Hi! This is something I've wanted to write for a while I was just figuring out exactly how I wanted to do it. If you follow any of my other stories I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while. I'm a bit stuck with those fics so any suggestions are completely welcome via reviews or pm.
Anyway! I hope you enjoy this. M rated just to be safe. Be aware of adult themes and language.
Alex Vause. 17, Popular and beautiful with tattoos and a grin that made you melt. Alex Vause was the by far the coolest kid in the entire school.
Piper Chapman. 16, unpopular. Purposefully, average and self proclaimed nerd. Piper Chapman, was a nobody, just the way she liked it.
Alex Vause rode a Kawasaki Ninja. Piper Chapman drove a beat up hand-me-down Plymouth Duster.
Alex Vause had tattoos and reeked of sex appeal and Piper Chapman had a netflix membership and 'a problem socialising' according to her parents.
The point being, they were polar opposites.
She opens the door into the big, empty lecture theatre. It is Monday night and the room is dimly lit apart from the old fashioned projector ticking forward at the front displaying nothing. "Hello?" She calls out to the seemingly empty room. "Is this where I come for AV club? I saw the flier?" Piper closes the door gently behind her and starts down the isle. Then between the seats near the front a figure emerges from where they had been laying invisible to her moments previously. "Hey!" Piper would recognise that husky voice anywhere, she imagined that if the adjective 'sexy' could be described as a sound it would in fact sound like this one very specific voice. The voice of Alex Vause. Despite her cheerful tone she looks surprised by the company. "Oh sorry!" Piper rushes quickly, "I thought this was AV club." Dear god! Her internal monologue screamed. She was talking to the most popular, most gorgeous, most very intimidating (in a way out of my league sort of way), girl in school. She stumbled and blushed thankful of the dim lighting to mask her embarrassment. Come on Piper! The internal monologue called again. You're a normal human being, attractive and capable of social interaction, ACT IT. Alex pulls her signature grin with one eye brow raised with mischief laced underneath. "AV Club? Alex Vause right here, gorgeous." She winks and starts up the steps toward Piper. Having the desired effect Piper melts a bit before snapping herself out of it, Alex had worked her way through half of the female student body with that wink. "Sorry, Audio Visual sounds much more exciting." She throws her a smirk of her own pleased by the slight shock that crosses Alex's face which is quickly replaced by something else.
Recognition. She liked a challenge. Here was a girl, What was her name again? She was the one that studied in the back booth in the library. The librarians loved her. Polly? No, that's the winey friend. Piper. Yes that's it. Piper Chapman. Probably the first girl she had thrown that wink at and not received a more than enthusiastic response to. Piper was gorgeous, she hadn't been lying. She was leggy and blonde, blue eyes you could get lost in and a great pair of tits. It was a shame she hid it all under the baggy clothes. She stopped Piper as she was about to leave by jogging up the isle to where she stood and lacing her fingers through hers. "Hey, don't leave. We can watch movies and you can pretend I'm not secretly a massive nerd, yeah?" Piper rolled her eyes and unlaces her hand, familiar with Alex Vause's charm, but starts back down the steps to find a seat. Alex quickly sets up the film and takes her seat next to Piper, this was going to be fun.
2 hours later.
"Once again Jennifer Lawrence doesn't fail to disappoint!" Piper loved Jennifer Lawrence, Alex on the other hand had enjoyed the two hours with Piper much more than the movie itself. "She's so hot right?" Alex played this move on all the girls she talked to, drop a female celebrity you know is attractive and see if they play it straight or not. If they were straight she'd back off, if they weren't they were fair game. "Ugh! I know right? She's so funny as well though, she's hot because she's so normal but also because she plays such strong characters, I mean…yeah." She laughs realising her tangent. So...not straight? Alex gave a small laugh.
She remembered Piper from Kindergarten. Piper had always been there in her peripherals, they'd gone to the same school basically the entire time and she was fairly certain Piper only lived a few streets over from her. Piper was the youngest in the year and Alex the eldest. Alex was popular and Piper kept to herself the majority of the time. They existed in different orbits more or less. "Why are you so quiet?" Alex asks as the projector returns to its pointless ticking over. Piper gives a small smile. "I haven't found anyone worth talking to yet. I guess, I figured at a young age that I could probably have more intelligent conversations with myself than half the people that are in my classes so why waste time and effort?" Alex smiled, it made sense but it seemed lonely. "Maybe I could be worth talking to?" She flashes her signature grin and fidgets with her black square glasses. She runs her fingers through her hair and waits for Piper's reply. She'd only just started talking to her but she wasn't in any particular rush for it to stop. Piper had this sort of dry sarcasm and wit that she couldn't get enough of. She was intelligent and fierce in a way that other girls she'd talked to just weren't. Perhaps Piper was right about that observation. Piper picks up her bag and rearranges her big hoodie around herself as she stands ready to leave. "Maybe." She winks. And starts up the isle to leave.
"So I'll see you around?" Alex was painfully aware of how needy she felt right now. She didn't want to fail this challenge but more importantly she wanted to know more about the elusive Piper Chapman. She was used to girls falling at her feet and being popular and wanted. Piper confused everything she knew about making people like her. If she knew anything at that precise moment in time it was that she wanted to spend more time getting to know Piper Chapman.
"I'm telling you Nick, that girl is different." Alex stirs her Starbucks absentmindedly. "You really think PIPER CHAPMAN, that library nerd, is the girl you'd change for. You're serious?" Nicky Nichols; batshit crazy, best friend to Alex Vause, ultimately one of the most sincere people alive, (whether that's good or bad, Alex was yet to decide) and a deeply caring person. So when her friend came to her to tell she had met a girl, she was not surprised. When she told her which girl, she was mildly amused. But then Alex had pulled out a show stopper. "I could change for this girl." Nicky couldn't believe it. She had seen, how many girls, come through Alex's Egyptian cotton bed sheets? None of them had ever even remotely raised this subject not even after several return trips when Alex was feeling bored. She'd spent at best three hours with the nerd and now she was all butterflies and cuddles. She actually felt a bit queasy. "You've never ever wanted to settle, why now?" Alex laughs at her friends melodrama. "Okay first off Nick, I'm only 17." "Come on Vause! You're almost 18 and you've slept with more women than most men do in there entire lives." Alex looks a bit proud at her friends acknowledgement.
"Seriously, you've seen me and Lorna, we've been together what, three years now? Are we happier than you are in peak season when you've got girls with legs taller than me and boobs bigger than baltimore with their arms wrapped around your neck hanging off of every word you're saying?" Alex laughs again, bemused by the accuracy of her type of girl. But again Piper was different. She drifts to the fore front of her mind. She was beautiful even in that big hoodie, she was the sort of girl that looked rocking without trying. She felt a bit like she would start drooling if she thought too hard about Piper with some effort behind her.
"She's different Nick, she keeps me on my toes. She intelligent, god knows I could use that from someone other than you. I'm not saying I'm in love. I'm saying I've found my next challenge. Piper Chapman is a babe, you just can't see it yet."
In the booth over Polly Harper rises quietly from her seat, gathering her books together hurriedly, shoving them in her bag and exits the shop.
"I'm just telling you what I heard Piper. DITCH THE HOODIE! ALEX FUCKING VAUSE, wants to date you. I'm not talking about being another notch on the head board. I heard the phrase "Change for this girl" at least 8 times. You're telling me you don't even want to see?" Piper was ingesting all the information slowly. She knew she'd had a good time with Alex yesterday, there was some very obvious flirting going on through out the film, but she had just assumed Alex was like this with every girl. I mean, she didn't believe in changing who she was to please someone else but using her assets, already existing, to her advantage? That couldn't hurt.
The problem Piper had was not with the way she looks. Piper had always been pretty, an attractive baby through to eleven when puberty struck her with the beauty stick earlier than everyone else. Piper Chapman had always been a babe. She remembered walking into school after that summer holiday. Everyone always looks different, but quiet and with only a few select friends by her own choice Piper was confused when suddenly everyone wanted to be her friend. Girls wanted to be in her group now and boys, were just confused because here was a girl who definitely did not have cooties. That's when the baggy clothes and hoodies started, these people were idiots. She didn't want to give them any reason to talk to her. And I guess, the clothes hadn't ever stopped. As far as school was concerned at least. Polly always said the weekend was a relief because Piper wore 'human clothes'.
Piper realises she had been lost in thought and hadn't actually replied to Polly yet who was waiting with a look of bemusement on her face. "YOU LIKE HER TOO!" Polly does a victory dance whilst Piper throws cushions at her.
"Help me find some human clothes for tomorrow." Polly can't keep the grin from her face as she opens the door to Piper's walk in wardrobe.
By the time they were finished they had exchanged Piper's usual school outfit (Big purple hoodie, loose jeans and trainers) for something a bit more weekend Piper. Skinny jeans with at tight white tank tee and a fitted blazer. She paired it with some white converses and they stood in front of the mirror admiring their work. Polly sighs. "You're so hot when you make an effort." Piper raises an eyebrow at her best friend to which Polly throws up her hands in her own defence. She points to Piper's reflection. "You are."
Piper shrugs and laughs. She knows it true but it had never really concerned her. For the first time she was exciting about making an effort for school.
She knew for every conversation she had the next day there was a more intelligent conversation to be had with herself, 99% of the time. She had always found that. Until Alex Vause. The knock out, popular girl with the jet black hair and the sexy glasses (she laughed internally at herself. Nothing sexier than impaired vision), the intense eyeliner game and the rockabilly tattoos. She thinks briefly about actually fanning herself just thinking about Alex. Here was a girl capable of intelligent conversation. She had been shocked actually. Alex Vause had been something of a myth the majority of her school life. They existed in different worlds entirely and so it had been a bag of mixed truths when it came down to it. The charm was real but it turned out the bitchiness and manipulative streak had been complete falsities.
Tomorrow would be an interesting day.
That's it will update soon! Reviews and feedback are always welcome and encouraged!
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