Thanks for the reviews and the follows and the favs guys! I'm glad this story is being taken on well :) It will probably be a while before the secrets of the girls come out, I first want to make the setting and the story just right for it to come out at a time that feels natural to me. Also, it's just gonna be hard to write it all down, but I want to do this, and I want to keep going with this, so bare with me okay? Thanks everyone! :)
The rest of the day seems to last forever for Piper. She's barely paying attention in her classes, and only answers questions that people directly ask her. The final bell rings, and Piper makes her last stop at her locker. She takes out the books she needs, puts the ones she doesn't need in it instead, and closes off. She takes out her phone, and starts walking towards Polly's locker. She isn't looking where she's going, and soon enough she bumps into another person. Piper stumbles backwards a bit, steadying herself against the lockers next to her.
"Oh sorry I wasn't really looking where I was going …" Piper starts to ramble, but is quickly cut off.
Alex chuckles, "Kid, it's okay, things like this happen, relax."
"Oh Ms. Vause, sorry." Piper says.
"You had a good day today?" Alex asks. "What am I doing, I never ask students how their day was!" Alex starts to freak out internally.
"It was okay, thank you Ms. Vause. I should get going, Polly's waiting for me to drive her home." Piper replies. She seems oblivious to the internal battle within Alex's mind.
"Oh okay, see you tomorrow Ms. Chapman," Alex bids her goodbye.
"See you tomorrow, Ms. Vause," Piper replies.
Piper heads off down the hall, towards Polly's locker. "Hey girl!" Polly nearly shouts.
"Hey Polls, you ready?" Piper replies when she's in earshot.
"Yeah, let me just quickly run to say goodbye to Pete, and then we're good to go." Polly takes off, and leaves Piper standing alone, feeling kind of awkward. She sees her new teacher across the hall, and gives her a half-hearted smile before pulling out her phone again.
"Okay Pipe, let's go home!" Polly says as she gets back to Piper.
"Okay, let's go," Piper says. Polly excitedly starts explaining about something stupid that happened during one of her classes, but Piper is, once again, not really paying attention. She'd rather spend her time watching her mysterious new substitute teacher as she gets on her motorbike. "Holy shit, a motorbike, that's so freaking cool! I bet she's a total badass!" Piper thinks to herself. In the background she can hear Polly still obliviously rambling on, apparently she's switched to subject once again to Pete, her current fling.
They get in Piper's car, and Polly asks Piper how her day was. "It was okay, apparently something happened to Mrs. Smith, and we got a new sub for AP History, but other than that, nothing major." Piper replies without emotion, not really wanting to focus on herself for too long. Piper felt like she didn't deserve that anymore, not after what she had done in the past.
"Oh well, is the new one nice?" Polly asks.
"Yeah, she sounds like she knows what she's talking about, and she teaches well, so that's good," Piper replies.
An awkward silence falls as they get to Polly's house. "You wanna come in Pipes? We could hang out if you want," Polly asks.
"No Polls, I should go home, mom and dad will want me to come home right after school, sorry," Piper replies. She isn't really in the mood to act yuppy, and knowing Polly, she would only talk about boys. Still a sore subject for her, so that's a definite no. Polly opens the door, gets out, and closes it once again. She gets to Piper's side, and Piper opens her window.
"Right, okay, maybe some other time then?" Polly tries one more time.
"Yeah, sure, bye hon, see you tomorrow?" Piper tries really hard to not let her emotions crack her voice, and she succeeds (lucky for her).
"Yeah see you tomorrow babe, how 'bout I pick you up? So you don't always have to drive," Polly is really trying to lengthen the conversation.
"Oh okay, sounds good, I'll text you later," Piper closes her window to cut off the conversation, before tears threaten to spill from her eyes.
As Piper gets home, her parents are stepping out of the front door.
"Oh perfect timing dear, your father and I were just going, we're eating out tonight," her mom explains. "That means dad has cheated on mom again and is trying to make up for it" Piper says to herself in her mind.
"You don't mind watching your brothers, do you? I know you probably have homework to do, but so do they, so you can just all do it together," her dad implies. Piper has seen the look in his eyes, trying to get her to say yes, so he can wipe away his guilt.
"Yeah sure, are they home already?" Piper decides to just play along.
"Yes they are, hon, they're waiting for you inside," her mom chippers.
"Okay, I'll leave you two to it then," Piper says, wanting to get inside as soon as possible. Her parents get into their car, and head towards to the restaurant while Piper waves them off.
As she gets inside the house and drops her backpack and her jacket, she can hear the indistinct chatter of her brothers and the TV in the living room. "Okay boys, time for homework! Dinner is at 7," Piper says as she enters the living room.
"Come on sis, can't you just give us five more minutes, this show is almost over," Cal pleads.
"No guys, I have a lot of work to do, and the two of you probably do as well, so get to it, the faster you'll be done with it," Piper replies with a firm voice. She's always been able to get her brothers to do what she says, and she's not backing down today.
"Fine," both Cal and Danny sigh as they get out of the living room and go up the stairs to their rooms. Piper heads into the hall, grabs her backpack and jacket, goes into the kitchen to retrieve a bottle of water, and then heads upstairs.
Piper finishes the first three chapters of her reading assignment at half past 6, and sighs as she realizes she really needs to go downstairs to make her brothers some dinner. "It's not because dad feels guilty that he can just abandon his children to take their mother out for dinner so she'll forgive him" Piper thinks to herself. Good thing the reading assignment isn't for the next day. She gets up from her chair, grabs her phone from her desk, and heads downstairs to find something she can cook as dinner. She puts her phone down on the breakfast bar, and starts her search. She finds some pizzas in the freezer, and gets them out to put in the oven. She preheats the oven, and when it's ready, she puts the pizzas in.
"Danny, Cal, dinner will be ready in 15 minutes!" Piper yells into the hall. She hears two okay's resonating through the hallway, and gets back in the kitchen.
As she unlocks her phone, she sees that she got a couple of new text messages. Two from Polly, one from her dad, asking her how the boys are doing, and one text from an unknown number. She types a quick reply to her dad, stating that everything's fine. Polly asks her about something to do with an assignment, and she replies with a text saying she will look into it later, she's taking care of dinner now. She opens the text she got from a number she doesn't know, looking at the sign-off at the end. "Larry? How the fuck did he get my number? I don't remember giving it to him …" Piper starts to wonder where he got her number.
Larry: Hey Piper, I was wondering if you've changed your mind about the whole dating thing, I really like you and I really want to try to change your mind. I wanna take you out, please? Please let me know, hope your answer is positive J Alright, well I'll hear from you. See you tomorrow at school Pipes. Xx Larry
"Dammit, he's persistent. What part of 'I don't date' does he not understand?" Piper feels the annoyance and slight anger building up in the pit of her stomach, and is about to reply to Larry, wanting to be blunt about the whole matter when the timer goes off, indicating that the pizzas are ready. As if they knew, her brothers enter the kitchen right at the same time.
"Take a seat guys, I'll bring you your pizzas," Piper tells her brothers. She gets the pizzas out of the oven, plates them and takes them to the dinner table, and goes back to retrieve some cutlery for her and the boys, and takes her seat. They eat in silence, not really wanting to address the problem with their parents. They all know their dad is cheating on their mom, but every time they mention it to their mom, somehow they get the punishment. It happened a couple of times, and they've learned to simply keep quiet about the problems in the Chapman household.
Alex roars her motor to life, and speeds off the parking lot, wanting to get home as soon as possible. Her first day as a substitute wasn't the best day of her life, if anything it was just plain awkward. Her classes aren't that bad, not too many troublemakers in any of the groups. Some boys tried to hit on her, but she doesn't do men, let alone teenage boys with too much fantasy and zits. One girl preoccupied her mind all day, Piper Chapman. She didn't really know why, but somehow, this girl sparked her interest. Alex wasn't anything like her in her teenage years, yet that lost, hurt look always present in her eyes was something Alex was painfully familiar with.
She only met her today, and already she had the urge to wrap the blonde in her arms, kiss her pain away and never let her go again. "How can she have such a hold over me already? I met her only a couple of hours ago …" Alex's mind is working out why she certainly feels so strong about someone, when she's normally the one to 'fuck-em-and-leave-em'. Alex doesn't do feelings, she hasn't done for a while, and everyone she meets is aware of that. So how is it possible that someone she barely even spoke to makes her feel so much? Alex hopes the feelings will subside, and she'll be able to return to her carefree life very soon.
Alex arrives at her apartment block, drops her motorcycle in the underground parking lot, and heads to the elevator. As she pushes the button to open the doors, her phone starts ringing. She takes it out of her pocket, and looks at the caller ID: "Nicks". "I wonder what she wants …", Alex thinks to herself while she picks up.
"What's up, Nicky?" Alex asks.
"Wow Vause, no "hello Nicky, how are you today?", you pissed off or somethin'?" Nicky replies.
"I know you're calling for a reason Nichols, just lay it on me already," Alex replies with boredom laced in her voice. "She probably wants to go out to find some girl to fuck again, and I get to be her 'wing-woman' again, great" Alex's mind is even dripping in sarcasm.
Alex's suspicions are confirmed as she hears Nicky's reply: "Okay you got me Vause, I need you to be my wing-woman tonight Stretch, please? I need to get laid man, I feel like I'm going soft." Alex chuckles as she steps into the elevator and presses the button for the third floor.
"Okay fine Nichols, but don't think I don't know the real reason behind tonight. Nicky Nichols, the girl with the heart of ice finally found someone to get through to it. Admit it Nichols," Alex chuckles as she hears Nicky groan in annoyance at the other end of the line.
"Okay fine Vause, but please? You know you wanna do this, it's been a while since you had any action too, you're losing your touch. What happened to THE womanizer of the Big Apple?" Nicky retorts.
"Nothing happened to that touch Nicky, and you know it. I just wanted to prepare for this new teaching gig I started today, you know trying to get my shit together." Alex replies truthfully. She really needed to get her shit together, she did some messed up things, and she needs to up her game.
"Okay fine, will pretend I believe you. So, you up for it?" Nicky wants to know.
"Yeah sure, let's go out tonight Nicks, text me the details, okay?" Alex is ready to try anything to get her blonde student off of her mind.
"Yeah okay Stretch, catch ya later, alright?" Nicky replies.
"Yeah, see you tonight, Nichols. Bye!" Alex finishes the conversation and hangs up.
She gets out of the elevator, and makes her way to her apartment, 3H. She takes her keys out of her bag, unlocks her front door, steps in, and closes the door behind her. She drops her bag on the floor near the little table in the hall, tosses her keys on it, and makes her way to the kitchen. Alex's apartment is nothing too big, just right for her. She has everything she needs in her one-bedroom apartment. Dark hardwood floors everywhere, eggshell white walls almost everywhere, except for the rare darker colored wall in the living room and in her bedroom. She has little trinkets everywhere, as well as pictures of her and her mom on her cupboards.
Alex heads towards the fridge, takes out a bottle of water and takes a large swig. She needs something to freshen her mouth and mind, she's been feeling slightly out of it lately. And it doesn't help matters that she can't seem to take her mind off of her new student. "Why am I still thinking about her? It's not like she's special in any way. Yeah she's beautiful, gorgeous legs, nice ass, little perky boobs, and a pretty face … wait what am I doing?" Alex starts to wonder off. She shakes her head, trying to rid her mind of the thoughts that just crossed her mind. She goes into her bedroom, trying to figure out what she's gonna wear tonight. Most people think she looks hot whatever she's wearing, but she really wants to look good tonight, to impress the ladies. They'll probably throw themselves at Alex once she pulls out the in the meantime famous Vause charm. Alex smirks to herself: "Let's get laid tonight."
Hope you enjoy this chapter, wanted to make it longer for you all. Let me know what you think so far! :) Until next time :)
