Chapter Twelve
Alex alarm clock start buzzes in her ear tell her its time to get up and ready for work. She rolls over and hit the off button on her alarm clock and moan. She sits up in bed and opens her eyes and the room starts spinning, so she shuts her eyes again. She puts her feet over the edge of the bed and thinks to herself I’m in no shape to go into work tonight. She is just about to pick up her cellphone to call Merri and tell she is too sick to come into work, when there is a loud bang on her bedroom door and she hears Chad yelling at her.

Chad: Lexi, get your lazy butt out of bed and get ready for work.
Alex: I don’t think (coughs) I can make it into(coughs) work I am really dizzy and it hurt to breath.
Chad: If you do not go to work, there won’t be enough money on your pay check from the last two weeks to pay the rent and we will be kick out of the apartment.
Alex: That your fault, you steal the money from my (Ah-choo) room, if you did not steal (coughs) the money we would have enough money too pay the rent.
Chad: Lexi, you know you mom is in no shape to get kick out of the build right now.
Alex: Fine, I’m up.

Alex stumbles out of bed and changes into her work uniform. She grabs one of her large handbags. Then grabs the almost empty box of tissue and puts them into her handbag, along with her wallet and her keys. On the way out of her room she grabs a new box of tissues from the hall closet and throws it into the handbag on her way to the front door of the apartment. Emily watching her daughter as she slowly walking toward the front door. Emily grabs her daughter arm as she walks by her to stop Alex.

Alex: I need to leave for work
Emily: Lexi, you look awful and are run really warm, I am so sorry Chad stole the money from your jar. If he did not steal the money, you could still be in bed sleeping, baby.
Alex: I’m gone to be late.

With that Alex walks out the door and walks to the bus stop. When the bus pulls up to the bus stop she get on. She takes the bus to work, because she is too weak to walk to work. Alex gets to the mall and walk to the theater. She sees Paige work already and that Merri is wait for her. Merri walks up to Alex and look at her from head to toe, with a very worried look on her face.

Merri: You are work ticket booth tonight and if you need to take a break at any point, you can take one.
Alex: (Sounds congestion) Thank Merri.

Alex walks over to the ticket booth and goes inside and Kevin stands up and gives Alex the stool and leaves the ticket booth. Alex gets to work right away sales movie tickets. The first choice she gets she pulls out both boxes of tissue from her handbag and set then on the counter top in front of her.