"We were best friends," Roxie explained. "Once upon a not so long time ago." Though it felt like ages, to be sure. "We're at sort of a cease-fire right now, but once we hit high school, we had our issues." Issues that they both probably remembered a little bit differently, as these things tended to go. "Once we got into high school, the politics of that environment started to take over. Brooke - that's her name, Brooke Wyngarde," Roxie continued, "cared about her grades and about being the Queen Bee of the school. She desperately tried to get into the in-crowds. As for me...well. I was there to party, and have a good time, and network, and..." Roxie shrugged. She'd had a colourful past. "People naturally gravitated towards me. The in-crowders, I mean. Brooke may have resented that a little bit."

She took another bite of food and stared off into space. "Eventually, she did end up being the queen of our school, as she had always wanted to be, and I was more often than not busy fighting bad guys or sleeping with bad boys or partying with a bad crowd." They key word here was bad. "We made up again around college, but we never really became friends again.

"It's just odd that Alexander's dating her but...then again, it's not. He's got his dark side, she's a crazy rampant bitch. It kind of does make sense."