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 entices me to update more. Enjoy!


"Why would who be making-out?" Paige looked impatient as she repeated her question. Alex was still nervous as she put her tray down on the table next to Paige's. They both had taken a seat before Marco had an answer.

"Emma and Manny," he continued and all three girls looked at him shocked. "What?" He shrugged his shoulders. "It's not my fault what people are gay in my dream."

Paige chuckled. Marco had only been Hazel about a dream he had. "I thought that only straight guys dreamed about two girls kissing." Dreams were weird sometimes. She raised an eyebrow at him.

"Yeah, Marco. What's with that?" Alex tried to add into the conversation, but both Hazel and Marco threw her looks so she shut up and instead opened a pudding cup.

They were trying to help her out because neither one had the full story. It was probably best that Paige didn't know until they shared stories on what they knew. "I guess that in my dreams…everyone is possibly gay, or they have gay experiences anyway." He threw a look towards Paige, hoping that he'd fill in Hazel. He felt bad trying to keep a secret from her, and he knew that Paige probably did too.

"Some have them in real life too." Paige smirked and looked over at Alex who was focused on eating the pudding. She really didn't want to get Marco or Hazel mad for fear that they'd tell Paige before she was able to talk to them. "Right Hun?" The blonde girl hadn't meant to sound so obvious, but she thought it was best if Hazel found out in an area where she couldn't cause a big scene, plus they were the only four at their table. No one cared about the conversations at other tables.

Alex glanced up from her chocolate pudding at the blonde. "What?" She mumbled because she was still intent on her pudding. "Did I miss something?"

Paige chuckled as she looked at the pudding. The dark-haired girl had a dab of pudding on her lower lip. "Yeah, the chocolate on your lip." Immediately Alex licked her lips. The pudding disappeared but within that frame of time, Paige's concentration seemed to lose grip too. The next thing she knew, she was reaching out and sticking her right pinkie finger into the chocolate pudding, stealing a swipe of it to eat.

Alex gawked at her. "You just stole my pudding!"

Paige shook her head. "No, I didn't. If I was stealing your pudding, then I would have to do this." With that, the blonde girl reached over, effectively grabbing the pudding cup. She used the same spoon that was still in the cup and took a bite. She swallowed, "that's stealing your pudding."

The dark-haired girl chuckled. "What?" Paige asked as she ate another bite of pudding from Alex's cup. Marco and Hazel were gaping at the obvious flirtation between the two girls, but no one else seemed to care or notice.

"You have pudding on your lip." Alex pointed at a spot on her own lip, suggesting that Paige go there first.

The blonde narrowed her eyes. "Yeah, right. I'm not falling for that." So, she continued eating her pudding, well, Alex's pudding. Alex rolled her eyes at her girlfriend's silliness. She took matters into her own hands and reached out and easily glanced her finger against the blonde's bottom lip. Alex showed Paige the offending pudding, quirking an eyebrow. "Oh," the blonde muttered as Alex grinned and licked the pudding off of her own finger.

"Okay. What the hell." Hazel and Marco were still staring at the two girls. "What?" They asked at the same time.

"What?" Marco gawked at the two girls. "Do you not just realize what you were doing?"

"Eating pudding?" Alex suggested helpfully and Hazel rolled her eyes before they lit up.

"Oh my God. Alex and Paige!" She turned to Marco. "Paige and Alex?" Marco looked at his lunch tray, and Paige glanced at Alex for a moment before looking at her friend, Hazel. She nodded. "Oh my God. So, that's who you were talking about, making-out at school," Hazel chuckled thinking she figured it all out. She had momentarily forgotten about Alex and Amy making-out in the bathroom hours before.

Paige looked utterly confused. "School?" She glanced at Alex, then at a guilty looking Marco. "I thought that you said Emma and Manny were the ones making-out?"

Manny and Emma chose that moment to walk by, apparently discussing the nutrition in a bottle of juice. Emma's head snapped back as she heard what was being said before looking over at Manny. "We were making-out?" She joked.

"I must have a bad memory…" Manny continued on Emma's joke, unfazed by the talk.

"It was in his dream," Hazel pointed at Marco and both girls raised their eyebrows.

"What? It's not my fault that you were in my dream making-out!" Marco was almost hysterical as he said this. If only he was straight…then it would make sense. He sighed before realizing that he didn't really want to dream about Emma and Manny making-out anyway. Manny and Emma were confused, but they easily continued on their conversation about the juice, not caring too much about the conversation at the other table. They didn't feel like dealing with it right then.

Suddenly, Hazel seemed to realize that she had noticed Amy making-out with Alex earlier and her eyes narrowed at Alex. "I need to talk to you." She glared at the other girl, and Paige raised her own eyebrow questioningly. "Then you," she said, indicating Alex, "need to talk to Paige."

"I'll be back," Alex smiled at her girlfriend. "You can…eat my pudding cup while I talk to Hazel quick, k?" Paige thought about it for a moment, and Alex realized how cute she looked when she was contemplating things.

"K," the blonde agreed. "I'll…talk to Marco in the meantime." With that, Hazel practically drug Alex off to one side of the cafeteria, wanting to find out what was going on between Alex and Amy. No one at their table realized that a certain girl had been watching them the whole time. Amy. So, no one noticed when she stood up and eyed the blonde girl still at the table.