Lots of you wanted an epilogue. So read if you want.

i love you, ~S

(One year)

It wasn't until Alex had to figure out how to work the overwhelmingly modern coffee machine by herself that things started to sink in. She was in denial that whole summer. She spent every possible moment with Amelia just to mute the painful reminders that she'd be leaving that September. Even when she left the complex in her Cornell sweatshirt with all her boxes and even when they were waving goodbye outside in the chill, it never really sunk in.

Piper left Amelia with verbose reminders to use protection. And she cried. She held the girl in her sweatered arms and inhaled in the signature scent of pressed linens and paint as if she'd never breathe it again. Amelia ran her thumb over the curve of her cheekbone to wipe the warm tears away, reassuring her that she'd be okay. Alex waited until they were inside the penthouse to free the tears that begged release. But these tears were different. They didn't drag down like serrated edges against her cheeks or leave dark shadows in the corners of her chest. They were light as they glided down from her glassy eyes. Like gentle rain in summer. It all was bittersweet, but they were happy. Happy that Alex received her validation for getting the whole mother thing right. Happy for Amelia getting into fucking Cornell. Happy for Piper that she could be there for all of it. And happy that they were together in the opulent living room, wrapped up in each other and swaying to no music at all.

Just heartbeats. Just breathing. Just them.

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"Hey kid,"

"Hey, Mom! I thought I'd check up on you guys. See how everything is."

Amelia's phone calls made the glowing penthouse shine brighter than it already was. Whenever her voice would sing through the telephone line, the sun would seem to harmonize with her. (That was a phenomenon science had yet explain).

"Is that Amelia?" Piper perked up from her plush nest of cashmere blankets and Emily Dickinson on the couch.

"Yeah she's-" she gave Alex no time before she was up and stealing the phone away from her ear.

"Hi Amelia! We miss you!"

"Miss you too, Piper."

"How's school?"

"Good, I-"

"Did you get the sheets we sent you?"

"Yes, they're wonderful. Thank you."

"I was speaking!" Alex finally worked up the nerve to swipe the phone back from her, thus causing a surprised and displeased Piper to protest.

"Just put me on speaker, Jesus." They could hear her brown eyes rolling back to see inside her skull. Slightly embarrassed, they tapped the speaker icon and set the phone on the granite countertop.

"Are you guys doing good?"

"Everything's great here. It's quiet here without you."

"Pfft. It wasn't so quiet last night," Alex smirked as she grabbed a handful of Piper's ass.

"Hey!"

"What? I can't help that you're a fucking fire alarm in bed."

"Mom!"

That earned Alex a crisp smack on the shoulder from Piper. But she snaked an arm around her waist anyway and laughed into a fond kiss.

A kiss that lost its innocence within a matter of seconds.

Alex began to pattern languid circles around the Piper's hips and she felt a shudder beneath her black painted fingertips, never breaking the steamy contact of their lips. Her sly hand crept up the blonde's loose flannel and latched onto the small curve of her breast, backing her into the counter as she swelled against the lust-filled touch. Piper hopped up on the granite when her lower back couldn't take the untamed pressure any longer. She wrapped her bare legs around Alex almost immediately as she stepped inside. Her hips rolled instinctively against her when the scorching pair lips travelled down to the crook of her neck. She gave Alex's inky hair a lazy tug as a sign to keep going.

And she did.

Alex continued to give attention to the sensitive spot on Piper's neck as her hands painted down her body. They were tantalizing as they roved over the smooth path of the blonde's thighs, sending shivers rippling down her body. Every nerve inside her burning on their edge. Alex inched a hand back up Piper's leg and slipped it under the waistband of whatever the hell was keeping her away from the needing spot between her thighs.

Piper's lazy tugs lost their lazy quality.

"Anyway, I'll be back after exams and for Christmas which is only a few weeks away. So-"

Piper's feverish moan was all it took for Amelia to decode the scenario on the other line.

"Are you guys giving me phone porn again? Guys, we talked about this. At least wait till I hang up."

"..."

Amelia puffed a heavy sigh of apathy out from her nose.

"Call me when you're done. Don't... hurt yourselves."

She hung up.

And they never noticed.

i hope you guys enjoyed this petite bonus chapter. Thank you all so much again. This won't be the last thing you read. I love you ~S