Hello, everyone! Here is a OITNB fan, specially of Vauseman. It's been a while since I wanted to write something about them and tried with this new story. It's my first attempt at writing so I hope I won't completly suck. Feel free to leave a comment letting me know what do you think if you'd like. Enjoy.
It's 6:30 PM and Piper Chapman is walking for the streets of Boston aimlessly. She only wants to clear her head from what she has just witnessed. It's been a while since Piper has been thinking about breaking up with her boyfriend, Larry, and she's decided to do it that evening. Her heart just wasn't ready for what was going to happen.
When she knocked at his door, he opened almost immediately, as if he was waiting for someone. As soon as his eyes met with hers, he turned pale. Piper rushed into his apartment without even asking, or saying hi, she just wanted to get it off of her chest. "Larry, we need to talk," Piper started, sitting on the sofa. "I've been thinking a lot about this..."
"Piper, this is not the right time.." Larry stops her, becoming always more nervous.
"It will never be the right time for what I have to tell you, so please just let me finish." She didn't dare to look into his eyes, she would start to feel guilty and she wasn't going to delay it any longer. She kept her gaze on the floor, until she felt his arms on her shoulders to make her stand up.
"Piper, seriously, we cannot talk now. Just wait until tomorrow and I will pick you up early in the morning, so we can have breakfast and spend all day together." He was trying to mask his nervousness with a smile, but Piper wasn't blind.
"Why the fuck do you want this much to kick me out..." She wasn't able to finish her sentence, when a girl's voice could be heard.
"Hey babe, sorry, I am a little late." A girl, who was probably a few years younger than Piper, appeared from the door that neither of them closed before. She was skinny, with brown eyes and hair, dressed up with a see-through t-shirt that matched her clearly visible black bra, and a skirt that was way too short for a friendly invitation at someone else's house. The three stayed silent for a moment, until Piper decided to speak.
"Who is she and why the hell does she call you babe?" Larry just looked at her startled and babbling something unintelligible.
"I'm his girlfriend!" The younger woman said and Piper could feel her whole world falling apart.
"You're his what? I AM his girlfriend...I mean...was, since I came here to break up with you." Piper eventually admitted, now giving her attention to Larry.
"Piper, it's not as it seems...wait, what? You wanted...to break up with me?" For the first time Larry seemed to truly pay attention to what his now ex-fiancèe was saying.
"Yes, I wanted to and now I know I was making the right choice." Piper finally said, her voice broken from the tears that were foming in her eyes and, without needing to hear anything more, she runs away with Larry calling her name and the other girl screaming at him.
So here Piper is, lost somewhere in the city brooding about how stupid she could have been for all this time. For not realizing the man who every night told her he loved her, actually said it so easly to someone else. For not realizing that everytime he hugged her, he held another girl. It isn't even about loosing him or not having his love all for herself that hurts. She doesn't care at all about that because, in all honesty, she has never really been in love with Larry. She has never felt butterflies in her stomach, but just the thought of being used like this another fucking time cuts deeper than a knife. She wonders if true love actually exists. The love that she always imagined as a child, the one that makes the world around you stop, the one that gives you chills, the earth-shattering one you see in Disney movies. After 25 years of her life, she is starting to loose faith.
Before Piper can know it, she bumps into someone, who is cleary in a hurry and they both fall on the ground. "Yo, I'm sorry, I was running late and I didn't see you.." The woman sticks out a hand for Piper to help her to get up, since she is still on the ground...maybe still not fully back to reality. "Have I hurt you?" Piper takes her hand and finally looks at the girl in front of her. She is kinda the same age as her, a lil bit shorter and her hair is a cute mess.
"No, I'm fine, thank you. I'm sorry too..I..I wasn't paying attention to where I was going."
The wild haired girl peers Piper carefully and can't not notice the tears and distress in her eyes. Her lips curve into a weak smile, but it immediately disappears. "Are you okay?" The shorter woman finally asks, even tho she already knows the answer.
Piper hesitates for a minute and then takes a deep breath. "Yeah, I am. No worries." Of course she isn't but what the fuck can she say? 'I went to break up with my boyfriend just to find out that he has been cheating on me for God knows how much'? Of course not.
Piper can see the other girl isn't fully convinced and just when she is about to say goodbye and leave, the woman in front of her asks something she isn't expeting. "Why don't you come with me at the bar down the street, Blondie?"
Has she really just asked me to join her for the night, when we've just met and not even know our names? Piper thinks to herself, and does she really have a nickname for me already"Excuse me?"
The girl lets out a little laugh and then looks back at her new friend. "Come on! You need to distract yourself from-whatever you're going through- and me and my friends would only have more fun with more company."
The last thing Piper can think of right now is going out with strangers at some local bars. "I don't know...I mean, I don't wanna be a nuisance for you and your friends.." She is trying to find a polite way to decline the woman's invitation, but the girl doesn't want to give up.
"You worry way too much, Blondie. Guess that's why you're feeling down tonight, isn't it?." She is kinda right but hey, who the fuck is she anyway? "By the way, it's me, my girlfriend and my best friend who says she feels like the third wheel so, you would actually do her a favor coming."
Normally Piper would decline and come back to her house, going to sleep to get ready for the next basic day, but tonight she doesn't give a fuck. She wants a fresh new start, she wants to start to really living, to do things without planning them, to live adventures, to meet new people and so she takes a decision she would have never made typically. "Fine. I'll come with you".