Short chapter again and I am sorry.

*All poetry, MINE..

"We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love."

― Robert Fulghum, True Love

In few seconds Piper heard her phone ringing and it was a whatsapp voice call.

"Hello" she said and she felt her whole body was trembling in excitement.

"Hi" Piper heard the sultry voice she was dreaming to hear and almost melted.

"After all these time, who would thought" and Piper thought this would be it. If Alex knew it was the "dragon lady" and that would be the end of it. The end even before the beginning. Or the beginning of the end. She smiled at her ability to twist words even at a moment of desperation. Not a good trait right?

"What do you mean" Piper felt anxiety in her voice but could not help it.

"I mean who would thought we would go to the next level of getting to know each other", she heard Alex chuckle and felt relieved.

" Well, if there is any consolation, I thought you were one of the best poets I have ever read"

Piper tried to find her words, she had to start somewhere and the compliment was not a lie.

"It was very nice of you to comment. I really appreciate a good comment. It makes me feel appreciated, you know what I mean? As if there is someone out there, that actually gets me?"

" I know exactly what you meant. It's as if even though we are in a room full of people but nobody gets us at times, as if they walk all over us but leaving us questioning our own sanity. One person is enough to make that perception demolished."

'You are very good with your words. I am sure your work must be with words too"

Alex has started to read me was Piper's first thought but she was determined to be mysterious as Possible. She wanted to know the real Alex Vause, in her most vulnerable and primary self, she wanted to know what and who would haunt Alex and help her to fight those demons from hell.

" Well, you are right and let us leave it there. What about you? How is your dragon lady now?"

"My dragon lady?" Alex could not stop laughing when PC84 used such a word to describe Piper. " she would never be mine"

" You would never know. Anything is possible. That is what I believe all the time. May be she is the love of your life, Just give it sometime"

" I really like your jokes. They are actually quite hilarious."

"I was not being funny, I was being serious"

"Well, If I am brutally honest and since of late she is acting better and at one point she convinced me by her behaviour that she actually has a heart. And you know what, I have a theory."

This is getting more and more interesting. Piper was intrigued.

" Well, I would love to hear it, do tell"

" This would take some time and it's already pretty late."

"I am up for it, if you are"

"I am bit tired. I was stuck in the elevator with my boss in the eve"

"Wow, sound sexy."

" She is hot and gorgeous if I am honest with you. Funny thing is she whispered my name while she was taking a nap while the technicians fix the elevator."

Piper felt a blush although she could not see Alex. so Alex thinks she is hot and gorgeous. And of course she heard me saying her name when she was kissing me in that dream. It was an awkward situation but when she thought about it everything seemed so funny. She decided to play along.

" So your boss is hot and gorgeous and how old exactly? How come she is taking a nap till the technicians fix the blip? She sounds boring"

" She is not that old, about my age and now don't ask how old I am. Anyhow everything that has happened so far makes my theory interesting."

"Ok, Einstein, go ahead"

"Thanks for the compliment, haha, that's a first. So my boss has a boyfriend. I seriously don't know why they are together and as far as I have seen them together, he is just like a puppy hovering around her but I don't judge people, correction, I do judge people for my own amusement but I have never discussed people."

" Ok, go on" Alex hit the nail on the head with Larry.

" So I think when the puppy face makes dragon lady happy, I bet that is not happening often or at all, she is in a better mood"

Piper almost died laughing. She hardly see Larry now. Anyway he was not her type. She has stopped answering calls from him or texts. They never discussed themselves as a couple although she was sure Larry would like it, would love it but she could not be bothered. Larry's whole existence made her feel boring and old. It was true that she had sex with him many times but that was mostly when she was drunk more than she should. No one with right mind would even go near Larry. It sound harsh but it was the truth.

She loved the way Alex looked at things, how she made everything so light hearted and interesting and funny. The more she listened to Alex, the more she was drawn. And she wondered when could she prove that Alex's theory was wrong, it was not actually Larry but Alex who make her happy. Someday but not today…

"Any poems you are working on" Piper did not want to end the conversation.

" Just wrote one out of boredom. Not gonna publish it. Just scribbled"

"Will you read it to me?"

Are you flirting Piper chapman?

"Of course, you are my Number one fan"

"Thanks"

"Well, it goes like this, it is pretty stupid I know.

I sit still

Listening to the beat of my own heart

For a change

I close my eyes

My heart still beats

And I do feel

I go to bed

It has not stop beating

Not yet

For once

In my life

I'm glad

I have a heart

That beats...

"It's nice."

"Just nice?"

"Different, seems you are feeling alone"

"Aren't we all?"

"Not if you are with the right company. But better to be alone than to be in bad company"

" You know what? I like you."

"You like me? You have to promise you won't fall in love with me. Haha"

"Walk to remember, I am impressed"

"So I got to go. It's late. So I will see you around?"

"I will be seeing you kid. I will be"

"Goodnight"

"Goodnight"

Piper hung up and sighed. She felt at peace and relaxed. Alex's voice and her words calmed her nerves and she went to sleep that day as a happy soul. And she dreamt of Alex all night.

Before going to sleep Alex wrote just one poem. She was happy to talk to this stranger over the phone. Her demons still wandering inside her mind and she was giving into them all the time. She wanted to be loved, to love someone so deeply and to feel the warmth but was afraid to love. Terrified. Love had a tendency to fool her and she did not want to be fooled twice.

I don't want to be a forgotten memory

A momentary fling

Where desires met and melt

I don't want to be a yesterday's song

A haphazard melody

Because haste makes waste

I want to be that ripple in your soul

That would drive you insane

I want to be that vein in your heart

That would let you breathe in and out…

When Alex went to the pub for her shift next day, she saw an attractive brunette staring at her. She was in the uniform, so she was the new hire Red was talking about but there was something about her that made Alex wondered. It was her eyes. They were blue and was full of intensity. Alex asked Lorna who she was.

" Her name is Natalie and she is the new part time server. She would work her shifts with you and you have to show the ropes"

Alex did not mind showing her around. She felt something inside when Natalie looked at her. She had something Alex liked the most. A dimple.