Author's note: Okay this is the new story. It didn't come out as a student/teacher or a student/student kind of story. I just didn't know enough about American school system so it was hard to write about that. This is something between them maybe? Anyways, just read it and tell me what you thought. I own only the idea! Enjoy :)

Piper was sitting in her usual place in the back row and was looking out of window. Mr. Harris was teaching something about the cold war. Piper liked history, so she knew lots about it. She however didn't make an effort to show her knowledge. The teachers of Litchfield High had long ago given up on Piper, so they didn't even try to make Piper to concentrate on classes anymore.

The bell rang and Piper quickly hopped up.

"Piper, would you stay behind please?" Mr. Harris said.

Piper shot an annoyed glare but stayed behind. She heard someone, probably Jessica giggle on her way out. Piper really didn't get along with anyone, but she couldn't stand Jessica.

"What?" Piper asked as she was the only one left.

"The other teachers and I have talked about you", Mr. Harris started.

Piper rolled her eyes. "And?"

"We've decided that it would do good to you get someone to teach you the things you... struggle with. Somebody closer to your age, who could maybe find more interesting way to teach things."

Piper stared at him disbelieving. "What?"

"Yes. There's this girl that is couple of years older than you, she graduated last year and she is willing to help you with your studies. How does that sound?"

"Like shit", Piper answered shortly.

"Okay, let me get this straight. You have no other options than meet her today afternoon at four at library. You have to see her at least twice a week, more if possible. You can settle details then", Mr. Harris said sternly.

"And what if I don't?"

"You are failing almost all of your classes! We can't let you graduate if you fail your classes."

Piper was quiet for a while before left without another word.

Piper was standing in front of the library. It was already ten minutes over four. She had spent the whole day thinking if she should go or not. If she didn't go, teachers would probably make her do something worse like seeing the student counselor or something. And she didn't want that.

Piper opened the door and watched around library.

There were a few people studying and then some tall girl. Piper was sure that the tall girl would be the one teaching her. Soon Piper noticed who it was. Piper had never caught her name, but she had admired her when she was freshman. Back then the girl had been junior like Piper was now. The girl had been hot and confident. She had been straight A-student and captain of the girls basketball team. Piper had watched her almost two years but never talked to her. Then things started to go badly and Piper forgot her.

Now Piper had changed so much that she didn't adore the girl anymore like she had done couple of years ago.

"Are you Piper?"

Piper hadn't realized that the girl had turned to look at her. "The one and only", Piper said drily. "And you are?"

"Oh hey. I'm Alex. I'm going to be your tutor for a while now", the girl, Alex said smiling.

"So I heard."

"Okay, do you want to study here or somewhere else?" Alex said as she pointed the table where her stuff was.

"I don't want to study. I need to be at work by five so I need to leave in 20 minutes", Piper informed.

Alex furrowed her eyebrows. "Well you have to study. Umm, we can just discuss when we are going to keep our study sessions then."

Piper just went to sit on the table and Alex followed her.

"So, when do you have to work?" Alex said as she took her calendar.

"Five days a week. The days change. On weekdays from five or four to eight and on weekends from nine to four."

"You work a lot. Does that affect your studies?" Alex asked.

Piper chuckled. "Fuck no. I learn more in work than in school."

Alex raised her eyebrows. "Oh. Where do you work then?"

"Not your business. Now, you are doing this because of money, right? We can just pretend that I'm seeing you. It's a win win situation, you get your money and I don't need to waste my free time", Piper proposed.

"What? No. I mean yes, the money is the main reason I'm doing this but I really want to help you. And secondly they would start suspecting something if your grades won't get better."

"What if I'm just stupid? Some tutor won't help the situation", Piper said and crossed her hands on her chest.

"I don't believe that. Everyone learns if they try", Alex said as she leaned forward.

"I don't have a reason to try", Piper said, mimicking Alex's position.

"What about a college? You going to college?"

"Fuck no", Piper laughed.

"Why not?"

"Not your business."

Alex sighed. This was going to be hard. "We need to see at least twice a week. I'm going to teach you these things even if you don't want to learn them. If you learn them quickly, then you don't have to see me again."

Piper stared at her for a while. Alex obviously wasn't going to give up. "Why do you need the money?"

Alex furrowed her eyebrows. "I think that it isn't your business."

Piper laughed. "Okay fair enough. Do you get more money if I learn the things?"

"Uhmm, yeah... I'll get more money if you pass your classes", Alex said. "...I could give you a little of it? You know for a motivation?"

Piper raised her eyebrows. "That's pretty tempting, but I don't want your money, they are yours."

"Anyways you need to come. If you won't even try, then they are going to send you to someone else. And believe me, I'm a lot nicer than some old man."

"I don't have to work tomorrow", Piper said finally. Alex was right.

"Okay, how about at four then? Is library good or do you want to go somewhere else?"

"Four is fine. And we can be in library before we come up with something nicer", Piper said as she rose up. "See ya tomorrow."

"Yup. And try to be on time tomorrow!" Alex said after Piper.

Piper grinned before left. She kind of liked the girl and that was rare. She didn't usually like anyone. Her boss and little brother were probably only people that she liked. Piper read a lot and was actually very smart, so she didn't really need a tutor. She just hated when people knew her, so she kept her knowledge to herself. Also, she hated how teachers and sometimes other students defined people from their grades.

The following day Piper was sitting in library even before four. She was determined to get out of these tutoring sessions. She decided to read book when she waited Alex. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank was one of Piper's favorite books. She had gotten it for her 13-year birthday present from her grandmother and she had read it multiple times.

"What are you reading?"

Piper looked up from her book to see Alex standing in front of her. "A book."

Alex rolled her eyes. "You like to read then?"

Piper just shrugged before put her book away. "I have a proposition."

"You are not going to get out of these sessions", Alex said as she sat down.

"What if I told you that I know all things what you are supposed to teach me?" Piper said as she put her book in her bag.

"Piper, you are failing multiple classes. If you knew the things, you wouldn't be failing the classes", Alex furrowed her eyebrows.

"Ask me questions then."

"What?"

"Ask me questions about the subjects I'm struggling with and if I know them then we don't need to see again. We can pretend that we are seeing and I promise to raise my grades a little so you get your money", Piper said smirking.

Alex stared at her disbelieving. Piper looked pretty confident that she knew the answers. "If you really know them, why don't you show it then?"

"I have my reasons. Now, ask away."

"Okay... We'll start with..." Alex looked through the list that Mr. Harris had given to her. It was about the subjects that teachers thought that Piper needed help with. "Algebra."

"Cool."

Alex wrote down couple of easy calculations and gave it to Piper.

"Didn't get anything harder?" Piper laughed as she quickly solved them and gave it back to Alex.

Alex raised her eyebrows and wrote more calculations, these were harder. Last one was the hardest and the most difficult type of calculation that is taught in junior year.

"You can use calculator if you like", Alex told her.

Piper just rolled her eyes and started to solve them.

Alex was amazed how quickly Piper could solve them and count big numbers without calculator.

Suddenly there was some girl group giggling behind Piper. Alex furrowed her eyebrows and was just going to ask them to be quiet when one of them spoke.

"I heard that the teachers made you to see tutor. I wasn't sure if it was true until now", one of the girls said and others laughed.

"And?" Piper said sounding bored. She hadn't even bothered to look up from the paper and continued to solve the problems.

"I'm glad that they finally decided to do something about your stupidity", the girl laughed.

Alex was ready to open her mouth and defend Piper, but she got first.

"I'd rather be stupid than a slut", Piper said casually, still doing the calculations.

"Bitch!" The girl hissed before she and her group left.

"What was that about?" Alex asked with wide eyes.

"Jessica and her minions. Don't mind them", Piper said as she gave the paper back to Alex.

Alex looked at Piper worriedly. She looked so accustomed to that, did it mean that it had continued long? "Are they always like that?"

"Like I said, don't mind them. Just go to next, I would like to get out of here someday", Piper said, sounding annoyed.

Alex quickly checked the paper and was surprised to find that Piper had gotten them all right, even the last one. "Okay you know these well... how about history then?"

"Ask away."

"What do you know about world war 2?"

"A lot."

"Can you name six commanders and their countries in it?" Alex asked.

Piper sighed. She really didn't even need to prove to anything to anyone. "For example, Truman in US, Hitler in Nazi Germany, Churchill in UK, Stalin in Soviet Union, Mussolini in Italy and Zedong in China."

"Well that was fast. When was it why it started?" Alex asked.

"It was 1939-1945", Piper said before talked with Alex about the reasons why it had started. There were many opinions and they created a good ten-minute conversation about it. Alex was surprised about Piper's knowledge about history. She knew always in which year something had happened and the names that were related to the topic.

"Okay you know lots about that too. I'm starting to believe in your knowledge, so I'm asking only one more topic. Chemistry", Alex said.

Piper nodded and was relieved that she could get out soon.

"You measure mass in...?"

"Grams."

"What do you know about Dalton's atomic theory?"

Piper leaned back on her chair as she thought about it. "That's interesting. I don't know very much else that Democritus first suggested the existence of the atom but it took almost two millennia before the atom was placed on a solid foothold as a fundamental chemical object by John Dalton. Dalton's atomic theory contained at least that in chemical reaction atoms are combined, separated, or rearranged, but never change into atoms of another element. He said also that atoms of the same element are identical, atoms of any element are different atom these of any other element. Though the last on is proved wrong because there are isotopes."

Alex raised her eyebrows. "That was quite a lot information from the girl who 'didn't know very much about it'."

Piper just smirked.

"Okay what is covalent bond?

"Chemical bonding between two non-metallic atoms which is characterized by the sharing of pairs of electrons between atoms and other covalent bonds."

"Jesus, I give up. You know like everything!" Alex said frustrated as she threw her hands into air.

Piper laughed. "I told you."

"Why?" Alex asked confused.

"I don't like people knowing me. Also, I don't need to prove to anyone that I'm smart. Expect you, but that was so I could get out of these sessions", Piper explained. She wasn't sure why she had even told that Alex. Usually she just told people to mind their own business.

"What are you going to do after high school then?"

Piper shrugged. "I don't know. Probably just work here and there."

"But you are smart. Why don't you go to college and then use your intelligence?"

"I'm perfectly happy working where I'm working now. I'll see you around", Piper said as she rose up. The real reason was that she didn't have enough money. And she didn't like people.

"Wait!" Alex said as she took her pen and wrote something on a paper. "Take my number. If you just happen to need help with something or... Just if you want to talk."

Piper looked at the paper suspiciously before took it. "Thanks." She had no intention to use it, but for some reason she kept it.

Piper was walking to the bookshop where she was working. She liked working there and she could just read when there weren't any customers. It had been couple of days when she last saw Alex. She didn't know why but Piper couldn't get her out of her mind. Today was a first test since she was ordered to see the tutor. It was about algebra. Piper was tempted to leave the paper empty but she had promised Alex to raise her grades. And Piper always kept her promises, though she almost never made them. She had solved the easiest and few little harder calculations in the test but didn't do the hardest because she still didn't want to teachers to know about her intelligence.

The owner of the book shop was Diane Vause. She had hired Piper about a year ago when Piper had moved to Litchfield. Piper liked Diane because she was kind and funny. Also, because Diane had become kind of mother figure to Piper since her own mother wasn't around anymore. Though Diane didn't know about that.

Piper stepped into the shop and immediately heard Diane's voice.

"Is it you Piper?"

"Yeah!"

"Could you give me a hand?"

Piper quickly put her bag behind the counter and went to the back room where Diane was.

Piper saw Diane behind some boxes and looked in one of them and realized that this was the new shipment.

"Could you start to put these to the selves?" Diane asked as she pointed the three boxes.

"Sure", Piper said as she lifted the boxes. She looked small but was actually pretty strong, so she piled the three boxes on top of each other and went to take them to the selves.

Piper didn't see behind the boxes but she remembered the shop by heart so she could navigate her way. However, Piper hadn't heard the customer that had walked in and walked straight onto her.

"Oh sorry!" The voice said and hands came to steady the shaking boxes.

Piper's eyes went wide behind the boxes. It was Alex, you couldn't mistake about that voice. Piper didn't want to reveal herself so she just thanked quietly before went behind the selves.

Piper started to put the books into the selves as she listened to where Alex was going.

"Ah, Alex!" Diane's voice said.

Piper furrowed her eyebrows. Why Diane knew Alex? It couldn't be that Alex was some regular customer because Piper hadn't seen her in the shop before.

"Hey mom."

Piper's eyes widened for the second time. It couldn't be. Diane was Alex's mother? Though now when she thought about it, they looked pretty similar. But still!

"Did the shipment come?" Alex asked.

"Oh yes. I have the book right here..."

Piper heard how Diane walked behind the counter and took something. "Here."

"Yes, this is the one. Thanks!"

"No problem."

"How has it been with the girl you are tutoring?" Diane asked.

Piper was listening carefully. Alex had talked about her with her mother? Hadn't they realized that Alex was tutoring Diane's employee? And what had Alex told about her?

"Pretty much same. I haven't seen her since our last session."

"Have you heard about her grades?"

"No, but today she had exam about algebra. So, I guess I'll find out soon."

"We'll hope the best."

"Yeah. I'm going to go now. See you at home!"

"Bye!"

Piper kept unloading the boxes but couldn't stop thinking about Alex and Diane. Would Diane mind that she didn't try in the school? I mean surely not, because it didn't affect to her work, right? But what about Alex. Would Diane be mad that she didn't see Alex and she was kind of bitchy to her?

"Piper!"

Piper jumped as she heard Diane's voice behind her. "What?"

"Did you see Alex? She is my daughter, she came back to town a while ago. You would probably like her", Diane chatted happily.

"Oh, I didn't see her."

"She lived in Hartford for a while because of her part time job, but now she moved back and she is trying to get money so she could apply to college", Diane continued.

Ahh, so that's why she needs the money, Pipet thought.

"She is a little like you. You know, likes to read and knows about everything. You two should meet someday!"

Piper faked a smile. That would be awkward. "Yeah..."

Thank you for reading! Please let me know what you thought about it and what you would like to happen! I'm trying to post soon again :)

-Iina