06x18 - Don't You Want Me
Posted: 05/21/07 09:25
At Alex’s
Paige: Thanks Emily. You are the hostess with the mostest.
Emily: You come over anytime you’d like Paige.
Paige: Put me down for Oscar night so long as Chad lets us watch on his 6000inch Plasma TV.
(There’s a knock at the door.)
Emily: Pizza money’s on the side table, hon.
(Chad opens the door.)
Police Officer: Good evening. We’re looking for Chad Kent. Are you him?
Chad: Depends. Uh what do you want?
Police officer: We have a warrant for your arrest for the crime of credit card fraud.
Emily: Credit card fraud? What? No, there must be some mistake.
Chad: Sorry Emily.
Emily: No wait!
Alex: Should I come?
Emily: No. No you stay. I’m sure we’ll get this all uh sorted out.
(She leaves.)
Paige: Wow. How ‘Cops’ was that? Are you okay?
Alex: Paige you should go.
Paige: You sure? The TV’s all ours.
Alex: It’s late and I have exams. Could you just go, please?
Paige: As you wish, hon. Thanks for your help.
At Alex’s, the next morning
Alex: Nothing like an all-nighter at the police station. Where’s Chad?
Emily: In jail. You know that big raise he told us about? That was a lie Lexy. He was fired.
Alex: Mom that was six weeks ago. What’s he been doing all this time?
Emily: Well besides buying new plasma TV’s with stolen credit cards?
Alex: Mom, its okay. We’ll send it back and then we’re fine, right? TV’s gone, loser’s in jail. Good riddance.
(She doesn’t say anything.)
Alex: What?
Emily: I uh…I gave him a card with his name on it. He took advantage of me Lexy. Now I’m in the hole for 6 grand.
Alex: That’s not a hole, mom. That’s the Grand Canyon.
Emily: I know.
Alex: How could he put $6000 on your card?
Emily: He told me he was making the payments. Lie #2.
Alex: You’re not paying those charges.
Emily: Bank says my credit card, my problem. We need that card to pay the bills. I mean I’ll work double shifts, but uh I’m not sure it’s gonna be enough, you know?
Alex: It’s our problem, okay? And we’re gonna get through it. I promise.
At Degrassi
Manny: I’m doomed on my functions exam. Doomed! How am I supposed to be your fab university roommate if I fail?!
Emma: Assuming I don’t already have a roomie lined up of the blue-collar, sexy mechanic type.
Manny: Yeah right. Sean’s like “Hey let’s shack up. I’m real serious about our future, yo!”
Emma: Is that so completely unbelievable? I think it would be great to have something that’s just ours. Like a little home together.
Manny: Em you’re 17. You have your whole life to settle down behind the white picket fence.
Emma: Well excuse me for wanting to move in with my boyfriend.
Manny: And you’re so sure he wants to move in?
Emma: Why wouldn’t he?
Manny: Because there’s only one 4-letter word in the young male dictionary, commitment.
At the movie theatre
(Alex is working behind the counter.)
Paige: I used to love dispensing artificial nacho cheese product. That ooey, glooey texture.
Alex: Great. First the cops raid my house and now you see me wrapped in polyester. Real attractive.
Paige: Hon if you needed a job so bad, you could have asked me. Of course I can only pay you in t-shirts.
Alex: My mom needs the cash fast. Big faceless corporations weren’t the only ones Chad stole from. He racked up my mom’s credit card, so…
Paige: Um I wish I could do something. I mean maybe I could lend you a little bit.
Alex: No, I’ll be fine.
Paige: So um how is the lovely and talented Miss Carla these days?
Alex: I think Ms. PHD was slumming it with me. Besides we had zero in common. It just wasn’t worth my time.
Paige: Well if Ms. Snooty Pants thinks she’s too good for you, she isn’t invited to my housewarming party.
At Paige’s housewarming party
Marco: Man these appetizers are like tiny little flavour bombs. How does Paige do it?
Ellie: She’s just a culinary wizard, I guess. Even the devil has her fine points.
Marco: Ellie don’t start, okay? You told her it was okay to date Jessie.
Ellie: It bugs. I can’t help it.
Marco: So there’s plenty more fish in the sea, okay? We’ll hit a club, put you out there.
Ellie: Great. Meeting guys at a club. Yay.
Paige: You made it…with guests.
Jay: Paige, this is my new girlfriend, Mel.
Alex: You said invite people. Their movie ended, so I did. Now where can I change out of this loser suit?
Jay: Mel’s been telling me she might be able to get you out of that sexy uniform.
Mel: Yeah they’re looking for cute servers where I work.
Paige: Where’s that? A strip bar?
Jay: Club Zanzibar. Perfectly respectable cocktail bar…on one side. Crazy hot peelers on the other, or so I’ve been told.
Mel: Yeah they prefer to be called exotic dancers. Besides I work in the bar, fully clothed at all times. It’s good tips. About $150 a night.
Alex: And they’re hiring?
Mel: Come by. I’ll get you an interview.
Paige: Jay’s girlfriend works at Zanzibar. Quel surprise. Guess NASA wasn’t hiring.
At Emma’s, during dinner
Spike: How are things at the garage?
Sean: Okay. Actually not so good. It’s kind of dead end. Need to upgrade my skills if I want to run my own shop.
Mr. Simpson: Have you considered a technical high school?
Sean: I need hands-on experience and a pay check.
Emma: So you’re just going to skip high school, forget your diploma?
Sean: I can get all the training I want and get paid for it.
Emma: Where?
Sean: Nowhere. Just forget it.
Emma: Forget what? Where is this wonderful, merry, magic mechanic land?
Sean: This isn’t exactly how I wanted to tell you this. It’s the armed services.
(Emma laughs.)
Emma: You’re not serious.
Sean: Yeah I am. I signed up already, passed my physical. I’m pretty psyched, actually.
Mr. Simpson: You know with your skills, it might be a perfect fit.
Emma: I’m sorry. I’ve lost my appetite.
(Emma leaves the table.)
Mr. Simpson: Ketchup?
At Zanzibar
Stephanie: The girls are all friends here. You’ll like it.
Alex: Thanks Stephanie. I’ll, I’ll see you tonight for my first shift.
(She walks over to Mel.)
Alex: Hey work buddy. Thank you so much!
Mel: You got it! That’s amazing. Steph is cool, but then there’s-
(The creepy owner walks over to them.)
Mel: Alex this is Vlad…
Alex: Hi.
Mel: …the owner and Alex is our new server.
Vlad: Welcome Alex. You are prettier than many of my dancers.
Alex: Well thank you I think…in a clothes-on sort of way.
Vlad: My girls are very well paid and they’re very happy. Maybe sometime you want to audition.
Alex: Oh definitely not.
Vlad: I understand. I’m sure you’ll make a great waitress. Like this one.
(Mel makes a face as he leaves.)
During Alex’s shift
Alex: You weren’t lying, eh? I think I’ve cleared a hundred already.
Mel: (with a fake accent) That is nothing. Girls on the other side are rich and happy like movie star.
(One of the strippers walks off the stage.)
Alex: She doesn’t look so happy to me.
Mel: Maybe not, but she is paid well.
Alex: Small price to pay for your soul.
Mel: Lexy, if you are so against stripping, then why are you working here?
Alex: Why else? I need the money.
Mel: So does she. The only difference between her and us, is that she needs it more.
At Alex’s
Alex: Hey.
Emily: Greasy popped-popcorn ‘til 2am?
Alex: I quit! I got a job as a waitress at this schmancy bistro. Goodbye minimum wage, hello crazy tips.
Emily: That’s great. I’m really happy for you.
Alex: Your happiness is overwhelming.
(She shows her an eviction notice.)
Alex: We’re getting evicted?
Emily: Yup. We have 10 days to come up with the money. You know anyone with a spare two grand kicking around?
Alex: Just how? How did this happen?
Emily: Well we’d been bouncing rent checks for the last two months and I had no idea.
Alex: Mom how could you not know that?
Emily: Chad hiding the letters from the building manager, that’s how. And no, I’m not proud I trusted that scumbag.
Alex: Okay. So what do we do now?
Emily: Well I asked for a raise again. They turned me down again. I never wanted it to be like this, Lexy. I let you down and…
Alex: Chad did this, mom. Not you.
In Alex’s room
(Alex is practicing her dance moves.)
Alex: Okay tell me I don’t look completely idiotic.
Mel: Well not if you’re on your way to a rap video sh**t.
Alex: Or say the stage at Zanzibar.
Mel: Woah, woah, woah. This is why you called me here at 9:00 in the morning?
Alex: Kind of.
Mel: Whatever happened to a small price to pay for your soul?
Alex: Well my soul just got a whole lot cheaper. Try not to laugh okay. I need your help.
(She starts practicing to the video on her TV and Mel starts laughing.)
Alex: Nice vote of confidence, jerk.
Mel: I’m sorry. I’m on 3 hours sleep. Maybe it’s just too early for me to picture you as an exotic dancer.
Alex: Who am I kidding? I can’t do this.
Mel: And that’s bad? There’s got to be another way.
Alex: Sure. Uh armed robbery, prostitution, drug mule, tiger poaching…
Mel: What about Paige?
Alex: Paige looks a lot better off than she is. Not that I’d ever ask.
At Degrassi
Sean: Emma!
Emma: Sean, are you crazy? If principal Hatzilakos sees you out here, she’ll…
Sean: She’ll what? She’ll give me detention? I’m outside. Just talk to me, alright? I’ve been calling you around the clock.
Emma: I know.
Sean: So why haven’t you answered?
Emma: Because I can’t believe you’d make such a stupid decision without even talking to me.
Sean: Emma I thought you’d be happy for me. You know spreading democracy, peace keeping, protecting our country. These are all good things.
Emma: Sean you would hate it. The army is all about taking orders and being told what to do and what to think.
Sean: So being told what to think is wrong? Isn’t that what you’re doing?
Emma: This is different.
Sean: How?
Emma: Because I’m your girlfriend, Sean! If you join the army, you could get hurt and I need you right now.
Sean: Why? Tell me. I can take it.
Emma: Honestly I’m not sure you can.
At Paige’s
Paige: Describe the function of enzymes and metabolic reactions in mitochondria.
Alex: How about not? Break time?
Paige: I thought you’d never ask. So uh I have some news. You are looking at a newly single girl.
Alex: You broke it off with Jesse?
Paige: We had zero in common, hon. He wasn’t worth my time.
Alex: Well it sounds like you got it all figured out, Paigey.
Paige: Hardly. I was supposed to be at Banting fast tracking to an MBA. I was supposed to be a sorority girl sipping cosmos with Brittany and Amber, but here I am chilling with you and it feels right. Why is that?
(Paige kisses her.)
Alex: Why do you keep doing this to me?
Paige: Sorry I…I thought the door was kind of open.
Alex: Yeah it’s been open for weeks. The problem is you keep opening it and then closing it and opening it and closing it. Just make up your mind!
Paige: Look you’re cool with being a lesbian, but I don’t know what I am.
Alex: The word is bisexual Paige and it’s just a label. Who cares?
Paige: My parents already have one gay kid.
Alex: So?!
Paige: So I just dropped out of university! Let them deal with one major parental crisis at a time.
Alex: Great. Everything’s always on your schedule, isn’t it?
Paige: I am supposed to give them grandkids one day. You do not get the pressure I am under.
Alex: Pressure? Excuse me for finding your idea of pressure pretty…pretty damn pathetic right now.
Paige: Hon, don’t cry.
Alex: Stop. You don’t get to break my heart and then comfort me too.
(Alex leaves.)
At Emma’s
Emma: This is my worst nightmare, Manny. My boyfriend is joining the w*r machine. He could get himself k*lled protecting big corporations from the poor.
Manny: Well at least you’re keeping an open mind, Jay. Look I’m sure Sean’s doing it for the right reasons and I bet one of them is you.
Emma: I know. I just, I had these plans for me and Sean and him joining the army wasn’t among them.
Manny: And you don’t like it when things don’t go according to plan.
Emma: No. I really, really don’t.
Manny: Em, we’re getting into control issue zone. Are you sure you’re okay?
Emma: Yes I’m fine! This is just Sean, okay?
(The phone rings and Jack picks it up.)
Emma: Jack!
Manny: Hello?
At Zanzibar
Alex: Alright guys.
(Alex gives a table their drinks and she slaps a guys arm away as he tries to grab her ass.)
Alex: Thank you.
(She takes her end of the night tips and eyes all the money one of the strippers gets.)
Outside Emma’s
Sean: Emma! What was so important that you couldn’t tell me on the phone? I’m worried about you.
Emma: You might want to sit ‘cause this is gonna freak you out.
Sean: I don’t need to sit. I know what’s going on. You’re emotional, you’re scattered, you have trouble concentrating. It adds up. You’re anorexic again, aren’t you?
Emma: No. Sean you’re not even close. I’m pregnant.
Sean: You’re right I am going to freak out. Uh are you sure? You do a test?
Emma: We’ll do it together, okay?
At Alex’s
Alex: Tell me something good mom, please. How did it go with the uh building manager? Get that extension?
Emily: I tried.
Alex: Tried what? What did you do?
Emily: Well turns out he doesn’t have a thing for me after all.
Alex: So we’re still being evicted.
Emily: You think they’ll remember us at the women’s shelter?
Alex: We’re not going back there mom, ever. I know what to do.
At Emma’s
Sean: I thought we had all the bases covered.
Emma: And sometimes you hit a homerun. Accidents can happen. Maybe the pill didn’t kick in.
Sean: Time’s up.
Emma: It’s negative.
Sean: Yes!
Emma: Don’t get too excited. False negatives are common. I have all the symptoms, I’m days late!
Sean: So now what do we do?
Emma: We talk. We, we make decisions. I never thought I’d abort and there’s always adoption, but…
Sean: Emma! Emma the test said it was negative, alright? Just take a breath before you start getting all worked up about this.
Emma: Okay. I’ll breathe.
At Zanzibar
Mel: Oh my god. You’re actually gonna do this.
Alex: That would explain the outfit, yeah.
Mel: Vlad just let you? No audition?
Alex: Apparently I have natural talents. Might as well use them.
Mel: So you just changed your mind?
Alex: Life changed it for me, Mel.
Mel: Lexy, I have seen so many girls do this. If you go out there, it changes you.
Announcer: And now let’s welcome newcomer to our stage, the beautiful Lextasy.
Alex: I’m not going out there, Mel. Lextasy is.
(She walks onto the stage and starts dancing with the pole.)
Scenes for next week
Voiceover: A relationship…
(Ellie is shown with Jessie.)
Paige: Will you be my sweetheart?
(Alex kisses Paige.)
Voiceover: Based on deception.
Alex: If she finds out I’m an exotic dancer, there won’t be one at all.
Voiceover: Sex, lies…
(Ellie and Jessie are shown in bed together, Alex is shown slamming the door and a customer gives her money.)
Allan: Name your price.
Alex: This never happened okay?
Voiceover: And exposure.
Jay: You see if a hot girl shakes her naked ta-tas for a living, word gets around.
(Paige throws a bouquet of flowers at Alex.)
Paige: Thanks Emily. You are the hostess with the mostest.
Emily: You come over anytime you’d like Paige.
Paige: Put me down for Oscar night so long as Chad lets us watch on his 6000inch Plasma TV.
(There’s a knock at the door.)
Emily: Pizza money’s on the side table, hon.
(Chad opens the door.)
Police Officer: Good evening. We’re looking for Chad Kent. Are you him?
Chad: Depends. Uh what do you want?
Police officer: We have a warrant for your arrest for the crime of credit card fraud.
Emily: Credit card fraud? What? No, there must be some mistake.
Chad: Sorry Emily.
Emily: No wait!
Alex: Should I come?
Emily: No. No you stay. I’m sure we’ll get this all uh sorted out.
(She leaves.)
Paige: Wow. How ‘Cops’ was that? Are you okay?
Alex: Paige you should go.
Paige: You sure? The TV’s all ours.
Alex: It’s late and I have exams. Could you just go, please?
Paige: As you wish, hon. Thanks for your help.
At Alex’s, the next morning
Alex: Nothing like an all-nighter at the police station. Where’s Chad?
Emily: In jail. You know that big raise he told us about? That was a lie Lexy. He was fired.
Alex: Mom that was six weeks ago. What’s he been doing all this time?
Emily: Well besides buying new plasma TV’s with stolen credit cards?
Alex: Mom, its okay. We’ll send it back and then we’re fine, right? TV’s gone, loser’s in jail. Good riddance.
(She doesn’t say anything.)
Alex: What?
Emily: I uh…I gave him a card with his name on it. He took advantage of me Lexy. Now I’m in the hole for 6 grand.
Alex: That’s not a hole, mom. That’s the Grand Canyon.
Emily: I know.
Alex: How could he put $6000 on your card?
Emily: He told me he was making the payments. Lie #2.
Alex: You’re not paying those charges.
Emily: Bank says my credit card, my problem. We need that card to pay the bills. I mean I’ll work double shifts, but uh I’m not sure it’s gonna be enough, you know?
Alex: It’s our problem, okay? And we’re gonna get through it. I promise.
At Degrassi
Manny: I’m doomed on my functions exam. Doomed! How am I supposed to be your fab university roommate if I fail?!
Emma: Assuming I don’t already have a roomie lined up of the blue-collar, sexy mechanic type.
Manny: Yeah right. Sean’s like “Hey let’s shack up. I’m real serious about our future, yo!”
Emma: Is that so completely unbelievable? I think it would be great to have something that’s just ours. Like a little home together.
Manny: Em you’re 17. You have your whole life to settle down behind the white picket fence.
Emma: Well excuse me for wanting to move in with my boyfriend.
Manny: And you’re so sure he wants to move in?
Emma: Why wouldn’t he?
Manny: Because there’s only one 4-letter word in the young male dictionary, commitment.
At the movie theatre
(Alex is working behind the counter.)
Paige: I used to love dispensing artificial nacho cheese product. That ooey, glooey texture.
Alex: Great. First the cops raid my house and now you see me wrapped in polyester. Real attractive.
Paige: Hon if you needed a job so bad, you could have asked me. Of course I can only pay you in t-shirts.
Alex: My mom needs the cash fast. Big faceless corporations weren’t the only ones Chad stole from. He racked up my mom’s credit card, so…
Paige: Um I wish I could do something. I mean maybe I could lend you a little bit.
Alex: No, I’ll be fine.
Paige: So um how is the lovely and talented Miss Carla these days?
Alex: I think Ms. PHD was slumming it with me. Besides we had zero in common. It just wasn’t worth my time.
Paige: Well if Ms. Snooty Pants thinks she’s too good for you, she isn’t invited to my housewarming party.
At Paige’s housewarming party
Marco: Man these appetizers are like tiny little flavour bombs. How does Paige do it?
Ellie: She’s just a culinary wizard, I guess. Even the devil has her fine points.
Marco: Ellie don’t start, okay? You told her it was okay to date Jessie.
Ellie: It bugs. I can’t help it.
Marco: So there’s plenty more fish in the sea, okay? We’ll hit a club, put you out there.
Ellie: Great. Meeting guys at a club. Yay.
Paige: You made it…with guests.
Jay: Paige, this is my new girlfriend, Mel.
Alex: You said invite people. Their movie ended, so I did. Now where can I change out of this loser suit?
Jay: Mel’s been telling me she might be able to get you out of that sexy uniform.
Mel: Yeah they’re looking for cute servers where I work.
Paige: Where’s that? A strip bar?
Jay: Club Zanzibar. Perfectly respectable cocktail bar…on one side. Crazy hot peelers on the other, or so I’ve been told.
Mel: Yeah they prefer to be called exotic dancers. Besides I work in the bar, fully clothed at all times. It’s good tips. About $150 a night.
Alex: And they’re hiring?
Mel: Come by. I’ll get you an interview.
Paige: Jay’s girlfriend works at Zanzibar. Quel surprise. Guess NASA wasn’t hiring.
At Emma’s, during dinner
Spike: How are things at the garage?
Sean: Okay. Actually not so good. It’s kind of dead end. Need to upgrade my skills if I want to run my own shop.
Mr. Simpson: Have you considered a technical high school?
Sean: I need hands-on experience and a pay check.
Emma: So you’re just going to skip high school, forget your diploma?
Sean: I can get all the training I want and get paid for it.
Emma: Where?
Sean: Nowhere. Just forget it.
Emma: Forget what? Where is this wonderful, merry, magic mechanic land?
Sean: This isn’t exactly how I wanted to tell you this. It’s the armed services.
(Emma laughs.)
Emma: You’re not serious.
Sean: Yeah I am. I signed up already, passed my physical. I’m pretty psyched, actually.
Mr. Simpson: You know with your skills, it might be a perfect fit.
Emma: I’m sorry. I’ve lost my appetite.
(Emma leaves the table.)
Mr. Simpson: Ketchup?
At Zanzibar
Stephanie: The girls are all friends here. You’ll like it.
Alex: Thanks Stephanie. I’ll, I’ll see you tonight for my first shift.
(She walks over to Mel.)
Alex: Hey work buddy. Thank you so much!
Mel: You got it! That’s amazing. Steph is cool, but then there’s-
(The creepy owner walks over to them.)
Mel: Alex this is Vlad…
Alex: Hi.
Mel: …the owner and Alex is our new server.
Vlad: Welcome Alex. You are prettier than many of my dancers.
Alex: Well thank you I think…in a clothes-on sort of way.
Vlad: My girls are very well paid and they’re very happy. Maybe sometime you want to audition.
Alex: Oh definitely not.
Vlad: I understand. I’m sure you’ll make a great waitress. Like this one.
(Mel makes a face as he leaves.)
During Alex’s shift
Alex: You weren’t lying, eh? I think I’ve cleared a hundred already.
Mel: (with a fake accent) That is nothing. Girls on the other side are rich and happy like movie star.
(One of the strippers walks off the stage.)
Alex: She doesn’t look so happy to me.
Mel: Maybe not, but she is paid well.
Alex: Small price to pay for your soul.
Mel: Lexy, if you are so against stripping, then why are you working here?
Alex: Why else? I need the money.
Mel: So does she. The only difference between her and us, is that she needs it more.
At Alex’s
Alex: Hey.
Emily: Greasy popped-popcorn ‘til 2am?
Alex: I quit! I got a job as a waitress at this schmancy bistro. Goodbye minimum wage, hello crazy tips.
Emily: That’s great. I’m really happy for you.
Alex: Your happiness is overwhelming.
(She shows her an eviction notice.)
Alex: We’re getting evicted?
Emily: Yup. We have 10 days to come up with the money. You know anyone with a spare two grand kicking around?
Alex: Just how? How did this happen?
Emily: Well we’d been bouncing rent checks for the last two months and I had no idea.
Alex: Mom how could you not know that?
Emily: Chad hiding the letters from the building manager, that’s how. And no, I’m not proud I trusted that scumbag.
Alex: Okay. So what do we do now?
Emily: Well I asked for a raise again. They turned me down again. I never wanted it to be like this, Lexy. I let you down and…
Alex: Chad did this, mom. Not you.
In Alex’s room
(Alex is practicing her dance moves.)
Alex: Okay tell me I don’t look completely idiotic.
Mel: Well not if you’re on your way to a rap video sh**t.
Alex: Or say the stage at Zanzibar.
Mel: Woah, woah, woah. This is why you called me here at 9:00 in the morning?
Alex: Kind of.
Mel: Whatever happened to a small price to pay for your soul?
Alex: Well my soul just got a whole lot cheaper. Try not to laugh okay. I need your help.
(She starts practicing to the video on her TV and Mel starts laughing.)
Alex: Nice vote of confidence, jerk.
Mel: I’m sorry. I’m on 3 hours sleep. Maybe it’s just too early for me to picture you as an exotic dancer.
Alex: Who am I kidding? I can’t do this.
Mel: And that’s bad? There’s got to be another way.
Alex: Sure. Uh armed robbery, prostitution, drug mule, tiger poaching…
Mel: What about Paige?
Alex: Paige looks a lot better off than she is. Not that I’d ever ask.
At Degrassi
Sean: Emma!
Emma: Sean, are you crazy? If principal Hatzilakos sees you out here, she’ll…
Sean: She’ll what? She’ll give me detention? I’m outside. Just talk to me, alright? I’ve been calling you around the clock.
Emma: I know.
Sean: So why haven’t you answered?
Emma: Because I can’t believe you’d make such a stupid decision without even talking to me.
Sean: Emma I thought you’d be happy for me. You know spreading democracy, peace keeping, protecting our country. These are all good things.
Emma: Sean you would hate it. The army is all about taking orders and being told what to do and what to think.
Sean: So being told what to think is wrong? Isn’t that what you’re doing?
Emma: This is different.
Sean: How?
Emma: Because I’m your girlfriend, Sean! If you join the army, you could get hurt and I need you right now.
Sean: Why? Tell me. I can take it.
Emma: Honestly I’m not sure you can.
At Paige’s
Paige: Describe the function of enzymes and metabolic reactions in mitochondria.
Alex: How about not? Break time?
Paige: I thought you’d never ask. So uh I have some news. You are looking at a newly single girl.
Alex: You broke it off with Jesse?
Paige: We had zero in common, hon. He wasn’t worth my time.
Alex: Well it sounds like you got it all figured out, Paigey.
Paige: Hardly. I was supposed to be at Banting fast tracking to an MBA. I was supposed to be a sorority girl sipping cosmos with Brittany and Amber, but here I am chilling with you and it feels right. Why is that?
(Paige kisses her.)
Alex: Why do you keep doing this to me?
Paige: Sorry I…I thought the door was kind of open.
Alex: Yeah it’s been open for weeks. The problem is you keep opening it and then closing it and opening it and closing it. Just make up your mind!
Paige: Look you’re cool with being a lesbian, but I don’t know what I am.
Alex: The word is bisexual Paige and it’s just a label. Who cares?
Paige: My parents already have one gay kid.
Alex: So?!
Paige: So I just dropped out of university! Let them deal with one major parental crisis at a time.
Alex: Great. Everything’s always on your schedule, isn’t it?
Paige: I am supposed to give them grandkids one day. You do not get the pressure I am under.
Alex: Pressure? Excuse me for finding your idea of pressure pretty…pretty damn pathetic right now.
Paige: Hon, don’t cry.
Alex: Stop. You don’t get to break my heart and then comfort me too.
(Alex leaves.)
At Emma’s
Emma: This is my worst nightmare, Manny. My boyfriend is joining the w*r machine. He could get himself k*lled protecting big corporations from the poor.
Manny: Well at least you’re keeping an open mind, Jay. Look I’m sure Sean’s doing it for the right reasons and I bet one of them is you.
Emma: I know. I just, I had these plans for me and Sean and him joining the army wasn’t among them.
Manny: And you don’t like it when things don’t go according to plan.
Emma: No. I really, really don’t.
Manny: Em, we’re getting into control issue zone. Are you sure you’re okay?
Emma: Yes I’m fine! This is just Sean, okay?
(The phone rings and Jack picks it up.)
Emma: Jack!
Manny: Hello?
At Zanzibar
Alex: Alright guys.
(Alex gives a table their drinks and she slaps a guys arm away as he tries to grab her ass.)
Alex: Thank you.
(She takes her end of the night tips and eyes all the money one of the strippers gets.)
Outside Emma’s
Sean: Emma! What was so important that you couldn’t tell me on the phone? I’m worried about you.
Emma: You might want to sit ‘cause this is gonna freak you out.
Sean: I don’t need to sit. I know what’s going on. You’re emotional, you’re scattered, you have trouble concentrating. It adds up. You’re anorexic again, aren’t you?
Emma: No. Sean you’re not even close. I’m pregnant.
Sean: You’re right I am going to freak out. Uh are you sure? You do a test?
Emma: We’ll do it together, okay?
At Alex’s
Alex: Tell me something good mom, please. How did it go with the uh building manager? Get that extension?
Emily: I tried.
Alex: Tried what? What did you do?
Emily: Well turns out he doesn’t have a thing for me after all.
Alex: So we’re still being evicted.
Emily: You think they’ll remember us at the women’s shelter?
Alex: We’re not going back there mom, ever. I know what to do.
At Emma’s
Sean: I thought we had all the bases covered.
Emma: And sometimes you hit a homerun. Accidents can happen. Maybe the pill didn’t kick in.
Sean: Time’s up.
Emma: It’s negative.
Sean: Yes!
Emma: Don’t get too excited. False negatives are common. I have all the symptoms, I’m days late!
Sean: So now what do we do?
Emma: We talk. We, we make decisions. I never thought I’d abort and there’s always adoption, but…
Sean: Emma! Emma the test said it was negative, alright? Just take a breath before you start getting all worked up about this.
Emma: Okay. I’ll breathe.
At Zanzibar
Mel: Oh my god. You’re actually gonna do this.
Alex: That would explain the outfit, yeah.
Mel: Vlad just let you? No audition?
Alex: Apparently I have natural talents. Might as well use them.
Mel: So you just changed your mind?
Alex: Life changed it for me, Mel.
Mel: Lexy, I have seen so many girls do this. If you go out there, it changes you.
Announcer: And now let’s welcome newcomer to our stage, the beautiful Lextasy.
Alex: I’m not going out there, Mel. Lextasy is.
(She walks onto the stage and starts dancing with the pole.)
Scenes for next week
Voiceover: A relationship…
(Ellie is shown with Jessie.)
Paige: Will you be my sweetheart?
(Alex kisses Paige.)
Voiceover: Based on deception.
Alex: If she finds out I’m an exotic dancer, there won’t be one at all.
Voiceover: Sex, lies…
(Ellie and Jessie are shown in bed together, Alex is shown slamming the door and a customer gives her money.)
Allan: Name your price.
Alex: This never happened okay?
Voiceover: And exposure.
Jay: You see if a hot girl shakes her naked ta-tas for a living, word gets around.
(Paige throws a bouquet of flowers at Alex.)