Well, thank ye fair people who reviewed. I'm glad you like it.

CANADA!

Ok, I really have no idea what that was about but anyways…

And I just realized that the age difference between Toby and Sarah is a year off but oh well. I like pickles. It's all good.

PRICKLE RYMES WITH PICKLE!

Disclaimer: I'm sad and pathetic; do you really think I own anything? And I don't own Denny's. Although one of my grandfathers I never knew had the last name 'foster' so maybe I own Foster Freeze or something. (Shrugs indifferently)

Karen walked up the stairs to Sarah's room and tapped on the door. When she got no answer she tapped harder. Still she received no answer.

"Sarah, you're going to be late for school if you don't get up soon!" she called through the door. But when she still got no reply in return she slowly opened the door and peeked inside. "Sarah?" To her surprise the room was empty. Shrugging it off Karen just decided that Sarah went to school early.

Karen didn't know why but Sarah had been acting weird all week. She would mope around one second, scoop her brother in her arms and attack him playfully the next, and then finally she would start getting a daydreaming look on her face and her eyes would blank out. She just figured Sarah had a crush on the young man she introduced a couple days ago. What was his name again? Jareth? No, it was Jared. Yeah, Jared.

"Where did I get such a weird name like 'Jareth'?" Karen laughed to herself as she went back to fixing breakfast for Toby. He still wouldn't eat his vegetables and Sarah was the only one who could coax him to do it. Oh well.

Sarah looked across the table at Jared.

She had gotten up earlier that day so she and Jared could go get breakfast at Denny's. She smiled at him as she took a sip of her coffee.

"So, are you going to try out for that play Sarah?" he asked as he pushed some scrambled eggs across his plate with his fork.

"I don't know. I mean, I don't even know what play it is," she laughed. She enjoyed being around Jared. She felt somehow safe. But along with those feelings she felt a small prickle of dread. Something in the back of her mind was telling her to get as far away from Jared as possible. But Sarah always pushed it back. She didn't want to listen to it; she wanted to be with Jared.

"Well, today's Friday so the auditions are today. We should go; I'll go with you and maybe we can both get parts. We might even get the leads," he grinned with a twinkle in his eyes. "Hey, who knows, there might be a kissing scene," he said playfully.

"Oh, be still my heart," Sarah laughed as she patted her right hand over her heart as she looked up at the ceiling.

"Can it," Jared playfully snide as he scooped some eggs on his fork and aimed it at Sarah.

"You wouldn't dare."

With a playful grin on his face he let the food fly hitting Sarah straight in the face much to her surprise.

Gasping she wiped away what was stuck there.

"Jared!" she screeched. She grabbed some eggs in her hand and smeared it all over his face.

Laughing they both started a small food fight until one of the waitresses came over and asked them to leave.

After paying the bill and a little extra for the mess they made Jared walked out of the restaurant with Sarah on his arm. But as they neared some bushes Jared let go of her and pushed her in.

"I'll get you!" she yelled as she picked herself up and chased after him.

Jared reached his car first and jumped in. But he wasn't fast enough. Before he could close the door Sarah had run over and grabbed his arm. Pulling him out she grinned maliciously.

They stated to rumble around in the parking lot until Sarah pounced him. Then they started rolling around on the ground until Sarah was able to pin him down with arms on both sides of his head and laughed down at him as if saying 'I win.'.

They laughed together for a few moments before they both became quieter as they stared into each others' eyes.

Sarah smiled down at him as Jared smiled up at her.

"Sarah?" he whispered softly.

"Yeah?" she whispered back.

"What is it with you and being on top of me?"

Blushing Sarah quickly stood up and helped Jared up after her. They then got in the car and were quiet the rest of the ride to school.

Once arriving at said school Sarah finally spoke first.

"Jared, at lunch today I need to go somewhere so you might have to eat lunch by yourself, ok?"

"Okay Sarah. Will you still need me to drive you home?"

"Yeah, I should only be gone during lunch and maybe the first five minutes of English."

"Really? English is one of your favorite classes. Especially since we are doing short stories today about our favorite book slash play," Jared asked in amazement.

"Don't worry; I just have to talk to the principal."

"Okay then Sarah. I'll keep your spot warm for you," he smiled.

Sarah nodded and smiled back as she grabbed his arm and pulled him to Homeroom.

Ginger again tried her games with Jared only to crash and burn; for which Sarah was particularly happy.

When lunch came Sarah walked towards the principal's office instead of the table outside her and Jared usually ate at.

"Ms. Williams the principal will see you now," the secretary said without looking away from the computer as she walked in.

"Hello to you too Ms. Lawrence," smiled. It really was becoming a habit that Sarah would be coming to see the principal lately to argue or discuss something.

Walking into the office Sarah barely noticed the different animal heads on the wall from her principal's hunts. She also barely noticed all the other memorabilia her principal collected through hunts and expeditions and backpacking through Europe.

Sighing she sat in front of the huge oak desk with green felt and awaited the large drown leather swivel chair to turn around and for the principal to acknowledge her.

"Ah, Ms. Williams, what is it you wish to speak about today; bullying, pesticides, after school clubs and/or sports?"

Sarah sighed as the chair twirled around and the principal leaned forward slightly and folded her hands on the desk.

She had long, crimped red hair and molded her face and bright, piercing blue eyes. Her small little nose fit her face perfectly and was splashed with just a sprinkle of freckles. Her long manicured hands began to tap softly against the felt.

"Ms. Alistair, I actually wish to speak to you about a student," Sarah said matter-of-factly.

Sighing Ms. Alistair rolled her eyes and put a finger to her temple.

"What is it now Sarah?"

"Well, there is a new student here and I was hoping you could tell me a little about him from his record."

"Sarah! You know I can't!"

"Gwyn, we both know you've done it before. Why can't you do it now?"

Gwynnevere Alistair leaned back in her desk sighing a she clasped her hands over her stomach.

"Sarah, you know how much I appreciate all the help you have done but if I do this one more time I could very well get fired."

"Just one more little time Gwyn; that's all I ask."

"I don't know…"

"What about all those times I watched little Danny for you? Remember the time I sat up with him all night reading to him all kinds of different stories? You know; he has wanted me to come over lately which means you could get a night off and hang out with your girlfriends. I could read him that little red book again," Sarah coaxed.

Gwyn chewed on her lower lip as she thought these things through. Finally sighing she nodded her head.

"Fine, but only if you promise to try out for the play today," she smiled.

Sarah tried to keep a serious face but soon fell to smiling.

"Ah, so the blackmailer gets blackmailed; I see how it is. Fine; you win. I'll read to Daniel and I'll try out for the play; happy?"

"Very much so."

Shaking her head Sarah couldn't help but laugh as one of her mom's closest friends before she moved away went to work attacking the keyboard of her computer.

Sarah walked into English with a confused look on her face as she sat down next to Jared.

"What's wrong? Did you do what you had to?" Jared whispered as he leaned over.

"Kinda," she whispered back not really hearing his question.

She had asked Gwen to look up Jared's record but as soon as she had clicked on his name to bring it up the computer crashed. Sarah also couldn't recall seeing a last name but she shrugged it off that she just was paying attention to first name. But then she realized that none of the teachers called out his last name in roll call or that he had never mentioned it or put it on his papers.

"Jared, what's your last name?"

"What?" he asked with a quirked brow.

Sarah couldn't help but think; Sexy.

"What is your last name?"

"Oh, it's a stupid name; I don't like repeating it. It's…a curse!" he said with eyebrow wiggling.

"Oh, come on! Stop goofing off and tell me your last name! It can't be a curse!"

"Oh yeah? It killed my neighbor's cat after they had said it."

"What! Liar! Now tell me it!"

"Seriously, they said it and then the next day it got ran over!"

Sarah shook her head. "Loser. Now tell me your name or I'll…not go to the masque."

"What?" Jared asked in disbelief. Sarah could have sworn she saw pure terror pass through his eyes but she dismissed it.

"Tell me your name."

Jared wiped a hand over his face as he leaned back.

"Fine, it's…Reeves," he said with the flip of his hand that looked as if it were a trifle thing to him.

"There, that wasn't so hard was it?"

"If I get in a car accident or something I'm blaming you," he grumbled.

"If you get in a car accident then I'll kiss your boo-boo and make it feel all better. Now get to work slacker," she teased playfully.

He fake-pouted as he had seen her do with Toby and went back to his short story.

But that fake pout brought to vision a picture of Jareth with a hurt expression upon his face after she pushed away from him in the ballroom.

Pssh! Stop thinking about him! Jared is nothing like Jareth! First off Jared drives a colt while Jareth would be driving a mustang or a Ferrari or something! She argued in her mind. Get your mind off of the Goblin King!

Sarah chuckled nervously as she went to work on her story.

Her story was actual about he favorite play; the Labyrinth.

She was writing about three creatures from the Underground constantly having to deal with the Goblin King. She knew the story was supposed to be short but she didn't care; so what if her story could make a whole new book once she was done with it.

Sarah decided maybe she could toss in a girl. Not the same one from the story of course but a girl nonetheless. Maybe the girl fell in love with the king and would live happily ever after with him. Maybe she didn't have to race against the clock for her little brother so she didn't have to push away her dreams; she could dance forever in the arms of the one she loved.

Before Sarah knew it her story was redone and instead of a comedy/action it was a romance/drama. Of course the girl had help from the three creatures, but they helped her to win the heart of the Goblin King.

Ludo, Didymus, and Hoggle would help her.

Hoggle, she thought affectionately.

But then Sarah remembered that they didn't come to her a few days ago.

They were probably just busy. That was all.

But no matter how many times she told herself this she still felt a stitch of pain that they didn't come.

Sarah was snapped out of her reverie when she heard Jared clear his throat.

She looked over at him but he was looking at his paper as if he did nothing.

"What?" he whispered as he saw her looking at him.

"Nothing," she said softly. Did he do that on purpose?

"Ms. Williams, this is supposed to be a short story. This means only ten papers at the most."

Sarah looked up to her teacher staring at her 20 page story.

"But, I'm only half done! I still need to get to the ballroom scene!"

"Sarah, you will have to compress this."

"But--" Sarah cut herself off as she realized she was about to say 'That's not fair!' Grinning Sarah nodded. "Ok Miss Kaloni, I'll fix it."

Miss Kaloni muttered something and went back to her desk as Sarah started to fix her story.

"Sarah! Come on; we're going to be late!"

Sarah let out a small noise as Jared grabbed her wrist and pulled her down the hall.

It was after school and the auditions for the school play had already started.

When Sarah and Jared flew through the auditorium doors they thought that there would be all kinds of scowls at their tardiness but instead the drama teacher just sighed sadly which was repeated by the other students there already.

"Oh Sarah, I'm sorry you rushed all the way here but I fear there will be no play," she said sadly.

"What? Why not?"

"It seems another school is doing Romeo and Juliet. We have no other play to do that will have such a captivating plot."

"What about the Labyrinth?" Jared offered.

Sarah's head whipped around to look at him with wide eyes.

"What?" she asked in a whisper.

"Well, you are always telling me about it and how my pictures remind you of it so I figured it would be as good as any play."

"Labyrinth? Wasn't that that one play with the horrible Goblin King?" the drama teacher asked.

"Yes Mrs. Koch. The one I told you a about a few years ago," Sarah sighed.

"Oh, it does sound exciting. Do you know a little bit of it you could tell us?"

Sarah sighed but nodded. She knew the exact part to tell them. She ran onto the stage and looked out over the audience.

"Give me the child." She walked slowly foreword. "Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child that you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom is as great." She realized she was quoting it almost sadly. Her eyes strayed to Jared's face which she could almost swear was going a bit pale but in the light she couldn't tell and just shrugged it off. "Kingdom as great…kingdom as great…" she whispered over and over not sure she could bring herself to say the rest of the line.

She glanced down at Mrs. Koch who watched her expectantly. She then looked back to Jared but saw he wasn't there.

"You have no power over me," she finished softly.

There was stunned silence for a moment until Mrs. Koch started clapping.

"Sarah, that was amazing! You said those lines as if they were your very lifeline! We will do this play and you will be the leading lady!"

Sarah was torn between smiling broadly and frowning.

Where did Jared go?

"Sarah, do you have the play with you?"

"No Mrs. Koch, I don't. But I could bring it Monday. We could reschedule the auditions for Monday if that is okay with you."

Nodding sadly Mrs. Koch made sure everyone understood the plans and ushered everyone out.

Sarah waited outside for Jared.

Where was he?

"Sarah!" she heard the familiar voice yell.

"Jared, what happened?" she asked as she saw him running up.

"I'm sorry Sarah but I remembered that I had to go get my car. You see, the colt is a rental."

Somehow Sarah didn't want to hear this.

"Oh?" she asked anyways.

"Yeah, come on and meet my baby," he smiled.

He led her to the parking lot and pointed to a car that was an off-whitish color with what looked like white owl feathers outlines in silver where most people put flames. The car was a '70 Shelby Cobra.

Sarah's jaw dropped.

"Isn't she beautiful?"

"And you said your last name was a curse," Sarah whispered.

Grinning Jared led her to the car and opened her seat for her.

They had only gone a few blocks away from the school when a tire popped.

"Yes," Jared sighed, "my last name is a curse." Sighing once again sadly he went out to fix his tire.

Ok, sucky but what the hey.

And about the dead cat thing; that is dead serious! My friend's last name is 'Reeves' and every time someone says it something bad happens to them and they snort when they laugh! My friend's cat DID get run over because he said it too!

And I tried having Jared have a small old car but I just couldn't see Jareth…I mean Jared (wink)…driving a colt. So I gave him one of my favorite cars. (Tear) It's so beautiful! I wish I could show you what my brain sees when I think of the owl feather detailing but alas; I can't. I hope you got the gist of it.

Um, I have good news and I have bad news; the bad news is that I will be busy lately so my Fanfics will be slowER in coming and such. But the good news is that within the next, maybe, three or four chapters JARETH IS SHOWING UP! WOOT WOOT!