Chapter 11 Kia and Jack
It was two hours since Jack came back to Halloween Town. Jack sat down in his library, looking at fairy tales. All had a happy ending. If life could be like a fairy tale, but it's harder than that. He wishes he could just take Sally away to a castle far away from the evil mother in Law. But you have to be realistic. If life went to way we planed, just like Halloween.
Kia came in the room 30mins later. She sat down on Jack's electric chair petting Zero.
"Hello," he said.
"Hi," she said. "My mother wasn't a bad person. I know you think of her that way but she wasn't bad."
"I know she just make a mistaken I could have never forgive," he said.
"She talked about you all the time. She knew she was stupid," she said.
"Your mother wasn't the right person for me," he said.
"And you think she is!" Kia yelled.
"I know what this is. Sally's a horrible person," he said. "If this would make you happy I loved your mother but she just broke my heart.
"I understand why you left my mother but I don't understand why you left your mother? Why?" she asked.
"Because I wanted to be free. You don't know how she made life. I was her little boy and she wanted the best for me. But because of that she never let me do anything by myself," he said.
"But call once!" she yelled.
"I was free and I didn't want her to ruin anything. You know how snoopy she is. She wants to control everything and if it doesn't go her way she makes a fit. You see how she acts with Sally. That didn't go her way and now she's the meanest monster to Sally," Jack said.
"I still don't like that you didn't call once," she said. "You would have found out about me faster."
Jack was 19. He was sitting in the living room with Jackie and Lucy listening to the radio. Liam and Peter Skellington were on vacation in Ghost Town. It was the second day that they were gone.
"When's dad coming back?" asked Jack.
"Three days. Him and Uncle Peter are having some brother to brother time," said Lucy.
Now the news started Headline News, Breaking News! The Pumpkin King and his brother Liam were assassinating. They were now in the hospital in surgery but they don't know what was going to happen. Lucy feel in to tears, Jackie went to her room and slammed the door and Jack looked at the radio blankly. He didn't know what to think. His mind just was frozen. Then a knock on the door. Jack went to door and answered it. It was a lawyer. Jack invented him in. They went to the living room. Jack got Jackie back, she called Jesse to tell her what happen. They all sat down.
"I'm so sorry but the surgery didn't work on either on of them," he said. Lucy feel into tears again, so did Jackie. Jack tried to be strong.
"You know your Uncle didn't have an heir," he said. No one answered. "Well because he didn't have any children his own. So his nephew was the heir to the throne."
"What?" said Jack, "I'm the Pumpkin King. I'm not prepared for this."
"We saw your scaring marks, your marks in government, you are a born Pumpkin King," he said.
This took adjusting. A week after him and his mother had a fight about this. She didn't want him to leave at this time of sorrow, but he had too. Jack left and never looked back.
Kia reminded Jack of that memory. Jack should have looked back but you can change the past but you change the future.
"Kia I'm sorry, I know I made that mistake I should have call. I'm going to be more updated with you guys," he said.
Jack went down stairs and said sorry to his mother.
"Are you leaving her?" she asked.
"Never but I'm saying sorry for the past," he said. "I just left at the most terrible time. That was wrong."
"Thank you," she said, "but are you still are still getting married?"
"Yes and you are not changing that," he said.