School

Sarah woke up in the morning to the smell of bacon.

"Oh my god! Jareth!" She said rushing to get out of bed. She was worried about what he was doing. She knew Karen hadn't come home. She would have woken her up like she always did when she brought Toby home from the hospital every other week. She rushed to her door, turned the handle, pushed the door to open it, but it didn't budge. "JARETH!" she screamed at the top of her lungs.

Jareth then came through the door with great ease. "What is it, love?"

"You locked me in my room?"

"Yes, well, I didn't want you to come downstairs and spoil the surprise."

"What surprise?" Sarah was scared now.

"Get ready for school, and then call. I want to see your face when you see my surprise."

"Okay fine. Get out so I can get dressed." With that Jareth left the room. About 5 minutes later, Jareth heard Sarah call his name. He opened the door and his breath caught in his throat.

Sarah looked breathtakingly beautiful. It looked as if she should be going to a ball with the high king of the fae rather than going to school. Her hair was wavy, she had light mascara on and some lip gloss. Her shirt was neatly tucked into her skirt loosely. Her skirt came a good three inches up her knee. She made her school uniform look good. "Now what is my surprise?"

"Close your eyes." Sarah did as she was told and he led her down the stairs and into the kitchen. He let go of her hand and she opened her eyes. Jareth had made a breakfast of eggs, bacon, toast, and bagels.

"Did you make all this yourself?"

"Yes I did."

"Wow!"

"I though I would do a little something to thank you for your kindness."

"Aww, it's no problem though. Hey what time is it?"

"6:45."

"Oh, my god! Shane will be here in 20 minutes! I have to eat fast!" And that Sarah did. She was done eating a plate made of eggs, 5 pieces of bacon, two slices of toast and a bagel in 10 minutes. She then ran upstairs, brushed her teeth, checked her appearance in the mirror, ran downstairs, gave Jareth a lecture about what to do and what not to do while she was gone, and then ran out the door to jump into Shane's car as Jareth watched. He would be seeing her in a little while.

In the car

"Hey Sar." Shane said as she got into the car.

"Oh, before I forget, we have to go pick up Natalia this morning."

"No problem." Shane said as he started speeding down the road.

"Hey Sarah, I want to talk to you about this Jareth guy."

"What do you want to know?" Sarah asked in an annoyed tone.

"Well, if he's the goblin king, what's he doing here?"

"Well, he came yesterday for I don't know what reason and walked me home. When we got inside he said someone wished a child away and he had to go. I went upstairs to get out of my uniform and there he was. He was as confused as I was. Something is keeping him from returning to the underground and I didn't think it was very smart to send him off to a hotel, so I'm letting him stay with me for a while. Does that answer all your question?"

"For now, yes. But I want the details later got it?" He said as he pulled into Natalia's driveway and blew the horn.

"Yeah."

"Hey guys!" Natalia said as she got into old Nessy. Sure, she was a beat up old 1960 convertible, but Shane had done a great job fixing her up. He decided to name her Nessy since when he was repairing her it was a very "Messy" job. He changed the first letter and there you go.

"Hey Natty!" Shane said as he started up old Nessy.

"You know I don't like that!" She said in a joyous mood. She was always like this when she was around Shane. She had told Sarah, her best friend and cousin, that she had a crush on Shane. Natalia was a beautiful girl. She was a brunette with brown eyes. She was thin had a really good body. Sarah knew that one day she would have to get Shane and Natalia together, but that could wait for now.

"Yeah, and that's why I say it." Sarah and Natalie both laughed about this. He would always flirt with Natalia, but when Sarah would ask if he was interested he would always say no. The whole way to school the three of them jammed to Queen's News of the World CD. All three of them were rockers at heart.

When her favorite song Spread Your Wings was over, Natalia said, "Oh my car need a new carburetor and it's going to take a long time o get it fixed. Do you think that I can ride to school with you guys for a while until it gets fixed?"

"As long as you need my services I will be here. I come and get Sarah every morning anyway. It's no problem." Shane said with a smile on his face.

"Thank you so much Shane."

"No problem. We wouldn't want you to get your shoes dirty walking to school now would we?" At that, the threesome laughed. Natalia loved her shoes and everybody knew it.

Before they realized it they were at school. Shane couldn't pull into his usual parking spot, because the substitute Mrs. Sublima was here and always needed the first spot. Shane was a well-known jock around the school so he had one of the more dorky kids save his spot for him for a quarter a day. He could hang out with the popular kids if he wanted, but he preferred friends to fans. He wanted people he could count on to be there for him. Sarah and Natalia, along with John and Clay, were this type of people.

Since they only had about 10 minutes to get to class, Shane dropped them off at the front of the school so they could get there on time. He told them he would meet them in first period and write them a not telling them where he had parked.

Sarah and Natalia were walking to their lockers that Shane, being the popular jock that he is, had traded the nerds for so that the three of the could have lockers together. While the were walking, Natalia brought Shane up in their conversation. "Sarah, he's so nice and popular and cute, he'll never ask me out. God! I would die to go to the prom with him. But knowing him, he'll probably go alone."

"Aww, Natalia, don't worry about him. If he has any common sense he'll see what a great girl you are and eventually, you guys will get your chance. I'll do my best to speed in along for you guys since you're my cousin and everything."

"Tanks Sarah, but the more and more I thing about him the more I realize that he is never going to ask me out or anything."

"Hey! Stop talking like that and have some faith. Now let's get his books ready for him as a little thank you thing." Sarah, Natalia, and Shane all had each others locker combinations so they would always get books out for each other.

First Period

Shane had barely made it to first period on time. They had Mr. Loner first, and they all knew that they would get caught passing notes in here, so they waited, but someone else didn't. Melony Trundle was the head of the cheerleading team and the school snob. She hated Sarah and Natalia with every fiber of her being, but would invite them to all of her parties with hopes that Shane would come. Shane was the kind of guy that would rather have a couple people over and have more fun than he would at a party with 100's of people that he only knew five out of.

"Shane." Melony whispered. Shane turned around just in time to catch the folded piece of paper being thrown to him.

"Ms. Trundle. Would you care to share with the class what is so important that you had to interrupt my class to give Mr. McHendry a note?"

"No." She stated simply.

Well, then we will just read your little not out loud. Shane, I'm having a party tonight. Want to come? Write me back with the answer. 3 Melony. Mr. McHendry, would you care to answer Ms. Trundle's question?"

"I'm sorry Melony, I can't come. I am taking Sarah, Natalia out tonight."

"Ohhhhh." The entire class said in unison. Shane was the only one to turn Melony down, ever. She wasn't used to this and just sat there staring dumbly at him.

"Now that that important business is out of the way, back to work." Sarah and Natalia turned around to look at Shane trying to hold in their laughter. Finally the bell rang and Shane, Sarah, and Natalia all walked out together.

"Um, Shane. Melony would like to speak to you in private." It was Candy who came over. She wanted to be just like Melony in every way. Whatever Melony wanted, Melony got out of this girl. She was blonde, tall, and pale.

"Okay, you guys can go ahead."

"No it's okay, we'll wait here." Natalia said watching Shane walk away.

Shane walked over to Melony and said, "Is there something I can do for you?"

"Why do you always spend all your time with those two? Their not popular, not pretty…"

"What? Sarah is very pretty and even Natalia's name is prettier than you'll ever be. Were through here. Goodbye Melony." With that Shane walked away.

"No one walks away from me! I'll get him sooner or later. He will be mine!"

"What was that all about Shane?" Sarah asked when he rejoined the group.

"Nothing." Why had Shane gotten so angry when Melony had called Natalia ugly? Even when he thought about it he was angry. Could he? Yes he did. He had always felt an attraction to Natalia, but didn't think much of it. But know he knew that he really did like Natalia. She could never like him, he thought. I am just me, a regular guy. No way could a beautiful, smart, funny girl like her ever like me. But he had no idea of what she had told Sarah. He decided he'd better keep this secret for a while, until he had some hope for the two of them.

For one out of the three, this was a typical Friday. But the other two had some really strange things happening. Sarah had the goblin king in her house, Shane had just found out he liked Natalia. Natalia was just having a very Natalia day.

Soon the school day was over and they were all riding home in Nessy. Natalia noticed that Sarah and Shane were very quiet all day.

"Did I miss something?" Natalia finally asked. This was all two weird.

"What do you mean?" Sarah asked.

"Did I miss something? You are both being so quiet today. What's wrong?" Natalia was concerned for her friends. Just as she said this, Nessy pulled into Sarah's driveway.

"Natalia come with me." Sarah took Natalia into her house and called for Jareth.

"Who is this guy?" Natalia asked, obviously interested in her cousins never before seen guest.

"Do you remember how I told you about the labyrinth?"

"Yeah."

"Well this is the goblin king."

"Okay." Natalia said simply.

"What?" Sarah said confused.

"I said okay. I believe you. You never lied to me before, why would you start now?"

"Okay, well, Jareth Natalia, Natalia Jareth."

"Pleasure to meet you." Jareth said.

"Same here. So should I call you your majesty or Jareth or what?"

"Jareth is fine."

"So what are you doing here Jareth?" Natalia loved this guys name!

"Um, well, I'll explain this all later at The Scorpion Room."

"Oh yeah! I was wondering about that. Did I not get the memo?"

"No we just kind of figured it out last night that we were going take Jareth here and show him a good time while he's here."

"What happened to his nose? It's bleeding."

"Oh! Crap! It was Shane."

"Say no more. Well surely your not going to take our friend Jareth here out looking like that. With his hair all wild and goblin king clothes are you?"

"Oh, my god! Your right! What are we going to do with him?"

"I am right here you know." Jareth said. They were talking like he wasn't even there.

"Yeah we see you Gobby. You'd be hard to miss. I'll go tell Shane that I'm going to stay here and help you out with him. I'll be right back." And with that she was out the door.