BIOGRAPHY - Page 3
Paige’s mother made a quick recovery and she came back to school sooner than anyone, especially Jono, expected. When Husk returned to the campus, she expected Jono to start acting like her boyfriend, but he wasn’t ready to be close with Paige and gave her a bit of a cold shoulder. Fed up with his attitude, Paige got herself a new haircut and decided to move on and start flirting with other boys, much to Jono’s discomfort. [X-Force (1st series) #87, Generation X (1st series) #48-50]
Around the same time, the Massachusetts Academy had to open its doors to human students as well, forcing Generation X to wear facemasks to avoid recognition. The Academy being somewhat understaffed, Banshee asked Tom Corsi to become a guest lecturer and studying the student’s files he was shocked what little progress they had made in controlling their powers during their stay.
In a training session, he had Paige shed one skin numerous times only to reveal a glass form underneath – something she had never morphed into before.
A problem arose in Tristan Brawn, one of the new human students at the school. He had discovered that Paige and the others were mutants and used this information to blackmail them. He promised to keep it a secret, as long as Paige agreed to go out on a date with him. While the rest of the team were against it, Paige agreed to the date – as she found Tristan to her liking. Despite being told by Paige that it wasn’t his business anymore, Jono still threatened to blow Tristan’s face off if he would hurt Paige. [Generation X (1st series) #52]
Chamber’s jealousy also affected the team’s performance, for when Generation X was sent on a mission to Madripoor with Husk acting as their field leader, he constantly questioned her authority, despite the others backing up Paige‘s plan. [Generation X (1st series) #53-54]
Some time after they returned, Paige and Tristan finally had their date, which happened to coincide with the night of the school ball. The dance was ruined by Emplate and his minions attacking, but Generation X managed to keep them contained before the other students would see them. After the fight, Tristan confessed to Paige how worried he was about her and the two kissed. Paige soon became Tristan’s girlfriend and began studying less than she used to, dressed nicer, and stopped talking to Jono. [Generation X (1st series) #57, 59]
In an attempt to get revenge on her sister, Emma, Adrienne Frost exposed the truth about the Generation X kids being mutants in the form of widespread rumors across the school. Panic spread throughout the Academy and parents came to take their kids away. To top everything off, Adrienne had planted several bombs around the school and, in an effort to save the lives of some of the other students, Synch sacrificed his own life. With the mansion in ruins and Tristan leaving along the rest of the human students, his and Paige’s relationship came to an early end. [Generation X (1st series) #67-70]
The shock of one of her teammates dying caused Paige to revert back to her over-eagerness. Over the next several months, she intensely trained in the use of her 
mutant powers, while also trying to keep tabs on mutant affairs on the internet, although she and the rest of Generation X had given up on the idea of becoming super heroes. Husk eventually discovered reports of kids going missing, and she rallied Generation X to look into the matter. They discovered the kids were being taken to the so-called “House of Corrections,“ where they were being experimented on. During the team shutting down the House of Correction, Paige demonstrated impressive computer skills and a strange rubber form capable of super-speed that she could husk into. It also seemed to be the case that she and Jono had finally become friends without any weirdness ensuing between them. [Generation X (1st series) #63-66]
While keeping up with her ongoing project of monitoring the media for all suspicious mutant activities, Paige decided to skip a trip into the city that the rest of her teammates were going on. Instead, she stayed at the school alone, where she encountered the ghost of a former student of the Massachusetts’s Academy. The girl showed her scars from the abuse she had suffered at the school and pointed her to a letter she had written and hidden in the attic. Paige tracked down the girl’s sister, now an elderly woman, and gave her the letter. She then held the crying woman in her arms, finally learning the truth of what had happened to her sister. [Generation X (1st series) #74]
Finally, the members of Generation X decided to leave the school, brought on among other things by 
Emma Frost’s scary behavior (she had murdered her sister Adrienne), Banshee drinking too much after the death of Moira MacTaggert and the fact that Jono had been invited by Xavier to graduate to the X-Men. While the others were happy for Chamber, they also realized that life should have more in store than just waiting for them to receive a similar letter. Paige tearfully bade Jono good-bye, as they never really had a chance to figure out where they stood. Jono told her that he’d written her a letter, promising her this wasn’t good-bye. Realizing that she wanted to help people but not necessarily as an X-Man, Paige then headed north to aid a group of environmentalists to protect a forest preserve from a company’s attempts to gain permission to drill for oil there. [Generation X (1st series) #75]
Over the next weeks, Paige followed media reports of Jono’s public love affair with pop-star Sugar Kane and was rather disappointed. It seemed that he hadn’t taken too long to forget her. When Banshee eventually sobered up he started the paramilitary organization he called the X-Corps. He contacted his former students individually and Paige, Monet and Jubilee each agreed to join out of concern for their former teacher’s extreme tactics, as some members of the group were former villains, brainwashed into service. When some of them broke free and took control of the X-Corps from within, starting a rampage all over Paris, Husk, M and Jubilee assisted the X-Men in bringing down the X-Corp. During the incident, Paige also met Jono, the same awkwardness from before occurring between them. [Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #403-406]