An Unbelievable Reality
Chapter 1- The First Meeting
~~* Lexi's P.O.V *~~
"Bye mum!" Lexi called over her shoulder as she walked out the front door with her younger brother, Daniel, in tow.
"Bye Lexi, have a good day at school and be good for Daniel," her mother teased. Lexi poked her tongue out and then walked to the clearing in the small pine forest that she met her friends before school.
The forest was like a small park that was the middle point between her house and her friends, so it was the perfect rendezvous point. The grass within the clearing was almost the same deep green of the pine needles in the surrounding trees. In summer and spring the grass was soft and comfortable, however with winter approaching the blades were becoming too cold to sit on. As the seasons became cooler the Lexi and her friends tended to sit on the grey boulders scattered throughout the clearing.
This was where Lexi was perched when a cooler breeze blew through the clearing.
With a smile she told Daniel, "Looks like Jack Frost has started visiting us already."
He frowned at her. "Grow up Lexi, aren't you too old to believe in that kind of thing?" he said disapprovingly.
"If you don't believe in him he won't bring you any snow days," she warned him.
"There is no winter spirit that causes those, science can explain why we get big winter storms. Whether I believe someone brings them or not doesn't stop them from happening," he said practically.
"No science explains how Jack Frost's powers work, but science can't recreate them," Lexi argued.
"Science could recreate them, but there's no need so the scientists don't," Daniel sighed.
"You really should believe in these things, it makes everything seem like so much more fun," Lexi said with a smile.
"I can't believe you're my older sister, you're so immature it's embarrassing," Daniel complained.
"Hey!" Lexi whined. A laugh caused them to look up and see Xavier and Nikita walking over.
"You two are at it again today I see," Xavier said in friendly way, after he'd finished laughing.
He brushed his straight, brown hair to the side and out of eyes the same colour. Nikki bounced along next him, as they both walked toward Lexi and Daniel. Her walk portrayed her bubbly personality, as well showing off her long, silky, blonde hair with its single, thick, pink streak.
"Are you keeping your sister in line Daniel?" asked Xavier with mock seriousness.
"It's good to see you Xavier," Daniel greeted him, he quite liked Xavier despite his silly side.
"Sorry, we're late Lexi," Nikita apologized ignoring the boys, "Xavier slept in."
"I didn't even notice," Lexi admitted, "I just thought that Father Time was being slack today."
"I wish you would just stop," Daniel said irritably.
"That's all part of your sister's charm. Don't worry, she doesn't seriously believe in these characters. She just does it for fun," Xavier explained cheerily.
"They're real!" Lexi said defensively.
~~~* Jack's P.O.V *~~~
"Now wind, go! Show them that winter's coming!" Jack ordered happily from where he floated in the sky above a town. This would be their first taste of winter for the year and he intended to make this year's winter one of his best. This time around he'd decided to slowly build up to a climax of wintery fun instead of starting with a bang.
"…Jack Frost has started visiting us already," said a voice cheerfully.
"What?" Jack murmured in surprise. He thought the only ones who properly believed in him at the moment were Jamie and his friends. The voice had seemed to come from a woody park close to the edge of town. Almost immediately he decided to find the speaker, perhaps he'd have someone new to have fun with.
"Take me down," he said to the wind.
He zipped through the air toward the park, as he drew nearer he saw a pair of people standing in the clearing. They were most likely the ones who'd said his name. He lightly floated down to perch on one of the lower branches of a tree at the edge of the clearing.
Now that he was closer Jack could see that two people he noticed before were a boy and a girl, from the similarity of their features he concluded that they were related, probably siblings.
The boy was younger than the girl, he seemed to be a little older than Jamie when jack first met him. The girl, however, seemed closer to Jack's age. She had long, honey brown hair that flowed down her back in soft waves. Her eyes were a deep blue, a shade much darker than his own. They reminded Jack of the ocean, and like the ocean they sparkled when the light hit them in just the right way. The dark lashes framing her eyes contrasted her creamy skin and effectively drew attention to them. She was undeniably pretty, but the way she held herself and her expressions showed that she wasn't aware of it yet.
"No science explains how Jack Frost's powers work, but science can't recreate them," the girl argued to her brother.
'It was her that said my name,' Jack thought to himself, happy to have found the speaker. By the way she was defending him it seemed like she really did believe in him. Jamie's friends had been a lot younger than her when they convinced he was real, it seemed odd for someone her age to still believe in him.
"Science could recreate them, but there's no need so the scientists don't," her brother sighed in response to her argument.
"What?" Jack asked in annoyance. He dropped down to the ground and walked up behind them. "Scientists can't do what I can do," he protested and threw his hands up in the air. He expected them to look back at him, wide-eyed and opened mouthed, but they didn't. They didn't react in the slightest, it was almost as if they hadn't seen heard him. He walked around the boulder until he was in front of them.
"Hey, are you ignoring me?" he asked in frustration. Once again there was no response, the boy and the girl looked right through him, as if he wasn't there.
"Oh," he sighed disappointedly, "you don't believe in me either."
Jack pulled his hood up and walked away with his head down and his hands stuff in the pockets of his blue frost covered hoodie. When he reached the edge of the park he let the wind gently pick him up into the sky. Just before he was out of hearing range he heard another female voice address the girl.
"Sorry we're late Lexi," the new girl said.
Jack frowned. "You were mean to tease me, Lexi," he mumbled, feeling loneliness, that he normally kept at bay, weighing on him. "Come on wind, I'd like to go home."
