The next morning Jareth walked into Sarah's room

The next morning Jareth walked into Sarah's room. "I've decided to let you go home seeing as I can't think of an excuse to tell your parents why you won't be home for a month," he informed her. "But be ready for night time lessons and please try to keep your emotions under control." "Thank you, said Sarah relieved, "Can I go home now?" "In a moment," he answered. "First I'll show your what you'll be practicing for the next couple of weeks. It'll help keep you calm." Sarah looked at him curiously. "What is it?" she asked. "Meditating," replied Jareth. "Have a seat." She sat down on the rug and Jareth sat behind her. "Now breathe in slowly, hold it, and breathe out. Do it to a pattern. Count or do whatever you need to keep it event. While you're breathing, try not to think of anything. It took Sarah a while. Thoughts kept popping into her head. Then she realized it was almost like what she did before a performance and that thought made it easier. "Good," said Jareth obviously pleased. To Sarah it sounded like his voice came from far away. "Now keep doing what you're doing, but open your eyes. Do you see those shining threads? That's your magic. Right now you have no control over it and whenever you get too emotional it forms itself into a spell. When you control it you'll be able to form it into spells and have it do what you want instead of what it wants. Right now try to untangle your magic and pull it back into your heart, your soul, yourself." Sarah did as she was told. An hour later Jareth called her back to the regular world. "It's time for you to go home." She looked up in surprise. "Already?" He smiled in amusement. "You've been at it for an hour." "That long? But it hardly felt like it. And it hardly looks like I've done anything to my magic. It's just as tangled as it was before!" she cried. "Patience, Sarah. You'll see results in a little while." And with that he transported her home. Over the next few weeks she went to school by day and had lessons at night. Her control over her emotions and magic was beginning to show little by little though there was still lots of work to be done. Her classmates began to notice that her expression got dreamier every day. "Hey Sarah? Get your head out of the clouds and come back to the real world!" called one of the members of the "cool crowd" after school one day on her daily route home. "Shut up," snapped Sarah annoyed. "Oooh. I'm so scared," said the boy. The empty path in the woods was making him cocky. "You should be," said Sarah trying to meditate as she walked to keep herself calm. "Maybe I should just come over there and-." Something inside of Sarah snapped. "Forget it!" she cried stopping her meditation. Her anger combined with her magic through the boy into the tree and stuck him there. He stared at her, shocked. "What did you do? When I got down you'll wish you had never been born!" he shouted struggling to get down. Fortunately nobody was around and in shouting distance. Sarah panicked. "Jareth!" she shrieked and the word echoed in the empty forest.