Here's chapter 4, a longgggg one for you! Glad you guys are enjoying it. Let me know how you think this is going!

Chapter 4 - Destined for Prison

It was Monday morning, Piper and Polly walked to college together as they did every day, unless they had different lecture times, although Piper often just used free time to study anyway. She couldn't stop thinking about Friday night, how Alex Vause had so easily crashed her way into Piper's life, literally. Her face, along with her deep husky voice had stayed in Piper's head all weekend. How can someone that she'd only just started talking to already have such an impact on her? It didn't matter, all Piper knew was that she was glad Alex had nearly knocked her out at that party.

As they walked up the stairs to their lectures, Polly's chatting was just background noise as Piper remembered their conversation before Alex had disappeared on Friday night. The words they had shared stuck in her mind like glue. As much as she wanted to desperately tell Polly about it who was ranting on about something dumb Pete had done, she decided to keep quiet because mentioning Alex to her friends would be risky in case her family somehow found out. Plus, she also knew Polly would give her a long, annoying lecture, she had already made her opinion on Alex clear. The other thing that went through Piper's mind over the weekend was the fact that she had never been so attracted to a woman before and didn't even know if Alex would think of her in that way. But oh, how she was wrong.

Alex had tried so hard at the beginning of the college year to avoid and ignore Piper Chapman. From what her family always told her, Piper was part of a waspy, yuppie, upper class white-picket-fence-lifestyle of a family. The very opposite to her own. She had imagined Piper as someone who would always get whatever she wanted from her well respected businessman father and her snobby socialite mother. Every day she had walked to her locker which was just by Piper's, she avoided any eye contact and just put her head down. But none of this meant she didn't find Piper incredibly and frustratingly beautiful. The day Piper had dropped that spoon, and had sat with her in the library, Alex thought it would still be easy to avoid her. But on the night of the party, she happened to fall into Piper after being pushed. After looking into those blue eyes, something told Alex she wouldn't be able to keep away any longer.

'I mean why does it have to be the straight, goody goody girl from an asshole family?' She had asked Nicky that night.

'It's always the ones you can't and shouldn't have.' Nicky had replied.

When they had talked at the party, she discovered that Piper was not at all how she had expected. She was different. She wasn't like her stuck up family, she wasn't the way Alex's uncle and mother had always assumed she would be.

'How is she any different?'

'She just is, okay.'

'Whatever you say Alex. Just don't catch feelings. I don't want you to get yourself hurt, okay.'

Alex laughed sheepishly, pretending she wasn't all that bothered. 'Pfft, me? Get feelings for a straight girl? For a Chapman? You've gotta be kidding.'

'Right, exactly!' Nicky patted her on the back and looked around the corridor, soon to be filled with students. 'I'm gonna skip my second lecture and head out for an ice cream with Lorna and Daya. You in?'

'No, I've got to do this assignment.' Alex held up her English folders.

'Vause, lifes too short to-'

'No I really need to get it done, I've got so much of it left to write and it's due in tomorrow. As tempting as a double chocolate sundae sounds. Sorry Nick.'

Nicky held up her hands jokingly. 'Okay okay, your loss, boss. See ya later on. Ay, give me a buzz when you're free.'

Alex chuckled and nodded, rolling her eyes as she walked off towards the library.

Alex sat at a computer, reading the same line she had just typed over and over again, biting her pen, looking back and forth from the screen to her notes. She felt a tap on her shoulder and she turned, no one there.

'Hey!' A familiar voice made her jump, and she turned the other way. Piper. As usual, Alex was mesmerised by her looks, the way she curved those amazing lips into a cute little smile, the way her face lit up, it made Alex feel a weird sensation she had never felt before.

'Hey yourself.'

Piper had plucked up the courage to speak to Alex for once, seeing as any contact had so far been initiated by the brunette. She was worried maybe Alex wouldn't want to talk to her, but what did she have to lose.

'You disappeared on me Friday.'

Alex squinted her eyes behind her glasses, unsure how to reply. 'I did.'

'What are you, like the disappearing woman now?'

Alex smiled, pushing her glasses to the top of her head. 'That's a terrible comparison.'

They laughed and Piper sat down next to her.

After an hour of not much work being done at all, only chatting, Alex and Piper were both so sure in their minds that they were different. They weren't Vause and Chapman, they were just Piper and Alex. And to them it made perfect sense.

'Man. I haven't done any work. I really need to get this assignment done.'

'Trying to get rid of me are you?' Piper teased.

'Haha, as if. I could talk to you all day and night.' Piper's smile dropped, mirroring Alex's expression, the butterflies in her stomach fluttering faster.

'Do you wanna meet here again? Tomorrow. You know, if you have any studying to do, which I'm guessing you do cause you always seem to be studying.'

'I-I would love to. Yeah.' Piper blushed and looked down at her book that she hadn't read a word of since she arrived. Alex was too much of a distraction. But she loved it.

'It seems to be the only time we can actually have a conversation without someone judging us. I'm not sure about your friends but, mine think you are kinda...'above' them.' She laughed quietly. 'And obviously, my mom and uncle wouldn't be too happy at all.'

'I'm sorry your friends feel that way.' Piper smiled, looking up from her book she wasn't reading.

'Piper!' Alex pushed her slightly, laughing. 'You know what I mean.'

'No, I know what you mean. My friends are the same, they don't know you. Neither do my family. They just think you're all the same.' She fiddled with her pen in her hands, and Alex put her hand on Piper's shoulder.

'Hey. It's all good. We'll be fine, we just gotta meet here every Monday and Wednesday. I would say Friday but you know that's my party night.' She smirked.

'Okay, okay. Every Monday and Wednesday. Piper and Alex study day.' She said enthusiastically, holding her hand out for a high five, which Alex complied with, giggling at her.

'Nothing like a bit of hard work.' She pointed at the computer screen, two lines typed out. They both laughed in sync, because all of a sudden their work didn't seem to matter.

Piper was so happy. Now she had the chance to spend time with Alex and no one would know, it was their little secret. The library became their place, where they could both escape from their lives for a few hours, and just spend time with each other. From then on, during lunch time and in between periods, Alex would walk past with her friends and briefly glance at Piper with that raised eyebrow thing she did, who would look straight back, but neither pretended they had acknowledged each other, only smiling to themselves when the short eye contact was broken. Their friend groups never even noticed, and it was actually exciting for Piper to be so secretive for once. To have something that no one else shared.

It was dinner time at the Chapman's, and not much conversation was there as usual. Just the sound of knives and forks clinking, and of Cal loudly chewing his food.

'Pass the gravy would you Cal?' Piper's Dad asked, her brother1 cooperated without speaking, knowing he would get in trouble if he spoke with his mouth open.

'How was your day darling? Did you get the car fixed?' Piper's mom asked.

Her dad went quiet and swallowed his food, pausing for a moment as if thinking of what to say. 'I had to take it to the Vause garage.'

Piper froze at the name her dad had just mentioned, but didn't look up from her food in case it showed on her face.

'You took it to the Vause garage?!' Piper's mom emphasised the name as if it was a bad word, her voice slightly raised.

'Our usual garage in town was closed. I had no choice. I didn't want to, believe me. I'm not sure if I even trust that man with our car.'

'Oh Bill.'

'And what's worse, he actually had the nerve to charge me a ridiculous price for it! I refused to pay that. I said, if he thinks he's going to charge me that to get my car fixed at that garage, he's got another thing coming. So I took the car. I wasn't going to give that man a single cent.'

'Oh you didn't have another argument did you? You know he isn't worth it!'

'He just gets to me, you know! He thinks that just because he owns that damn cheap garage that he can charge what he likes.'

'Well I'm just glad he didn't get the chance to damage the car.'

'If he did that he would have a damn lawsuit on his hands! Besides, I threatened to tell everyone how awful his garage is and get it closed down.' He chuckled, serving himself another slice of beef. Piper felt anger brewing up inside her. She didn't want to hear anyone speak about the Vause family anymore. She thought of changing the subject, but her mom cut in.

'Good. He's a Vause. Something always gets damaged when that family is involved.'

'Then again, I suppose they need all the money they can get, none of that lot have worked hard enough to get a decent job.' Her dad laughed to himself again. Piper clenched her fists round her knife and fork and glared at her dad.

'True. I mean, Diane works at that diner, I would hate to know how little she earns. It's sad really, like a poverty cycle. Her mom used to work there, too. And her child will be serving burger and fries to our children and theirs, and so on.' Piper's mom took a smug sip of her red wine.

'It's because they spend their time in and out of prison cells rather than actually focusing on their work. It's dreadful.'

That was it. Piper couldn't take anymore of the shit coming out their mouths, and she snapped. 'Alex is actually doing English literature at college. She's really clever. I don't think she will be serving me burger and fries.' She almost regretted what she said, quickly taking another mouthful of meat so she didn't turn her defensive words into a speech about how amazing and intellectual Alex was.

Her parents went silent. Her dad wiped his mouth with a napkin.

'And how do you know what she does, Piper?' He put his elbows on the table and clasped his hands together, staring at her.

Piper shrugged. 'Just do.' She looked down.

'I hope you haven't been talking to her. That girl is trouble. Just as bad as her Uncle.'

'Right. The thousandth time I've heard that, dad.'

'Piper!' Her mom spat. 'Don't be rude. You don't ever speak to that girl. She's destined for prison that one.'

'How?! How is she destined for prison, if she is getting exactly the same grades as me at college?'

'It won't last long. She'll drop out. Just like every Vause fails at everything, and gives up. You are the one who is hard working Piper. You are the one who will have a successful career and a good income. While she spends her life working in a diner and getting into trouble with the cops.'

Piper threw down her knife and fork, her anger outburst shocking everyone at the table. 'God! You don't even know her, Dad! You're just being cruel. Just because her uncle and mom don't have the best jobs doesn't mean she will be the same. Just because your whole family have had some stupid, pathetic feud with theirs and she happens to be a Vause does not mean that she is a bad person! I'm sick of this!' She was shouting now, not realising how defensive she was being of Alex. But she knew her, and her parents didn't. They all glared at her and Cal's mouth dropped, looking at Piper awkwardly, clearly wanting to leave.

'Woah. Way to make things awkward Pipes. Um, can I leave the table now?'

Her parents both ignored her brother, eyes burning into hers. Her dad pointed a finger at her. 'Listen to me young lady. You are never to speak of her again. She is a bad influence. You are not to go near her. Do you hear me? If I ever see you with her, if I so much as hear her name in this house again, all hell will break loose. And you will never set foot out of this house.'

Piper shrugged, and he slammed his fist down, causing the cutlery and plates to rattle, even causing her mother to jump. 'Do you hear me!' He yelled, face turning red.

'Yes!' Piper sunk into her chair. She hated it when her dad lost his temper, and talk of the Vause family really made it worse.

'Good.' He relaxed then, as if nothing had happened, and took a sip of his wine.

The holidays were fast approaching, and that meant no college library sessions with Alex. How was she supposed to see her outside of college? Now that her parents had specifically warned her about even mentioning her name? She decided the best thing was to tell Alex when she next sees her, decide together what they would do. But on Monday, Piper sat in their usual space in the library for a good hour, and Alex didn't turn up. She gave one last attempt at calling her, but it went straight to voicemail for the 10th time. She sighed. Maybe she's just forgotten.

Didn't they tell us don't rush into things?

Didn't you flash your green eyes at me?

Haven't you heard what becomes of curious minds?

Piper paused her ipod, the lyrics of a Taylor Swift song somehow reminding her of Alex. She stood up and left, a thousand thoughts whirling around her head about why Alex wouldn't turn up like this.

It didn't take Piper long to notice that Alex was avoiding her. She was a no show again on Wednesday, didn't reply to her texts, and completely blanked her when they walked past each other in the corridors, without even a smile, and it left Piper lost for words. Why was she doing this? It hurt Piper so much to be ignored by the one person she constantly craved attention from. She didn't know why but she had never wanted to spend time with anyone more than she did with Alex Vause.

It was Thursday afternoon, and Piper had just come out of a boring, tiring lecture when she saw the back of Alex, recognizing her biker jacket and the way she walked. She was walking alone, so Piper saw it as the perfect opportunity to confront her and so followed her into the girls bathroom where she was headed. It was empty, and Alex stood in front of the sink, applying eye liner in the mirror. Piper looked around to double check the room was empty, and stood behind Alex. Alex paused, looked in the mirror, seeing Piper behind her. But she didn't say anything, just threw her makeup back into her bag and slung it over her shoulder, turning to leave.

'Hey!' Piper grabbed her shoulder, causing her to whip around. She frowned.

'What?' She said this with such sullen expression and Piper felt her heart wrench.

'Why are you avoiding me? Why haven't you been answering my calls or coming to our study sessions?'

'Jesus, Pipes.' Alex looked around, then down at the floor. She had nothing to say. More that she didn't want to say it.

'Huh? Jesus what?!' Piper felt her eyes about to fill with tears, but forced them to stay there.

'Your family. Your dad is an asshole. He threatened my Uncle Jack, who is my favourite person in the entire world and is usually so happy, but I have never seen him so worried before. He's scared he'll lose the garage, because of your fucking dad.' She snapped.

'I'm sorry. I'm really sorry Alex. I didn't know he would do that and when he said it I was so angry, we had a fight about it. I just...'

Alex shoved Piper against the wall, whose eyes widened in shock. She opened her mouth to start shouting at Alex, when the brunette took a step towards her and stopped it with her own mouth. Her lips were warm and soft, as they shared a strong and passionate kiss. Fireworks. Their whole bodies tingling, stomachs jumping and hearts racing. Alex held Piper's head between her hands firmly as they kissed. Just her touch was intoxicating. Then, realising anyone could walk in and see them, They pulled apart reluctantly, both of them taking a breath which they had forgotten about during the kiss.

'That's why I've been avoiding you.'

'Alex...'

'Look, I know. You're straight, and I have feelings for you, way too much, and you're a Chapman, and-'

Piper tugged Alex's Jacket back in for another kiss, taking her by surprise.

After a few moments, Alex pulled away. 'Wow, that was unexpected.' She smirked, looking around and lowering her voice to a whisper, in case someone were to walk in. Her face was serious again.

'Piper, My mom and uncle were really mad with your parents. Your dad has the potential to take away my uncle's job from him. To destroy his life. He has power, and my uncle doesn't. This is serious, this feud they have going on. I'm supposed to hate you.' She smiles again at the last sentence, taking Piper's hand, who is looking into her green eyes. She knew she could never hate those innocent blue eyes.

'I know. I know. I hate how we're involved in this. I just wish that we could stay the way we are forever, without anyone giving a shit.' Piper looked down then, tangling her fingers with Alex's. 'I want to be with you, you know. In that way. I've never felt about anyone like this.'

Alex pushed Piper's hair from her face, smiling. 'You don't know how amazing it is to hear you say that. Because I feel exactly the same. You make me crazy.' She half laughed. 'But Pipes, we can't really be together. Not like this.'

'I know.' Piper whispered, the words barely audible as a tear ran down her cheek.

Alex let go of Piper's hand, feeling her eyes watering up too. She felt a pain in her chest, seeing Piper cry. She wiped Piper's tear with her sleeve, and caressed her soft cheek.

She then turned her back on Piper, ready to leave, not wanting to endure the pain she was feeling any longer. They had agreed they couldn't be together, so now Alex needed to get away from college, to clear her head.

As she stepped towards the door, Piper grabbed her shoulder, not wanting her out of sight, not wanting to lose the one thing she thought about all the time.

'I don't care. I don't care about any of them. About any of it. Please. Just kiss me.'

And Alex did exactly that.

I kind of wrote this all in one go, so not sure if it's as good as my other chapters, but I wanted to update it for you guys. Review & let me know if you like it, would be cool to hear your thoughts/ideas :)

The lyrics are from 'Wonderland' on Taylor Swift's new album 1989. Thanks for the reviews, follows & favourites guys! H xo