HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNA! – The longest chapter yet, just for you. :D

I didn't have time to re-read this a couple of times so I apologise for errors.
This is the last Complete Chapter I have, so the next uploads will be only in a day or two.

(Guest: Please stop whining about people disliking your story.. if you can't take it, don't write these things! – I wasn't whining and frankly don't give a shit if they like it or not. I am not here to please everybody and that was exactly what I was explaining in my comments, so whatever…)

32.

Alex was stuck in her own thoughts in the kitchen where Piper had left her a couple of minutes earlier. She had to be honest, she was not looking forward to letting Cameron know she was leaving. She also did not know how to let him know and when. She will take a day to figure out which would be the best possible way to approach the situation. She wanted to kick herself that she will not be there for his birthday, but maybe she can have him for a day before she leaves to try and make up for it. She will have to check with Piper. It will probably mean that the little man would have to stay out of school for a day and we know how Piper feels about that.

Piper telling her that she was getting back with Braydon was also running around in her mind. She can't blame the woman, because she does agree with her that Cameron deserves a chance at a happy family. She just wishes that she has met the blond in another lifetime, or maybe a bit earlier in life, or maybe even a bit later in life, when maybe they would have had a shot. She agrees that now is just not the time for them.

Alex decides that it is probably time for her to leave. Nothing will come of her sitting in Pipers kitchen all day running her thoughts so she gets up and start approaching the front door. She stops at the bottom of the stairs staring up to where the bedrooms are situated and wonders if she should let Piper know she is leaving or should she just leave the blond alone. She doesn't even know if Piper would want to see her right now or if she would just chase her away. She shakes her head at herself at that though, because deep down she knows she would never just chase her away.

Deciding their time together are to limited to wonder about these things she slowly takes the steps one step and one breath at a time. Approaching the half open half closed bedroom door when she reached the top of the steps she can hear soft sniffling. She pushes the bedroom door completely open to find the blond lying under the covers, only a bit of hair sticking out. Alex is not completely sure how to handle the situation. Does she just turn around and leave. Does she just stand there and inform Piper she is leaving. Does she approach her.

With that thought its like her legs has a mind of their own as they carry her to the other side of the bed. She slips her shoes off and lifts the covers laying down next to Piper and pulling the covers back over the both of them again. She pulls the blond toward her until they are in a spooning position, leaving her arm draped over Pipers mid-section just holding her, comforting her and in a way comforting herself as well. To her surprise Piper lays her hand on top of Alex's hand and intertwine their fingers.

They just lie there in silence for a while, listening to each other's breathing, enjoying the comfort the other is providing and savouring the moment as much as possible.

"So if you knew you were leaving when you got here, what was that down there in the kitchen? You know when you first got here." Piper asks in a normal tone, still in the same position they have been in the last couple of minutes.

Alex takes a deep breath "I don't know. I was just so angry and I came here to give you a piece of my mind and to throw in your face that I was leaving, but when I saw you in the kitchen all I wanted to do was touch you and kiss you." She pauses for a while and then continues "I don't know Pipes, maybe I just wanted to take a part of you with me."

The room is filled with silence for a while before Piper responds "God Al, I lost my virgin years ago so it's not like you could take that with you. Have you ever heard of a lock of hair or a little vessel of blood to carry around your neck or something like that."

Alex didn't know in this moment that she has it in her to laugh, but she does, so she laughs. "Yeah, because that is not creepy at all." Alex responds causes a little giggle to fall from Pipers lips. "I guess I just wanted to say goodbye and I am really bad at goodbye's" Alex admits when the laughter has stopped.

Piper lets go of Alex's hand and turns around so they are now facing each meeting each other's gazes before she speaks again. "So break-up sex then?"

"You cant have break up sex if you were never together in the first place Pipes." Alex smiles.

"I know, but it sounds so much better than 'goodbye sex'." Piper responds with a cheeky smile.

Alex lifts her hand which was resting on Piper's hip up to her face to tuck some of her blond locks behind her hair. "yeah, I guess you got a point."

They stare at each other for another couple of seconds in a comfortable silence before Piper speaks up again. "I really don't want to hurt you any more than I already have. "

"I know." Alex gives Piper a soft smile to let her know it's going to be okay.

"Are we still going to be friends."

Quirking an eyebrow "Did you just friend zone me?"

Alex is internally laughing at Piper, looking like a fish out of water. She is trying to respond but she is not sure what the right response would be. "I'm joking Pipes." Alex puts the blond out of her misery "Of course we will still be friends. Best of…."

Obviously very happy with the answer Piper jumps out of bed so fast it startles Alex a bit. "Get up, put your shoes on. We are going out."

"Okay…" Confused Alex rises from the bed. "Where are we going?"

"I don't know. Where ever you want to go. I just want to make the most of the time we have." Piper shouts out of her walk in closet. "Please will you send Braydon a text from my phone. Tell him I will let him know when I will be home for him to drop Cameron." She emerges from the closet walking towards the bathroom. "I'll be out in 10"

'Well that escalated quickly' Alex thinks to herself. The one moment they were lying there all emotional and the next moment they are going road tripping apparently.

To Braydon: Hi. Going out. Will let you know when you can drop Cameron.

Five minutes later Piper immerge from the bathroom dressed in blue skinny jeans, boots, black tank top and a leather jacket. "Ready?"

"Yip." Alex says popping the P at the end. "My jacket is still in the Audi. Which car are we going to take…." Interrupted by Pipers phone notifying of an incoming text. Alex knows it's probably Braydon replying to the text she send him a couple of minutes ago. She looks between the phone and Piper, who is now in front of the mirror applying light make up, not sure if she should check it, ignore it, hand it to the blond.

"Will you check that for me please Al." Piper answers her unvoiced question.

"Am I your PA now?" Alex asks and Piper snaps her head up thinking not sure if Alex is serious but when she meets green eyes trough the mirror she sees Alex smiling.

"Sound better than nanny." She shoots back with a smile of her own.

"No problem. Have fun." Alex reads the text from Braydon back to Piper.

"Okay great, lets go." Piper says as she walks out of the room.

"I was still going to ask, which car are we taking. Should I get my jacket from the Audi."

"Yeah, I'm just going to grab my camera real quick. I will meet you in the garage. Get your jacket so long." Piper talks while walking down to her studio to retrieve her camera.

After retrieving her jacket from the Audi she walks into the garage coming face to face with the bike which has caused her some serious anger these last couple of days. She just smiles and shakes her head walking over to the BMW, leaning against it waiting for the other woman to grace her with her presence.

"You're driving" Piper says as she walks into the garage throwing they keys to Piper.

Alex looks down at the keys in her hand a bit confused, back up at Piper and then back down at the keys. Piper takes note of her reaction. "I swear you better not kill me. My son is not even five yet." Piper squints at Alex. Still not receiving any sort of a response from Alex she continues "Okay hand over the keys, I'm driving…."

"Fuck no." Finally a response from the brunette. "I really do trust you and all, but as you said… Your son is only five years old and I am only 24. I am not ready to die young." Alex says as she throws on her jacket, zipping it up and walking over to the bike.

Piper just smiles as she zips up her own jacket, throwing her backpack on her shoulders and walking over to get onto the bike behind Alex.

"So where to" Alex asks as Piper positions herself behind her and wrapping her arms around her waist.

"I don't care. Just go where the road leads. Don't think, just drive."

So with that they both snap the visors in their helmets shut and get on their way. At first Alex does not think. She just rides. She doesn't care where they are going or where they are going to end up. She rides up one street and down another. Through town, through residential areas, past the park and eventually she hits the highway. At first she takes it slow because she is not sure just how comfortable Piper is on the bike, but when she receives no objection from the blond and neither does she feel her tense she takes it as a go ahead and opens the throttle a bit more gliding down the highway at a perfect pace.

About ten minutes later Alex takes an exit and another couple of miles she gets onto a dirt road, only then realising where she is going.

Slowing down quite a bit because of the loose sand and rocks she opens her visor for some air and Piper follows suit.

"Where are we going." She hears Pipers muffled voice.

"You'll see." She shouts back.

Satisfied with the answer and the slow pace they are going at Piper sits back a bit holding on to the back of the seat admiring the beauty surrounding them, but before she can get to lost Alex pulls to a stop, switching off the ignition.

Piper gets off, removing her helmet while she turns on the spot looking around not knowing what exactly Alex had in mind. "You know… If you brought me out here to kill me can I like maybe call Cameron first." Piper says as she takes out her phone from the inside pocket of her leather jacket. "Oh great, no signal. I should have known you are more clever than that." She says resting her hands on her hips, raising an eyebrow at Alex waiting for her to speak.

Alex just shakes her head, places both their helmets on the bike, grabs Piper by the hand and start walking with no protest from the blond so she obviously don't really think Alex brought her out here to kill her. There is no way she would go down without a fight.

"You know, you should have told me we were going for a hike then I would not have worn boots." Piper quips, but Alex just laughs again and offer her no response.

Only when Piper stops dead in her tracks and tightens her hold on Alex's hand also bringing the taller woman to a stop does she turn to her to give an answer. "Come on. Two more minutes."

Piper mumbles something about hikes, and boots, and uneven terrain, but Alex just ignores her and keeps walking. She was just about to start complaining again when she starter hearing running water and the closer they got the louder it got and a couple of steps later they break through the trees and comes face to face with one of the most beautiful sights Piper has seen and in the back of her mind she is thankful for bringing her camera.

"Wow"

"I know right." Alex's voice breaks her out of her trance. "I found it two weeks ago. One of the girls at the club mentioned it. I wasn't one hundred percent sure where exactly it was, so I took a chance and I found it."

The white water was cascading down the rocky outcrops, rumbling into the crystal clear mass of water below.
It wasn't the highest of waterfalls she has ever seen, but the beauty of the green trees and wild flowers surrounding it, the little bit of sunrays breaking through the trees, hitting the water at just the right angle, certainly made it one of the most beautiful she has seen. Before she knows it she has taken her camera from her backpack and were snapping away the one shot after the other. Alex silently retreated to a big rock just off the side of the water pool watching the blond taking in every part of the beauty surrounding them.

Unbeknownst to Alex, Piper turned to take a couple of shots of the brunette sitting lost in her thoughts on the beautiful big rock.

"This is really beautiful Alex." Piper breaks her out of her thoughts as she approaches her taking a seat next to her on the rock. Alex just nods in agreement. "Is it safe to swim in it."

"Well I'm still alive."

"You swam in it?" Piper enquires, shock evident in her voice.

"The water is really good."

"Al you shouldn't do stuff like that when you are out here alone. Anything can happen. You don't know what can happen."

"You need to live a little Pipes." Alex smiles.

With that a couple of seconds later Piper jumps up off the rock and starts removing her boots, then her jacket and as she starts unbuttoning her pants Alex finds her voice in her confused state.

"What are you doing?"

"I am going to 'live a little Pipes'" Piper repeats Alex's words back to her.

"We'll that's not exactly what I meant Piper. You don't even have a bathing suit."

Piper just shakes her head stripping down to only her bra and thong. "Who needs a bathing suit." The next moment there is a splash of water as the blond jumps into the water. "Come on Alex, live a little" She shouts from the water.

It took quite a bit of convincing from Piper's side, but eventually Alex has joined her, now finding themselves chasing each other around in the water like two carefree teenagers.

Piper swims over to a rock in the water. Siting on it the water still comes up to her midsection. Alex follows closely behind, but does not go to sit on it, instead she just pushes herself up on the rock balancing on her hands in front of Piper and just as she was about to speak Piper squirt a mouth full of water into Alex's face. Bursting with laughter at Alex's shocked face she knows she is in for it now, so she jumps up onto her feet on the rock and dives over Alex's head back into the water, but this time the brunette is to quick for her and as soon as Piper hits the water she feels a hand closing around her ankle pulling her back.

As soon as Pipers head surface she start violently coughing and Alex just knows she choked on some water. She quickly holds up Piper with one arm around her waist and the other and gently hitting her back.

Eventually the coughing subsides and Piper glares at Alex "I knew you brought me out here to kill me." She tries to look serious, but can't help but laugh.

"What happened."

"I started screaming and laughing at the same time when I felt your hand closing around my ankle." Piper explains as she turns to face Alex, draping her arms around her neck to keep herself up. "Maybe I should have waited until I came up huh."

"That would have been the wise choice." Alex laughs. "I'm sorry for almost killing you."

"Are you sure?"

Alex rubs her chin with one of her hands "Hmmm. I'll get back to you on that one."

Silence surrounds them for a couple of seconds before Piper speaks up again. "I am really going to miss you, you know."

"I know. I am really going to miss you to, and Cameron."

"Can I do nothing to convince you to stay."

Alex shakes her head no and she can see the sadness taking over Pipers face. "It's for the best. I need some distance from you and you need some distance from me if you are going to try this relationship thing with Braydon again."

"But what if I am realising that maybe I am making a mistake." Piper whispers

Alex looks up meeting Pipers eyes and she can see the sincerity in them but she can't help but wonder if this is just because of where they are and the day they have had so far. There is a reason why Piper made the choice she first made and Alex feels like sticking to it and finding out is the right approach.

"You will never know unless you try Pipes. You need to see this through, You need to give yourself and Braydon another go. There is a reason why you made the decision in the first place. You both need the closure. Maybe it will work, maybe it won't, but you will always wonder if you don't try."

Even though there are drops of water running down both their faces Alex can easily distinguish which are droplets and which are tears on the blonds face and the sight again threatens her own tears so she does the only thing she can think of, she kisses her.

Alex kisses Piper slowly and softly their lips hardly moving. She pulls Pipers body closer to hers and in return Piper tightens her grip around Alex's neck a bit more. Neither one of them are making a move to turning the kiss into a more desperate one so they stay like that for a couple more seconds before Alex pulls back. "This does not change anything." She whispers to Piper.

"Okay." Piper whispers before she pulls Alex back into a fiery kiss.

Without even registering the movement Alex feels the water suddenly becoming shallower and shallower and before any of them realises what is happening Pipers back hits the sand and Alex matches her body form laying on top of her never breaking the kiss.

When the need for air arises, Alex breaks away from Pipers lips kissing along her jaw, down her neck to her collarbone. The blond lets out a little whimper as she arches her back "Alex" she breaths out and there is no turning back now.

Alex runs her hands in feather light touches up Pipers body until she comes to the breast covered by her wet bra. Moving her mouth back up to find Pipers lips, Alex cups each of her breast in her hands giving them a gentle squeeze before she teases the nipples with her thumbs over the material of the wet bra.

Piper needs to feel more of Alex so she brings her hands up and around unclasping her bra in one swift movement. Alex pushes herself up a bit dragging Piper with her so she can also unclasp and remove her bra then pushes Piper back down again. Breaking their kiss again they stare into each other's eyes for a couple of seconds before Alex places another quick kiss on Pipers lips and then moves down to give some attention to her breasts. She does not dive in immediately, but rather takes the time to blow cold air onto one of her breasts, combined with the still dampness from their swim, the nipple hardens immediately and Alex also notices some Goosebumps forming all over the blonds body. Satisfied with the effect it had she starts placing soft kisses on the underboob, working her way up with longer deeper kisses until she finally takes a full nipple into her mouth flicking over it with her tongue, all the while Alex is giving the other breast just the same amount of attention with her hand, tracing the outline with soft touches and rolling the nipple between her thumb and forefinger, eliciting quite a few pleasurable moans from Piper.

Suddenly Piper pulls Alex back up to her lips and while kissing her she flips them over. She positions one of her legs on each side of Alex's body hovering just above her. Not wasting a lot of time she pulls away from Alex lips kissing down her neck making her way to her chest area. She runs her tongue up and down the valley between the breasts a couple of times before she flicks to one side and starting her own ministrations on Alex's breasts both with her mouth and hands. Eventually satisfied with the amount of moans which has left Alex's throat Piper moves herself more down Alex's legs and runs her lips down over her ribcage, hardly touching and dragging her tongue back up again before dragging the inner part of her upper lip back down the ribcage again. Reaching her hip bone she places a couple of soft wet kisses there before dragging her tongue over her midsection to the other side and repeating the actions.

Alex pushes herself up in a sitting position and grabs the blond by the ass pulling her flush against her, Piper wraps her legs around Alex's waist now straddling her lap before they smash their lips together again. Alex can feel Pipers heat against her upper leg and she knows the wetness she feels is not all because of the waterfall. She gives the blonds ass another squeeze, eliciting a deep moan from her, before she starts running her hands up and down her bare back. Piper gently runs her hands down from Alex's shoulders, over her breast, down to her abdomen, splitting one hand to the left, one hand to the right, running them down over her hips and down the her thighs. The kiss has now become desperate and heated. Their tongues are battling for dominance and their teeth are chattering against each other. Piper gets tired of the fight first and she pulls away just enough to pull Alex's bottom lip between her teeth and gently biting down hard enough to make Alex moan again.

Pulling away and pausing for a bit Piper gets up from Alex's lap and stands on her knees next to her. She pulls Alex up and she stands on her knees in from of Piper, immediately understanding where this is going. They lean their foreheads together for a while just breathing the same air until Piper leans in more and they kiss again softly in a perfect rhythm. Alex cups Pipers cheek with one hand and Piper places her one hand gently on Alex's neck. They both simultaneously drag their other hands down the other girls stomach entering the underwear, finding the small buds where they need each other most. They both moan into the others mouth when discovering one another's wetness. Alex slowly starts circular motions on Piper's bud, while Piper starts with up and down motions on Alex's. They keep it slow at first but the closer the get the more they speed it up and the sloppier their kisses becomes. The moans falling from their lips becomes so regular neither one of them are sure which moan belongs to who and they don't care. Alex can feel Pipers knees are getting weaker which means she is close, so without warning she pushes two finger into the blond and starting to pump in and out. "Fuck, Al." she whispers out in a moan.

"Wait for me Pipes" Alex breaths out in what you can hardly call a whisper. Not sure if Piper heard her. "Piper." She calls for her attention a bit louder. The blonds eyes snaps open, blue meeting green. "Wait for me okay." Alex breaths out again. Piper just shakes her head and closes her eyes again and this time she pushes two fingers into Alex without warning. Alex was about to speak but got cut of by the moan leaving her throat. Composing herself as much as she can Alex speaks again. "Look at me Pipes." Piper lazily opens her eyes and they hold each others gaze as they keep pumping into each other. Rapid breathing, shaking bodies and one last thrust they take each other over the edge, Piper not being able to fully hold herself up at the moment slams her forehead down on Alex's shoulder and only then does Alex allow her own head to fall onto Pipers shoulder while they take their time to come down from their high.

Alex is the first one to pull her hand out of Pipers underwear, gently moving down to the ground, lying on her back and pulling Piper down next to her.

It has probably been an hour which has passed them by, just lying there away from the real world in their own little bubble, listening to the others heart beat and breathing. The calming sounds of the waterfall, the birds singing around them it feels like they could stay like this forever.

"We should probably get going huh." Alex breaks the silence.

Piper pops herself onto her elbow and looks down at the brunette. "I guess so. It will be dark soon." Piper says and before she gets up she places one last lingering kiss on Alex's lips, knowing it will probably be the last.