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. There's slight language and very slight sexual content in this chapter.
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.
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 entices me to update more. Thought you might want to know who happened to walk into the bathroom this time around…So, enjoy!
It took Alex less than a few seconds to register what had happened. But within that space of time, "Oh my God," had registered in her mind. A girl had said it, and then Amy was shoved backwards.
"What the hell, Amy," Alex seethed. Amy landed with a clunk as she met a bathroom stall door.
She looked at Alex and smirked before turning to look at the girl who had walked in before. "Oh my God," the girl murmured again. "Honestly, if you two decide to be lesbians must you do it in the bathroom? Is this what your fight was really about? It wasn't about Jay?" Hazel looked at both of the two girls looking confused and slightly disgusted at finding the two kissing when she went in to go to the bathroom.
"Hazel," Alex began. "It's not what it looks like." The line felt overused, but she had the need to make the other girl believe her, quickly. Hazel was one of Paige's best friends and new of two girls kissing would soon make headline gossip at Degrassi.
"It wasn't?" Amy looked at her confused. "I'm pretty sure that Hazel knows what she saw, Alex. She saw us kissing." With that, Amy took another step menacingly closer to Alex.
"Get. The. Hell. Away." Alex saw that she couldn't talk to Hazel with Amy standing there. There was no way that Amy would allow it.
Amy tried to hide her laughter as she shrugged. "Have it your way. I'll talk to you later." She had done her damage, and now she was done. With that, Amy turned on her heels and left. It made sense in her mind. Jay didn't want Amy after Alex left him. He seemed to really love that girl, Alex, and here Alex was a lesbian going out with some blonde preppy girl, and Amy was the one there for him every weekend at the ravine. She loved him. Well, she lusted after him, which was the same thing. It wasn't fair. She wanted Jay still, but he wouldn't go with her anymore because he was pining after Alex. The other guys didn't much want her either after they found out that she had an STD once…Which the whole school knew about. So, if Alex was going to destroy her relationships with guys…Well, Amy couldn't let Alex be happy either, even with a girl, and especially not with Paige, who she never liked.
"Hazel, I need to talk to you." Alex watched Amy leave, and her disgust left her a bit, until she turned to Paige's best friend anyway.
"Look, Alex, really. It's none of my business if you two are together…Just, don't do it in the bathroom." Hazel shrugged her shoulders, and she daintily fixed the straps on her shirt.
"I'm not dating Amy. I hate Amy. The whole best friend sleeping with your boyfriend thing, kind of makes them not your best friend any more." Alex was still seething, and Hazel just didn't seem to understand. Well, not like Hazel would realize the importance of this until she found out that Alex and Paige were dating, and apparently Hazel hadn't be told yet.
"You were making-out with her. You don't have to be going out to be making-out, I suppose…" Hazel dragged on for a moment, thinking back to the guys she kissed. She assumed it was the same with girls as it was with guys, that you didn't have to be going out to date. It really wasn't that big of a deal to her as long as she didn't have to watch any more. Then it clicked. Paige didn't know that one of her new best friends was a lesbian! That was it. Alex must be afraid that Paige would freak out…Well, her brother was gay, but a gay girl as one of her best friends might be different. "Paige doesn't know yet does she?" Alex looked over at her and told her that Paige, in fact, did not know yet. "Well, she's okay with her brother, you know. She'd probably be okay with one of her friends being gay too." Alex wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry at that remark, and then the door was opening again.
"Hey you two. That quiz took forever today. Ugh, I'm glad I studied for it though…Fancy meeting you both here though." Paige strutted in and smiled at two of her best friends. "So, what's the new gossip?" Alex's eyes got wide at this, and Hazel noticed. So did Paige. "Something wrong? What did I miss?"
Hazel took a breath, and looked away from Alex. "Heather Sinclaire is wearing the same shirt today that she wore yesterday." Paige looked at her for a moment then cringed.
"And it's turquoise." Alex wasn't sure where she pulled that out of, and apparently neither were the other two girls because they both turned to stare at her. She shrugged. "What? It's not an in-color right now."
Paige thought about it for a second. "Actually, she's right."
Hazel considered it too. "She is right. She grew a fashion sense." Hazel then took a glance at Alex's clothes. "Well, maybe not, but it's a start." She wasn't going to give Alex away right now. She could tell Paige herself.
"Aw, Hun, see what hanging around me does to you?" Paige smiled at her girlfriend, and Alex smiled back. Yeah, she knew alright what it did to her, and it had nothing to do with turquoise shirts.
Luckily, then the bell decided to ring before any more damage could be done to the conversation, and they all had different classes until lunch. Hazel decided to ignore that Alex walked Paige to her locker. It had to be just because they had similar last names alphabetically.
"Yeah, so I walked into the bathroom and you'll never believe who I saw making-out." Hazel waited until lunch before she was ready to burst. She had to tell someone about what she saw that morning. The someone happened to be Marco. They were waiting for everyone else to get through the lunch line, and so far, they were the only ones at their table.
"The girls' bathroom?" Marco thought for a moment, and he tried to stall, afraid of who the answer might be. If Hazel wasn't told directly from Paige that she was going out with a girl, and then Hazel walked in on her and Alex…
"No, I decided to go into the guys' bathroom for fun." Marco's eyes widen for a moment, and Hazel rolled her eyes sarcastically. "Yes, the girls' bathroom. Alex and…"
"Oh my God. You caught Alex and Paige?" Marco couldn't help himself, it just slipped out. Those two girls really needed to work on their timing when they were kissing because everyone seemed to want to see them make-out. Of course, it would be an easy way to come out to all of their friends, if they planned it well enough.
"What? Why would they be making-out?" Hazel looked confused and slightly horrified at the thought. Marco looked confused wondering if he maybe had the wrong Alex.
"Why would who be making-out?" Paige wandered up with her tray, Alex at her side with her own food. Marco and Hazel both stared at the pair for a moment. Paige got anxious wanting to hear the news, and Alex was trying not to freak-out. She hadn't had time to talk to Paige yet because they hadn't had a class together that they could talk in until after lunch. "What? I like a good making-out gossip story as much as the next girl." Even in her horrified state of mind, Alex couldn't help but quirk an eyebrow at hearing her girlfriend say that. Paige noticed and corrected herself. "Okay that sounded completely wrong, but you get my point."
