Piper smiled at Alex as she climbed onto her bed- Alex had only been back for two weeks, so wasn’t assigned a formal dorm yet. “I called you my girlfriend today”, she started softly. “To my parents… and my brother… and my brothers wife. It just- kind of came out”, the blonde woman explained. “i’m not asking you to be my girlfriend or anything- it was just weird that it happened!” the birthday girl explained and glanced to where Alex was nonchalantly reading. “… will you be my girlfriend?…”