Slight R'ishness in this post folks. Just to warn you, nothing explicit just a whole bunch of references to sex of the lesbian kind.


The Perfect Couple - part one

I walked onto campus my map and my schedule side by side trying to work out where my classes were.

"It's the master race." Seth muttered at me as we walked past a group of cheerleaders.

"Uh huh." I agreed not really listening. "I cannot work out where I'm meant to be going." I handed my timetable to him. "I cannot find this room anywhere on the map."

"Its right there." He told me, pointing to the room on the map, handing back my schedule. "I cannot believe you're taking math with the twelfth graders. You're like Cady Heron." He smiled at me.

"Who?"

"Cady Heron, Mean Girls?"

"Are you serious?" I looked at him.

"No." he said quickly. "I haven't seen Mean Girls."

"You're such a loser." I sighed as I walked over to Marissa and Summer. "Hey." I smiled at her. "What you up to tonight?"

"I'm babysitting the Step-monster make sure she doesn't pop too many pills whilst Dad's out of to-" Summer suddenly stopped talking when she noticed us all looking at her. "Oh you were talking to Marissa."

"So tonight?" I asked Marissa, ignoring Summer.

"I have this Kick Off Carinval thing to organise… but I have been looking for a reason to get out of it." She smiled at me.

"Considering that no one ever actually wants to do extracurricular activities, I'm happy to be your reason." I smiled back at her. "So I'll meet you out front at four?"

"Yeah, that will be cool."

"Okay well I have to try and find my way to homeroom, I'll see you later." I went to kiss her on the cheek when I suddenly found her hands on my chest pushing me back.

"Alex what the hell are you doing?" Marissa hissed at me.

"What?" I frowned at her, "Summer doesn't mind."

"Come on Coop, it was kind of obvious." Summer shrugged at her.

"You hadn't told her?!" I asked her in disbelief.

"No, and I haven't told the rest of campus either. I'm starting this year being 'the girl that committed suicide in Tijuana' I don't need to be a dyke too."

"No that's cool," I forced a smile at her, "I just think its funny that you wait 'til after you move out of the gated community to emulate your mother." I snapped before walking into the main building.

"Its not even nine o'clock and already there's drama between you two?" Seth called after me, but to no avail.

I was pissed, I wasn't going to stop and he knew it. I followed the signs to my homeroom and slumped myself down in the only free chair, dropping my back noisily besides me.

"Wow, you are even less cheery then you were the first time I met you." A blonde smiled at me.

"I'm sorry?" I frowned at her.

"Its Anna," she smiled holding out her hand, "we met at cotillion."

"Oh yeah," I smiled back as I shook her hand, "I'm not very good with names or faces for that matter. You're Seth's friend right?"

"Yeah, but I don't think he knows I'm back."

"Well given the amount he's been talking about Summer, I don't think so either."

She rolled her eyes, "Yes, I can see why he's attracted to a self absorbed rich little Daddy's girl."

"Uh," I pointed round the classroom, "in case you hadn't noticed this is private school and you were at cotillion, you're rich too."

"Yeah, but I'm nice rich. I'm the rich that gives to charity not simply because I have nothing better to do." She laughed gently.

"You're the kind of rich I can get along with." I smiled back at her.

"So you're not-"

"God no."

"Okay," she said slowly, "that means you're either scholarship, in which case you'd be at the front, or you're that pyro-dyke that I keep hearing about." She smiled at me to let me know that she didn't care.

"I tend to just go by Alex though."

"Well its shorter." She laughed as the teacher walked in.

"New girls," he barked at us, "quiet. I don't care where you're from or what you're talking about. All I care is that you're talking. Now shut up so that I can take the register and get out of here."

"Wow," I whispered, "he really needs more caffeine."


The day was long and boring. I found I was behind in classes that hadn't even started due to the fact that Seth had forgotten to mention summer reading. I also realised that when Kirsten was talking to Dr Kim about parental pressure to keep me out of the school it had stemmed down to the kids too. Consequently the only kids that talked me were Seth and Anna, the rest ignored me to my face and made snide remarks to my back.

I didn't see Marissa all day, something that I wasn't all that fussed about given the way she'd behaved before school. I didn't bother waiting for her at four, when the bell rang I scooped my stuff into my bag and found the nearest exit off of campus and slowly walked back into the gated community.

The door slammed behind me once I got home and Kirsten peered her head round the corner of the kitchen.

"How was school?"

"Horrible." I said simply, dumping my bag on the island. "How was work?"

"Same." She smiled at me half heartily. "Why was school so bad?"

"The kids don't want me there, the teachers don't like me and I'm already behind." I told her, passing her a copy of Dicken's 'Hard Times' that I'd got from the school library. "Seth never told me about summer reading."

"That's because he doesn't read anything without pictures." She told me as she read the back cover. "Haven't you got this one?"

"Got 'Oliver Twist', 'David Copperfiel' and 'Great Expectations', I think they picked this one just to spite me."

"Wouldn't put it past them." She laughed passing me back the book. "Where's Seth?"

"With Anna," I told her, grabbing a Diet Coke from the fridge, "doing something for The Plank."

"Was I meant to understand that sentence, because you threw me when you mentioned a girl's name." She smiled at me as she handed me a glass.

"Anna is from one of the cold states, they met at cotillion and The Plank is the school magazine I think."

"Seth with a girl at an extracurricular activity, Sandy's working for an actual law firm, the apocalypse is nearing." She shook her head at me before walking out towards her room leaving me to my Coke and Dickens.


"Hey kid," Sandy slapped me on the back the next morning "…how did school go for you?"

"Don't you and Kirsten talk now that you're a hot shot lawyer?" I smiled at him.

"Hey," he pointed at me, "I've always been a hot shot lawyer now I'm just a well paid one."

"So you'll be buying me a new bike then?"

"Now I could." He smiled back at me. "Answer the question though."

"Fine," I shrugged as I held up book I was only three quarters of the way through, "got to finish this by 2nd period though."

"'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.'"

"That's 'A Tale of Two Cities.'" I told him, sipping from my coffee.

"Seth's right there's nothing you don't know."

"I don't do Spanish." I told him simply.

"When are you going to need that anyway, I mean its only our second language."

"And I know the first." I smiled at him.

"You're talking more than you usually do." He said after moments pause and I'd read two more sentences.

"Not really. I am trying to read though." I told him pointing down to the open book in front of me.

"I really am you're parent now aren't I?" he sighed, pouring a cup of coffee.

"You always said you didn't want me to be an only child, Dad." Seth said, pushing past his father to get to the coffee pot.

"Great." I sighed shutting the book. "I'll just guess what happens at the end then, I'm clearly not going to get this done." I said, looking directly at Seth.

"That you're not." He smiled back at me.

"It's a Dickens' book somebody probably dies at the end." Sandy shrugged.

"Speaking Spanish no doubt." I sighed, getting up and joining them at the coffee pot to dose up before school.

"Was Alex being glib?" Sandy asked Seth.

"She does sarcasm too." He replied.

"That's it." I put my cup down between them, hoping to separate them. "I'm going to school." I sighed, grabbing my book and my bag from the counter.

"I'll drive." Seth said, catching up with me and scooping his bag up from besides the hall table. "So you heard from Marissa?"

"And I'm riding my bike."

"You can't avoid me all day," He told me as I picked up my bike and cycled off, "YOU LIVE IN MY POOL HOUSE." I heard him yell after me.


"Told you." Seth smiled at me, jumping down from one of the bike racks so I could chain by bike to it.

"That you did." I said, patting him on the back as I passed him walking into the Common Room.

"So you going to talk to Marissa?" He asked following me to the counter.

"And say what? I don't think she'll appreciate the 'Sorry you're gay' sentiment."

"How but a simple 'Sorry I over reacted' I hear those go down a treat."

"Two coffees please." I told the guy behind the counter. "And I didn't." I told Seth.

"Maybe not," he shrugged taking one of the coffees, "but she's not seeing all that much encouragement to come out."

"How is it possible that I'm actually thinking about taking advice about girls from you?"

"I watch Dawson's Creek." He said quietly dropping his head.

"Dude, I'm so glad you have friends now." I laughed, patting him on the back. "Heads up." I warned watching Marissa and Summer walk in.

"Hey," she smiled nervously at me.

"I'm going to go over there." Summer told us, pointing vaguely to the other side of the room, grabbing Seth as she went.

"I was going to come over last night." She told me, sitting down at the near by table, I slumped myself down on the chair opposite and folded my arms. "But given the way your bad moods work, I saw no point."

"I don't see what the big deal is. I mean they all already think you're gay." I said, dropping my voice for the last part.

"I'm not gay."

"Oh great, if we're going to go through this again can we just skip to the part where I'm kissing a retired model."

"You know, if you could just quit being an arsehole we could skip to the part where I tell you I'm bisexual." She hissed quietly at me. "You're not the first girl I've had feelings for, you are however the first where I've acted upon them. This is new and a little scary…"

"Then we need to do this properly." I smiled gently at her. "Meet me out front at four." I pushed my chair back and stood up.

"Cool," she nodded, mirroring my actions, "just its going to have to be five." I simply frowned at her. "I didn't manage to get out of my position of social chair." She explained.

"Five it is then."


"I think I've done something stupid." I sighed sitting down with Seth and Anna at lunch.

"God, what did you say to her now." Seth sighed.

"I implied that I was going to take her out on a date." I told him, stealing half of his sandwich. "I don't know what to do or where to take her."

"Sorry who are we talking about?" Anna looked between us confused.

"Marissa Cooper." Seth and I told her together.

"What have I done now to get you two saying my name like that?" Marissa asked us both sitting down between us and taking a bite out of Seth's sandwich.

"I'm so glad you're both here eating my food."

"Marissa," Anna leant across the table at her, "what do you want to do tonight?"

"You know I could have done that one." I laughed at her.

"You could have," Anna nodded, "you're weren't going to though."

Marissa simply looked between us, "Are you stressing over tonight?" she smiled at me.

"Well its taken us a long time to get here…" I shrugged at her.

"You got a T.V in your room?"

"You know I do."

"Well then," she smiled at me, "new plan. I meet you at yours say around seven, I will have gone to Blockbusters and we will watch DVDs."

"Well that was easy." Seth laughed.

"Anyway, I have to go and track down Summer," she gave my hand a small squeeze before standing up, "seems she's still pissed that I didn't tell her about you."

"She told you she's bisexual then?" I asked looking up at her.

"Oh this is going to be great." She smiled at us all before walking back into the main building.

"I'm so lost." Anna sighed at Seth as she watched Marissa's retreating form.

"Well Alex came to Newport and now everyone's gay." Seth said simply.

"So you giving up on Summer?" she asked him.

"Oh no, slowly I thaw her icy heart." He smiled at her before turning to me. "Dvd's in a locked pool house-"

"Wait you live in a pool house?" Anna asked me, looking confused at the conversation surrounding her.

"Alex used to steel things." Seth explained quickly not taking his eyes from me. "You thinking tonight's the night?"

"Seth we haven't even had a first date. Three chased kisses does not lead to sex."

"But you have before right." I simply looked at him. "Okay, wow that's what I thought I just didn't want to jump to conclusions because my experience is sort of limited," he paused, "and?"

"And what?"

"Was it awe-some?" he asked slowly.

"Seth!" Anna looked at him appalled.

"Which time?" I said simply finishing his sandwich. "And are we counting boys too?"

"Oh my god," he said slowly, shook evident on his face and in his voice, "my sister's a slut."

"You sister is not your sister and she just likes sex," I shrugged, "that doesn't make me a slut."

"I'm still reeling from the fact you said you're not his sister." Anna sighed looking between us, clearly looking for some sort of explanation.

"The Cohen's are my guardians. Sandy is technically my lawyer, we met when he was assigned to me when my brother stole a car."

"Where's your mom?" She asked me, trying to take everything in. I simply shrugged whilst she hit Seth on the arm. "You see this is what I learn when you're not talking about Summer all the time."

"Can we please get back to the point?" Seth asked, Anna and I simply nodded, "Are you going to have sex tonight?"

"Seth!" Anna and I both hit him the arm.

"Okay, okay," he said, getting up quickly, "no sex."


I looked from my book and up at my door when I heard a tentative knock. I saw Marissa standing in the doorway in a simple black dress, her purse hanging from her shoulder and three DVDs held tightly in her hand.

"Hey." I said, throwing my Hard Times across to the far wall and getting up to meet her at the door. "Hey." I repeated quietly.

"Miss Alex Atwood," she smiled gently at me, "you're not nervous are you?"

"No." I smiled back at her, "just," I shrugged, "excited…"

She kissed me slowly before handing me the DVDs she'd brought, "You going to put one on or not?"

I flicked through her choices instantly dropping Dirty Dancing and then doing the same for Moulin Rouge, "You really don't know me do you?" I laughed at her.

"I thought I'd try my luck, smile at you until you let me watch them." She said sliding off her shoes and lying down on my bed. "Look at the last film though."

"Imagin Me And You?" I frowned at her. "Never even heard of this."

"It's a British film starring Piper Perabo, about love at first sight." She smiled at me.

"Another chick flick?"

"No it's a clit flick." She smiled, getting up and taking the box from my hand and placing the disk in the DVD player.

"You know you just said 'clit' right?" I said still frowning as I took up the place on the bed Marissa had vacated.

"Yeah, it's a chick flick for lesbians. Haven't you heard that term before?"

"No, I'm more amazed that you have though." I told her as she laid down besides me.

"Its called the internet. I've looked into this kind of stuff." She shrugged, turning her attention to the trailers.

"Okay Jessica Stein." I laughed at her.

She rolled over, so that she was laying on top of me and quickly pressed her lips against mine in an attempt to stop me laughing. It worked. As I felt her tongue caress mine I flipped us over so they could battle. The feel of her under me was like nothing before. Her kisses were so much more intense, filled with passion and want.

I slid my hand along her thigh and was amazed when she allowed me to continue up to her breast. Her nipples were hard, I could feel them through the strapless bra she was wearing. She responded by pulling my yellow shirt over my head throwing it across the room, like my book before.

She looked up at me, sitting astride her putting my hair into a pony tail, she seemed amazed by the whole situation.

"You know, we could," I moved so I was laying beside her, "just watch the movie." I smiled at her, nodding over to the TV with the film untouched on the menu screen.

"No, no." she knocked the remote out of my hand, where it crashed to the floor and lost its batteries. "I'm excited to where this is leading."

"You done this before?" I asked, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. "Not with a girl but I mean in general."

"I always thought I would lose my virginity to Luke." She said, frowning slightly before shaking her head and looking at my bra, "Its really nice." She said after a while of fingering the lace detail.

"Thanks."

"Now," she said in an incredibly authoritative tone, "if you relent from calling me Jessica Stein-" I opened my mouth to protest, but once again she silenced me with a kiss. A kiss that once again meant that I was lying on top of her battling my tongue with hers.

A kiss lead to another and another. A kiss that lead to touching and clothes strewn over the floor. A kiss that led to kicked off covers, sweaty body's and sticky sheets. A kiss that lead to contentment, to happiness, to lying in each others arms.

We laid next to each other, naked bodies entangled and simply talked. We talked about everything and anything, from novels and comic books to life ambitions and family history's. We talked past all the lights going out in the main house, we talked with just the moon, the stars and the menu screen illuminating my room. We talked until we just fell asleep laying next to each other, naked bodies entangled.


I woke up when I head the door bang against my glass walls, I looked over Marissa's back and saw Seth looking down at the paper as he walked in.

"Morning ritual Alex; coffee, bagels, Arts and Leisure." He held up the paper and looked over to me on the bed, still holding Marissa. "Oh my god." He said simply and slowly. "You two naked under there?"

"Seth this would be your cue to leave."

"Sure, sure." He said quickly placing the cups of coffee on the TV table. "For Marissa when she wakes up." He said pointing to the cup that he'd made for himself.

"Now Seth." I told him, looking down at Marissa starting to stir besides me.

He backed out of the room and shut my door once more, the noise forcing Marissa to wake up fully.

"Seth brought you a cup of coffee." I smiled gently at her.

"What?" She frowned at me, rolling over to face me.

I simply shook my head, "Nothing." I told her before gently kissing her.

"What time is it?" she asked rubbing her eyes.

I leant over my pillows and picked my phone up from the step by my bed, "Uh, a little before nine." I got up and grabbed the cups of coffee from the table and passing her one, before getting back in bed besides her.

"Where did these come from?" she asked cupping it between her hands.

"Seth." I said simply.

"I don't think I want to know where they came from anymore." She smiled sipping from it. "I've never seen that tattoo on your back before, when did you get it?"

"About a year after the butterfly." I told her, placing my cup on the bedside table and doing the same with hers before pulling her back down so she was lying with me. "The butterfly was kind of a 'Fuck you' to Mom, during my rebellious period when I was fifteen. The one on my back Jodie designed and I got it at the start of the summer."

"Not long before we met then?" she smiled at me.

"Not at all."

"I liked our date." She said after a while of silence between us. She sat up and wrapped my cover around her, leaving me on the bed, naked and exposed. "Next time we may even get around to watching the film." She laughed, before kissing me and walking round my room collecting my clothes.

"You going?" I asked, taking my cover back once she'd slipped back into her dress.

"I have to." She said simply, "I have to get home, change give my dad enough time to kick my arse for not going home last night before heading out to school and organising the carnival."

"Oh is that tonight?"

"Yup," she said, sitting down besides me and slipping her shoes back on. "I'll save you a seat besides me on the Ferris wheel." She told me, kissing me once more before walking out my door.


"Dude seriously though, you slept with Marissa Cooper." I banged my head against the car seat as we drove to school for the carnival. Seth had been talking about nothing else since I'd woken up again and emerged for breakfast when I should have been eating lunch. "The Marissa Cooper."

"Can you please stop saying her surname?" I asked him.

"But, like-"

"Stop it." I pointed at him.

"You said you weren't going to have sex though."

"I was going to take it slow." I shrugged. "Turns out not so much." I said simply.

"But you had sex with Ma-" he stopped suddenly when he saw me glaring at him. "I'll stop."

"Oh thank god." I sighed, as I realised we were pulling into the car park. As soon as he'd parked properly I leapt out of the car and headed onto the grounds to find Marissa. She was by the cotton candy stall with Summer.

"Oh thank god you're here." She smiled at me, as I took her cotton candy. "Summer keeps talking about us having sex."

"Seth's doing the same." I sighed, passing her back the stick. "Its so annoying, he's got past the bit where he saw us naked though."

"He saw us naked?" Marissa frowned at me.

"Well under the sheets." I shrugged, looking around the carnival.

"Close enough for Cohen I guess." Summer sighed. "Where is he anyway?"

"With Anna somewhere, think he said something about ski ball." I told her before she walked off.

"Fancy a ride on the Ferris wheel?" Marissa asked me, a smile covering her face.

"Definitely, if you'd said the tea-cups though, then we'd of had a problem." She took my hand discretely and walked me through the other kids to the ride. "Two please." She smiled at the operator before pulling me on the ride next to her.

I placed my arm around her and we sat there quietly watching all the other kids in the fair. When we reached the top she turned to me and brushed her lips against mine. She slid her lip along my lower lip, asking for entrance, which of course I allowed. I felt my way into my trouser pocket and pulled out a note to give to the operator. "Once more." I told him, handing him the note, when we reached the bottom. I pulled away and looked at her smiling face in front of me. "Guess this means your out." She continued to smile, leaning forward.

"Guess so." She said before kissing me again.


R&R, thank you. Circus.