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"The toxic friendship-romance between Piper and Alex on Orange Is the New Black can best be described by the relationship status &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s complicated.&amp;quot; The situation gets even more muddled in season two, when Alex crosses paths with Piper again as they&amp;#039;re headed to trial and asks her to lie on stand. Piper refuses and (naturally) everything backfires because both of them switch up their planned testimonies. Good news: Alex is free! Bad news: The drug dealer she snitched on may or may not be trying to kill her. Cue a paranoid Alex sleeping with a gun. [Spoiler] Piper then selfishly tricks Alex into violating parole in the season finale, which means her pal is returning to Litchfield for season three. Yay? Cosmopolitan.com spoke with actress Laura Prepon about her regular return to the show, Nicky vs. Piper, and why you&amp;#039;ll likely never see Prepon on Match.com. You&amp;#039;ve said that men don&amp;#039;t ask you out much because your being a career person scares them. Have you gone on any wacky dates lately? Girl, I have not gone on one date! Like, seriously. At all. When I&amp;#039;m working, it&amp;#039;s next to impossible. I like to think I&amp;#039;ll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, Oh my god, you&amp;#039;re awesome, and then we start dating. But, no. [Laughs] I do not know what&amp;#039;s happening. But also right now, I&amp;#039;m back in New York, I&amp;#039;m totally focusing on season three, and I&amp;#039;m totally fine \u2014 because guys occupy a lot of attention space in your mind. When I&amp;#039;m working, living in a new place, it&amp;#039;s kind of cool I don&amp;#039;t have to deal with that right now. That being said, it&amp;#039;d be cool to meet a cool New Yorker. But that hasn&amp;#039;t happened yet.  Have you heard of Tinder? I would never use it ... First of all, I can&amp;#039;t use it. I have friends who use it and most of it is terrible, but some of them have been on some good dates. If you weren&amp;#039;t famous, would you try it? I don&amp;#039;t know. One of my friends actually met a guy that she&amp;#039;s now engaged to. First guy she met on the dating site, and now they&amp;#039;ve been together for two years and they&amp;#039;re getting married. That is extremely rare. All the other stories are train wrecks and they&amp;#039;re hilarious. I like when they go on these dates because they come back and tell me the whole story. Alex had a limited presence this season, but it&amp;#039;s confirmed that you&amp;#039;re back on for season three in pretty much every episode. Yeah, it&amp;#039;s really exciting. I can&amp;#039;t wait because I really missed the girls when I wasn&amp;#039;t there, and I missed my character so much.  Has Alex softened up a little in these two seasons? I think we&amp;#039;re really seeing this vulnerable side to her. You see her in season two be scared for her life. She&amp;#039;s a tough girl. You don&amp;#039;t normally see someone like her in that position. You get to see a totally softer side to Alex. It kind of rattles you a little bit.  I&amp;#039;m sure viewers can&amp;#039;t wait to see the banter between Alex and Nicky again. I know! Nicky&amp;#039;s such a cool character. She did an impression of Alex this season that was spot-on. I did see that. I think she basically just lowered her voice and pulled her shirt out to have bigger boobs [laughs]. I thought that was really funny, because I&amp;#039;ve had a deep voice since I was a little kid. When I was 12 years old, I sounded like this. If you had to choose Piper or Nicky as Alex&amp;#039;s love interest for season three, which would you prefer? I would definitely say Piper because she loves her, so if that were to happen \u2014 I&amp;#039;m not allowed to say anything \u2014 I would say she would choose Piper. But people are gonna have to wait and see. So far, we&amp;#039;re on episode three, and it&amp;#039;s shaping up to be a really incredible season. I feel like with season one, you have to do a lot of reiterating and exposition just to keep the audience knowing who people are. Season two, you expand on that with awesome storylines. And then, season three, the audience knows who everybody is so then you can really blow it out the water. Follow Clover on Twitter. Photo Credit: Getty Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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