"Do you remember when I said I'd always be there?

Ever since we were ten, baby.

When we were out on the playground playing pretend,

I didn't know it back then"

-Jason Chan, Best Friend

"Someone looks happier this day!" exclaimed Jack, entering the tower by the window Rapunzel always let open for him.

He have watched her singing all around the tower: "And I keep wondering, and wondering, and wondering when will my life begin?"

"Yes!" She said anxious and laughing "I'm finally going to ask mom! Is that true, Pascal?" she asked at her green chameleon, who was laying on her shoulder.

Pascal agreed.

"I'm happy, too" said Jack.

"It's my birthday, not yours!" said Rapunzel, joking "Ok, no. What makes you sooo happy?"

"Hum… I've seen the weather channel and it says there'll be snow today" said Jack.

"Jack, you make snow" said Punzie with a smile on her face "Besides, we're in summer"

"Does that guarantee there won't be snow?" said Jack, winking an eye.

"You won't make snow on my birthday!" exclaimed Punzie laughing.

"Of course I'm not. It's the best day of your life, that's why I am happy" said Jack.

"Seriously?" she asked.

"Yes. This has to be the best day of your life. I'll make it happen. And…" he said "I brought you something"

Rapunzel looked at him directly in his eyes. That made Jack feel like if he was melting and he felt nervous.

"Do you want to see it?" He asked.

"Yes!" Punzie answered excited.

"Ok..." Jack said, took the gift which was lying on his pocket, smiled, and looked at Rapunzel. "Ready?"

"Come on!"

"Oh, it's stuck on my pocket"

"For the love of God, Jack!"

"Ok, ok!" He said "Close your eyes, and turn around"

She did it.

"I'm excited" she said.

"Yeah..." Jack muttered, without paying attention. He opened the box where the necklace was, separated all the hair with difficult (so difficult that he laughed "How can you...?") and, nervously, put it carefully on Rapunzel's neck. More nervous he got when he touched her skin What's happening to me? Oh, forgot it. Nothing important.

"Ready. You can open your eyes" he said.

She opened them and looked at her neck.

"Oh my Sun!" She exclaimed "Oh my Sun!"

"Oh my Sun?" Jack asked smiling.

"Yeah! It combines with your gift!" She turned around to Jack "See?"

Jack smiled at her look. She looked beautiful. And more with that necklace, which combined perfectly with her long hair and big green eyes.

The necklace was made of gold, it was bright and it was the Sun, the Sun who lighted the dark days. The perfect description he could find for Rapunzel in his opinion. She lighted his dark days, she was beautiful... She was the Sun for him.

"You look...amazing" he said.

"Thanks!" She answered, and spun on herself.

Then she stopped. She seemed to realise something.

"I brought you something too!" She exclaimed.

"But why?" Jack asked.

"Well... I got it long ago, but I didn't want to give it to you until it was winter. But now... It's gift time!" She answered "Wait-

"Rapunzel! Let down your hair!" A voice sounded from downstairs.

"Mother Gothel" Jack said "I know, I'll wait here"

"She has arrived. She has arrived. She has arrived!" Punzie exclaimed "You know what that means? I'm going to ask her! Omg this is sooo exciting! Pascal, you wait here" she said, hiding her chameleon behind the curtains. "And you, Jack, don't go. I want you to watch every single second!"

"Rapunzel, I'm waiting!" Gothel shouted again.

"Coming Mom!" Rapunzel shouted.

She ran to the window, put her hair on the right position and let it fall.

Her mother grabbed it and Rapunzel pulled it.

Finally Gothel arrived to the room.

"Hi, my darling! It's time to-

"I know!" Punzie exclaimed anxious and in a hurry she brought the chair and the brush and sang.

"FlowergleamandglowletyourpowershinemakethecloxkreversebringbackwhatoncewasmineHealwhathasbeenhurtChangetheFates'designSavewhathasbeenlosbringbackwhatoncewasmine!"

"Ugh, Rapunzel! What's going on?" Her mother asked.

"It's just... You know what today is, right?" Rapunzel said.

"Yeah, it's-

"My birthday!" Rapunzel answered to herself.

"But it was last year!" Gothel said.

"Well, that's the thing about birthdays! They are each year!" She said, heard the laugh of Jack and he whispered to her ear "Really?" She turned back but Jack had disappear.

"Oh, wait, Rapunzel! I forgot to bring something... I come in 1 hour!" Her mother said. Rapunzel had clear that she wasn't paying attention.

"Mom, please!" She cried.

"I come back in an hour. Then you can tell me, Rapunzel" her mother said. "I need your hair to get out"

"Okay" Punzie whispered, and helped her mother get out.

"Jack? Where are you?" Punzie asked after a few seconds.

"Do you remember when we played Disappear and seek?" Jack asked, still hiding

"Yeah, but-

"I'm trying to make you happy! Come on, find me"

"Jack, I'm ok about my mother. Can you please appear? I look crazy talking here. If someone saw me like this, he-

"Hi!" Said a voice.

Rapunzel didn't recognise it and turned around. She didn't saw the man with attention, because the first thing she did was grabbing a frying pan and hit the man on the head with it.

"What the-" Said Jack, appearing towards her.

"Shhh... Don't say bad words... Besides, he probably isn't sleeping at...

The man's eyes opened.

Rapunzel hit him again.

"...all" she completed.

Jack looked at her confused, but at the same time he said:

"He isn't dangerous!"

"Who knows? All my mother has told me is that there are really bad guys out there!" She replied.

"I wasn't a bad guy" he said.

Rapunzel felt guilty.

"Sorry. But... In case?" She smiled

"Ok... But it does not remove the fact that you hit him on the head"

"Why are you so interested on him?" Punzie asked. "Is it your friend or...

"No, don't- Don't think that about me. I'm not what you're thinking" he said.

"What? I was going to say if he was another magic man." She answered.

Jack get confused, but then he forgot it.

"I just... Feel like if I was him. When you were a child, you didn't want me to get-to be your friend and... Well, forgot it! Let's have some fun, instead!"

"I'm not leaving him here! I'm going to..."she looked around the room "Mmm... Oh, yeah! On my closet! Ohhh this is getting exciting! Mom will know that I can handle myself and she'll let me go to see the lights!" She exclaimed.

"You mean, using him?" Jack asked.

Punzie laughed.

"That's my quote!" She exclaimed.

"I know" Jack answered, winking an eye.

Rapunzel laughed again.

"Come on. Help me put him in the closet" she said smiling.

"Ok" Jack answered, and helped her with the man.

"I seriously don't know what's happening to me" Jack said. More to himself than to the kids who we're lying in front of him, playing with the snow he had made. He had come to Russia after helping Rapunzel. He told her he would come back in thirty minutes, but he didn't. Now he felt guilty. He tried to convince himself it wasn't his own fault, but nothing. And yet he was on Russia.

He didn't want to move.

He didn't want anything.

No, you do want something. You want children to see you he heard a voice inside his head.

"With Rapunzel I have enough" he answered to himself, but deep in his heart he knew it wasn't true.

No, of course it was true.

Yeah, yeah. It was true. He'll come back to her. She was the only one who could make him happy in his dark days (as often mentioned). He stood up, and, as usually, asked the Moon to make his wishes came true and Rapunzel to be fine. Thinking of Rapunzel put him nervous, so he asked it what was happening to him, but then he went out. He knew the Moon wouldn't answer him. It never did.

Also, the feelings he had for Rapunzel weren't so important. She was his best friend, so it was obvious he cared about her, so he didn't worry a lot.

"Or maybe you're falling in love" Jack heard a voice. He thought it was from his head, but still he asked to himself out loud (he was used to it, since nobody could see him): "What? Rapunzel's been my best friend long ago...so I actually fell in love with her. I care of her, and worry about her. Isn't that enough?".

"You really don't know what's falling in love. Am I right?" The voice asked laughing.

Jack shocked. That voice wasn't from his head. It never had been.

He turned back grabbing his staff for any danger, but then he saw a shadow in the middle of the street, and he recognised it as Bunnymund.

"Oh, Bunnymund! What are you-?"

"I was saying hi and talking to you, but you weren't paying attention, so I started asking you the probabilities of being distracted, and at least you answered me. Who's Rapunzel?" He answered.

"How time has passed since our last met? When was it?" Jack asked to change the topic.

"Easter of 68" Bunny answered, and Jack laughed. That was exactly what he wanted to hear.

"You aren't still mad about that, aren't you?" he asked.

"Of course I am, but this is about something else" Bunnymund answered. At least he moved out of the dark. Jack barely could see him. Bunnymund was a BIG bunny, big big big: big ears, big arms, big legs. Also he was strong. He was holding a boomerang.

"Well, you can tell me later. I have other things to do" Jack said. He turned back and prepared to fly, but suddenly he saw everything black.

"What the-"

"Come on, don't be girly" Bunnymund said. Jack knew he was smiling.

"Get me out!" he shouted, forcing to get out of the bag.

"As you wish" Bunny said, and the bag opened.

Jack finally got out, and saw four persons in front of him.