Hello! I am back once again! I wonder what will happen to Jack this time… Good or bad? For the better or for the worse? Hmm…

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Chapter 7 – Believe

Jamie felt satisfied with himself. He finally showed Jack Frost that he wasn't one to be pushed around with. But then something pierced his heart. He realized what he just done. He just stopped believing in Jack Frost. He was the first believer. He stopped believing. Now Jack is alone.

Alarms went off in his head. What did I just do!? He immediately believed again, but when he turned around to see where Jack was, the winter spirit wasn't there. The toddlers were, but it seemed like the spirit just vanished.

All those fun times with Jack flashed through his mind. Jamie realized that he was the one that got his worst out. If enough people stops believing in a human, it wouldn't make the human disappear, but would maybe just lower the self esteem. To a legend, a spirit, a fable, a fairytale, it was different. If enough people stop believing you, you would slowly get weaker and weaker until you eventually got so powerless that you stop existing and just disappear.

He remembered the first time he actually saw Jack, not just hearing his name in the ever so famous sentence of Jack Frost nipping noses. The winter spirit didn't nip his nose at all, or anyone for that matter. In his eyes anyways. Jack just seemed really surprised and overjoyed. He was there when he was losing his belief in all of them.

Jamie was seated on his bed, facing his stuffed toy bunny. He felt just about ready to give up on all of his childhood heroes: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman… He lowered himself until eye level with the toy. "I believed in you for a long time, okay? My whole life, in fact." He picked up the bunny. "You kind of owe me now."

"You don't have to do much."

"Just a little sign so I know."

"Anything."

"Anything at all."

The boy waited expectantly, searching the bunny's eyes if the sign was there. But he slowly lowered his head and the bunny when he knew that the sign was never going to come.

"I knew it."

The bunny dropped to the floor. He hadn't noticed the window opening in his misery. That is, until the sound of the window frosting came to his ears. He immediately turned to it, and saw what astonished him. Maybe the sign really was there.

An egg on one window. An Easter egg. The frost continued to spread. The boy gasped and took a look at the bunny. He looked hard. It lied on the floor, looking lifeless as ever. Is it doing the magic?

He turned back the window to see a bunny starting to form, like someone was making those pictures with their finger.

"He's real!" The boy choked out.

Suddenly, the bunny started to peel itself off of the window, and jumped into his room, prancing around like it was in a field of grass. Jamie gleefully chased the bunny, jumping on his bed and laughing all the while.

He hadn't known someone else was laughing with him.

"Whoa!" The bunny exploded into snowflakes, while Jamie got the last of his giggles escape his mouth. "Snow?" He watched in awe as the snowflakes danced around his room. One of them landed on his nose. Then he knew who it was, and started to believe in that person.

"Jack Frost." His eyes widened as he processed the whole thing. His mouth gaped open.

"Did he just say…?"

"Jack Frost?"

"He said it again! He said… You said…!"

Jamie slowly turned around to see a pale teen with slightly messy white hair, a blue hoodie, some pants that look like they belong in the colonial times, no shoes, was really thin, and a surprised face showing a hint of joy. The boy's eyes widened even further as his mouth seemed open a little bigger.

"Jack Frost!"

"That's right!" The teen stepped back, his arms raised to his head, seemingly to say that his mind is blown.

"B-but that's me! Jack Frost! That's my name!" The teen sputtered. He moved around the room, the way someone would when they were so shocked that they couldn't seem to register it in their brains.

Then, the white-haired boy turned to Jamie. "You said my name!"

Jamie couldn't speak, so he nodded. His mouth and eyes were still wide open.

The teen frowned. "Wait, can you hear me?" He asked cautiously.

A nod.

The teen leaned in closer. Face to face, he asked, "Ca-can you see me?"

A nod and a growing smile. This was the one and only Jack Frost talking to him. Jamie felt like he was meeting a celebrity, which he technically was.

Jack Frost smiled along with him and let out a few breaths of joy. "He sees me!" He says, like he was about to break down crying happy tears. "He sees me!"

Then with a laugh, the winter spirit did a backwards flip in the air and landed on a desk making the desk legs drag on the ground. Jamie chuckled.

"You just made it snow!"

"I know."

"In my room!"

"I know!"

Jack Frost jumped off of the desk, pushing it back a little.

"You're real!?"

"Yeah! Who do you think brings you all the blizzards, an- and the snow days?" The teen got more and more excited.

"A-and remember when you went flying on that sled the other day?"

"That was you!?"

"That was me!"

"Cool!"

"Right?"

"B-but what about the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, I mean, what abo-"

"Real! Real, real! Every one of us… is real." Jack Frost picked up the bunny. Jamie jumped on his bed in happiness. "I knew it!"

Jamie smiled at the memory. He remembered how shocked both of them were, how overjoyed they both were. If Jack Frost reacted like that, then he must have not have a lot of believers.

Or any believers at all. This struck Jamie hard. He must have so lonely, so sad, and left out. Maybe nobody had ever treated him like he had feelings too, or that he actually wanted to feel that comfort of knowing someone actually cares for you. The boy started to worry. What if he wasn't believing, but wasn't aware of it?

Jack seemed to have frozen up. His mouth went dry and as he slowly closed it. He knew anymore hollering wouldn't catch his first believer's attention any longer, so he just sat down with the rest of the toddlers. He leaned on the wall, but moved. It wasn't comfortable with a bunch of kids around you when your desire, for once, was to alone for a while and register what happened.

He crawled to the side bed, and curled himself up there, bringing his knees to his chin and resting his arms on top of them. He placed his chin on top of his arms. Then, he sighed and put his head down. Jack whispered to himself how stupid he was, regretting every mean word he said.

Jamie heard this whisper, so he climbed onto the bed and peered over the other side. There was the winter spirit all curled up, beating himself up with words. Jamie sat right back down on the bed, thinking, when he then realized what Jack had said. Something which he completely ignored.

"I'm sorry! This is what happens when I get frustrated and panicked at the same time!"

Jamie heard nothing of it. "Fine! You think I'm so dumb? I might as well just stop helping!" After a moment of thought, he added something Jack would never forget. "I might as well stop believing in you!"

"No!"

And he vanished, his last words just an echo in the air.

Guilt started to spread through Jamie. He stopped believing. He stopped having faith in him. At a time of need. The boy started to feel some déjà vu. It was then that he knew he had set things right again.

He peered back over to the other side of the bed and saw the winter spirit still muttering to himself. "Hey, Jack?"

The teen's head rose so suddenly that it collided with Jamie's face. "Ow!" Jack whizzed around, only to see a Jamie in pain, carefully trying to comfort his nose. That was the part that got the most impact. Jack sucked in a breath. "I am so sorry!" He immediately shot for the boy, indicating that his apology was sincere.

"Its okay." The boy replied with a funny voice. He rubbed his nose, in attempt to make it feel better.

Something clicked in Jack's head. "You believe again?" He asked, a smile growing on his face. Jamie couldn't help but grin. "Yeah, I guess. I just can't believe you would go crazy like that after just one believer stopped believing in you." Jack shrugged. "I can't help it. I only started to get some believers. It would be pretty sad to be losing them already."

Then, laughter sounded. Both of them laughed, at their silliness, at their argument, about Jack's devastation, almost at everything.

Their smiles and laughter were soon interrupted though, as something, or someone, fell to the ground.

IMPORTANT: So, I have a poll up on my profile asking what Jack's sister's name should be in pretty much all future stories. In fact, I have a story up right now, called Believe in Me, that has Jack's sister in it! Please vote so I wouldn't be left calling her "Jack's sister" or "the girl". Sorry if I sound like an old hag that is a beggar, but I can't go on to the second chapter without it! So please vote! It would make me very happy. :)

Even though I have this other story going on, do not worry, I am not abandoning Papa Jack Frost. It's just that the idea of what was bugging me for too long, that I just had to write it. For those of you who are interested, it's basically what would happen if Jack's sister saw Jack as a winter spirit. The actual summary is much better though. Meh.

Anyways… there is a little cliffhanger. Yay cliffhangers… Oh the suspense. I am evil. :) I don't know if it is obvious though. Oh well.

Sorry if the chapter was kind of boring. I feel boring. GASP!

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