it from her idiotic older brother, who had gotten it from her older but Apollo's younger brother Heravles who worked for Hylla and it wasn't all that surprising that he knew, exactly what had happened , but with the snow storm pulling up and tons of roads blocked there was nothing she could do.

She had told herself that the first hour as she soaked her feet in warm lavender scented water while watching Netflix with Thalia, insisted on it as she feasted on popcorn and chocolate instead of dinner, the snow storm meant no leaving the house for grocery's, and had forcibly removed Piper from her mind as Thalia carried her to bed.

But then it had gotten dark and lying awake in her bed she began to actually worry. The dumpster queen was seriously stupid sometimes and she might have gone out into the snow, and gotten lost, or hurt , or or or... And worse was she probably was still upset and ... Where was
Silena when you needed her.

She had tried phoning, texting, landline, even email. But their was no reception because of the snow and for some reason the landline wasn't going through, just before she could send the email the electricity had cut and she had even tried leaving the house but snow piled up I front of the door meant she was trapped.

She had panicked then. Woken Thalia up as she flailed about trying to think, and who had completely flipped out thinking they were getting burgled, until she realised it was only Drew, so she calmed her girlfriend down in the only way she knew.

A couple of hours later and Drew was sleeping soundly in Thalia's arms.