"We keep this love in a photograph

We make these memories for ourselves

Where our eyes are never closing

Hearts are never broken

And time's forever frozen still."

-'Photograph' by Ed Sheeran

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Two Days Later (May)…

"Hey beautiful." Piper said, poking Alex's uncovered leg with her toe. She was standing to the side of the bed, hands full with coffee and breakfast. Alex groaned, rolling away from her, wrapping the comforter around her bare shoulders. Piper smiled, "Well good morning to you too sunshine." "Why aren't you in bed?" Alex asked into her pillow. "I wasn't done with you yet." Piper grinned even wider, setting their coffee and food onto the desk, "Could've fooled me with all of that snoring you were doing." Alex rolled back to face her, green eyes looking up into blue, "I don't snore." Piper held up two fingers in measurement, "Maybe just a little?" Alex threw her pillow at the blonde, smiling when it successfully hit her in the face. "At least I don't drool." Piper gapped before saying, "Well considering who I sleep next to, you should be happy drooling is all that I do." Alex smirked, "I would not hold it against you if you dry humped me in your sleep." Piper winked at her before turning back to the coffee, "I brought you a present because you are just so good to me." Alex chuckled, taking her cup from Piper, "You have no idea how hard it is to have to put up with you."

"Is that so?" Piper asked as she took a sip from her own cup. Alex nodded, "Why do you think I kiss you so much?" Piper shrugged, "I just figured that I was just too irresistible." Alex laughed, "Nope, it's to get you to stop yapping." Piper threw her pillow back at her, missing Alex by an inch. The brunette stuck her tongue out at her as Piper held up a finger, as if getting ready to lecture her, "Don't be sticking your tongue out at me Vause unless you plan on using it." Alex smiled cheekily at her, raising a brow, "Who said I wasn't going to use it Chapman?" Piper blushed crimson, turning back to the bag of donuts she had sitting on the desk, "I got breakfast too." Alex looked at the bag before saying, "Woman, you sure know to make a girl fall in love with you more and more each day." Piper scrunched up her nose, "Cheeseball." Alex smirked, taking a donut out of the bag and taking a bite, talking with her mouth full she said, "You love it." Piper chuckled, "Almost as much as your eating habits."

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Piper met Alex in between classes beneath their tree. Piper kissed her briefly before speaking, "How is she?" Alex shrugged, "Nicky is Nicky, and the scary thing is I don't know this Nicky." Piper shook her head, "Neither do I, Lorna must have really meant something to her to be this worked up. The thing is though, since I've known her, I have never seen Nicky get caught up in a girl before like she is now." Alex shrugged, "It happens to the best of us." Piper smiled, kissing her again, "But seriously, what should we do? I mean, she's still deflecting with humor so that's a good sign." Alex nodded, "Yeah if Nichols stopped cracking jokes I'd be running for the hills." Piper chuckled lightly, "We should do something, Polly and Pete wanted to do a double date thing at the drive-in tonight. Let's bring Nicky with us." Alex shook her head, "So she can feel even more left out? I think she'd rather sit in a holding cell full of dudes." Piper sighed, "You're probably right, wouldn't hurt to ask though." Alex nodded, "I'll ask her in my next class, I'll have to wake her but shouldn't be a problem." Piper smiled, "Thank you, I love you. I'll see you later." She kissed Alex once more before heading towards her biology class.

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They all headed to the drive-in in Pete's jeep. Nicky only came because she was bribed by Alex with free food. "No orgasms in my boyfriend's car." Polly said as they pulled into a spot, the sun still had yet to set. She was looking at Alex and Piper in the back seat. Pete cut the engine, "Hey, doesn't the owner of said car get a say?" Polly looked over at him, "What's your say?" Pete smirked, looking in the review mirror where he could see the three girls in the back seat, "I say do whatever feels right." Polly slapped his arm, "No you don't get a say." "Gross." Alex said. Nicky chuckled, "I knew there was always a reason why I loved you Pete, you fucking perv." She was grinning though, wanting to play more into what he had started, "Hey, you know what would really cheer me up, a threesome." She watched as Polly cringed in the passenger seat, kicking her chair to piss her off even more. "In your dreams." Alex said, not skipping a beat. Pete guffawed, "Aw, but she's sad." Piper smirked, "Shut up, you just want to watch."

Pete grinned from ear to ear, taking notice to Polly who had climbed out of the car and headed towards the snack stand, "If I get Polly drunk enough, she'll join." Alex chuckled, "Is that supposed to make it more appealing?" Piper shook her head, "That literally makes me want to vomit out of embarrassment." Alex looked over to the blonde, wrapping her arm around her shoulders, leaning in to whisper in her ear, "I only want you babe." Piper blushed as Nicky rolled her eyes, "If you two don't cut it out I'm going to shove my foot up both your asses." Pete laughed, "Kinky." He climbed out of the car as Nicky did the same. "Alright Sargent Hard ass!" Alex shouted out of the window as her and Piper fell into a fit of laughter.

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"Oh Christ on a fucking cracker!" Nicky shouted from the back of the car. "What?" Piper asked, mildly concerned for her friend, looking up from her knitting. "I got popcorn in between my tits!" Nicky said, frustrated. "I could help you with that." Pete said jokingly, not taking his eyes off of the screen as he received another slap from Polly. "Sorry Peteyboy but I take the saying 'holes before poles' very seriously." Alex nearly spit out her soda, "Shit that was beautiful Nichols." "I know right, maybe we can get Grandmother Chapman over here to embroider it on a couple of pillows for us." Piper looked up from her knitting, glasses adorning her face, "You're just shocked that Alex isn't the only one that can look sexy in glasses." Alex smirked, pulling the blonde closer to her side, "Damn right." Polly shushed them which caused Nicky to kick her seat again, "Sorry Princess, but we're talking here." Then she looked back over at Alex and Piper, "Disgusting, both of you. Can't you see I'm mourning over here?" Alex laughed, "What the fuck are you talking about, Morello isn't dead." Nicky rolled her eyes, sighing dramatically, "No but my sex life now is." Piper smiled reassuringly, "Why did she call it off again?" Nicky shook her head, "Fucking Christopher."

Alex raised a brow, "Who?" Nicky nodded, "Exactly."

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AN: Hey guys, so this is my apology chapter after that last one. A lot of Nicky goodness for all of you, your welcome. I hope you guys liked it and be ready for the next chapter because it's another rough one; this was just a light fluffy chapter for the masses to break up all of the depressing shit I keep finding myself writing into this story. Leave a review telling me whether you laughed or not and what your favorite Nicky quote was.

-Marissa