F.Y.I. It's around Christmas time in this chapter and yeah I kinda took some of the ideas from "Speak". Good book.

After visiting hours are over everyone is sent back to their rooms.

Inside his room Jimmy sits thinking about what Cindy said to him.

" Jimmy you have to be strong, remember, even if we aren't here with you we'll always be with you in spirit."

" I'll keep my promise to you Cindy." He says.

He stares at the ceiling wishing his friends were still there he already misses them.

Jimmy gets up walks to his desk and grabs a holder full of pens and pencils, he throws it at the wall and all the pens and pencils spill out all over the floor.

He breathes through gritted teeth angrily, he is sick of this place, why won't they let him leave!

He lies down on his bed and the next thing he knows he's in a strange room.

Outside he hears Cindy's voice.

" Jimmy please help me!" She shouts.

" Cindy!" He yells running up to the window.

Outside he sees her running from a huge cloaked figure.

" Cindy don't worry, I'll save you!" He says trying to escape from the room but he can't open the door.

He tries to break the window but it doesn't work.

Outside the figure draws closer and closer to the cornered Cindy.

It puts its hand behind his back and pulls out a long sword.

Jimmy watches in shock from his window.

The figure strikes, hitting Cindy and she falls.

" CINDY!" Jimmy yells in shock.

He shoots up to find it was only a dream.

" It was only a dream." Jimmy says sighing in relief

The nurse enters the room.

" It's time for lunch Mr. Neutron." She says.

" Okay." He says following her.

In the cafeteria Jimmy sits down with his food. Outside it's snowing.

Kelly walks up to him and sits next to him.

She sits in silence almost as if considering whether to eat her food or chase it with her fork.

" I made something for you." Kelly says all of a sudden and very quickly.

" What?" Jimmy asks confused.

" I made something for you." She says more clearly.

She holds up a small wrapped box.

Jimmy takes it from her and slowly unwraps it, inside he sees a card made of a folded piece of paper, underneath is a book called " 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, a Baseball Story."

Jimmy looks at the card, on the front words are written in pink pen " Merry Christmas!"

He opens it to find another message reading " Will you go to the Christmas Dance with me?"

Kelly looks at him smiling.

" There's a Christmas Dance?" Jimmy asks.

" Yeah, it's in the gym, just some balloons, and other decorations, nothing fancy." She says.

" I'd love to." Jimmy says smiling back at her.

Kelly starts giggling as Nigel sits down.

" What someone, let off a can of laughing gas for Christmas?" Nigel asks coldly sitting down.

" What, you couldn't get a date for the dance?" Jimmy asks.

" Shut up." Nigel says starting to eat.

Jimmy looks down at his lunch, a slab of meat in some weird sauce and a bowl of soup.

He then looks out the window; the snow is starting to pile up, about 6 inches.

After lunch is done Jimmy goes back to his room, he looks at the calendar, there are only two days left until Christmas.

After about an hour he is led to the gym where everyone sits and the Dean walks in.

He clears his throat then says, " As many of you know, the Christmas Dance is in two days, it'll be held in this room. The dance will start at six p.m. and end at midnight. The dance is nothing formal, and you don't need a date to come, but you can bring a date if you wish."

Many of the other staff members come up to the microphone to talk about the dance but Jimmy zones out.

The next two days pass oddly quickly; the clocks seemed to be moving at triple their normal speed.

Jimmy also noticed how many girls there actually were at Silver Lake, at every meal girls laughing and giggling, pointing at boys, and comparing notes.

One day at lunch a girl walked up to Jimmy and asked him if he'd go to the dance with her.

He'd responded no so fast he thought he must have sounded rude.

On the Christmas morning Jimmy wakes up. He finds some wrapped boxes at the end of his bed, one from his parents, one from each of his friends, bringing the total to seven.

He quickly starts to unwrap the presents. From his parents, a book, from Cindy a cell phone, a CD from Libby, from Samantha a homemade pillow, a biology book from David, and bags of candy and other sugary foods from Sheen and Carl.

Jimmy places the books on his bed side table with the one he'd gotten two days ago, He switched out the pillow, and put the cell phone, CD, and bags of candy under his bed.

The day passes quickly, Jimmy feels as if he was walking into his first blab session and then the next walking into lunch.

At lunch Jimmy sits down next to Kelly.

" So are you excited?" Jimmy asks Kelly.

" I uh… I mean…" She starts giggling wildly.

" I'll take that as a yes." Jimmy says.

Nigel sits down.

" So have you asked anyone to the dance?" Jimmy asks.

" Yes, I asked Anna Parker." Nigel says.

" And what did she say?" Kelly asks, finding her voice again.

" She said yes." Nigel says smiling.

" Good for you." Jimmy says.

After lunch everyone is allowed outside, the snow is getting deep, nearly a foot at least.

Outside Jimmy sees many people having snowball fights, some are talking and others are asking others to the dance.

Jimmy and Nigel go off and join a snowball fight, while Kelly goes off into a group of giggling girls.

After about an hour everyone in the snowball fight is starting to forget how to aim so Nigel and Jimmy go off to Kelly who has left the crowd of girls.

They start talking casually until they are called in at 4 o'clock to go back to their rooms.

In his room Jimmy walks into the bathroom, he makes sure his hair is in its normal "soft serve ice cream" look. He then puts on a clean blue shirt with a white atom and a pair of blue jeans. He then goes and lies down on his bed, resting his head on the new pillow, he picks up the book from Kelly and begins to read it.

At 5: 50 P.M. Jimmy is led by a nurse to the entrance of the gym where people are meeting each other.

Jimmy walks around the crowd looking for Kelly, after a few minutes he finds her. She looks amazing, her hair, normally in a ponytail, is straight and she is in a pink t-shirt and blue capris pants.

" Hi Jimmy." She says blushing.

" Hey." He says back to her.

After a few more minutes the doors to the gym open and people begin spilling into the gym, Jimmy sees Nigel walking with a girl with silvery-blonde hair down to her waist that he supposed was Anna.

He and Kelly walk in, inside are some tacky Christmas decorations, round tables on a raised half of the gym and an empty floor where dancing would take place.

The two walked up with the others to the tables and he sits down with her at one.

At the table is a candle and two plates, along with silverware, cups, and napkins, each table being draped in a white tablecloth.

A man in a tux, who Jimmy doesn't know, walks up and hands them menus.

" May I take your order?" He asks.

" I'll have the pork chops." Kelly says.

" I'll have the pork chops also." Jimmy says.

" Good choice." The man says taking their menus.

After the man walks away Kelly looks at Jimmy happily.

" After this do you want to dance?" She asks.

" Sure." He says.

After a few minutes the man walks back with two plates of pork chops and a pitcher of ice water, he hands each of them a plate and pours each of them a glass of water.

The two begin eating in silence, Jimmy turns his head to see Nigel trying to eat but too busy staring at Anna and missing his mouth each time.

He starting coughing to try to cover a laugh.

" Are you okay?" Kelly asks looking up from her plate.

" Yeah, something just went down the wrong pipe." Jimmy says massaging his throat as if he had something stuck in it.

He then went back to his plate, eating eagerly as if he hasn't eaten anything so good in his life.

After he and Kelly are done, the two head down the steps onto the dance floors, and start dancing to the slow music, Jimmy puts his hand on Kelly's waist and the other in her hand and she puts a hand on his shoulder and the other in his hand, the two begin slowly swaying back and forth to the music, it's actually not that bad.

After the song is over he and Kelly walk to the wall and lean against it.

Many people also lean against the wall waiting for the next song to start.

" So what do you want to do?" Jimmy asks.

" I want to go outside." She says.

" Sounds cool." He says.

The two head through the doors and outside it's dusk. People's voices can be heard from intimate places, even the sound of kissing.

They sit down on a bench, brushing snow off of it.

" So are you having fun?" Kelly asks.

" Yeah I am." Jimmy replies.

The two sit in silence until a voice from behind a bush a voice is heard.

" I knew you were the one for me." The voice says.

Jimmy has heard that voice before but he couldn't place it, like some long lost memory.

Jimmy gets up.

" Jimmy, where are you going?" Kelly asks.

" Stay quiet." He says, the snow muffling his footsteps.

He peers around the bush to see shadowed faces, but they look familiar.

Suddenly one of the shadowed figures speaks again.

" I always knew you were for me, I can't believe you were out here all alone." The voice says.

Jimmy looks back to see Kelly signaling him to come back to the bench.

He walks back.

" What is it?' He whispers.

" Jimmy, I've heard those lines before, those were the same lines Nick used on me at that party." She says.

" Nick!" Jimmy whispers in disbelief. " But I thought that he was in Juvenile hall!"

" I guess they sent him here after a while." She says.

Suddenly another voice sounds, a high-pitched female voice.

" Really, I can't believe you would say something like that to me! Most boys don't give me a second glance." The voice says.

" I don't see why, those boys must be crazy, you're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen." The male voice says.

" My God she's like putty in his hands." Kelly whispers under her breath angrily.

" We have to stop him." Jimmy whispers.

" But how?" She asks.

" I have an idea." He begins. " Follow me."

He gets up and tiptoes to a large pile of snow, he makes a snowball and throws it making a sound right near where the two are sitting.

" Did you hear that?" The female voice asks.

" It was probably nothing." The male voice says.

" I'm checking." The girl's voice says.

She gets up and walks over to where the snowball landed.

The two hear the male voice, Nick, get up and hear him coming muttering drunkenly.

" I think we need to disappear." Kelly says.

The two hide behind a bush and see Nick walk by, his hands in his pockets, kicking up snow and muttering to himself.

Jimmy checks his watch, 10:00 p.m.

" Let's go back to the gym." He says.

Back inside the gym the two see Nigel sitting in a chair alone.

" So, what happened between you and Anna?" Jimmy asks.

Nigel looks up at him coldly.

" I don't want to talk about it." Nigel says.

" Well we have a story for you." Jimmy says.

The two sit down next to Nigel and tell him the whole story.

" Nick Dean, here!" He asks amazed at the end of the story.

" Yeah, I can't believe they sent him here." Kelly says.

" Well we'll just have to watch out for him." Jimmy says.

The rest of the dance passes slowly, Jimmy and Kelly dance a few more times but mostly the three just discuss what Jimmy and Kelly saw out in the garden type area.

Shortly after the dance is over, many people complain that they want the dance to continue but Jimmy just wants to get up to his room and think about what had happened.

Back in his room Jimmy thinks. " Never a dull moment around here. Interesting Christmas"

Gosh this took forever to write, sorry if there are any references to Harry Potter 4, they were not intentional. Next chapter will be up when I finish it