This chapter is dedicated to BOWIEgirl because she thought I died. Sorry babe but I was on vacation in Florida.
Oh! Sorry about the typo at the end of the last chapter. I had my cousin type that for me so you can yell at her!
Well, on with the next chapter!
"Mom!" Jaime cried from the hallway.
It had been two hours since Jareth had arrived and only two hours into the weekend and Sarah could already see that this was going to be a very hectic couple of days.
"What?" Sarah called while on hold for the Chinese food that Kristy and her friends had begged and pleaded for.
"They won't let me in my room!" Jaime yelled.
"Jaime, if they don't want you in there then you probably don't want to be in there. You know how strange they can be." Sarah told her daughter.
"Being normal is no fun!" They all heard Kristy yell from her room. Sarah laughed at the phrase that Kristy used all of the time as someone from China Glory answered her call.
"E lo?" The Chinese woman asked.
"Yeah, hi. I'd like to make an order for delivery."
"Yer E dress peas."
Sarah gave her the address and began to order.
"No egg roll fo you?" The lady asked after Sarah had finished her order.
"Um, yeah, throw in like 7 of them." Sarah said over Jaime's yelling and banging on the bedroom door.
"Food be deer in bout tirty minits." The lady said before hanging up the phone.
"God! I hate ordering from Chinese places!" Sarah complained before walking back into the living room to sit with Jareth.
"Well, your home seems very, busy." Jareth commented.
"Tell me about it! I'd do anything to go on a vacation but we don't have the money." Sarah said walking over to Jareth and sitting on the couch next to him.
"I think a vacation could be arranged." Jareth said creating a crystal. Sarah took it and hid it under one of the pillows on the bed.
"Jareth, don't do that here. I'm the only one who knows you're actually, whatever you are." Sarah whispered.
"Fae. I'm fae and I'm not afraid to show it." Jareth said moving his hand to make another crystal. Before he could make one Sarah grabbed his hand.
"No." She said looking him straight in the eye. Jareth could see that she meant what she had said and nodded.
"Now, about this vacation." Jareth started.
"Oh Jareth, I couldn't let you do that." Sarah said.
"Sarah, a trip to my kingdom would cause no problems for me or for anyone else." Jareth told her.
"Back to your kingdom?" Sarah asked and Jareth nodded. "I don't know Jareth. The girls would either freak out or love it there. Either way it's bad."
"How is it bad if they love it?" Jareth asked raising an eyebrow.
"Because they will want to stay. That couldn't happen. We have lives here." Sarah explained.
"I'm not asking you to stay for long. Just for one weekend. If they like it then we can arrange for them to come down more often. I'm not asking you to move down there or anything." Jareth told her.
"Just for one weekend?" Sarah asked.
"Or longer if you'd like. It's completely up to you."
Sarah thought for a minute and then nodded. "Okay, we'll come down for a few days. When would this little vacation take place?" Sarah asked.
"How about next weekend? It's the start of ball season and I'm sure your girls would love to go to a royal ball." Jareth offered.
"Ball season?" Sarah asked.
"Yes, ball season. It's a 4 month period where every weekend a different kingdom has a ball. They are quite fun." Jareth explained.
"Okay, I'll talk to the girls and tell them. Should I explain what happened between us so long ago and where exactly we are going?" Sarah asked.
"It's not a bad idea."
"Okay then. It's settled. Next weekend we will go to your kingdom for the weekend. Anything special we need to bring?" Sarah asked.
"Nothing but yourselves. Everything you need shall be provided. But if you have any objections to wearing dresses and heels the entire weekend I suggest bringing some clothing from home." Jareth told her and Sarah nodded.
Just then Jaime came from her room screaming and crying and the sounds of Kristy, Meg, Jill, and Lindsay laughing could be heard from still inside the room.
"What happened baby?" Sarah asked as Jaime jumped on her lap.
"They, they, they, were talk, talk, talking to de, de, dead people!" Jaime cried.
"Dead people? How the⦠Kristy!" Sarah called still trying to calm her weeping daughter.
"What?" Kristy said jogging into the living room from her room.
"How in the world are you talking to dead people?" Sarah asked.
"Ouija board. Jill brought it over." Kristy explained.
"Oh dear God. See Jaime, I told you that you didn't want to go in there." Sarah said soothingly.
"Jaime," Jareth called. Jaime looked at him and he made a crystal.
"How the hell?" Kristy asked shocked.
"I'll explain later." Sarah said watching Jareth as he twirled the crystal around on his hand. When he stopped twirling it, Sarah Jaime and Kristy all watched as it turned from a crystal into a huge lollypop.
"There you are." Jareth said holding it out to her.
"Lolly!" Jaime yelled taking it and flopping down onto the couch.
"Again, how the hell?" Kristy said staring at the man in front of her.
"Bring your friends in here and I will tell you a story." Jareth said and Kristy rushed off to her room.
In a matter of seconds Kristy, Jill, Meg, and Lindsay were all skipping down the hall yelling 'story time! Story time! Story time!'
"It all started when the Goblin King noticed the girl." Jareth started.
"Goblin King? What the hell?" Jill laughed.
"Yes, Goblin King. He noticed a beautiful young girl in a park one day reciting lines from her favorite book 'The Labyrinth.' The girl didn't notice him watching her, she thought he was just another snowy barn owl."
"I thought you said he was the Goblin King?" Meg asked.
"He was, he could, shape shift. Now, the girl had a stepmother and a baby half brother that she couldn't stand. One night when the girl couldn't stand her brother anymore and wished him away to the goblins."
"The girl had no idea it would work," Sarah cut in, "but it did and she was transported into the land of the Labyrinth by the Goblin King. You see, the girl had 13 hours to solve the labyrinth before the king would turn her brother into a goblin."
"The girl didn't know that the king would never have turned the baby into a goblin, he would have had him raised in his kingdom and live as any other regular subject." Jareth added.
"The girl began to walk the labyrinth and met up with some strange creatures who in the end helped her learn important lessons for her life." Said Sarah.
"But for the Goblin King the game soon turned from a fight to keep the baby, into a fight for the young girls heart." Jareth continued. "The girl traveled on, and despite all of the Kings attempts to capture her heart, he never succeeded. The girl got to the end of the labyrinth and was offered her dreams. She refused them."
"She discovered that her brother was the greatest treasure in the world." Sarah said.
"She won over the king and took not only her baby brother back home, but many valuable lessons and a certain kings heart." Jareth finished.
"Wow," Meg said, "weird story. I wonder who the girl was. Was the king hot? If he were hot I would have stayed. I can't stand my brother anyway." Everyone but Sarah and Jareth laughed, they were too busy staring into each others eyes to care.
Sarah never knew that he had actually loved her; she thought he was just trying to distract her.
The doorbell interrupted her thoughts and she went to get the food.
Jareth stayed until about 2am, after the girls had passed out while watching 'Joe Dirt.'
"Well, Sarah, I'd better be going." He said standing up from the couch.
"Aw, really?" Sarah asked. "Will you come back tomorrow?"
"If I'm invited." Jareth said with a sly smile.
"You're invited." Sarah said with a smile and a small laugh.
"I'll see you tomorrow then." Jareth said grabbing her hand and kissing it. His lips lingered on the soft skin of hand for a few moments before he straightened up, let his hair grow out, changed back into Goblin King clothes, and slowly faded from view.
"Wow," Sarah said after he had completely faded away, "this is great."
