Alex POV

I walked to my bunk later that night. As I was walking past the rooms down to my ghetto home I happened to walk past Pipers room. I caught a brief idea of what she was talking about but I didn't want to linger there for too long as much as I wanted to do exactly that, at the same time.

Apparently, we weren't the only ex-couple here that happened to fall into the same prison. Good for her for getting tips on surviving prison with me in here, cause I was that much of a horrible person. I thought sarcastically and sighed audibly. " If you love her still, then you would trust her" are the words that stuck to me as I walked further away.

"There I finally did it. I finally talked to her. Now the stupid nagging voice inside my head can take a hike to another mind," I said aloud to no one in particular as I pulled my sheets atop of me. My bunk collegue was still awake.

"What did you do? Are you plotting on turning someone else gay and succeeding?" Leanne chimed in from meer feet away.

"I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear you and when the hell have I ever tried to do that?" I said. I got no answer. Exactly, thats what I had thought. Besides someone was still on my mind and I fell asleep thinking about her.

The next morning I awoke with the voice in my head silenced, thankfully, but with the urge to need to use the bathroom. I didnt bother with finding my glasses. I also didn't think I was going to be able to go back to sleep since it was an odd time of day.

I got back to my bunk and checked the time, it read 6:11am. People weren't going to be awake for another hour at best. I chose to pull out a book and read. I brought out my flashlight, adjusted my pillow and retreived my glasses and proceeded to read 'Tenth of December' by George Saunders. I stared a moment at my bookmark first and smiled before setting it aside.

It got much lighter out through the low barred windows in the ghetto as the minutes passed. Everybody around me started shuffling and waking up making their way to the showers.

As for myself, I neared the end of my chapter and decided that it was a good place to stop. I placed my happy marker, an old picture of me and Piper, into it and shut it closed then swung my legs over the side of my bunk and went to start my day.


Breakfast, work, then lunch had gone by with a blur. The conversation at lunch was minimal due to the fact that I couldn't pay attention and had been preoccupied and reminded about this exact time yesterday. Worry had flooded over me the more that I thought and learned about Piper being a transfer inmate. These types of inmates don't ever say much, but from what I do know they usually come from a shitty prison environment. I hated to think that Piper was put in that situation early on. The protector part of me needed to know if she was okay.

Is it silly of me to want to know if she was okay? I mean she is now an adult much older than when I first met her as a kid. Surely she could take care of herself. I decided to not force myself to hunt her out but let her come to me if she felt so inclined to do so.

Here in prison we had workshops that happened bi-weekly today happened to be one of those days. It was scheduled for shortly after lunch. It was something about learning to work in groups with people you didn't know. I figured what the hell, lets go. As I was making my way down to the common room, as it was the location booked for this event today, I saw Piper walking past me. I wondered where she was walking to before it clicked that she had that meeting with her lawyer. Shit.

I let myself walk a few steps before I called out her name, I didnt even turn around to her as I called. I hoped that as I turned she would be there waiting.

"What Alex?" She said in a monotonous voice, waiting but looking irritated.

I walked up to where she waited, at the far end of the hall a guard overlooked, and did something I haven't done in approximately ten years. I placed my hand on the side of her arm and inhaled at the touch as she slightly jerked beneath it. I hadn't touched her in so long, not even at the chapel service yesterday. I stood a moment with emotion quickly filling my heart. 'Get back to your senses Alex, she doesn't want anything to do with you,' the voice inside my head started up.

"Alex, what do you want?" she restated but more calmly.

"I just wondered if you were, y'know, doing okay?" I said. "I want to check because I know some people that are transfers and they all come here fucked up. Please tell me," I pressed.

" Alex i'm fine, what can I say I had a rough first day there and it was much more unsanitary than it is here, which i'm grateful for by the way. but now I'm here... with you, and 200 other girls." she said waving her arm around as to point to the masses of girls.

"I'm sorry," I said. I felt like that wasn't good enough. I could be sorry for as long as she was here but it was the best I had for now.

She nodded and told me she had to go, I only wished she wasn't going to a place that was going to virtually seal my fate.


I tried not to think about the situation too much and walked into the common room. I was early, but I wasnt the only one in the room. Pornstache was here too, and he was staring at me with that dumb smirk on his face like I wanted some of him, creep. I balled my hands into fists and rolled my eyes. He disgusted me. I scanned the room and counted so far nine inmates. "Oh great" I groaned under my breath, my own personal inmate chick was here. No, not piper, but the girl that constantly loves to stare at me. I thought about opting out then.

From the looks of it they had organized a speaker and a short exercise for us. I saw a total of seven tables. A top the tables were a stack of paper and a couple rolls of tape.

Moments later a bunch of random girls walked into the room, and in the middle of the pack stood Piper. It seemed rather too soon. I walked and stood next to her.

"How'd it go?" I was afraid to ask.

"My lawyer flopped out on me. Next weekend. You're lucky Vause. Instead the guards told me a workshop was going on and that I should go. So here I am," she told me. I smiled at the turnout.

"Here you are indeed." I repeated.

"Oh my gosh, my room mate is here!" Piper exclaimed suddenly as I watched her wave at said girl.

"Oh jesus mercy on me, Piper are you kidding me, that's the girl who thinks its cool to stare me down everytime she sees me." I told her shocked as I saw this inmate walk towards us.

"Shhh, Alex, she's pretty cool, i'll introduce you," Piper had told me beaming.

The Corrections Officers told us to shut up then as we were about to finally begin. There were exactly twenty-one girls here and we got divided separately into groups of three before anything else happened. It was me, Piper, and her roommate who I chose to deal with just so I can spend more time with my Pipes.

The speaker did her little introduction and presentation before instructing us on the task ahead.

"So girls, you all chose to be here today on your own accord. We have got a little exercise for you now to illustrate what we have learned about the importance of working as a team in a group with an unknown set of people. Infront of you you will find paper and tape. Your task is, as a team work together to build the tallest, sturdiest tower possible with the given items in 10 minutes. The winning group is presented extra free time off work and a yummy day of breakfast, lunch, and dinner, from your very own Red," she had told us. I had honestly thought this was a waste of paper and tape, two valuable items we could use for other better needs than this.

"This is such a waste of tape and paper," Piper whispered from next to me. Leave it to her to voice my thoughts aloud. Her roommate chuckled. I told her I know.

We got to work, as usual I took the role of the leader.

"Okay, Piper cut these sheets in half then make them into cylinders. You, sorry, who are you again? Can you do the same please? And i'll make bigger cylinders with the full sheet of paper and combine them to make it taller," I led.

" Sure Vausey, and i'm just another inmate," she prounounced my name in such a way that she put an accent on the end of it like my first ex always did, and with the same intensity and pitch too. She smiled at me and I could see her, seated across from me, stare down toward my chest.

" Alex this is, Emily," Piper quickly introduced as she worked.

" Piper, piper, I need a last name, NOW." I told her specifically with such urgency. I could not help the anger, shock, and my emotions in totality seep from my lips.

"Inmates, keep it civilized!" Pornstache has ordered to our group directly.

" I don't know what her last name is, she only answers by her first name right," she told me while looking at her roommate. The Emily chick nodded from across me.

" Piper can I talk to you quickly, alone," I started to get up.

" Alex, we have a task to do, now is not the moment to have freaking revelations. Chillax please I want to win," Piper told me. Okay, okay, I'll do this for Piper.

We worked fast and diligently, unfortunately we worked well as a group of three, as the time dwindled down. The judge came around each groups tower and from the looks of it people either gave up because they couldnt work together, or their tower sucked. Point proven. The judge came to our group, and just smiled and nodded then left.

All the while, I tried to avoid Emily's eyes... no fucking shit her eyes were the same fucking color too. How could I not notice it before, I was still very angry. But she looked so different. This couldn't be possible. Piper had even mentioned she was her friend. This fucking sucks.

I balled my hands into fists for a second time in this room today, and my Piper noticed and put her hand on my leg, calming me by many degrees. This showed me that she had no clue what I was mad at, but she knew that there was something pissing me off.

At that the speaker broke in, "Okay well done ladies, all of you. Clearly we see that some groups work well together, and some other do not. Now I bet you are wondering who is the winner. That award goes to this group over here," the speaker pointed towards us. "Congrats girls."

Piper couldn't contain her happiness anymore that she exploded into giving me a huge victory hug. I easily wrapped my arms around her but not with the will that I wanted to.

In my even voice possible, i said with a smile, "look at that Pipes, we always did work well together." I smiled my charming smile that always gets her. I had my hands on the table and Emily from across from me had the audacity to reach across the table and hold my hand, "We worked well too, Vausey," she told me.

I turned to look at Piper's reaction and her face was so twisted in confusion that I jerked my hand away so fast from Emily. I had hoped confusion was all Piper felt.

I, on the other hand was almost certain I was seated with two of my exes, and I needed to find a way to deal with it. Way to fuck me over prison, way to fuck me over.


A/N- Heres a quick one. Alex is feeling the pressure now, isn't she? Check back to see how she handles it. May keep the POV on Alex or Piper for multiple chapters in a row, so don't be surprised. Feedback=motivation.