xp_communication | E-mail to Amanda

To: [trouble]
From: [big brother]

Amanda,

You still available for unloading duty this weekend? Sorry about the short notice, but I wasn't completely sure if Mom'd be coming over this week or next. But it's this, as it turns out. On Saturday, so we can meet in town to do it after your class if you want. She'd like to see you again, so let me know?

Angelo

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From:

x-skin.livejournal.com

Great! I'll get into the city somehow and come pick you up after your class, then. And I will do!

Angelo

From:

xp_daytripper

You could always catch the mini-van with me and hang around the city for a while, or go help your mum in the meantime?

From:

x-skin.livejournal.com

That works. What time do you head out?

From:

xp_daytripper

Eight in the morning too much of a stretch for you? *evil grin* I can come 'round and wake you up, if you like...

A.

From:

x-skin.livejournal.com

Oh, I think I can manage that. Nathan says I should start going for runs, anyway. Ick. But, yeah, if you don't see me, feel free to come hammer on the door.

From:

xp_daytripper

See, this is where I do a Manny and accuse Nate of brainwashing everyone - what is it with all you fitness freaks lately? It's unnatural, all that running around in circles. *grins*

If I don't see signs of life by 7.45, I'll be there with Moira's bagpipe CD.

A.

From:

x-skin.livejournal.com

Hardly a fitness freak - I'm not quite ready to give up the cigs yet - but he says it'll help me with self-defense.

Don't you dare. I'm not that heavy a sleeper - knocking on the door will be enough, thanks.

From:

xp_daytripper

I'd miss my smoking mate. Bad enough Shinobi's quit on us.

Not even a little bit of bagpipe music?

A.

From:

x-skin.livejournal.com

Shinobi quit? When did that happen?

Well, you're the one who's gonna have to deal with everyone else on the corridor getting very annoyed and possibly throwing things if you do, so if you really want to play bagpipe music, I'd say go right ahead...

Angelo

From:

xp_daytripper

Part of this whole new leaf thing he's doing. I think he's trying to show discipline or something. We've lost him to the leather brigade, I think. *wry grin*

Hmm, maybe I'll rethink that bagpipe thing. It's too bloody early in the morning for the shielding spell, and Strange gets cranky if I turn up not fully charged...

A.

From:

x-skin.livejournal.com

Aw. Well, good for him, I guess, but I'll miss him as a smoking buddy.

Good idea. Heh.

Angelo

From:

xp_daytripper

*shrugs* Yeah, I s'pose it's good for him. At least until Sarah finds out about the whole responsible teacher thing and that he's going to grass on us for drinking if he sees us.

I thought so.

A.

From:

x-skin.livejournal.com

He was staff and an X-Man before they left, and he never grassed on us then. I'm thinking now he only would if he caught us drinking on school grounds, or something.

Angelo

From:

xp_daytripper

Not to hear him tell it. We had a chat the other week - he's got a bee in his bonnet about this whole leaving everyone in the lurch thing, so he's going to be the good little X-boy and toe the line. All the lines. No looking the other way like Pete does. :P

A.

From:

x-skin.livejournal.com

...Right then. I guess he's got a point, in a way - he did seem to be worried about whether or not they'd take him back. Maybe it'll wear off when he feels he's made up for leaving?

From:

xp_daytripper

Depends, I s'pose. He's got this whole self-improvement thing going. Which is good, being a better person, I'm all for that. Just as long as it means he doesn't get in the way of harmless fun.

A.