I do not own Rise of the Guardians. I only own my OC, Marissa Cantwell.

I was so nervous moving to Burgess. It was across the country from where I previously lived, California. I didn't know anybody but my mother there. I would've rather stayed with my dad when my parents divorced. He understood me more. But there I was, standing in front of a white two story house with a white fence surrounding the yard. I opened the fence and shifted the box under my arm so I had a better grip on it. Suddenly, a snowball hit the back of my head and I fell to the ground, the box spilling all of my books onto the snow.

"Claude, look where you're throwing!" I heard a boy's voice say. I started gathering up my books before they got soaked by the snow. I reached for a book, but a hand had already grabbed it. I looked up and saw a boy with brown hair and equally brown eyes reaching out his hand to help me up. "I'm Jamie Bennett. You must be the new neighbor. Welcome to Burgess."

I grabbed his hand and he helped me up. "I-I'm Marissa Cantwell." I tucked a piece of red hair behind my ear, blushing. I had to admit, Jamie was pretty cute.

"Nice to meet you, Marissa. This is Claude, Pippa, Caleb, Cupcake, and Monty." Jamie gestured to his friends who all waved. "Claude's the one who threw the snowball."

"Hey! Thank for ratting me out," a darker skinned boy threw a snowball at Jamie, which hit him in the face.

"No fair! I was unprepared!"

"That's the point!"

"Just you wait, I'll get you ba-" Jamie was cut off by my mom slamming the car door shut.

"Marissa, I thought I told you to put on a hat!" My mom pulled my hat over my ears and looked around. "You don't want Jack Frost nipping at your nose"

"Who's Jack Frost?"

Saying that got a gasp out of Jamie and his friends. Monty spoke up. "D-did she seriously just say that?"

I raised an eyebrow. "Isn't Jack Frost just one of those fairy tales, like Santa and the Easter Bunny?"

Caleb's eyes widened. "She.. She called them myths."

Jamie was about to say something but was cut off by a little girl with blonde hair running into him, knocking him to the ground. He started laughing and stood up, holding the little girl. "Sophie, you should be inside. You're not wearing your jacket."

"I'm not cold!" The little girl, whose name I guessed was Sophie, looked at me. "Are you Jamie's girlfriend?"

Jamie set Sophie down. "She's not my girlfriend, Sophie. I just met her."

"Well, she should be your girlfriend. She's pretty."

Jamie sighed. "Yeah, she's pretty, now go home before I tell Mom." Sophie ran off, to the house next door, which I guess was her house, along with Jamie. "Sorry about that, Marissa. That was my sister, Sophie."

"Oh, uh, it's okay." I felt my cheeks turn red.

My mom opened the door to our house and yelled to me, "Marissa, time to come inside. We still have to unpack! You can flirt later!"

My face turned even redder. "Uh, I guess I'll see you later, Jamie." I ran inside the house before I could be even more embarrassed by my mom.