AN:

Yes, yes the epilogue officially has more chapters than the original story.

Shoutout to Flawed-Fallacy, your challenge lies in this chapter!

The following day at yoga, there were several familiar faces walking through the door . Polly Harper was on the registration desk, Larry on mat duty. Though lord knows why he got reassigned to the shelves when it was such chaos the night before. Polly was more logistics minded than Piper, so she got to make up the schedule. And of course she schedules herself with Larry. Actually Piper is quite pleased she doesn't have to work with Larry. Though she's most happy that Larry does not hit on her anymore, she still finds him a bit obnoxious. And she's still sour about the making out on her car thing.

Piper gets to enjoy today's yoga class as a student. And she's even bringing along a friend. She's early of course, because Polly gave her a lift. So Polly and Piper get to catch up on some well-needed girl talk.

"So is he a good kisser" Piper prods, nudging Polly. Larry has gone to restack the pile that continues to collapse. Polly shoots a glance towards the boy momentarily and responds with an overly dreamy "Oui", emphasizing the french, and batting her eyelashes for effect. Piper tries hard not to roll her eyes.

"So is Alex" Piper responds gleefully. She's trying to contain the 1000 Watt smile that is emerging from her face and is failing miserably. And then she gets pale when she realizes what she just admitted.

"I knew it!" Polly quips, You were looking at her all googly eyed all last night. Like EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. she said something remotely funny you just laughed like a maniac"

"And you're one to talk Polly! Larry's jokes aren't even classy OR clever" Piper snarks back

"I still don't see what you like in girls. I tried looking at girls on Tinder once and it was just too weird. I couldn't do it. It was odd to look at girls that/ way. I tried to be bicurious just once to try it out. But I just didn't have the butterflies feeling and when I'm around boys I just can't breathe and I feel all warm and I can't talk as right"

"Speaking of which"... Piper muttered as Larry approached Polly from behind. Polly didn't catch the heads up though so Piper got to laugh as the emotions played on her best friend's face from startled to surprised to swooning

"Uh hey, can you uh, help me with the mats I can't seem to get them straight" Larry taps Polly on the shoulder nervously. "Don't worry sweetie, I'll set that straight" Polly winks at Piper over Larry's shoulder. "Go get 'em tiger" Piper mouths back. Piper knows instinctively her best friend was not referring to some dumb inanimate object. Just some half-dumb human Piper almost says out loud.

Piper thinks though, about her own sexuality. She's not totally straight she thinks. She and Polly once took the kinsey scale test just for fun. Piper had been a 3. Or maybe a 4. And Polly had been a zero. Piper knows she's definitely not totally lesbian but she's far far from straight. Especially after last night she feels shivers when she imagines Alex's tongue all over her body. She feels tight in her chest when she thinks of Alex's voice. And she feels hot in her pants when Piper imagines Alex's gorgeous body...

Lorna Morello arrives and Piper snaps out of her daydream. "Nice suit" Piper compliments Lorna's seemingly new lululemon shirt that frills round her breasts and short shorts that fit tight round her thighs. Lorna just laughs when Piper "checks her out" and makes a "damn gurrrrl" whistle. Lorna does the same back at Piper but it's very candid.

"So you into the whole yoga scene" Piper asks. "Not as much as you, I'm not a Hippie. But I respect Hippies". Lorna replies. Piper nods "And what do you see in the stars today". Piper knows Lorna Morello LOVES astrology. She has a hidden talent to be able to identify any horoscope from memory: "Your ability to see a common thread weaving through many diverse opinions will be extremely valuable, today - there are warring parties, and it's up to you to play diplomat. Believe it or not, you may be the only person who can ensure that cooler heads prevail right now. Start by suggesting that everyone make an effort to see things from a new point of view. Share what you think they all have to gain from this negotiation, and peace is sure to follow." She narrates to Piper, who awaits eagerly". Piper chuckles at how uncanny Morello's memory for this is. "And that's for Gemeni?" She confirms. Morello nods "I'll never forget your birthday is June 7th!" She adds".

Both girls smile genuinely knowing that they still remember each other's birthdays and pastimes after being separated a few years after college. After Morello graduated from Smith she went on to become a personal stylist. She ran her own studio with specialties in hair design. Secretly, Morello wanted to get into the wedding planning business. It was a long shot and a far-off dream. She was working on it.

"So how's the Salon business going?" Piper asks Morello with interest.

"Oh you know, a bit tangly but we can iron out the edges" She grins softly

"How's the yoga business?" She asks right back

"Pretty calm as of late" Piper catches on

"We're leaving it all to gel" Morello adds

"As we get all knotted up before the next time" Piper continues

"Combing through the details"

"Rolling up the old bringing in the new"

"Adding a little colour"

"Striking a pose"

"Sometimes it takes longer for it to dry up" - At this point Lorna is biting the edges of her lips not to laugh first

"Getting are blocks stacked up" And Piper also bites her lip. Her and Lorna play this game frequently and Piper does not like to lose. Ever.

"Sometimes it gets a little hairy and we have to use desperate measures such as-"

"Sometimes things get real crazy and they go all downward dog on our scorpion and it messes up our eagle" Piper interrupts impatiently.

Speaking of impatience, Piper wanted Alex and her show up separately this time, not wanting to raise TOO much suspicion (to the customers, to the rest of their friends). Piper's looking at the time and she she paces back and forth nervously awaiting the raven-haired woman. "Should have told her 6pm not 7pm" Piper mutters to herself. She checks the check-in list behind the counter and hopes desperately it won't fill up before Alex shows arrives.

Polly Harper still has BFFL status and can read her mind from accross the room. She saunters over: " Feeling lovely without your GIRLFRIEND Piper" Polly leans in and half-whispered half-yells at the blonde. "She's NOT MY -" Piper begins to yell at Polly in protest, while Morello tries very very hard to contain a giggle which Piper ignores. She's waving her hands in the air in a flailing sort of way trying to prove her point more convincingly though all it seems to be accomplishing is proving Polly's side even further.

"She's not my …" An Alex Vause materializes seemingly out of nowhere. Piper is shocked she leaves her mouth open as if forgetting to close it, drinking in the sight of Alex Vause in yet another skimpy workout gear thing.

"Shut your mouth or you'll catch flies" Alex banters

"Mm you really want my mouth shut tight" Piper recovers quickly

"Yes in fact I do" Alex smirks as always. This makes Piper gleeful internally because she can read Alex even better now but Alex keeps on.

"I want your mouth shut tight - " And Alex leans in right to the tip of Piper's earlobe and barely audible she moans "Right. On. My. Cunt." And then Alex turns on her heels as if nothing had happened and a very flustered Piper is left in her wake.

Nicky Nichols (who happened to see the whole damn thing) waggles her eyebrows at Alex as if to say "Well Played". Alex winks back at her as if to say "I got this". Piper sees Alex wink and Nicky and suddenly gets really jealous.

"Relax Kid" Alex chuckles. Piper is too caught up to notice she was being called "Kid" again.

"We're just… teasing" Alex pauses for a second in between that sentence. She was originally going to say "just friends" but she sort of liked Piper's possessive side and wanted to milk it a bit further. Hey, Alex thought to herself, I never ever said I was a good person.

Piper's about to lean in and add more when Polly and Larry usher them in to the yoga room to begin class. "Time to start everyone! Last call"

It's not quite last call though because upon removing her pants (literally), Nicky realizes she didn't actually bring any shorts and has to buy some. Alex laughs at her intently as she chooses between the super short girly ones they have

"I miss wearing skirts" Nicky complains

"You wore skirts!" Piper exclaims, surprised

"I love a good skirt" the lion-haired woman replies.

And with that they walk in the door and close it behind them.

If someone had to define the air in the room, "tense" would be the word. "Sexual tension" to be specific. There was a definite pull between Larry and Polly as the two instructors. They were on opposite ends of the room giving each other eyes over the student's heads.

Piper and Alex smiled knowingly at this, they knew exactly what it was like. EXACTLY what it was like to have a magnetic draw to the person standing next to you doing yoga in minimal clothing and not being able to do ANYTHING about it. In fact they were in the exact same predicament right now. There was no denying it, no guessing games to it no doubt in either Piper or Alex's mind that they really really just wanted to fuck right now. And they couldn't.

Nicky Nichols glanced at Alex (who was located near the centre of the room) and then Piper (also in the middle of the room on the mat next to Alex's) and grins so wide it pulls her jaw open. Nicky LOVES to make fun of Alex Vause and watch her suffer and this time would be no different. Nicky Nichols gets a front row seat to the Alex and Piper show and she's going to milk every second for everything its worth.

And I got some eye candy for myself too…. Nicky allows herself to indulge in the pretty sight that is Lorna Morello. Lorna is oblivious to most of what is going on and is just happy that her friends seem to be in a great mood right now. She absent-mindedly curls her hair around her finger and Nicky Nichols practically drool in longing, longing to caress Lorna Morello and carry her. Hold her. Funny Nichols has never been the loving type. She has a passion for pussy eating but that's more of a junk-food deal not a long-term commitment. She dosn't want to figure out those thoughts just yet.

"Allow us to settle our minds" Polly chips in an upbeat tone.

"And settle in to the class" Larry adds.

"Focus on your breath, slow it down and allow thoughts to drift in and out of your mind…."

Nicky allows her mind to drift, and she feels far, far away:

Nicky's dreaming of being at an upscale bar, not Red's, a fancier place.

Nicky is feeling the effects of the alcohol and it's making her bolder, braver than the lion-haired woman usually is. She looks over at Morello again and asks "Hey, have you ever kissed a guy before".

Of course Morello replies with "yes", nodding slowly. Morello's eyes shine gently. They sort of shimmer into Nicky's. Nicky feels a sort of melting happening. She's getting goosebumps al over. Just the feeling in the air feels sweeter with them both occupying it.

"So.." NIcky gathers her courage. She takes a breath in so not to stutter the scentence that she smirks into and she's ohmygodsaying it "Hey, so Morello have you ever kissed a woman before"

The words linger on her tongue. They linger in the air and seem to echo, echo, echo rebounding off the walls and the chairs and themselves. And it feels like an eternity has passed before Morello starts to turn slightly. Her face is lit in the dim light and her eyes emerge from the shadows. Nicky swears she can see a low blush on MOrello's cheeks but that could have equally been from the class they'd attended or the shots they'd taken.

Nicky expected a "yes" or "no" kind of answer.

She was not expecting the heartbreaking words that seemed to roll of Morello's tongue, just fall off her lips and cutting like knives into Nicky's heart:

"I thought..." Morello begins "I thought women only kissed each other... In the movies"
Nicky didn't bother to ponder what type of "movies" exactly Lorna Morello was referring to. She desperately wanted to save with face with the situation and was concentrating desperately at keeping her exterior face well concealed from her true emotions.

NIcky slowly moves her gaze upwards and dares to look up at Morello and is surprised to see her biting her lip in a soft smile. Nicky's grin widens slowly and she subconsciously licks her lips. Morello perks up to say "So why do you ask"?

Nicky loses herself completely in how beautiful Lorna Morello looks right now. Gorgeous, cute, sweet, gentle, lovely, endearing. NIcky feels like holding her and twirling her hair round and wrapping her arms round hers and making any of Lorna Morello's troubles melt away.

NIcky leans in to Morello's forehead and presses her lips softly there. Lorna sighs in and reaches out, touching NIcky's arm.

When they finally pulls away, Nicky smiles and leans in slightly

"That was…. " Nicky starts, joy, elation, fear, compassion, passion and then genuine vulnerability flash in her eyes for Morello to see.

"Even better than the movies" Morello finishes perfectly. And she's the first one to lean in this time"

AN:

This will be a long-haul continuing story multi-couple fluff-fest. I will try to update as much as I can. Taking requests for where you want it to go from here!

(And don't worry you horny teenagers you, there will be more sex upcoming).

-Bobbiejelly