Chapter 1

Jack Frost's the name. Making winter a snowy wonderland is my game. It's a pretty big gig for a lone teen boy, but hey it isn't like I have friends or anything to keep me busy. I'm not a loner by choice, though. It's kind of hard to make friends when you aren't supposed to talk to them or touch them or basically interact with them in any way, except for our "guardian duties." I have my ways around that, but I've been trying to not cause trouble twenty-four hours a day. Twenty-three is plenty.

So that's why this one day was so important to me. It started like any other. I coasted around on my staff and came to settle in a tree to admire my handiwork. Fresh snow covered the small town I had decided to live in for a while.

People were wandering around chatting or on various errands. It was pretty boring overall and I was considering starting some trouble when a small figure caught my eye.

Near the middle of the town was a slender girl. She seemed to be about my age. Well, my age I was stuck at at least. She caught my eye because she wasn't acting like the rest of the town's inhabitants. Her thin frame bobbed to some kind of music. I could make out her lips creating mists in the air as she whispered lyrics. The rest of her face was hidden beneath a black hood. The jacket fell beneath her hips, seeming way too big for such a tiny thing. The ends of her pants flowed and brushed the snow from her path as she twirled and danced about. Everyone else seemed to ignore her, but she commanded my attention.

Lightly, she jumped up onto an icy ledge by where the gardens usually were, but my frost cloaked them at the moment. Her small shoe covered feet darted across the ledge as her lips continued making the lyrics I couldn't hear. Suddenly, she lost her footing and fell back into a snowbank. I jumped down from my perch and flew over to where she lay, but she was fine. She threw her head forward, freeing it of the hood and laughed. It was a light and happy sound that fit my winter wonderland. Now I could see her face. Snow was dusted over her clothes and her brown hair that had trapped sunshine streaking it. Her complexion was pale making her seem at home in the snow. She fell back and laughed again. "Well, well, Frost. Looks like you're doing more than just biting at my nose or making pretty snow scenes."

This made me freeze (no pun intended). People can't see me, except for kids who believe in me, so why was she talking to me? She was easily in her teens and too old by what I thought were the limits of being a kid. Her eyes closed, hiding the brown centers. "The snow is so beautiful today. Well, it always is, but freshly fallen snow is the best, especially the fluffy kind like this! I love this kind of snow!" Pale fingers skimmed through my snow and I watched mesmerized. What was with this girl? She seemed a few snowflakes short of a blizzard by the way she was acting, but her eyes had seemed kind and smart, betraying the idea.

"There you are!" The girl and I turned to see three boys that didn't look too friendly to me. They were harassing a smaller boy, clearly being punks. I had just finished a snowball, when one flew out and hit the back of the leader's head. All five of us turned to the girl. She simply made a misleadingly innocent face. "Oops..."

The leader stepped forward, his arm passing through mine as he pointed at her. "You're not getting away with that!"

Her innocent smile stretched into a cocky grin. "Yeah? Sounds like a challenge."

They were really mad now. "Let's get her!" They took off toward the girl faster than I expected.

She smiled and I saw a hint of the mischievousness in her eyes that when it shone in my eyes, Bunny usually was quick to lose his temper. "Gotta catch me first." With that, she had scrambled up the snowbank, with an odd amount of grace, and was off like a shot. I heard her distantly yell, already putting a decent bit of distance between her and the boys. "Winter don't fail me now!

I don't know why exactly, but this whole situation made me mad. The girl had been complimenting me and my snow and "talking" to me and they ruined it! The two had scaled the slope, but as the third climbed I let some of the snow get slushy. Slushy snow usually wasn't one of my favorites, but it made his footing loose and he knocked himself out on the ledge. I chuckled and flew off after the others.

It only took me a moment to find them. The girl was sliding with ease on the ice as the boys struggled. She grabbed a pole whipping herself down a side alley, the ice having sped her up. One boy managed to scramble off the ice and dart after her, but the other lost his footing at the turn and slid forward into a pile of snow. I held my stomach laughing. This girl was a blast! I followed after them after a moment, not wanting to lose them.

It took me a bit longer to find them this time. She was standing watching as he stood near a tree. They were on the outskirts of town, at the edge of the woods. "No where left to run." He glared at her, his chest heaving.

I must admit I was pretty curious what she was going to do next, but she just crossed her arms and smirked back, not even breathing hard. "Winter is my season. You should know that, dude, as a heads-up."

That just seemed to make him more mad. "Yeah, right! You're so freaking weird! No one is here to save you, dummy!"

That was my cue. I landed on a branch over his head and bounced, knocking free the snow that clung to the branches. It fell on him in a heap and I couldn't help, but grin, leaning against my staff innocently. "Oops...did little old me do that?" I spun my staff in one hand and walked along the branch. "I can be suchhh a klutz..."

I glanced over as I heard laughing. The girl was doubled over. After a moment of laughing, she straightened and looked up at me. It sounds crazy, but it seriously felt like she could see me. "Thanks, Jack Frost..." With that, she darted off into the woods.

The teen stuck his head out of the snow and yelled after her. "You're crazy! Jack Frost isn't real you, idiot!" Okay. Ouch. That hurt a little. I knocked some more snow down the back of his shirt before I flew after the girl. This was not looking to be my hour off no trouble making. Oh, well...

It didn't take me long to find her. The trees were bare except for my snow and her black jacket stood out. She was sitting beside the cold pond, not yet frozen, and I noticed she was writing in some kind of notebook. Her brow furrowed in concentration and I landed on the middle of the lake to look over at her. The water frosted beneath my feet and she looked up.

We both froze. She was staring at my left foot, which had frosted the ice closest to her. It seemed like an eternity passed before her misty whisper broke the silence. "...Jack...?"

Well, this was an interesting turn. I took another step forward, frosting as I went. Her eyes widened and very slowly she raised her head until she was looking right at me. Before I could even begin to get excited about that, though, she dropped her gaze back to her book.

"Thank you for helping me earlier." Her voice was soft and shy as if not to disturb the forest's peace.

"You're welcome." It took me a moment to remember she couldn't hear me and then I felt stupid for saying it.

That's about how the rest of afternoon went. She drew and wrote in her notebook and I settled on the ice to watch her. She got really intense when she had to put the finishing touches on a drawing. Once in a while she'd hold out her book to show me her drawing. The way she just held it open for the world to see made me certain she couldn't see me.

She really was quite talanted. In the book there were flowers covered in frost, animals with snow caught in their fur, trees with branches weighed down with snow, and houses with icy windows and billowing smoke. She'd explain where she had seen something or describe the picture out loud, but it really felt like she knew I was sitting there and listening. I leaned my cheek on my staff and listened politely with a smile. Even though I knew I could leave and she'd never know, this was a nice change of pace and she was a pretty sweet girl.

After a while of this, I felt my cheek sliding against my staff sleepily. It was pretty late. Us guardians can go without sleeping, but I would get in the habit of napping, because I guess it made me feel a little human. So, I'd get tired and sleepy. Before my eyes could succumb to the sleep and close, I saw the girl glance up as if something had caught her attention in my direction. My eyelids were so heavy with sleep I didn't bother looking to see what it was...

My eyes flew open and I sat straight up. I glanced around and realized I'd fallen asleep. Crap! Wait... why weren't my clothes wet? Well, they were a little, but hardly. What the...how?

I glanced around and saw a girl sitting nearby. It took a minute for my brain to thaw enough for me to remember. She was curled up in the snow, her jacket draped over her like a blanket. I stood and walked over to her, crouching beside her sleeping form. She seemed so tiny in the snow like that... My eyes spotted an icicle beside her and I reached for it, wondering how it got there, when I saw something that froze me and made my heart race.

When I had reached for the icicle, I had put my other hand down for balance. My hand was on her jacket.

I could feel it...

She was a teenager! How could i? I skimmed my hand along it, feeling the soft material when I realized something even more shocking. My hand as it followed her hood, had accidentally brushed her shoulder.

I had felt her shoulder...

How was I touching this girl? How? My heart and mind raced as I carefully touched the tips of her hair. It was softer than it had looked, just like the jacket had been. Suddenly, she stirred and I pulled back, but the movement made the jacket slip off her shoulder. I moved to fix it when something white against her back caught my eye.

It definitely wasn't snow. It kind of looked like a... No...there's no way that's what it could be... Well, that made me decide I was going to figure this out or my name wasn't Jack freaking Frost.

Well, there's the first chapter of my story! I haven't managed to see the whole movie all the way through, but it's extremely addicting so I decided to write a story. As always, if I go out of character let me know! Please read and review!