Chapter 2

Three years after Jack's first encounter with Suzie, he still visited her and tried to open her eyes to open her eyes to the wonders of the world. So far he'd had no success. Jack had cared for her like he would do to a younger sibling. He'd sometimes attempt a one way conversation; it comforted him to think he could be heard.

Currently, he was walking Suzie home on a chilly winter's day. She wasn't really looking at where she was walking and paying more attention to a slip of paper she had been given by a teacher at school. The closer he got to her, the stronger the paper flipped around. He leant over her shoulder to see what it was. It was a school report…

The piece of paper slipped from her grasp and she gasped in horror. She ran after the paper while Jack flew above head to swoop down and grab it. He caught hold of it and held it flat to a tree to get a quick look at it. The kid was pretty smart. A's in every subject but English and Art, where she got a D. Sadly, this proved she was good at science, the one thing that tried to prove that he doesn't exist. It would be tricky to get Suzie to believe in him. Butterflies violated his stomach when the tiny redhead threw herself at the tree, straight through him.

"That was lucky!" Suzie exclaimed as she pulled the paper from the wind's chilly grasp. She took one last glance at the satisfactory school report before gently folding it into her purple rucksack. Fighting off the cold, she pulls her scarf tighter around her small neck. It was another minute or two before she'd reach the orphanage. To be honest, Suzie knew she was going to be in trouble when Anna, her carer gets a look at those two D's. She really couldn't care less though; both those subjects were stupid and useless.

Every step she took, she began to feel more and more nervous as she got the feeling someone was following her. She turned around sharply and stared at nothing. Nothing was there, but she could feel eyes burning into her own as she leant forwards very slightly to run her hand through the air in front of her. Her bare hand shot back to her body as it went through a particularly cold spot. How was that possible, the air being colder in a certain place. It was like a pocket of coldness. When she tried again, the pocket had disappeared, causing her to shrug it off as a wild imagination thing.

Weird things had happened to her for a while now, like the feeling she was being watched, or frost on her windows mid-summer. She'd constantly feel cold as well. It could be thirty degrees outside but she'd still feel cold. It was physically impossible!

Finally, Suzie got to her home and left her report on the table before disappearing to her room to read her science notes.

Jack watched glumly as Suzie pulled a large yellow book out of her bag and flipped to a page and started to rewrite the text that sat in front of her. "You never have any fun." Jack complained, though he received no reply. He hovered above her bed to not get her bed all frosty. He sighed in annoyance and began to snoop around her forest green walls. He'd been in here many times, though he was very careful to not spook the little girl. Suddenly, Suzie's door flew open with great force. Jack jumped in alert and pointed his staff at the intruder, to see it was that woman, Anna, Suzie's carer. "Suzie! How did you get a D in Art in English?" She exclaimed in horror.

"I don't like those lessons, Anna! They're not important anyway!"

"English is very important! From now on you're to write a diary to improve your writing and you're to practice your art more, too!" She nearly screamed going red in the face. "You can start off by writing a letter to Santa! Now go downstairs now!"

Suzie went scarlet in the face as she stood on her bed in frustration. "Santa's not real!" She screamed as Anna walked away. Suzie threw herself down on the bed and screamed into her pillow. "It's not fair! She's so mean!" She wailed as Jack hovered over her in confusion. He wasn't sure what he wanted to do, to laugh at her or to hug her and make her feel better. Not like either of these things would have much effect on the kid…