Out of the mist of cooking and good smells, a woman turned around.
She had brown hair with a white streak running down the front, She wore a red dress with a white peter pan collar, and white cuffs. She was thin, and was holding a tray of cookies.
"Oh yes, that's me! I'm Mrs. N!" she smiled gleefully, "Dearie don't eat that!" she yelled down at an elf by her feet.
Jack was surprised, he was expecting a plump older woman with white hair and blue eyes with spectacles.
But this Mrs. N was so different, she was thin, with long fingers. She wore red wedge heals that matched her red dress, and she wore an apron with flying reindeer on it. Her eyes where far from blue, they where a dark chocolate brown, that some how reminded him of hot cocoa. Her voice definitely didn't sound like it belonged to a woman like her, it sounded like it belonged to a grandmother, but it still had that touch of young to it. It didn't waver like an elderly woman's did, but it still had the sound of old.
The only evidence that she was older than she looked was the grey streak in her styled hair.
"Uhhhh, I'm Ja-" he began but she cut him off right away.
"Oh I know who you are, Jack" she said with a smile putting down some cookies onto Christmas decorated plate.
"Uhhhh you do?"
"Of course I do!" she beamed at him, "I could recognize you in any room, you look like your name!" she looked up to give him a beautiful smile as her lips stretched over sparkling teeth. Her teeth had to have been whiter than Jack's.
Pretending to understand what she meant by that, Jack scrunched up his brow, "err, well why did you call me down here?"
She looked at him and Jack swore he saw a smirk and sparkle in her brown eyes, "I don't know," she replied shrugging her shoulders, "you tell me."
Was this woman crazy? She sent him a note! With a creepy elf!
"I'm here because you- well! An elf with a silver platter- and the note! and I had no idea where I was going! And what the heck!" Jack stuttered, confused out of his mind, this woman asked to see him didn't she?
She laughed at his response, "Well, Jackie dear," she said pointing at his chest before going to a cupboard to grab a large mixing bowl, "I did invite you down here," she began as two elves came in with a sack of flower and a bag of chocolate chips.
She patted the elf's heads, with a sweet smile.
"I brought you here because a little birdie of mine told me that you had a situation?" she asked Jack, while shuffling around her drawers for measuring cups.
"A certain situation, that involves a human you were once close too?" she smirked at him has she dumped flour and sugar into her mixing bowl.
"It was probably Bunnymund, wasn't it? He loves to complain about me," Jack smirked.
"Actually, it wasn't Mr. Fuzzikins," she said with a finger in the air, Jack snorted at the nickname she gave Bunnymund, "It was our pretty Tooth," she smiled at Jack. Jack was surprised he never thought that Tooth would complain about him.
His brow creased and a small frown adorned his lips, which made Mrs. N suddenly want to hug him.
"Yes, Tooth came in here as a concerned friend, talking about you and your sparkly little chompers," Mrs. N giggled, "then she went on about how sad you have been, and mopey." Mrs. N pouted at Jack in a sympathetic tone.
"Oh, but that wasn't the only reason I called you here," she waved him off as she mixed her bowl of cookie dough, "you're being mopey in my home, and it wouldn't be very hosting of me to ignore you." she said as she struggled a little in mixing the thick batter.
"So, I know all about this Jaimie person," she went on, Jack was surprised she actually knew so much, "yes Jamie is a good kid I've heard, but I don't think you need to worry about him too much, he will remember," she smiled, giving Jack some hope,"you just need to wait for the proper moment, you can't force yourself onto him, he must come to you."
This made sense to Jack, and he was feeling that since Mrs. N was so willing to help him out that he might as well let her. She was nice after all, and she wasn't meddling per se. She seemed like she honestly cared for Jack, and that was something he liked.
"So," she said with finality, "this girl who can see you," she spooned a wallop of cookie dough onto a pan, "you are certain she saw you, yes?"
"Uh, yeah," Jack confirmed, "I'm pretty sure she saw me all right." he wasn't very happy about her seeing him, actually he had no idea how he felt about a teenage girl seeing him. Was it a bad thing or a good thing? Did he lose Jamie only to gain this new mysterious girl?
"Hmm yes, well then, I think you need to find her," Mrs. N said as she put on her mittens and put her pan of cookie dough into a stoking oven.
"What?" Jack said in shock, nobody out of all the guardians had told him to go after her, he was surprised. Everybody including North advised against it, they told him to stay away, because it could cause problems.
"You heard me," Mrs. N said with her hands on her hips, "you need to find her, she can see you for a reason." she smiled at Jack, her soft warm lips lifting into a motherly look, if that was possible for a woman who looked strangely young. "I think you need to find out how she can see you."
Jack stood up suddenly, for some reason having someone agree with him gave him a little push, the push he needed to continue with his goal, "You're right, I do need to find her!" he said suddenly smiling the biggest grin he had in the past three days.
"woah, teeth," Mrs. N said with wide eyes. Jack ignored her, "Thank you! Thank you Mrs. N! I'll find her right away!"
"Oh please, call me Nancy," she smiled her eyes lightly crinkling.
"Thank you, Nancy!" Jack smiled, flying out of the room.
In the hall, he heard the sound of crashing and Mrs. N screaming at an elf. He laughed, a true Jack Frost laugh at knowing exactly what he needed to do!
He landed softly, the snow cushioning his bare feet. He was back at the school, right where he last saw the girl. He cupped a ball of snow into his hands and sculpted it into a little lion cub, he then blew on it and the lion came to life.
The small lion then Jumped out of his hands and bolted. Jack followed the little lion gliding into the air with his staff. The Lion passed by a supermarket, then an apartment building, down an alley, over a wall. Jack lost the little lion as it was going too fast, but when Jack bounded over the wall, he found the lion sitting waiting for him in front of an old house. It was a small two story house, It was painted white and the roof was blue, the front steps where made out of wood and lightly peeling paint.
"Are you sure this is the place?" he whispered to his little lion friend. It snorted, then stretched and yawned before it popped into little snow flakes snowing on the little space where it once sat.
Jack sighed and looked back up at the house. There was a window in the first floor of the house that Jack guessed was used as a living room. Through it's curtains Jack could see that the T.V was on, with an advertisement for Jack in the Box.
Jack looked up to the second floor to find a small window above the porch, a roof dipped off in front to protect the front door from rain and snow. The little light was on, and since Jack was looking for the teenager he jumped lightly onto the little blue roof and peered into the window.
The room he found was tan, and covered in maps, and strange artifacts littered the room. Jack found that odd, teenage girls usually like pink stuff and nail polish. But, then again, Jack knew that this girl was different, if she wasn't then she wouldn't have been able to see him.
There was a white four poster bed to the side of the window, and across from it stood a desk with a computer on it. That's where he found her. The girl was sitting at her desk typing at her computer. Her hair was loose out of her braids, and she looked to be in some flannel pjs.
Jack didn't want to startle her, but he knew he needed to get her attention. The girl then curled her legs onto her chair and hugged her arms around her knees, and for some reason, she reminded Jack of a little rabbit. Suddenly, an idea formed in his head, as he was reminded of the time that he got Jamie to believe in him.
With his staff he tapped the small window glass, and suddenly an image of snow flakes that hung like Christmas ornaments decorated the window in frost. Then using Jack's frosty gift he made the snowflakes spring to life. The girl instantly felt the chill, but didn't take notice until a flake landed on her computer screen.
The girl swiveled in her chair, and found her room had at least two dozens of floating snowflakes spinning and gliding in her room.
She whispered his name, "Jack Frost," Jack was happy to know that she did know what he was called. But then, he realized, he didn't know how much she actually knew about him. Which, only reinforced his decision to confront her.
Slowly, he tapped on the window with his staff, and the girl snapped her attention to her small window. She couldn't see outside since it was too dark, but she was surprised to see the letters form on her window, 'please let me in,' then to erase suddenly, and form a small ice cream cone with a cherry on top.
Keira wanted to laugh at the cute little frost drawing the Jack had made, but she was too busy warring inside herself as to whether to let him in or not. After what seemed like forever she finally groaned and said, "I must be outta my mind," before stomping over to her small window and sliding it open.
Keira had forgotten how cold it gets during the winter, she used to keep her window open all the time during the summer, and the frigid air suddenly chilled her through her thin cashmere sweater. Jack slipped right in, his thin figure the perfect fit for the small window, and then she noticed just how tall and lanky Jack really was. He could easily use his height to be intimidating, but that wasn't the kind of character Jack was. Keira didn't know how she knew that, she just did.
Keira didn't really know what to say, she never really talked to Jack before, not that she could remember. But she had a feeling that she once knew him, or at least met him somewhere. Like when a child makes a friend at the grocery store, but forgot to ask for their number or their name.
"Hi," she said, staring up at him with wide eyes, she had no idea why she was so star struck in his presence, maybe it was because all her hard work to refute that he wasn't real came undone right then and there.
"Hey," he replied with a smile, and Keira saw the whitest teeth she had ever seen.
"uhhhhh," she went on stupidly, "My name is Keira, Keira Bates," why did she say her name? What was the point of that? That was so awkward she should have just waited for him to ask. Now he probably thinks that she is weird or something along the lines of borderline crazy. He is probably freaking out over how she can see him. He's probably looking for answers too, that's why he is here! Right, there is no other reason.
He chuckled lightly in response and flashed her another snow white grin, "My name is Jack Frost."
