Who: Jean Grey & Open What: Doing a little Christmas shopping after school Where: Walmart When: After school on Thursday Rating: TBD
While for the most part Jean did enjoy Christmas, it often could easily invoke feelings of melancholy too. It was impossible to be too down when you had the entire town in nearly perfect, happy spirits for the most part, but there were times in which it did hit the young telepath hard. Today was one of those days and after school she decided to attempt to cheer herself up with a little Christmas shopping. It was early in the month, but Jean did anticipate it would be crowded and with that came the obvious difficulty: keeping her mind to herself. Despite this, Jean was firm in her decision to make the effort even if part of her was quite frightened and anxious by the idea. She knew she could not avoid unnecessary human contact forever and it was not good for her to do so. The Professor would want her to train with her abilities and learn the control which only came with being in situations that allowed that to happen.
Venturing into Walmart was easily one of those situations and upon finding herself inside, she took up a basket and started toward the big holiday section the store had to offer. Part of her wondered if maybe gifting ornaments might not be such a bad idea. It was something people could use at least once a year and there were quite a few personable ones available that would make good gifts for people like Kurt. She felt he could definitely find some amusement in it at least. Klara too. Phil would be difficult, but maybe there was something she could dig up for him that didn't involve another cook book though she'd been very grateful for how many he did have during Thanksgiving.