14

The next morning Andrea and Miranda strolled into the kitchen hand-in-hand. Amy and Mark were moving about making breakfast.

"Mornin'" Andrea moved each of the older adults and kissed them on their cheeks as she had every morning.

"Mornin' Annie Marie" Mark said hugging her with his one arm and looked at Miranda. "Good morning Miranda."

"Good morning Mark, Amy." She nodded to each as she sat down at the table and picked up her steaming cup of coffee.

"Good morning Miranda." Amy walked over with a plate of eggs and placed it in front of the fashion icon. "Sleep well?" She asked.

Miranda looked lovingly at Andrea when she answered the woman. "Yes, the best nights sleep I've ever had in my life."

"Wonderful!" And he replied heading back to the stove, "it's the mountain air."

Miranda grinned into her coffee mug. "Mmm. I'm sure you're right."

Andrea smiled at her.

Cassidy and Caroline came in still in their pajamas and sat down at the table. "Morning." In unison.

Amy and Mark smiled at each other, sadly, Miranda noticed.

"Mornin' Mozart, mornin' Bach."

"Good morning Bobbsies. Did you sleep well?"

"Yeah." Both again.

Cassidy looked at Andy. "I can't believe we have to leave."

"And that you have to be away from us again." Caroline followed.

"I know. I hated too, but it will go by fast, like last time." Andy brushed a red curl behind her ear.

Cassidy sat up in grinned. "And maybe you'll miss us so much you'll have to come and see us again."

Andy looked at Miranda with a cheshire grin, "I'm sure I won't be able to stay awake the whole time this trip either." She looked at the twins. "So I might have to make a trip to New York for some reason." She smiled at the glee in her eyes.

Miranda grinned into her mug, again.

"So," Caroline asked "what did you two do last night?"

Miranda's coffee went down the wrong pipe when she gasped at the question and looked at Andrea with terror in her eyes as she began to cough.

Andy patted her back and winked at her. "Not much," she looked at Caroline then back to her lover. "Sat in the hot tub for a while then we went to bed early."

Miranda coughed again.

"Mom, you okay?" Cassidy asked worriedly.

"Yes dear, coffee just went down the wrong pipe." She gave her young lover and evil glare and got a blink in return.

Right then the girls became interested in the breakfast Amy was sitting in front of them, so Andrea looked at Miranda and mouthed the words 'sound proof' which caused her lover's neck and chest to turn bright red.

She turned her attention back to the twins enjoying the exuberance with which they ate Amy's meal, made with love for them. "While you guys finish up your breakfast, your mom and me are gonna to go finish packing."

"K."

"Mmhm" they responded between bites.

The two older women rose from the table with the coffee mugs in hand and headed back to the bedroom. Once inside, Andrea laughed out loud.

"That was not funny." She glared at her young lover. "You nearly gave me a heart attack."

Andrea took their mugs, setting them on the nearby nightstand then wrapped her arms around the angry woman. "Come on, if you could have seen your face." She kissed her, Miranda fought the desire to give in and returned the kiss.

"I still fail to find the humor in it." She was giving in slowly as Andrea ran her lips from her nape down to her collarbone.

"Mmm, are we having our first argument as lovers. Because if we are," she moved back to her lover's lips, "I'm hopeful we do it a lot, you are so hot when you get pissed."

"Really." She moaned into Andrea's mouth.

"Oh yeah." She pushed the older woman against the door. "And there's the makeup sex." She ran her hand down the front of Miranda, cupping her breast.

"Oh!" she gasped. And she tightened her hold around the singers waist.

Andrea ran her tongue down Miranda's neck, sucking along the way. "I'm never going to get enough of you." She growled slip her leg between the older woman's.

Miranda's head fell back against the door as her hips began to rub against Andrea's thigh. She took that as a sign and slipped her hand down the front of the older woman's yoga pants, past the top of her lace panties, into her wetness.

"Oh my God, you're so wet."

"Ahhh." She gasped as Andrea circled her clit and then slid two fingers into her. She thrust her hips against her rocking on her hand and thigh.

"That's it baby." Andrea crooned into her ear.

"Ohhh Go…oood!"

"I know sweetheart."

Miranda was biting her bottom lip and digging her nails into Andrea sweatshirt covered back. Thrusting harder, and harder riding the fingers pumping in and out of her.

"Do you want to cum baby. Are you ready?"

"Yesszzzz!"

Andrea shifted her thumb to rub her clit syncing with the thrusting in and out of her lover score.

Miranda felt the orgasm burning in her stomach and her body froze. Her mouth opened and the silent cry escaped as she rode out the tremors of her climax. Then she fell into Andrea's awaiting arms and she lowered them to the floor and cradled the older woman into her arms.

As she came back to herself she felt Andrea, peppering her face with kisses, while she rocked her and mumbled through to the kisses. She was suddenly aware of tears streaming from the younger woman's eyes as she spoke.

"God I love you. I love you so much. Please don't ever leave me. I love you Miranda. Please never leave me."

Miranda could feel Andrea's fears and it broke her heart. She turned in her arms. "Oh darling, I love you too." She took the younger woman's face in her hands and wiped her tears with her thumb. "I can't leave you. I won't leave you." She kissed her lips softly tasting the tears. "You are part of me. I love you so so much." The older woman wrapped her arms around her and pulled her close. "Shhh, it's all right. I'm here love. I'll always be here. Shhh."

Andrea buried her face in Miranda's hair on her shoulder and her cries began to subside. She sniffed. "I'm sorry." She nuzzled her as Miranda held her close.

"Don't ever be sorry for your feelings." She pulled Andrea to look into her glassy eyes. "Your fears are my fears darling. We're in this together." She smiled at the younger woman.

"I just love you so much, sometimes I feel like I might explode. I can never get enough of you. Your smell, your smile, your laugh. The feel of your skin and your lips." She took a deep breath." I've never felt anything so strong, I know I can't live without you."

"You don't have to darling." She kissed her passionately and then pulled back and rested her forehead on Andrea's cheek. "I feel the same for you my love. I don't ever want to live without you."

Finally after a few moments of holding each other, Andrea chuckled.

"What is it?"

"You know I'm never gonna last six weeks away from you."

"God, I hope not!" Miranda kissed her then moved to stand up, pulling Andrea with her. "But today." She sighed. "Today we have to go back to the real world."

Andrea pulled her close, brushed her stubborn lock a soft white hair out of her eyes. "I miss you already."

Miranda leaned in to kiss her. "We'll be okay. Like you said, we just have to get through this tour, then we have the whole rest of our lives to be together."

Miranda moved into the bathroom to finish getting ready. She glanced at the French doors to the hot tub and remembered fondly the events in it that led to the incredibly wonderful change in their relationship. She then notice the champagne bucket sitting next to the Jacuzzi. It suddenly dawned on her that last night Andrea had drank with her. Her mind flashed back to the evening when the singer opened up to her about her past and the reason for trademark Cerulean blue wrist wrap. "Oh no." She whispered, and closed her eyes. Miranda took a deep breath, wondering if she should say anything to her lover. No. She's a grown woman who makes her own decisions. 'I'll just keep in eye on her.' She thought. It wasn't as if she had gone out and gotten plastered or partied like she had in her youth. It was an intimate evening between the two of them, celebrating their relationship. Miranda let out the air in her lungs. She finished getting ready and packing.

On the way to the airport, Miranda finally allowed a weeks worth of curiosity get the better of her. All four were quiet, caught up in their own thoughts about the past week and the weeks ahead, being apart when the older woman spoke. "Andrea."

Andy looked at her lovingly. "Yes beautiful?"

The girls giggled and Miranda blushed.

"May I ask you something?"

"Anything." She smiled.

"Who are Amy and Mark? I mean, if it's not any of my business, please tell me. You just seemed to have such a close relationship and you had never spoken of them."

Andy sighed softly, but a forlorn grin graced her beautiful lips. "Amy and Mark were my best friend's parents." She took a deep breath, then looked at Caroline and Cassidy. "Remember when I told you guys, I had friends when I was younger that were look-alikes?" They nodded.

"Well. Amy and Mark were Julianne and Jackie's parents." She turned to look at Miranda. "We lost them."

Miranda clasped Andy's hand tightly. "Oh darling. I'm so sorry."

"Yeah, well. After the girls were gone, Amy and Mark kind of adopted me or maybe I adopted them." Andy stared out the window for a moment. When her eyes returned to her new family she spoke again. "Julie was the closest thing I ever had to sister. They are the reason behind the benefit I do in Tennessee every year. As different an individual as they were, they had a connection that was almost otherworldly. They had all the same 'twin traits'", she used her fingers to make quotations in the air at the description, "like you two do," she winked at her girls. "They had their own language, they knew when the other was hurting, even miles apart, they could read each other's minds." She chuckled. "That used to drive me crazy. Jackie love to spoil Julie's unspoken surprises, usually where I was concerned." Her smile faded. "But they also felt each other's pain, realistically. When Julie was diagnosed with cancer, Jackie literally lived the same pain, without having the disease herself. It was so scary to watch the two of them fading away, knowing one was as healthy as a horse." Miranda watched as Andy visibly shivered. Caroline and Cassidy moved to kneel in front of her, resting a hand on each of her legs, knowing they needed a physical connection to the singer.

"After Julie past, Jackie followed only an hour later." Miranda gasped and a fear filled her at the thought of losing not just one, but both of her babies.

"Amy and Mark were devastated, of course. They moved in with us for a while, then eventually went back home. It was just too much for them, but they couldn't bear to sell the house where there girls had thrived and refused to take anything for me." She squeezed her lover's hand, still held tightly. "So, when the cabin became available I bought it and asked them to take care of it. I try to visit as often as I can, but in my mind, it's their home, even though neither of them would ever claim it as such. It's the least I can do, the very least."

Andy looked at Miranda.

"They've been through all of my mistakes, losses and changes. I could never repay them for continuing to love me. Even after losing what they did and me being such a constant reminder of that."

"Wow!" Cassidy said.

"You are amazing, you know that." Caroline finished.

"Nah," She ruffled the girls red hair, "just lucky. Look at how lucky I was to find you guys." The singer then blessed them with one of her blinding smiles.