Vauseman Vs Nichman

Piper

Piper didn't know where she stood with Alex or Nicky. Piper wasn't even sure after all that happened between them all that she wanted to be in any relationship, at least for now anyways. She had been through alot in the past few months even years of her life that involved two people.  None of her relationships were ever drama free but Piper loved a bit of adventure in her life and drama usually followed suit. Sure she still loved Alex and she still had feelings for Nicky but she just wasn't ready to commit to either. She wanted to find herself. Piper wanted to not have to need someone but to want them. She needed to find herself to love herself and it just sucked that she has to do this in a prison with her ex girlfriend and her best friend in the same place. Piper had no choice, she couldn't be happy until she found herself.

Piper would talk to Alex and Nicky during meal times and talk with Alex at work but the rest of the time she would go about her day to day stuff alone. She liked the quiet. Piper also surprisingly enough liked not having to be afraid of getting caught with Alex or getting yelled at by a guard. Her life got simple. It was sleep, eat/socialize, work, read and sleep. Piper never thought her life would turn out to be an ongoing schedule. Piper never complained about it though, she had set up this schedule herself. If anyone was any bit happier about this new Piper it was Healy. He loved the fact that she had stopped sleeping with the "dumb bitch Alex Vause". That meant no lesbian activity. Piper still laughed on the inside because Healy never sees Nichols as a lesbian. Piper knows that Vause and Nichols have been having "comfort" sex for about a month now. She still isn't bothered by it. Alex is no longer her girlfriend and neither is Nicky they are free women, well as free as you can be in a prison. 

With Piper no longer being so reliant on Alex or Nicky as company, she's bridged a new friendship with Poussey, Taystee, Black Cindy and So-So and occasionally she would hang with Crazy eyes but only if one of the other girls were hanging with her. They called her their Taylor swift. Not just because she was really white but also because she would sing. Piper liked to sing and she's been singing a lot recently. The gang would be outside in the yard and bust out some tunes. They were really starting to bond. Piper would help out Poussey and Taystee in the library sometimes after her own work shift just before dinner. They were quite the squad. 

Whilst Piper was enjoying being herself for once in her life with no parents, no Alex and no Larry to stop her. Alex and Nicky were sadly Jealous of the crew that she had formed in a short period of a week. Nicky missed the Vause and Chapman drama. It was like watching your favorite T.V show and then because of not many ratings it gets cancelled just before it gets anywhere. Alex just missed her company. She never thought Piper would ever just drop off the face of her universe. She always just thought she would come running back to her even if she did majorly fuck up and hurt her so badly that Piper would come back. However, this time she was no where to be seen. She rarely came by to see Alex. They only really had short conversations during work. Alex did but also didn't like this new Piper, she missed the Piper at that bar so many years ago with that terrible resume looking for a job and buying that stupid maragretia in the wrong season. Alex still smiles at that memory, she always has and always will. 

Nicky felt bad for both her and Vause, Chapman had become so much of their lives in the almost 2 years of them being in Litchfield together. She still had Vause but something was missing that something was Piper Chapman. Nicky tried to keep hers and Vause's spirts high that Chapman would one day return and sit with them but Nicky wasn't so sure. Nicky was lonely as Vause was with her counselor so Nicky decided to go and see Piper. Before Nicky even reached the library she could hear someone singing. Nicky peered into the Library and saw Piper staring out of foggy window looking up into the sky singing. Piper hadn't seen her and she sighed and started to sing.

Like a small boat
On the ocean
Sending big waves
Into motion
Like how a single word
Can make a heart open
I might only have one match
But I can make an explosion

And all those things I didn't say
Wrecking balls inside my brain
I will scream them loud tonight
Can you hear my voice this time?

This is my fight song
Take back my life song
Prove I'm alright song
My power's turned on
Starting right now I'll be strong
I'll play my fight song
And I don't really care if nobody else believes
'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me

Losing friends and I'm chasing sleep
Everybody's worried about me
In too deep
Say I'm in too deep (in too deep)
And it's been two years
I miss my home
But there's a fire burning in my bones
Still believe
Yeah, I still believe

And all those things I didn't say
Wrecking balls inside my brain
I will scream them loud tonight
Can you hear my voice this time?

This is my fight song
Take back my life song
Prove I'm alright song
My power's turned on
Starting right now I'll be strong
I'll play my fight song
And I don't really care if nobody else believes
'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me

A lot of fight left in me