juicetroop82: They'll have a talk about Jenny and Dana but not until Olivia is in her new apartment. :) peterpeter: The Goonies is an awesome movie! You have good taste. Dee Hensley: I'm glad you loved the games. I would love to play those games with Olivia. ;) litafan82: You know you're the reason I had to make them happy and cuddly. haha. lisa; I'll give you Stripper Alex for Christmas. :) Sidle13: Aww, I'm happy for them too. It was time for them to have some happiness after 9 chapters of torture. haha. kleberm: No more snobby Alex...for now. :D

Alex glanced at her watch and realized that she and Olivia had been kissing on the couch for over an hour. She had always hated blackouts, but being with Olivia was making the whole experience worthwhile. Before they started making out, they swore they weren't going to take each other's clothes off. It had been awhile since they had just kissed each other instead of treating kissing as foreplay. Olivia had suggested playing a game in which they'd take turns choosing different ways to kiss each other. So far, Alex's favorite kiss was when Olivia gently bit her bottom lip.

"I love you," Alex told her after they had finally stopped kissing.

"I love you, too," Olivia said and brushed a couple of loose strands of hair behind Alex's ear.

"I didn't think this could be so sexy."

"What's sexy?" Olivia asked.

"Kissing," Alex said and started smiling. "Not just kissing, but kissing you by candlelight during a blackout. It's sexy. It's romantic. It's..."

"It's getting me worked up," Olivia added.

"Me, too," Alex admitted. She undid the front clasp of Olivia's bra and started to gently suck on her nipple.

"I love when you do that," Olivia said as she started running her fingers down Alex's back.

"Liv?"

"Yeah?"

"I never thought I'd say this, but that nose ring is a turn on. You look hot with it."

"You'd look hot with a piercing, too," Olivia told her.

"Oh, yeah?"

"Yeah, maybe a clit ring."

"No way!" Alex said and started laughing. "That would hurt."

"I know," Olivia told her. "I'd never want anyone to hurt her."

"Her?" Alex asked. "You're personifying my clitoris?"

"Personifying her? Alex, I've named her. She likes being called Lextasy and she loves when I tongue kiss her and give her massages."

"I think Lextasy wants you to tongue kiss her right now."

"I'd love to," Olivia said.

"Livya!" the girls heard a voice scream from outside. "Livya! Hurry! He's after me! He's got a knife!"

Olivia jumped off the couch and ran as fast as she could to the front door. Her heart was pounding faster than ever, but she knew there was no time to be afraid. She had to act as quickly as she could and open the door for Abbie. Olivia hastily turned the knob and pulled Abbie inside.

"Alex, call 911," Olivia commanded, but Abbie grabbed her arm and started laughing hysterically.

"I got you," she said as she laughed so hard that she sank to the ground and brought Olivia down with her. "There's no knife wielding maniac out there."

"You bitch," Olivia said and started laughing along with Abbie.

"Abbie, what the hell?" Alex asked as she joined them on the living room carpet.

"It's my last night here," Abbie pointed out. "Did you really expect me to just knock on the door like a normal person?"

"Did you ever just knock on the door like a normal person?" Alex asked. She began cuddling up to Abbie and kissing her on the cheek.

"I don't want to be reminded that you're leaving tomorrow," Olivia told Abbie.

"But I am," Abbie said. "So, let's not mess up this night with crying or turn it into–"

"A hippie love-in," Alex said, finishing Abbie's sentence.

"How did you know I was going to say that?" Abbie asked.

"Because we've known you for 9 years now," Olivia reminded her.

"Then let's do what we've done for the past 9 years and have a Cabenmichael sleepover," Abbie suggested."Complete with Hellraiser, Metroid, and lots of ice cream"

"Sounds nice," Alex began. "But there's no electricity, remember?"

"Stupid storm," Abbie said. "The rain stopped, but the thunder and lightning is still crazy."

"How did you even get here?" Olivia asked.

"My mother-in-law dropped me off," Abbie responded.

"Your mother-in-law?" Alex asked.

"Oh, yeah. Serena's mom loves me now," Abbie informed them. "She doesn't love that I have sex with her underage daughter, but I gave her some spiel about how it's important for Serena to have a healthy attitude toward sex."

"You're a horrible person," Olivia told her and started shaking her head.

"Pretty much," Abbie said. "You girls do know that blackouts mean the freezer will stop being cold which means we should eat the ice cream right now."

Olivia grabbed a carton of strawberry ice cream and three spoons. Seeing as the three of them were so close, she felt as if there were no need for bowls. Olivia had, at one point or another, made out with both Alex and Abbie.

"What were you two doing before I got here?" Abbie asked as they were eating ice cream by candlelight.

"Kissing," Alex said matter-of-factly.

"Babe, I have an idea for another kiss next time we play our game," Olivia said excitedly. "How about if you keep some ice cream on your tongue and I maneuver it into my mouth using nothing but my tongue?"

"Damn, you're sexy," Alex said and started kissing Olivia.

"You are," Olivia said in between kisses.

"You both are," Abbie said and got in between their kiss.

"We haven't had a three-way kiss in forever," Alex said. "I miss those."

"Me, too," Abbie admitted. "Olivia?"

"Yeah?"

"Something is bothering me," Abbie said.

"What?"

"If the power is out, how were you going to call 911 if there really was a knife-wielding maniac after me? The only phone in this house is cordless," Abbie reminded her.

"...Oh..." Olivia said hesitantly.

"Not the brightest bulb, are you, Benson?" Abbie teased.

"Olivia wouldn't need to call 911," Alex insisted. "She could take on any knife-wielding maniac."

"To protect my best friend and the woman I love, definitely," Olivia said.

"Where's Rena Bena?" Alex asked.

"She's with Casey and Connie," Abbie responded. "They think because they're seniors now, they're so much cooler and they don't need us anymore."

"Good," Olivia said. "We don't need the class of 1993 invading our sleepovers."

"True dat," Abbie said. "Serena is where she belongs, you know?"

"I wouldn't go that far," Alex told her. "Serena belongs with you more than anyone else. If she were here, Liv and I would be okay with it."

"I know," Abbie said. "I just feel selfish and I'm trying not to think about it, but I can't help it."

"Think about what?" Alex asked.

"About Serena," Abbie responded. "She's been with a lot of girls, but I'm her first girlfriend and the first to love her. She's my first, too, and even though I'm her first what if I'm not the last to love her?"

"Abbie, that's absurd," Alex told her. "You two are the most stable couple I've ever met."

"I just keep thinking what if Serena is meant to be with someone else," Abbie confessed. "Someone with her upbringing. Someone like the girls Alex goes to school with. I mean, look at my life. My mom and stepdad disowned me and my biological father won't even write me back. Serena comes from this blue blood upbringing, she gets everything she wants, and I'm expecting her to move to Texas with me at age 17. Serena can have any girl she wants. She's already had almost every girl she wants. It's her senior year, she shouldn't be transferring to a school in a different state. She should be hanging out with Casey and Connie and applying to Yale. What if I'm just holding her back?"

"You're not holding her back," Alex insisted. "Yeah, Serena can have any girl she wants, but so can you."

"And you two chose each other," Olivia added. "I've seen the way Serena cuddles up to you. It's like she looks to you for love and protection. That girl adores you."

"Despite your bullshit," Alex teased.

"How do you know that going with you isn't what's best for Serena?" Olivia asked. "Serena isn't bothered by the fact that your parents disowned you or that you don't come from some rich upbringing. All Serena cares about is that she gets to be with you. That girl would follow you to the moon and back. You two are so good for each other."

"I know," Abbie said softly. "Thanks. Can we talk about something else?"

"We were watching the Goonies before you got here," Alex told her. "And Chunk still makes us think of you, especially the part when he is confessing everything he has ever done."

The three of them started laughing hysterically. "I've done some horrible things in my life," Abbie said as she tried to calm down. "Remember when I put Fuzzy Wuzzy, my pet tarantula, on Addie's face when she was sleeping."

"That thing scared the hell out of me," Alex said. "I refused to spend the night at your house until after he was gone."

"I loved Fuzzy Wuzzy," Olivia said. "Me, Abbie, and Fuzzy Wuzzy went on so many adventures together."

"Until Addie killed him when we were 10," Abbie told them. "Livya and I buried him in the backyard and we didn't stop crying for a week."

"While we're on the subject of Addie," Olivia began. "Remember the time my mom and Mrs. Carmichael took us trick-or-treating when we were in the 4th grad?. The three of us were so upset that we had a kindergartner hanging around with us."

"She ruined our theme," Alex said. "She insisted on dressing like a beauty queen when we were all horror movie characters. Abbie, you were Regan from the Exorcist. I was the girl from Poltergeist, and Liv, you were Freddy Krueger. Beauty queens just did not fit in with that."

"I was laughing hysterically when Livya made Addie cry when she chased her down the street," Abbie said. "That was the funniest thing ever."

"We got so much candy that night because of Alex," Abbie recalled.

"I think I had an even bigger crush on Alex because of that night," Olivia said. "Instead of trick-or-treat, she said 'They're here' like the little girl on Poltergeist. But she had perfected it. It was brilliant. And she looked so much like that little girl."

"That movie messed up Livya," Abbie said.

"Because my mom traumatized me," Olivia said in her defense. "The movie itself wasn't scary, but when I asked why that little girl got sucked into her closet, my mom told me it was because she didn't pick up her toys."

"Have you noticed that it's been almost ten years and Olivia still obsessively cleans her room?" Alex asked. "She's still afraid of that happening to her. It's so cute."

"My mom has a very unconventional way of parenting," Olivia said. "I've begun to realize that and all it took was 18 years."

"I love your mom," Abbie said.

"Yeah, so do I," Olivia told her.

"No, I love your mom,"Abbie repeated. "Just give me two hours in bed with her and I bet I could make her gay."

"Gross!" Olivia told her. "Abbie!"

"Babe, don't act like you're above Abbie's level," Alex insisted. "You know you'd do the same to Mrs. Carmichael."

"Never," Olivia said innocently even though she knew it was a lie.

"Where is your mom?" Abbie asked.

"With Peter," Olivia said sarcastically. "Like always. They're busy working on wedding plans."

"Or fucking," Abbie told her. "I mean, it's a blackout. What else are you going to do?"

"Please don't say that," Olivia insisted. "I keep having these nightmares that Peter is going to get her pregnant and she is going to love this baby more than she loves me because of the way I was conceived in comparison to how this baby was conceived."

"Olivia, chill," Abbie said and started hugging her. "There's no baby."

"But she should be with me this coming week, not him," Olivia insisted. "I'm moving out next week and I won't be living with her anymore. You think she'd be as sad as I am, but she's not. She spends every waking moment with Peter even though we should be having mother/daughter week."

"Liv, you two are going to see each other almost every day," Abbie pointed out. "You're even taking her class."

"And she is probably just trying to hide how broken up she is feeling about you moving out," Alex told her. "If she starts crying, that'll just make it harder on you and she knows that you have to grow up eventually."

"I hate when you two try to rationalize things," Olivia told them.

"We do it because we love you," Alex said.

"I don't want this night to end," Abbie admitted. "Even though we're just sitting around in the dark, I'm having the time of my life. You two are the only people I can do this with. I'm not going to have that when I get to Texas. A part of me wishes I would have just applied to Hudson with Olivia and the two of us could have dormed it. Then, Alex could come over and spend the night every weekend and it would be just like old times. Why did we have to grow up, you know?"

"To be honest, I wish we could just live high school over and over again," Olivia told them. "We had our ups and downs, but at least we still had each other."

"We'll always have each other," Alex insisted. "We're going to have different lives in college and everything is going to change, but I think we should make a pact."

"A pact to be there for each other no matter what," Olivia suggested. "And I do mean no matter what."

"Forever," Alex added.

"And ever," Abbie said.

"Times infinity," Olivia added.

"Okay, we can stop now," Alex said and Abbie started laughing.

"I have an idea," Olivia said excitedly. "Wait right here."

"As opposed to where?" Abbie teased, but Olivia wasn't paying attention. She had already left to her room. She came back five minutes later, carrying two light sabers.

"I know where this is going," Alex said. "You two are going to have light saber wars, aren't we?"

"Do you even have to ask that?" Abbie told her.

"Is there anything more fun in a blackout? I think not," Olivia said. "As always, I'm going to be a Jedi Master and Abbie is a Sith Lord."

"I finally get to resurrect Darth Abbie," Abbie said excitedly.

"You two are even nerdier than ever," Alex said as she prepared to watch the epic battle that was about to unfold. She was mostly in it for the fact that Abbie and Olivia were probably going to trip over something eventually.

Abbie and Olivia spent the next hour having light saber battles until the power came back on. The rest of the night was spent watching Hellraiser, playing Metroid, and looking at junior high and high school yearbooks. Both Abbie and Alex had to leave the next day, but they stayed up all night trying to avoid the inevitable. At that time tomorrow night, Abbie would already be in Texas and it would be months before they finally saw her again.