For you Lainey!
After a few minutes of being in Jareth's arms, Sarah stopped crying and pulled out of his embrace.
"I'm sorry," she said wiping the tears from her eyes (hey! Green day lyric! Hehe!) "This must seem so strange to you."
"It's fine. You needed a good cry. I do have one question though." Jareth replied.
"Shoot."
"Shoot what?" Jareth asked confused. Sarah couldn't help but laugh.
"It means, go ahead, ask away. It's a figure of speech." Sarah explained.
"Oh, well, how did you end up with Kristy?"
"That's a really long story." Sarah said. "But we have time so whatever. Kristy is Toby's wife's daughter. You see Cindy, Toby's wife, is 12 years older than Toby. He married her when he was 18, making her 30. Well, at some point 9 years before Cindy knew Toby she had a daughter, Kristy. After Cindy and Toby got married Cindy started to scream at and beat Kristy. Well, on Kristy's 10th birthday, she broke her stereo and that really made Cindy mad. She beat Kristy up so badly that night that Toby could no longer take it. That night he took Kristy out of her bed in the middle of the night and brought her to me, told me the story, and asked me to keep her for a while. I did and I guess Toby never thought it was safe to come and get her because, well, here she still is, 5 years later."
"That's terrible. You know Sarah, not many women in your situation would have taken her in." Jareth said thinking about what a wonderful woman Sarah had become.
"Yeah, I know. But Toby really looked scared that night. I had to take her in. Better me than some psycho maniac." Sarah said with a small laugh. She then looked over at the clock. "1:30. Jesus! Sorry Jareth, but I need to get to bed. I have to work tomorrow."
"No, I'm sorry for keeping you up. How about I come back again tomorrow and get to know you and the girls? Tomorrow is Friday for you here correct?" Jareth asked.
"Yeah."
"So there will be no rush getting to bed tomorrow night." Jareth said with a smile. "What time do you get off work?"
"Um, I'm usually home around 3:30." Sarah answered.
"Till then." Jareth said disappearing.
"Jesus," Sarah said when he was gone, "he sure knows how to get his way."
NEXT DAY"Kristy! Jaime! Wake up!" Sarah cried.
"Damn you sun." Kristy said stuffing her head under her pillows.
"Good morning! Good morning! Good morning to you!" Jaime yelled pulling he blankets off of Kristy. Kristy threw a pillow at Jaime, hitting her square in the face. "Mom!" Jaime yelled. "Kristy threw a pillow at me!"
"Just get ready! It's already 7:00! Kristy Matt will be here in less than 15 minutes and you know how he hates when you're late!"
"He'll get over it!" Kristy yelled.
"Jaime! Get ready! You know you have to be at Maxi's house by 7:30 and it takes 10 minutes to get there!" Sarah yelled putting in her earrings.
She looked at herself in the mirror. She wore black dress pants to cover up the ace bandage she now had to wear for her ankle, comfortable black clogs which she knew she would just end up taking off and walking around the class barefoot as she did often, and a pink tank top. Her hair was down and she had put on her usual small amount of makeup.
"Sarah! What do we have to eat?" Kristy yelled from the kitchen.
"Whatever's there!" Sarah answered back.
Kristy looked through the entire kitchen but didn't see one thing to eat. "Stupid food." Kristy whispered to herself.
She was wearing black Capri's with a silver chain going from her belt loop to her pocket. She wore a black shirt with 'ROCK' written in silver letters across her chest. She wore her converses with her 'Nightmare Before Christmas' shoestrings. Her hair was down and straight which really brought out all the colors in her hair.
"I want cheerios!" Jaime cried coming into the room. She was wearing a white dress with a blue floral design and white tennis shoes. She had obviously done her hair herself by the look of the messy, un-brushed, ponytail on the very middle of her head.
"What?" Jaime asked when Kristy started laughing.
"Come here, let me fix your hair for you." Kristy sat down in a chair and grabbed a brush. Jaime came over and sat on her lap as Kristy softly and gently brushed through her hair and put it in a neat ponytail at the back of her head. "There. Much better. Now what did you want for breakfast?"
"Umm, Captain Crunch." Jaime answered.
"Wait a minute, didn't you want Cheerios?" Kristy asked her.
"A girl can change her mind." Jaime answered trying to act so grown up that it made Kristy burst out laughing.
A loud bang and then a rolling interrupted her laughter.
"Kristy! How many times have I told you not to leave your skateboard in the middle of the hallway?" Sarah yelled.
"Sorry Sarah." Kristy said going over to the still moving skateboard, stopping it, and riding it back to her room.
"I told you not to do that either." Sarah called. She was answered by Kristy's laughing. Kristy had the cutest laugh that was without a doubt contagious.
When Kristy came back in Jaime looked at her. "What?" Kristy asked.
"Can you teach me to skateboard?" Jaime asked.
"Eventually." Before another word could be said the sound of a motorcycle could be heard from outside. "Got to go. Bye!" Kristy said running out the door.
"Hey baby." Matt said getting off the motorcycle and kissing Kristy.
Matt was a 17-year-old junior in high school. He had jet-black hair a tattoo on his right middle finger, and a lip ring. He was 6'8", which was much taller than Kristy at 6'2". Kristy and Matt had been going out for about 6 months now and they didn't see an end in sight. At first Sarah didn't like Matt very much, but after a few dinners with him and Kristy he seemed to be a good guy and Sarah's problems were pretty much dissolved.
"Hey."
"How you doing?" He asked handing her helmet to her.
"Ah you know, same old shit, different day." She said putting the helmet on.
"Well, come on let's go." Matt said getting on the motorcycle. Kristy laughed for second and then climbed on, arms around Matt's waist and head on his shoulder. They drove off and headed for school.
"Come on baby, finish your breakfast and let's go." Sarah said as Jaime drank the milk out of her cereal bowl. As she finished she grabbed the bowl and threw it in the sink. "Come on or we'll be late."
Sarah and Jaime went out and got into Sarah's old black, scratched, and dented 1985 jeep.
"Mommy! Help me up." Jaime yelled. The jeep was still too tall for her baby to get in without any help. Sarah went over and put Jaime in the jeep and took off in the way of Maxi's house.
Maxi, or Maxine, was Sarah's best friend and fellow teacher. They both taught 7th and 8th grade at the same school. Maxi had blonde hair that was different every day. Her soft brown eyes gave her a very loving look.
Every morning Sarah and Jaime would ride to school with her since Sarah's old door-less jeep would get everything stolen out of it from the high school students just up the road.
"Okay baby get your stuff and let's go." Sarah said as they got to Maxi's. Jaime jumped out of the jeep and ran up to Maxi's house and went straight in.
"Aunt Maxi!" She yelled.
"Hey Jame!" Maxi yelled giving Jaime a big hug. "How are you today?"
"Same old crap different day." Jaime said.
"Jaime!" Sarah yelled.
"What? Kristy says it!" Jaime defended herself.
"Oh, Sare, calm down. We hear worse in our classes." Maxi told her with a small laugh. "Well come on let's not be late like those students of ours." Maxi said grabbing her purse and walking towards the front door.
HIGH SCHOOL WITH KRISTY
When Kristy and Matt arrived at Haven High School, the regular crowds awaited them.
Kristy and Matt walked hand-in-hand past the cheerleaders who every morning gave them dirty looks, especially one in particular.
Katie Jones.
"Look what the cat coughed up." Katie called as Kristy and Matt walked passed.
They then walked past the football players and other jocks. Again, one of them had to be the worst.
"Hey Kristy!" Joe Michael called. "Why you going to roll with that when you can ride on this?"
"Sorry, I'm not attracted to girls." Kristy called back at him. The rest of the football team 'ooed' as Joe sat there with nothing to say. Matt put his arm around Kristy as they left the jock center.
"Kristy!" Meg called from their usual meeting place at the tree.
"Hey guys!" Kristy yelled as she reached the rest of her friends.
Meg had short brown hair with red highlights at the very front. She had brown eyes and was about 6'6".
Jill had brown hair that was different lengths at different areas. Her blue eyes were stunning and somewhat scary to look at.
Lindsay had blonde hair then went about halfway down her back with long layers going through it. She had green eyes that gave an innocent look to her face.
These were her best friends.
"Hey babe, I got to go meet up with the guys. I'll see you at lunch okay?" Matt said hugging her and kissing her cheek.
"See you then." Kristy said with a smile. "So what's up guys?"
"Nothing really. We can't go over my house tonight though." Jill said.
"We can't?" Lindsay asked.
"Nope, parents are having some dumb party." Jill answered rolling her eyes.
"We could go over my house." Kristy offered.
"Yeah. Let's do that. We can order Chinese again and go swimming next door again." Jill said.
"That didn't go too well last time." Meg said laughing.
"Yeah! No chicken this time!" Kristy laughed.
"Damn. Do you know how bad that hurts?" Jill said holding onto her head. The girls laughed.
BRING!
"Come on guys let's go to homeroom." Kristy said still laughing.
FIRST CLASS WITH SARAHSarah got into her first class without a minute to spare.
"Okay guys, open up the books to page 612." Sarah said walking in and putting her stuff down on her desk. "Natasha, can you read please?"
Natasha began to read the page when the intercom interrupted.
"Teachers, excuse the interruption." The principal called over the intercom.
"I swear if it's because of another found pair of socks I'm pulling that thing out of the wall." Sarah complained to the amusement of her class.
"Ms. Williams, you have a phone call. Thank you."
"I never get phone calls." Sarah said to herself. "Uh, Natasha, keep reading. Class, be good until I come back. I don't need Mrs. Kolb yelling at me again, 'you need to get your students under control, get it? Got it? Good.'" Sarah said earning a wave of laughter through her classroom.
Sarah went down to office and got her phone call.
"Hello?"
"Hello, Ms. Williams." A silky, heavily accented, unmistakable voice answered on the other line.
"Hello Mr. King." Sarah said with a small bit of laughter, what she was really wondering was how he would be on a phone. "What do you want?"
"Well, I am supposed to come back again tonight and I was wondering if there was anything you or the kids need."
"Um," Sarah said confused about why Jareth would be doing this and still trying to figure out how he got on a phone. "Food. We need food." Sarah said remembering what Kristy had been complaining about that morning.
"Ah, food. I'm curious. What types of things do each of your children like?" Jareth asked. Sarah could hear the crystals he was no doubt twirling around at the moment.
"Jaime likes dolls and stuffed animals and normal little girl things. Kristy, well she likes music and her skateboarding." Sarah answered. As much as she tried she couldn't think of a way he'd have access to a phone.
"I see. Well Sarah, love, I guess we will see each other tonight around 3:30, correct?"
"Yup." Sarah answered. "See you then."
"Oh, and Sarah. I have magic; I can get access to anything. Bye now, love." Jareth said hanging up his end of the phone conversation. Sarah laughed and went back to class.
When she got back to her class she found Mrs. Kolb scolding them.
"Ms. Williams. Please come forward." Mrs. Kolb called. Sarah walked forward knowing all the words Mrs. Kolb was going to say by heart. "You need to learn how to keep your students under control. Get it?"
"Got it" Sarah answered.
"Good." Mrs. Kolb then left the classroom.
"See there you guys go again. Getting me in trouble. You guys didn't read the page did you?" Sarah asked.
"Nope." One of the students answered.
"See I know you all too well. Let's play silent ball for the rest of the class. I'm not in the mood for reading." Sarah said and the class cheered.
3 HOURS AND 10 MINUTES LATERThe morning classes had been fine that day and it was now lunch. Sarah sat at her desk eating a breakfast bar when Maxi came in.
"Hey baby doll!" She called from the door.
"Hey Maxi." Sarah said with food in her mouth making both the girls laugh.
"Are we still going out tomorrow night? I hear that the club is supposed to have a great crowd tomorrow with The Fire Within playing."
"I don't know. I might have an unexpected guest at my house tomorrow. Oh, by the way, Scott left." Sarah told Maxi.
"What? God Sare, I'm sorry. Hey, if you and the girls need somewhere to stay, I'm always here." Maxi offered.
"Nah, I think we'll be okay. I have a little, help." Sarah said with a smile.
"What? Another guy so fast? Jesus girl! You do work fast!" Maxi practically screamed in delight. "I never did like Scott anyway. Didn't he hit you once?"
"Uh, yeah." Add a couple hundred and there you go, but that's close enough.
"Well chick you know I'm always here for you anytime you need me."
"Thanks Max." Sarah said throwing her breakfast bar in the trash. "I hate those freaking things."
Maxi laughed before leaving the room.
The rest of the day went by without much excitement for Sarah, but she couldn't wait to get home and see Jareth.
What she didn't expect was to come home to see Kristy, Jill, Meg, and Lindsay sitting on her front step.
"Hey Sarah. Jill, Meg, and Lin are going to spend the night." Kristy said as if it was an everyday occurrence.
"Not again!" Jaime yelled.
"Um, Kristy can I talk to you for a second?" Sarah asked. Kristy got up and followed Sarah into the house.
"Kristy, Jareth is coming back tonight." Sarah whispered.
"That's great. What is he like your boyfriend now or something? Does Scott know?" Kristy asked.
"Kristy, he want to get to know us, me you and Jaime." Sarah tried to explain.
"So he is your new boyfriend." Kristy said with a smile.
"I don't know." Sarah whispered.
"Haha! And Scott probably doesn't even know!" Kristy turned around and started to scream the song from Euro Trip. "Scottie doesn't know! Scottie doesn't know! Scottie doesn't know! Don't tell Scottie!"
Sarah, too annoyed to go back and get her again just went to the bathroom to take off her makeup and earrings and change into some sweatpants and a tank top.
Kristy and her friends were all outside talking when a man with blonde hair that reached his eyes and blue and brown mismatched eyes came up to the teenagers.
"Kristy." The man answered.
"Wow Jareth! You changed since last night!" Kristy commented taking in his jeans and black Queen T-shirt.
"Oh, so you approve?" Jareth asked with a smirk. "Is Sarah home?"
"Yeah. Go inside. SCOTTIE DOESN'T KNOW!" Kristy screamed so Sarah could hear her.
Tonight would be fun!
Authors Notes:
Sarah is supposed to be around 37 years old now.
Explanation- Toby was 18 when he married Cindy. Sarah is about 14 years older than Toby.
18+1432
It's been 5 years since she got Kristy.
32+538.
Took me about an hour and a half to figure this out.
