Chapter 1
Piper Chapman sat on the cold, hard floor of the SHU. She had been taken there immediately after she had been questioned. They had removed her clothing until she was almost naked except for her bra and underwear. They had put the rest of her clothes into brown paper bags as evidence before giving her new cloths to wear. They had left her sitting in a cold room for a long time before more people had been brought in to question her; questions that had gone on for hours.
They were charging her with murder.
Well, they would be if Pennsatucky died, The last Piper had heard was that she was being operated on. God, Piper laughed at the irony, she was praying to God, she hoped that stupid hillbilly lived.
Piper just wanted to see Alex again and tell her how sorry she was. She had made a mistake in choosing Larry. She didn't want the guy who knew when to order Chinese she wanted adventure. She wanted the tall, hot girl who made her crazy.
She wanted to go back and do it all over again.
God help her she'd do it all the same.
That was the sad and pathetic thing. Piper realized there was nothing in her life she would have changed. Even finding Larry for a while was something good, but now with Alex back in her life all she could see was her.
Only Alex.
She tried to picture her life with Larry and everything becomes fuzzy and impossible to grab onto. The idea of Larry was a good one. A good man; and he was a good man and he would be a good husband but she could not see him, not clearly.
Alex she could see. She could see them running on some distant beach; hand in hand. Laughing. Fucking. And laughing again. She could even see them raising a family together.
Why couldn't she see that with Larry?
Piper knew it was a moot point if Pennsatucky died; She would be moved to Max and she would be given a life sentence. She would never see Alex again. Larry might have waited a year but twenty? Piper laughed at the thought.
No, even she wasn't vain enough to think he would wait that long, even if he still loved her. If Pennsatucky died her future died with her. Piper knew she should call her lawyer, but she didn't really want to speak with Larry's father who never really liked her anyway. No, this way was better. Maybe she would get lucky and Pennsatucky would wake up and tell them all about Healy and Piper would be allowed to stay at Litchfield. Piper knew they would charge her with something, they had to but maybe it would be something small, a few years and not a few decades.
Maybe she would be alright.
Maybe she could still be with Alex.
Maybe they could still have their future.
Piper stood up as she heard the door of her cell begin to open...