Misunderstandings
Ann-oying~
Max stopped when he reached the inn and began scratching at the door
"what's wrong with you?" she asked lovingly and opened door for the little guy. Jack was greeted by a girl in a loud cheery voice then looked up to see a girl with fiery red hair tied up in a braid wearing overalls and all of her memories came flooding back.
"Ann I missed you so much!"Jacklin squealed as she gave Ann a bear hug, lifting her off her feet.
"Eh!?"Jacklin let her down as Ann gave her a confused look,
"Come on Ann you don't remember me?" jack squeaked with a pout on her face,
" Sorry guy I don't think I know you." she said shyly with a slight blush on her face. Jack unzipped her sweater and Ann stared at her chest and blushed at her mistake with calling this girl a guy. Jack dug in her breast pocket and fished out a gold locket and handed it to her.
"What's this?"She asked jack gave a knowing smile and replied
"just open it".
Ann gave the locket a quizzical look, it looked like one she'd gotten from old man Wilson and his granddaughter only a few years ago, then looked up at Jacklin.
"Could this be little Jacklin?"She asked herself, and then examined the girl. From what Ann could tell she was about 6 foot 1 with a baseball cap on her head that read "New York" in big fancy letters that covered her big brown eyes and most of her brown spiky-shoulder length hair. She had lot of barley noticeable freckles, but there were two that stood out on her right cheek. Wearing a green and black sweater that covered both her chest and the sleeveless button down, she thought to herself
"This can't be little jack, can it? The short little girl who'd pledged she would never cut her hair for insane reasons, the girly girl? Couldn't be the same chick. "
Her attention lowered from jack to the locket as she opened it. There was a picture of two girls about 14, in black and white. One with long curls that dragged on the floor, she had a cowlick, freckles on her cheeks, wearing a frilly dress with the widest smile Ann had ever seen and she chuckled at the other girl. Her hair was in two braid and her bangs were a mess. She wore a plain dress that looked like it had been played in with stains and slight rips in it with a smile like the other girl. Suddenly Ann was knocked down by a dog who was tired of being ignored, but caught by jack before she hit the ground.
"You're such a klutz Ann." She murmured as Ann looked at her chin and realization checked in as she looked at the scar, it was something that happened to jack when she had stayed with her grandpa. She and Ann had gotten attacked by a wild dog while playing in the forest; Jacklin was very shy so she didn't have friends other than me and my brother. When the dog attacked her she didn't feel any pain, she looked up to jack with blood dripping down her chin onto her purple frilly dress and the dog running away.
"Ann, are you okay?"She screeched while dropping down to floor, and her hair surrounding her like an umbrella would. Slouching over Ann who had fallen due to the shock from the attack. All she could do was blink widely at the girl.
"Jack. You just got attacked by a wild dog, YOU'R bleeding and you're asking if I'm okay?" she nodded.
"You're an idiot" she paused
"but that's why I love you."Ann joked. After that Jacklin had gotten very ill and her parents came and took her away. That was 4 years ago.
"Jack!" Ann screeched forgetting that she was just above her.
"Goddess Ann blow my ears off why don't'cha!"She responded with a glare, Ann couldn't help but laugh, she laughed so hard she was rolling on the floor. Jack got up crossed her arms and asked while glaring
"what's so funny?" She got up wiping her eyes of tears, still laughing and responded
"when you did that you looked just like gray." only to start laughing again.
'Gray, why did that name sound so familiar?'
"Jack I missed you so much! When you didn't come back I thought I'd never see you again." her voice lowered to a whisper when she was done, then gave jack a quizzical look.
"What happened to your voice? Last time you were here it was all sunshine and rainbows and now it's, I don't know like a guy or something!"
"Sunshine and rainbow to man voice, great Ann you really know how to make a girl feel nice" jack retorted, pouting and acting hurt.
"You're the same old Jacklin that's for sure" Jacklin scoped up max and rubbed his head getting a playful bite and giggling as the result.
Jack got a felling someone was watching her and turned towards the stairs and called out, letting her dog down
"I can see you and stop scowling at me!" The sounds of her voice made the person jump and fall all the way down the steps and look up at Jack. They stared at each other till Jacklin thought she knew who he was. The striking blue eyes, long brown hair with light brown ends, she knew only one guy in the world who could look like that.
"Cliff, is that you?" both Ann and Cliff looked up at Jacklin and gave her the 'you know him/me' look. Cliff looked at Jacklin with wide eyes
"Jacklin?" Ann was now giving him the 'you know her?' look. Jack glomped him, rubbing her cheek against his in a bear hug
"Cliff what happened to you! One day you were there and the next day poof; you just disappeared. The last time I saw you was graduation!" saying without skipping a face between words. Ann stared puzzled at the two
"Jack c-can you let go!?" noticing how uncomfortable she made the boy, she let go replying sheepishly
"sorry, old habits never die" with a faint blush on her cheeks.
Cliff was about to tell me why he left but interrupted
"I remember now no need to worry" 'Sister, Melody whole Witch princess phase not pretty!'
"What are you doing here?" he questioned her.
"Oh! I wanted to see grandpa" Ann's expression darkened
"Ann what's wrong?" Cliff and Jack asked with worried looks, Ann got up and grabbed her arm and headed towards the door of the inn Cliff followed them and locked the door with Max following behind
"hey little buddy, haven't seen you in a while."
