The Reign Of Vause

I miss you already

(Piper's POV)

Alex shut the door and now I wouldn't see her again for 5 days. I felt so empty and she had literally been gone for 5, 6, 7 seconds.
I sadly shuffled away from the door and went to the stereo player in our bedroom on Alex's nightstand. I turned it on, it continued from what we were playing last night when we were having 'I'll miss you' sex.
"Wait For Me" by Theory of a Deadman started playing and I shuffled back out into our living area.
Alex and I had revamped our penthouse apartment, the huge red leather couch was now 3 red leather couches, one facing the huge glass window running from the ceiling to the floor which had panoramic views of New York City which now had its lights on as it was now dark, and the others facing each other in a square shape, we liked the layout of the couches in our honeymoon suite in Hawaii, we now had a cream carpet with a dark wood and glass coffee table with a black glass TV stand at the window with a 50" flat screen Sony TV sitting on it. The kitchen was the same besides the new mini bar and wine cooler we had installed beside the huge double doored American refrigerator that dispensed ice which Alex often used for her Jameson. The kitchen had black marble tiles on the floor and a black sparkling granite counter, the kitchen island with its 4 bar stools and stove built into it was also still there although we had now installed long hanging lights above it. The extensive bookcase ran the length of the corridor which led to our bedroom and was jam-packed full of books ranging from literary classics to travel guides. Our apartment was still open plan but Alex and I didn't agree on a surprising amount when it came to furnishings. I liked carpets and soft floors, she liked tiles, wood and hard floors. So, our mix-match apartment was our compromise.

I stretched up to the higher level cupboards and opened the one where we kept our glasses, I grabbed one of Alex's whiskey glasses, grabbed her Jameson from the bar and a large tub of Ben & Jerry's mint choc chip ice cream from the refrigerator that I'd been saving for this knowing I'd get depressed the minute Alex left. I poured myself a glass of her Jameson and took it and my ice cream to the couch facing the TV after grabbing Alex's pillow to hug.
I flicked it on and put it on a low volume since I wanted to listen to Alex's music too, anything and everything of Alex's just so I could pretend she was still here with me.
The song played while I watched Dr Phil although it wasn't helping because this episode was about a breakup. Alex and I clearly weren't broken up but I was treating it that way because I hated missing her, it plunged me into depression immediately. How I had left her 7 years ago I will never know.
"You are not alone tonight
Imagine me there by your side
It's so hard to be here so far away, from you
I'm counting the days 'till
I'm finally done
I'm counting them down, yeah, one by one
It feels like forever 'till I return to you
But it helps me on those lonely nights
It's that one thing that keeps me alive
Knowing that you wait for me
Ever so patiently"

The TV was now boring me so I turned it off and lay on the couch hugging Alex's pillow with the whiskey and ice cream sitting on top of it. It had now been 2 hours since Alex had left. Surely she would be on our jet by now? I decided to think nothing of it, finishing the whiskey and setting the tub of ice cream on the coffee table I could feel my eyes getting heavy.
Bzzz bzzz
My cell phone vibrated in my back pocket of my shorts startling me.

"I miss you. xxxxx- A"

Appeared on my lock screen. I grinned and rubbed my eyes. I unlocked my phone and furiously typed back.

"I miss you more. I've nearly finished your bottle of Jameson and I'm halfway down that huge tub of Ben & Jerry's we had in the refrigerator hugging your pillow and lying on the couch. xxxxx- P"