chapter 4- Snowflake
~With Jamie~
It was late at night, when the ten year old boy silently cheered as he finished his last homework assignment. He quietly put everything away in his backpack as organized as he could making sure not to crumple his papers, or bend his spiral notebooks, before setting it on the floor beside his bedframe. His pet greyhound looks up at him with saddened eyes. Jamie bends down to rub the top of her head.
"I'm just tired Abby don't worry" He says giving her a tired smile. The dog gave a look that says she didn't believe him. he shook his head, not knowing how he ended up with a smart emotion sensing dog.
Alright its not just tired... I don't like the new guy, he's not like dad and mom knows it, he says frowning at the floor as he slumped at the foot of his bed burring his face in his hands. Abby's ears flattened against her head, as he nudged Jamie in comfort, as if to say "I'm here for you".
"Thanks Ab', he says smiling more brightly while messing with her ears. she perked up then licked his face catching him off guard. As he got up to wipe the slobber off his face, she jumped on the bed making herself comfy.
"Oh no you don't" he says making move over gestures. the dog wined but obeyed the order.
"Go keep Sophie company" he says trying to get blankets from the non-moving dog. To this, she jumped off the bed and dashed out the room into a currently sleeping girls room. Jamie slowly shook his head in amusement before settling in his dog free bed.
"Dogs are weird" he thought before falling asleep eager to escape to his dreams.
~With Jack~
Jack frost smiled as he watched the sleeping boy from across the street perched on a sturdy tree branch, with snowflake sitting next to him. His blue frosted hood stayed up, its a force of habit he's developed over time. the wolf ruffed loudly making the teen 'shh' her. The wolfs ears flattened against her head ashamed. Jack roles his eyes knowing she was trying to make him feel bad.
"Jamie's tired, you'll see him tomorrow" he says in a hushed voice. As he looks back into the room with his long sited vision, he cant help but to notice the backpack was filled with a lot of homework.
"What I want to know is why is a ten year old doing homework on a Friday night" he asks himself, before looking over to his wolf companion as if for an input, who surprisingly shrugged answering his remark. She then sticks her tongue out panting lightly. He found it odd, because her tongue was blue, and not his eye color blue, it was a dark snow cone colored blue.
"Hey what color's my tongue?" he asks sticking out his tongue at the wolf pup, who only tilts her head in confusion.
"You're right...You still need to learn your colors" he says ignoring the fact that he's talking to a wolf pup. But hey he's talked to elf's...Yeti's...a six foot kangaroo(HINT)...So what's a wolf going to do. He looks up at the half moon, and decided its time them to sleep. he scooted so his back was against the tree trunk closing his eyes, snuggling to get comfier.
"Go to sleep we have a busy day tomorrow" he says opening an eye to look over at the pup. She settled on the branch closing her eyes to sleep.
"At least she's obedient" he thought sighing in relief finally relaxing he closed his eyes letting sleep calm his stiffened nerves, he felt himself drift into his routine flashback dreams. Some were good others not so much, but nothing can change the past no matter how much he want to. The scene changed to where he was standing on the frozen pond, staring at his terrified sister as she trembled on the ice with wobbly feet.
"Jack, I'm scared" she says.
"It's going to be ok- he feels himself say
"No you always play tricks!" she yells defiantly. Just then a thunder cracking sound echoed making both the kids tense. He felt the ice break underneath him with her sister yelling out to him "_!" with a hand outstretched to him. Then the scene faded to black. Now normally he would hear her cry out "Jack!" but Snowflake decided to fall from the tree branch with a yelp, making it sound like his little sister barked at him. He roughly rubbed his forehead trying to get rid of the new flashback. They seemed to change a lot lately, from his sister turning her back on him leaving him to drown, to her dying with him whispering sad things.
"I need to talk to Sandy and Tooth about these memory dreams, he thought floating to the ground, just as Snowflake sat up on her hind legs shaking the snow from her nose. "You ok?" he asks looking down at the pup as she sneezes and chatters her teeth.
"Jack?" a voice asks from behind him. he looks over his shoulder surprised to see Cupcake standing there bundled in a simple pink hoodie, along with a matching scarf, with black pants, and brown furry boots. She had slightly longer hair, and a small blush on her cheeks due to the cold. He noticed she's lost a little baby fat as well.
"Well she grew a little" he thought also realizing she grew a few inches, she now reached the top of his elbow.
"Hey what's up?" He asks casually looking over at the twelve year old girl. She was about to reply when the door to Jamie's house slammed open. An angry middle aged man stormed down the porch with a cigarette clenched in his jaw, cursing up a storm as he fumbled with his lighter. Both Jack and Cupcake watched as he opened the entrance gate and trudged down the sidewalk out of sight. Jack looked back at the house, realizing he didn't even close the door.
"Who was that?" he asks frowning at the strangers direction.
"Jamie's new soon to be dad" she answers with no happy emotions. He got a bad feeling about this guy, just by the way she said it. He hadn't felt this dreaded feeling in awhile, not since Pitch anyways, but this was different. Jamie was in trouble, in his own home.
"What do you mean by that?" he asks looking at the house then back to her. "Since when?" he added.
"It happened about a month or two ago" she answers also frowning.
"Has he changed by any chance?" ha asks running a hand through his white hair, trying to take this new information in.
"Yes... He's to busy overworking himself, too busy for his own friends" she says sadly while glaring at the now sleeted sidewalk. She kicks at the sleet lightly, before talking again. "IT just ticks me off when stuff like this happens" she says with a tired sigh, a white cloud puff escaped her mouth looking like smoke when really it was just the cold.
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A faint sound from her pocket makes the two jump out of their thoughts. She flips open her cellphone with wide eyes, then looks back at the winter spirit. "Hey I have to go, I'll see you around" she says turning to take her leave.
"Cupcake!" he says making her stop and turn around. once he knew all her attention was on him, he decided to speak. "Thanks" he says giving her a sincere smile.
"Don't mention it" she says waving it off. "Just be sure to be there for him" she says walking away leaving him alone with his wolf companion. He realized Cupcake didn't see snowflake.
"Oh, you need to be believed in don't you" he says bending down to ruffle the wolfs poofy fur. She looks down sadden giving a small whimper.
"Hey I went 300 years, I think you can last a few hours" he says in a suck it up ton, making the wolf bark defiantly at him.
~With Jamie~
Jamie groggily rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, due to lack of sleep. All was going well, until a crash and loud curses were heard from downstairs. He woke up just in time to see his golden dream sand fade into nothing right before his eyes. From 3 A.M, he knew he wasn't going to sleeping any time soon.
"I can't believe mom put Him in charge of us, even crazy UFO lady's better then this idiot, he thought darkly as he walked to the bathroom down the hall closing and locking the door. He looked at his reflection in the mirror, to see dark bags forming below his eyes. He started brushing his teeth trying hard not to scrape his gums or take his anger out on his gums.
"Bunny hop hop!" he heard from the hallway making his blood run cold, he threw his toothbrush down into the sink, rushing down the halls not bothering to spit out his foamed toothpaste. his heart raised, but he refused to feel fear though in order to keep the boogieman away. Instead he filled himself with determination and a pinch of anger.
"Sophie!" he yelled worriedly running down the sun lit stairs, sliding on the polished floors, but regaining his balance.
"If he touches her I'm gonna- he stopped mid-sentence at what happened next with shocked eyes.
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