HEY EVERYBODY!

LL, you are a sad strange little man…er…woman. But you got an acquaintance in me! I am no one's friend! (Cackles all loser-ish) And keep your little goblin things and Charlie to yourself.

And because of that I shall say I don't own Toy Story so go blow it out your…er…anyway.

And crazy07, you have you been reading my diary? Wait…I don't have a diary…hmmm. Will Ginger suffer an accident? Depends on if I get bored. For fun, anyone who wants Ging to suffer an "accident" review and tell me or review and tell me you don't…either way; REVIEW! Hey, that's the first time I asked people to review just to review…I feel so dirty…

I didn't know I was going to put a song in there; I figured Suicide was my song one but oh well. And the DJ's initials are D.J. if you guys are wondering about his stupid ass name that I can't even remember.

And I realized a few days ago I made a boo-boo. I said Alice went to America. Uh, right. If she moved an inch she would be in America! I MEANT to say she went to HAWAII. But not the 'oh look at me I'm visiting the stereotypical Hawaii' she went to the Hawaii people actually lived in. A little bit more about her in the following chapter.

I'm sick. Poor me! Not that anyone cares.

And yes I am just rambling on so that it takes longer for you to read the story!

My Guinea Pig just threw food at me!

Then there are you cheaters who pay absolutely no attention to what I say and just go straight to the story.

Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la.

Ok, I'll seriously stop now and let you read the chapter.

Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to the Labyrinth or David Bowie. I also do not own William Shakespeare and/or Merchant of Venice. And no one wants to own Bill Clinton. So don't even think of suing me because you will not win! I LIKE PICKLES! (Oh, I might postpone Jareth's appearance. Please don't kill me.)

"SarahSarahSarahSarahSarahSarahSarah," a happily chattering Toby repeated as he raced up the stairs to Sarah's bedroom. He flung open the door and stood grinning at the bed where Sarah should have been sleeping. But she wasn't. The grin on Toby's face quickly turned to a full-fledged frown as one hand still rested limply on the door handle. Dejectedly he closed the door behind him and moseyed on down the stairs slowly and sadly.

Karen walked into the main foyer with her hands on her hips. "Toby, what's wrong?" she asked her downhearted child.

"Sarah's gone," he whimpered.

"She probably left early again with that boyfriend of hers. Honestly Toby, I would think you would be happy for her."

"He's not her boyfriend!" Toby yelled. "He's a mean ole' Goblin King Wannabe!" he grumbled as he crossed his arms over his chest and ran up the stairs to his room. Slamming the door shut he jumped on his bed and hugged his beloved babyhood Lancelot.

"Well really," his mother breathed after him before turning back to stride back into the kitchen.

Sarah fidgeted in her seat. She hadn't known if Jared's and hers discussion last night changed the way he would act towards her today.

"You okay over there Sarah? You look as if you just sat on a colony of red fire ants or something. Or maybe waiting in line to see the principal after you were caught peeing in her bushes," he laughed. "Wait…you can't do that…" he said softly as his eyebrows drew together in confusion. "Guess it's just Hoggle then."

Sarah sat up straight and looked at him wide eyed. "What?" she chocked out.

"Hoggle, you know, from the play? He was peeing in the pond. The audience will love that," he laughed.

Sarah sighed mentally. "Yeah..." Although when I first saw it that was not the reaction I had.

They soon arrived at school and, with arms hooked together, walked to their Homeroom. As they walked down the halls everyone looked at them and whispered to each other.

"You know," Jared whispered in her ear, "everyone is going to think we're together if we keep doing this and you keep stealing me away from Ginger. She is playing Nerissa you know. By the way, as I read from the book I saw that Nerissa is not the original character's name."

"Yeah," Sarah shrugged. "I guess I liked Nerissa better. I named her after my friend's dog that was named after a character in William's Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice."

"So now Ginger is a dog. Seems appropriate. Does Ginger bite?"

"No, but Ginger snaps."

Laughing the two of them entered the classroom and sat in their seats.

"You know," Sarah commented, "I still never hear the teacher's use your last name."

"It's a curse; that's why," he dismissed with another wave of his hand exactly similar to the one he used when he first told her his name.

"Mr. Reeves, would you run this to the office please?" the teacher asked from his desk as he waved a manila folder lazily in the air without looking up from a piece of paper he was marking.

Jared cocked an eyebrow at Sarah with a look on his face that was clearly; 'Oh what now? In your face.' Although it might have been more like; 'See they use my last name.' Which Sarah responded to by rolling her eyes which Jared knew undoubtedly meant; 'Loser.' Grinning he got up and walked over to the desk grabbing the folder and walking out of the classroom. He had just left when the teacher's chair gave way and he landed in a heap on the floor. Jared's voice could be heard down the hall yelling "It's a curse!"

It was lunch time again and the actors (and actresses for those feminists out there) all decided to meet together in the auditorium to practice lines. Mrs. Koch said she would turn up if possible but since she wasn't there Sarah called all the shots. Because of this Sarah was reluctant to go but decided that now would be the best time to tell the rest of the cast her ideas.

"Ok cast, I have a few changes I wish to make. First off the Goblin King gets slapped," Sarah replied calmly as she strode in front of everyone on the stage. She had stayed up late last night rewriting a few things to make sure that everything went as she wanted it too.

Everyone gasped and then started laughing at Jared. "Does this mean you have secret fantasies about hurting me?" Jared mock whimpered.

"Yes Jared my love, I wish to hurt you and make you the Prince of the Land of Stench," she replied sarcastically.

Johnny put his fists on his hands. "Hey, that's my part!" That being said the whole cast began laughing, or at least all except Jared who held a little smirk on his face that would have made Sarah blanch if she saw it. But luckily she didn't because she too was not laughing but held her own private smile full of memories. Of course Jareth had said that after giving Hoggle the peach. And then she went and kissed him anyways. Hoggle never did become a prince, she thought ruefully. Why didn't they show up when she called them? Probably some nasty trick by Jareth.

"Second, I rewrote the ending so that I-…um, I mean Nerissa never has to worry about the Goblin King coming back to haunt her," Sarah continued.

Something flashed through Jared's eyes but no one noticed it as they all nodded. "I get it," one of the extras said softly. "She doesn't want to be haunted."

"I wouldn't mind being haunted if the Goblin King was Jared," Ginger cooed as she inched closer to the abovementioned guy next to her.

"Okay, at the ending Nerissa should be running into the castle and she tells her friends it has to be alone like the original. But when she finds herself having to jump for Tob-, Freddie at the end she instead lands right on a magnificent huge bed; the bed in the Goblin King's bedroom," Sarah began again to describe the ending.

But Ginger cut her off. "So far I like it," she purred.

"Anyways," Sarah cleared her throat. "The Goblin King will be sitting opposite the bed in a chair with little Freddie on his lap. Well then the Goblin King then stands up and does that little smirk and points to the giant clock on the wall saying that there is still time. Not that much time Ginger; get your mind out of the gutters. He would then set Freddie down in a cradle or something and walk back to the bed to look at Nerissa. Ginger shut up. He would then say that instead of having To-, Freddie around as a Goblin Prince to rule after him (because he is such a loser he can't get a woman into that great big bed of his to make a kid) he would prefer a queen. He looks in her eyes, Nerissa doesn't look away and she slowly eases herself up off the bed to stand and face him."

"I though Mrs. Koch said to keep it PG-13," a kid in the back interrupted.

"It will be!" Sarah defended.

"Aw man!" Ginger sighed.

Ignoring her Sarah continued on. "Nerissa will then ask 'A queen? Anyone I know?' arrogantly. She'll then glide by him to the window and the Goblin King will chuckle appreciatively. He'll say that she can rule by his side and she asks what she gets. He says everything. She then says she doesn't care for ruling repulsive goblins, what else can he offer? He offers himself. She says she's not interested and leaps for the cradle but Jar-, Jared would grab Ginger's arm to stop her. Shocked and outraged Nerissa would call him a miserable creep. She breaks away from his hold and punches him in the jaw. Stunned and amazed the Goblin King steps back and rubs jaw as Nerissa grabs Freddie."

"I thought you said I would only get slapped!" Jareth laughed good-naturedly.

"Oh hush up!" Sarah scoffed as she rolled her eyes. "Where was I? Oh yes…Nerissa would ask how he could do these things to an innocent baby but the Goblin King would only be sniveling saying 'You hit me!' Nerissa would then march up to him and say 'And I'd like to do more…you, you…' she would continue to say unable to find the right words. She is furious and wants to hit him again but since Freddie is still in her arms she makes do with kicking him in the shin. The Goblin King then howls and grabs his leg."

"I feel so abused," Jared mumbled.

"Shut it," Sarah threatened. "I can make it worse!" Jared then put his hands up defensively. "I thought so. Well then she says she wouldn't want him if he were the last goblin on earth. The Goblin King then puts his hands over his years saying 'Don't say that!' but it's too late and he starts shrinking. 'Look at me!' he whines his voice getting all squeaky. 'How could you do this to me!' The Goblin King then turns into an undersized, ineffective, sniveling little goblin. We here off to the side the friends Nerissa left behind yelling and cheering 'She did it!' and the Goblin King whines saying 'Why does everything have to happen to me?' Bratty little Goblin King begins to throw a tantrum. "No body ever cares what I want!' he pouts as his tiny fists and feet hit the floor. A crack opens up at Nerissa's feet and she looks down at it saying 'Ok Freddie, time to go bye-bye.' And then she jumps in."

"What about her saying the 'Words'?" Jared asked.

"I don't think I want to have them in the play although I might have the last six said and instead of jumping in crack smoke fills the stage and she is transported back."

"Oh," Jared said softly.

"Well Nerissa wakes up lying on her parent's bed and Freddie is sleeping in the crib. She takes the teddy bear Arthur and gives it to Freddie. Then the final ending is the same as the old one where she has a party with her old friends."

"Poor little Goblin King. Hey Jared, if you get upset and you need a shoulder to cry on you know where you can find me," Ginger winked.

"Ginger, if it weren't for the fact I'm gonna be loveable Ludo I would hurt you right now," Alfred muttered. "Please stop hitting on Sarah's boyfriend."

"What? He's not my boyfriend!" Sarah almost yelled abashed.

"Hey, what are you trying to say about me?" Jared asked putting his fists on his hips. "Ginger I think I will need that shoulder."

"Oh no you don't!" Sarah exclaimed as she pulled Jared away from the grinning Ginger.

"Ah poo, you always ruin my fun Sarah," Ginger pouted as she crossed her arms over her chest and stuck out her lower lip.

"You have more fun than Bill Clinton," Sarah laughed. "I doubt even his wife could stop you!" Ginger gasped and looked at her in shock before returning back to her solemn outlook.

"Verily, I'll defend thy honor fair maiden!" Patrick yelled and jumped on the stage. "En garde!" he yelled as he advanced toward Sarah with an imaginary sword.

"I abhor fighting!" Alfred said. "Rocks, rocks, such pretty rocks please come this waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!"

"Alfred, 1) Don't EVER sing again!" Sarah laughed. "2) Stick to howling when you call the rocks please."

"Hey Sarah, what are some of the other changes you wish to make?" Becky, one of the Fieries, called from the back.

"Oh, just little things. I think Nerissa should be a little bit more disgusted by Ja-, the Goblin King's antics. She despises and loathes him." Sarah thought about the other notes she had made last night. "She sees that his claim of loving is just another one of those pathetic lies he fed to her. He has no idea what love is because enable to love you must have a heart. He is just a spoiled little goblin who cheats his way to the top. He doesn't love her. He doesn't love anyone but himself. He is just an arrogant, idiotic, self-righteous, pa--"

"Um, Sarah, are you alright?" Patrick asked as he eyed her with a raised eyebrow.

Sarah realizes that she had kind of stopped talking to them and was really talking to herself with her hands balled up in fists at her side. Pathetic bastard, she finished in her mind. "Yes, I'm alright now," she said cheerfully. Everyone looked at her suspiciously and inched just a little bit back as the bell ending lunch rang. "Well, off to class you guys. Don't be late for rehearsals."

The day went by pretty fast (with Sarah making a few changes to her story in English) and Sarah found herself standing in front of her locker rummaging through the different odds and ends she had in there.

"…stick of gum…wad of gum (ew)...book of myths…book of owls (Forgot about that one)…picture of my mother…picture of my mother with Jeremy…picture of me and Jeremy…picture of me and mom…" Sarah trailed off her rummaging as she pulled out the picture of her and her mother together. It was taken when she turned sixteen. She didn't know why but her mother came back into her life just a few weeks after she beat the Labyrinth. Sometimes she felt like it was a gift from some otherworldly creature…but that was just stupid…right? Sighing she shoved the picture back in the locker and slammed the door shut.

"Hey Sarah, got a picture I drew for you. I saw this dress and I instantly thought of you. I made a few modifications to it though."

Sarah turned at the sound of Jared's voice and smiled as he handed her a paper. "Thank you."

"It's nothing really, just a little something to tide you over until I can get you something for your birthday," he grinned.

"I told you I don't want anything," she rolled her eyes. But her breath caught in her throat as she looked down at the picture. It was in THE dress. She was positioned at a little bit of a diagonal with her back towards whoever was looking at her picture but her head and a little bit of her top was turned to front diagonal as is the Sarah on the paper was turning around to find something. The look on her face showed confusion and the need to find something. The real Sarah knew that look well. "How…wh-…" she stuttered in confusion.

"Well, the real dress didn't have the puffy sleeves and just wasn't as puffy in general. It also only shined was the upper half. I added body and hair accessories though with my imagination. I doubt you would wear a dress like this but it just seemed so…perfect, like it fit together. I'm probably making no sense," Jared laughed at himself.

"No, it makes perfect sense," Sarah said softly. "Now all it needs is a peach," she muttered under her breath.

"A peach? You want a peach?" Jared asked in confusion.

"No!" Sarah yelled startled. She smiled apologetically at the few people walking past who cast weird looks her way. "No, I don't," she replied more calmly. "Um, let's get to rehearsals before we're late," she offered as she grabbed his arm and pulled him down the halls to the auditorium. She missed the smirk on Jared's face as she turned her head though.

"Sorry we're late!" Sarah yelled as she and Jared ran through the two double doors.

"What's the matter; got caught up in a make out session and lost track of time?" Donald laughed which caused the rest of the cast to giggle, except Ginger who crossed her arms and huffed.

Sarah rolled her eyes. "Really!" she mimicked Karen. She loved her stepmother, truly she did, but old habits died hard. "Donald, I thought you were only a goblin in the play, but looks like I was wrong." Donald stuck his tongue out at her and she returned it.

"Ok Twinkies, we are going to go through the scene where Nerissa tells little Freddie the bed time story," Mrs. Koch announced as she clapped her hands to draw attention back to herself. "Go ahead Ginger; start from running in the room."

Ginger nodded and crossed across the stage as if running in. She picked up the, at the moment, imaginary bear Arthur. Seeing how they were still just learning her lines she had her script with her. "I hate that! I hate it!" She turned to the imaginary crib. "I hate you! I hate! Someone save me! Someone take me away from this awful place!" Pause for sound effects that would take place. "What do you want, you want a story? Hmm? Ok, Once upon a time there was a beautiful, young girl whose stepmother always made her stay home with the baby. And the baby was a spoiled child and he wanted everything for himself and the young girl was practically a slave."

Sarah stifled a laugh. God, I was such a drama queen.

"But what no one knew was that the King of the Goblins had fallen in love with the girl and he had given her certain powers."

Liar!

"So one night, when the baby had been particularly cruel to her, she called on the goblins for help. 'Say your right words,' the goblins said. 'And we'll take the baby to the Goblin City and you will be free.' But the girl knew that the King of the Goblins would keep the baby in his castle forever and ever and ever and turn it into a goblin."

I love you Toby…

"And so the girl suffered in silence until one night, when she was tired from a day of housework and she was hurt by the harsh words of her stepmother, and she could no longer stand it--" Ginger cut herself off. She was still half reading the lines off the script so it didn't have the emotion Sarah had displayed but then again, Sarah did it in real life. "Oh all right, knock it off will you? Come on! Stop it! Stop it! I'll them, I'll say the words! No, No I must say…" Ginger grinned at Jared (which made Sarah want to hurl) for a brief second. "I wish…I wish…" she made a small grunting noise. "I can bear it no longer! Goblin King! Goblin King! Wherever you may be, take this child of mine far away from me!"

In a time slot that seemed appropriate for lights to go out and all the necessary things to take place before aforementioned Goblin King to come there was a pause until Jared suddenly jumped on stage and smirked at her. Ginger smiled back. Then Mrs. Koch whispered "Line!" which snapped her back.

"You're him aren't you; you're the Goblin King! I want my brother back, if it's all the same."

Jared smiled. "What's said is said."

"But I didn't mean it!"

"Oh, you didn't?"

"Please, where is he?"

"You know very well where he is."

Sarah watched anxiously as the lines she knew so well were being uttered again. She could almost see Jareth standing there instead of Jared. She envisioned Jareth wearing that dark blue and black outfit that caught her breath. Which was why she half expected a crystal to appear when she finally snapped back into reality and realized she missed a few line exchanges and Jared was about to speak.

"I've brought you a gift."

Sarah's lips moved along with Gingers. "What is it?"

"It's a crystal, nothing more. But if you turn it this way it will show you your dreams. Do you want it? Then forget about the baby."

Sarah grounded her molars against each other. Bastard.

"I can't," Ginger read. "It isn't that I don't appreciate what you're offering, but I have to have my brother back. He must be so scared…"

"Nerissa, don't defy me," Jared said with as much smooth ferocity Sarah saw the snake coming towards her. She let out a small squeak. "You're no match for me Nerissa."

"I need my brother back."

"He's there in my castle. Do you still want to look for him?"

"Is that the castle beyond the Goblin City?" Ginger said with innocence.

Hey, Ging's ain't half bad at bein' me, Sarah thought with a bemused smirk.

"Turn back Nerissa, turn back before it's too late," Jared's voice broke her out of her reverie.

Fat chance Kingy, go screw a goblin ya baby-stealin' petifiler!

"I can't! Don't you understand that I can't?"

"What a pity." Sarah shuddered. She really hated Jared for being so good right now.

"It doesn't look that far," Ginger said trying to sound optimistic.

"It's further than you think and time is short. You have thirteen hours in which to solve the Labyrinth before your baby brother becomes one of us…forever. Such a pity."

Yeah, Sarah really hated him right now as he backed up into the curtains and lowered his voice so it sounded like he was fading away. She jumped out of her smoldering glare at nothing as Koch clapped her hands. "Excellent dearies, although you seem a bit strained Ginger; you okay? Try putting yourself in your characters shoes so you feel more into her," she suggested.

Should I take them off first? Sarah thought with an amused chuckle.

"Mrs. Koch, did Sarah tell you about her changes to the play yet?" Becky asked as she pushed her glasses farther up her nose.

"No, I'm afraid she didn't. What exactly did you change dear?" Sarah gave a brief summary of it before she found arms wrapping around her shoulders. Letting out a small squeak she turned her head around to see who they belonged too.

"How was I?" Jared beamed. His smile made Sarah's knees quiver.

"Fi-f-fine," she stuttered. She smiled weakly up at him. "You were perfect in fact." A little too perfect.

They rehearsed for a few hours and practiced their lines with one another until Mrs. Koch ushered everyone out. Sarah and Jared walked laughing to his car and, like always, Jared opened her door for her.

"Sarah, I have a question to ask."

"What is it?" She asked as she watched him go around the hood and get into the car on his side.

Putting the key in the ignition he looked over at her. "Why did you drop out of the play? You would definitely be the best Nerissa. Ginger is okay but she doesn't have what it takes to be Nerissa perfectly; I guess she just isn't innocent enough."

Sarah sighed and leaned her chin on her hand whose elbow she leaned against the car door. "I just didn't want to go through it all again. I mean," she quickly added, "I was obsessed with it when I was younger and while I still admire some things about it I put it out of my mind so I live the rest of my teenaged years normally." Is that why I stopped calling my friends? Because I wanted to forget them? Sarah's face took a stricken look before she shook her head ever so slightly. Of course not! I kept telling the story to Toby, and I remember everything, and I love them! I don't want to forget anything about it…except maybe the ballroom dream…and the end…

"Sarah? Sarah, you got that dazed look on your face. Stop zoning out on me dammit!" Jared laughed.

"Oh, sorry," she apologized as she smiled softly at him.

Before long they made it to Sarah's house and Sarah waited patiently for Jared to walk around the car and let her out, after much scolding that is.

"Come on in side you bum," Sarah called as she saw he was not following her in. "Karen won't bite…although I can't say as much for Toby." Laughing Jared finally consented and followed her in.

"Sarah, is that you?" Karen called, rather loudly, from upstairs.

"Yeah Karen, it's me," she called back.

"There's a box for you in your room. I think it is for your birthday but I'm not sure; it's from Hawaii?"

Sarah grinned. "Alice!" she clapped happily. She grinned back at Jared before dashing up the stairs to see what Alice had sent her. She would write her a letter as soon as she was done to thank her and see how she was doing. Jared followed behind her sprinting to keep up. When she flew into her room she was shocked at its size; it went to about her waist! Grinning she hopped over and started to open it. It wasn't decorated in paper so all she really had to do was tear off the bow. As she pried open the box covered she nearly jumped out of her skin when something jumped.

It was Alice.

"ALICE, OH MY GOD!" Elsewhere in the house a smiling Karen hummed.

"SURPRISE!" her friend yelled posing.

"OH MY GOD! Wait, what the hell did you do to your hair?"

"Well hello to you too," her friend fake pouted.

"Oh, hello! I can't believe you're here! Why are you here? It doesn't matter! Oh my god!" she continued to prattle on as she helped pull her friend out of the box and squeeze her in hug.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Who is this stud muffin I see before me?" Alice asked as she cast a critical look at Jared sizing him up and looking him up and down. "Sarah, when did you get a new pet?"

Sarah rolled her eyes and pulled Jared closer. "Alice this is Jared; he's a transfer student from England. Jared this is Alice; my bestest friend in the whole wide world!"

"Well hel-lo!" Alice murmured. "Where have you been all my life?"

Sarah rolled her eyes once more as Jared gave a nervous chuckle. "Alice, honestly, you're worse than Ginger."

"Ok, seriously, Ginger makes the freakin' Goblin King innocent!" Alice laughed.

Sarah rolled her eyes. "Not for long." She nodded at Alice's puzzled expression. "School is finally doing Labyrinth and Ginger is playing the main character."

"What, why? That should be you!"

"That's what I've been trying to tell her but she turned it down to be the fraggin' stage manager," Jared sighed.

"I didn't want to play her anymore," Sarah shrugged.

"Alice, Sarah has changed a lot of the story and guess what she changed the heroine's name too."

"Do I want to?"

"Nerissa."

Alice's eyes bugged out a little before she keeled over laughing. "You can't be serious! Ginger's a dog!"

"That's what I said," Jared said looking up as if to the heavens. "She also completely changed the ending."

"How so?"

"The Goblin king becomes a goblin. Most uncivilized if you ask me."

"Let me guess; you're the Goblin King?"

He glanced over at Sarah. "Mehbeh," he mimicked. This caused Alice to laugh even louder than before. "Girls," he muttered.

"Alice how long are you staying?" Sarah asked expectantly.

"Um, I dunno; 'til my mother pulls me away by me ears?"

"Good enough for me!" Sarah grinned. She then turned to Jared. "Jared, love, could Alice come to the party?"

"Ooh, what party?" Alice asked excitedly.

"I don't see why not," Jared replied coolly. Then, as if just barely realizing, he looked around. "Hey, this is the first time I've been up to your room. This calls for celebration; how 'bout a kiss?" He was rewarded with a pillow in the face. "I take that as a no?" And another pillow.

The three of them found themselves walking down the street heading to the shop where Jared saw the dress he had drawn a picture of Sarah in…kinda. Sarah and Jared walked with arms links as always while Alice was bouncing as she walked happy to be back to the place she grew up and eager to tell everything about Hawaii to Sarah and Jared.

"…and then there is this other guy who is teaching me to hula. It is a great way to meet guys," Alice added grinning back at the two of them. "So, when did you guys meet?"

"Oh, not that long actually," Sarah answered.

"When did you start going out?"

"We…We aren't going out!" Sarah exclaimed.

"That hurts Sarah. Am I really such a repulsive little scab?" Jared asked letting go of her arm and clutching his breast where his heart was.

"Yes."

"Gee thanks," he rolled hi eyes. "I love you too," he grumbled.

Smiling Sarah wrapped her arms around him in a bear hug. "Aw, you know I love ya…even if you are the Goblin King."

He tensed. "What do you mean?" he asked cautiously.

"In the play stupid!" Alice shook her head. "Sheesh…"

"Men," her and Sarah said at the same time inclining their heads towards each other.

Jared's body relaxed. "Oh," he said softly. But Sarah didn't notice any of it because they finally stopped in front of the dress shop Jared had seen the dress in. And there it was. It was in the window display directly in front of the trio.

"Oh my god," Sarah breathed. Minus the puffy sleeves (okay overall puffiness) and glitter all over there was the exact replica of The Dress. Mouth agape she walked slowly to the window and placed her hands on the cool glass resting her forehead against the window. She couldn't believe it. "No way," she said softly. She could easily turn it into her ball gown from that blasted drugged-induced dream. "Bloody…hell…"

"Is everything ok Sarah?" Alice asked nervously.

"How much is this dress?" she asked suddenly.

"Um…you might try going inside to find out genius," he friend rolled her eyes. Sarah suddenly flew into shop and grabbed a rather bewildered woman who worked there berating her with questions about the aforesaid dress. Her friends quickly followed her and (were they in an anime) sweat dropped.

"…-elling me you don't know how much it is! You bloody work here and you have no clue how much something costs! What kind of a dim witted employee are you! TELL ME HOW MUCH THAT DRESS IS WOMAN!" Sarah yelled with wide eyes as she crabbed onto the lapel of the woman's shirt and started shaking her madly.

"Sarah!" Jared exclaimed running over and pulling her away as Alice pried he fingers off the poor, terrified, woman's shirt.

Sarah panted deeply as she tried to regain herself. "I'm…okay…" she managed through gasps for air. "I MUST have that dress."

Just then the manager came flying out of the backroom with an exasperated look upon his face. "Please young lady, control yourself!" he replied snootily. "Now what is you want please?"

Oh yeah, he's gay. "How. Much. Is. That. Dress," Sarah clipped out each word slowly as she pointed to the dress of her dreams (quite literally too).

He looked down is sharp little nose at it. "That dress is a one of a kind dress. It is slightly old but--"

"I don't care what you think of it; I want to know its cost!"

"Good gracious me!" he fumbled. "It is $795!"

Sarah's dreams crashed. No, more like they broke in millions of tiny fragments as if they were made of crystal and someone crashed a chair through them. Life sucks. "I don't have that kind of money…"

"Then you don't belong in here miss. Now go toddle off!"

The three teenagers were ushered out of there; two were quite confused and one was completely downcast.

"Don't worry my little chum, maybe your parents will lend you the money," Jared offered.

"Yeah, in a pig's eye!" Sarah huffed.

"Oh, look at the time!" Alice announced glancing up at the huge clock a few blocks away. "Come on Sarah, we should get going home!" Sarah nodded her agreement and they started on their way with Jareth saying he has a few last minute things he has to do for his friend whose party they were attending and that he would see them tomorrow.

As Jared watched the two girls half walk half jog back to Sarah's place he folded his arms over his chest as a smirk spread across his face.

I'm too sleepy and I am not going to bed 'til I put this chapter up so I'm ending it here! It's longer so you should be content.

Sorry I was so annoying up top. (Grin) I'm sick and took medicine…which equals out to a very bad thing with me. Especially if it's Nyquil, although now everyone I know forbids me from taking it…I won't go into that story today though…

Good night people.

Oh, Disclaimer: Sarah's version of the ending I do not own; it is the ending of the original transcript for the movie. I am going to be using some of the ideas (even before I had read the script too) from it in my story later on too. Also where I got the name Freddie.

Let me just say I am so fraggin' glad they changed it because if the movie was going to be how they wanted it…it just wouldn't be the same. (Shudder and twitch of eye)

Ja ne!