Come Back Jack

Chapter One

Whoever said college life was the best thing was quite the liar. It was absolutely stressful and hectic. I looked at myself in the mirror, staring at my blank brown eyes. They use to be so colorful and full of life. What happened?

"Oh that's right…" I whispered. "He left and hasn't returned…" Having him in my heart isn't enough. I need to see him. I'll never stop believing in my Jack Frost. I shake my head, my brown hair shaking with me. My eyes darted to the windows, out to observe the college campus. It is January and still no snow. Not even a flurry.

I shake my head, trying to clear my thoughts. I grab one of my many English textbooks and head off to class.

"Jamie! Jamie Bennett!" I heard someone call out behind me. I turned around and saw a short girl with long blonde hair. I had met her in my freshmen year here. I thought we could just be regular friends, but this girl was clingy and never gave up.

"Oh, hi Chelsea," I said quietly. I already knew she had a big crush on me, her friends told me who knows how many times now. Chelsea was blushing and shifting the ends of her shirt around with her fingers.

"I-I need to tell you something!" she exclaimed. I stepped back a little, having a feeling what was going to be said.

"Okay…so tell me."

"Well," she began. "I have liked you since I met you and um…was wondering if you'd like to, um, go out sometime…possibly?" My feeling had been correct. I knew this day would happen eventually, but I was hoping it wouldn't.

"Oh," I mumbled. What else was I suppose to say? I'm not a mean person. I have always been on Santa's nice list after all. "Sorry but…"

Chelsea's face fell, she must have already known what I was going to say, just from my three words I uttered.

"Jamie, are you gay or something?" Chelsea asked me. My eyes widened from the unexpected question.

"What do you mean?"

"Well I saw other girls ask you out… You're a very good looking guy after all… But, you turned them all down. I was just hoping it was because you liked me but I guess that's not it. So, are you gay?" I did not know how to respond to this. I stood there, in utter silence. She stared up at me with wide eyes. Her blue eyes weren't as pretty as Jack's eyes…

Wait… Did I just think that? I sigh deeply and open my mouth to speak.

"I have someone else that I'm waiting for," I tell her softly. She looks a bit hurt, but nothing I can really do about it now. Suddenly, the bell rang for that hour and that was my cue to get the heck out of here. I wave bye to her and walk off to my class.

The English class dragged on for so long. Who knew that becoming a primary school teacher took so much effort? Well I bet people knew, but I wasn't expecting it. I stood from my chair, collecting my belongings. All of my friends from back home went off to different colleges and I only saw them on holidays.

I was about to exit the large classroom when I heard someone cheering.

"SNOW!" some guy yelled. I stopped in my tracks, turning my head to stare out of the large glass window. Sure enough, he was right. Snow was falling at a steady rate and snowflakes touched the glass window, melting onto them. I thought I saw something fly by and my eyes widened.

Jack!? I thought to myself. I ran out of the room and sprinted as fast as I could to find an exit. I had to get outside! I could hear people yelling at me to slow down, but there was no way that was going to happen. My eyes focused on the door that said "Exit." My large hands reached out and I opened the door, staring out into the green and white grounds. At the pace of this snowfall, the green would be gone soon. Nobody else was outside in this clearing.

"Jack!?" I called out as loudly as I could. I was hoping so much for the white haired, blue eyed man to appear in front of me. I wanted it so much.

The wind suddenly gushed out and pushed me a bit forward, a snowflake hitting my cheek. Yet, nobody was there. Would Jack Frost ever return? Would he ever come see me again? Even if it was only for a second, I would savour it for the rest of my life. I turned back around, heading inside. English was the only class I had today. I think I'll just go relax in my room and maybe do homework.

I slumped through the school, a bit depressed, heading to the residence hall. Boys and girls were scurrying about as I walked past them. My roommate always worked and never came back until two in the morning, so I had enough time to myself. I walked to my dorm and pulled out my keys. The only thing was, my door was cracked. I specifically remember shutting and locking this door, so why was it open? I held my breath, thinking that it was some ax murderer or something. I swung the door open and saw nobody was there. I tilted my head in confusion but shrugged it off. Maybe I forgot to lock the door after all.

I shut the door behind me and when I did, I heard giggling and little chirping noises. I spun around and saw a colorful woman with wings. Her wings were going too fast for me to count the individual flaps. She has yellow, green, and blue feathers all over her. She smiled softly at me.

"T-Tooth?" I gasped. I could feel a large smile forming on my face. The Tooth Fairy herself was standing in front of me. Next to her was the little fairy, chirping happily, and flying around my room.

"Oh Jamie am I so happy that I found you! I went to your home but you weren't there! I had to go to Santa to find you!" she said quickly all at once. Her smile was quickly falling and she looked nervous.

"What's the matter?" I asked her, motioning for her to sit down on one of the beds. She sat on my roommate's bed and I sat across from her on my own bed.

"It's Jack! He has gone missing!" she gasped. My eyes widened and I stood right back up.

"What do you mean he has gone missing?" I ask. It came out more demanding than I intended but I was quite worried.

"Haven't you noticed? The reason there hasn't been much snow in several years? Something has happened to Jack!" Tooth explained to me. Little Tooth stopped flying around on my room and rested on Tooth's shoulder.

"But it just snowed… It's snowing right now…" I tell her, confused about this whole entire thing.

"Oh I know! But that is not Jack's snow!"

"How can you tell?" I ask her, raising a brow.

"With Jack, children of all ages go out and play in it, having fun! Yet, all of these children look so sad and do not wish to play in the snow anymore… Jamie, I'm worried about Jack…' I bit my lip, sitting back down on my bed.

"Well, I'm not for sure why you came to me or what you want me to do," I tell her, staring down into my lap.

"I want you to come with me to the North Pole. We need your help." I looked back up at her. My heart rate was accelerating. I wanted to go to the North Pole so badly as a child. Now I had the opportunity to do so. "I understand if you have to think about it, but we really need your help."

I stand up from my bed and walked over to my tiny closest. I put on my black winter jacket and slip on my gloves.

"I'm ready to go," I tell her, nodding my head quickly. "Let's go find Jack Frost."