School was finally over, she ran straight up to her room. She was in no way able to make conversation. Too angry, too confused. In her room, she was able to breathe again. The first thing she did was tear out that page in her notebook and throw it away. His face stared up at her as she lit a match, grateful that her trash bin was metal.
With satisfaction, she watched as the papers below it burned. It would only be a minute before the flame reached it. She sat down at her desk, turned back to her math. After an hour, she had completed her problems with many false starts. Who knew geometry could be so hard. Relieved to be done, she went to throw away her scrap paper.
In the bottom of the metal bin, the drawing sat in perfect condition. She gasped, grabbed it out and examined it. The edges weren't even burned, she didn't understand, why wouldn't it burn? Irritated and stubborn, she crumpled it up and threw it across the room. That was nothing, compared to what she saw when she glanced back down.
There, where the paper sat, was a crystal. Now more angry than irritated, she yanked it up looked at it. Careful not to look directly into it, she grimaced then look away, it was one of his, she was sure of it. But how had it gotten here?
Something caught her eye in the mirror and her gaze snapped up. Jareth stared back at her, a grim expression on his face. She couldn't tell if she was imagining it or if he was really staring at her. After all, her friends had talked to her through a mirror that night. Still, she couldn't have him here. With all her strength she threw the crystal at him, watched in satisfaction as the mirror broke. Turning to go downstairs so that she could tell her parents that she fell into her mirror and managed to get up unharmed. She didn't see the crystal bounce back and slam into the back of her head.
The pain slammed into her a few seconds later, and her vision darkened.
He sat in his window and stared out, trying to block the buzzing in his head. The stars were out, they only made the sky even more beautiful. Goblin City was bustling, lots of goblins liked to celebrate life at night. The sky lit up in a flash of white light, then the light was gone an instant later. As the goblins stopped to see the show, he stood up. The light continued to pulsate, now in different colors. As they watched, there was one last flash of white light and it was gone, along with the buzzing in his head.
Something was up, and whatever it was, it was linked to Sarah. It was linked to the buzzing in his head that had only ever happened once before, and it was linked to what he saw in the crystal. Who knows, maybe it was even connected to the way it broke. All he knew was that it was connected and he was majorly pissed.