"What kind of question is that?" Piper shook her head towards the other girl "Of course I wanna know!"
Piper couldn't believe how uncomplicated being with Alex was, she had been so afraid of this, of her. And now she was sitting here, next to Alex and she felt so comfortable as if it was Polly or Rory sitting next to her. Alex had been like a cure to her pain this day, she had managed to make her laugh after such a miserable day. Hadn't Piper been feeling attracted to her already, she surely would fall for her right now.
"Ok. But you gotta promise me that you keep tutoring me no matter what!" Alex turned around, she still was in her socks and she pulled her left leg on the couch so that she could face Piper, her left arm lay stretched out on the back rest only a millimeter away from Piper's shoulder, causing Piper to get goosebumps down her whole arm.
When the blonde didn't answer, too concentrated on keeping her heart from jumping out of her mouth, Alex bumped her fist against her shoulder playfully, waking Piper's "little-sister-of-a-douchebag-instincts".
Piper grabbed Alex's fist in a deathly grip, throwing her an evil glance before she boxed her free hand into Alex's tightened shoulder.
"Oah. You shithead" Alex rubbed her shoulder, while Piper was already putting some safety distance between them.
"Ok you wanted it that way!" Allex started to take up the chase, hounding Piper through the room towards the stairs and she grinned evily when the blonde made the mistake to really run down the wooden steps.
Too late Piper noticed her mistake, she had reached a dead end. In front of her was the wooden wall that blocked her from freedom and behind her was her hunter standing at the top of the stairs. Two days ago Piper would have feared for her life in the same situation but as she turned around now, her back to the wall and saw Alex smirking down at her, arms crossed, Piper felt the dangerous trust she had in her.
"You didn't really think you could escape the great Alex Vause, did you?" Alex grinned while slowly walking down step by steps towards an also grinning Piper.
"You know you would be more threatening without these socks. They are too cute!" Piper had no idea where she took her courage from she didn't recognize herself, she was actually flirting with that girl, but she liked that new Piper.
"Shithead!" Alex shook her head over Piper's naughty attitude and Piper grinned even wider, Alex was now three steps above her and Piper knew she had just two possibilities, attack or flee.0
"Yeah. You mentioned that before! I've been called way worse!" With that she caught Alex off guard, unintendedly bringing up the topic both of them had avoided until now and while Alex was still trying to swallow that comment, Piper turned around again and jumped, her hands gripping the upper edge of the board wall and started to pull herself up but Alex's recovery was faster than expected.
She felt Alex grab around her waist, trying to pull her down, laughing at Piper's squeeking. Piper desperately clinged onto the wall until she felt a sharp pain shoot through her left hand and reflexively let go off her grip; a motion Alex's hadn't expected.
Suddenly withouth the resistence of her adversary, she stumbled and fell backwards.
The half second before you land on the ground are always worse than the landing itself, when the horror rises in your heart and you try to prepare yourself for the pain to come.
The impact was unexpectetly soft for stairs and it took a second until Piper realized she was lying on top of a groaning Alex who still had an arm around her waist. Piper turned around, she wanted to roll off the other girl but Alex hadn't let go off her so Piper's turning around resulted in lying face to face on top of Alex instead of lying next to her.
Piper didn't knew if that had been intended, but the way Alex groaned and rubbed her neck, Piper assumed that the raven-haired hadn't even realized that she still had her arm around the blonde.
"You ok?" Piper asked, really worried about her 'student'. She could feel Alex's soft body under her, could feel where her breasts were, could feel the movement when Alex started talking, but Piper couldn't listen. She couldn't focus on anything else than the feeling of Alex's torso moving up and down while breathing and Piper wasn't sure but she thought she could feel Alex's heart beat under her chest.
This daydreaming had become ridiculous frequent the last days.
When Piper felt Alex's second hand touch her hip, she opened her eyes though she hadn't even noticed that she had closed them beforehand.
"Are you ok?" Alex's eyes looked at her with this incredible tender look. Piper couldn't stand it anymore, couldn't stand how close she was to Alex's face, to her eyes, to her lips. She had to get some space between herself and the warm body of this girl.
But nevertheless, as she stood up and Alex's hands slided off her hips, she instantly missed them. And now the pain in her hand shot through her again and her before numbed brain suddenly realized the sharp feeling.
"I think I've got a splinter!" She examined her hand, while Alex lifted herself up from the stairs, standing way too close to Piper again, she took Piper's hand in her own, getting very close to it with her face, Piper felt her breath in her palm.
Alex looked up in her face for a second, giving her a reassuring smile, before she looked down at the splinter under Piper's skin again.
"Shit!" Alex stated "It's too dark down here" and with that she took Piper at the wrist and pulled her up the stairs behind her. In that moment Piper could imagine how being with Alex would feel like.
Alex let Piper sit down on the couch, kneeling down in front of her, taking her hand softly into her's. She examined the hand in the dull light and Piper couldn't stop her heart from beating, she still felt Alex's body as if she still was lying underneath her.
"Ok. I'm gonna get a first aid kit. You'll wait here!" Alex mistook Piper's displeased look for fear or or pain maybe, while Piper just didn't want Alex to let go off her hands.
"Hey, kid. It's gonna be alright!" Alex stroke Piper's cheek tenderly with the back of her fingers, like you do to calm down a hurt child and the spot where she touched Piper, her cheek instantly burned like fire. "I'll be back right away!" she pushed a strand of Piper's blonde hair behind her ear before she hurried down the stairs.
'If only you knew what you do to me with those little gestures' Piper thought. She was now sitting alone in the attic and her whole body consisted of that shaky feeling. As soon as Alex had left the room, she felt her hurting hand in the full extent like Alex had been the patch that now someone had teared off.
But at least Alex's absence and the burning pain helped her to calm down a little, she had been afraid that she would get a heart attack if it didn't stopp racing like that. Piper closed her eyes, breathing in deeply, how should she survive these feelings? How could she keep telling herself that she's not gay, while her heart raced when Alex was around.
She leaned her head back at the backrest, closing her eyes, she was so exhausted, a fact that Had also been disguised by Alex's presence, now that her nerves calmed down, tiredness hit her like a train and she eventually dozed off.
"Hey. Sorry had to break into the secretary's office. This fucking scool has a real lack of first aid kits and the lock was pretty tricky." Alex started talking as soon as she entered the little room at the end of the stairs and her voice seeped slowy into Piper's brain, but her body was still resisting being woken up. "Piper? You there?" Piper was half awake half fighting herself back To sleep, while she heard Alex walk up the stairs, then it got silent and Piper already thought she had only dreamed when she heard Alex's whispering voice right next to her.
"So very cute!" Then she felt Alex's fingers stroking her hair out of her face and Piper's heart started racing again, she was awake immediately and when she opened her eyes Alex was standing right above her, smiling.
"Hey sleepy. I got the kit!" she waved a red bag in front of Piper's face before kneeling down on the floor again. "You're telling me why you need tutoring now?" Alex took Piper's hand between her's again, but she couldn't see in the dull light of the attic. So she reached into Piper's pocket pulling out her cellphone and Piper's heart skipped a beat when she felt Alex's hand near her groin. This girl was killing her.
"Take this!" Alex reached her her own cellphone with the switched on torch to hold it over her hurt hand. "Promise me you will keep tutoring me and I'll tell you!" Alex reached into the red bag and Piper winced at the sight of the tweezer, this would hurt. Alex stroke her wrist softly throwing her a compassionate look, in this moment Piper would have done everything Alex would ask her for.
"Ok, promised!" A smile beamed up on Alex's concetrated face for a second while she sprayed the desinfectant on Piper's hand.
"So this is gonna hurt!" Alex said looking contritedly.
"The hand or your revelation?" Piper winced though Alex hadn't even started to come close to her with the tweezer.
"Don't make me laugh while I'm operating your hand, kid!" Alex chuckled. Piper shut her eyes, she didn't want to see Alex operating, she felt sick already.
"Soooo" Alex started talking and pulling at the splinter at the same time, that thing was huge and Piper tried hard not to cry
"I need your tutoring" Alex mumbled, completely focused in her medical study object "because" she moved Piper's hand a bit more in the torchlight and Piper was close to killing her.
"Because" Alex took her tongue between her teeth trying to get a good grip on the splinter that was now slightly stucking out of Piper's palm and hurt like hell.
"Because what?" Piper hissed aggressively.
"Because I have really fuckng bad grades!" Alex stated plainly as if that was exactly what Piper had wanted to hear, and when Piper still was looking at her in shock, wanting to slap her across the face, Alex took advantage of her distraction and pulled at the splinter.
"WhaAAAAAH FUCK!" Piper yelled in pain, when the wood was ripped through her flesh.
„Hey, it's ok, sweetie" Alex stroked Piper's cheek again, making the pain disappear immediatedly „It's out!"
Piper smiled awkwardly down at Alex, who still kneeled in front of her but then she remembered that Alex had just ripped a peace of wood out of her hand after telling her that she needed tutoring because she had bad grades.
„Why you're looking at me like that?" Alex carefully drawed her arm back from Piper's face as she saw her eyes becoming slits, she really looked scared that Piper might eventually bite her.
„Tell me now why you need tutoring, and leave it with your flirty little play games, girl!" Piper still barely recognized herself , it was like Alex turned her into a whole other person, well a person Piper had been long ago, before her heart had been broken, she had literally eaten herself up about it and all her suffering at school had started. She turned into the Piper that Rory had known.
„Oh" Alex clicked her tongue, before letting herself fall next to Piper, sprawling across the couch in full homelike mode, her foot touching Piper's tigh, her arms under her head „Cocky!" she grinned.
Piper turned around on the sofa to face Ales, crossing her legs, and laying them on top of Alex's feet that were a little cold frpm the lack of shoes. She had not intended the bodycontact but now that she sat there, it felt oddly comfortable and she realized she craved for this contact, not sexually, just like you want to be close to someone you really care about.
And Alex didn't move a bit, she didn't seem uncomfortable with Piper's closeness, it was like they had known each other for ever.
Piper leaned her head on her ellbow, that rested on her knee.
„So why do you have bad grades?" She was a little bit afraid to insult Alex with this question, but only a little „I mean you seem so smart and you know all this stuff!"
Alex wiggled her toes under Piper's tighs, as if it belonged to her thinking process of how to say what she wanted to say.
„Well" she said, biting her lower lip, making Piper nearly die „I just, I don't know. I don't see any sense in having good grades"
Piper tried hard to focus on what Alex said, but it was really difficult, while Alex was looking like this, her black hair sprawled over the armrest, her green eyes behind those sexy glasses and then she wouldn't stop biting her lip and if drove Piper insane.
„So" Piper closed her eyes to get concentrated again, then her forehead crinkled in doubt „No. I don't get that. What do you mean with there is no sense?"
Alex folded her hands in her lap, her nails were varnished in black and Piper thought that was incredibly badass and pretty hot, she really should try to focus on the conversation instead.
„What is the use of good grades?" she took her glasses off her nose, taking the temple between her teeth and Piper had to look somewhere else.
„Go to College?"
„College?" Alex laughed out loud. „I won't go to fucking College, kid!"
Piper shook her head „But why not. You could totally go to College if you put some effort to it!"
Alex sat up on the couch, pulling her feet away under Piper's legs, crosssing them in front of her. She put her glasses on the top of her head and rised her eyesbrows, all without looking in Piper's face.
„Yeah but College costs money!"
You asked for more Vauseman so here it is. What do you think?
And since you complained about the cliffhanger I tried to make this less cliffhangery ;)
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