Authors Note: Hey everyone! Thanks for all the wonderful reviews, follows, favs, and of course reading! Sorry I didn't update over the weekend, had a busy one. But with that said, I hope you all enjoy chapter 9, I can't believe we are almost on 10!
Once again I do not own any of these characters.
After flipping through the channels about a hundred times, Alex realized there would be nothing on that caught her eye, as she yawned. So instead she turned off the TV, put the remote on the nightstand next to her bed, and then moved closer to Piper, wrapping her arm around her waist, snuggling close, as she placed a kiss on Piper's exposed shoulder, as she whispered "Night Pipe, I am glad you're here."
It was only two in the morning when Alex quietly got out of her bed, after endless tossing and turning, she had finally given up on sleep. Plus, she didn't want to wake the sleeping blonde next to her. Before she opened her bedroom door, she looked back at Lambert, who had taken her spot, and moved closer to Piper, when she saw that he wasn't going to be joining her, she opened the door, slipped into the hallway and quietly closed the bedroom door behind her. Careful not to make too much noise, she made her way down the hallway, and then down the stairs, and walked into her kitchen. Once again grabbing her pack of cigarettes, before she walked out into her backyard, and sat down on one of her patio chairs. "Can't sleep?" A quiet voice asked from behind, making Alex jump while she lit her cigarette.
"Jesus Jodi, don't do that!" Alex scolded and then checked to make sure her hair didn't catch on fire. "Especially when my hair is near my lighter!"
"Sorry" Jodi chuckled as she grabbed a cigarette as well. "So again I ask, can't sleep?" Jodi asked as she took the lighter from her best friend and lit her cigarette.
Alex nodded her head "Yeah been having trouble lately, I slept great though last night."
"I saw you left you b1 vitamins here." Jodi told her as she sat down in the chair next to her.
"I forgot them by accident, probably why I can't sleep." Alex told her before she took a long drag. "What about you, why are you awake?" Alex asked as she exhaled.
"I heard you get up." Jodi smirked
"I was quiet." Alex protested.
"Yes, but when you have a child, you hear every single noise." Jodi told her with a smile.
"How is Emily?" Alex asked with a chuckle.
"She is doing great, she says hi. She's home with Joey." Jodi told her with a smile.
"I kind of figured since I didn't see her here." Alex told her with a laugh.
"Well I know how great you can be at observation sometimes." Jodi teased as she put out her cigarette in the ash tray. "Going back to bed?" She asked as she stood up.
Alex shook her head, "Nah, I'm good for now. But you go and catch some more sleep, you have to be up early."
"Okay, well don't forget to take your vitamins in the morning." Jodi told her with a smile in a motherly tone, and Alex nodded her head, before she watched her best friend walk back inside.
It was a beautiful night, wasn't too warm, and wasn't too cold. Alex didn't want to go back inside, instead she quietly went back inside to get her MacBook air, before she grabbed a bottle of water before she once again went back outside and sat down in the patio chair. Before she knew it, the sun was starting to rise, and Alex even though she wasn't a morning person, always loved watching the sunrise in Los Angeles, when she still awake to catch them. "Still awake?" Jodi asked with a smile as she walked outside and saw Alex watching the sun rise.
Alex nodded her head as she asked "Heading to work?"
"Yeah, there's some coffee in the pot if you want some." Jodi told her but Alex as still looking out over the Los Angeles skyline. "Okay, I will talk to you later." Jodi said with a smile before she turned and walked back into the house, and then off to work.
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While Alex once again lost track of time, it was now almost 8:30, and Piper up just starting to wake up. She rolled over to turn toward Alex, but came face to face with Lambert instead, who quickly kissed her. "Well good morning to you too." Piper said with a laugh, as she wiped her face, and then noticed that Alex wasn't in bed with her anymore. Piper quickly pulled herself up and rested against the headboard, and looked around the room, where she saw that Alex was no where to be found. "Where's your mom?" Piper softly asked Lambert, who quickly jumped off the bed and ran toward the door.
Piper chuckled as she got out of the bed, and walked over to the door, and opened it, where Lambert quickly bolted down the hallway, and down the stairs. Piper followed him, while he led her to the back door, and then she spotted Alex sitting on the patio. Piper opened the door, and let Lambert out before she quickly followed behind him. "I didn't take you as an early riser." Piper said with a smile as she walked over to Alex, and sat down in the chair next to her.
"Morning Pipes, and I'm not, I just haven't slept." Alex told her with a smile as well as she placed her laptop on the glass patio table.
Piper looked at her with wide eyes as she asked "What do you mean you haven't slept?"
Alex shook her head "I couldn't, I kept tossing and turning, so I got up, I didn't want to wake you."
Piper chuckled lightly as she said "I don't even think a bomb could have woken me."
"That might be true" Alex chuckled "You and Lambert were passed out."
"When did you leave?" Piper asked
"Just about two" Alex told her standing up "You want some coffee? I have to feed Lambert."
"Sure" Piper said with a smile just as Lambert came running back over at the sound of his name. "I think he's hungry." Piper added with a laugh.
"He's always hungry" Alex chuckled before she walked inside.
As Alex walked inside, Piper noticed the screenshots of Alex's screenshots move on her laptop, but then something else caught her eye. A yellow box of American Spirit cigarettes. Piper found this weird, as she stood up from her chair, and then walked inside the house, and back into the kitchen, where she watched Alex put two cups of dog food into Lambert's bowl. "You smoke?" Piper asked.
Alex put the cup back in the dog food bag, and walked over to the coffee pot, to make a fresh pot before she answered. "Yeah, but I am trying to quit."
Piper nodded her head as she walked over to the cabinet and stood next to Alex watching her. "Hey, I'm not judging." Piper told her with a smile, and Alex could only smile back.
"How do you take your coffee?" Alex asked a few minutes of silence.
"Cream and sugar." Piper told her with a smile and Alex nodded her head as she walked over to the fridge grabbed the half and half, then grabbed the sugar off the kitchen island and handed it to Piper.
"You can bring those outside, I'll be right out." Alex told her with a smile as Piper took the cream and sugar. "Would you like anything to eat?"
"I'm good for now." Piper told her with a smile before she walked out of the kitchen and then back outside.
Alex joined her a couple minutes later, with Lambert, who quickly sat down on the patio and Piper was shocked he wasn't running around. "He knows not to run after he ate." Alex informed her as if she could read her mind.
"Smart dog. Helena must teach that to Milah" Piper said with a smile, as she took her coffee mug from Alex, and then watched her go back inside for her own.
When Alex returned she put her coffee mug down on the table, and then a bottle of b1 vitamins, and multi vitamins. "Didn't take you as someone who took vitamins either." Piper smiled as she poured the sugar into her coffee.
"Would you like some coffee with that sugar?" Alex smirked
"Shut up" Piper retorted with a smirk of her own.
"But these are the only two I take." Alex told her as she poured one of each in her hand, popped them into her mouth, took a swig of her coffee and swallowed them both.
"Why Vitamin B1? Piper asked intrigued
"I can't eat any gluten products, where you normally would get b1 from, so I take it as a vitamin. It also helps me with insomnia, it's good for good brain function. And it just helps me feel more in control with stress and when I have a lot of things going on around me." Alex explained.
Piper nodded her head as she confessed "I am usually really bad at sticking to vitamins, I always forget to take them."
"I can help you with that, if you like." Alex told her with a smile.
Piper nodded "I would like that."
Alex smiled back "Good, then we can go later and find vitamins that work for you."
Piper nodded as she looked over at the pack of cigarettes, and then back at Alex before she asked shyly "Can I have one of those?"
Alex chuckled "You don't have to ask" Alex told her as she reached for the book, and then handed it to her. Once Piper pulled out a cigarette, she watched as she placed it between her lips, and Alex leaned over and lit it for her. As Piper took a drag, Alex reached for her laptop, typed in her password, and then saved her progress before she went to shut it down.
"What you working on?" Piper asked as she exhaled.
"Just some course studies, nothing for work." Alex told her as she closed the laptop once it shut down.
"You going to college?" Piper asked before she took a long drag.
Alex shook her head "Nope, just courses for my own benefit." Alex told her before she added "It's complicated."
Piper nodded her head, as she watched Alex reach for her own cigarette and watched her lit it. "So what are your plans today, do you have to work?" Piper asked.
"I don't have to go in until three." Alex told her as she exhaled. Piper nodded her head as she smiled sweetly at Alex, making Alex send her a quizzical look as she asked "What?"
Piper just looked at Alex for a few more minutes smiling and just as Alex was about to ask her another question, Piper answered. "Thanks for the sweet kiss last night." Piper smiled before she added "I am glad I am here too."
Alex looked at her dumbfounded, she could have sworn Piper was asleep when she did that. "You were awake?" Alex asked in shock.
"Barely" Piper told her as she chuckled and added "You're cute when your confused, you know that?"
"Shut up, I can't believe you were awake for that" Alex scoffed as she put her cigarette in the ashtray.
"What's the big deal?" Piper asked but before Alex could answer the blonde spoke again. "It was nice, I liked it." Piper smiled as she put out of her cigarette in the ashtray before she stood up and walked over to Alex, and straddled her lap.
"Hi?" Alex asked confused but tried to remain calm at the closeness between the two.
"Is this okay?" Piper asked not really sure where this bravery was coming from. Alex nodded her head not trusting her voice or brain to be able to form a complete sentence, let alone one that made sense. "What's the matter Alex?" Piper teased as she whispered in her ear "Cat got your tongue?"
Alex shivered from Piper's hot breath hitting the shell of her ear, as she wrapped her arms around Piper's waist pulling her a bit closer against her body as she shook her head. "Nothing is wrong." Alex told her confidently.
Piper chuckled as she pulled back from Alex's ear, and looked her in the eyes as she asked "So what was the shiver about?"
"It's cold out here." Alex lied making Piper laugh, because the blonde didn't believe her for a second.
"Is there something you would like to tell me Alex?" Piper asked with a slight smirk "Anything at all?" Piper added as she shifted slightly in Alex's lap hitting all the right spots, she wanted Alex to admit she liked her, because Piper even though she always though she was straight liked Alex, for more than a friend.
Once again Alex shook her head "No Pipes, there isn't anything I have to tell you, or would like to tell you." Alex told her but Piper once again didn't believe her.
"So the other night with the massage, all my moaning, and sometimes even your name didn't bother you?" Piper asked with a raised eye brow.
Alex took a breath breath as she tried not to remember that as she shook her head "Nope" Alex lied barely above a whisper.
Piper knew that Alex was lying, but decided to take It even further. "So when your hands were on my breasts, and I was grinding my hips against you, I didn't turn you on in the least?" Piper asked with a wink.
Once again Alex took in a deep breath as she looked away from Piper for a second then looked back at her as she said "Yes, it did turn me on. You turn me on Piper, but you are straight remember?"
Piper smiled happy with her results as she once again looked Alex in the eyes. "I thought I was straight." Piper confessed, and Alex looked at her even more confused, but Piper quickly leaned closer to her ear and whispered. "I came, no one has made me cum from just touching my breasts before."
Alex's breath hitched in her throat at Piper's confession, as Piper pulled back from her ear as she asked "What?"
Piper nodded her head "Yes Alex, the more and more time I spend with you, the more and more I question my sexuality." Piper began but Alex cut her off.
"Listen Pipes, I meant it when I said things are complicated." Alex told her sweetly before she added "I'm new to this whole relationship thing, I don't know the rules."
"That's the whole problem isn't it?" Piper protested "Rules aren't any fun."
"Well you are married?" Alex told her in a serious tone.
Piper shook her head "No I am going to get a divorce, Alex I have been married since I was 18, I have had no fun. My whole life has been to make Larry happy, my kids and I have been stuck living in his world, what he wants to do, we do. That isn't how I want my kids to grow up, thinking that they have to make who ever happy. They should make themselves happy, I am sick of that life, and I know they are too. I want a happy life, and with you Alex, my kids are happiest I have ever seen them. I am the happiest I have ever been with you Alex." Piper told her looking her deep in the eyes before she added "Listen, if this is too much, if I have too much baggage, or if there is someone else, then tell me because I don't want to stand in the way of true love. If they are your future wife or whatever, then by all means tell me to back off, but you pursued me, and I liked it. Or I wouldn't be here right now.
"Are you serious?" Alex asked barely above a whisper needing to make sure.
Piper nodded her head slowly "I have never felt like the way you…." Piper began but Alex cut her off but not by words.
Alex quickly moved her left hand up to Piper's cheek as she looked her deep in the eyes, as she pulled her closer, and as she leaned in, finally pressing her lips to Piper's.
Piper was a bit taken back by the kiss at first, but sparks quickly flew between them, as the kiss deepened, and Piper moved her own hands to Alex's dark hair pulling her closer against her. But before the kiss could get any deeper, Alex's door bell rang.
The first kiss!
But who is at Alex's door?
What does Alex keep saying it's complicated to?
Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed Chapter 9. Sorry again, that it was a bit late.
Until next time!