Lex was dozing when the door crashed open. He opened his eyes to stare at the new arrivals. The elder Kents and the teenagers came in, talking and laughing. Lex watched in amazement as they dumped boxes on the ground and proceeded to make his room very…Christmas-y. They stuck paper Santas and stars and trees and snowflakes on the walls, stringing up red and green paper chains. There was even a little Christmas tree to go in the corner, complete with ornaments and a star.
"Merry Christmas, Lex!" Clark announced. The others echoed his sentiment.
"Wow," Lex said finally. 'This is amazing-and very unexpected."
"It's just some paper decorations," Chloe said with a shrug.
"No, it's really great. I've never been anywhere so beautifully decorated in my life," Lex assured them. They looked at their feet and muttered thank-you's.
Lex's small smile turned to complete shock as Clark pushed a wrapped present at him. Lex clumsily tore off the paper with his one good arm. It was a mix CD. The cover read 'Clark Kent's Smallville Mix.'
"Is it all country?" Lex asked mock-seriously.
"It's not all boring classical cra-I mean, stuff," Clark replied, pretending his feelings were hurt.
Lex got a coffee cup from Lana with '#1 Boss!' painted on, which he could get filled up at the Talon with anything he wanted for free-anytime. He got a book of pictures and articles of 'various Smallvilleian things' from Chloe, and a bunch of Christmas cookies and an invite to dinner from the elder Kents. Even Pete, the town's biggest 'Lex Luthor basher', got him a book about expensive cars. They all offered to sign his arm cast, which he allowed. Soon it was covered in doodles and signatures and varying forms of 'Get Well Soon!' It was Lex's best Christmas, even counting the ones he had before his mother died.
"This is the strangest Christmas ever," Chloe muttered. "A super Smallville-ian Christmas."
"What did you expect?" Clark replied with a smile.
Lex just wished he could say how good it felt to be surrounded by laughter and cheer and, for the first time in his life, friends. For the first time since his mom died, he felt loved. Lex reached for the plate of Christmas cookies and waited for a moment to enter the conversation.
Hooray! The end of my very first fic? What did you think? Please review!