A/N: Happy Monday everybody and thanks again for all of the fic love. Our little tale here is nearing the end and I'm feeling kind of sad about that, but never fear there is still one more chapter after this. :)

"Suppose I said, you're my saving grace."

It had been no more than a couple of hours since Alex and Olivia had lost their virginity to each other and Alex was eager to tell someone. It wasn't her intention to brag, but she couldn't hold in her excitement any longer. She wondered whom Olivia would tell and if she was even going to tell anybody. She had wanted to tell Sarah but she figured she should leave that to Olivia because she was more Olivia's friend than hers. Telling her friends from Framingham was out of the question. She hadn't talked to them since her trip with Olivia and she knew they'd be grossed out by any detail that she would give them. Instead, Alex decided to call the one person she could trust with all of her secrets: Olivia.

"Hello?"

"Olivia?"

"Alex?" Olivia asked excitedly. "I didn't think you'd call this soon."

"Of course I would," Alex teased. "I wouldn't take your virginity and then not call you."

"Did you call me because you want to make love again?" Olivia asked hopefully. "I wouldn't mind."

"Olivia?"

"Yeah?"

"I saved myself for you," Alex admitted. Her hands started to shake and she had no idea why she felt the urge to tell Olivia all of her secrets.

"I saved myself for you, too," Olivia responded, not quite sure what Alex was trying to tell her.

"No, Olivia, I saved myself specifically for you. It's as if I already knew you existed even before I moved to New York." The awkward silence following her confession made Alex wish she hadn't made herself so vulnerable. "I—I don't know…nevermind. It's stupid."

"Nothing you say is stupid," Olivia insisted. "I love you."

"I love you, too," Alex said nervously. "I have to go. See you at school."

Alex felt like an idiot the moment she hung up the phone. She had wanted to tell Olivia that she had always dreamed of finding the right girl and saving herself for that right girl. She didn't know Olivia herself existed but she knew the idea of Olivia existed and they would find happiness with each other someday. She just never imagined her being as beautiful as Olivia.

Alex couldn't stop smiling when she thought about Olivia and what they had just experienced with each other. She had expected losing her virginity to hurt—and it did for awhile—but Olivia was so gentle with her. When she was in pain, Olivia gently removed one of her fingers and started kissing her to take her mind off of the discomfort. Olivia had actually been inside of her and she had been inside of Olivia. When she was inside of Olivia, she felt so connected to her. Olivia may have a tough persona, but Alex learned that she could be just as delicate as any other girl.

Alex couldn't take it anymore; she got up from her bed and decided to find her mom. She knew her parents' rules about sex, but Alex needed someone to talk to and she knew she couldn't talk to Olivia or her friends. She needed to talk to a woman and her mom was the only woman she trusted with this matter.

She made her way over to the living room and found her dad watching TV. Alex knew asking questions would make her dad suspicious so she decided to sit down with him until her mom came home. Alex tried to focus on the TV show her dad was watching, but she couldn't stop tapping her foot.

"Alexandra, what's wrong?"

"Nothing," Alex responded nervously. "Where's mom?"

"She's having coffee with one of her friends," her dad said.

"Well, do you know when she'll be back?" Alex asked. "I really need to talk to her."

"Anything you can tell your mom, you can tell your old man," Mr. Cabot said. "I'm just as cool as your mom."

"Sorry, Daddy, but I really need to talk to mom about this."

"Did you start your period?" Mr. Cabot asked. "Princess, that's completely natural and it happens to every woman. All it means is—"

"Dad!" Alex said, frustrated. "I'm practically 17. I started my period years ago."

"Is this an underwear thing?" Mr. Cabot asked his embarrassed daughter. "You know how I feel about thong underwear. It leads to infections and it's just not appropriate for a girl your age. Maybe if you were 30 or—"

"Dad! It's not an underwear thing," Alex insisted. "You know I love our talks, but I really just need to talk to a woman."

The two of them went back to watching TV and Alex tried to concentrate on whatever it was her dad was watching but all she thought about was what she was going to tell her mom and why she even wanted to tell her. She knew her mom was going to think differently of her now, but she hoped she wouldn't be upset or disgusted with what Alex did with Olivia. Alex thought making love to Olivia was a beautiful thing, but she knew not everyone would feel the same way. She just had to get this off of her chest because if she didn't tell her mom she knew she would feel guilty and wonder if her mom was trying to figure something out about her.

"Mom!" Alex said excitedly when her mom walked into their apartment. When she ran to give her a hug, Mrs. Cabot knew something was up.

"What did I do to deserve this greeting?" Mrs. Cabot asked as she held onto her daughter.

"I need to talk to you about something," Alex said. "In private."

"Whatever it is, Jolene, it's extremely urgent," Mr. Cabot told his wife. "Alexandra has been waiting impatiently for over an hour now."

When Alex and her mom sat down on Alex's bed, Mrs. Cabot began looking around her daughter's room. The pictures of her friends from Framingham had been taken down and, in their place, were pictures of Olivia. There were pictures of her in her uniform, pictures of her on her skateboard, and pictures of the two of them holding each other. She knew her daughter had it bad for Olivia and it scared her that Alex was falling so fast. Alex would always be her little girl and she was worried about her getting hurt.

"So, what's so urgent?" Mrs. Cabot asked her daughter who was now lying flat on her bed.

"It's about Olivia," Alex began.

"What about her? You two seemed like you were getting along just fine."

"We are," Alex said. "Better than just fine. Olivia and I—Olivia and I…"

"You and Olivia…what?"

"Olivia and I had s—Olivia and I made love to each other," Alex finally managed to say.

"Oh," Mrs. Cabot said, completely shocked.

"Say something," Alex urged. "Yell at me, punish me, anything."

"Okay," Mrs. Cabot said hesitantly.

"Mom!" Alex pleaded. "Your only daughter just lost her virginity and she needs someone to talk to."

"This isn't easy for me, Alexandra."

"It's not easy for me either," Alex told her. "Mom, I had sex for the first time."

"And my daughter had sex for the first time," Mrs. Cabot said defensively. "That's very…scary…for me."

"And it's scary for me, too, Mom," Alex insisted. "I was naked in front of someone for the first time. I gave myself to someone for the first time. Olivia was inside me, Mom. She was moving inside me and I was moving inside her. No offense, but I think I win."

"You're right," Mrs. Cabot said nervously. "You do win. So, tell me…"

"I didn't think anything in the world could feel that good," Alex said excitedly. She was smiling until she noticed her mom was becoming uncomfortable. "Mom, what's wrong?"

"I don't want you to be that excited about it," Mrs. Cabot told her. "I'm not ready for my little girl to be a woman and have the same urges that I do."

"Mom!" Alex said, embarrassed.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Mrs. Cabot finally started to laugh, which put her daughter at ease. "Was it Olivia's first time, too?"

"Yes, which is why it was so special," Alex told her. "We were both trembling at first and we had no idea what we were doing, but it felt right. It's not the way it is in movies where everything is perfectly choreographed. Olivia and I were awkward and there was even a moment when we both started giggling because we didn't know what we were supposed to do next, but it didn't matter, Mom. Our goal wasn't to have an orgasm even though we both did—"

"Alexandra!"

"You didn't let me finish," Alex pointed out. "Even though we both had an orgasm, that wasn't the reason why we had sex. We really just wanted to make love to each other and make each other feel good."

"So that orgasm was a surprise? You really didn't want one?" Mrs. Cabot asked with one eyebrow raised.

"Okay, I did," Alex admitted. "But we weren't overly excited and ripping each other's clothes off. We were making love."

"Making love?" Mrs. Cabot asked. "You're supposed to be her girlfriend first and then you make love."

"But she's gorgeous. How could I wait?" Alex told her mom. "Olivia makes me feel like I have butterflies in my stomach. It's like whenever Olivia kisses me, even if it's a quick peck, I feel that sensation throughout my whole body. I'm so in love with her."

"That's what I'm afraid of," Mrs. Cabot admitted. "I don't want you getting hurt. You don't have to have sex with every girl you date, Alexandra."

"I'm not dating anyone after Olivia and I never dated anyone before Olivia," Alex told her. "She's my soulmate and I'm going to be with her forever."

"You're so young, Alexandra," Mrs. Cabot said as she messed up her daughter's hair. "But I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt. I'm not going to tell your dad about this. It'll be our little secret."

"Thank you so much," Alex said and hugged her mom. "I love you."

"I love you, too, sweetheart," Mrs. Cabot told her daughter. "But you aren't getting away with this. I'm really glad you felt comfortable enough to tell me about having sex with Olivia and I hope we can have other talks in the future, but that doesn't change the fact that you and Olivia have been physical with each other behind my back. You know we have no secrets in the Cabot household."

"No secrets other than you not telling Dad that I lost my virginity?" Alex asked.

"No secrets other than that," Mrs. Cabot responded. "It's for his own good. I don't want him to have a heart attack. As for your punishment, no more having sex with Olivia."

"Just Olivia?" Alex asked to get a rise out of her mom.

"You know what I mean," Mrs. Cabot said, frustrated. "The next time the two of you have sex better be after she's your wife. You tried it once and you got it out of your system."

Alex couldn't help but laugh. She knew making love to Olivia definitely wasn't something she could just get out of her system.

"Is something funny, Alexandra?" Mrs. Cabot asked as she started laughing along with her daughter.

"You're so bad at this," Alex told her. "You don't know how to punish me."

Mrs. Cabot took some time to gather her thoughts before revealing Alex's fate. "You're grounded until the end of the school year. You can still be Olivia's girlfriend when you turn 17 and you can still call her on the phone, but that's it."

"Can I kiss her?" Alex asked.

"On the lips, and only the lips," Mrs. Cabot told her. "I don't want you coming home with so many hickeys that I mistake you for a leopard."

"Tough, but fair," Alex said. She tried not to look too happy for fear that her mother would realize that she let her daughter off easily.

"I'm going to the grocery store, do you want anything?"

"Disney Princess mac 'n cheese," Alex said. "The kind you always get me."

"I bought that for my little princess, my little girl," Mrs. Cabot reminded her. "I won't buy that for the girl on the bed who thinks she's a woman. You can either have Disney Princess mac 'n cheese or round the bases with Olivia, but you can't have both. Which do you prefer?"

"Mom," Alex groaned and buried her face in her pillow.

As soon as her mother left, Alex pulled out her diary and started to write every little detail of what she had experienced with Olivia. It dawned on her that she should have done that to begin with instead of telling her mom. Her mom never would have known and she wouldn't have been grounded. Regardless, Alex knew the punishment wasn't too bad and she got the satisfaction that came with having their first mother/daughter secret. At least she hoped her mother was going to keep it a secret.