Chapter Three

An Invitation

Dedicated to Musicgirl141, for her terribly wonderful review.

The day seemed to fly by, though Sarah was sure Jareth was messing with her lunch hour because it only seemed to last five minutes. Not a lot happened at the bookstore though, since, not a whole lot of people ready books anymore. Sarah's friend Ady managed to drop by though, which she was overly glad about.

"I'm telling you," Ady made her next sentence choppy "get rid of him."

"Don't you think I want to?" Sarah asked "I hate Blaine's guts but…"

"You need some muscle?" she kidded, trying to flex her arm. Sarah laughed and Ady gave a fake pouting look. "What?" she smirked as she sat on the front counter "don't think I can take him?"

"No," Sarah laughed "all you'd have to do is break out into one of those random songs of yours and he'd be down for the count."

"Hey that's not-" she started and she stopped, her eyes following the man walking down the street. Sarah paused a long moment, she looked too and gave a short yelp and hid under the desk. "What are you doing?" Ady whispered.

"Shh!" Sarah hushed her "I'm not here!" Jareth looked into the bookstore, barely anyone in sight with the acceptation of a young lady sitting at the front desk. He slowly opened the door and hoped he looked Aboveground enough.

"Um," he walked up to the young girl sitting on the table "do you know, by chance, if a Sarah Williams works here?"

"Sarah," she paused a moment "about this high, blackish-brown hair, chocolate eyes, shitty boyfriend she needs to dump. That Sarah?" Jareth nodded. "Never heard of her, sorry." Jareth gave an amused look and the young girl laughed some. "I think she's hiding from you," she said pointing under the counter "but I'll just give you the cash from the register and she'll have to track you down." Sarah, in an attempt to stand up quickly, banged her head against the bottom of the table.

"Ow," she muttered and Ady broke out into laughter.

"Are you okay?" she asked and Sarah stood up, holding her head.

"Oh yeah," she nodded "great." She gave a dry smile "Hi Jareth."

"Hiding?" he mused.

"Uh, no," she lied "lost a contact." He was terribly handsome, even without his Goblin King garb on. His hair was pulled back, his make-up gone, and he was wearing jeans, a t-shirt and some very normal shoes, but he was still handsome.

"But you don't-" Ady started and Sarah gave her a warning look "oh yeah, I keep forgetting you don't wear glasses anymore. Ha, silly me."

"Didn't I say something about you not interfering with my job?" Sarah asked.

"Oh," he paused "I thought you meant not to burn it down or anything like that. I wasn't aware I couldn't come here."

"Aw," Ady teased "Sarah you're making him stay away from the shop? Come on Sar, let him hang around."

"Yeah Sar," he smirked "I won't cause trouble, I promise." They both gave pleading looks and she covered her eyes.

"Not fair!" she said in a sing-song voice "I can barely handle it when ONE of you does that. Two… that's just cruel."

"Please?" they both said in unison.

"Argh," she growled "okay! Just stop it." Both of them laughed.

"I'm Adelaide by the way," she put her hand out "just call me Ady though, everyone else does." Jareth took her hand and shook it.

"Jareth," he said simply.

"And how have you come across my in-need-of-a-boyfriend-buddy over here?" she asked with a grin.

"She does this with everyone," Sarah rolled her eyes.

"Old acquaintance," he said simply "we've just started talking again, actually."

"Oh?" Ady eyed Sarah "interesting."

"Please don't get any zany ideas," Sarah pleaded "and don't, for the love of god, break out into song."

"Wouldn't dream of it," Ady breathed "you're too prone to strangle me right now. I'll wait until there's a crowed of people. Witnesses you know." Sarah laughed, Ady had a tendency to have that affect on her. "Are you going on Friday?"

"Shh," Sarah quieted her and pointed to Jareth.

"Oh he won't tell," Ady smiled "but seriously, are you sneaking out?"

"Of course," Sarah smirked.

"What are you talking about?" Jareth inquired.

"La Luna," Ady put her hands up in the air and spread her fingers.

"What's that?" he asked simply.

"It's kinda hard to describe without it sounding," Sarah paused "cheesy."

"Oh!" Ady got a wide smile "you should take him tomorrow. It'd be great."

"You know Kali's rules," Sarah muttered.

"Aw," she gave Sarah a defeated glare "he's special enough, isn't he?" Jareth looked at Sarah and gave a cheesy grin. She sighed and shook her head. "Oh please Sarah, we need someone new. And you know as well as I that Kali would flip over you bringing a guy."

"Exactly," she agreed "and maybe he doesn't want to go. I'm sure he's busy."

"You're such a stick in the mud," Ady grumbled "you wanna come, don't ya Jareth?" When he didn't say anything she turned back to Sarah. "See? He wants to come."

"What exactly am I agreeing to here?" he asked, looking slightly confused.

"La Luna," Sarah gave Ady a stern look "is, well its sort of a club, but then again… its not."

"It's a club for different people," Ady explained "er, not people. Well… there are SOME people, I mean, Sarah goes there but…"

"You get your basic weirdoes," Sarah shrugged "which is exactly why he doesn't need to go. Besides, I'm going to have enough problems sneaking out without Blaine finding me out."

"If he finds out you went again he's gonna," Ady paused "… maybe you should stay home."

"I can help," Jareth suggested "I mean, if you want me to. I can get you out of the house easy." Ady gave Sarah a look, as did Jareth and Sarah gave a massive sigh.

"Okay, as long-" she started but was tackled by Ady's massive hug. "Yeah alright, let go before you cut off my circulation."

"Well not that that's settled," Ady jumped off the counter "I've got to get going. You tow drop by tomorrow and I'll drive. Oh and Morgan is coming too so, burn some incense or something." Sarah laughed and waved her friend off. Jareth paused a moment and gave Sarah a puzzling look.

"Why doesn't Blaine let you go to this… luna thing?" he asked.

"He's very religious," Sarah muttered and started to lock up, being sure not to make eye contact with the goblin king glaring attentively at her.

"So?" he asked.

"You mention magick or anything slightly sinful around him and he'll most likely tie you to a stake and burn you alive," she said simply and grabbed the broom. "And he thinks dancing is sinful as well so… that doesn't help."

Author's note: Well :takes deep breath: yeah just review.

ItsACrystalNothingMore: Jareth says not to call him owl boy. :laughs: Conner's coming over Tez so… be ready. And wow, gonna have a baby!

Acantha Mardivey: No I don't need him around. He stayed away last night but there's an owl in my tree… Ow… wisdom teeth? And I did like the songs you sent. Thanks.

Conner: Oh, I'm easy to blame. :throws gummy bears at amie:

Morrigana: Little missy… that's a new one. Glad you like it. I think me n' Conner have been bonding a lot more and I think that's why I've been doing a bit better. I have no idea actually how I get Jareth sometimes. Based on an exboyfriend I suppose. Or maybe Jareth has been hanging around Conner a tad too much. - I'm sure he'd like to come over… but uh, I think he's a bit annoyed with me.

lyn: Once again, you review makes me smile. And its only two words. I suppose it works that way because your telling me what I really want to do.

LadyAniviel: - thanks! Me and Conner have a thing, it's pretty good actually. He's quiet helpful from time to time.

Hya-chan: Aw:laughs: ice water huh? Well isn't that interesting. One of my friends got Conner to sit on top of me until I promised to kiss him. He's such a pain. Anyways, glad you liked it.

Musicgirl141: My muse I suppose. You can borrow him if ya want. He's quiet helpful. Anyways, thank you for your review. I'm so glad you liked it. Coming from a reader, to a writer, it means a lot.

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Conner: Well, I suppose it all depends on what your idea of 'pay' is. :grins: But the first two parts I'm all for.

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