It turned into night, but North was not giving up his search. Ellie was out there trying to get to him. "Man in moon," North looked up at the Guardian in the sky. "Vhere is she?" North had a feeling that his friend Manny knew where she was. Manny would stay silent when it was important for North and the other Guardians to do something on their own. North was not happy. He wanted no needed Ellie. North had become so used to her being around him that he couldn't imagine life without her.

North knew he never said the three important words, but neither had Ellie. Though he knew that she loved him and he was sure that she knew he loved her. It was just a matter of them saying it aloud. He was nervous about telling her. That is why he hoped he was going to have the courage once her proposed. He never got the chance to because she went missing. He'd had it all planned out and then this happened.

"Vhy?" North muttered to himself. Ellie was a sweet, kind, beautiful, lovely, polite, strong, woman. She had faith in him all the time. When he panicked because they were a day behind schedule she calmed him down. Now they were weeks behind schedule. He couldn't think of a single way for them to catch up. There was just so much stress he was starting to believe that Christmas might not come for every child this year.

"Whoever is doing that cut it out!" I shouted. The sleigh bells would not stop I swear! They slowly got louder as well. It was highly annoying. It was the same jingle, jingle, jingle, and then it would stop for one second and continue on again. I was ready to kill whoever had those bells. I hoped whoever had those stupid bells could hear me. If not I was gonna steal them. Make them think the bells were magical disappearing bells or something.

"Ellie? Who are you talking to?" Paige asked out her window. "Why are you on the roof?"

"I'm talking to myself and no reason really. It's a nice night."

"Its cold." Paige informed me. I didn't think it was that cold out; then again I'd also stayed at the Pole. I didn't think the Pole even had a summer or a season close to that.

"Aren't you cold?"

"I'm fine."

"It's bedtime." Paige told me.

"I'll be down in a minute or two."

"Okay."

I hoped that Paige fell asleep before I would come down. I really didn't feel like sleeping there was too much on my mind. I hated when there was too much on my mind. It took me forever to fall asleep. There had to be something that I could do to clear my head. I couldn't count sheep that never worked. I didn't meditate or listen to music that never helped me. I needed to sleep well for the well for however long I'd been dead/alive/dead/alive.

That was one of the things keeping me up. I was dead, but I was alive, but dead at the same time, but alive. It was annoying me that I couldn't figure out what I was. I was dead to grown-ups, but alive to children. I was alive to other Guardians (I think), but I was dead to non-believers. I did not appear, as the same woman so was just that woman dead? Or was that woman alive in me? I was a new Ellie, but I was the same old Ellie. This is what made my head hurt.

What made my heart hurt were fun memories:

Flashback parade!

Gary growled.

"What do you mean why do I have feeling for Nick?" I asked. "He's the sweetest guy in the world, he's funny, nice, and just look at him! He's great all around! He's not bad on the eyes either!" I told Gary. Gary gave me a disbelieving look. "He's a great kisser too." I put my hands over my mouth. Great. Now everyone in the Pole was going to know I enjoyed the kiss. Probably more then I should have, but it was that good. Karl and the other elves started to make kissing noises. "If any of you tell Nicholas no cookies for a week." That made them all shut up.

! !

The inner teen girl in me once again was freaking out. She was bad enough when she made me kiss him in the ring, but now? Oh was she freaking out. I couldn't keep the screaming my mind was doing from stopping. He was kissing me? Though he'd won the match. I realized that's why Jack had interrogated me. North had sent him to figure out what I thought of him. Now that he knew I wasn't sure if things were going to change between the two of us or not.

I certainly hope something would change. The kiss broke, "you're a good kisser." I couldn't help but tell him. I really need to learn to keep my mouth shut better.

! !

Marcus's eyes widened and he shooed me away with his hand. I glared at him and kept going on my way. Bells, music, and secrets just what a girl wants to do every night. "Vhat is it?" Nick's voice made me hide behind the nearest yeti workstation. "Now?" This was my chance. Nick left his workshop's door open and left with the yeti. I quickly made my way into it. His usually ice sculptures were moved off to the side. So he wasn't designing new toys. Nick's desk was full of drawings. Hundreds of drawings, I have to say he was better at sculpting then drawing.

"What are these for?" I went through the drawings. Some were of dresses, bells, rings, and even places. "What would he need…"

"Useless! Plans for Ellie! That ve should be doing! Not useless…." Nick's Russian accent came closer. I had to get out of here. Sadly there was only one door. I'd have to go out a window if I didn't want to be noticed. I went to the window.

"This is going to be so cold." I saw Nick's boot and quickly fell towards the ground full of snow. "SO COLD!" I shouted. I was stuck in an impression of my own body hitting the snow. It was almost like I was in a cartoon instead of the real world, but then I was in love with Santa Claus so it was like I did live in a cartoon.

I got out of my snow impression quickly. Russian snow was colder then and other snow I swear. The closest place for me to get warm would be with the reindeer stalls. I knew there was a nice fireplace in there for yetis and Nick when they needed it. I'd have get there quickly and warm up. If I got frostbit or something from this I was not going to be happy.

End Flashbacks

Of course there was my 1st date with Nick. There were a lot more memories then just those.

"Why do you need to get yourself into these situations, Eloise?" I said to myself. "WHAT IS WITH THOSE BELLS!" I shouted again. They were really starting to get on my last nerve. The noise just kept getting louder and louder. I couldn't stand it anymore. "WILL YOU!" I turned in the direction I heard the bells coming from. There in the sky was something. It was flying close to the rooftops and kind of slowly. "Nick? NICK!" I shouted as loudly as I could. It had to be him it just had to be.

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