Piper felt like she might as well just die here and now, because there was nothing she was expecting from her life anymore that could possibly be better than this kiss.
She had forgotten how to breathe minutes ago, her whole body was just living from this kiss.
She felt Alex's chest against her own, felt her heartbeat as fast as her's, a feeling that flooded her body like a warm summerrain.
It was like she was living in her dreams and when she backed from the kiss to get some air it felt like hours had passed.
Alex still had Piper's face between her hands and when Piper finally had the courage to open her eyes again and look in Alex's eyes, she saw her smiling honestly, her green eyes glowing like her red heated cheeks. Piper couldn't believe that this look was really meant for her.
And just when she started to be sure that all this wasn't real, she felt Alex's lips on her's again.
They kept kissing each other for another ages, at the same time moving themselves from their position until Alex sat on the couch with Piper straddling her.
„I dreamed of this a million times!" Alex whispered against Piper's hot lips and Piper felt her heart racing.
„Ditto"
This was definitely a dream, how could it possibly be that Alex really had had the same dreams as her all this past nights and days. Piper brushed her tongue over Alex's lips, while her hands were wandering up her shirt, stroking the skin of Alex's waist with her fingertips. When she heard Alex moan silently she felt her fluids rush between her legs.
She pulled back from that heatening kiss, afraid of going any further. She wanted it so bad, but at the same time she was too afraid to really get involved with Alex.
Too afraid of her own feelings, too afraid to feel that pain again. This pain that she was sure she wouldn't survive a second time.
Alex seemed to understand immediately or maybe she was feeling the same fears, because she just smiled, not making any attempts to get any further and leaned back on the couch, her head resting on the backrest. Her eyes were closed but she kept on radiating this blissful aura, that flew through Piper, lighting up her heart.
When Piper drove home, she felt like nothing could weigh her down anymore. Like ever.
But too soon for her mental health and physical health the questions started flooding her head.
Did this mean they were a couple now?
They had spent the rest of the afternoon with kissing, cuddling and just looking at each other. They hadn't really talked at all, so when Alex had left for work, Piper still had had no idea what the raven haired girl was thinking.
Had Alex been dreaming of kissing her, because she was in love with her or just because she wanted to make out?
Had Alex really looked happy or was Piper just hallucinating or misinterpreting?
If they were a couple did that mean she had to come out?
Did Nichols know that Alex was gay?
Wait, was Alex gay?
Oh my god, would Alex tell Nichols that Piper was gay?
Ehm, was Piper really gay, bi, confused, all together?
Does that make any sense?
Does it matter?
What would happen if anybody found out that Piper was gay, bi, confused, all together, does it make sense, does it matter?
Her head was close to exploding and she was kind of forgetting that she was driving right now, until she felt her head hitting the steering wheel a second before she blacked out from the impact for a few minutes.
When she gained consciousness again there were lots of people gathering around her already, they obviously had pulled her out of her damaged car and from the distance she heard sirens coming closer.
„Great!" she whispered under her breath, this was just her luck. Whenever something good happened, her life had to hit her hard to bring her back to the bottom of reality, with an incredible headache.
The sirens didn't really help to relieve the pain, not while coming closer, nor while driving her to the closest hospital.
Plus she missed Alex already.
„So Miss Chapman, the results don't show any severe injuries. But since you fainted after the accident we want to keep you here for at least a night, just to be sure. Are you still not feeling nausea?"
Piper shook her head, regretting it immediately, her head felt like a stake had been rammed into her skull. The past hours had pretty much consisted of different kind of tests, medical imaging, and a lot of bandages applied to different parts of her body.
Now she was lying in a hospital bed somewhere on a hallway, waiting for her parents to arrive and waiting to get a room, a single room most likely due to the money of her dad.
The next two hours she spent with typing various texts to Alex, that varied from declaring her love for her to blaming her for her accident to asking her to come over to just telling her that she missed her, and deleting all of them again instead of sending.
In the meantime she had been transferred to her single room, had been blamed by her father, had been apologized to by her mother who had been released from the hospital that morning, had soothed her crying little brother. All this while having nothing but Alex on her mind.
In the end, after her family had finally left again, she just went with this:
To: Alex
Hey, ehm, I'm sorry, I won't be at school tomorrow, again.
It took only a minute or two until her phone lit up, showing a new message from Alex.
From: Alex
What? Why? Is that about our kiss(es) earlier?
Piper had to chuckle a little at Alex's kind of upset answer, getting a curious look from the night nurse, who had just brought her some analgetics to help her sleep through the night without having her head killing her.
She just smiled at her, waiting for her to leave the room before she typed her answer.
To: Alex
Kind of. You got me a little … distracted ;)
Drove my car into the crash barrier. But I'm fine, just have to stay in the hospital until tomorrow.
She was actually getting flirty again, all her questions and worries from earlier vanishing the second she was in contact with her girl. The girl! The!
Piper didn't even need to put her phone down, getting an immediate response.
From: Alex
Oh my god! You sure you're ok? Shall I come?
Piper grinned like a dork, her headache was gone all of a sudden, and she wasn't sure if this was due to the meds that the nurse had brought her or to the fact that Alex was really asking her if she should come over. If it hadn't been this late already...
To: Alex
They're not letting in any visitors at this time anymore. But thanks :)
She deleted the stupid smiley at the end of her text and replaced with kisses before she hit the send button. She was kind of nervous for the answer, but she didn't receive one.
After three minutes she put her phone down on the white hospital nightstand, somewhat disappointed.
She decided that it would be the best to just go to sleep, hopefully her head would feel better in the morning. But just as she turned off the light, her phone lit up again and so did her face.
From: Alex
Do you mean to say my kisses are good enough to get you off (the street)?
Piper blushed in the dark of her room, feeling arousal grow in her again. She couldn't say if she was feeling flattered, that Alex thought about her in such a way, amused by the pun or embarrassed by it's truth.
She decided to play it cool, what else was she supposed to do?
To: Alex
Oh, don't be smug about it, narcissist. It was … okay ;)
The response came immediately again.
From: Alex
Oh, I've psyched you already. But nice try, sweety.
This time Piper knew immediately that it was happiness that she felt, and maybe love, but that was something that she should be very careful with.
She felt her tiredness wrapping her body like a curtain, so she started to type her last message.
To: Alex
Good night, Al XXX
She didn't hestitate anymore to send Alex those kisses, actually she'd love nothing better than to kiss Alex for real right now. Feel her lips again.
From: Alex
G'night babe
„Babe" Piper whispered before falling asleep with a smile on her bruised face.
When she woke up, she had forgotten where she was for a second and when she saw Alex standing beside her, she thought she was still asleep, caught somewhere in her beautiful dreams.
„Hey beauty" Alex smirked, while sitting down beside her, leaning down to peck a kiss on Piper's lips. Piper was awake immediately.
„You're here." she stated the obvious, her eyes wide from surprise. „You're skipping school again." she scolded playfully, knowing how little Alex cared about school.
„Well I've been waiting to kiss you all night, I couldn't wait 'til tomorrow." Alex winked before leaning in again, for a real kiss this time. Her lips lingered on Piper's for a few seconds before they both opened their mouths slighty and their tongues started exploring each other.
Soon Alex had slipped under Piper's covers and was laying half on top of her.
Piper used a little breathing break to start the conversation she craved for.
„Al, can I ask you something?" she whispered, curling Alex's hair between her thumb and index finger.
„Huh?" Alex bit her bottom lip, drawing Piper's attention back to Alex's mouth and she had to peck a little kiss onto it before she could start talking again. It felt unreal to be able to do this.
„So, did you watch me sleeping? How long have you been standing there? And why the hell did they let you in?" None of this question was the one she really had wanted to ask, but just before opening her mouth the courage had left her again.
„Yes. Like 2 minutes. And I told them I'm your sister. And that is so not what you wanted to aks, right?" Alex brushed her thumb over Piper's bottom lip, making it even harder for her to focus on what she was trying to aks.
„Just ask, Pipes."
„What... what, I mean what is this?" Piper whispered, part of her hoping Alex wouldn't hear it, although they were so close to each other that she could probably hear her heartbeat right now.
„What is what?" Alex asked with her low raspy voice, while kissing a trail down Piper's neck.
In that second the door went open and the doctor who had done all this tests on her the day before walked in with a nurse she hadn't seen yet.
Alex rolled off Piper in the speed of light as soon as she had heard someone on the door and was wondrously sitting upright next to Piper on the edge of her bed the second the doctor closed the door behind him.
They hadn't seen them kising.
„Miss Chapman" the doctor greeted her, staring onto the files he had in his hand.
When he rised his head from them he saw Alex sitting there all naturally.
„Oh, and you are?" he rised his brows, he didn't seem to be very pleased that Piper had a visitor and it pissed Piper off a little, so without thinking about it twice and just to piss him off she answered for Alex.
„That is my girlfriend." she said, dreading Alex's reaction immediately, but Alex didn't react at all.
Instead she stared at the nurse, who looked about 19 years old and who's face was marked by discomfort.
„Is there anything wrong with her?" Alex asked, worry in her voice, reacting to the nurse's look. Piper wasn't even sure if she had heard her calling her her girlfriend.
„That's something we'd like to discuss with your … Ehm" the doctor coughed „girlfriend alone. If you would let us alone please." The word girlfriend came out of his mouth strangely like some kind of an unasked-for animal. Again Alex didn't react to it.
„What? Why?" Piper didn't understand what this was all about and she started to get scared.
„It's customary to talk medical issues with the patient alone first, of course you can tell her afterwards. So would you wait outside?"
Alex nodded reluctantly and walked out of the room, throwing Piper a last worried look.
Piper felt uncomfortable in her own skin, like so often, she feared that she might have scared Alex off with her 'Girlfriend'-comment and she just wanted to run after her.
But the serious look on the doctor's face kept her from doing so.
„So Miss Chapman, as you know we've taken some blood samples from you yesterday to get them tested after your accident and we'd like to discuss the results with you."
Piper was only listening to half of what the man said, looking past him towards the door, where Alex had gone out only seconds before.
Why couldn't they come just two minutes later, then maybe she would know by now what the thing between her and Alex meant.
When the doctor coughed again she finally forced herself to focus on him.
„Is there anything wrong with the results?"
„Well, your potassium is really low and so are your thyroid hormones and your protein."
He could as well have talked in Greek, Piper didn't understand a thing.
„Ok, and what does that mean?"
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