Chapter 4: It's slowly coming back
Within half an hour Marco had picked up Alex and were already at Paige's house. They knocked on the door quietly enough not to wake anyone up but loud enough to catch the attention of anyone awake. No one answered the door so Alex knocked harder. A few minutes later Dylan opened the door, who had obviously just woken up because you could see him wiping the sleep from his eyes and still yawning.
"hey Dylan, sorry to wake you but is Paige up yet?" Alex asked.
"yeah she's in her room" Dylan said as he stepped to the side motioning for the two to come inside.
"thanks" Marco said as he gave Dylan a kiss on the cheek and walked upstairs with Alex. When Alex and Marco got to the door Alex looked at Marco like she was scared. Marco looked back and caught what she was thinking but just knocked on the door.
Paige opened the door and smiled when she saw Marco but the smile was quickly gone when she saw Alex.
"you're friends with her too?" Paige asked Marco
"Paige, listen we just came by to see how you were doing." Said Marco. Marco, Paige and Alex all walked into Paige's room. Paige sat on her bed, while Marco and Alex took a seat on the floor.
"I'm fine, it's just I don't remember anything from like, the past year. Apparently I go to Banting and I graduated from Degrassi, me and Alex are friends…" Marco and Alex noticed the disgust in her voice as Paige said Alex's name. "… It's like I missed a huge chapter in my life"
"don't worry it will all come back soon." Said Marco reassuring Paige.
"I don't even know how this happened anyways…" Paige said. Marco looked at Alex.
"well, you and me being the friends we are were hanging out at my place and you tripped and hurt your head." Said Alex to Paige. Marco shot another look at Alex when he noticed she said 'friends'. Paige's watch went off signaling it was time to take an aspirin.
"I'll be right back" Paige said as she got up and left the room. As soon as Paige was gone Marco and Alex started talking.
"aren't you going to tell her that you guys are dating?" asked Marco
"Marco are you crazy? She doesn't even know she's gay, let alone dating the girl who she thought was her enemy." Said Alex
"oh right, I didn't even think about it that way. So what are you going to do?" he asked
"well I guess I'm going to try and spend some time with her hoping her memories of me magically reappear." Alex finished just before Paige walked in the room.
"So since you guys are my friends why don't we go out or something? How about a movie?" asked Paige
"alright sounds good to me" said Marco.
At the movie theatre the three friends had settled down in the theatre early to make sure they got the best seats possible. After a few minutes of awkward silence Paige decided to get up.
"do you guys want any candy or drinks or something? I'm going to go get something." Said Paige
"I'm good" said Marco.
"umm. I have a craving for something sweet. I'll come with you" said Alex.
"Okay…" Paige said. Paige hadn't spent that much time with Alex but she still noticed that she had changed. She didn't know how to be with her sometimes. Paige and Alex walked up to the candy counter and Paige noticed something.
"I recognize this place… and those uniforms…" Paige said. Alex was shocked that she started to remember something.
"that's 'cause we worked here at one point." Alex said hoping that it would trigger something in her mind.
"we worked here?" Paige asked looking at Alex.
"yeah, this is basically how we started getting along. We kind of had to, Meeri was a bit of a bitch sometimes." Alex said while ordering her candy.
"oh yeah, Meeri was our boss… okay, okay now I'm starting to remember a little. This was like the only time we got along. Wait, how come we don't work here anymore?" Paige asked "or do we?"
"oh well you know you went off to Banting and I got another job but that job is over with." Alex replied.
"what happened hun?" Paige asked while taking her popcorn from the employee behind the counter. Alex was speechless for a second when she noticed Paige called her 'hun'. It meant that Paige was finally becoming comfortable around her. Alex realized she had zoned out for a few seconds and quickly came back to reality.
"oh um, well some people had issues with where I worked and I decided my relationship with those people are more important than any job I have." Said Alex. Alex realized what she said but before Paige could ask her what job and what people Alex quickly said:
"come on the movie's about to start" And with that the two went back into the movie theatre.
The rest of the day went pretty normal. No new memories were remembered but still some progress had been made. At home Paige told her family about what she remembered so far. No one actually knew that she and Alex got along at the movie theatre but weren't too surprised. They were all happy that Paige had remembered something but Alex was afraid that Paige would figure out what happened and blame her for everything.