An Unbelievable Reality

Chapter 2 – I Will Make You Believe

~~* Jack's P.O.V *~~

It had been a few days since Jack saw Lexi, but he couldn't get the scene out of his head. At first he'd been upset that she hadn't seen him, but now he was just frustrated. Why would she act like she believed in him, when she really didn't? When it came to weird situations regarding humans there was only one person he could go to, which was why he currently floated outside of Jamie's bedroom window. It was about 9 o'clock here, but normally Jamie was still up at that hour.

He quickly tapped on the window with his staff, causing a little bit of frost to creep across the glass. Not long after the window opened.

"Jack!" Jamie greeted brightly, "I thought it was about time for you to come around again." Jack looked at the teenager who stood before him, Jamie had grown again.

"Yeah, I've been pretty busy starting winter in heaps of different countries, it's been pretty fun," Jack told him with a grin. "Every time I see you you're bigger! But anyway how have you been? How's Sophie?"

"I've been good. School's gotten harder, but I suppose that's to be expected. Sophie's bigger as well. She's really starting to grow up, she's even got her first boyfriend now," Jamie filled him in.

"Really?" Jack laughed, "Don't let Bunny find out, he is so defensive of that little squirt."

Jamie laughed too.

"I guess they really bonded that Easter," Jamie admitted with a nostalgic smile. "Do you want to come in?" he offered and opened the window wider. Jack flew in and landed on the floor next to Jamie.

"Thanks."

"So how are you doing Jack? Some of my friends.. Now that we're older they're starting to lose faith in you. Some of them are saying that you were just something we made up when we were younger. I'll always believe in you Jack, but the others' belief probably won't last. Have you managed to convince any other children that you exist?" Jamie asked seriously.

Jack smiled.

"Don't you worry about me. As long as there's one person believing in me I'll have the power to bring winter. Without Pitch around I don't need a lot of power, but… Well there is something I wanted to talk to you about," Jack said awkwardly. Jamie grinned.
"Is the great Jack Frost actually asking for the lowly human?" he teased.

"Shut up! If you're not going to help me-" Jack snapped defensively until Jamie interrupted.

"No, no, no," Jamie laughed. "I'll help you out."
"So there's this girl and.." Jack began.

"Oh," Jamie interrupted raising his eye-brows.
"It's not like that! I don't like her or anything," Jack tried to explain.

"Mm-hmm," Jamie said sarcastically.

"Stop it, I asking you something serious," Jack laughed.

"Okay, I'll stop. What is it?" Jamie asked.

"So there's this girl and I was so sure she'd be able to see me. She repeatedly said my name and was telling her brother not to doubt my existence, but when I approach her and her brother neither of them could see me," Jack huffed. "Why would she act like she believed in me if she didn't?"
"Did you consider the possibility that even though she 'knows' you're not real she wants her brother to believe it?" Jamie suggested. Jack shook his head.
"It didn't sound like that, I've heard parents telling their kids about how North and Tooth are real, but it wasn't like that. It was more like her brother was trying to convince her that I wasn't real, but she kept insisting that I was real," Jack told him, his expression filled with confusion. He sighed and leaned on his staff.

"Maybe she wants to believe, but she's been told so many times that things like the Easter bunny and the sand man aren't real that she can't properly believe. So like she believes on the surface, but deep down she knows that sprites like yourself aren't real. But I could be wrong; girls are so hard to figure out. You're better off talking to Sophie about these things," Jamie admitted.

"I told you it's not like that! Anyway if your second theory is right then she should be easier to persuade than someone who is convinced I don't exist. I'm going to make her believe in me!" Jack announced smugly.

"Okay, just careful not to scare her. Try something small first, like put some frost on her window and write your name in it," Jamie suggested.

"Yeah!" Jack agreed enthusiastically. "Awesome Jamie! You really helped me out, so thanks."

"No worries, but make sure to come and visit us again, Soph will want to see you too," Jamie told him with a smile.

"Definitely," Jack agreed, before leaving out the window.

~~* Lexi's P.O.V *~~

A bang at the window broke Lexi's gaze from the book she was reading, it sounded like something had hit her bedroom window. There were traces of snow on one of the windows, maybe someone had thrown a snowball at it?

However when she opened the window there was nobody in sight.

"Huh," she said aloud, frowning in puzzlement.

With a shrug she closed the window, and just as she was about to go back to hear book she noticed writing in the corner of the window.

"Jack Frost," Lexi read aloud with a smile. "Are you finally giving Jack Frost the credit, he's due for last night's storm?" she called down the hall to Daniel.

"What are you talking about?" he asked walking into her room.

She pointed to the window.

"I didn't write that," Daniel told her sounding bored.

"Yeah," she said sarcastically, "You snuck in earlier and wrote it while I was reading, right?"

"No, I didn't," he insisted. "Is this some elaborate scheme of yours to try to prove he exists?"

"I know that you wrote it, whether you admit to it or not. I'm just glad you're getting into the spirit of winter."
"I didn't-!" Daniel began to yell.

"You guys aren't about to start fighting again, are you?" their mum yelled from downstairs.

"You always get me in trouble," Daniel muttered under his breath. Lexi shot him a glare.

"No mum! I was just about to go meet Xavier and Nikita!" she yelled back and grabbed a scarf and her bag off of her bed. "Daniel do not go in room while I'm gone. Get out now."

"Whatever, I have homework to do. Being in this room is just a waste of my time," he muttered as he made his way to the door.

"What?! This is the best room in the house!" Lexi protested.

"Weren't you going to meet your friends Lexi?" called their mother from down.

"Yes mum!" she called back and ran out of her room, down the stairs and, with a minor pause to put on her boots and gloves, ran out the front door.

"You're going to slip and hurt yourself if you keep up that pace!" she heard her mum call through the door. With a small laugh she walked away from her house and toward the park she always met her friends at.

Lexi arrived first at the park. Snow covered everything, rocks, the trees, the grass, Jack hadn't missed a spot. She walked over to her favourite boulder, brushed the snow off of it and hoisted herself up. She sat there enjoying the crisp air and the silence. After a little while a small breeze picked up disturbing the silence, but not in an unpleasant way. She watched it pick up snow and throw it around playfully. For a moment it seemed like that snow took shape, it looked just like a dog.. It looked exactly like a miniature dog. It even sat down, wagged its tail and tilted its head. Then the dog shaped snow went back to a formless cloud of snow drifting in the breeze.

"What..? My imagination really is starting to get away from me, that looked so realistic," Lexi said to herself. "Are you playing tricks on me Jack Frost?" she asked playfully.

Surprisingly the wind picked up almost as though the winter sprite was answering her. She thought nothing of it and sat on the rock swinging her legs back and forth. It wasn't long before her quiet wait was again interrupted, this time by a cold lump hitting the back of her head. When she turned around she saw Xavier approaching.

"So he's the phantom snowball attacker," Lexi said quietly and narrowed her eyes. She knelt down and collected snow between her hands and moulded it into a snowball. She would not take this attack lying down.

~~* Jack's P.O.V *~~

"Seriously?!" Jack cried in frustration as she launched a snowball at a boy that came into the clearing. "Jamie was so much easier than this! The snowball would have convinced her for sure, but then that guy had to come and ruin things!"

The winter sprite sulked in the lower branches of a pine tree on the edge of the clearing. He watched the two play fought until Lexi's friend, he'd overheard that his name was Xavier, surrendered. After that they made snow angels and finally settle down. They sat facing each other chatting about this and that, it was then that Jack noticed Lexi staring at a tree instead of at Xavier that an idea came to him. If frost appeared suddenly on the tree trunk without a change in temperature, surely she would attribute that to something supernatural?

He walked over to the tree and stood next it. He looked at her hoping to see her eyes lock onto him, but she continued to look at the tree as if he wasn't even there. With a sighed he pressed the end of his staff against the tree trunk and frost began to sprout around it. He gazed at her with half-hearted hope, but to his delight saw her eyes widen in shock while staring at the tree trunk.

"So Nikki called me earlier and said she couldn't come today. That means it's just you and me," Xavier said leaning in and blocking Lexi's view of the tree trunk. "Hey are you okay? What's with that look?"

"It's nothing," she replied with a laugh. Jack walked over and glared at her.

"Why are you paying attention to him!" Jack yelled at her and pointed to Xavier with his staff. "Pay attention to me and what I'm doing!" he demanded throwing his hands out in front of him.

"Hey I just got a cold chill," Xavier said rubbing his arms.

"Maybe we should go back," Lexi suggested.

"Yes you should, get away from this guy. He's just annoying," Jack agreed.

"Why don't I come to your place? I haven't had your mum's hot chocolate in ages," Xavier said.

"Okay, I don't think she'll mind," Lexi said with a smile as she got up and brushed snow off of herself.

Xavier got up and put his arm around Lexi and the two of them walked away.
"Why do I even care?" Jack asked himself frustratedly. "This girl is just making me get so worked up! I normally have way fun than I've had lately. That's it! Project over!"

He flew up into the air and pulled his hood down.

"Just making that decision has made me feel better," he said aloud and then played in the sky, whizzing around and doing trick and flips in the various air currents around him.