Title: Popcorn Makes Everything Romantic

Rating: This chapter is probably only PG, but I plan on bringing it up to PG-13 at some point.

Disclaimer: None of these characters are mine...I cannot claim them. They all belong to the hardworking people involved with Degrassi.

Feedback: Yes please, I want to know what everyone thinks of this story so far.

Summary: This will be a Palex (Paige/Alex) story...So, you are warned. If you are not into females dating other females, please don't read this story. It's not for you. It's about what might have happened had Alex and Paige not kissed in Lexicon of Love, would they have found their way together anyway, and what would have happened, in my opinion, if the details of the movie premier night were altered.

Author's Note: Thank you for the feedback everyone! I really appreciate it (as always) and it really does make me want to update. And, so you know, in this I know that in another episode of Degrassi (Lexicon of Love) Paige and Alex really do have first period class together…but for the purpose of this fic, I had to edit that. I wanted to clear that up before anyone got confused about it after reading it. Enjoy!


Alex sauntered up the stairs of Degrassi High realizing that it was the first time in quite a while that she had done so before the first bell had rung for the beginning of school. She blamed the blonde girl that was currently waving at her from the top stair. Casual. Paige had said that she wanted to seem casual. So, Alex casually took off her sunglasses before reaching the top stair. She knew that Paige hated talking to her while she wore them simply because she could never tell where Alex was looking; that not-knowing drove Paige crazy.

Alex casually smiled at her friend, Paige. "Morning Baby," Alex began and Paige's eyes widened just like Alex knew they would. So much for being completely casual. The use of the pet name slightly made the dark-haired girl cringe. She wasn't used to such…sweet sounding names when talking to her boyfriend or girlfriend as the case may be. Paige was still giving her the unbelievable look so Alex chose that moment to explain herself. "What? You always call people 'Hun' so why not 'Baby'?"

"Hun," Paige began. "That is not the point. You were supposed to be casual, and you calling someone 'Baby' is not casual."

The raven-haired beauty feigned surprise. "It's not?" And Paige grinned and rolled her eyes. "Ah, a smile. That's casual, right?" Paige shook her head at the girl before strolling into the school with her.

"Shall I walk you to your locker, Miss Nuñez?" Paige looked over at her girlfriend and smiled.

"Your locker is right next to mine, Paige." Alex quirked an eyebrow at her girlfriend, wondering why she had taken up an English accent suddenly.

"No, it's not." Paige lost the accent, but still had her point to make.

"Okay. There's one locker between us." Ellie Nash separated the two girls' lockers, but that was it.

"Shall I walk you to your locker, Miss?" Paige continued on with the joke as if she had never been interrupted in the first place. She

"Certainly," Alex finally gave into her girlfriend's joke, and she took on an English accent as she did so. Doing this made Paige giggle again, and they were both just a little bit upset when the bell rang, and they really did have to go to separate ways now.

Alex made it through about twenty minutes worth of first period before she became incredibly bored. There was no one interesting in her class. Most of the rest of the class seemed busy taking notes or sleeping. Alex didn't feel like taking notes, and she was too hyper to sleep. So, she did the only thing she could think of; she raised her hand to ask to go to the bathroom, and after a weary look from the teacher, she was excused.

She got to the bathroom and immediately she was bored. Alex wasn't used to asking to go to the bathroom and not having anything to do. She couldn't cut class without telling Paige because she wanted to see the blonde again that day, and she couldn't really ask Paige to leave her class because she knew that the blonde had a quiz that day during first period. Luckily, she had thought ahead and foreseen her boredom by telling Paige that if she got bored after the quiz to see if Alex was as bored as she was. The quiz shouldn't be too hard seeing as Paige studied for several hours; she made Alex help her. Until Paige finished the quiz though, Alex had nothing to do. So, she sighed and washed her hands for a third time before she heard the door to the bathroom open.

"Hey," a girl's voice wafted to Alex's ears and she immediately knew who it was.

"Amy," she answered hollowly. "Hi." She wasn't sure why Amy would want to talk to her. After all, she was still the skank in the ravine that had several guys wanting her on weekends. Including Jay. Alex didn't care about that anymore. She didn't need Amy as a best friend. She didn't need Amy period.

"Now, is that the way to talk about someone who knows a little secret?" Alex's eyes narrowed as she looked at the other girl in the mirror, not bothering to turn around to face her.

"I have no secrets, Amy. None that you could know. None that I care whether or not other people know." Alex shrugged, and turned off the sink. Amy immediately smirked, and Alex rolled her eyes thinking that she had made up a rumor that she wanted to spread around the school about the brunette.

"I know that, but you do have one that includes a certain blonde cheerleader named Paige." Amy's smirk grew as Alex's frown appeared. "You know, you really shouldn't make-out with someone in public, especially not while at work. At the movie theatre. You know, anyone could walk out and see you two kissing. Not a good idea."

"What the hell do you want Amy?" Alex crossed her arms and scowled at the other girl who was directly across from her. In her anger, she had taken a step closer to her, so that now they were within punching distance of each other.

Before the girl could answer, the door to the bathroom swung open with a squeak and Amy threw herself at Alex, effectively catching the other girl off-guard as their lips met.