"Can you really see me now?" May asked, as her eyes grew bigger and bigger with each passing second. Her heart thundered inside her chest - both because someone finally saw her, and because it was none other than Jack Frost... "You see that I'm here and... and hear that I'm talking?" she couldn't believe it. Even though Jack's icy blue eyes were pinned onto her green ones, she couldn't really comprehend the fact that he was looking at her. May looked behind her own back with a fearful tremble inside her stomach to see if there was anyone else - what if she just imagined it again? But only the tree was standing behind her, motionless.
Jack nodded at her, confusion and distrust evincing on his pale face.
"Who are you?" he asked again, raising his staff a bit higher, to aim at the girl's face instead of her chest this time, but she honestly didn't mind it. Someone finally interacted with her! Okay, he was kind of threatening her life, but he was threatening her life!
"I'm... I'm May." she said, reaching for the end of Jack's staff with excitedly trembling fingers, to gently push it out of her face. When she touched the cold wood, a thin layer of moss grew under her pinkish fingers, replacing the frost. Jack's eyes jumped to look at the sight for a fraction of a second, his brows running to meet each other on his forehead. But he didn't aim the staff back at her. "I'm..." May had to swallow. She just couldn't believe this was really happening. She needed to make a good first impression on the first-ever person talking to her! Though the over-excited tremble in her voice, stomach, and limbs didn't help. "I'm a Guardian, just like you!" the words burst out happily, as she looked into Jack's eyes.
"A Guardian?" he asked, lowering his staff. "But... I don't know you... How...?" he mumbled, looking more confused than ever.
"Well, it's because you're the first to ever see me! I mean, apart from babies, of course..." May replied, shrugging a little, half excited, half sad - maybe even a little awkward. It was ineffably strange for her to talk to someone she could actually see and look at. Wind often listened to her, and sometimes answered in their own way, but never really talked to her directly. Also, Wind was invisible, having no eyes May could have looked into. She couldn't deny the eye contact made her nervous, though it was also hard for her to tear her shining gaze away from the boy's.
"I make first things happen... " she started explaining herself with a slight tremble in her voice. "Do you remember the night, when that boy, Jamie, saw you for the first time? I helped that happen actually!" she said, maybe a bit prouder than she should have.
A cold breeze stroked her constantly hot cheeks, for which she felt extremely grateful.
"What?" Jack rubbed the puzzled wrinkles on his forehead with a hand. "You were there?" he asked, lowering his staff completely by now - maybe, in his confusion, he forgot that he believed May might have been a threat...
The girl felt her cheeks go slightly red, as well as her heartbeat fastening when she thought about that night. She still remembered crystal clear, how happy the young Guardian was and how she felt as his emotions took over May's. Now actually talking to Jack felt like a dream - a really nervous, sweaty, and awkward - but beautiful dream.
"I can't believe you see me..." May said it out loud - being able to say this little sentence simply felt amazing. "You can see me!" she repeated, this time louder and more joyous than before. She jumped onto her feet happily - Jack slightly raised his staff - and the girl felt Wind catch her figure mid-air, raising her a few feet away from the ground. "He sees me!" May told the news happily to them, even though she was sure that Wind had been listening all this time.
An affirmative ring in the girl's ears confirmed her suspicions.
"Wait a minute..." Jack interrupted and May immediately stood back to the ground, in front of the silver-haired guardian. She wanted to talk to him as much as possible - this was her first-ever real conversation after all. The girl slid her fingers through her rosy blonde locks, trying to tame them unconsciously. "Are you talking to... to Wind?" He asked, furrowing his brows and after May nodded, he immediately turned to look towards the sky. "Why didn't you tell me about her? Or anyone?"
He seemed slightly frustrated for a reason unknown to May and to calm the boy, her hand automatically, reached to touch Jack's shoulder. She stopped at the last minute though, pulling her arm back to hug her own self nervously instead. She'd never really touched anyone, apart from her job, when she had to.
"J- Jack..." May stuttered his name shyly. She never called anyone -apart from wind - their name directly and it felt so unbelievably strange to do so now. "What could have they done, really? Wind has no mouth to tell about me." She smiled sadly at him, her joyously beating heart feeling a little heavier now. But the thought undoubtedly nested itself into the back of May's mind. Had Wind ever tried to tell about her to anyone?
She saw the thoughts racing through Jack's mind evincing on his face as he was at his wit's end.
In the end, he only sighed and his eyes jumped to look into May's. There was no trace of any hostility left in his gaze anymore and for some reason it made the girl's heart beat faster than ever before. Her cheeks reddened as she smiled at him awkwardly.
"You know what..." Jack started, stepping by the tree May had been standing next to all this time. He eased himself down to the ground, leaning against the bark, and easily crossed his own legs. The girl watched him taking up a comfortable position as her brows ran to meet each other in the middle of her forehead in her slight confusion.
"How about you just tell me about yourself first?"