What Is Crime?

The pink-haired girl looked at the woman standing in front of the class wearing black pants and white shirt, her blazer vest now hanging on the chair behind the desk. She was looking at everyone in the room, probably wondering who she would ask a question right from the beginning and crossed the girl's gaze but didn't stop on her at all before coming back, raising an eyebrow at the hair color while the girl was simply looking back before her teacher looked at someone else with amusement.

"Alright, you, what is crime?" The pink-haired girl watched a man standing up, shaking from head to toe at the sudden question while his face was turning red from embarrassment and started to talk with difficulty. The girl looked at the teacher again, watching her coming closer to him and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Breathe; I'm not goin' to eat ya. Yet." The girl chuckled discreetly, looking at the different people in the room doing the exact same thing before another person was pointed by the tanned finger.

"Paul Tappan defined crime as "an intentional act in violation of the criminal law committed without defense or excuse, and penalized by the state"" the brunette who had spoken, wearing a white tank top to show off her tattoos going all over her arms smiled at the teacher, but quickly opened her mouth in shock as she received a striking response.

"Ya can read, impressive. I asked your own opinion, not the one in the book. So, ya are all goin' to take a piece of paper and right a two-hundred paper explainin' me what ya think it is." The pink-haired girl cleared her throat and quickly grabbed a paper and pen before lifting her head up again. "And don't forget your names, yeah?" the girl wrote her name directly on the top of the page, Lightning appearing in a beautiful handwriting before staring at the piece of paper, the pen now hanging in her mouth.

She cracked her knuckles roughly before beginning to write, unsure if it would actually please her teacher or make her want to eat her, but since she had been working in the Law Enforcement, crime was something she had been used to see. Of course, stealing or murders weren't the only type of crime existing nowadays, since smoking in a bus or simply running the stop sign was considered as crime, the word taking another proportion. As the pen was firmly in her left hand, watching the different people in the room writing like crazy people wondering why they were all so stressed out and looked at her blank paper again. The pen began to twirl in her hand, passing from the fore to middle finger, ending between her thumb and forefinger the next second, looking at it doing this brilliant dance she had always loved before placing it back in front of her and grabbed her thermos to fill the small cup again. She brought it to her lips and locked eyes with her teacher, the woman obviously wondering what she was doing and they both broke the eye contact, Lightning focusing on her paper again. She grabbed her pen and placed the top of it on her paper, and began to write.

"Alright, drop your pens and place the papers in the air, then, bring 'em to me." Lightning stood up, firmly holding the piece of paper in her hand and went down the small stairs, watching a mass of people rushing to be the first ones to give it back while she simply put it on the desk with a nonchalant manner and went back to her seat with a sly grin on her face. She had no idea what to expect at the next class the next day, but knew that her answer wouldn't be forgotten any time soon. She grabbed her laptop back from her bag and placed it in front of her before watching a power point starting, every one sitting back on their seats, and waiting for the power-point to begin. The first picture was the atomic bomb, followed by abortion, murder, stealing and numerous pictures describing different sorts of crimes, the teacher not saying a single word while they were flashing in front of everyone's eyes. "Crime is a product of social excess, it pays or they'd be no crime. The only thing not considered as crime is stupidity." Lightning chuckled, listening to the girl's accent rushing in her ears softly while she was looking at every student carefully. "Crime is many things and no things at all. Different people, of different religion will have a different way of seeing the term that never received the same definition durin' the years."

As a hand rose in the air, Lightning turned her attention to the girl who had changed seats and already thought that this girl was called a know-at-all, the type of girl she hated and was glad to have turned down, but couldn't wait to listen to the question.

"What is stupidity for you Miss?" Lightning focused her attention back to the teacher, watching her left eyebrow rising as she was leaning on the desk behind her. She noticed that she was carefully looking at the girl, a sly grin reaching her lips slowly.

"What is your name?" – "Jessica." The teacher smiled, quickly going towards the papers and looked through them all while Lightning was observing her carefully, watching a single paper appearing in her hand.

"To ya, I quote, "When ya think of crime and criminals, ya probably think of the dangerous lookin' characters ya see played on television or in the movies. But there are lawbreakers like these in real life, too, and ya read about their crimes every week in the newspaper." Is that correct Jessica?" Lightning scratched her forehead, wondering how the girl could've actually written this and looked at her with pity before looking at her teacher again.

"Yes, that is correct." Lightning cleared her throat, noticing that every student was looking at Jessica with a sad and broken smile while she could only smirk right in her face.

"Then stupidity is a perfect example of what ya have written. Useless and never endin'." The girl decomposed herself on her seat before ducking her head to stare at the ground, shaken by what the teacher had told her while Lightning was smiling in amusement. This teacher was gold, and she couldn't wait to spend the half of the year in her class. "Good, any other questions or can we move on?" As no one raised a hand, Lightning touched her keypad, watching her computer turning on again, while the teacher was placing the paper back on the pile, looking at Jessica with a raised eyebrow. "Crime is your focus this semester, ya want to pass? Then listen carefully to everythin', or ya'll be gone for good. I'm goin' to make a paper circle around the room with your names, simply sign next to it. Ya miss one class? Ya are out."

The bell rang through the entire university, letting the students know the class was ending and that they were allowed to leave. Lightning grabbed her bag back and placed the thermos and laptop in it before taking her scarf to place it around her neck tightly, the cold being too much for her to handle at this time of year and slowly stood up. She looked at the people going up the stairs, quickly spotting the girl with a tank-top who was smiling at her, taking the opportunity to smile back before placing her white knit-cap on top of her head. She began to move, turning one last time around to look at the teacher talking with Jessica, noticing the space between the two women and shook her head in amusement before leaving the classroom.

She walked slowly in the hallway, listening to glimpses of conversations between students from her class before feeling a girl coming next to her and looked to her right to watch the tattooed girl.

"Hi, I'm Alexis and you were probably the most interesting person in the classroom." Lightning raised an eyebrow, wondering how this Alexis could even know if she was interesting or not, waiting for a logical explanation to her conclusion. "You were the only one not to look at the girl with sadness."

"Yeah, she pissed me off right before actually." The girl with brown and short hair laughed before focusing her blue eyes in Lightning's blue one's looking at her hair with great care.

"Love the color. Anyway, there's a party for the new incomers tonight, don't miss it, I'll be looking for you." As Lightning opened her mouth to protest, the girl was already gone in the opposite direction. She frowned but opened the front doors in a hurry, quickly heading towards her car while the snow was getting heavier and quickly entered it. She placed her bag on the passenger seat, looking at the black motorcycle parked next to her car before looking in the rear-view mirror in order to go into reverse and quickly left the parking to go back to her apartment. She stopped at the red light, watching the different students quickly heading towards a bar to get away from the snow and pressed on the pedal as the light turned green, hopping to be home in a few moments, the weather already killing her.

"The fucking weather is a crime." Lightning raised an eyebrow as her phone started to ring and pressed on her wheel to answer it right away.

"Sis! It's Serah! The pink-haired girl smiled at the sound of her sister's voice, quickly turning right to join East Harlem where she was leaving on the top floor of a building under the roof.

"Serah, how are you?" – "No, you first! How was school after more than 3 years?" Lightning chuckled before stopping at yet another red light.

"It was nice, the teacher is fun. But it's kinda weird to go back to school at 26." As the light changed colors, the pink-haired girl accelerated, quickly spotting her building and parked in front of it in a hurry, not wanting to go any further away. She took her seatbelt off and grabbed her phone before turning the engine off and made her way towards the front door to unlock it and was inside the building the next second. She shivered and quickly pressed on the elevator button while her sister was talking her ear off about a work she had found while Snow, the hated boyfriend, was still searching for one in the 5th Avenue. "Alright, keep me posted then. I have to go Serah, I'm going home right now." The girl's sister agreed and quickly wished her a good evening before hanging up the phone who reached the pocket the next second.

As the elevator bell rang, Lightning made her way out and walked the last flight of stairs before reaching her door and was inside the apartment the next second. She was skeptical at first, since buying a flat under a roof wasn't something she actually enjoyed but she managed to turn the place in something nice. She had three enormous paintings of an artist she loved, the three representing Mickey Mouse, James Bond and Wonder Woman hanging on different walls in the living room that was filled with a leather grey couch and two arm chairs, a little glass table in front of them. Near the kitchen was a big table with four wooden chairs and the bedroom was filled with pictures, papers and books, the queen sized bed facing a big TV screen hanging on the wall.

She directly placed her bag on the couch but made her way towards the kitchen at first in order to grab a fresh beer quickly placed on her lips before going back to the sofa and crashed on it. She grabbed her laptop and went on her mailbox, checking any incoming e-mails with possible assignments from her teacher before browsing the net, desperately trying to find something to do and went on the University Facebook page, spotting the meeting place for the party and raised an eyebrow as she was seriously considering going to it. "Just tonight." She sighed heavily and rubbed her entire face with the palm of her hands before heading towards the bathroom to clean herself up in order to be ready for the party.

She was already at the bar, ordering an Long-Island Ice Tea to the bartender, quickly receiving it and sat back down at the counter to place the straws between her lips, sucking the mix of different alcohols in it and gasped in relief. She turned around on her seat, watching a lot of students chatting casually, hitting on each other or kissing for some when a familiar figure came towards her with a big smile. Lightning scanned the body carefully, watching another tank-top and some tight jeans along with sneakers before locking eyes with her again.

"Hey stranger, see you already have a drink so the next one's on me." Lightning smiled and shook her head before turning back around to face the counter as the girl was sitting next to her, urging the bartender to give her a vodka-lemon before looking at her again. "What's your name by the way?"

"Lightning." The brunette raised an eyebrow in surprise before nodding in approval, grabbing her glass firmly in her right hand and placed it front of Lightning, waiting for her to click their glasses together.

"Nice to meet you, Lightning." – "You too, Alexis." The two girls clicked their drinks and took a mouthful from them, Lightning shaking her head right after since the drink was getting stringer every time she was taking a sip and smiled at the brunette, a smile that was quickly returned.

"I've never seen you here before, are you new? And where from?" the pink-haired girl placed her drink back on the counter and scratched her head, not really knowing where she was supposed to start with her story.

"Uh yeah, I'm from Los Angeles. I dropped out of school three years ago to work at the LAPD. Criminology is the only missing thing to get my full diploma." The brunette opened wide eyes at the discovery, grabbing her drink again to take another mouthful and locked eyes with Lightning again, the pink-haired girl clearing her throat in embarrassment.

"Wow, I didn't expect that! That's cool; you must have a lot of knowledge and everything." Lightning chuckled and shook her head, explaining that the only crimes she had seen was murders and stealing, nothing really relevant for the class they were following. "Yeah, but even still. I knew you were special."

"What about you, Alexis?" The pink-haired girl listened to the girl talking, quickly spotting the pierced tongue, telling her that she was born in Canada, Vancouver and had moved here two years ago. She was 24 years old and was working as a bouncer on week-ends in a club in the 5th avenue. "I see, so pretty impressive resume too."

"Ha, I wish!" the brunette winked at Lightning before the two women placed their drinks to their lips, the older one feeling heat coming to her cheeks with the amount of alcohol and warmth inside the place and slightly moved her t-shirt to let some air reaching her breasts. "I'm going out for a smoke, want to join me?" Lightning nodded and quickly finished her drink before following the girl outside, gasping in pleasure as the ice-cold air touched her face. She placed a cigarette between her lips and quickly lighted it before looking at Alexis again, the girl giving her a cajoling smile and blowing her smoke on the left side. "I'm not going to lie to you Lightning. You're pretty hot, and I wouldn't mind going somewhere more private with you."

Lightning coughed and took a few steps back to calm her breathing down before looking at the girl again. She raised an eyebrow and took a deep breath before coming closer to her, looking deep inside her blue eyes and wondered what to do next. Not that she was a virgin, but the idea of sex wasn't something that she ever found enticing, probably because the last women she had sex with were her ex-girlfriends, two idiots that had dumped her because of stupid reasons. But this time it was different, it was a girl she barely knew, pretty and nice, something she had never tried and who had a pierced tongue. "Uh, I live nearby, we just have to take a cab." Lightning saw the girl winking before she placed herself closer to the road and raised a hand at an incoming cab. The pink-haired girl looked at her almost untouched cigarette and shrugged before throwing it on the pavement and quickly got inside the cab, giving her address to the driver before feeling lips crashing on hers roughly. She let the brunette grabbing her upper lip, feeling the tongue licking her teeth before a hand made her way under the t-shirt to reach the bra and a finger quickly grabbing the nipple. "Slow down tiger."

The brunette chuckled and moved away but was still mentally undressing Lightning, the pink-haired girl quickly noticing it as she saw the lust in Alexis's eyes. As the car stopped, the pink-haired girl paid the bill and was out of the cab the next second, the keys already inside the lock to open the door. She pressed on the elevator button and rushed inside, Alexis being on her lips again as she pressed on the button and placed a hand behind the brunette's neck to bring her even closer to her. They were both beginning to breathe louder and faster, the two women impatient to be finally inside the apartment and rushed up the stairs as the elevator opened its doors. Lightning quickly placed the key inside the lock and felt being turned around as she entered the apartment, letting her jacket being quickly taken away along with her shirt and didn't hesitate to give the girl the same treatment. As they were both almost topless, Alexis looked at the flat and smiled before coming closer to Lightning's ear. "Where?"

Lightning smirked and grabbed the girl's hand to take her inside the bedroom, the two of them crashing on the soft bed while kissing savagely, their lips never separating as the bras were being taken off and the pants yanked on the ground. Lightning looked at the naked body under her and smirked even more as she placed her mouth on top of the pierced nipple, the cold metal touching her teeth and tongue, her left hand grabbing the second one to make the girl releasing a deep moan of pleasure, a hand grabbing her own breast at the same time. The pink-haired girl closed her eyes in pleasure and slightly opened her mouth before being pushed away to land on her back, Alexis now making the decisions.

"Me first, Lightning." Lightning chuckled before feeling a tongue on her lips again, the tongue slowly descending towards the necks to reach the nipple, a finger slowly continuing the way down. She gasped as she felt it on her clit, moving up and down slowly and brought the girls mouth closer to her lips, their tongues intertwining in the middle before moaning in pleasure as the finger slammed inside her wet crotch to go in and out slowly and then more roughly. She was moving her body at the same time, her eyes still deeply closed from the pleasure she was experiencing. "Can I do something for you?"

"Don't stop. And more." Lightning listened to the girl chuckling before feeling a second finger going inside of her roughly, the two fingers releasing a humid sound every time they were slamming back inside her body, her mouth opening more and more at every penetration, and her breath getting heavier at every kiss. "Get down."

"Down? Like down the stairs?" Lightning snapped open her eyes as the movements stopped all together and glared at the brunette for the awful move she had just made. "Oh, look who's angry."

"I am, and get down on my body to lick me." Alexis smirked and Lightning felt the fingers slamming inside her body again, moaning even louder than before, feeling the girl going further down on her body, already anticipating the cold contact of the piercing between her legs and wasn't disappointed as the two touched. She gasped in surprise at first before placing a hand on the top of the girl's head, urging her not to stop anything she was doing. "Fuck."

"Beg your pardon?" Lightning growled in anger as the tongue stopped, biting her lip as it started again. She felt the fingers slamming in and out again faster than before while the tongue was going up and down on her clit, the piercing touching it every time, her eyes closing again in lust. She placed her hands on her face to stop her moaning to become so loud but couldn't help her body from leaving the mattress as she finally reached orgasm, the fingers and tongue never stopping what they were doing. She released a deep, loud throaty moan resonating in the entire apartment before letting her back touching the sheets again, the girl slowly coming back towards her to give her a big kiss. Lightning opened her eyes and looked at Alexis with lust before falling down on her back.

"I'm in control now." Lightning smirked viciously before crashing her lips against Alexis's, tasting herself in the process and placed a hand between the woman's legs, ready for the second round and waiting for a possible knock-out during the long night ahead of them.