The snow was laying evenly on Jamie's yard that morning as it always was and he was curled beneath the warmth of his covers, sound asleep. As regular as clockwork, at exactly 7 o'clock Jamie was awakened by the sound of snow balls being pelted against his window. His eyes snapped open with a start but they smiled when they saw the snow set on the window sill. He jumped out of bed and looked out the window to see Jack waving at him with a smile from his spot standing on the fence. "Jamie, are you up?" Jamie's mother called. "Yeah!" Jamie replied stepping away from the window to grab his winter clothes. "Oh good, I was worried you were going to be late for your first day of high school!"
That's right, it had been four years since Jack became a guardian and Jamie was now 14 and entering the jungle that is high school. Jamie had his books and was putting on a warm jacket to make his way through the snow to get to school. Jamie had been looking forward to high school despite the stories he'd heard about how difficult the classes were and had asked Jack postpone the snow day for next week. Jamie raced down the stairs and quickly grabbed a piece of toast and smothered some jam on it before bursting through the door and jumping over the steps, causing him to slide across the ice and snow to the gate leading to the streets. Jack walked along the fences talking to Jamie as they neared the school. "So what is high school like?" He asked since he never had the chance to attend because it hadn't been created 300 years ago. "From what I've heard it's a lot of hard work and studying, and if we don't do well we can't get into a good college." Jamie answered. "Ew, sounds boring. Why did you ask me to postpone the snow day if it's that bad?" Jack quarried. "Because they say the first week of school is when we have no homework and it's all about meeting the other kids in your class. I hear there's a family that just moved here so there's going to be a new kid." Jamie answered. "Well that doesn't sound too bad."
Jamie got to the steps of the high school and waved to Jack saying he'd see him after school. It took only moments for Jamie to find some other students that were in his homeroom class and become friends with them. Just as they were all settling down their teacher entered to room along with the new student. It was a girl with curled dark brown hair, and a distinct beauty mark under her right eye and she smiled at the students around her with shining teeth and a wide grin. She just been given a tour of the school and was assigned to a seat by the window and was already fitting in. Jamie sat behind the girl and was the first one she greeted. She was of high spirits and had an optimistic attitude that Jamie liked very much. She had a joyfulness about her that reminded him of Jack and the guardians.
The day went along and each class was somewhat enjoyable, the trouble was getting from room to room since they transferred classes hourly. They had the usual classes: science, history, English, languages, physical education, and a study hall period. For their final class, every student was allowed to pick from a number of electives. They ranged for art to filming and from dance to home economics. Jamie, being one with a vivid and open imagination took up art. The new student on the other hand had a fond ness for flowers and took up the gardening class that tied in with making beautiful floral arrangements.
During their study hall period, Jamie joined the new student and a group of other kids in the library. Almost all the kids were studying for their extracurricular classes. Jamie had book on how to draw in hand to get him started. The girl in the meantime was reading a book on the language of flowers. Jack knew it wasn't long before Jamie would be released from school and found the window to the library to look in at Jamie. He tapped his staff against the glass to get Jamie's attention and in turn caused the windows to frost over. Jack wiped away the frost and found himself eye to eye with the new girl gazing at him from across the library. For a moment Jack thought it was just a coincidence that she was looking in his direction that was until he saw her jaw drop slightly.
She could see him?! How? She hadn't been one of the children here four years ago when he and the guardians had come to the world's rescue when Pitch was terrorizing everyone. If she believed in Jack now when she had grown and was in high school how come she hadn't believed in him four years ago when she was a ten year old like Jamie?
Jamie realized where his new friend was looking before she rubbed her eyes and looked back up seeing Jack was still there with a slightly quizzical smile on his face. Jamie tapped her on the shoulder; receiving her full attention he mouthed 'Can you see him?' She nodded with a slight smile glad to know that her vivid imagination wasn't slowly turning to insanity. Jamie smiled widely at the fact that he had found someone else who believed even at the age of 14. Most of the children naturally grew out of their belief in the guardians that is except for Jamie who was closer to Jack that than the other children ever had been.
The school bell rang and Jamie was leading his new friend out onto the snowy by the hand before she had time to button up her bright red coat. Jack was sitting on the short wall around the school when he saw Jamie and the girl running towards him with her stopping to button her last button. "I told you that you weren't seeing things. This is Jack. Jack Frost." Jamie said introducing his icy entity friend. "Hey there, I hear you're new in town. I hope you like a lot of snow." Jack said with a bright grin as he stood and leaned against his staff. "I do actually the winter brings a lot of rare snow flowers that I have never had a chance to see before moving here." She stated with a shining grin unlike any Jack had seen. "Wow, I heard a lot of legends and rumors but I never thought I'd actually get the chance to see you!" She continued. Jack chuckled slightly and started again. "So what's your name?"
"Claire Forest."