I'm cold, really cold, freezing in fact! How long have I been out, hang on, was it snowing before? Oh for the love of, WHERE AM I?!
Well I can tell you something, I'm defiantly awake now! I sat up, tried to calm myself down but it really wasn't working because I was now, in a forest, while it's snowing and –
MY CLOTHES HAVE CHANGED!
Wait, how can my clothes change? That doesn't even make sense.
No! I was kidnapped, abandoned and stripped naked! I hate this I really hate this! Ok, previously I was wearing a tight dark green top covered by dark grey hoody, light blue skinny jeans rolled up at the bottom to reveal my ankles and black converse. Now, I'm wearing a white woollen jumper that seemed a little too big (the sleeves were over my hands), brown trousers made of some weird material, at the bottom of the trousers were a criss-cross pattern with a leather strap tied around my legs stopping half way up my shin, a patterned headband which pushed my hair back apart from my side fringe which stuck out and a brown shawl thing that was tied around my waist which hung down one side in a triangle shape to just before my knee. Oh and I'm barefoot.
Hallelujah I'm gunna get frost bite. Ok so what do I do, I passed out and now I have magically wooshed into a forest in a new outfit. Slightly creepy. Ok, well I guess I have to find someone and ask for help otherwise I'm gunna die out here. NO! MUM! DAD! What if they found out I'm not there. There gunna freak out! Call the police! Say I've run away or been kidnapped! NO! I have to get back; they'll be worried sick about me!
Let's find some people and let's find help.
I walk forward, about five minutes until I start to see a glow and I hear music, and voices. People! I start running trying to ignore the horrible pain in my feet from the cold. I really hate this.
I eventually get there and I couldn't have been more scared in my life. It was the same, exactly the same. The movie, I had walked into the 'Rise of the Guardians' movie, Jack's home village. How? I'VE GONE BACK IN TIME?! But, that's impossible! I took one more step and that's when it got weird. Wanna know how, well; in case you haven't figured, we are flesh and blood, not animated characters. I was flesh and blood in a real forest, but when I stepped into the village, Jack's village, everything around me, including me turned into an animation.
I've turned into a cartoon!
I need a mirror. Wait, did they have mirrors three hundred years ago? No, they don't. Well, I managed to see what I could. My clothes were like female human Jack Frost's clothes excluding the waist coat and cloak and replace with headband and weird belt thing. My hair was the same; long, reaching mid spin, straight and black. Are my eyes still hazel? Is my nose still horrible and biggish? Do I still have my weirdly big freckle (it is a freckle not a mole) under my left eye? I need help!
Ok, so let's keep walking, people might think I'm weird examining myself from the outline of the village. So I'm searching, who for? ANYONE THAT CAN HELP ME! I really need to calm down but I can't. What's my give away when I panic, I smile freakishly, cannot stop smiling and I don't know why. It's an awkward smile, doesn't look genuine at all and now, I can't get rid of this fake smile on my face.
Ok, focus Beth, focus, and find someone.
"Urm, excuse me, can you help me?" I say to a stranger, a tall man wearing a long brown coat and black leather boots, with short messy brown hair and blue eyes.
"You're not from around here are you young one?" Young one?! Eh?! Stop it, back to subject.
"No I'm not. Actually I'm a long way from home, can you tell me where I am? I got lost and I can't find my family." I said, smile showing obvious nervous fear, which he spotted after returning an apologetic smile.
"You poor thing, well right now you are in Burgess, would you like me to help you find your family? Where did you get lost?" He asked politely. I am so glad this person I asked was nice.
"Well, it was in the woods over there, I fell on conscience and when I woke up, they were gone. I-I'm scared." A nervous laugh followed. I feel like I'm gunna cry right now.
"Well, it's a little bit dark right now; we won't be able to find them without light. Come with me, you can stay with me and my family and I will help you find them tomorrow if you like?" He replied. I am gunna cry now. I am so happy; people are so much nicer back in time than they are now. They'd tell me to bugger off and think I'm drunk. Morons.
Well you know what, I cried, out of happiness. The man started to see the signs before I did cry and he wrapped his arm around me and took me to his house, well, hut really. He has a family so it should be even more comforting.
We walked for a short while before we got to the hut. He moved the cloth, the door, and gestured his hand for me to walk in. Before I walked in, I heard a female voice, his wife probably and a younger voice, probably his daughter. I walked in and they both looked at me and the man walked in behind me and put a hand on my shoulder. The tears were unfortunately still in my eyes.
"Evening dear. I hope you don't mind, this young lady has gotten lost and can't find her family, she can stay the night and we'll help look for her family tomorrow, don't you agree?" The man spoke calmly and led me to the rug on the floor to take a seat near the fire. As I moved closer to the fire, the women saw the tears in my eyes and hurried over to me.
"Oh you poor dear, of course you can stay the night. Here take a seat and warm yourself up." The woman said. "My name is Sally Overland," so that's their surname, "the handsome gentlemen there is my husband John Overland and this is my daughter Mary". She said, bringing her daughter into the light.
NO WAY!
It's her, it's actually her. It's his sister, the sister he saved. I'M AT JACK FROST'S HOUSE BEFORE HE BECAME JACK FROST!
I can't believe this is happening. Mary, Jack's sister (screaming in my head right now) moved towards me and sat next to me on the rug near the fire. She looked up at me and smiled, putting her hand out for me to shake. I gladly took it and smile back. Aw, she's actually quite cute.
"Hi, I'm Mary Overland; it's nice to meet you. What's your name?" She asks. Honestly, I hesitate. Should I make one up or tell them. They're kind so …
"My names Bethany May, nice to meet you too." I say politely and quietly.
"You're not from around here, where are you from?" She asked curiously, getting onto her knees. By this time, the older couple had started their own conversation with each other and left us to talk.
"No I'm not. I'm live far away but I don't remember how I got here and I can't find my family. Your father was kind enough to let me stay the night."
"We'll help you find them; we can have fun until tomorrow to cheer you up. Just wait till Jack gets home, he's my brother and he's real fun." She happily announces with a wide smile on her face. She really loves her brother. I had to avoid suspicion and decided to ask …
"What's your brother Jack like?"
"He's the best brother in the world! We always have fun and always makes me and my friends smile. You'll like him; you look around the same age. He's eighteen in two week, how old are you?"
"I'm seventeen." I reply.
"I was close." She says smiling. I laugh in response and then I hear the footsteps coming from behind me and that familiar voice.
"Hey everyone I'm back and I've got the firewood! We'll be able to make shadow puppets again Mar – "
It's Jack! He spotted me on the carpet and stared at me as if I was an alien. I knew his face was saying who are you, so I tried to contain my fangirl scream and stood up, approached him and stuck my hand out.
"Hi, my names Bethany May. I hope you're ok with it, but I got lost and your father let me stay the night so I can look for them tomorrow." I received a moments silence until his slight frown turned into a big smile and he shakes my hand.
"Hey, my names Jackson Overland, call me Jack. And of course am ok with it, the more the merrier. You can make shadow puppets with us as well." He says with a smile. I smile in response and nodded.
"Great, let's get the wood on the fire and start! Mary, do you still want me to show you how to do a swan?" He said, turning his head to his sister who was jumping up and down in excitement. There really mustn't be a lot of stuff to do to say this is what they call exciting but hey, I can't talk, technology has taking over my century. I actually like how the original stuff is the most fun.
"Come on now. Bedtime kids." Sally announces, earning a moan from all three of us who were previously laughing at our alien looking shadow puppets. We all stood up, Jack and Mary walked over to another room separated by a piece of cloth, and I look a Sally with eyes saying 'where do I go?'
"You can share a room with Mary and Jack tonight; you seem to all get along really well." She said with a motherly smile. She put an arm around me and lead me through to the room where Jack was laying out the bedding and Mary fetched a pillow. I think I'm gunna cry again. I mean here I am, in a cartoon with characters from a movie I have just seen in the cinema and they are treating me like there family even though they just met me.
I'm actually crying now!
The siblings saw this and came over to me, Sally's arm still around me, Jack's hand place on the top half of my arm and Mary holding my hand. I think they knew it was out of happiness with a mixture of sadness because they all gave me an apologetic smile to say 'everything will be alright'. Sally's arm left my body, and Mary started to pull my arm towards my newly made bed which was in between Jack's and Mary's.
She sat down on her bed, still holding my hand causing me to bend down so I sat on my bed, with her still holding my hand. Jack then comes over and lies down in his bed and I and Mary start to tuck ourselves in. This girl has a strong grip of my hand. She starts to snuggle up to me slightly and Sally comes over and kisses on her head saying goodnight. She does the same to Jack and says goodnight and, unexpectedly, does the same with me.
I now have a second mother.
She then left the room and Jack turned over to face me, Mary was starting to fall asleep, clinging to my hand.
"Ya know she always wanted a sister." Jack simply says with a smile on his face. Really? I mean I have known her a few hours and she sees me as her sister. She is so adorable! I look over to her, cuddling up in my arm with a small smile on her face. I dub thee my sister! I look over to Jack and smile.
"You really love your sister don't you?" I whisper with a smile. He nods. "Good night Bethany" He whispers.
"Call my Beth. Good night Jack." And with that, Mary fell asleep cuddled to my arm, I slept facing the ceiling, and Jack fell asleep, quite close, on his side facing me. I really miss my family.
But I don't want to leave.
