Pinky promises.
Jack laughed at the thought. They were so childish and so easily broken, he should know with how many he broke.
It was a small little custom that started off in the east and has now led to a huge bonding of promises for little children and close friends , of course it was immature and not difficult to severe ties with.

Yet none of it stopped Jack from still making promises that way. It suited him, childish, just like he was. He would make such promises all the time with his sister when he was still alive, she was the one person he'd never break a promise to, he'd try his best to uphold his promises to her.

He desperately tried to keep his biggest and final promise to her. To keep her safe from harm. And he was glad that he was able to uphold that promise, if he hadn't, well he wouldn't be here today and she might've been in his position. That's something he would never wish to befall on her. He had enough pain through the 300 years alone, and he would always regret it if he hadn't saved her from this tragic fate that befell him. Though over the sometime he's been able to get used to everything and it wasn't that bad, but he's still glad he had kept the promise to keep her safe. Even if he had to go through a lot to do it.

Everyone else he gave promises to though...well he'd try to keep them, but those other promises bored him. Promises on going to the lake for the summer, promises to not tell a girl that your friend liked her, promises to stay and help clean up the house, promises on marriage...yes even marriage.

Well why wouldn't he have been engaged, back then seventeen was the perfect age for marriage, especially in the 1600s! He didn't have a problem with his fiancé she was a beauty, but was she a little minx! Always taking away the fun, and who was Jack Frost without fun! It's always been his center and even before he became the guardian he would've been damned before he let someone steal his fun! But she was a persistent one, always around the corner ready to ruin the fun.

Probably why he hasn't wanted to ever really settle down, for the fear of being bossed around and never being free again, never able to get out and explore new things, the things that change constantly and always need the attention of being seen. That could easily explain why he moved so much from city to city, state to state, country to country. He wanted to see it all, yet he could feel something missing...
Of course that just sounded like what typical people felt, but he truly felt lonely. Sure, he had the children of the world and the other guardians now, but he wanted, no needed more. The void had filled somewhat but it was like that annoying feeling you get when you can't get that itch off your back no matter how far you try to stretch to get it.

He really wanted someone to share his fun with someone, yet it seemed like that someone would never come no matter what he tried to gain someone's attention.

"Hey, mate," Jack heard a thick Australian speak cutting through his musings.
Out stepping from the shadows came none other than E. Aster Bunnymund; lately that's been a quality of the rabbit, always popping out the shadows. Jack won't it admit it but there's been a few occasions of where he was scared by the rabbit so scared it could've resulted in heart attack. Good thing he's already dead.

Smiling up at his new found friend Jake responded back," Nothing much, winter's coming around soon, but not close enough for me to start making snowstorms all around the place, only some strong winds and maybe a unexpected hail storm," Jack soon got an evil smirk on his face as his eyes formed a twinkle," soon though, soon~"

"Hahaha, don't go off the deep end, frostbite," Aster spoke back. If there was one thing that he liked about Jack it was his passion in what he did, it reminded him of just how he acts when Easter would come when it did come he would go all out, and he was happy to know that he wasn't the only guardian who did the same. Let's face it Jack, Sandman, and himself were the only guardians who could pull off there jobs without the help of others. Of course if ever offered it would be happily welcomed by one of the guardians.
"Anyways, what brings you here, Bunny?" Jack questioned, seeing there was really no reason for him to come visiting," not that I don't mind, it's just that you don't really come to see me a lot."

"Well actually...there is a reason I'm here," Aster said coming in closer to Jack, taking a seat by the immortal teen." Well, lately you've been a little...distant from us all. It's gotten a lot of us worried, no one seen ya smilin' either, mind tellin' me what's goin' on?"

...Had Aster just said that he was worried...about him? Well it's not like he was bothered about him worrying or the other way around, they were friends after all, right?

"...It's nothing...just thinking, that's all," Jack responded showing his signature smile...but to Bunnymund there was something off about it.
It was weird to see the dag moping around thinking, it was usually fun and games, so much fun there was little time to is probably how the blizzard of '68 happened. To much fun, so little thinking.

Yet, he quickly shook the thought rom his wasn't the time to be worried about the past, he wanted to know what was wrong with snowflake.

"Ya mind tellin' me what all this thinkin' is about, Jack?" He questioned, not knowing why he wanted to know so bad about how he was feeling.

"Well...have you ever made any promises...and not fulfilled them?" Jack asked, not looking the rabbit in the eye, afraid that he was the only one of the guardians who had never kept a promise.
"Course I have ,"He responded."Broke 'em twice."
Jack actually dared to look at rabbit now," Could you tell me them?"

"You should know 'em, where there yourself," Aster said, hints of disappointment in his eyes."Still can't believe I let all those kids down on Easter."

...Is that what Aster thought they were talking about?! He meant real promises, not something he was supposed to do! And did he really think he broke those! Missing Easter were just a few accidents, the first one was partly his fault!

"Was that all you were thinkin' bout?"Aster questioned."If so, I don't see what's got you all down."

"….Ugggh ,sometimes you can be such a foo-foo!"Jack responded letting out an irritated sigh.
Aster glowered at the name. Sure, he was beginning to get used to the other nicknames such as kangaroo, bun-bun, even cottontail! But he would be damned before he let someone call him foo-foo!

That was his fool of a cousin, who was harming all of the other animals by beating them up and getting turned into a goose by a fairy. He in no way wanted to be associated with such a failure to the family. "Frostbite," he let out in a growl.

"Oops, sorry, forgot about the whole cousin thing," Jack responded hoping the apology was enough to soothe the nerves of the riled up rabbit.

"Yeah whatever," Aster responded, not wanting to take the conversation out any longer," well I should going as well, you know got a holiday to prepare for."

Jack let out an exasperated sigh, "Easters not here for another seven months! Take a break ya workaholic!"
"Seven months isn't as far as way as you think, and this year it has to be perfect if I'm gonna make up for last year's jack up," Bunny responded.
And with a tap of his foot and a wave goodbye, through the whole Aster went back down to the Warren. Leaving Jack alone to muse in his thoughts once more... alone.

Not that it was bad a bad thing. When he was alone it gave him time to think, and speaking of thinking, now that he thought back on it properly...Aster never answered his question!