Months.
It had been months since Serena showed up to work. Alexis was done, her patience had finally run out. She had more important things to worry about that whether or not Serena chose to come to work. But because of that, she couldn't get anything done because Amanda couldn't run the place by herself while Alexis did what she had to. The other girl was supposed to help her best friend, but she hadn't been showing up.
Amanda had told Alexis that she had had to do something with her sister or daughter, or whoever it was that she had to take care of. That had worked only for a few days, after that Alexis didn't believe that she had been taking care of the kid. She had to have been doing something else, and Alexis was going to find out whether or not it was something important. If it wasn't Alexis was going to make sure Serena regretted not coming to work for so long. Even if it was important, she was going to make her regret it.
Alexis wasn't the same push over she was. Not by a long shot.
She wouldn't tolerate anything form anyone anymore. Not even Amanda, most days. She'd even grown cold toward Damitrius, the girl she'd been trying to gain the affections of for four years now. Just when Damitrius was starting to warm up to her again, she started drifting away from her sixteen year old sister. Alexis changed too much, and it was because of James and the Death Eaters.