Christmas Morning 2002
"Dad wake up!" I shouted, getting more and more impatient by the minute,. "If you don't get up soon I'll get a bucket of cold water!" I thought, shouting into his head now. It had been a few years since I had realised I had the same ability as my dad, Charles Xavier. We were mutants. He told me that we were telepaths; we could read and control minds.
"Alright, alright," he said sleepily, "But we're going a run round the gardens before we open our presents!" I had to give in for a little while. Running round the mansion was one of my favourite things to do in the world. I spent most of my days in the mansion, my dad home-schooled me as he was a professor from Cambridge University. Because I was only 7 my dad didn't tell me all the things that happened after he became a professor and married my mother 8 years ago, he said he would tell me when I was older, but I occasionally tried to look in his head to see what happened, but he would feel me trying to look, and I would get caught.
"Fine, I'll go get changed and meet you outside!" I shouted quickly as I was running back to my room across the hall. I got changed as fast as I could and went outside to wait. It was a beautiful morning today, the sun was shining, there was a cool breeze, today was going to be a great day.
He eventually came out, still looking pretty tired. As we ran we talked about how he was opening a school for mutants to teach them how to use their abilities for good and not bad. We ran for two hours before we went inside and got ready for our guests.
A couple of hours later the doorbell went and I hurried down the stairs to see who it was. Alex Summers was standing in the hall talking to my dad. As I stood at the bottom of the stairs, he finally noticed me and held his arms out. "Hey kiddo!" he said as I ran into his arms for a hug. He was like an uncle to me and had been for years. "Hiya Alex!" I said hugging him even more.
As soon as everyone was there we had a total of 6 people over just like we had every Christmas for as long as I could remember. We had Alex, Sean Cassidy, Hank McCoy, Moria MacTaggert, my dad and I. We opened all our presents and had lunch. I didn't know at that point that the people that I was having lunch with right now would someday save loads of lives.