juicetroop82: Yeah, these two have absolutely no faith in each other whatsoever. It may change, though. Just maybe. :) Sidle13: Ohhh, there will be some more Dana. haha. peterpeter: Thank you so much. Sorry for making you wait so long. Jenny and Becky will get it eventually. litafan82: haha no, Olivia did not fuck Jenny. Emilyprentissfan14: Thank you! I'm really glad you liked both of the stories. :)

Olivia's first day of school hadn't exactly gone the way she had expected it to. Her first and only class of the day was a biology class, one of her worst subjects. She had hated biology in high school, but she had a feeling she was going to hate it even more now. Every Tuesday and Thursday she had an hour and fifteen minutes of biology lecture and every Thursday, she had a three-hour biology lab. To top it off, her class began at 7:30 in the morning. Even though she hated biology in high school, having Alex as a lab partner made it so much better for her. They treated every lab session as a game in which they were both mad scientists. Their classmates thought they were nerds for doing that, but Alex and Olivia didn't care. They had so much fun together and they managed to have the highest grade of any pair of lab partners in their entire class. Olivia wished Alex was her lab partner again, but Alex wasn't even in the same state, let alone the same biology class.

She missed Alex more with each passing minute. She waited by the phone for Alex to call, but she heard nothing from her. Instead, she decided to take matters into her own hands and call Alex.

"Hello?"

"Bree?" Olivia asked, disappointedly.

"Is this Olivia?" she asked. "Alex doesn't want to talk to you."

"Bree, please give her the phone," Olivia pleaded. "I need to talk to my girlfriend."

"What do you want, Olivia?" Alex asked curtly. Olivia began twisting the phone cord and trying to think of something to say.

"I love you, Alex. Why aren't you calling me anymore?"

"Because I don't want to talk to you," Alex said matter-of-factly.

"Why?" Olivia asked, trying not to cry.

"Like you don't know. Don't try to play innocent with me, Olivia."

"I'm not playing innocent," Olivia insisted. "I really don't know."

"I'm not falling for your lies anymore," Alex told her. "We're finished, Olivia. You've hurt me so much in such a short time. I loved you, Olivia. I wanted a future with you, but now all I want is to forget all about you. Please, just stop calling me and let me get on with my life."

Olivia wanted to find out what Alex was talking about, but before she could get another word in she heard the sound of Alex hanging up. She was going to call her again, but she knew there was no use. Alex would probably just hang up the moment she heard her voice and if she didn't she would probably say something even more hurtful to Olivia than what she had just told her. Instead, Olivia decided to lie down on her bed and think about Alex. Her roommates were all at school and Abbie was probably still asleep, so there was nobody to talk to. She had never felt so lonely in her life and she started to remember the better times she had with Alex.

December 31, 1978

"Girls, what are you doing?" Mrs. Cabot asked Alex and Olivia.

"Nothing," the two four-year-olds said and then exploded into a fit of giggles. When Mrs. Cabot looked at them, she saw that Alex and Olivia had switched pajamas and Olivia was wearing Alex's nightgown while Alex was wearing Olivia's Wonder Woman pajama set.

"The shirt is on wrong," Olivia told Alex, which made them giggle even more. Alex tried to take the shirt off but the collar got stuck on her head.

"Mommy! Help!" Alex said frantically. "I'm stuck!"

Mrs. Cabot rushed over to her daughter and pulled the shirt back down. She then removed Alex's glasses and gently pulled the shirt over her daughter's head. She fixed the inside-out shirt and put it back on Alex. Once it was on, she straightened out her daughter's blonde pigtails and put her glasses on her.

"Thank you," Olivia said and hugged Mrs. Cabot.

"For what, sweetheart?" Mrs. Cabot asked.

"For saving Alex," Olivia responded. "I couldn't do it."

"You're welcome," Mrs. Cabot told her and playfully touched her fingertip to Olivia's little nose. "And don't feel bad. Not even Wonder Woman can save people all the time."

Once Mrs. Cabot left them alone, Alex and Olivia went back to drinking hot chocolate from their Sesame Street sippy cups.

"Guess what!" Olivia said excitedly

"What?" Alex asked.

"Joey asked me to marry him at the park yesterday and then he kissed me."

"Yucky!" Alex said and started laughing. "What did you do?"

"I punched him in the nose," Olivia said proudly. "But then he started bleeding and he told his mommy and then his mommy told my mommy."

"Did you get in trouble?" Alex asked worriedly.

"No," Olivia bragged. "When we got home, my mommy told my aunties and they all told me they were happy I punched him."

"Boys are gross," Alex admitted. "I never want to marry one."

"What about girls?" Olivia asked.

"Olivia!" Alex said and started giggling. "Girls can't marry girls, silly."

"I know that, Alex! But girls can kiss girls," Olivia informed her. "I see my Aunt Olivia and Aunt Lorraine kissing all the time."

"And it's not yucky?" Alex asked.

"I don't know," Olivia told her. "My aunties really like it. They kiss a lot and then they do other things."

"Like what?" Alex asked and wrinkled her nose.

"I don't know," Olivia shrugged. "At that time their door is closed and my aunt Olivia starts saying weird things like 'Oh, Lorraine. Harder, harder.' I asked my mommy what that meant and she told me something about them being in love."

"So girls can be in love with other girls?" Alex asked hopefully.

"That's what my mommy said and my mommy knows everything, so it has to be true."

"Good."

"Why?"

"'Cause I'm in love with you," Alex confessed. "I love you the way my mommy loves my daddy."

"I love you, too," Olivia said and gave Alex a hug.

The two girls looked at each other and started giggling again. Neither of them knew what they were supposed to do next, but they both knew something was supposed to happen when two people said they loved each other. That's when four-year-old Alex let go of her inhibitions and gave the unsuspecting Olivia a quick peck on the lips.

"That wasn't yucky," Alex told her.

"Your lips taste like hot chocolate," Olivia said excitedly.

"Olivia?"

"What?"

"You're pretty," Alex said and started blushing.

September 1987

It was the first day of 8th grade and the Cabenmichael girls were in the girls' bathroom at school, standing in front of the mirrors above the sinks. They had all arrived in modest clothes, but Abbie and Olivia insisted on going to the bathroom before class started so they could change. Alex stayed in her miniskirt and sweater, but she began applying mascara and eyeshadow while Abbie and Olivia were changing in the bathroom stalls.

Abbie was the first to emerge from the bathroom stall. She was now wearing a tube top and skin tight pants.

"Does this look slutty?" she asked Alex.

"Not really," Alex told her and Abbie looked disappointed.

Abbie then grabbed two small pins from her backpack and used them to pin the bottom of her tube top so it would become shorter and show off her belly button. "How about now?"

"Definitely slutty," Alex told her, which made Abbie finally start to smile.

Olivia emerged from the bathroom wearing a tight pink halter top, a denim miniskirt with ruffles, and a pair of pink heels. "Goodbye, 7th grade Olivia," she said as she modeled her outfit for them.

"You've out-slutted me," Abbie said to her. "I hate you."

"There's still hair and make-up," Olivia reminded her.

"What's with trying to look slutty?" Alex asked. "I don't like it."

"Alex, this is 8th grade!" Abbie told her. "We aren't little kids anymore. We're women and it's time we start looking like women."

Abbie and Olivia pulled out Mrs. Carmichael's copy of Cosmopolitan and started teasing their hair like the women in the magazine. When it was finally to their liking, they started doing their eye-makeup and lipstick. Paying no attention to what eye make-up best coordinated with their skin tone and eye shape, the girls began piling on dark eyeshadow and coat after coat of mascara.

"I think we're ready for the 8th grade," Olivia said after twenty minutes of primping. "We just have to remember to change and take our make-up off before our parents see us after school."

Olivia noticed that Alex kept staring at her the whole time they were in the bathroom. Olivia didn't want Alex to know, but she was dressing that way for her. She wanted Alex to like her, but she knew Alex had eyes for Casey. They had already known each other for years and she had only kissed her once–when they were in preschool. Since then, she had only kissed Casey.

The girls walked over to their lockers and quickly stashed the clothes they had worn when they got dropped off. Some of the boys were whistling at them, but Olivia didn't care. She just kept hoping for a reaction from Alex. Abbie, on the other hand, was feeding off of the attention she was getting from boys.

"You're a major babe," Trent said when he saw her. His compliment made Abbie start to blush uncontrollably.

"You like Trent," Alex teased.

"No, I don't," Abbie insisted. "Shut up."

"Yeah, you do," Olivia told her.

Just then Casey approached them to say hello. Standing next to her was a lanky blonde girl with braces that the Cabenmichael girls had never seen before. She wasn't wearing any make-up other than some clear lipgloss, but she didn't need any. Her big blue eyes already stood out. Alex and Olivia looked over at Abbie, but Abbie was too busy looking at the new girl.

"Are you nervous?" Alex asked Casey.

"Yes," Casey admitted. "I want to go back to elementary school where it's safe. Seventh grade is already scary and the bell hasn't even rang yet. The only good thing about it is I'm at the same school as you."

"Oh, I get it," the new girl said and winked at Casey. "This is her."

"I'm sorry," Casey said. "Everyone, this is Serena. She just moved here from Connecticut."

The girls took turns introducing themselves and asking some more about Serena and how she was liking her new home.

"Welcome to Fallbrook Junior High," Olivia told her.

"Or as I like to call it, the seventh circle of Hell," Abbie said.

"It's really not that bad," Alex insisted. "You're with Casey which means you're in good hands."

Alex's comment made Casey blush and it made Olivia want to puke. The girls looked at Serena for some type of reaction to their comments, but she was too busy looking at Abbie.

"Where are you from?" Serena asked her.

"Here," Abbie responded.

"Not with that accent," Serena said.

"I'm from Texas," Abbie told her.

"Texas? Well, I wouldn't mind having a little south in my mouth," Serena said and winked at her.

The girls saw Abbie's mouth start to hang open and they tried their hardest not to laugh. Olivia knew Serena couldn't have been older than 12 and she wanted to know where on earth a 12-year-old learned how to flirt like that.

"We should go," Casey urged Serena. "First period Pre-Algebra isn't going to find itself."

"It was nice meeting you all," Serena said before leaving with Casey.

"Okay, I have a new goal in life," Abbie announced when Casey and Serena were out of sight.

"Oh, no. What now?" Alex groaned.

"My new goal in life is to make out with Serena. She's so sexy," Abbie told them as she leaned against her locker. "Do you think she slips the tongue?"

"You're crazy," Olivia said and started laughing. "First you want Trent and now you want Serena."

"I don't want Trent," Abbie insisted. "And even if I did, it doesn't matter, Olivia. I'm a woman of the '80s and it's my prerogative to go after everything I want and I want Serena. She makes my heart beat a million times a minute. It's still beating really fast even though she's not here right now. Does that mean I'm in love? It's love at first sight, isn't it?"

"Yeah," Alex agreed. "So ask her out."

"No way," Abbie said even though she had been confident a few seconds ago. "No way in hell. I'm too nervous. I'll wait until high school. If it's meant to be I'll ask her out in high school and then we'll be a couple and live happily ever after."

"I hope so," Alex told her. "You know the best thing about 8th grade? Jenny Jacobson isn't here anymore to strut around like she owns the place."

"Oh, I hate that girl," Abbie said with a twisted face. "You know she stuffs her bra, right?"

"What?" Alex and Olivia asked in disbelief.

"With toilet paper," Abbie informed them. "Jenny has a 2-ply chest. It's so pathetic. I know I'm as flat as a board, but at least I don't deny it. Shit, I have to get to class. I'll see y'all at lunch."

As soon as Abbie left, Alex started to slowly stroke Olivia's arm.

"You look beautiful," Alex told her. Olivia felt her heart start to beat faster and she began feeling the same emotions that Abbie was feeling, but she knew hers had to be more intense. Abbie was in love after knowing Serena less than five minutes. Olivia had known Alex for nine years; she knew her love was stronger and all-consuming. It had to be.

"Thanks," Olivia finally managed to say.

"You look beautiful all the time," Alex began. "But there's something about you in a skirt and that halter top. It just does something to me."

"Like what?" Olivia asked flirtatiously.

"I feel all tingly," Alex said and averted her eyes. "Tingly in places I've never felt...tingly...before. I want to do things to you; things I shouldn't do, things I don't even know how to do."

"Tell me about these things," Olivia suggested. She leaned in closer to Alex and waited for her response.

"Things my 13-year-old body probably isn't ready for," Alex said nervously. "Olivia, remember that thing we learned in health class about how the...vagina...gets lubricated when a woman gets aroused? Well, mine is doing that."

Olivia started smiling the moment Alex said that. Her plan had worked and Alex looked adorable when she was flustered. She leaned in and hugged Alex closer than she ever had before.

"Olivia?"

"Yeah?"

"Feeling your body pressed up against me isn't helping the situation," Alex admitted.

"Sorry," Olivia said and quickly backed away.

"Don't be," Alex told her. "I'm just really glad I'm not a boy right now. It'd be so obvious. At least girls can hide it."

January 11, 1992

Olivia looked over at the beautiful sleeping girl cuddled up to her and she couldn't believe what had happened. The two of them had just made love to each other for the first time after years of denying their true feelings. Not wanting to wake her, Olivia gently kissed Alex's forehead.

"Babe," Alex said, still half asleep.

"Yeah?"

"You were incredible.".

"Not even," Olivia said and started smiling.

"I feel like a woman now," Alex told her. "I never knew sex could be so...so...mind-blowing."

"And so intimate," Olivia added.

"I've waited so long for this," Alex confessed.

"Oh, you mean since that time you were wet on the first day of 8th grade?"

"Olivia!" Alex said and started blushing.

She didn't know what to say, so she got on top of Alex and kissed her neck. When Alex began moaning, Olivia knew exactly how they would be spending the rest of their night.

"I love you so much," Olivia told her. "I've always loved you and I'm always going to love you."

She kept replaying that last memory no matter how much it made her cry. She loved Alex and she was always going to love Alex. She wanted her girlfriend; her ex-girlfriend, she should say, but she had no idea how to reach her. She couldn't call Alex because she knew she would hang up and she didn't have enough money to go to Princeton and explain everything to her in person. Instead, she held onto Mr. Cuddles and tried to lose herself in her biology textbook.