NOTES: I'm officially back and ready to go with this fic. I took my SAT (college entrance exam) last Saturday and the weight of that just flew off my shoulders. I'm also finished with all art commissions and I don't plan to open them up for a while so I'm free to finish this fic up. I thought I'd let you know that it's almost over and there's not too much chapters left now. I'm not sure how many but it's not a lot. After this one, I have more fics planned c: This one will now be updated once a week because I feel like that's all I can manage. Thanks for your patience and sorry this chapter is poo. I'm running on three hours of sleep ahh.
Chapter Nineteen
"Seriously Sophie you have to let go," Jamie's mother stated. She looked rather upset. "I miss him too but he's gone now."
"No I'm not!" Jamie yelled. Jack stepped back a few steps and placed a hand on Jamie's shoulder. Jamie shrugged the hand off his shoulder and wiped his eyes with the palm of his hand.
"Jamie, it'll be okay," Jack whispered. "We can have Sophie convince her. You'll see!"
Suddenly, something in Jamie snapped. He spun around and looked Jack right in the eyes, his whole body shaking.
"No. I won't see!" he yelled. "It's only been, like, what is it now? A week!? And she doesn't even remember me! She's forgotten!"
"You might think that but it can change! Trust me!" Jack encouraged.
"What would you know!?" Jamie screamed.
Jack wasn't smiling anymore. A frown quickly formed on his face and his eyebrow twitched. His pale hands balling into fists as he stepped closer to Jamie.
"What would I know?" he asked, starting out quiet. "I would know how you feel more than anyone!" he added, screaming now. "Thousands of years I went with nobody believing in me! Thousands! I didn't even know who I was! At least you remembered what happened in your past right away! I had absolutely no clue that before this, I was someone else! I had a family!"
"Guys stop fighting!" Sophie interjected, stepping in between the two of them, holding out her arms.
"Sophie there's nobody there, let alone any fighting happen. Stop that before the neighbors see you!" their mother scolded. "You look crazy."
Jack looked over at Sophie, to their mother, and then back at Sophie. "Wait, she can see me?"
"Of course. Jamie told me lots about you when we were little!" she said excitedly to Jack.
"That's it. Inside. Now," the mom demanded, grabbing Sophie by her hand and leading her inside.
"Sophie!" Jack yelled. "Meet us tonight! Your bedroom! We'll wait till everyone else is sleeping!" The blonde teenager nodded and was soon being dragged into the house.
Jamie still wasn't speaking. He wasn't for sure what was more shocking. The fact his own mother couldn't see him, or that Jack had snapped at him and told him a bunch of personal things he had never known before. Jack then grabbed Jamie's hand, squeezing it tightly.
"Hey I'm sorry," he mumbled, obviously not a big fan of apologizing.
Jamie huffed. "No it's my fault. I shouldn't have said that without knowing..."
"Seriously, let me apologize," Jack stated, rubbing his knuckles into Jamie's hair.
"What now?"
"Well we'll just wait until nightfall. And then once all of the lights are out, we'll go pay your sister a visit and figure this all out. Alright?"
"Alright."
"Great. Now, I don't know about you. But I think we should build a snowman. What do ya say?"
Jamie just nodded and Jack chuckled. "My mom is gonna think there's some weird kid building snowmen in the yard."
"Let her think whatever she wants about the snowman. Maybe she'll think she's nutty."
Jamie chuckled and Jack patted him on the back. They then spent the next hour and a half making a large Snowman. Unfortunately they did not have a top hat or carrot for a nose but Jack found a way. He found a large, thick three branch and Jamie snapped it until it was small enough to be a nose. This snowman would just have to be hatless.
"I think he looks pretty darn swell," Jack said and Jamie laughed.
The two then spent the rest of their time lying in the snow, hand in hand, staring up at the cloudy sky.
"Remember that time I basically sled on ice and broke my tooth?" Jamie asked.
"How could I forget?" Jack replied with a laugh. "You know Jamie, I..."
Jack was then interrupted by the clicking of a window and the sound of one sliding open.
"Psst!" Sophie called out into the night.
The two men looked up and they saw Jamie's sister waving up from the second floor. She smiled at the two of them and then popped her head back into the room. Jack then started floating upwards, picking up Jamie with him. The two of them slowly flew up and Jamie practically jumped through the window, hitting the floor with a hard thud.
"Sorry about that," Jack said, entering through after him, but more swiftly and gracefully.
Sophie shut the window after they were all in and she took a deep breath.
"Where's Abby?" Jamie asked, referring to the dog.
"Probably laying around somewhere. She's gotten pretty old you know? She's not as excited."
"I guess I better tell that kangaroo he's safe now," Jack whispered to Jamie and they both laughed.
"So what's the plan?" Sophie asked, talking in a whisper, and balancing herself on her heels.
"We have to find a way to convince mom," Jamie told her.
"Easier said than done. She's convinced I'm crazy and if I continue to go on about it she'll send me off to the mental ward," Sophie said, biting the edge of her lip.
Jamie's eyes then widened as an idea clicked in his brain. He held up a finger and smirked.
"I have the perfect plan. But it's going to take everyone's cooperation. So here's what we'll do..."
The next morning, Sophie and her mother were sitting at the dining table, not looking at one another. Sophie took little bites of her cereal and watched as her mom looked over an old newspaper, only staring at one section. The obituaries. Jamie and Jack had placed themselves in certain spots of the room. Jamie was standing right next to his mom, looking down at her, and Jack was by the window that had been unlocked beforehand.
Sophie dropped her spoon on the floor and gasped.
"Whoops. Better go get a new one," she said. She slid off of her chair and picked up the spoon, disappearing into the kitchen with it. That was the signal to begin.
Suddenly, the window flew open thanks to good ol' Jack Frost and a strong wind and snow was flying in.
"What the heck?!" Mrs. Bennett gasped, standing quickly. But Jamie shoved her back down into the chair. "W-What?"
Jack then lead a trail of snow, in the form of a little boy playing, to the table. The snow boy landed on the paper and he looked up at the woman. It then disappeared and shattered into little snowflakes, landing right on top of a newspaper picture of Jamie Bennett. Mrs. Bennett's eyes widened and tears formed in the corners.
"J-Jamie?" she whispered.
Jamie quickly looked down and nodded his head several times. "I'm here mom!"
"If you're here...then shut the window..."
"Wow was that cool show not a big enough sign for her," Jack huffed, suddenly shutting the window.
"Oh dear," she whispered. "Either I'm losing it or Sophie was right..."
Sophie then came back into the room, a new spoon in hand. And just as planned she yelled, "Jamie!"
Jamie smiled brightly, hoping that she would now understand and that she could know the whole truth and not after be sad about him anymore.
"Mom!" he called out, opening up his arms.
His mom suddenly froze and she turned her head slowly, her eyes widening as she tried to look around for the source of the noise.
"Is that you Jamie?" she whispered.
"Yeah it's me! Just believe in me mom!" he called out, his chest moving up and down from heavy panting.
"I-I believe!" she yelled out, clutching her hands over her heart. Suddenly, Jamie had come into her view and her shocked expression had said so. Jamie smiled as big as he could and he could feel tears coming to his eyes.
"I'm home!"