AN: ok so I suck I guess. This story is just one of those things that you really truly meant to keep doing but then you just forget. Then you remember at the most random times, like in the middle of a soccer game "oh crap! I meant to update my damn story!". Well I finally remembered at a time that I could actually get some work done on it.

Disclaimer: I own less than a homeless person in debt.

Alex's POV

Saying that time stopped has always been way too cliche to ever come out of my mouth. But when I turned around to see Meeri standing in front of us with that look that stupid little saying came to mind. I'm pretty sure that in this whole freaking movie theatre, I'm the only one who has experienced the That Look enough to recognize it. Paige has gotten it once, if ever, and Meeri is nothing but polite to our precious costumers. But me? I have seen her get That Look on her face so many times, I could paint a 'friggin portrait of it. So she's standing there giving it to both of us hardcore, and I can pretty much feel Paige shrinking underneath it. She's not immune yet you see, so naturally she reacts this way. After standing and staring long enough for the situation to be above and beyond awkward, Paige suddenly pushed me away from her and got her own look on her face. The kind of look she used to give me before, when one of us was threatening to stomp the life out of the other. For a split second I was shocked and even, I hate to admit, hurt. I wasn't sure but I thought we were kind of having a moment of sorts.

" Sorry Meeri," she said, still glaring at me," Alex and I seem to be having problems working together again. We've been having a few spats here and there so I decided to confront her about them back here so the constumers wouldn't overhear." When she finished I somehow knew exaclty what was going on. She was pretending to be mad at me. Making up an excuse for being caught nose to nose alone in a back room. And hell, for a second even I believed her, so Meerie definetely should. I decided that it would probably help her story move along if I contributed. I gave her a quick wink before opening my mouth so she wouldn't think that I had just skrocketed to insanity.

" Oh please princess, you cornered me back here so you could scream in my face and make yourself look good. Which, is probably a hard task to do." I said, putting on my best "bitch voice" that I used to save specifically for Paige. She placed her hands on her hips and scowled at me. But even through her frown I could tell that she was amused. Her eyes did this thing that not many people's can do. It's like the rest of her face is pissed, but her eyes are cracking up.

Apparently Meeri didn't notice this because she just kept on giving that look.Honestly she should copyright it. Maybe the fine people of Toronto will build a statue with That Look engraved on it. Not that Meeri could ever observe something so personal about Paige. You could only realise when she was doing it if you watched her very closley, which of course, I do a LOT. Anyway Meeri was glaring and finally she seemed to settle on what exaclty to do.

" Well I am gathering that you two are not done fighting this out yet. Am I correct Ms. Michelchuck?" She asked, keeping her teetch gritted the entire time. I looked over at Paige and just as she was about to open her mouth to answer I cut in. Timing is key.

" Oh yeah, always ask Paige. It's not like my opinion matters at all. If Ms.Employee of the month doesn't think we're done fighting, then I guess we're not done fighting. Fine with me!" I said, fully aware that I sounded like an ass. Play fighting with Paige came easy because we used to do it so often. But it's more fun because neither of us mean the bad things we say about eachother. Also I just like feeling smarter than Meeri! For a second I thought Paige was going to laugh, but she restrained herself long enough to regain control of her facial features.

" Alright Alex. I can totally see now that you're done fighting with me! Point proven!" she said sarcasm dripping from her voice. Wow sarcasm, that's not usually her style while in combat. I must be rubbing off on her.

Meeri surveyed the two of us for a moment beofre grabbing us by the shoulders. I have to admit, she had some grip on us, I don't think I could have gotten out of it even if I tried. Lifting all of those jumbo popcorns must be paying off." Well I can see that you're not done fighting with eachother. Normally, I would fire both of you. But everyone else besides Stacey quit or I fired them. And Stacey is having some sort of skin issue or something, so all I have is you two." Paige let out a little snort of laughter that she tried to cover as a sneeze. Adorable.

" I am putting you in the closet and I am locking the door. I will leave you there for a minimum of two hours. That is not to say that I wont leave you there the entire night if you do NOT stop trying to claw eachothers eyes out every second you get. Are we clear?"

Oh... oh that I could work with. That, I could definetely work with. This could be wishful thinking but, I was pretty sure Paige had an evil glint in her eye. But a good kind of evil. The "possible third makeout session" kind of evil. Oh my god when did I get sounbelievably GAY?

"Crystal." I said to Meeri as she dragged us by the shoulder to the closet. She shoved us in and shut the door. Paige put her ear against the door and pounded her fist.

" Two hours, starting now.'' Meerie said and walked away.