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Lyrics are Getaway by Ross Copperman

Well I'm down again and nobody knows
Each time I go under
I drown a little longer alone

I'm losing ground
Sinking again somehow

Alex was sitting at the bar with another bottle of beer. She had chased them down with shots. Her air of desperation reminded her of the cliental that she used to pander to at club Zanzibar. She knew what Jay had said was true but she didn't want to admit that today, she just wanted to have this moment in the bar and deal with everything else tomorrow. There was no harm in escapism, she thought to herself.

Darcy nervously walked into the bar and scanned it in hope of spotting Alex. She wasn't sure why followed her into the bar or why she was looking for her but for a second, she saw something in Alex's eyes that stripped away all the preconceptions she had about her. When she spotted her, she cautiously walked to the empty stool next to her.

Alex saw Darcy coming towards her. "It was a coincidence before but now you're just following me and you can't accuse me of hitting on you now."

"Maybe I like the ambiance here" Darcy looked over at the barman and ordered a beer.

"You're actually ordering a proper drink. Little miss God squad drinks, I think I need another one" Alex looked at her reaction and changed to an apologetic look "Sorry." Alex added.

"You don't have to be, he's the last thing on my mind." Darcy sat on the stool next to Alex.

Alex ordered two shots and pushed one in front of Darcy. She took a look at it and then at Alex. In the back of Alex's mind she didn't think Darcy would drink it. Darcy picked up the shot glass and knocked it back. Her face was wincing at the taste. Alex smiled and nodded, like she was pleasantly impressed.

Not for the first time, there was silence and awkwardness between the two of them. Darcy received her drink and lightly tapped the bottle. Her ring kept managing to hit the bottle. Alex looked at her and shook her head. Darcy looked at the ring and stopped. Her abstinence ring was the cause of the noise. She looked at Alex and then decided to break the silence.

"We're not friends, that's obvious. I mean we don't even hang out in the same circle. We do have that six-degree of separation thing though it's less than that. I mean…"

"You do realise you're rambling." Alex cuts her off.

"You can kind of be intimidating Alex. You and Jay did terrorize people."

"People change. Things happen that alter you and make you think entirely different about everything."

Darcy thought about how true those words were. She didn't want to think about it anymore and tried to shake the thought from her head.

"People expect you to act a certain way and stay that way. Like you're not allowed to change. No matter who you are people tend to have too much expectations." Alex continued.

"Sometimes those expectations are too high and unrealistic. I mean…sunshine and fucking personified, that's what they expect me to be. Well I can't be like that anymore." Darcy added.

"That sounded bitter, what happened to you?" Alex looked concerned, at Darcy, as she asked.

"I don't want to talk about it." Darcy avoided eye contact at this point.

"No problem. We can just sit here and have another drink." Darcy was relieved by what Alex said. She didn't want to be pressed and talk about it.

"When did you decide to be nice, especially to me?"

Alex smiled at the question. "No set day, just happened." She replied.

"Seriously have you had a personality transplant coz you've never been like this to me?" Darcy looked at Alex cautiously as she asked her.

"I've had a lot to drink. Have you had the transplant, coz you've become really sarcastic and not such a bible freak?" Alex smiled wildly at Darcy and couldn't help chuckling.

Darcy laughed at the question and didn't reply. Instead, she ordered some more drinks from the barman.

Her phone rang for the umpteenth time and she saw that it was Peter. Alex looked at her and then spoke. "You could just switch that off or at least put it on silent if you don't wanna hear it."

After the ringing stopped, Darcy turned her phone on silent and shoved it away.

A couple of hours later, the two girls were still at the bar drinking and surprisingly laughing with each other. They both seemed to be genuinely having a good time in each other's company; a sight that anybody at Degrassi, including them would laugh at. If you were to look at it from another angle, the two of them getting along wouldn't seem like an alien concept. In the past, they have both befriended people that were opposite to them. Alex with Paige and Marco. Darcy with Manny and Peter.

"It hasn't been bad hanging out with you." Alex said and was surprised that she said it but she did mean it.

"No, it hasn't." Darcy slightly whispered her reply but it was still loud enough for Alex to hear.

"I guess we both had our preconceptions about each other basing it on our reputations from the past and I guess the present too." Alex drank the last of her beer after she spoke.

"You weirdly make sense when you're drunk." Darcy added.

"I like to think I make sense all the time." Both girls laughed at what Alex had said.

The barman walked up to the two girls and told them that he was closing up now. Darcy seemed a bit lost at this point and didn't know what to do. Alex seeing this spoke up. "Come on we can share a cab and drop you home first." Darcy smiled at Alex and followed her.

They didn't have to wait long and managed to get a cab. Alex had to help Darcy inside, as she was drunk more than she thought. Alex was hoping that they could make it to Darcy's without her throwing up.

When the cab pulled up outside Darcy's, Alex waited to see Darcy make it through the door before telling the cab driver to take her back to Jay's. Darcy quietly made it to her room and slumped in her bed, not changing her clothes. It wasn't long before she fell asleep.

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