Author's note: This is my first FanFiction. I know it isn't much but further chapters will be much longer. Italics are flashbacks. This IS Vauseman so hang in there. Please review so I know that there are people who want me to continue with this. Thank you for reading!
It was the first day of Junior year for Piper. Honestly, unlike most girls her age, she was excited to start off the new school year. She had missed a lot of her friends over the summer due to the fact she was dating this nice boy named, Larry her friend Polly, introduced her to. Apparently he was her boyfriend Pete's best friend. Piper took a shot in the dark and absolutely fell for the boy. He was everything her parents dreamed in a boyfriend for her. He was polite, came from a well off family, did good in school, never misbehaved.. Basically, he was a male version of Piper in many ways. Piper had spent nearly every day with him over the summer. He even went up to her grandfather's old fishing cabin with the Chapman family. While there, Piper lost her virginity to the sweet Jew Boy. They had the perfect relationship that every girl dreamed of having. Sadly though, the duo only had one class together throughout the whole school day, which was their third hour Science class. Piper was happy that they had that class together. She sucked at Science, he knew it forwards and backwards. They may have lunch together, but they wouldn't know until fourth hour. The duo walked into school, hand in hand. Larry had offered to drive her today, so she took him up on it instead of riding the bus. The two stayed silent and stayed attached by their hands until they reached Piper's first hour class, Math. Oddly, she loved the class. Larry let go of her hand, leaning in to give her a kiss on the lips. "Have a good day, I'll see you in science, Pipes." He said in a soft tone.
"Thanks, you too." She spoke, walking into her classroom. Piper looked around, trying to find a seat. Most of the class was full, even though there was still five minutes until class started. At her school, your seat at the beginning of the year was your seat in that class until semesters switched. There were only a handful of seats left. There was a seat in the front, automatically out of the question. There was a seat by all of the 'Losers' of the school as her friends put it. Well, she couldn't do that. The last seat was in the back row next to this girl who looked like she belonged at a metal concert. Well, it seemed like her best option. She made her way to the back of the class, sitting next to the girl. She felt like she had seen the girl around school, but she wasn't sure. She shrugged it off, getting out all of her things like a good student would. She had a pencil and black pen on one side of her notebook and a highlighter and red pen on the other. She straightened up in her seat with a smile. She heard a chortle to her right, looking over at the person the sound came from . It was the Alternative looking girl. Boy, she sure did look so familiar... She was laughing at Piper, though she couldn't fathom why. "What's so funny?" She asked in a confused tone, tilting her head slightly.
"You," the girl stated with another laugh, shaking her head. Piper still was so confused as to what she did.
"What about me?" She asked, slightly offended. She doesn't even know the girl and she's being judgmental? She slightly wanted to scoff. Unknowing to the fact she and her friends do it to others so often. The girl just laughed again! At this point, Piper was getting upset.
"How you have your stuff set up. Like you're excited to learn and begin another year at a shit hole where everyone either hates you or pretends to like you up until graduation and then they leave you for their new college friends." She explained, her eyebrows being raised at the tone the girl used with her. Piper was so confused. Friends would never do that. She must be a pessimist, thinking like that.
"I am excited! I get to see all my friends, who by the way would never leave me! We all plan on going to Smith together!" She replied with thrill in her voice. Her friends all did plan on going to either Smith or UCLA so that they could stick together as much as possible.
The girl just rolled her eyes with a scoff, nodding her head. "Sure, kid. And George Clooney is my grandfather." She said, her voice dripping in sarcasm.
"What makes you so sure? You don't even know me or any of my friends to make an assessment like that. You can't just assume something by looking at a person!" Piper huffed, her brows furrowing together.
The other girl just continued to laugh, shaking her head. Little did Piper know all one needed was one look at her to see that what Alex said, was most likely true. "Kid, I'm pretty sure I'm spot on. But, hey. Think what you want." She stated, shrugging her shoulders.
"Yo-" Piper was about to comment on how the girl didn't even know her name, but she was cut off by the bell ringing. She just sat straight in her seat like before, looking straight ahead as the teacher stood up and began to take roll call. Once her name was called she proudly rose her hand, calling out "Present!" before putting her hand back down with a smile towards the teacher. With a smile back, she grinned even more. Piper was pretty much a teachers pet. It helped her secure the best grades possible. If she was a few points off, it helped. The teacher would tack extra on for just being a good student. She never ditched. Never acted out. Never spoke when she shouldn't. She zoned out thinking about how great of a student was until something brought her out of her daze.
"Alex Vause?" That name, it sounded so familiar to her. Like she had heard that name before. But where? Once again, another thing brought her out of her thoughts. This time, it was the voice behind the words being spoken.
"That's my name, don't wear it out." The girl next to Piper voice quite bluntly, never looking up from the book she was reading. Piper was actually quite surprised the girl was reading. She didn't seem like the reading type. But with that name, Piper was SO sure she had known this girl. She knew most people by name in the school, even the people she didn't talk too or even like. She huffed slightly to herself, trying to put her finger to the name.
For once, she didn't pay attention in class. She was busy trying to figure out how she knew the girl. She would steal looks at the girl, who almost never looked up from her book. The only times she caught the girl look up was when she was looking at the clock, her phone, or even looking back at Piper. She didn't know why her mind was caught up in the girl, so she just attributed to the fact her name and face seemed familiar.
Once the bell rang Piper gathered her things and left the class. She hurried her way to class, wanting to get there before seats were once more full. She sat down in the back of her English class, setting her things up. She smiled as she set her things up once again, taking out her phone. She saw several texts from her friends.
From Polly: Piper let me know what lunch u have when u find out! Hope we have it 2gether. Larry is in my class && won't stop talking about u! I knew u 2 would b perfect!
Piper chuckled softly, typing back a quick reply.
From Piper: I will. And I know. He's soooo perfect. My parents even adore him!
She sent it before opening up her text from Larry, blushing at it's contents. Which included a picture of her butt.
From Larry: Ur ass looked nice walking away from me ;) lol miss u see u in science babe
From Piper: wooooow thanks. I bet you're having fun showing all of your friends. See you soon
The last text was from her friend Jessica, whom she had only seen a handful of times through the summer. She missed Jessica actually, they just never got a chance with her always being with Larry.
From Jessica: hey piper i missed u over the summer. hope we have some classes together. hmu when u get ur lunch assigned.
From Piper: I missed you too! and I will. See you soon hopefully.
Just as Piper hit send, the bell rang. She smiled a smug smile, proud she finished her texting before class started. Or, technically, just as it started.
"You are such a goody two shoes," A voice spoke from next to her. She looked over to see none other than the Alex girl from last hour. Apparently they had another class together. "I guess we have another class, huh?" She said, apparently thinking the same thing that Piper was. She wore a genuine smile on her face. For some reason, Piper found it to be one of the most amazing sights she had ever seen.
"Yeah, I guess so." She said softly, smiling. She couldn't help but smile back at that girl, even if she did just slightly insult her. "I'm Piper, by the way. Piper Chapman." She grinned, holding her hand across the isle towards Alex. "And you are?" Even though she by now had memorized that this girl was named Alex Vause.
"Alex. Alex Vause." She said in a shocked way as she shook Piper's hand once before dropping it. Piper had no idea why she would be shocked. Did she expect Piper to already know her name? Because she did, but wouldn't it be creepy to be like 'Oh yeah, by the way. I know your name is Alex. Sorta memorized it after it was called during roll call and have thought of you nearly every single moment up until now. Hope that isn't creepy or anything. Anyway, I'm Piper in case you didn't remember from roll call'
"Well, Alex. It's very nice to meet you." Piper stated with all honesty.
"Yeah, you too, kid." Alex said before turning her attention back to her book. Piper furrowed her brows slightly like before, confused. Why would this girl call her kid even after knowing Piper's name. Did Piper resemble a child today? She didn't think so. She looked down at her purple and pink stripped shirt and blue jeans. She looked like any girl her age would. She decided to not think on it any longer, she would just be confused on not focus on class, yet again. Although, she didn't think she'd be focusing on class anyhow.
Larry and Piper set together at their double person science table, turned to each other. The teacher was actually pretty cool. After roll call he told us to turn and talk to our new table partner whom we would be doing all projects with for the semester. I was quite glad mine was Larry. We just were talking about our first two classes, though I did leave out meeting Alex. She wasn't in the class, thankfully. Honestly, she would have taken my attention off of class again, and Piper couldn't have that. She needed to work hard, especially since colleges start looking at you your junior year, or so the teachers had told them the past two years. Piper and Larry were filling out the worksheets that were placed in front of them, which basically was a 'get to know the student' sheet that they had to share with each other and then turn in.
"So, I have a question?" Larry said, poking Piper in the side. She squealed slightly, blushing at him. For the four months coming up that they had been dating, Piper really cared for him.
"Yes?" She questioned, tilting her head to the side and smiling at him. She batted her eyes slightly, chewing on her lip.
"Would you like to go on a date this Friday? And then hang out on Saturday. I know your friends are going to ask you, so I wanted to get you to myself before they could!" He chuckled, winking at Piper. She smiled even more at him, with a small sigh. A happy sigh. She loved how cute he was, even asking a week ahead just to make sure he had her to himself.
"Yes, Larry. I'd love to." She stated, placing her hand on top of his.
He smiled back at her, leaning in to kiss her on the cheek while the teacher had his back turned. "What would you like to do? I was thinking we could go see that new movie, you know the one with Mark Wahlberg?"
"You mean The Gambler? The one that's Rated R that neither of us can get into?" She asked, raising her eyebrow at him. She knew her mom would freak out over her seeing a movie with such 'Mature content for a girl her age!'. "Larry, my mother would kill me if she found out we were going to see that, and you know it!" She whisper yelled at him, only receiving a roll of his eyes.
"What she know won't hurt her, right? Besides, Pipes.. Pete works there, remember? He'll get us the tickets. Don't worry about it, okay?" He said, sounding disappointed she wasn't up for it instantly. Piper couldn't help but frown, but then nod her head. She hated upsetting him. That was part of the reason she lost her virginity to him before they even said 'I love you' to each other. He was upset she didn't trust him, so she eventually gave in by the lake.
The two had just gotten done swimming and the sun was setting. The two had just started a fire on the beach and they were cuddled up in front of it. It started with an innocent kiss that turned into Larry on top of her, feeling her up. She stopped him, scared to continue on.
"Pipes, please.. All of my friends have done it, and I'm sure yours have too!" Larry sighed, slumping down in the sand. He always was upset but he never went as far to say everyone else has done it. She was actually quite proud of the fact she was still a virgin. The furthest she ever allowed Larry to go was just making out, maybe feeling each other up. But the two never felt each other below the belt, not even through material. For the past week, though, Larry had really been pushing it. The two had been dating for a little over a month now. She thought that they should still take it slow, but he obviously wanted to hurry it up.
"Larry, I'm just not ready. I don't want to regret this tomorrow morning. Or worse, end up pregnant!" She explained in her signature whisper yell. She sprawled out in the sand, reaching over to take Larry's hand. It only lasted a moment before he snatched his hand away and turned onto his side, looking at Piper.
"So you don't trust me? Piper, I won't get you pregnant. I promise you, I would never do that to you. I wouldn't do that to myself! I don't want to be a father as much as you don't want to be a mother. You can't just turn me on and leave me be." He huffed, giving her his lame glare.
"Larry, please..." She sighed, shaking her head. She did trust Larry, she truly did. She just wasn't ready. And she couldn't help he got horny over just a simple kiss, it was his hormones, not hers. "I do trus-"
Larry cut her off, suddenly visibly angry. "OBVIOUSLY YOU DON'T, PIPER! IF YOU DID YOU WOULD DO THIS!" He seethed, sitting up just to throw his arms up into the air. "You don't even care about me, do you?"
Piper honestly was a little shocked that he snapped at her like that. She felt horrible to upset him like that. She frowned, looking down at her hands as she sat up. "Fine..." She muttered, letting out a sigh. She really didn't want to do this, but she wanted Larry to know how much she cared.
"Really?!" Larry asked in an excited tone, shooting up from the sand. Piper just nodded at him, refusing to look up. "Okay, alright. I brought a few condoms because I knew you would finally say yes. Let me go get them, okay?" He rambled on for a moment before taking off to his room in the cabin, finding what he was looking for. He ran back to their spot on the beach, tossing the small handful at Piper. "I figured we could try oral first, so I can flavored and then I go-" Piper zoned out of Larry's excited rambling, knowing she really didn't want to do this. But that's what people in relationships did, right? Gave things up for the ones they cared about? She laid down in the sand as Larry climbed on top of her
"Okay..." Piper spoke in a small voice, nodding her head. Like at the lake, she didn't look up at Larry. She only looked at her paper. Before Larry could say anything else, Piper got up to take off to her fourth hour class, hoping that she had the same lunch as her friends.
Piper ended up having lunch with Larry, Pete, Polly and a few of her other friends. Jessica had the lunch before them, sadly. But she did have fourth hour with her. That Alex girl must not have had her lunch with them, because even though she looked all around for her, she couldn't find her. It made Piper sad, if she was being honest. But she ignored it. Actually, she spent most of her lunch trying to ignore the fact she was thinking about Alex. She didn't even know the girl, yet she wondered if she would have any of her final two classes with the girl. Why, she had no clue.
"Hey, Piper? Do you want to hang out on Saturday?" One of Piper's friends named Ashlee asked. She was a girl who looked very similar to herself, but with a slightly fuller face and pure blonde hair that looked so thick a comb wouldn't even be able to go through it without getting stuck in it. Just as Piper opened her mouth, Larry decided to answer for Piper.
"Uhm, actually, Pipes and I had plans to hang out Saturday. And Friday. Sorry." He said, almost in a rude matter. Since the duo started dating at the end of the school year, Larry didn't get to get into the 'in crowd' of her friends. So he was still an outsider. In fact, some of her friends only knew he was her boyfriend by their Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram photos. Ashlee sent a dirty look Larry's way before replying.
"Oh. Maybe next weekend, then?" She asked, looking directly at Piper this time.
"Sure, I'll text you!" She grinned, nodding towards the phone that was almost always in her hand. The two giggled and it was agreed. The bell rang so Piper gathered her things with Larry, throwing away their trays as Larry walked her to class.
"Uhm, Piper. I was hoping we could hang out next weekend." He said in a blunt matter, pretty much wanting Piper to say no to her friends. Something he had done most of the summer. He seemed to not want her doing anything without him some days and others he complained she never went out.
"Oh, uhm.. Sorry. Maybe one of the days we don't hang out, okay?" She said, parting ways with Larry as she turned down the hall to her class. Honestly, just not wanting to argue with Larry over hanging out with her friend.
Fifth hour, the final class of the day. Gym. Piper loved gym. She could run and get all of her energy out. She changed into her short-shorts and tee shirt, heading out into the gymnasium. She looked around, noticing Polly. Just as she saw Polly, Polly saw Piper. They ran to each other ending with a giant hug, giggling and squealing the whole time. Once the two pulled away, she noticed Alex walking out of the locker room still in her dark jeans, black shirt, and leather jacket. She was slightly confused as to why the girl didn't change, but didn't say anything. Alex kept walking until she was with the two girls, standing there seemingly not awkward at all.
"Uhm, excuse me? Yeah, the druggies and weirdos hang out in the bleachers... I think you're a bit confused." Polly said to Alex harshly, giving her a glare. Polly assumed because she was dressed like that, she obviously was a stoner. Who knows, maybe she was. But Piper still didn't like the assumption.
"Polly!" Piper exclaimed, lightly smacking her friend over the head.
"Ow! What, it's true. Why in the world would she even stand by us, she doesn't know us." Polly sighed dramatically, pointing at Alex the whole time.
"Uhm, actually Holly. I do know Piper, we met earlier." Alex has her eyebrows raised in amusement, chuckling at the situation in front of her. Most people would be embarrassed, but not Alex it seemed. Piper respected that, admired that even.
"Uhm, it's POLLY. And ew, seriously?" She asked, turning to Piper with an annoyed face.
"Yes, Polly. I can have friends other than you!" Piper laughed, shoving at her. She didn't want Polly to be mean to Alex. For some reason, she wanted to be the girls friend. The two started to argue about how Polly obviously had more friends, oblivious to the fact that the raven haired girl decided to walk off, actually leaving school all together. By the time Piper noticed, there was no sign of Alex anywhere. In fact, she only noticed because Coach Mendez came out yelling for the two to break up the fight and start running laps.
Without a glance of Alex for the remainder of the day, Piper went home with Larry where she thought of nothing but talking to Alex the next day at school.