At home, I shake off the snow and put away my jacket.
I watch as Jack curiously inspects my house, stopping extra long at the christmas tree. "Looks like you had fun decorating."
"It looks great huh?" I yell from the kitchen. Grabbing two bowls and filling it to the brim with fruit loops.
I walk back into the living room and flop down onto the couch.
"Now my friend, have a taste, you'll love it!"
"What the... it kind of looks like it's covered in frost."
"I think that's just because of all the sugar that's in it."
"Sugar? Ooooh, gimme." He quickly grabs the bowl and puts a few in his mouth.
"Aaaand? What do you think?"
"Okay, this is pretty delicious." he admits. I pat the couch gesturing for him to sit down. But I notice him staring at something. I turn my head too look and notice my headphones on the table. "You want to listen to some music?" I ask him, trying to read his expression.
"Huh, that's for listening to music?"
"Well yeah, wait, i'll let you try it out." I place my bowl on the coffee table and go get my headphones and mp3-player. Jack sits down on the couch. "These silly bells, I feel like a reindeer." I giggle. Letting the bells around my leg jingle extra loud.
"I didn't know they would put it on you! I just thought it was funny to let one of the kids run around wearing it!" I hear him say.
"What? You gave Jamie that idea?" I ask shocked. "You suck, big time."
He laughs and steals a few of my fruit loops, his bowl already completely empty. I decide to just grab the entire box.
"Here, put these on."
I help him with the headphones and make sure the music isn't too loud.
"Wow, this is weird..." Jack smiles.
"Like it?"
"Yeah, I mean... I love it. It's fun, but, in a calm sort of way. A bit like you actually."
He looks at me and I can't help but smile. Suddenly, I have an idea. I jump off the couch and turn on the old cd-player. "If you think those suit me, then maybe I can find some music that suits you."
I open the drawer next to it to reveal an enormous collection of old CD's.
"Okay, let's get started shall we?" I crack my fingers and start filing thru them.
It doesn't take long before I find the perfect CD.
"You're going to love this. Oh, uhm, you can take off those headphones now."
I fiddle with the machine a bit and a few second later, Elvis Presley's hound dog blasts thru the living room.
"What do you think? This your style?"
"Hmmm, maybe, let me check." he says and walks over to me. He takes me by the hand and starts to dance. I join in and we dance in the most silly way ever imaginable. Once the song is finished we fall back onto the couch and no matter how hard I try, I can't stop laughing.
"It was fun, but it's not completely my style." Jack grins.
"Oh come on, you went crazy on that!" I object.
"So did you! You're a very good dancer miss Underweather. " he says very formally.
"Ah, and so are you mister Frost." I try to imitate his tone and bow my head.
After a while, we both are calmed down a bit.
"So, want to watch a movie?" I try to break the silence.
"Sure, but, I don't know any. Well, I do know The santa clause. North wanted to see what it was about, but he turned it off right after his character fell off the roof and died. Took a while for him to calm down after that. I also know about the movies The tooth fairy and Hop, but Bunny and tooth never wanted to see those. They wore a bit offended by how their characters looked."
I giggle at the thought of them all sitting there, watching a movie. I go check our DVD stash. Not knowing which one to choose. I pull out a few.
"Okay, these are movies I think you might enjoy." I spread them all out on the coffee table.
"Uhhhm, okay, I kind of never learned how to read." Jack says shyly.
"Oh, really? That's weird." I frown, and start to explain every movie. "The first one is called Peter pan, it's about this boy who's young forever and can fly. I thought it was a bit ironic so yeah. The next one is called The Grinch, it's about this green, hairy guy who tries to stop christmas because everyone ignores him and stuff. The third one is called Toy story, obviously that's about toys. And this last one is called wow, no wait...that's not a good idea." I quickly put the movie Jack Frost away.
"Oh, okay then..." he shrugs it off and continues to examine the covers.
"I want to know whats up with the green guy, that was called The grinch, right?"
"Yep, good choice by the way."
I set up the DVD and snuggle myself into the couch with a blanket and some more Fruit Loops. During the movie, I spend more time on watching Jack's expressions then the movie itself. He seems to e enjoying it, and he even laughs at some of the jokes. But once we reach the end of the movie, he seems to be shifting uncomfortably. I quickly turn it off.
"Thanks, you couldn't have better timing." he says. His eyes seem to look a bit darker.
He relaxes again.
"You okay?" I ask gently.
"Yeah...it's just." he sighs. "It took me so long to be noticed. The other guardians, they used to hate me too, like that grinch guy. Kids didn't believe in me, so I would just be invisible. For everyone. And for the grinch, it just, all comes so easy. He says he's sorry and suddenly everyone forgives him and likes him."
I notice Jack's eyes getting more watery by the second, but he notices me staring and quickly wipes his eyes with his sleeve.
"I wish it was easy like that." he says finally. I lean my head against his shoulder and close my eyes.
"I wish it was that easy too." I sigh, as I feel Jack leaning his head back against mine.
The darkness engulfs me once again. The voice is clearer now. I can't find my mother this time though. "Marie, help me!" she suddenly screams. The scream is so loud, the floor seems to vibrate and I collapse. A high pitched laugh that I don't recognize thunders thru my head.
I suddenly hear someone yell my name. I violently wake up, and this time it's not my father who woke me, but Jack. I'm strangely enough in my bed, I guess Jack must have brought me here after I fell asleep. He looks at me worried, no...not worried, scared.
"Marie, i'm so sorry. How long have you been having these nightmares."
"I don't know. I haven't had them in a log time. But...Jack I need to ask you a favor." I look at him desperately. I'm still shaking a bit.
"No, Marie, you...you have no idea. Oh this is bad...this is really, really bad." Jack has his hands in his hair. He's pacing the room. "Jack, don't worry, they're just nightmares. I know something to help them go away, but I need your help to fix it. I need you to take me to the easter bunny."
He stops and looks at me weirdly. "Bunnymund? Why do you want to see him?"
"I-I can't tell you that Jack!" i'm starting to shake even more. "You just have to trust me on this."
"No! That will only bring you in even more danger."
"But Jack?!"
"I said NO! Now, I have to go do something. Whatever you do, don't leave the house and don't go to sleep. Can you do that for me?" he asks pleadingly.
I look into his eyes. He seems extremely scared and worried. I nod.
He sits on his knees in front of me and places his hand on my cheek. "Stay safe, I don't want to lose you, I like you too much for that."
I smile weekly and watch as he rushes towards the window and leaves into the night.
"Finally, I thought he'd never leave."
I jump, as a dark figure appears out of the shadows.
Guess who's going to fail that test tomorrow?
I think the saddest part is that, i'm not even sorry.
Apparently, my aunt found out about this story (so if you are reading this...Hi!)
I spent ages on thinking of what kind of music Jack might like, and what movies i wouldn't mind to let him watch.
The Grinch is the Jim Carrey version, not the animated one. And, i just thought that if Bunnymund would see the movie HOP, he would be extremely outraged. Poor North though, seeing himself die, luckily, he didn't watch the rest of The santa Clause because i think he would freak out once the guy takes over being Santa and sort of ruins everything. And that movie The tooth fairy, well, i don't think i have to explain that.
The song playing on Marie's mp3 player is "It's time" by Imagine dragons. (Does that play in a movie? I've only used songs that play in movies up until now.)
Do you guys actually mind if i do this, Adding songs and stuff to my stories?
It's actually how i got the idea for this story, listening to music and making up things that could happen while that song plays. I had just seen Rise of the Guardians, so of course i started making up a few things.
Thanks for reading! To all my new followers (omg, last time i checked there wore 31 of you!) welcome! *Elf starts playing the trumpet*
I love the reviews, you are all so nice!
Okay, this extra note is really way to long...
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