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The next day after school I went to the theater and quit. I told my manager that Alex would take over for me. After that I went to Alex's apartment and when I knocked on her door Jay answered.
"What do you want?"
"To talk to Alex. Now let me in."
"I don't think so. You talking to Alex has caused enough problems."
"I know but I can fix one of them. I quit my job so Alex can have hers back."
"Thanks but no thanks. Alex already has another job. I called a friend of mine this morning and he got Alex the job."
Oh great now I don't have a job or a way to talk to Alex. I'm starting to think things will never work out like I plan them.
"Where is she working?"
"Zanzibar"
I tried to think if I knew what that place was but it didn't sound familiar at all.
"What is she going to be doing there?" I asked but Jay had already gone back inside.
This situation is becoming more disastrous every day. I'm doing the worst job ever of making things right with Alex and now I don't have a job. Plus I'm curious now about what Zanzibar is. I went to Hazel's house. I thought maybe she would know about Zanzibar and we could go check it out together. When I got there I saw Jimmy was also there.
"Hey Paige. What's up?"
"Not much. I was just wondering if you ever heard of a placed called Zanzibar."
"No"
I noticed Jimmy started to smile when he heard the word Zanzibar.
"What are you so happy about?"
"Nothing I know where Zanzibar is. I say we go check it out."
So we did. It looked like a club. The name was lit up in neon lights. I thought maybe Alex was the new bartender. I was so very wrong. As soon as we walked inside there I realized what Zanzibar was. I saw the stages with poles and girls dancing on them. Some men were being led to backrooms by girls. Zanzibar was a strip club. Alex was now a stripper. As if it wasn't bad enough that I knew she was a stripper just then the next girl who was coming out was announced. Her stage name was Lextacy. I saw Alex come out on stage and start to dance. Then she took off the robe she was wearing. All the men cheered and clapped. I couldn't look. I have seen her naked before but up on stage it seemed so degrading. I didn't want all these people looking at her either. I still felt like she was mine. But in this world she was dating Jay and I saw him sitting up front. He didn't have a problem with people looking at her. In fact he was enjoying the show. I spotted Jimmy and Hazel and walked over to them. Hazel was covering Jimmy's eyes with her hand and she looked shocked.
"Let's go."
"Yeah" Hazel agreed.
I stopped going to spirit squad practice and paying attention in my classes. I broke up with Spinner. I couldn't pretend I was interested in dating him anymore. It all seemed so pointless. If I could never make Alex like me in this world me then I would never go back to the world where she loved me but I couldn't stop trying. I thought maybe when she comes back to school I could talk to her about quitting her job at Zanzibar and I could help her get a new one. I figure I have a better chance of talking to her about work because I know there's no way she likes her job now. I know more about Alex than she thinks I do and I can tell that if she keeps this job it will ruin her on the inside. She'll think she can't do any better than that job and will be stuck there for life never reaching her full potential. I've seen how hard she can work in school and I need to convince her to try harder and find a better job. But unfortunately she never came back to school. I was so excited the day she was supposed to comeback but she was absent. Then a week went by and then another one. People started saying she dropped out and the teachers stopped calling her name when taking attendance. I went to her apartment one day after school and her mom told she moved out and lived with Jay now. She didn't know where Jay lived though. I thought maybe Spinner might know were Jay lived but he refused to talk to me after I broke up with him. So now I'm sitting in my room trying to figure out how to find out where Jay lives. I go for a walk to the park. Maybe I'll see the matrix guy. Though I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. All he seems to do is take all the mistakes I've made and rub them in my face.
"Thinking about me," He said as he walked beside me.
"No I'm thinking about how to make Alex like me like I have been since the first time you talked to me."
"I'll give you a hint about all this because you are so pathetic on your own. Stop thinking about Alex so much. Start worrying about yourself. Because if you haven't noticed your really messing her life up. This whole trying to help thing isn't working at all. Unless you want your life to get worse I would do better in school and focus on all your stuff. You keep asking me for help and there it is. Now I must be on my way."
Just like always I watched him walk away. Do better in school. That's his tip. That's something your parents tell you. I don't see how it will help me that much. He's probably just saying that so I will stop trying to get Alex to like me and I'll be stuck here longer. I bet that's what he wants. He enjoys seeing me suffer. He wants to see me fail. Well I'm not going to fail because of lack of effort. I'm smarter than him anyway. I can do better in school and find out where Alex is living and then I will talk to her and make things better. Take that matrix guy. I can do both. Someone should have told him not to mess with Paige Michalchuk. Maybe that's what I'm really supposed to do. Keep trying to get Alex back. Maybe it doesn't even matter if I do. I just have to show him that no matter what happens I will always want to be with Alex and will never stop trying to be with her.
Another week went by. Finally I decided to try and get the address from Spinner. He's had a week to deal with our breakup. He should be fine. At least I hope. I went to the Dot to see him.
"Hey Spin could you do me a huge favor?"
"I'm not your boyfriend. I don't have to but I will because you'll always be my friend."
"Thank you so much. Could you tell me where Jay lives?"
He gave me the address and now I'm standing outside their door. I knocked and no one answered. I knocked again louder still no one answers. I try opening the door and it opens. I see that the apartment is empty. Nobody lives here anymore. I ask the landlord about it and he tells me they moved out yesterday but he doesn't know where they are. So now I've decided to go to Zanzibar and try and figure some things out. When I get there I ask one of the waitresses if Alex Nunez is working today. She told me Alex doesn't work there anymore. For a moment I'm happy that Alex is no longer a stripper. Then I ask her if she knows where she is working now. She tells me at a different strip club. She tells me the owner of this one owns a whole bunch all over Canada and Alex needed to be transferred because she was moving but this girl doesn't know where she moved. Nobody does. Now I have no idea what I'm supposed to do next.