A/N I've decided that Jack is 14, he skipped a year since most sophomores are 15. The others are 17 going on 18 since they're in the last year of high school.

Emberlywoods12: Sorry, but I don't ship Jack and Tooth, they're not going to have a romantic interest in this story, if anything it's going to be Tooth and Aster/Bunnymund

Angel1029: He did have a sister, but in this I'm having her be older than Jack. He just likes making kids smile and laugh, so he visits elementary school and does jokes and plays with the kids.

LittlePlagueSpirit: I feel stupid now, I should have added in some sentence of North changing his clothes, thank you for pointing that out to me. Lets just assume that he did change his clothes. I'll try adding in some love points for Aster and Tooth, but I kinda suck at romance and kinda hate it, I've read and watched dot many stupid romance flicks/books to like romance that much. And most of those books/flicks had the character changing his/her personality while dating. There most likely will be points of romance for them though.

Floral Child: I agree, I usually hate high school setting. There are to many over done high school tv shows/movies/books/fanfictions.

Jzaaa: Yeah, I'm trying to keep the characters personalities and pasts a lot like what I know so far but with changes here and there to make it more interesting. Like now Jack's sister is older when in the movie she's younger. They all have homes, and you guys are for sure going to see North's and Jack's home life. There homes tie into the story. The others home lives might come in at parts, not entirely sure yet.

MegMurryO'Keefe 1: Actually, I got the idea that he can't swim from my own mind, I haven't read any other story where they said Jack can't swim, although I did put it in a chapter of Rise of the Guardians Oneshots. Until it's confirmed or not, it's my headcanon.

Thank you everyone else who had read/favorited/followed this story. You're support means a lot.

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Jack pulled his sweatshirt closer to him as a gust of cold air hit him. The snow had stopped over night, but it had left a very cold breeze and lots of ice. As well as left school open. Jack had been hoping that the snow would cause a snow day and have school be canceled, no such luck. Which meant he was going to have to face Mr. Pitchner, North, and everyone else. Especially Mr. Pitchner. Jack really wasn't looking forward to that, Mr. Pitchner already hated him.

Jack only hoped that he would be able to get through the day without seeing any of his "friends". Jack wasn't entirely sure they were friends. He tried to keep them at arms distance, but they were always pushing for Jack to do something with them. For the most part they were fun, but Jack was pretty sure he would be moving soon. Not that he wanted to think about that. Please don't let them be at school today, or at least not see me. Jack silently begged.

"Jack!" No such luck.

Jack winced as he hurried up in the direction of the school, only to be stopped by a hand grabbing firmly on his shoulder. Jack knew who it was, and that was why he was reluctant to turn around, but eventually he did, and was face to face with North.

"Yes?"

"Why did you speed up when I called you?" North looked completely perplexed.

"It's just...just," Jack looked around, hoping to find something to help him.

"It's about yesterday, isn't it?" North asked kindly. Jack just meekly nodded as he looked towards the ground. "You know, it's okay. Everyone gets bullied at some point or another. And it's okay to not be able to swim."

"It's not just that," Jack's voice was barely over a whisper, his eyes flashing with a hidden sadness.

"Then what is it about?" north once again placed a hand on Jack's shoulder, hoping the boy would tell him something.

"I don't want to talk about it," Jack roughly pulled away form North and continued walking towards the school, two blocks away.

North ran forward, easily catching up to Jack with his long strides, "Why don't you want to talk about it? Why can't you? You can trust me, you can trust all of us," Jack didn't need to ask who 'us' was, his "friends". "Sometimes you need to trust people, you can't shoulder everything. Just talk to me."

"Maybe I don't want to talk to you!" Jack shouted, much to North's shock. "Maybe I just don't want to talk about it! Maybe you should just mind your own business and leave me alone!"

Jack burst off at a sprint, North didn't even try to follow him. It was only once at the school that Jack finally stopped running, panting and doubling over at the sudden sprint. I've really got to exercise more. Jack hadn't wanted to ditch North, no matter how annoying he was, but he just didn't want to talk about anything to him, and North had been pushing him to.

Jack walked into the high school and straight to his locker. Once doing his code on the lock Jack grabbed out his history and math books, knowing he needed them first, and headed towards his first class. This was going to be a long day.

-Rise of the Guardians-

Jack was right about it being a long day. He had forgotten to do his homework in both History and Math class, which had led to him getting in trouble with the teachers, again. This went along with most of the other classes that day. His meeting with Mr. Pitchner had gone terribly, ending with him being yelled at before being sent out. Lunch had been spent getting beaten up by the bullies once again, luckily this time they didn't push him into the pool. They did however steal what little homework he did have and push him harshly to to the ground, causing him to scrape his hands up.

"Oh well, at least it isn't worse than yesterday," Jack muttered to himself as he washed his hands of the blood and dirt in the bathroom sink. BRINGGGG! "Great, now I'm going to be late to my next class."

And Jack was late, but this teacher wasn't one to just give a warning. This teacher gave him lunch detention for the next day and made him spend an extra five minutes in the classroom, not even giving him a note for his next class. Jack groaned as he walked down the empty hallway towards his six period class, this was not going to be good and Jack knew it. Worst day. Ever. Jack took a deep breath as he pushed the door open. Immediately the room went quiet as he walked in.

"Ahh, Mr. Frost, finally cared to join us I see," Mr. Safavi said as he turned his head towards Jack.

"Sorry, teacher kept me in late,"

"Where's your note then?" *

"Um, don't have one," Jack muttered.

"Uh huh," It was obvious that Mr. Safavi didn't believe it. "Take your seat Mr. Frost."

"Yes sir," Jack muttered as he sat in the back of the room, far away from everyone else, who was, shockingly, not even looking up from their homework.

Maybe they finally gave up on making me their friend. Surprisingly, this though made him sad, maybe he had been hoping to have one friend in this school. Jack shook his head, No, you don't need any friends, you'll be leaving soon enough any way. Jack leaned down and took his history book out of his backpack, might as well work on homework, right?

It wasn't even five minutes later when Mr. Safavi stood up and said, "I've got to go to the teacher's lounge and make some copies, stay in your seats, no talking." With that Mr. Safavi left the classroom.

Of course no one listened to his rules. Jack had been hoping the others would follow them, but this had already been a horrible day and it seemed fate just hated him. As soon as the sound of Mr. Safavi's footsteps disappeared everyone stood up and walked over to me, sitting in the desks that surrounded Jack. Jack groaned and placed my head in my hands. Wonderful...

"Jack, put you hands down," North tried to pry Jack's hands away from his face, to no avail.

"Leave me alone and go back to your seats, you heard what Mr. Safavi said," Jack muttered, his voice slightly muffled by his hands.

"Not gonna happen matey, we want an explanation about yesterday and why you yelled at North then ran away. Now. And we're not leaving till we get one," Aster demanded, leaning over his desk and staring Jack in the eye.

"Well, your going to be waiting for a long time then, 'cause I'm not going to tell you," Jack leaned back in his chair, arms crossed behind his head.

"Jack, can't you please tell us, we know something is wrong, you get aggressive when ever we ask, you're hiding something. Just tell us," Tooth begged.

Sandy lifted up his notebook at that moment, it read: Yeah, tell us Jack. We only want to help, but we can't unless you let us in. We're friends, you don't have to keep everything hidden from us. You can trust us.

Jack sighed, "You really aren't going to let this drop, are you?" The four friends gave Jack a look that read: what do you think? "Fine then, go to the hill overlooking the town, right at the edge of the forest, tomorrow night at eight and I'll tell you."

"You're actually going to tell us the whole thing?" Aster asked, not entirely trusting that Jack would actually be there tomorrow.

"Yep, and it will be the only time, so you better come,"

North beamed at Jack, "Of course we will all be there, we did ask after all."

"I can hear Mr. Safavi coming back," Tooth whispered urgently. "Everyone back in your seats."

In a second everyone was back into their original seats, making it seconds before Mr. Safavi entered the classroom. After surveying the room Mr. Safavi asked, "So you have been in your seats this whole time, not talking?"

"Yes sir," Five voices answered simultaneously.

Mr. Safavi nodded, accepting it before turning his back on the students, completely missing the smile they shared.

-Rise of the Guardians-

Jack groaned as he walked through the rain, pulling his hood over his head to try and keep warm. He had just gotten out of detention with Mr. Pitchner, definitely not fun. And now he had to walk through the pouring rain; he had only been out there for a couple minutes and was already soaked to the bone. Maybe it wasn't that good to only wear a sweatshirt as protection from the elements.

Every minute the rain seemed to beat down on Jack even more, a giant wall of water. Jack wished that he could make this whole day just disappear, act like it had never happened, but he knew it would just get worse from here on out. Ten minutes later Jack was standing outside a two story house, his "home".

-Rise of the Guardians-

"Wonder why we have to collaborate with the sophomores," Aster wondered out loud as he and the others filed into the Sophomore World History room, 26A.

"No idea," Tooth said as she tried to keep from being bumped around by other seniors, a very hard task when your adding another class into one classroom, one that was already filled to the brim with students.

"Hey, there's Jack!" North pointed towards a middle row and sure enough Jack was sitting there, looking very bored and having his head propped up on his hand.

"Classes, your attention please," the Sophomore History teacher, Mrs. Parks, called.

In an instant everyone was quiet. While Mrs. Parks was very nice, if you got her angry then you had better head for the hills. Once she made sure everyone was quiet Mrs. Parks motioned for the Senior History teacher, Mr. Bruner, to come up.

"Well, you must all be wondering why you're in the same classroom, seeing as your in different years, I'll just get to it. We're having you do a project together. You will be getting into groups of five and be doing a project on your ancestry, where they came from and who they were, as well as be drawing maps showing where they had come from and how they migrated." By the end Mr. Bruner was having to yell over the commotion; shouts of anger, happiness, and disrespect filled the air.

"Quiet!" Mrs. Parks shouted, effectively making it quiet once more.

"Thank you Mrs. Parks. Now, go get your partners then come up to one of us, we will right your group down on a piece of paper. Go on now."

Immediately North, Sandy, Tooth, and Aster went over to where Jack was. Since five people had to work on it, it was perfect, especially considering he was the only Sophomore they knew and apparently they were the only people who were friends with Jack.

"Hello," Jack muttered, his eye drooping lazily.

"Are you okay?" Tooth asked as she placed a hand on Jack's forehead.

"Just a little tired," Jack wheezed. "and a little bit of a cold, I kinda walked through the rain last night."

"You what!?" North shouted, earning them stares from many people in the room. North lowered his voice and continued, "Why did you walk through the rain?"

"I had detention after school, by the time it was over it was pouring rain,"

"Why didn't you just have one of your parents pick you up?" Aster asked, crossing his arms over his chest.

"Well, they were busy, work you know," No one noticed the slight tremor in Jack's voice, instead just nodding their heads in acceptance.

"Well, come on, let's talk about this project," Aster said.

-Rise of the Guardians-

From that point on the day had gone pretty well, no bullies for once. Jack couldn't help but smile at that, he had a feeling the bullies would be back the next day, but for now he was content with just forgetting about them. But not even the good day at school could get rid of the nervousness going through his whole body as he climbed the hill.

Just like he said he was going to tell his friends about his past and why he couldn't swim. Although Jack was wishing that they wouldn't be there. But as soon as he got to the top of the hill he could already make out the others. So much for wishing. Jack sighed and walked up to them, noticing that they were all staring expectantly at him.

"Well, lets here it Frost," aster ordered, crossing his arms over his chest.

Jack sighed once more, "It started four years ago, during winter..."

A/N I've got a new though for the next Guardians of Childhood book. It says lad of considerable interest, what if Jack isn't a Guardian yet but helps them out, then everyone else knows him when he actually becomes a Guardian? On another note, the first mathlete competition was yesterday, my school failed miserably, gaining a total of 18 points compared to some schools that got more than that in one category.