Title: Popcorn Makes Everything Romantic

Rating: This chapter is probably only PG for some language, 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. So everyone knows, I won't be able to update this story for a couple of weeks. Not just this story, but all of my stories (if you read more than just this one) because I'm going to Europe for a couple of weeks in a few days, but I wanted to get one more update up for each story before I leave…So, don't worry if you don't have an update on this story for a couple of weeks…I haven't forgotten about it, and I promise to update once I get home, but I won't have access to a computer while over there…So please just wait for me; I'll be back (I did not just mean to quote a certain Terminator movie just now, heh.) Thank you for understanding. And, as always, enjoy!


"Hello Paige," Amy drawled almost too happily as she plopped herself down next to the blonde girl. Paige looked up from her conversation with Marco about Dylan. He had been asking about Marco lately, and Marco almost freaked out on her when she told him about that. Her best friend didn't seem to be too over her brother.

"Amy?" Paige looked confused. Amy never wandered over here, mostly because she wasn't the kind of person that Paige would talk to, and Alex hated her now. "Hi."

"You're awfully friendly today, huh?" Amy rolled her eyes and shifted her legs, so that it was more comfortable to talk to Paige.

"What do you want?" Paige was blunt, and Marco, well, he simply listened in. He felt like things might get a little bit sticky…

"Nothing," Jay answered Alex on the other side of the cafeteria, "is wrong. Just let the two talk. We can have our own heart-to-heart, huh Lexi? What do you think?" He smiled at her, and touched her arm. She shrugged it off forcefully.

"I think that you need to get a life, Jay." She sneered at him, and Hazel grinned at her comeback. She could learn something from that girl.

"My life is with you." He was trying to charm her, so he added an extra smile.

"Stay away from mine, and tell Amy to stay away from it too." Alex frowned and crossed her arms over her chest.

"Um, Alex…" Hazel didn't want to turn Alex's anger and frustration on her, but she noticed Amy and Paige over at the table…

"What Hazel?" Alex followed Hazel's line of sight and frowned again. "Christ Jay! What are you trying to do?" Amy had placed her hand on top of Paige's, looking like she was talking about something she really cared about. Shit.

"I'm over here, Babe. I think that's Amy over there. Last I knew, the two of us didn't look too much alike…Unless that's what you're into now. We could have some fun with that…" Jay rambled on, trying to stall Alex. He knew that she wouldn't go for it, but he couldn't help the smirk that spread over his features at his sexual suggestions.

"You're disgusting," Alex sneered.

"Is that a no?" Jay was just as cocky as ever. Only now, Alex didn't find it appealing; she found it disgusting.

"Just move, Jay." The raven-haired girl was getting frustrated and slightly edgy. She just wanted to go talk to her girlfriend.

"Whatever you say, Lexi. Whatever you say." He calmly stepped out of her way because he really didn't want her to get that upset with him at the moment, plus Amy had had plenty of time. She should have covered everything that she needed to by now.

"Amy, what are you doing?" Alex made her way over to Paige as quickly as she could; Hazel followed behind her, just a few steps behind.

"Talking to Paige," Amy said it bluntly, like it was obviously a stupid question to ask. Like her talking to Paige was normal.

"Oh, Hun, she's just telling me about the fundraiser this weekend." Paige explained, shrugging her shoulders nonchalantly.

"Since when do you know about fundraisers?" Alex quirked an eyebrow warily trying to figure out what her ex-best-friend was up to.

"Since they're announced on the announcements every day for a week?" Amy pointed this out, and Alex frowned. She didn't listen to the announcements because they got boring usually.

"Huh, I thought sluts were too busy to go to fundraisers." Alex tilted her head to the side as if trying to decide when Amy would have the time to go there, outside of her time in a certain van.

"Alex! Amy was actually going to help. If she's going to help, then she can. We need all the help we can get because last time we had too many cars and too much goofing-off and not enough workers." Paige remembered the last car wash that Degrassi had had, and she also remembered Spinner and Manny. Though, she was pretty sure that she didn't have to worry about Spinner and Alex, which she was glad of, or Manny and Alex for that matter.

"Oh, I'll be hard at work." Amy nodded and smirked at Alex when she knew that Paige wasn't looking, then winked.

"I bet," Alex seethed. "Wait," she paused for a breath. "Cars? What kind of fundraiser is this?"

"Car wash," Paige explained. Marco and Hazel sat there watching this, not sure of how they could help. So, they simply waited helplessly for the conversation to end.

"And you're helping?" Alex looked confused at this. Amy had never had any school spirit. She would never want to help with this sort of thing. Then it struck her, an idea. Amy wanted to spend time with Paige, to freak her out. She wanted to destroy Alex's and Paige's relationship completely, and if Alex wasn't there helping…well, it was all the easier to mess with Paige then.

"Of course," Amy grinned. "Does that mean you'll help?"

Alex turned to Paige, "And you're helping?" The blonde nodded.

"Sign me up." Alex sighed heavily. She had no choice.

"Really?" Paige's face lit up happily at the idea.

"Yes, really. I can be school spirity." Alex forced a smile. She muttered, "Just watch me…"

Amy quickly changed the subject after Alex trailed off. Her job was done for now. She turned back to face the blonde girl next to her. "I'll talk to you about it later then, Paige?"

"What? Oh sure, Amy. I'll see you after last period." Paige nodded, and wrote down Amy's and Alex's name on her list of people helping with the fundraiser.

"What are you going to talk to her about after last period?" Alex looked quickly at Paige, and then at Amy's retreating back.

"Aw, Alex, are you jealous?" Paige murmured

"What? No." Alex was quick to shake her head to re-enforce her answer.

"It's just about some ideas she had for the fundraiser. I'm surprised that she's helping. At least, she better be helping if she signed up. If anyone that signed up doesn't show up…" Paige scowled, and then glanced over at Alex, hoping that her girlfriend was serious about helping.

"I'll be there," Alex smiled gently, reading her mind.

"I know, because I'm going to pick you up." Paige nodded her head at her perfect thought; this way Alex couldn't avoid the school spirit, and Alex chuckled, agreeing.

"You two are disgustingly cute together, you know that, right Palex?" Marco raised an eyebrow watching the two girls, and Hazel silently agreed with him.

"Palex?" Both girls questioningly turned to the other two.

"Paige and Alex. Together," Hazel explained for Marco just before the bell signaling the end of lunch rang.

"Oh, Paige!" Alex had to talk to her before the blonde went to her next class, before Amy could talk to her first. "What do you have going on this afternoon?"

"Two more tests. Why? Something you have in mind?" Paige wiggled her eyebrows suggestively and any other time Alex would have bought into it and flirted back, but not this time.

"I need to talk to you," Alex explained.

"Can it wait?" Paige dropped the flirtatious nature, but now she was a little worried. Her girlfriend, even before she was her girlfriend was never this serious.

"Um, well," Alex paused and bit at her lip, trying to think of how to explain the situation. The blonde was obviously already getting agitated, and she didn't want to explain the situation to Paige with her already being pissed off, not a good start.

"You know I'd stay to talk to you, but I'll be murdered if I miss these. They're important grades today." Paige frowned at the thought of two more exams. Teachers always seemed to group together before deciding what day to all have an exam on. She had no tests the day before, and now she had three in one day. It wasn't fair.

"I know, Paige. I know. It's just, important." Alex was fidgeting with the bottom of her shirt now as she tried to think of another time, luckily the blonde thought of it for her.

"Okay, so," Paige paused to look at her nervous girlfriend. "How about right after school?" Paige remembered that Amy was supposed to meet with her about the fundraiser then. "Find me before Amy does?"

"Of course," Alex replied, relieved, she'd have it no other way if she could help it.