A/N: thanks to my wandering imagination and my Dawson's Creek DVD's I have a complete concept for this story! Woo hoo! I might change the title, so just letting everyone know before they get confused
Thanks a million for filling my inbox with words like, "love" and "wonderful" it's always better than, "terrible" and "you suck" it makes me very very happy to know that you guys like this
Oh boy! next chapter….
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Hazel didn't even bother to knock on the door to Jimmy's; she just opened it, Paige following close behind her.
Spinner and Jimmy both jumped off the couch looking very worried. "Where have you been?" Spinner asked, "I called your cell phone like a million-" he stopped when he saw Paige's face from over Hazel's shoulder, "honeybee? What's wrong?"
In an instant Paige went from teary to a full on break down, she ran out from her hiding place behind Hazel and straight into Spinner's arms. He wrapped his arms around her and she sobbed into his shirt, he looked up at Hazel who was clutching Jimmy's arm. From the look on her face he could tell something very bad had happened that night.
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"Spin, I promise, i'm going to be just fine, I was just a little shocked I guess." Paige said into the phone while next to her Hazel was sprawled out on the bed thumbing through a magazine, "last night was rough, but today me and Haze are gonna go shopping or something"
"Ok good" Spinner told her, "call me tonight if you want to do anything ok?"
Paige smiled, "yeah I will"
"Have a good day"
"Bye Hun," just as Paige had hung up the phone there was a knock on the door, "come in!" she called
Her mother popped her head in the door, "good morning girls" she smiled, looked around the room and lowered her eyes at Paige, she said something in Russian, raised her eyebrows and left the room.
Hazel looked at Paige, "what did she say?"
"I have to clean my room or I'm not going anywhere" Paige sighed and rolled her eyes, "sorry Haze, I know you wanted to shop, but look at this place" she turned around to see Hazel picking up clothes off the floor. "Hazel, you already stayed with me last night, and you don't have to clean my room"
Hazel looked up at her, "Paige, the sooner we get this done, the sooner I can get to those shoes I saw last weekend"
Paige smiled, "good point" and she joined her on the floor to try and get her room picked up as fast as possible.
Twenty-five minutes later they were sitting cross-legged on the side of Paige's bed laughing at a stack of pictures from elementary school, "aww, look at Ashley!" Hazel said pointing to a picture
Paige leaned over to see it, "eww, look at our leggings! Why did we let our parents dress us?" she laughed and looked at the bigger pile of stuff that now surrounded them, "I have no idea when the last time I cleaned under my bed was"
Hazel reached under looking for more treasure, and she pulled out a dusty wood frame. "Oh my gosh, classic family portrait!" she said. She looked over the photo carefully. Paige's mom, with her poofy 80's hair was standing behind Dylan who was in a little blue suit and smiling widely although he was missing his front teeth. A 5 year-old Paige was next to him in a frilly pink dress with a huge bow in her hair. Sitting on the right of Paige was a man with dark hair and a moustache, Hazel looked up at Paige, "is that your dad?" she asked, Paige just nodded. Hazel looked back at the picture, on her dad's lap was a little blonde boy with an enormous smile, he couldn't have been more than two, and Hazel had never seen him before.
Before Hazel had the chance to ask who he was Paige answered her, "that's my brother Nick, he lives with my dad"
Hazel just nodded and set the picture in the pile of things they had unearthed from Paige's bed. She didn't want to ask any more questions, it had to be rough on Paige, having her parents divorced. Her step-dad was cool, from what she saw of him, but he wasn't around very much.
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Around eight Paige walked up her front steps after a night at the movies with Hazel, Jimmy, and Spinner. She never got to go shopping since it took her almost all day to clean up her disaster of a room. She walked in the door to find like everyone in the house running around.
Her step dad sprinted down the stairs, "Anya!" he called, "where is my nice green shirt?"
"It's in the laundry room!" her mother called from the kitchen.
Paige followed her mother's voice, she walked into the kitchen, "umm, what's going on?"
"Dimitri has a meeting in Ottawa, and I am going with him"
Paige grabbed a cookie out of the pantry, "cool, home alone for the weekend!" she started to head up to her room
"No, sorry" her mother said, "you're going to your father's house"
She whipped around, "What? Why?"
"He wanted to see you, and I don't need you having any parties when I am gone"
"Mom please, no!" she begged, "I won't have any parties I promise!"
"Paige, two days with your father will not kill you"
Paige rolled her eyes, "you don't know that"
Her mother folded her arms, "I was married to your father for eleven years, and I lived" Paige huffed and her mother smiled, "almost"
Paige tried not to laugh because she was going to win this argument, but a smile crept over her lips, she was defeated.
"Go upstairs and pack, you're getting on the train to Pembroke first thing in the morning"
Paige got to her room and threw some clothes in a backpack. This was totally unfair; she had no idea how long her parents had been planning this. They probably waited so long to tell her so that it would be too late to argue.
She took a shower and got into her pajamas, she walked into her bedroom and when she passed the mirror on her dresser she stopped. She looked horrible, her eyes were all red from crying, she looked tired and worn-down. But she was Paige Michalchuk, the most popular girl at Degrassi. And no matter how much she was hurting, she wasn't allowed to show it.
She picked up her hairbrush and started running it through her wet hair. In the mirror she saw a figure leaning against the window, Dean. She gasped and turned around quickly, no one was there.
This was going to be harder than she thought
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Wow, that turned out to be much longer than I thought it would be. I'm sure you guys are a little bit confused on either what is going on or where this is going, but I promise it will work itself out.
Concerning Paige's mother, she does have a Ukrainian accent as far as I know from Paige's impression of her in "I Want Candy" but i'm not going to write her dialogue out with an accent, cuz I think it would be cheesy and annoying, so you can imagine her accent in your mind.
Review, it makes me so so sooo happy! :)