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Chapter 4: Christmas Time is near...
The weather outside was chilly, it was now December and white snow could be found everywhere around Toronto. Children were outside playing in the snow while fathers and/or mothers were shoveling the snow so they could drive places, laughter could be heard everywhere because this was one of the favorite times of the year, Christmas.
Alex Nunez sat in her living room wrapped in a cozy blanket her mother and Chad were out for the whole weekend, they decided as a Christmas gift they'd go to the united states and leave her by herself for Christmas. The television was on showing a marathon of 'A Christmas Story', while she adored the movie she was getting quite tired of seeing it run after run.
"Maybe I'll call Marco..." She thought out loud reaching over to the phone she dialed her friend's number and waiting for him to pick up, sighing she leaned back into the couch.
"Hello?" Marco asked, he twirled slightly in his chair as he looked up at the ceiling.
"Marco it's me Alex." Alex sighed closing her eyes, "I have been thinking for awhile that maybe Paige needs a day without her daughter around her..." twirling a strand of hair between her two fingers she bit her lip. "She seems really stressed and I think just a day with her friend Alex will do good."
"Just with you?" Marco laughed, he had a feeling that his raven haired friend had a thing for the cheerleader but he didn't want to ask and look like a complete fool. "Alright, just so you know Paige loves to ice skate, so you should take her ice skating be gone all day ... I'll watch Chloe...I adore her."
"Great, I'll go walk to Paige's house now and you can get a ride to Paige's get Chloe and leave!" She then hung up the phone without saying goodbye, standing up and stretching she grabbed a jacket, money and her house keys. She then left her apartment and walked out into the cold. Brrrr
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Marco shook his head and hung up the phone, he walked into the restroom and took a quick glance in the mirror to make sure he looked somewhat presentable, smiling at himself he left the restroom and ran down the stairs. Looking at his watch he realized that he could do many things with Chloe which was pretty awesome.
"Ma, I'm going to watch Chloe today alright? I won't be home until late." He grabbed his car keys, a jacket and his cell phone and left his house. Getting inside his car he pulled out of the driveway and drove towards Paige's.
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There was a loud knock on the Michalchuck's door, Marco stood outside waiting for his friend to answer. He could hear ruffling around and Chloe's laughter from upstairs, she always laughed it was really refreshing to hear laughter. The blonde cheerleader slowly opened the door and smiled when she saw it was one of her friends.
"Thank god for civilization." She took a few steps back to let her friend Marco in, he walked in slowly and looked around, "What brings you by here? Not that i'm not happy to see you but it's two days until Christmas shouldn't you be with your family?"
"Yeah, but I wanted to watch Chloe today besides Alex is coming to take you places and give you a break from being a parent just for today. You really need it." He nodded his head, a loud stomping of feet could be heard down the stairs, "I hear Chloe monster coming to get me!"
"Marco!" Chloe huffed angrily as she marched over to him, pointing her finger up the stairs she sighed in aggravation, "I put teddy on time out for being bad!"
"That's the way to tell him." Marco nodded proudly as he picked up the little blonde, "How would you like to spend the day with me?"
"Yeah!" Chloe squealed linking her arms around his neck, "Let's go!"
"Hi Marco." Alex said as she walked up the steps and watched them walk down the street, "Bye Marco." she waved at the two walking away and turned to look over at Paige who seemed a little confused. "Yeah we're hanging out today you need a break from Chloe and everything it's written all over your face. I don't want you to have an ulcer or to have a heart attack okay?"
"But... Chloe, I'm a parent I need to be responsible." Paige protested, she hugged stomach slightly and looked at the ground, Alex rolled her eyes and pulled Paige closer towards her.
"You are with her all the time, she's your daughter I know but you need to also worry about your own mental health too." She responded pushing a few strands of hair out of her friends face she smiled lightly and linked an arm with her, "come on, I'm going to take you ice skating and I'm paying for everything."
"Oh, I love to ice skate." Paige giggled as they both walked down the street towards the ice rink. There was no point in driving since it was only down and around the corner from her house and it was rarely busy due to the fact that most people liked to go sleigh riding and have snow ball wars.
"I know you do," Alex grinned as they approached the rink and walked inside of it she quietly told Paige to go sit and wait for her skates after getting her shoe size and everything once everything was paid for she slowly walked back and gave her a pair of rental skates. "Here you go, they're new actually, they just got them in and we're the first costumers to use them so that means we'll have to wear them in."
"No problem." Paige winked at Alex as she put on her skates.
A few minutes later the two of them were speeding around the rink like professionals, Paige was watching Alex for a few moments who was doing a few stunts that she figured her friend must have learned from ice skating lessons but at the same time she couldn't imagine the dark haired girl taking such a class.
"Paige look out!" Alex called flailing her arms everywhere going full speed towards Paige she collided into her and both of them fell onto the ice, Paige being on the bottom and Alex being on top, there was a long awkward pause of the two of them just staring at eachother.
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Marco and Chloe were both lying in the snow moving their legs and arms simultaneously they were making snow angels and competing with one another to see who had the better angel. Marco knew he was more coordinated than Chloe so he purposely did a really terrible job so that way it could boost the little blonde's ego.
"Look mine is better than yours!" Chloe pointed at his snow angel as she sat up and shook her head vigorously.
"Yes, you win." Marco laughed.
Dylan watched them from a distance while making a snow man, he laughed every now and then knowing that it was soon that his mission would be accomplished after it got started he knew how to reel in the bait and he was a pretty good fisher.
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Paige opened up the front door and turned to look at Alex who was shivering slightly, raising an eyebrow she looked around the room to see if her parents were in sight and they weren't. Moving out of the way she ushered her friend inside and closed the door behind her.
"Thanks for taking me out today, I had a lot of fun, if you want you can spend the night tonight." Paige offered she really hoped that her friend would say yes because she didn't want to be alone tonight even though she had Chloe it just wasn't the same, she just wanted to be held again.
"Sure, my parents are gone for Christmas so I'd love to be in your company." Alex grinned as she made her way over to her friends couch she plopped down on it and watched as her friend did the same, "I'm glad you had fun today, that's all I wanted you to do was to have fun. You rarely smile and you smiled so much today it made me smile."
"I always smile when I'm around you." Paige blushed as she looked down at her fingers, she really couldn't believe she just said that but they were so honest with each other she didn't want to risk a dishonest friendship.
Alex smiled lightly and as if she could read her friend's mind she grabbed a blanket, wrapped it around Paige and herself to help keep themselves warm she pulled Paige into her arms and held her, she watched as Paige moved around a bit in her arms to get comfortable once she was she laid still.
"Go to sleep, I'll put Chloe to bed and everything." Alex whispered stroking Paige's blonde hair lightly, she hummed quietly and watched her friend fall into slumber she didn't fight it like she would normally. Poor thing all her energy was wiped from her quickly, sighing she grabbed one more blanket and covered up her friend again to keep her even more warm.
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A half an hour later there was a light knock on the door, in that half hour Alex must have fallen asleep rubbing her eyes she unhooked her arms around Paige and slowly moved off the couch and over to the door, yawning she opened it and looked at Marco.
"Paige's sleeping," Alex stated she looked over at Chloe who was also sleeping, "I see mini Paige is sleeping also, here I'll take her." She reached out her hands to grab Chloe and held her in her arms. Leaning forward she whispered into her friend's ear, "Paige's tired, I told her to sleep, and I should go." she backed away slowly and closed the door.
Alex walked up the stairs to Chloe's room and put her into her bed and brought up the covers to her chin. Backing away slowly she left the room leaving the door ajar incase Chloe needed anything. Making her way down the stairs she walked into the living room, not moving for awhile she watched the girl she had a crush on sleep for awhile before walking over to the couch and picking up Paige, who slowly stirred from her sleep.
"Hey, i'm just taking you upstairs to your room, don't wake up." Alex whispered as she got a tighter grip on the blonde she turned around and walked up the stairs to the cheerleaders room. Leaning over slightly she opened up her bedroom door and placed Paige on one side of the bed, tucked her in and then got in on the other side.
It's almost Christmas, little did anyone know that it wouldn't be the 'merriest' of Christmas's.
