Chapter 9: Roommate Rejection.
"So why don't you swing by my place for a drink to celebrate your incredible breakthrough in pioneering the field of true artificial intelligence in five minutes with a killer hangover?" Alex offered as she beamed at Piper. "I will make tonight dedicated to you and the epic awesomeness of your true genius before you let your machine turn us all into human batteries."
"Sure, that sounds like fantastic; not the matrix part, but the getting more wasted part sure does" Piper managed to reply.
She was truly ecstatic but couldn't bring herself to face Alex's inevitable rejection. She couldn't help but blush as thought of what a night with Alex would be like flickered through her mind. Alex was really strong and looked like she'd know how to pleasure her body in all sorts of delicious ways.
But why was she kidding herself? Alex wasn't into her and that truth was more than obvious. Still another perusal of Alex's excellent choice in champagne could never hurt, right?
It was a gorgeous, early autumn afternoon, full of nothing but sunshine and other students, making their way between classes and hang out spots in the cheerful weather. All way well.
"Well I have to admit your classes did seem a lot better than what I'm taking," Piper said as she tried to change the subject. "That is I assume they are."
"Well they are more fun after all, I mean where else are you going to go and learn to make new life with a new coding language?"
"Yeah, or where else are you going to learn about the process of trading derivatives and commodity options with capital you don't actually possess?" Piper countered coldly.
Fuck, where had that come from? Why did she have to keep harping on this if she wanted Alex so badly, Piper's subconscious screamed. What an idiot!
"Hey, that class is extremely fun, and not… oh what was it you so eloquently called it? Oh yeah, a humdrum zone of eternal boredom that train wrecks the world wide economy.
Piper blushed deeply again, she didn't usually have a talent with words, but Alex made that different, some how.
"Hey, you have to admit I do have a point," Piper countered as they walked on.
No, no I don't. Besides capitalism is a force of pure tantalizing, and tenacious awesomeness, that deep down you know you love," Alex teased.
Oh deep down Piper knew exactly what she wanted, and it wasn't a lecture on capitalism. Fuck, what was the matter with her, why was she so infatuated?
"I believe the T words you meant were actually tortuous, tedious, and terrible."
"Just stop taking every opportunity you have to slam capitalism in the face," Alex objected.
"I don't know if I can help it. I am a mean fister after all."
An awkward, confused look crossed Alex's face and Piper gasped involuntarily as she realized what she'd just said.
Holy shit, God damn it to fucking protestant hell, did she just say that. Oh well that's what she got with loose lips and tight hips.
"I mean whatever you say Scrooge," Piper retorted as she turned the corner and was relieved to arrive at her dorm building, hoping to change the conversation.
"So you live here?" Alex inquired with slight distaste.
"Yep. I'm going to go grab a few things, then we can head to your place if that's cool with you?" Piper stammered nervously.
"Whatever you say there mean fister," Alex smiled smugly.
Piper's face went bright red. But hold the phone, was Alex into her after all? No, she was just making a joke out of her, but she was at least looking like a quality friend, but sadly lacking the benefits Piper really wanted. Oh well, she could handle it and probably anything now that she created artificial intelligence and all.
Once again she was wrong about being able to handle anything. As Piper crossed the threshold of her dorm she was blinded with even more noxious chemicals than ever before. Her throat clenched as her head spun, barely allowing her to stay upright. Alex's gasps for air behind her signaled at least she wasn't alone.
"Well look the fuck who showed up, but somehow not in class today," her roommate coed as they gagged uncontrollably.
Piper pulled her shirt over her mouth and glared back towards her roommate. There were 5 other popular looking latina bitches in the room doing their nails and texting away on their phones, looking like the classy rich girls Piper despised and feared the most; They all laughed at Piper as they joined in criticising her hair and clothes. Clearly her roommate was their leader, but Piper couldn't do much more than try to not pass out from the sheer magnitude of the perfume with the stinging tears, part chemical, mostly emotion.
"So what, you swing by to steal the answers from someone who actually showed up for the first day of class? Well that's not the way I do business at all bitch," She continued.
Wow, cool you went to class as a med student, even though the carcinogen content of this air is more cancerous than a fucking brain tomber, Piper wanted to say, but she was frozen in the moment, unable to speak or move. She tried to scream, to lash out, to make her body respond, but it refused to followed her commands as her heart rate shot up.
"Well, let me just be the one to say fuck you too bitch," her roommate spat as she glided with ease to her feet.
"You've got no clue who you're dealing with here. I've got a powerful family, but I don't need them to fight my battle for me. So if you don't want me to gauge your eyes out I suggest you be kinder to your loving roommate and go make yourself useful and wash our cars with those rags you call clothes. You can do what a lowlife wench like you was made to do, manual fucking labor," she laughed and the others joined in.
Piper's rage boiled up and she was really close to murdering the bitch with her bare hands, but Alex put a hand on her shoulder and stepped forward between them.
"You know you should shut the fuck up you mengy slut before you end up studying medicine in the hospital where you're breathing through a straw after I curb stomp your ugly ass," she leered.
Piper looked at Alex in utter shock. Her tone was gravely and menacing, not at all like what Piper knew her to be like.
Thumb, thumb, thumb, thumb, her heart beat on.
"Oh is that so?" her roommate growled. "Maybe you failed to see through those thick glasses of yours that you ain't nothing compared to me bitch."
"Oh I am fucking done with you," Alex replied menacingly. "Piper isn't going to take this from a bitch like you anymore, she's rooming with me in a place that has real air instead of this fire trap of suffocating death you've thrown her in."
"Oh look the lessees are going off on their own, well good fucking riddance to you," The bitched coed annoyingly. "There are too many of your kind in this world, so why don't you just run off and die like the defects God made you to be!"
Her friends laughed with her and pure hatred ran through every molecule of Alex's rippling body.
Electric fear coursed through Piper's body as she stared on in perpetual silence.
"Fine then bitch, you wanna fight? Just because your parents have money you think you can take me on, well think again. Because you're going to need plastic surgery when I'm done with your fucking ugly ass face," Alex snarled. "You think you're so much better than me do you? You think you own this world because you feel empowered by society? Well think again, because you're not even a shell of a shriveled sack of a real human being."
The girls in the room quieted down as fear started to roll through them. They're high pitched gossip quieted as they felt the air shift with Alex's menacing presence.
But their leader wasn't going to back down and appear weak to her click. Her eyes were cold as death itself as she stretched her arms out and turned away from Alex, crossing towards the window on the other side of room. But in a split second she spun around, her face contorted into a devilish mask of pure hatred as she swung her long nailed towards Alex's throat.
"Alex!" Piper screamed as she saw the bitches claws slice through the air towards her.
But the attack never hit home.
Alex moved like lightning as she dodged the nails and let the bitch stumble off balance. Piper was shocked, but still frozen in silence. But Alex wasn't at all, she was only getting started.
Alex knocked the bitch's feet out from under her with cruel roundhouse kick to the knees that echoed with a defining crack. The woman screamed in pain as her legs gave and she hurtled towards the ground. But she wasn't lucky enough to make it that far.
Alex caught her head in mid free fall in her vice like grip as she jammed the chick's face hard into the closed glass window. There was a deafening crack as her face was smashed against the unforgiving glass, breaking bones sending deep knots through Piper's stomach.
Alex shrugged nonchalantly and dropped the chick as she leaned casually against the wall. Her former roommate's body tumbled backwards unconsciously onto the floor. Her mangled figure stared off blankly, face up and unconscious. Her face was now a mess of blood and swelling puss, with her nose bent sideways far beyond the breaking point. The blood had yet to clot as it continued to trickle continuously from her remains. Her popular friends gazed on in shock at their leader who was bleeding profusely on the floor. None of them could speak or move from their place. Piper couldn't either as she stared on at what Alex had done so effortlessly.
Alex shrugged her shoulders as she walked towards them, and they cowered in absolute fear. Alex moved with such menace and savagery in her stride now, that Piper could feel the cold cut into her.
"This was self defense and you bitches know it," Alex spat. "I have the best lawyer in this city on speed dial and I know this system much better than you bitches ever will. So you should think before you consider lying in a testimonial and get your rich assess countered sewed from the only thing you have going for you in life. This bitch tried to kill me and I merely broke her ugly nose. Now think before you act or you'll end up far worse than she did. Do I make myself clear?"
There was an inhuman silence from the usually chatty popular girls as they let the shock sink in with Alex's cold words.
"Answer me!" Alex barked.
"Okay," they squealed and turned away in fright.
Alex laughed as she turned towards Piper with a smile. Piper felt sick, completely repulsed by what had just happened.
Piper sprinted forward and grabbed her suitcase and backpack from the floor where they'd been tossed unceremoniously. She lifted them and ran out the door, pushing past Alex, the other women, and the tears filling her eyes.
"Piper wait!" Alex urged as she took off after her.
But Alex stopped and took a moment as she shot the fear-crazy girls one last warning glare of pure, menacing hatred.
