Chapter Twenty
It’s now six o’clock and Paige is limping out of the girl’s locker room after spirited squad practice. Hazel, Manny, Darcy are waiting for Paige outside of the school. Hazel looks over at Darcy who is setting across from her.

Hazel: You stay behind with Paige this morning in the locker room Darcy, Did Paige hurt her leg this morning, I know she told us that she did not hurt her leg, but its really swelling?
Darcy: I know as much as you do, she did not tell me anything. I stay behind in the locker room, because I need to use the restroom is all.
Hazel: What taken Paige so long?
Manny: I have to go see y’all tomorrow.

Manny stands up and walks away from degrassi. At the sometime Manny is walking away from the school. Darcy mom pulls her car up in front of the school and she stands up. Darcy grabs her bags then walks over to her mom’s car and gets in. As she closes the car door, Paige walks out of the school and waves bye to her. Darcy waves bye back as he mom pulls the car out of school parking lot. Hazel stands up and walks over to Paige.

Hazel: Paige you want to go to the mall and see a movie, I will drive?
Paige: No, I am going to go home and work on homework and go to bed early.
Hazel: Paige, is everything ok you are limping and you right leg is really swell from the knee down, you are luck you wear a jean skirt, because if you were wear a pair of jean the pant leg would be cut the blood flow off to your right leg.
Paige: Mine right leg is not that swelling Hazel and it’s not sore at all, so just drop the subject.
Hazel: Fine, do you want me to give you a ride home?
Paige: No, I am going to walk home!
Hazel: Fine, I will see you in the morning then Paige.
Paige: Yeah I will see you in the morning.

Hazel walks over to her car and throws her bags into the backseat then gets behind the wheel and drives off. Paige slower starts walking home. She makes it as far as the dot and needs to set down, so she walks inside and takes a set at the first table. She then puts her legs up on the chair that is across from her. She grabs a menu from the table and start looking at it. As she looking at the menu, Paige is thinking to herself. I really do not feel like eating anything, but I need to eat to keep my strengths up for the cheerleading meet tomorrow morning. Spinner, walks up to the table Paige is setting at.

Spinner: Can I take your order Paige?
Paige: Ah-Choo, Yeah I will have the chicken noodle soup and a large coffee.
Spinner: Are you feeling all right Paige, because it sounds like you are not feeling good?
Paige: Yeah, I feel fine.
Spinner: And you sneeze for the fun of it Paige?
Paige: Kim’s cat took a shower with her this, Ah-Choo, this morning so she smelling like a wet cat this morning at spirited squads practices, Ah-Choo, which made by allergic act up.
Spinner: Ok, I will go put your order in and get your coffee for you right away.
Paige: Thanks.

Spinner, walks back up to the counter and gives the order to the cook. He then grabs a large coffee cup and fills the cup up. Spinner, then takes Paige her coffee. Paige takes the coffee mug from him and takes a sip right a way.

Spinner: Your soup will be out in a minute.
Paige: Ok, Spinner.

As Spinner walks away and over to other table to take their order. Paige sets her coffee mug down, then leans back in her seat and closes her eyes. She does not open her eyes back up to Spinner brings her chicken noodle soup over and set it in front of her. Paige set up and slower eats her soup, which help make her feel a little better. When she finishes eaten, she slower takes her feet off the seat that across from her. Paige is thinking to herself, I am really hot. I am going to take my blazers off since I have a black tank top under it. She turns around in her seat and takes the blazers off. As she was about to get up Jay walks over to the table that she sitting at and takes a set next to her.

Paige: Jay, what do you want?
Jay: I just wanting to say hi and see how you are doing?
Paige: OH, I am, Ah-Choo doing, Ah-Choo, fine.
Jay: You are not coming down with the cold that Lexi had?
Paige: No, it’s just allergic. Kim come to spirited squads practice smelling like a wet cat. Jay, can you give me a ride home?
Jay: Doesn’t your brother or one of your parents pick you up?
Paige: My dad out of town on business trips. My mom has a business dinner tonight and Dylan is at hockey practice.
Jay: Sure I will give you a ride home Paige.
Paige: Thanks.

Paige and Jay stand up and Paige grabs her book bag and gym bag. She then goes over to the counter and pays for her soup and coffee. Neither Jay nor Paige talks to eachother as Jay drive Paige home. Jay looks over at Paige when he stops at a red light and sees that she has fallen to sleep with her head rest up against the window. He takes off when the light turns green and lets Paige sleep. He pulls into the drive way at Paige houses and puts his car into parked. He then taps paige on her shoulder and notices that she is hot to the touch. When she does not wake up, he taps her shoulder again.

Jay: ( Shakes Paige) Paige, we are at your house you need to wake up.
Paige: (Open her eyes and looks around.) I am sorry, did I fall asleep?
Jay: Yeah you did Paige, are you sure you not catch Lexi cold because you are warm to the touch?
Paige: I am not getting sick, I am just warm for spirited squads practice is all, I will cool down after I take a shower.
Jay: Ok, just asking don’t bite my head off.
Paige: Thanks for give me a ride. I will see you around.
Jay: No problem Paige, I will see you around too.

Paige opens the car door and gets out of the front seat off his car. She close the door and walks to the backseat door and open it up and grabs her bags off the seat then close the door. She waves bye to Jay as she walks up to the front door . Jay waits to make sure Paige gets into the house then he back out of the drive way and heads to work. Once inside she walks into the kitchen. She walks over to the counter and open up one of the drawer and gets out two large zip locker bags. Paige walks over to the refrigerated and open up the icebox and gets out the full ice cube trays. She takes the ice cube trays over to the counter and puts the ice cubes into the bags. Before she heads upstairs to her bedroom, she refills the trays and puts them back into the icebox.
Once she in her bedroom she gets out her homework then sets the homework on her bed. She lays down on her stomach and put the bag of ice under her right knee and lower right leg. After a hour of working on her math homework and not get anything done she close her math book and throws her homework onto the floor. She stands up and limps out of her room and to the bathroom, she closes the door behind her. She then goes over to the sink and reach into the medicine cabinet. She grabs the digital thermometer out of the cabinet. She turns the thermometer on, then puts it into her mouth. Meanwhile, at the sometime over at Alex, Chad and Emily place. Alex is on her cellphone and she is talking to Jay.

Jay: Lexi, have you talk to Paige or saw her today?
Alex: Yeah, She stop by this morning to say hi, before going to Spirited Squads practice, way are you ask me this?
Jay: Because I see her at the dot and she asks me to give her a ride home, I give her a ride home since everyone in her family was busy, But on the ride to her house in my car she fall asleep and she could not stop sneezes. I also notice when I tap her shoulder to wake her up she was warm to the touch.
Alex: I hope she, coughs, is not getting sick, but she felt really clammy this morning.
Jay: How are you feeling Lexi?
Alex: Better, I still have a cough. The doctor is allowing me to go back to school tomorrow, but I am not allowed to go back to work.
Jay: When are you allowed to go back to work?
Alex: Not till next Friday.

Back at the Michalchuk household thirty seconds later, the thermometer starts beeping and Paige taken it out of her mouth and looks at it. Great I am run a lower grade fever of 38.3 Celsius (101 Fahrenheit.) She puts the thermometer away then takes some Tylenol cold and flu. She heads back into her bedroom. She closes her bedroom door then changes into her PJ. Paige then gets into bed and goes to sleep. She sleeps really rough, because she is all stuffed up and can stop coughing. Also, her right leg won’t stop throbbing.