A/N: It's worth noting that I've set this story in Salt Lake City, Utah. Paper Moon really exists, it's a mostly female gay bar and Sugar House is (IMHO) one of the best places in SLC to live, if you have to live here.

Endless thanks to my sock-rockin' betas, siouxchef & TwilightMundi.

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She came up into my arms and we laughed together for a few minutes. I hadn't felt so free, so happy, so relieved in a very long time... and the night wasn't even over yet.

BPOV

As we laid together, recovering from having given each other a thorough fucking, I started to wonder just how I had gotten to this place, emotionally. I could already tell I didn't want Alice to be another name on the laundry list of names Bella Swan Has Fucked (wasn't it long enough?), but I had no experience in this area. I also had no clue what Alice wanted, and that was important; you can't have a one-way relationship.

My eyes fluttered closed and I took in another deep breath of her, relaxing even more. I turned onto my side and she spooned up behind me. Her left arm rested in the space below my neck on the pillow and her right arm draped over my stomach. Every now and then, I would feel a soft kiss against my neck or back which made me smile.

I fell asleep thinking about Alice and the future. Alice and the future. Alice and my future. My future with Alice.

I could hear the moaning before I opened my eyes. The friction began against the base of my ass. Alice had her leg between mine and was rubbing up against me. She's ready again? She just might be my dream girl.

"I was having a very nice dream, thank you very much," I said, trying to sound pouty.

"Me too, baby," she whispered. "Don't you think the reality is better, though?"

I chuckled lightly – I couldn't argue with that. Alice was surprisingly strong for her size, pulling me back into her with a force I wouldn't have imagined possible. I moaned and ground against her as her hand grazed up my side and across my chest to stop at my nipple. She wasn't rough that time, feathering her fingertips in a circle around it, teasing me.

The room was freezing, and that could only mean it was the middle of the night and the heat was low. I liked my room to be cold when I slept, but I hopped out of bed to turn the temperature up so we could be comfortable together. I was shivering as I made my way back, and Alice was sitting up with a scowl on her face. I realized I had forgotten to tell her where I was going.

"Sorry, it was too cold! I had to go turn the heat up."

Alice laughed and her facial expression relaxed.

"What do you have in that toybox of yours, sweet Bella?"

I thought for a moment, going through the mental inventory of items I kept on hand. "I have just the thing for you," I said with a smirk.

I crawled up next to her and kissed her softly. I could still taste myself on her lips, and the reminder that she'd been between my legs mere hours ago had me wet and excited all over again.

"Wait right here," I said. "I'll be right back."

I gently tweaked her nipple as I got off the bed, and she giggled quietly. Walking to my closet, I noticed the room had already warmed a bit. I was glad – it would need to be comfortably warm for us to pull off the next stunt I had planned.

When I got to the closet, I flipped the light on and spotted my hot pink trunk on the ground. I unlocked and opened it, reaching in to pluck out the toy I wanted to use with Alice as a wicked grin spread across my face.

Once I was back to the bed, I could see Alice lying on her back toward the middle of the bed with her eyes closed again. Shit, did I take too long?

I pulled the comforter down and crawled in next to her, my hand sliding across her abdomen. She smiled, not bothering to open her eyes. Thank god she was still awake.

I moved on top of her smooth body and straddled her waist. My hands cupped her face and I leaned in to kiss her softly. Her hands came up and around my hips, pulling me down closer to her. I wondered if we ever be close enough.

The swipe of her warm tongue against my lips elicited a moan. I parted my lips for her and she slowly dipped her tongue into my mouth, gently caressing me with it. The tips of my nipples were dragging across her chest, pebbled to hard peaks, and I felt her hands rubbing circles on my hips. I broke our kiss.

"I thought you might have fallen back asleep," I said.

"And miss this? Never. Anyone that could fall asleep with your beautiful, naked body getting goodies from the toybox is a fool," she said with a short laugh.

"Ah, yes... the toybox."

I slid off of her and gave her a seductive smile. "Give me a second and then I want you to come over here and get on top of me, okay?"

I maneuvered beneath the blanket, hoping to keep what I had hidden as long as possible. I knew I was wet enough that I wouldn't need any lube to get things where they needed to be, so I leaned back and inserted the toy I had. As I felt it slide past my lips and fill me up, I let out a soft sigh of pleasure. Alice was watching me with rapt attention and I enjoyed the fact that she had no fucking clue what I had with me. Yes, I am that evil.

Scooting to the center of the bed, I grabbed the toy and slowly pulled it out almost all the way before gently pushing it in again. My eyes were closed and my head was tilted slightly back, my breath coming out in soft pants.

"Mmm, Alice, care to join me up here?"

She moved her small body on top of mine and wiggled her hips, fitting us together. I pressed the switch on my toy and it began to vibrate. I knew once she had her pussy right on top of mine, the vibrations would hit her clit. She leaned over and put her head next to mine, flexing her hips and sliding her body into the right position for us both to come.

"What the fuck is this, Bella?"

Alice was breathing heavily, the vibrations between us causing us both to peak faster than before.

"Shh, just enjoy, beautiful. I'll show it to you later. Sit back up so I can see you again; I need to touch you."

She gave me an aggressive kiss, nipping at my lips, and sat up, changing the position of the friction and vibrations between us. She swiveled her hips and rode me, pressing the vibrator harder into me, which only made me want to come faster. I was doing my best to hold off having an orgasm until she fell over the edge first, knowing that once she did, I would have no problem following. She moved her hands to my hips and closed her eyes, letting her head fall back slightly.

My hands moved up her sides to her breasts. They weren't perfect – no one's are, but they were perfect for me. On the small side, perky, with larger nipples than I would have expected. I cupped them with my hands, rubbing my thumbs over her nipples and coaxing them to a hard point before rolling them between my fingers. From this position, I had a great view of Alice's body and figured she probably worked out a little less than I did, but enough so that everyone knew she took great care of herself.

"Ali, I wanna see you come, baby. Are you going to come for me?"

"Fuck, yes," she whispered. "I'm almost there, Bella, so close..."

She seemed to be begging me to turn up the intensity in some way, so I pushed my hips into hers, knowing what the increase of pressure and sensation would do. I reluctantly moved my hands from her breasts and cupped her ass, pressing her down into me in time with the rhythm of my hips, and she cried out. She rode me faster, and I assumed her orgasm was rolling through her body. She was gasping for breath, calling my name in a whisper of a sob.

"Please don't stop yet," I pled. "You feel so good against me."

She leaned forward again, the full weight of her body pressing against mine. The tips of her nipples brushed against my skin as her lips began to suck and nibble around my collarbone.

"Bella," she said, dragging out the l's in my name. "I want to see you come underneath me as I ride you."

She hadn't even finished getting her whole sentence out and I could feel my orgasm taking over. My torso arched up off the bed as I came, pressing our upper bodies as close together as possible. My mouth was at the side of her face, whispering her name in her ear like a prayer coming from my lips.

As the intensity subsided, I lowered my body back to the bed and let out a huff of air. My arms wrapped around Alice, trapping her against me as she tried to move away. One of my hands snaked down to turn off the vibrating device between us, then moved to rest on her ass.

"Not just yet," I said. "No squirming away. I want to hold you like this for a minute, okay?"

I was giving her a choice. I was trying to let her stay, let her feel me, see the emotions radiating off of me. I was too tired to think about it very deeply, but sex with emotions? Me? Was I even capable of that anymore? I guess I am...

She leaned in to kiss my lips, which I took as a yes to my question, and I hummed against her. Right then, in that moment, I was so content.

I turned and let her body slip off mine, feeling instantly cold and lonely when she laid in her own spot on the bed next to me. She slipped a leg between mine, pressing herself into me again, and wrapped her arms around me. Her fingertips were on my back, circling in a random path against my skin, giving me goosebumps.

We were facing each other and I smiled at her, a soft smile. A tired smile. A satiated smile. She gave it all back to me tenfold and I couldn't have been happier. It wasn't like with Tanya, when I wanted her gone as soon as the sex stopped, or Jane, who I frankly wanted gone before the sex stopped. It was absolutely nothing like with Irina, who I dominated all night and then felt easier, lighter the next day. I was grateful for her – at least I felt like she gave something back before I kicked her out. Most of them were just an easy lay, a quick orgasm, maybe even marginally better than the ones I routinely gave myself.

I realized then that I was scared shitless. Never in my 26 years of life, in the last 8 that I'd been sexually active, had I ever wanted someone to stick around. Alice made me rethink everything I ever thought I wanted or could have, and I didn't even know her fucking last name.

Before I could contemplate falling asleep, Alice dove under the sheets with a laugh. What the hell? Her hands trailed up my legs sensuously. She wasn't going in for the kill – I was pretty sure that we were both too exhausted to think about round three...

When she reached my center, I could feel her hands playing around with the toy that was still inside me. She ran her fingertips up and down it, consequently running them up and down my pussy at the same time. I softly moaned and shifted my hips as I felt her move down to where it entered me. She carefully removed it and squirmed back up and out from under the covers.

"Okay, what the fuck is this?" she asked. Once again, she was waving it around in the air, totally cracking me up.

"What is with you always waving the toys around? Shit, woman, you're going to drop it and break something important to me. Set it down on the nightstand. It's called a Rock Chick. Maybe you can get another demo tomorrow, but for now, let's get some sleep."

She "hmph"ed and put the toy down, eyeing me suspiciously.

"That's what is important to you?" she asked, pouting slightly.

"You know what I mean, don't be a brat."

I was trying to lighten the mood, but I could tell Alice was bugged by my comment. What could I say, though, there was no defense other than the fact that I was a woman that liked to have orgasms. Was there really anything wrong with that? I decided it wasn't time to reveal that I had named most of my toys.

I pulled her close to me again, spooning around her body. My leg was over her hip, my right arm tucked under her right arm, cupping her breast. I admit, that was my favorite position to sleep in – my body so impossibly close to someone else's, my hand placed in a dominant, possessive spot. Who wouldn't want to fall asleep with a soft, warm breast in their hand? The only better position to fall asleep in was with someone's hand wrapped around me, but in that moment, I wanted to be the one holding.

Humming in her ear again, my chin rested against her shoulder, and I thought about how well we fit together. Her body seemed made for mine, as if she was the puzzle piece I had been missing all those years.

With one last caress over her nipple with my thumb, I closed my eyes for what I was sure would be one of the best nights of sleep in my life.

You can imagine my surprise when I woke up alone. I looked around. Surely she hadn't left. Girls didn't do that to Bella Swan, Bella Swan did that to girls. I figured she'd be in the kitchen or the bathroom, so I got up and stretched. I didn't bother with a robe; I had curtains on the windows and she had seen it all the night before.

I padded out of my room into the living room. Nope. I walked further, into the kitchen. Nope. I checked the guest bedroom, the guest bath, my bathroom, everywhere. I went back to the bedroom and sure enough, her clothes were gone. I double checked the kitchen for a note, a phone number, something, anything... All traces of Alice, except for her delicious smell still lingering on my sheets, were gone. What the hell is so wrong with me that the first girl I want to stick around leaves in the dark of night?

Oh fuck, I need to talk to Jasper.