Chapter 5
As soon as I sent the message I felt different. I had no remorse towards Larry anymore, I pouted earlier today but now that I have let Alex know… I poured some red wine in a glass and put my lips at the rim, I took a big sip. "I just want her here with me" I whispered to myself.
"Fuck her we're going" I say whilst walking towards the door. Like its okay to text a bomb like that to me. The effect is surreal, the only thing I can think about is going over to Queens and be with her, I am not caving though. I take my purse from the table by the door whilst opening the door gesturing Nicky and Lorna to follow.
Nicky and Lorna give each other a look and follow suit. We walk towards the car and without a word about the text we all go with the plan of not having seen the text in the first place.
"So, Alex, how has work been, you like working with my baby again?" Lorna poked Alex as they got in line at Chamba.
"Yeah, love it" I say while giving Nicky a look, I can see the security guy go through the bags thorough.
"What's the problem?" Nicky asks hesitant whilst looking towards where I'm pointing. "fuck get those out of there" Nicky shout-whispered as she securely puts it into her bra.
"Nick, I'm not getting fucked tonight"
"We are Alex. Look, you brought them, where you not planning to use them?"
"I forgot those where even in there, it's been a while" I say softly as I think back to older times, different job, different co-workers I would go to clubs with. "screw you" I say laughing as Nicky gives me a look whilst massaging the part of her bra where the blue pills of the past are between.
"This club isn't called Chamba because it sounds nice. A Chamba is a mate who's always there for ya, like drugs, ya know" she says as she shows that face she has while explaining anything related to drugs. You see her love and hate for it shine through at the same time.
After being pet down by the guard we enter. I have a look around, I love the building, it's a 2 floor high club. In the middle people are dancing, a floor of changing colors at their feet, on the sides are booths and tables with a balcony overlooking the dance area from the second floor. There are three bars, one in the back and on both sides of the dancing area. All with very beautiful well-dressed barista's, I see one of them behind the bar on the left looking at me and I quickly make a little reminder in my head to go over there later tonight. As we take a seat in a booth a bartender reaches our table and we order drinks.
"I still can't believe you dragged me all the way here" I never thought Polly would have shown up while I was enjoying my bath. She thinks I need to go out before I settle on 'supercunt'.
"I know right, secretly I couldn't wait to go out with you again and be your wingwoman. I need this before I settle on motherhood for real". Polly laughed.
"I do want to dance real bad" I admit.
"Yo Vause, is that who I think it is?" Nicky asked surprised whilst looking with amusement on her face. "you haven't texted her where we are huh?"
"I haven't actually, I didn't think she'd know the place".
I keep looking at her, she looks beautiful. Walking in a tight black dress I see Piper looking around her, taking in her surroundings. I look at Nicky and I see she is already looking at me trying to figure out what I'm thinking. "Let's dance" I say as I stand up. Nicky and Lorna stand up as well and we go into the crowd.
"What do you want to drink?"
"I'll take the same as you Pipes"
"Okay, two margarita's it is then"
As I get back with two margarita's, I look at the crowd, everyone is so well dressed. A lot of beautiful people together. I love it, the sensuality in the music, the building. It really sets a mood.
"Those two should really get a room" Polly says as she takes a sip and stares into the crowd.
"Which ones? I don't see them"
"Those two, over there. Guy almost had his hand in her pussy, that's not dancing no more" she laughs while looking disgusted.
"Oh! Ew, now I see them, I don't think I'm ever going to un see that". I shake my head and sit down next to Pol. I wonder what she thinks about the breakup, and what she thinks about me at the moment.
As I'm dancing, I take a look around. Nicky is dancing with Lorna, not caring about anything in the world. I'm feeling the booze and I go in search for someone to dance with. There's this brunette who's been eying me for the past half hour or so, desperation does not look good on her. Then I look at the booths on the right and I see her sitting next to Molly. Piper. Before I realize it I am standing at the booth and asking her to dance with me.
"This doesn't mean we're okay. I just really want to dance with a good partner". I say whilst never losing her gaze.
"Okay" she says confident but surprised "come on Pol, let's dance".
When I meet Nicky in the crowd I see her face full of amusement when her eyes find who I brought with me. I don't care and turn my attention to Piper, grab her waist and dance. She immediately follows suit and we are close. I can feel my body get warm and I lose myself in the music with her. She touches my arms and finds my hands, while intertwining them she looks at me. "I've missed this Al".
"Me too, kid"
Polly left the club around one am, she was third wheeling for a while and then told me she was planning on leaving so I could have some one on one time with my crush. I slapped her for the joke but was relieved she was so easygoing. Now it was only Alex and me, dancing very close and having fun.
"I have to go to the restroom, coming with me?" Alex looked at me with a playful look in her eyes. She looked so beautiful in that dress, it hugs her in all the right places. And those legs. "Like what you see?".
"Uhm… Yeah, I'll go with you" I say slightly timid.
"Follow me" Alex whispers in my ear. She grabs my hand and leads me towards the restrooms. After pulling me into the stall with her, she looks me in the eyes. I take her in, her green eyes behind those black rims. Her beautiful hair, so dark.
"I'm sorry… for everything, I really am Al" I begin.
She looks at me a little confused. Then determined. "Shut up" she pushes me against the wall. "I didn't take you here to talk" she says as she gets dangerously close to my face. She grabs the back of my neck and closes the gap. Her lips touch mine and I kiss her right back, it feels so good to have our lips connected again. At first it's slow, real slow, almost loving. She deepens our kiss and grabs my waist, moving her hands up my stomach a little. She breaks the kiss, then looks at me without losing contact. "this all okay with you?".
"More then okay"
"good" she says as she moves her leg between my legs and pushes her front against me. This time I kiss her, I take matter into my own hand and I grab her ass. She starts massaging my boob with one hand and with the other she takes my hands off her ass and puts them above my head against the wall. As she starts kissing down my neck and on my pulse point I moan a little. Then she stops "let's get out of here".
As I stumble through my apartment door I think about what happened tonight. I was at the club, Piper was there as well. We danced, we kissed, we touched. I could still feel her all over me. In the cab ride we just held hands and sobered up a little, I told her she couldn't come home with me. At first she was frustrated with me but she understood.
"This is it. That'll be fifteen dollars" the cab driver said.
"Here you go, is that enough to go to queens? That's where you'll be dropping her off" I told him.
"Al, I thought we were going to your place together?"
I could see Pipers confusion but I chose to ignore it. "I know you did kid but I can't take you inside in this condition, I'm sorry, next time. When can I see you again?" luckily she picked up on my intention and went along with it.
"How about tomorrow? I'll pick you up at eight"
"Make it seven, I know a place" I said as I gave her a kiss on the lips. "goodnight Pipes"
"Goodnight Al"
"Nickols, wake up!" I yelled as I knocked on her apartment door. "Red's going to kill us for being late again!"
"Alright alright, easy stretch. We'll make it" I heard her talk behind the closed door she was opening up. When she finally got it to open she looked at me with a huge grin "so, you finally fucked Piper?"
"You are unbelievable, you know that? That's the first thing you ask me after stressing me out about losing my job over being late?" I laugh at her. I find it amusing how much she likes to talk about sex.
"Well of course, come on give me the juicy details. I saw you walking out of the club with her on your hand, you two got into a cab together"
"How about this, if you beat me to red's you get to know during the shift, if you lose the race you'll have to wait until after our shift is over" I know Nicky loves bets, this one will speed her up a bit so it works in my favor. After all, there's not much to tell anyways.
"Catch me if you can" Nicky smiled as she sped off.
I sped up to her in a matter of seconds and beat her as always to reds. I love that even though Nicky knows my Ducati is way faster than her Harley Davidson she still tries to beat me every time.
"When will you learn Nickols, when will you learn" I laughed as she pulled up on the parking space.
"It's not fair Vause, you know Diane's faster than Harley over here" she said as she pets her motorcycle like it's a pet.
"Well save her the embarrassment then and don't take the bet" I winked.
"So about your night, spill it" Nicky looked all exited. I kind of wanted to have some fun with her and make her go crazy over it during the shift, on the other hand that was not how I wanted to approach this. Piper is not just some random girl I got in a cab with and spill everything about to my best friend. I have respect for her that goes deeper then anything.
"Nothing happened"
"Nothing happened? Okay now let me tell you why I am not buying that. First of all you couldn't keep your hands off her on the dance floor and second of all, you're Alex Vause"
"Well it got pretty heated in the bathroom stall.. but no, I didn't go home with her neither did she go home with me. I told the driver to take her to queens after he dropped me off"
"Wait… are you actually being serious?"
"Yes, why is this so hard to understand. I like her Nicky, I love her. I am not going to fuck this up over some drunk fucking. We have dinner planned tonight"
"Good for you Vause, go get her" Nicky was surprised to see me like this. I couldn't blame her actually. She has never seen me like this. Being serious about a girl. I never do dates and I don't do relationships. With Piper though, I'm willing to give it my all.