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"Honey, are you absolutely sure you are okay with watching Cam tonight while I go out with the girls. I can really change my plans." Piper talks from the bathroom.
"It's fine. I don't mind. You had a rough couple of days and deserve to just kick back and relax a bit." Larry reassures her. "Cam and I will have fun, wont we boy?" he turns around asking Cameron who is lying on the bed watching Cartoons.
The boy offers him no reply and just keeps watching tv.
"Cameron, baby, I am leaving now, so you will be okay with Larry?" Piper asks her son as she is busy putting on her coat almost ready to go.
"Well," Cameron begins "Is he going to feed me or are we going to have to wait for you to get home so we can eat as a family again?"
"Oh baby be nice. You have to be good for mommy tonight okay. And yes Larry will feed you. You can have anything you want." Piper tries to soften up her son.
Suddenly he is all softened up with a beaming smile on his face and all his little teeth on display. Piper was still thinking to herself 'oh boy here we go. What have I done now' when Cameron repeats "Anything"
"Well I mean…" Piper tried, but her son was quick to interrupt.
"Mommy you said anything" he whined with his sad puppy dog eyes. Larry just stood back wondering what this 'anything' holds for him.
"Anything that qualifies as food. No treats."
"No treats" Cameron almost shouts back at her looking horrified.
"You can have treats after dinner. Baby I really have to go. Mommy is running late. Tell Larry what you want and he will get it for you." Looking down at her watch she kisses Cameron on the head "I have to go baby. Be good for mommy okay. I love you."
She walks over to Larry kissing him and pulling him in for a tight hug "Thank you for his honey. I Love you." She kisses him again and waves to them as she leaves.
Meanwhile back in Alex's room she was laying on the bed wondering what to do tonight.
Deciding to go out on the town she puts on her black faded skinny legs, black tank top with a white see through button shirt over it, unbuttoned & off course her docs.
Walking through the streets enjoying the fresh night air searching for a place to go she comes across a sign 'SheQ' flashing in bright blue letters. 'Yes' she thought to herself 'this could be a nice place to have a drink'. Little does she know that maybe this will also be the place where her life might start taking a different turn.
As she enters she hears a huge commotion and the next moment a body comes sliding across the floor and stops right in front of her. Looking down at the woman with her small posture, blond hair and green eyes she notices the blood running from the girls nose. Looking to her left she sees a group of girls approaching her. The one in butch in the front, obviously the one who through the punch is laughing with her friends as they walk to the girl lying on the floor holding her nose while the blood drips through her finger.
"Hey, get up you pussy. I am not done with you" she kicks the blonds feet. The blond remains still and does not offer a reply nor does she get up or even look up. Alex can see that this girl is no match for the butch and will definitely get her ass kicked.
"Why don't you just leave her alone and pick on someone your own size" Alex spits at the butch.
The butch obviously shocked looks Alex up and down before her stupid smirk returns. "What's it to you anyway?" she questions Alex "Yo you stupid bitch" she says to the girl on the floor "Got yourself a little girlfriend to fight your battles did you?"
The blond eventually manages to stand up "Please just let it go" she whispers to Alex "They are not worth it."
Alex looking into the girls frightened green yes ask her if she is okay, to which she nods and attempts a small smile.
"Come on" Alex takes the girls arm "Lets go get you cleaned up."
"You stretch" and suddenly there is a hand on Alex's forearm "why don't you go mind your own fucking business" the blond spits at Alex.
"If you know what's good for you, you will release my arm and walk away" Alex warns her and the stare down begins. Alex repeats "Walk the fuck away, now." The butch huffs, lets Alex's arm go and turns around.
Alex turns back to the blond taking her arm again and nods towards the restroom indicating for the girl to go so they can get her cleaned up.
"ALEX" she hears a voice shouting at her and as she spins around she sees the butch storming towards her fist ready to throw the punch. Alex blocks the punch and throws one of her own knocking the butch to the floor. The next moment the bouncers are on the blond and escorts her outside.
Looking around trying to figure out who warned her, blue meets green and there stands Piper Chapman. Alex mouths a thank you and Piper offers a smile and a thumbs up.
"Do you know her" Polly, Pipers best friend enquires as Piper watches Alex escorting the blond from the fight to the rest room.
"No not really. I think Cameron knows her better than me" Piper laughs but can see the still confused expression on her friends face so she offers the explanation her friend wants "She stays in the same hotel as us. This morning at breakfast Cameron did one of his table visits again and this time the luck one was Alex."
Polly obviously happy with that nods and turns back to the rest of the group "Well that was fun" she laughs.
Piper is still watching in the direction of the restroom and sees the blond girl emerge no sign of blood anywhere. "I'm going to the restroom" she announces to her group of friends.
Alex washes her hands after she helped the blond girl get cleaned up. She learned the fight was about a girl, the butches ex and the blonds current girl. Alex offered to walk her out until she got a taxi but she declined, thanked Alex for her help and left.
'I can really use that drink now' Alex thinks to herself 'Not at all what I had planned for a night out'.
As she is about to put her hand to the handle on the door to open it the door swings open and the next moment Alex is flat on her back with a body on top of her. "Fuck me" says the other voice obviously frustrated for tripping over the step. "I am so sorry" the lady starts explaining before even looking up to see who her soft landing was. Alex releases it's Piper and cant help but laugh.
"Shouldn't you at lease buy me a drink first" Alex smiles.
At that moment Piper eventually gets to her feet and looks down at Alex with a bit of an embarrassed smile on her face. "Excuse me" she replies to Alex's enquiry.
"Well you jump on top of me and demands and I quote 'fuck me' and no offence, even though I have had the hots for you since forever, don't you think you should at least take me out to dinner first or buy me a drink before you make demands as those. I don't just fuck anyone that falls into my arms for the first time."
Alex lies there on the floor popped up onto her elbows with the biggest smirk ever and Piper could not be a darker shade of pink even if she tries.
She holds out her hand to Alex "Shut up and get off the floor will you?"
"Wow but you are demanding aren't you" Alex laughs and grabs Piper's hand pulling herself up. "Much obliged Miss Chapman" She winks at Piper.
"I hope I didn't hurt you to bad there" Piper asks.
"No don't worry about it. I am fine thanks. Not the worst I have experienced so far tonight. Thanks for the heads up by the way."
"Just be glad I could remember your name. I doubt you would have known if I just shouted 'Hey you'".
Alex rises her one eyebrow looking mighty impressed with herself "So are you just good with names or did I make an impression?"
"Yeah, you did make an impression…" Piper pauses "on my son. He is crazy about the psychotic lady he met at breakfast." And they both burst with laughter.
Suddenly silence fills the room and they both stand there feeling somewhat uncomfortable at where to go or what to do from here. Piper is the first to break the silence.
"Well I should probably get back to my friends. I just wanted to come see if you are okay."
"I might have been better off before you came in here seeing that this time I was the one who landed on my ass….."
"back" Piper interrupted
"Well on my back then" Alex laughs "But thanks anyways. I really am fine" She pauses "So I guess I will see you around"
"Yeah" Piper smiles "See you around" and with that she walk out of the restroom returning to her friends.
Every now and again Piper finds herself looking at Alex where she sits at the bar drinking and most of the time talking to some different girl. Alex has caught Pipers eye a couple of times offering her a smile and sometimes even a wink.
"Having fun" Alex whips her head around and Piper burst out laughing. "I am so sorry, I didn't mean to scare you.'
"Well" Alex begins "My first night out in the big bad city has not exactly been as I thought it would. I didn't expect to walk straight into a fight."
Alex gestures for Piper to sit on the bar stool next to her. Piper thanks her and attempts to get on the stool, but in her current sort of intoxicated state she misses the stool completely and Alex catches her before she could fall to the ground.
"One to many then" Alex raises her eyebrow and Piper just smiles and turns her famous shade of pink again. "Come on then" Alex says and she helps Piper onto the stool before taking her place again. "Can I get you anything to drink?"
"Oh god no" Piper replies with a wave of the hand "I think I have had enough.
"Bit of a lightweight hey kid"
"Maybe so, but I think I drank like a heavyweight tonight" She laughs at her own joke and Alex cant help but think she is so cute when she is drunk. "Maybe some water with a piece of lemon" She reconsiders.
Alex calls over the bartender and order Pipers water and another beer for herself.
"So Alex what can you tell me about yourself." Piper asks holding her head up with her right arm which is placed on the bar.
"Well what do you want to know?"
"Anything. Where are you from? Why are you here? How old are you? Anything really."
"Demanding and you ask a hell of a lot of questions." Alex smiles and Piper rolls her eyes at her. "Okay, okay" Alex lifts her hands in defeat "I am from South Africa, I am 23 years old and I am here on an adventure. To see what life holds for me next. My girlfriend of 7 years was supposed to come with me. We had it all planned out and then a couple of weeks before we were supposed to leave she dumped me." Piper notices the sad look in Alex's eyes but Alex continues as if she is all healed up "it wasn't a nasty breakup. She just realized that she could not give everything up and leave everything and everyone she loved behind. I guess she is just not as adventurous as I am."
"I am sure that must have been hard for you though. Seven years is a long time. You must have loved each other very much."
"I do still love her, but this is just something I had to do. There is no hard feelings. I understand her reasons. I wish she felt different about it though. I wish she stuck to the original plan, but things don't always work out the way you…"
"Alex" she hears a voice behind her and when she looks behind her to see who it is she notices it's the air hostess from her flight "fancy meeting you here." She smiles.
"Hey…" she pauses realizing she does not know her name.
"Lisa" the hostess finishes.
"Right" Alex smiles "hey Lisa. Lisa this is Piper, Piper this is Lisa. I met her on my flight in. She was the air hostess and offered to show me around."
Piper watching the body language of Lisa very quickly realized that Lisa want to show Alex a lot more than just around. "nice to meet you" Piper sticks out her hand which Lisa very happily accepts.
"Are you kidding me" Lisa says excited "Piper fucking Chapman. Wow. So nice to meet you." After exchanging a couple more pleasantries Lisa turns back to Alex "So seeing that you are sitting here with Piper Chapman and I know she is straight and in a relationship with that other dude for four years now…."
"Larry" Piper interrupts "that other dude is Larry"
"Right" Lisa smiles "So seeing that I know she is straight and in a relationship with Larry I know you are not here on a date so I can remind you of my number which I slipped into your pocket. Give me a call sometimes hey." And she leans forward and kisses Alex on the cheek to which she rolls her eyes so Piper can see it and Piper just winks back.
After Lisa left Alex and Piper sat at the bar for more than an hour just talking about any and everything. Eventually Polly came to get Piper informing her that it was time to go.
"You about done Alex?" Piper asks
"Yeah I think I am. I can hear my bed calling my name. Seeing as we stay in the same hotel we can walk together. It's not to far from here so no use for a cab" Alex offers.
Piper looks at Polly and Polly answers her unasked question "it's up to you. My cab can stop and drop you off or you can walk, but please can you decide. I really want to go now."
"Okay I will walk with Alex then." She hugs and kisses her friend on the cheek.
Alex and Piper walks most of the way to the hotel in silence. This time its more of a comfortable silence than in the restroom earlier.
"What floor" Alex asks Piper as they enter the lift.
"44 please"
"Looks like we're going to the same floor then." Alex smiles
"Well my room is that way." Alex points to the right
"My room is that way." Piper points to the left
They stand there looking at each other for a couple of seconds. Alex reaches her right hand out and tucks a strand of hair behind Pipers ear. She steps closer to Piper and leans forward, placing a soft kiss on her right cheek. "See you around Piper Chapman".
Piper still standing there a bit frozen and her head a bit fuzzy not knowing what the hell is going on responds with "Yeah see you around Alex" Pause "Vause."
#Orlando #Pulse I have no words. I am so sad for the victims and their families. I feel physically sick.
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