The next day while at work, Paige filled out a Leave of Absence form, dating it 5 days from now, which just meant that she now only had two more days left of the work week before her two off days started, then approved or not, she was going to drive back to Toronto, find Dylan and Marco and somehow get in touch with Alex. Paige never knew a heart could break so many times over one person, but from what happened last night into today, she felt as though her heart had broken and shattered at least a hundred times. I must be so crazy right now Paige thought to herself as she walked down the hall, what the hell am I going to say?! It's been over 3 years, its not like I can just walk up to her and tell her that she's making the biggest mistake of her life and that she needs to be with ME, not anybody else, especially not a guy! She came to the conclusion that if and when she finds Dylan and Marco she will not tell either of them about her plan of action, as they would probably think she has gone insane, so she'll just keep the information to herself, and figure out what to do, until then.

After lunch, Paige felt a little sick so she decided to take the rest of the day off. But as she got in her car to leave, she wasn't headed to go back to her apartment, instead, the car was headed towards Toronto.

"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!" she said aloud, "I'm a total stalker...holy shit!" she dialed Sarah's cell phone number but nobody answered so she left a message while going 75 down the highway, "hey hun, something came up at my parent's house and its really important that I be there. Call me back if you want or else I'll see you in a few days." and as she hung up, she knew that that was not going to fly with Sarah. Sarah could be a bit controlling at times but Paige knew that if she wanted her life to change she had to at least try something foolish. "its better to try and fail then to never have tried at all" she said to herself as she took a few deep breaths to try to calm herself down. She wasn't going to get to her parents house until nightfall. She called them up and let them know she was on her way to visit. They were very excited to hear her voice and that she was planning on coming to visit.

As she was driving, she remembered that there was a little restaurant outside of town where Alex's mom used to work and had worked for nearly 20 years. She figured maybe she could stop there to get something to eat and scope out the place, see if her mom still works there and if she can find out any information. But then she thought better of it. She'll just go to the restaurant to eat, she didn't want to stir up any dirt if she didnt have to.

She finally came upon the little restaurant, it was only about 20 minutes outside of town so she was glad that she was almost home. She went inside and waited to be seated.

The hostess walked up to her with a smile, "how many, just one?"

"yeah, just one" replied Paige trying not to look nervous.

"right this way please" smiled the hostess.

Just as Paige was walking behind the hostess to her table, a familiar face cut in front of her to get to the table full of people just next to her, "hi" chuckled the waitress.

"Hi" Paige replied back, Does she remember me? Did she just chuckle cuz she knows why I'm here?!"

"your table, miss" the hostess said, placing a menu on the table, "somebody will be right with you."

"thank you" Paige said as she took a seat and grabbed the menu. Looking from it to the busy waitress she remembered being Emily. She then buried her face into the menu, still trying to figure out who or what has taken over her mind—she was once sane and stable, but now she's insecure and foolish, and that is exactly why nobody should know why she's home.
"Do you know what you want to order?" a soft voice asked on the other side of the menu.

Paige quickly looked up, realizing it wasn't the waitress she was thinking it would be. She sighed in relief, "oh um. I think I'll just have a salad, but with lots of croutons."

"sure thing" replied the waitress before disappearing.

Before she knew it, Paige was back on the road again headed for home. As she passed certain landmarks and places, she couldn't help but reminisce about those places and how she and Alex used to picnic there or how they got into a big fight over there or how they would sneak off campus to go over there or...she shook her head, "not now!" she said to herself sternly, "focus, focus..." she grimaced, "what the hell am I doing here!?" and pulled into the driveway of her parent's home, "oh my god, I'm completely insane, I've lost my marbles, please tell me this is all just a bad dream, or that I'm in a coma and this is all just bad thoughts" she tightened her grip on the steering wheel before taking a deep breath and getting out of the car.

To her surprise it was Dylan who came running out of the house to greet her, "whats up Sis!" he yelled happily giving her a bear hug.

"Dylan!" she matched his excitement, "what are you doing here, I wasn't expecting to see you tonight!"

"Mom called and told me you were coming to visit, I dropped everything to come over, its been too long since we've seen each other!" He looked passed her, "where's Sarah?" he inquired.

She quickly changed the subject, "so how's Marco?"

The two walked into the house together, "he's good, he's good. He's missed you, ya know. Everybody has."

"I know-I've been--"
"PAIGE!!" screamed her parents as they rushed to greet her, "we're so glad you came home, tell us how you are, how's Sarah, how's work?"

Everybody laughed as everybody was trying to talk over each other. They had dinner and conversed a little more before her parents went off to bed. She and Dylan stayed up in the living room and talked about how things were going.

"So what are you really doing here?" Dylan inquired, raising an eyebrow.

"Hmm. Cant tell you" she replied nonchalantly.

"there's a reason you came back, and it's not about Mom and Dad, is it?"
"How do you know?" Paige inquired this time.

"let me let you in on a little secret, shall I? Have you ever heard of those myspace trackers?"
"yeah, so, they're fake, they dont work."
"not true." Dylan replied, "in fact, Marco has one on his page and what's cool about that particular tracker is that it shows where the person is at in real life."
Paige gulped, not sure where this was headed.

"you hadn't been to Marco's page in over a year, and now you're home so I put two and two together and you Must be here for him, right?!"

Paige was once again relieved then nodded with a smile, "exactly. He was my best friend in high school and we did live together before I just up and moved away without saying goodbye to anybody."

Dylan did a little dance, "I love reunions! Well, you'll see him tomorrow. But right now I've got to hit the hay so I'll see you in the AM."

As Paige made herself comfy on the couch she couldnt help but realize that what she was doing home was crazy and that nobody in their right mind would want to talk to their first love if they just showed up out of the blue like this. Again, Paige fell asleep even more confused, with even more things running through her brain.