This is an interesting chapter for Alex... Originally this was going to be two parts, but what fun is that? Why not just have it all now.
So I hope you enjoy this very interesting chapter...

"Piper dinner!"

Piper sighed as she sat up from her desk. She was happy that she had an excuse to not do her homework, but she really had to do it.

She walked downstairs to the dining room. Her father was sitting at one end of the table. Cal walked into the room holding a fairly big chicken.

"Mmm this smells good." Piper said as she sat down at the table.

"Doesn't it? I helped mom with the food." Cal said sitting down.

Just then Pipers mother walked in holding a bowl of mashed potatoes.

She sat down, and everyone served themselves. When each person had a full plate of food, they started to eat.

"So Piper, how come you were home so late?" Her mother asked.

"I went to a movie and then I went over to Alex's."

"Oh." Piper could tell that her mother didn't approve of Piper spending so much time with Alex. "Well you know, since Polly is here, I'm sure you two could spend a lot more time together."

"Yeah we have. She went to the movie with us."

"What did you see?" She asked.

"Uh." Piper was hesitant to answer. She new she was able to see most movies, she just wasn't sure if her mother would approve of her going to see a movie with about to women falling in love. "Just some older movie.. I don't remember what it was called."

There was a long silence. All you could hear was the sound of cutlery hitting the plate as they all ate.

"How was school today's?" Their father asked.

"School was good. We built some kind of mechanism with pulleys and stuff in science."

"That sounds fun. Maybe you will grow up to be some sort of mechanic or something." Their mother said.

"And how about you Piper?"

"It's was good. Polly and I have a few classes together. So yeah, it was good." One thing Piper noticed was that neither of her parents would ever asked how each other's day was. They never really spoke to one another if it didn't have to do with us. They avoided as much conflict as they could.

Dinner finished and Piper and Cal cleaned up.

"So how did things go with Alex?" Cal asked.

"Oh you know, we're just friends."

"Really? Just friends? I thought you were going to go confess your undying love to her."

"Well I told her I liked her... And then things got complicated... And then Polly showed up."

"Okay...?"

"We haven't spoken about it since. We really need to I know, but i just... It's scary, alright?"

"Alright. I still think you two would be great together."

"Shut up." Piper said which a small smile appearing on her face. She flicked some water on Cal and put the dishes away.

"So are you and Alex going to make it official anytime soon?" Polly asked.

"No... Well, maybe. I don't know Pol, it's complicated."

"Okay. Well I think you two look super cute together... Although I would be careful with her."

"Careful? What do you mean?"

"Nothing. I just think with someone like her, you need to watch out a bit. I don't need her breaking your heart."

"Who says she's going to break my heart? And what the hell do you mean 'someone like her' ?"

"Someone who... I don't know.. Does drugs and skips school. Someone who is unreliable."

"She doesn't do drugs... I think. But she isn't like that. Trust me, she's not."

"Okay fine. You can't say I didn't warn you."

"Well thank you for watching out for me. I had to go, I've been putting off my homework for ages now. I'll see you tomorrow. Bye."

"Byye"

Piper hung up the phone.

"Well it looks like I finally have to get to this homework…" Piper said as she stared down to an almost empty page. "I hate math."

"Okay so I was thinking, how about you and Larry go out?"

"Who?" Piper asked before she realized who Sarah was talking about. "Oh… Really? Him?" She looked over to the front of the room where an averaged hight guy sat. He had short dark brown hair. He was a very nice guy, and seemed like he would be good boyfriend material, but he also seemed like her would be a tiny bit too needy.

"Yeah! I think you two would really great together. He's pretty cute too."

"Uh, I don't know. I'm not really looking for anyone to really date-"

"Oh god please do not tell me you and that Alex girl are going out…" Sarah said in a rather stuck up and bitchy tone.

"Us? Oh no… We… We aren't." Piper wasn't fully happy about saying that.

"Okay good." Sarah was rather satisfied with hearing Piper say that.

Alex was getting bored in class. She didn't speak to anyone. Sometimes this girl would talk to her, but she rarely replied with more than one word answers.

She raised her hand and asked to go to the washroom.

As she was walking down the hall she ran into Polly; literally.

"Hey watch where your goin-" Polly looked up to see a startled Alex standing in front of her. "Oh, Alex."

"Sorry, I wasn't paying attention."

It was an awkward interaction and Alex just wanted to get away from her. She started to walk again, before Polly stopped her.

"Hey! I need to talk to you actually."

"Uhm, okay. Well I was going to get another coffee so… You want to talk to me on the way there?" Alex suggested.

Polly hated people who skipped, but she had to catch Alex alone. She had fourth period with her alone yesterday, but she didn't seem to know her well enough to talk to her about Piper. Polly now thought since she had hung out with her last night that she was able to talk about their relationship.

"Yeah okay fine. Let's go quick."

The two walked out of the building. Alex hated going to her locker so she always just wore her jacket into class. She was wearing a dark blue and black plaid hoodie, and a black leather jacket.

When the two of them stepped out, it was quite cold. Alex was fine in the weather, but it was clearly visible that Polly was cold.

"So what did you want to talk to me about?" Alex asked.

"I just n-needed to uh- to uh, talk about-" Polly was finding it hard to really say what she wanted to because she was so cold.

"uh here." Alex took off her leather jacket and gave it to polly to wear.

Polly took it and putting it on. It was pretty big for Polly to wear. The sleeves were a bit too long. "Thanks…" She thought about this small action the whole walk to the cafe. She thought about how maybe she was wrong about Alex. If she does this for someone she barely knows, then she must be a really nice person… Polly then thought about how Alex must treat Piper. Maybe I was really wrong.

"Polly?"

"What? uh- Yeah?"

"Did you want to say something to me or?" Alex asked with a curious expression on her face.

"Right yeah. I just wanted to talk to you about Piper."

"Okay…" Alex really didn't need to be asked about her relationship with Piper. She didn't like the thought of admitting that she liked the girl. Even Nicky couldn't get her to actually say it.

"I don't want you to fuck with her feelings okay? I mean, I know she like's you, but weather or not you feel the same way, you better make sure you don't hurt her."

Hearing Polly be so protective over Piper made some sense to Alex, but at the same time it made no sense. Polly hadn't been around for that long and already it was like they had been best friends for years.

"I don't plan on it." Alex said. She really didn't like talking to this girl much now.

"Okay good. Then do something about your feelings for her, because it's killing her looking at you every day and knowing that you two will probably be just friends. That's on you Alex. You need to tell her your feelings this time."

Alex just stood there and thought about what she had just heard, because yeah, she didn't want to ever say it. Thing's become to real when you say it out loud. Alex knew she liked Piper, but if she couldn't even say it to Nicky, then how would she say it to Piper?

"Alex your next." Polly said snapping Alex out of her thoughts.

She then walked over to the register and ordered her drink.

"Look uh- Polly? I understand you want to be protective about Piper, but i'm not going to have this conversation with you."

"Fine, whatever. Just remember what I said." Polly then started to walk away. "Just don't fucking hurt her."

Alex was then left alone, waiting for her order, and thinking about what Polly had said to her. She really had no idea where that came from, but she knew she was screwed. Alex had no idea how to even tell Piper that she liked her. Wasn't that kiss obvious enough?

It was finally Friday. Most lunches on Friday Piper and Alex would eat together, but since Polly was around, thing's seem to be changing.

Alex was on her way over to this small hall in the school, where they normally at lunch. She was passed by Sarah and Kathryn who then headed into the hall. Alex so did not want to deal with these girls today, but she also really wanted to spend time with Piper.

Instead of actually heading fully into the hall, she decided to sit down closer to where it met the main hall. She opened her bag, and got out a book.

Piper noticed her sitting there reading. She wanted to go up to her, but with Sarah there, things were a bit harder.

"So what are your guys' plans for tomorrow night?" Sarah asked.

Everyone just looked to other people, and mumbled 'nothing really.'

"Okay… Well theres a party tomorrow night and I think we should all go."

"Yeah sure, I'm in." Polly said. Everyone else agreed they would go as well.

"Great. It's at this guys house, Pete, I think his name is. He's friends with Mark and Todd." Sarah glanced over to Piper.

"Really? What the hell is with this Todd thing? I think I made it pretty clear that I'm not into him." Piper said.

"I know I know… Besides, I spoke to Larry earlier and he said he would be happy to take you." Sarah said.

Polly looked over to Piper who had this look of anger and guilt on her face. Piper really didn't want to go with Larry, and she was so angry that Sarah had just set her up like that. She also felt guilty because of Alex.

Piper looked over to where she was sitting. Alex had obviously heard what Sarah had said, as she was walking away.

Sarah had this smirk on her face that said she knew that would piss off Alex.

"What the fuck? I never said I wanted to go out with Larry."

"C'mon, he's pretty cute and I think he has a crush on you. Just go one this one date with the guy."

"What are you doing moping around here anyway?" Nicky asked.

"I just want to spend some time with you." Alex replied.

"That's bullshit. You want to go to that party, don't you?"

"Well… I don't see why showing up would hurt…"

"Great. I'm feeling up for a party tonight, so let's go!" Nicky said as she hopped up off of her couch. "It's only a few blocks away anyway, so we'll just walk."

Piper and Larry arrived at the party together. He had picked her up at her house. The two of them walked into the loud house. Piper was desperately trying to look out for someone she knew.

Piper- Polly I am not kidding, I need you with me NOW.

This was probably the fifth text she had sent in the last 10 minutes.

"Do you want a drink or something?" Larry asked.

"Uh sure. Water would be great."

"Alright I'll go get some. I'll be right back."

If Piper were like Sarah then she would have ditched Larry and gone to find someone else, but she wasn't like her. She couldn't just leave him like that. She knew she had to be there with him, although she really didn't want to be.

"Piper! Hey!" Polly shouted.

Piper turned around to see Polly walking towards her. "Polly! thank god you are hear. This has been the most awkward thing ever."

"Oh… Yeah I'm sorry about that still. But I'm going to have to leave you to it. Pete here is going to show me around the house." Polly said as she latched on to a tall guy beside her.

"Are you drunk?"

"Only a tiny bit." Polly said as the two started to walk away. "Oh and Piper, your girlfriend is here."

"Alex?" Piper questions as someone tapped her on the shoulder. She turned around hoping that Alex would be there, but instead it was Larry.

"Uh nope. My names Larry, I seriously hope you know that by now."

"Sorry I was just talking to my friend and she mentioned something to do with her…"

"It's cool." The two of them stood there awkwardly for a while. "Let's go sit on the couch or something."

They both walked into the living room. There were tons of people dancing in the centre of the room. Larry and Piper went and sat down in the corner of the room.

Piper perked up when Alex entered the room. She saw a smile cross Alex's face. She was about to walk over to where Piper and Larry were sitting.

"Ah fuck it." Larry said. Piper turned around about to question what Larry was talking about when he kissed her.

He moved closer to Piper, embracing her in his arms. Piper was so startled that she had to take a minute to just register what was going on.

When she pushed away from him, she looked directly over to where Alex was standing. She was still there, but Piper could see that she was upset. She looked hurt.

As Piper stood up Alex was pulled away by Nicky.

"Come on, let's go Vause." Piper heard Nicky say.

"What the fuck was that?" Piper yelled as she turned over to Larry.

"Nothing I just thought- Why not?"

"Fuck." Piper said as she fell back into her spot.

Nicky had pulled Alex outside of the house. Nicky planned to just get Alex away from there, but she resisted.

"I'm not going to leave because of what just happened. We're just friends so whatever. There are tons of really hot girls in there, and I need to get laid or something."

Before Nicky could even reply Alex was already back in the house.

Alex headed straight over to where the drinks were. She grabbed a shot glass and drank it right away. She then grabbed another one.

She walked outside to where a ton of people were dancing. Pete had an extremely big house, with a giant backyard.

There was this tall girl with long blond hair dancing with no one at the moment. Alex walked over to where she was and started to dance with the girl. She turned towards Alex. The girl put her hands onto Alex's hips, and pulled her closer.

Alex was unaware of how long the two of them had been dancing together for, but the next thing she knew she was inside on the stairway making out with the girl.

"You are seriously really fucking hot" The girl said between breaths.

"Why don't we find somewhere more private?" Alex said as she pulled away.

The girl just smiled, grabbed Alex's hand, and made her way up the stairs. She opened the door to a random room and went in. Alex was about to follow when she heard someone call her name.

She turned around to see Piper and Nicky standing there behind her.

"Alex what are you doing?" Piper questioned.

"uh, I'm busy right now, I'll see you two later." Alex said as she turned back towards the room. This time no one stopped her from entering the room, closing the door behind her.

"Shit Piper, I'm sorry. I didn't know she would do this… It's kind of unlike her. I mean, hooking up with girls not really… But she doesn't ever like to get drunk. She likes to stay in control." Nicky said as she put her arm around Piper.

"No it's- It's my fault. Or Larry's… We left it as us just being friends."

"Wait you and Larry? or Alex?"

"Alex."

"Oh… "

"I think I'm going to go find Polly, or Sarah or… Anyone." Piper said as she walked towards the stairs.

Nicky had seen Alex do stupid things before, but she had never seen Alex do something to hurt someone she cared about; Not intentionally anyway.

She rolled her eyes, and then opened the door to the room that Alex and the blonde were.

"What the fuck?" Alex said as she looked over to the open door.

"Sorry to interrupt this… but thankfully you still have some clothes on…" Nicky said as she threw over two shirts that were laying on the ground. Nicky then took the blonde girl and sort of pushed her out of the room.

Nicky had to stop Alex from leaving the room.

"What the hell do… you want?"

"Since when the fuck did you get drunk like this?" Nicky said as she closed the door rather forcefully.

"I don't know, I'm just here to have a fucking good time. Why is that so fucking hard to… do?"

"Look I know seeing Piper being kissed by Larry sucked but it really wasn't her fa-" Alex cut her off.

"Who the fuck said Piper had anything to do… with this? Am I not allowed to hook up with someone? Jesus, I'm really fucking tired… of people saying everything I do ends up being about Piper. Can't I just do something because I fucking want to?"

"I know you don't want to admit anything-"

"Admit what? The two of us are friends and that's fucking it."

"Okay Alex I'm seriously tired with this fucking shit. I understand that you don't want to even think that you could actually like someone, but you fucking do. I have known you for almost my entire life and I have never seen you take to anyone like this. Maybe not everything you do has to do with Piper, but this fucking does."

"No Nicky It doesn't have to do with-"

"No it does. And now you're hurting Piper and yourself. Grow the fuck up and learn that having feelings is okay. Learn that people are meant to feel things.
Now I'm going to go find Piper and take her home." Nicky then walked out the door.

Alex was really drunk, and she was so out of it. She didn't actually realize how drunk she was until she tried to make it down the stairs. She almost fell down twice, but somehow caught herself.

She saw Nicky and Piper heading towards the door. "Piper" Alex yelled as she reached the bottom of the stairs.

Piper turned towards Alex, not knowing weather to go over to her or ignore her. Instead she just stood there, waiting for Alex.

"Piper I need to… Sorry… I just… You and Larry and It sucked…" Alex was having a hard time trying to say what she meant. I only had two shots… right?… or maybe three… Fuck why cant I remember… "You're…"

"Alex how much did you have to drink?" Piper asked as she brought Alex over the stairs and sat her down, Nicky following.

"I can't… don't know…"

"Okay Alex you're staying at my place." Nicky said. "Piper can you stay with her while I go grab my car? I'll be like, ten minutes."

"Yeah yeah, for sure." Piper stood up and ran over to the kitchen and got a huge glass of water. she walked back to where Alex was and gave her the glass. "Here, drink this."

Alex took the glass and took a big sip of the water. She rested her head against the wall beside her, and looked at Piper.

Piper sat down beside her, and the two of them sat and stared into each others eyes. Larry then appeared, breaking the moment between the two.

"Piper is everything okay here?" He asked.

"Yeah everything is fine."

"What are.., you doing here?" Alex asked with an edge to her voice.

"I'm Piper's date."

"Yeah well… Don't make a move… on her… or uh. Fuck you." Alex said as she stood up slowly.

"Look you're really drunk so you don't know what your talking about. Piper and I came here together."

"But she doesn't… And I like…" Alex really had no idea why she decided to do this, but she punched Larry right in the face.

"Alex!" Piper yelled as she stood up. She had no idea weather she should go over to Alex or Larry, so she just sort of stood in the middle of them.

Larry held his hand up to his face. He then checked for blood. There wasn't a lot, but he was bleeding a bit. Larry had had a few drinks himself, although nothing as strong as what Alex had had that night. The next thing he knew he punched Alex back.

Alex was having a hard enough time standing on her own, that the second she got hit, she lost her balance.

"Shit. What the fuck was that for?" Piper yelled.

"She fucking punched me first." Larry yelled back. "You know, fuck you." He said as he went to get his jacket.

"Fuck Al, are you okay?"

"Ow." Alex mumbled as she sat up, blood running down her face.

"Well what the hell happened here?" Nicky said as she brushed passed all the people staring in the way.

"Larry happened."

"Shit, well we really need to get her out of here." Nicky said as she helped Alex up.

The three of them walked out and into Nicky's car. They rushed out so quickly that none of them had time to put their coats on. Piper had taken off her sweater so that Alex could use it to stop the blood from getting everywhere.

"You wan't me to take you home Piper?" Nicky asked.

"Uh no. No I don't want to leave her."

"Okay sure. You can stay with her."

"Thanks."

It took almost no time for them to get to Nicky's house. The two of them helped Alex out of the car and into the house.

"She do you think she just drank too much or did someone slip something into one of her drinks?" Piper asked as they put Alex into bed.

"Who the fuck knows. Maybe that girl she was with kept giving her drinks and Alex didn't really realize how much she was drinking. Or she slipped her something." Nicky made sure Alex was comfortable in bed before bringing Piper outside to talk at a normal tone. "Look, I'm really fucking stoned right now and I wont be much help with Alex, so you can take care of her yeah?"

"Of course, yeah."

"Great." Nicky then walked back into the room where Alex was. "You are barley conscious right now, but just know I'm here for you and so is Piper. Well, mainly Piper's here for you. Get some fucking rest. Love you dude." Nicky kissed Alex's forehead before leaving the room. "oh and there's some sort of bucket in the bathroom. I'm sure it'll be needed."

"Okay thanks."

Piper went and got a bucket and put it beside the bed. She also got a cloth towel and cleaned up the blood that Alex was covered in. She then took a chair and put it beside the bed.

"… Piper?" Alex mumbled so quietly Piper could barley hear.

"Yeah?"

"I… I like you."

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