A/N: Hey guys! So this is the first chapter of my new fic! I really enjoyed writing this, so i hope you all like it! I plan on continuing this for a while, after all we do have a long hiatus. So i hope this will help pass the time!

This story will revolve around Alex and Piper, but will also feature a lot of Nicky.
So i hope you all enjoy this!

1.

It was the first day of tenth grade. Piper knew she had to really start focusing on her grades and be focused. Grade nine for Piper was a mess. Her marks dropped a bit, but enough for her father to get angry at her.

Piper started off her year by running 10 minutes late. "I'm going to kill Cal for changing my clock." She said as she raced to find her class.

She walked into her class to find a whole tone of students sitting and talking to each other. The teacher was paying no attention to what was going on. Piper looked around the class and spotted two of her friends in the back of the class. She walked over to the two of them and sat down beside her friend Sarah.

"So what's with this teacher?" Piper asked.

"He's known to be some really laid back guy, but a really hard marker. for whenever he gives us stuff to be marked." Sarah replied.

Piper looked over at him. He was sitting there reading the paper and drinking coffee. He was a younger looking guy.

The class started to get louder as more people showed up late.

"Hey, have you guys ever seen her before?" said Pipers other friend, Kathryn. She was pointing over to the girl who was just walking into the class.

Everyone in the room got a tiny bit quieter. People had stopped talking about whatever they were talking about before, and started talking about the new girl. No one was being subtle about it. Not even Kathryn or Sarah.

There were only two seats left in the class. One in the front of the room, and one in the back near Piper.

The girl walked to the back of the room and sat down in the seat diagonal from Piper. Kathryn shot her a look, and then turned back to Sarah and Piper.

"hey, new girl." Sarah said.

The girl turned around and looked at the three of them. "Yeah?"

"What's your name?" Kathryn asked.

"Uh, it's Alex…" she replied. She opened her bag and pulled out a book. She turned around and opened up her book and started to read.

Alex was a tall girl, who had black hair, glasses with big black frames, and green eyes. She was wearing a black hoodie, a grey shirt, black skinny jeans, and worn out black converse.

"hey we weren't done talking to you!" Sarah said loudly. She took out her binder and got a pice of paper. She crumpled it up into a ball and then threw it at Alex.

The ball landed on Alex's desk right in front of her. Alex chuckled a bit and then turned to Sarah. "You may not be done talking to me, but i sure as hell am done talking to you."

Sarah had no idea how to reply to that. Kathryn looked angry and turned to Sarah, but didn't say anything.

Pipe was just sitting there watching the whole thing as if she wasn't even there. She wished she had the guts to actually tell them to stop being such assholes, but she couldn't. She just sat there and watched. Alex could hold her own, but Piper hated seeing her being treated like that for no reason.

Piper noticed a guy stand up. Todd Deeks. Piper had had a huge crush on him all through grade 9. She still had one now. He walked over towards her. He looked over at Alex for a second, and then ignored her presence.

"Hey Piper. How's it going?" He stood over her desk awkwardly. Sarah and Kathryn shot looks at each other and started to laugh. He looked over at them for a second and then back to Piper.

"It's uh, going well." She smiled at him and he knelt down at her desk.

"I was wondering if maybe you'd like to go out on a date with me on friday?"

Piper was shocked. This was something she had wanted for so long, and it felt so good to be asked. It also felt a little off because they had never really spoken a lot before. They worked together on a few science labs the year before. He would always make her laugh and he was really kind to her, but he never did much of the actual work. Piper didn't really notice, as she was too distracted by him actually being there.

"uh… I uh-" Piper couldn't manage to get out any full words. She looked over to Sarah and Kathryn who were laughing and whispering. Piper looked back to him, and then looked over to Alex for a second. "Yeah, i would really like that." She finally said.

"Cool. Here's my number. I'll see you on Friday." He stood up and walked back over to his desk.

Piper turned over to Sarah who had her head on her desk. She was laughing.

"What the hell is so funny?" Piper asked.

Sarah lifted her head and looked at Piper. "You are such an idiot. How are you going to be able to talk to him on a date when you can barley talk to him now?" She put her head back down and continued laughing. Piper just shot her and Kathryn a glare.

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First and second period was a bore. Alex's first two classes involved a lot of sitting around and doing nothing. Thankfully she had her books to keep her busy.

People were being jerks to her. During second period, their teacher left to take a phone call and never came back. After 5 minutes of the teacher being called, kids started to get really loud. Some kid with a plastic bottle of water decided it would be fun to throw it at someone. That someone ended up being Alex.

"What the hell man?" she said as she stood up, water dripping down from her head. The guy managed to hit her right on her head, with the cap taken off.

People just started to laugh.

she rolled her eyes, picked up her things and then started to leave the classroom. As she got to the final row of desks at the front, the kid sitting in one desk stuck her leg out, making Alex trip and fall on the floor.

Alex was use to this kind of stuff, so she didn't fall hard. She landed on her knees. It hurt a lot, but she just stood back up and walked out the door.

She left the school building. She looked around outside and saw a group of trees on one side, and a big tree on the other all on it's own. She decided to go to the single tree standing on its own.

It was a warm day, the sun shining brightly. Alex sat down in the shade leaning against the tree. She opened up her book. Only a few pages got wet. She was still very annoyed about it, but worse things had happened to more than one of her books before.

Before long groups of people started to pour out of the school. Thankfully no one had bothered to go near her.

Alex got lost in her book. She was so into it that she didn't realize that someone had actually come over there.

"Hey."

Alex looked up to see Piper standing over her with a small smile on her face.

"Uh, hey." She said.

Piper sat down beside her and gave her a little wave. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bother you. My friends and I normally sit here so…"

"Oh shit. Sorry. I can move." Alex pulled her bag closer, closed her book, and put it in her bag.

"No no. It's fine. My friends went to go buy food anyway. So i'd be alone here…"

"Oh uhm… Okay…" Alex didn't really know what to do. She had no idea who this girl was and she didn't really want to sit there with her in an awkward and uncomfortable silence. All Alex knew was that this girl was the nicest person she had met today. In fact, Piper was being nicer to her then anyone else had ever really been.

"Hey i'm sorry about my friends this morning. They were being assholes and well- i just want to apologize." Piper said as she turned her head so she could see Alex.

"Wait- Are you apologizing for them, or are you apologizing for just sitting on your ass and not saying anything to them?"

"I uhm… I was uh…" Piper once again, didn't know what to say. She looked away from Alex, and looked down.

"Wow. You are really easily flustered, aren't you?" Alex said laughing a bit. Piper just kept looking down. She looked kind of sad, and she looked like she was genuinely sorry about what had happened. "Your names Piper, right?"

"Yeah" She nodded her head and looked back at Alex.

"It's good to meet you Piper. I'm Alex." She stuck out her hand. Piper took her hand and grasped it firmly.

"It's nice to meet you." Piper smiled a small smile, which was enough for Alex to smile.

"I should probably be going somewhere else. I see your friends and we aren't big fans of each other. I'll see you later though." Alex stood up and grabbed her backpack and put one strap around her shoulder. She started to walk away.

Piper watched as Alex went and sat alone by herself. As Sarah and Kathryn and Amy spoke about boys and clothes, all Piper could think of was Alex. They had spent almost no time together, but already their conversation was ten times more interesting than the one being had now.

For the rest of the day Alex was all Piper could think about. This new girl who was being picked on for no good reason was someone special. Piper has always had friends, but she didn't see what she sees in Alex in any of them.

It was their conversation under the tree that made this one thing very clear;

Alex was different.