HEY! Another story, another day! I'm sick, so I didn't go to school and I decided to write another Palex story. I just kinda threw something together, but mostly, it's before The Lexicon of Loveand it's all about Alex and being gay! It's gonna be rated T, but the rating might go up or down later. Just wanna be safe for right now.

Disclaimer: I don't own Degrassi... damnit.

One more thing, I am aware that I have some spelling and grammer mistakes, but spell check told me it was fine. BLAME SPELL CHECK! Now... enjoy!

Just Another Palex Story

Chapter 1: Cheesy Karma

"God damnit!" Alex slammed her fist on the pump, but everything refused to come out.

"Hey Paige! The nacho cheese pump is broken AGAIN! Can I get a hand?" She called out over to a tall blonde helping an old man and what looked to be his granddaughter.

"Kinda busy right now, Alex. Maybe you just need to refill it or clean it out or something!" Paige called back over her shoulder. Alex crossed her arms and glared a hole into the cheese pump.

"I just refilled it and we cleaned it about an hour ago. It's evil… pure evil. Speaking of evil, where is Merri?" Paige pointed to outside the lobby. Alex turned her head to see that Merri was indeed outside having a smoke.

"She's on her fifth pack." Said the blonde before turning to help some pre-teens in line. Alex sighed in frustration and leaned up against the counter looking 'cool'. But before she could get comfortable, Marco ran up to Alex.

"Hey Alex! Got a minute?" Marco said, slightly out of breath.

"What can I do for ya?" Alex replied. She began to looking at her nails and blew Marco off.

"Alex, you know I hate it when you do that. I just have something to say." Alex turned away from her nails to focus on her gay companion.

"Fine. Five minutes. I have a job after all." Marco snorted and briefly turned to look at Merri.

"Okay, as one of her best friends, I need to know something… are you gay?" Alex froze at his question and blinked in confusion.

"W-What? NO! Of course not! Where the hell did you get that idea?" Alex flustered in embarrassment as she realized that they weren't alone and prayed to the god she didn't believe in to make sure no one heard that. Marco shook his head.

"Gay people have a little something called a 'gaydar'. It means we can tell if someone else is gay. Whenever I'm in the same room with you, it goes off. Whenever we're in a room and Paige enters, it freaks out and goes temporarily 'out of order'. Is there something you're not telling me, Alex?" Alex starred shocked at Marco before her face turned darker red.

"I'M NOT GAY! I DO NOT LIKE GIRLS LIKE THAT!" Alex began waving her arms franticly and leaned into the cheese pump, which covered her in nacho cheese.

"I never said you liked GIRLS! I said you liked PAIGE!" Marco chuckled at Alex's predicament. Alex glared at him.

"I don't like PAIGE like that either. And I don't see where you come off pointing fingers at people. For all we know, you gaydar is dead." Alex flipped Marco off and began to clean up the nacho cheese.

"See Alex, you're in denial and the cheese thing, totally karma. When you're ready to admit the truth, I'll be around." And with that, Marco left the theater. At the same time, Paige finished with the rest of the customers in line and walked over to where Alex was.

"Alex, I could've used your… Alex? What happened?" Alex was angrily mopping up the nacho cheese and scowled at anything the moved.

"Nothing happened. Just Marco being stupid and the stupid pump was being stupid!" Paige giggled at her friend and helped clean up the cheese. About a half hour later, the cheese was gone off the floor and counter, the pump had been refilled, but Alex still stood there with her cheese soaked clothes. This is how Merri found her.

"Alex? You better not have been fooling around. It's almost time to close up, so do you girls think you can handle it. I need to go." Paige nodded and Merri left.

"So Alex, are you going home or can you help me close up?" Alex sighed.

"I can't go home tonight… my mom… is out with her boyfriend and… I don't have a key. Yeah!" Alex smiled at Paige hoping to get off the subject.

"Then where are you sleeping tonight?" Alex scratched her head.

"Women's shelter?" Paige shook her head 'no'.

"Go get changed out of your work clothes, help me close up, and you can come stay at my house for the night. No but's!" Paige left Alex to soak in what had just happened.

"Er… okay!" And Alex left to get changed out her of sticky cheese clothes.

To Be Continued...

So... what'da think? Since it's only my first chapter... I just want a couple of reviews before I continue with the second chapter. Ideas would be good cause I'm a little lost! L8ter all!