"Lucas is in for it if he keeps going to Atlantic City and blowing the money."

"If he keeps it up were doomed." Gina joked.

Alex walked into the back room. She looked into her locker and asked her sofa bond friend, "Lucas where's my CD case?"

"I put it into the draw cause we had a small issue before." She went into the draw and grabbed it.

"Thanks." Alex walked out of the room.

"Joe, I need to talk to you."

"What is it? Do you know how to get my money?"

"I think we have another problem."

"What can be more important?"

"I think Alex and Deb are in some of trouble."

"Like what?"

"I don't know but Deb's shaved her head again and something is up with Alex. Her wrists have some cuts on them. I don't know what's wrong with her."

"I'll go talk to them." Joe walked out of the room then stuck his head back in, "NO LEAVING THE SOFA!!!!!!!"

Joe walked in to the store to the sounds of Bad Reputation blaring, while Gina was on the Mike saying "This goes out to those bad girls of Empire Records, Alex and Deb."

"Gina where Alex?" Joe asked her.

"I think she's on brake. So check the roof or the Creed box." She said handling one of the costumers. "What's wrong?"

"I'll tell you later." He said while looking in the boxes. He found that she was on the roof. She was in one of the back corners where she would always sit when she was doing working on paper work or just taking five. She was sitting with her laptop open and her headphones on. "Alex." He sat down next to her.

She took off her headphones. "What is it Joe? I'm almost done with this budget form."

"What's wrong?" He asked.

"Nothings wrong. I just have some issues." She said with out taking her eyes from the laptop.

"Alex look at me. I know what you're going through. I've dealed with this before."

"Do you know how hard it is to be so different that there is only one person who will even look at you with respect. Even then he doesn't even like you due too a stupid rumor saying that you were everything you hated and that you were going to kill someone that you cared about. They thought that I would kill my... well at that time boyfriend and the jocks at my school. He thought it was the truth. Do you know what that feels like?"

"I can't say I do, I know that it's hard to fit in." he tried to sympathize with her. Although, he knew part of what she was going through because of Deb.

"Just stay out of it. It's too far out of anyone's hands. It could have stopped but then I got into a fight with a jock. Hence why I was suspended for a month. Do you know why I got into a fight."

"Alex, it doesn't matter why you got into a fight. All that matters is that you are here and it couldn't get any worse then it has gotten in the past. You told me that when I gave you a job." He said.