The two girls lay in bed, after three hours of cuddling kissing and touching, looking at each other with smiles on both their faces.
"Now, I can't remember why I would ever walk away from something as great as that." Alex smiled and lightly kissed Marissa's lips.
"All I know, was that was the most amazing thing I've ever done, with anyone." Marissa said and returned Alex's kiss with one of her own.
"So, how long can you stay for?" Alex asks quietly.
"I have to go back to school on Monday, so gives me about five days here with you. I would have to leave Sunday at some point. I don't want to leave though..."
"I don't want you to leave either. So, when is your next vacation?" Alex was already looking forward to the next time she could see Marissa.
"I have three weeks off for Christmas. Then two weeks off in March, and then I graduate in May."
"Okay... Well, I know I can't get Christmas off, but maybe we can go away in March, and then well, after you graduate you will come here, and the rest of the time we will be together... Wait, am I getting carried away? This seems so fast, I don't want fast, we did fast the last time and it didn't up very well..."
"Alexandra Kelly, please stop... You're getting carried away. This isn't like last time, this is going to work, and we just have to work at it over the upcoming months, because we are going to be away from each other. It won't be that hard, I promise... Right now, let's spend our time together and not thinking about the times when we will be apart." Marissa said as she rolled Alex over so she was now on top of her. "Now, please kiss me..."
"I suppose I could do that..." Alex said as she sat up to connect their lips. Marissa pushed Alex down and deepened the kiss between the two girls. "You know, if you keep kissing me like that I might not let you leave at all, so that would be a terrible thing, because then you'd have to say here, for like ever!"
"You would like that wouldn't you?"
"Ah huh!" Alex said with a huge smile on her face.
"Well, then I might as well kiss you like that again, to see if you are serious..." Marissa said as she closed her eyes and moved in to kiss Alex. Alex moved her head away and laughed. Marissa opened her eyes and looked over at the beautiful blond laughing under her. "What was that all about?"
"Do you really think that I am THAT easy Miss Cooper...? Yeah right. You are going to have to work a little harder."
"Really, okay, well then..." Marissa kissed Alex's neck and sucked lightly on a piece of skin. Then she lightly kissed every inch of her skin from Alex's neck to ear. When she got to her ear she sucked on her earlobe and whispered, "Am I working hard enough?"
All Alex could do was moan lightly and Marissa continued, she finally made her way to Alex's lips. The moment their lips connected Marissa's cell phone started to ring. She jumped right up and went to find it.
"Umm, what exactly are you doing?" Alex exclaimed as she sat up in bed.
"My phone is ringing, I should probably answer it." Marissa said from the living room. "One second Alex, it is Summer." Marissa said as she answered the phone. "Hey Sum, what's up?"
"Where the hell are you? I'm in your room right now and you aren't here... You better get here quickly. Cohen and I are fighting, Arghhhh, he is such and ass sometimes."
"Sum, calm down. I won't be home until Sunday sometime..."
"What do you mean you won't be home until Sunday? That is absurd! Get here right now, this is an emergency. I am about to go into 'Rage Blackout Mode,' I am vibrating at a VERY low frequency. This isn't good I need you like now!"
"Summer, I am in Massachusetts right now?"
"Oh, isn't that the new restaurant in San Diego you were telling me about?"
"No, Sum, it is the state, you know the one on the east coast, where I've been looking at for schools and umm, where Alex lives, and the place with all the history."
"Oh okay, cool, schools, Alex, and history... Wait, what the hell? Did you just say Alex, as in Alex, feisty, young blond, dated both you and Cohen, purple streak, butterfly tattoo, you broke her heart, that Alex...?"
"Yes, that Alex..."
"Wait, are you with her now? Are you two back together?"
"Yes and yes...It is sort of hard to explain everything that happened, but when I get back to Newport on Sunday I will tell you everything... well that is if Alex let's me come back..."
"Eww, I don't want to know about that part. Umm, well I'll let you go... I need to go find someone to tell my problems too... I think the step monster is passed out on Valium downstairs, I'll tell her..."
"Okay, sorry I'm not there. I'll talk to you soon."
"Yea, bye Coop."
"Bye Sum." Marissa said as she hung up the phone.
"Okay, so what the hell was that all about?" Alex said as she stood in the doorway with a pair of boy shorts and cami on.
"Summer called. She is having problems with Cohen...again. Why did you get dressed?"
"Umm, well you teased me and then let to take a phone call. So I decided you weren't working hard enough. Plus, I sort of want to go by the club tonight. So you can see it and all and then tomorrow it Thanksgiving, I wasn't going to do anything, but I suppose you and I could maybe go out..."
"Sure, I hadn't even thought about it. Yea, dinner sounds good. Anyone good playing at the club tonight?"
"Yea actually... umm... Rachael Yamagata...Have you ever heard of her?"
Marissa didn't say anything and just stared at Alex blankly. "You're kidding right? Rachael Yamagata, as in the one who played when I came in that night after our semi-fight..."
"Yes, that Rachael Yamagata. You don't mind do you?"
"No, of course not. I love her music. It is pretty much amazing."
"Yes, it definitely is. She was the first person I booked when I moved out here. I had to have her come and perform, she is amazing and it is a shame she isn't that big, she should be!"
"You're amazing, you know that right?"
"No, but if you keep telling me that I might have to start and actually believe you." Alex laughed.
"Do you remember that time back in February, when I came over the morning when I told my mother about us…?"
"Yes…it was the last time we made love…" Alex said as she looked at the ground.
"Oh, I wasn't talking about that… Remember when Cohen came over for some money and I came out of the room in your robe?"
"Yes, I remember…" Alex was slightly confused at what Marissa was trying to get at.
"Well, I took that robe, I actually brought it with me…"
"I was wondering what ever happened to it. I love that robe! But do you want to know what I love even more?"
Marissa wasn't sure she was quite ready to talk about this yet. "Umm, what do you love more…?"
"You…in it." Marissa was relieved when Alex added on the 'in it' part. Sure Marissa loved Alex, but she wasn't ready to be that committed. They had been together for two days, it was too soon. Alex saw the look on Marissa's face and scared she was thinking about something else. Yes, Alex loved Marissa, Alex loved Marissa with every part of her, but telling her that, well it was just too soon to talk about love, it was a forbidden subject as of right now.
Marissa smiled at Alex with her beautiful, Alex smiled back and leaned forward and kissed Marissa on the cheek.
"Go get dressed, and then we can go out for the day. I was thinking we could go shopping on Newbury St."
"What is that?"
"It is Boston's Rodeo Dr. You will enjoy it I promise. I want to get you something anything. When we were going out before I never had any money, but Nat is paying me a lot more now."
"I was wondering how you could afford an apartment like this."
"Oh this, it was actually belongs to my family. My brother went to school here in Boston, and they said I could live here when I told them about the job out here."
"You have a brother?" Marissa questioned.
"Yes, three actually and two sisters. I am the youngest of six. My oldest sister, Monica, is going to be 33 in December. She lives in New York."
"Wow, I never knew any of this before…"
"I never really tell anybody…"
"Do you ever see your family?"
"My parents no, but my sister Monica and I get together once a month. And the rest of my siblings are all over, my brother Andy is in Kenya on Mission's work, my brother Jared is in Chicago at school, my other brother, Mark is a writer in London. My other sister, Heather is in DC, she is opening up a boutique there with a friend in April."
"Wow, I really had no idea you had such a big family. I just have a younger sister, who I haven't seen or talked to in about two years."
"What, why?"
"I'm not sure. My mother shipped her off to boarding school when my parents were getting divorced. We were never really close before... I have no idea how she is."
"Maybe you should try and call her. Just because I don't see or talk to my parents anymore, doesn't mean I am no longer in contact with my siblings. My brother Andy emails me once a week, Jared calls every few weeks, Mark emails and calls, Heady calls every now and then. I write one big email to all of then though once every two weeks. Sometimes I get an email or two back, sometimes I don't." Alex stated.
"Wow, Kaitlin and I we never really clicked. She is just like my mother. I was always more like my father. I think that is why the two of us never really got along so well. She was always off at the stables riding her bald pony, while I was shopping or with Sum. But this is all just speculation, I bet she doesn't even remember me. I would forget me."
"Marissa, she probably thinks about you all the time. If she doesn't think about you, well the, she is really missing out. Because you are amazing. Don't worry about that right now okay. Go get showered and dressed, then you and I can go shopping, and have an amazing time together today. I really think you will enjoy Boston. Maybe tomorrow, you and I can go to Hampton, so I can show you the club. It is so cool, well, from the little bit I saw. it will be so much fun, you and I, together, all summer." Alex smiled.
"I'm going to shower, I'll be out quickly." Marissa said as she kissed Alex lightly and went back in the bedroom.
"Okay, I'll finish getting dressed…" Alex followed behind and entered the bedroom. Marissa got a change of clothes and went into the bathroom to shower. Alex still had the permanent smile that had been on her face since the moment she saw Marissa two days ago. It hadn't gone anywhere and she didn't think it would anytime soon.
About twenty minutes later Marissa came out of the bathroom with a pair of jeans and no top. Her arm was covering her bare chest. "Hey, Al. Do you think I could borrow a shirt, this shirt I planned on wearing got wet. I dropped it on the floor next to the shower."
Alex turned around and saw Marissa. She was taken aback, she couldn't say anything. She continued to just stare at Marissa.
"Alex, do you have a shirt I can borrow." Marissa asked again. "Are you okay?"
Alex took a breath. "Yea, no, yes I'm good. Umm, here is a shirt." Alex said as she walked over to her closet and took a shirt from the open drawer in front of her.
"Thanks." Marissa said as she smiled slyly at Alex. She walked back into the bathroom after receiving the shirt.
"Oh, my god. She loves teasing me like that…" Alex said as she sat down on the couch in the living room with a bowl of Lucky Charms a few minutes later.