"Hey Tay, are you almost ready? My interview starts in an hour."
"Yeah, I am almost done."
Tay has been in the bathroom for the past hour and a half doing her hair and putting on her makeup. I told her that I had to leave the house by 5:30pm to make it on time and it is now a little past that. Truth is though, I don't exactly have an interview tonight.
But, what she doesn't know won't hurt her.
"Okay, I am ready." A few minutes later, my gorgeous girlfriend comes out of the bathroom, adjusting her earrings, and wearing a big smile on her face.
"Wow, you look beautiful." She tells me before I get the chance to open up my mouth.
She stands near the couch for a moment and looks me up and down. I am not wearing anything special, just my favorite long sleeved red dress and a pair of matching pumps. I chose to wear my hair down and just add a few curls. Just for the desired effect.
"I could say the same about you." She smiles and then shyly looks down at her outfit.
I walk up to her slowly, taking in the beauty that is in front of me. She is wearing a pair of skinny black pants, a pair of black stilettos, a white blouse and my favorite black cardigan. Her hair is pulled up into a beautifully messy style, with ringlets of hair dropping along her cheeks.
When I finally reach her, I wrap my arms around her waist and bring her close to me. She lays her head against my chest and takes a deep breath.
"I can't believe that we only have a couple more weeks of this before you have to leave again." I sigh myself, just thinking of the fact that Taylor and I are going to have to separate again.
"I know, but it won't be as long this next time. We have the holidays coming up and there is no way that I am not going to enjoy them with you." She brings her head up to look at me and then smiles widely.
"I don't even know what to get you for Christmas this year." She says with a questioning look.
"How about a new dog. I think Lambert over there likes you better." I look down and see my once loyal friend lying down at Tay's feet.
She laughs then begins to rub his belly with her foot.
"He still loves you, but blondes are more fun." She throws me a giddy grin.
"You know up until now I couldn't figure out why I loved you so much…thanks for making everything crystal clear for me." I say with a mocking tone as I lean in to capture her lips.
She moans into my kiss and then brings her fingers up to tangle in my hair. Our kiss is passionate and romantic, although short, due to the fact that we have really got to go, or we are going to be late. I peck her lips once more before reaching for her car keys that were splayed on the table. We then locked up, walked out and headed towards our destination.
It was about 30 minutes before we finally arrived where we needed to be.
"Your interview is being held here?"
I look over at my girlfriend sitting on the edge of her seat staring up at the shimmering Theatre in front of us.
"Actually, no babe. There really is no interview tonight." She looks at me a bit confused.
I reach my hand over to sit on top of hers before I continue.
"You and I haven't really had much time alone lately and we rarely just get to pick up and leave so I just really wanted to take you out on a date. I figured we could watch a show on Broadway, go to a nice restaurant, and then maybe take a walk in Central Park." She looks down and moves a finger to play with the promise ring on my hand, before locking eyes with me again.
"I am so in love with you Laura." Her eyes are shimmering from the wetness that is beginning to build up within them.
"I am so in love with you too Tay." She moves her fingers to tangle with mine for a moment before I let go and move to get out.
I quickly walk over to her car door and open it up for her. I then extend my hand to help her out. Once she is in a standing position, she looks around and then reluctantly let's my hand go. I look over at her and smile before holding my hand out for hers again. She gives me a shy look before grasping on again.
"I don't care what people see, or what they think Taylor. I love you and I won't hide that anymore. Let them write what they want to write." I watch as a tear falls down her face.
"I'm going to hold your hand in public, if you allow me too, I am going to whisper in your ear in front of strangers, even when I only have stupid things to tell you and I am going put my arms around your waist and walk with you, not because I know that will certainly land us more interviews, but for one reason, and one reason only…simply because I love you." Her tears are steady now as she moves in closer and throws her arms around me.
She holds me tightly as I do her. Behind us I hear the faint sounds of people calling out our names, trying to get our attention, but for a moment we don't listen. We stay in the wonderful moment that we just created for several minutes before Taylor gives me a small kiss on the cheek. I smile against her skin.
"Ms., Prepon, Ms. Schilling an autograph please, a picture." We pull away when the sounds get louder, but keep a hold of each other's hands.
Taylor and I stayed outside of the Ambassador Theatre for a few moments to talk with fans, took a few pics and signed a few autographs before making our way inside.
As soon as we walked up to will call and grabbed our tickets, I could tell that Taylor was already beyond excited.
"Seriously Laura, you are taking me to see Chicago?"
"I remember you mentioning a few times how much you would like to see it…so yeah. I got us tickets in the Front Mezzanine." I watch in amusement as her eyes go big and her mouth falls open slightly.
Taylor is seriously like the cutest person in the whole world when she is excited.
"Shall we, my love." I gesture after a few more moments of letting her gawk.
I take a look at our tickets and then lead Taylor and me up to the first row of the front mezzanine. Once we sat down, we both looked around at the beautiful scenery around us. The theatre is gorgeous, with its incredible high ceilings and the beautiful designs that are featured all around it. I could seriously stare at this place all night…it is that beautiful.
It was not long after we sat down that the curtains went up and the Broadway musical started to commence. I was mesmerized from the beginning. The few glances that I stole of Taylor, showed me that she was as well.
I have been to many plays and musicals and things of that sort in the past, but I have never enjoyed one on Broadway before. This is absolutely in a league of its own. It is fucking amazing.
We watched as the men and women, danced and sang all throughout telling their story. I could not take my eyes off of the stage.
"Laura sweetheart, it's over." She is happily looking over at me.
I was so lost in the amazement of just being here that I didn't even realize that the curtains actually went down a few minutes ago.
We applauded the amazing cast when they came out and then gave them a standing ovation. They definitely deserved It. That takes some incredible talent to do stuff of that nature, night after night.
When the cast leaves the stage, Taylor and I make our way out of the theatre among the hundreds of other guests. She holds tightly to my hand so that we don't become separated. Once we make it outside, the two of us jet to the car and make our way out of there.
"So, what did you think?" I manage a quick glance at her before pulling the car out onto the busy New York street.
"I loved it. It was sexy, and fun and…"
"Like me." I laugh as I playfully cut her off.
"You are so much more." Taylor says without missing a beat.
After a few minutes of driving, I feel Taylor's hand make its way over to sit on my thigh. I drop one of my hands from the steering wheel to lay it gently on top of hers.
We drove around for a bit longer before pulling up to a little Italian restaurant near Central Park. It was one of the few places that didn't seem to be much of a wait time. I am starving, so that is a good thing.
Once we got inside, we were quickly shown our seats and introduced to our waitress, who just so happened to be a huge fan of our show.
"Oh my god, Piper and Alex in the flesh. This Is so fucking amazing. Oh my…I am so sorry for my language." I watch as Tay tries to nicely calm her down.
"It's okay that is Laura's favorite word." Taylor says, making the three of us laugh.
We had a nice long chat with the wonderful waitress. She told us about how she binge watched our show in less than 2 days and about how she started writing fan fiction about our characters.
"You totally should go onto this site called fanfiction dot com some time. People write beautiful stories about you." I look at the waitress who finally introduced herself as Mandy with an amused look.
I sit there for a moment just contemplating the type of stories that people must be writing about a hot as fuck drug smuggling lesbian and her equally as hot WASPy ex-girlfriend. I guess I will have to find out tonight if I can't fall asleep, I am always looking for new and interesting reading material.
"I am so hungry, I think my stomach is eating itself." I lean over the table to tell my girlfriend once the waitress walks away to put in our order.
"I'm hungry too." Taylor gives me this devious smirk and then starts to run her foot up my bare legs.
Before she makes it up too far, she quickly retracts her it once the waitress makes her way back with not only our drinks but the kickass salads and pasta dishes that we ordered as well.
"I am still going to get you back for what you did to me yesterday." She tells me once we are alone again.
"I can't wait." I wink playfully and then start to inhale my dinner.
We sat there in the cozy booth in the back of the restaurant enjoying each other's company and talking about the littlest things. This is one of our more romantic dates so far.
Once we were finished, I paid the bill and generously tipped the waitress, before lacing my fingers with Taylors and walking towards Central Park.
"This place is so beautiful at night." I hear Taylor gasp.
I take in the stunning beauty that is my girlfriend, as we stroll along the water and then make our way up the beautiful white bridge to take in the city lights. She stands in front of me, leaning on the railing as I slide in behind her and put my arms around her torso to hold her tight. We watch the shimmering lights bounce off of the water below, then turn our attention to the beautiful night's sky.
"The stars are so bright tonight." She leans her head back on my chest and we both look up.
The moon is full and she is right, the stars are completely lighting up the sky. It seems much brighter than I have ever seen it before.
"Thank you." She quietly says as she continues to look up.
"For what?" I ask, placing a kiss on the top of her head.
"For the best date I have ever had." I lay my head atop hers and squeeze and wrap my arms tighter to feel her body closer to mine.
"You made it mine too Tay." I see a smile fill up her face.
We both smile as we continue to enjoy the wonder around us.
"Look." We both say in unison as we catch sight of a falling star.
"Did you make a wish?" I ask Taylor.
"I don't need to." She simply says before turning around in my arms.
She leans up and kisses me softly on my lips.
'Hmmm, why is that?" Her face lights up and I can see her eyes smiling.
"It already came true."
I can't hide the love that I feel for her. It is showing in the huge smile that it spread the entirety of my face and in the waterworks that are starting to build up in my eyelids.
"When I was a little girl, I used to wish for the same thing every time I happened to see one fall. Now that it has comes true, I don't have to wish for it anymore."
"Why?" I ask, trying to keep my tears at bay.
"Because everything that I have ever wished for is everything that you are."
Author Notes.
Hope you enjoyed this Chapter. Hope is wasn't too cheesy.
Lots of fun things coming up, back to set, a night of fan fiction, plus a Schilling-Prepon family day and then the dreaded Chapter when Laura has to leave once again oh and the holidays.
I am thinking that Taylor needs to get Laura back before she takes off again. (I just can't figure out how yet…thoughts?)
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