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The following is one of three short tales I wrote for my friend for Christmas. This is one that focuses on Paige and Angelo. Now, this is my first time ever writing Generation X so I'm kind of blue to the characters even though I have plenty of their comics. I hope I got them right.
"-I tell you Angelo I am NEVER doing anything with Jubilee ever again-"
"Uh-"
"-I mean I'd like to see her try baking-"
"Yeah Paige-"
"It's not like I was as bad as Miss Frost was that time she made us omelets remember?"
"Yes but Pai-"
"And it's not like she had to pay for any of the ingredients I did, and hey some people like cookies a little burnt-"
"I know-"
"-I know it was my first time making gingerbread men but I thought it'd be fun-"
"Paige."
"-and I didn't force Jubilee to help me but I thought it'd be a nice chance for us to really talk-"
"Paige?"
"-but it's like she doesn't know how to turn it off and she thinks it's so funny but it's not-"
"Um, Paige?"
"-and it's not like I don't like Jubilee but she always has to make everything so difficult where's the tape oh there it is and I worked really hard on those cookies and she turns to me and says 'so at least if we need to repave the driveway you can whip out the ol' cookbook'-"
"Paige!" Angelo Espenoza screamed at his companion, Paige Guthrie.
"Huh?" That seemed to get Paige out of her cookie-induced trauma trance, and she turned to her classmate and teammate. "I'm sorry Angelo, were you saying something?"
"Ya might wanna slow down there, hayseed." Angelo told her. This just confused Paige.
"What do you…"
Paige looked down, and saw that she had accidentally wrapped the present, three presents in fact, using Angelo's skin, without even realizing it.
"Oh God." Paige blushed.
"I'm gonna need that back. See, I'm not done with it yet."
"Oh God!" Paige shrieked, burying her face in her hands.
"Hey you guys done with the tape I-"
Jubilee stopped before she could get that last word after her eyes zeroed in on the rather bizarre, even for the Xavier kids, Christmas-frosted scene.
"-can come back later excuse me."
Jubilee turned on her heel and hastily made her way out of the room, no doubt to tell everyone what she had just seen.
"Uh Paige, a little help?" Angelo asked, motioning as best he could to the extended lengths Paige had lovingly used to wrap gifts.
All Paige could do was slide out of her seat onto the floor, her face still in her hands. She was silently wishing for Santa to bring her a softball bat, so she could knock herself out and forget this ever happened. Or knock out Angelo and make him forget. Or Jubilee. She hadn't decided yet.
"Well, at least the bows go with my coloring."
Angelo first.
