Those past few days have been a horror for me. First it was trying to sleep with the weird bird cage floor, sleeping on my side in awkward angles. Every night I got a nightmare, a different one, he's really experimenting on me (wonder what nightmares it gives him).

Then, it was the daily scaring, no schedule. At any time, nightmares would run at me out of nowhere, really close to my cage and sometimes going through it, scaring the begeezies, golingers, and flickniggles out of me. There was also, the black sand curtain (see chapter 9). It would envelop my cage, after which, many of my different fears would jump out at me, trying to do what I was afraid of. That would scare everything else out of me.

I didn't have to go to the bathroom that much, it was scared out of me. I didn't even have any food. Well he did give me a little water, only a little, but that's because if I didn't have any, I would die of dehydration.

After the curtain faded, I knew Jack was gone. Another chance gone, another day with no freedom, and it was close to Christmas too. Would I have to spend Christmas in a cage?

'Think positive' I thought. Well, maybe Jack will give Stratford a white Christmas, to cheer it up. 'Better everyone else be happy'.

Meanwhile, I was curled up in a little ball, afraid to give a peep, afraid to look. The Black sand curtain would do that to you. Of course, being the eavesdropper I was, I had to listen to his thought out loud.

"Hmm, Jack frost was here. …. If they come back for her I'll have to be ready…. I can't just keep putting up a curtain every time, they'll find a way past it ….. I'll have to get busy."

I pretended to be still recovering from that fear dose, it wasn't difficult. Something told me I wouldn't like what he was going to do.

He was first going to go after Jill. Her light must be really bright for a reason, so he figured it was giving them the power to do this. He laughed knowing I was afraid of what kind of nightmare he was going to give her.

That night (I assume it was night, I couldn't tell from the darkness, but he was leaving so that's a sign.) after he left to torment my sister, I was in fear of seeing that really bright bulb going out before my eyes. Maybe I was doomed. I started to cry, that's when I heard something.

I should tell you this, when you have a childish side, some things happen. First I'll explain the childish of childish side. It means you have a lot of imaginary friends, if you can't find real ones, and side means you only see them when your lonely and need someone to talk to.

We both grew up. I had school, she had her family. So, it was a surprise when I saw her here, I thought I had no room for happiness. Yet there she was, sneaking around Pitch's lair.

She climbed to the top of the globe, and used a grabbling hook to get to my cage, she was in more agile of clothes. Once she was on my cage, it swung a little, then she climbed to the door opened it and climbed in.

"So sorry" she said. "I would be getting you out, but I can't without hurting you."

"What are you doing here, and why would you want in my cage?" I asked, amazed.

"I don't want to drop to the floor, and I wanted to see you, to answer both questions." She said. I couldn't help but chuckle.

"Why didn't you come here sooner?"

"Everyone in my town knows about this, but we fear all of our safety if we do anything."

"You did something."

"He won't even know I've been here."

"Is there snow in Stratford?"

"No, Jack is too concerned about you right now."

"Phooey."

She snickered. "You're probably wondering why I'm really here."

"Why?"

"Don't succumb to fear, don't give up hope, don't try to escape…."

"WHAAAAAT!" luckily, any startled or frightened noise coming out of me is thought to be from a dose of fear. "WHY NOT!"

" If you tried to escape, you'd hurt, kill, or get yourself captured again, who knows what he'll do to you then, and then all of us trying to save you would've been trying for nothing."

"continue." I said upset, I had to sit around here doing nothing, being helpless, waiting to be saved.

"I'll do everything I can to help, as long as you don't bend to his will, and keep believing someone will save you, you will make it through this. Don't believe everything he says, he's a liar and will do anything to control you, remember that."

I did, I remembered the movie when Pitch blackmailed Jack, after Jack did what he said, he was still going to do (you know what) anyway. I also remembered he does anything to get on your nerves. "O.k. I will."

"Great!" she hugged me and then said "Just hang in there." Just as she was about to leave.

"Wait!" I cried. She stopped and looked at me "yes?" she asked.

"I have some more questions." I pleaded.

"I guess a few more questions couldn't hurt." She said.

"Thank you." I replied. "First, how come you seem real, is it all a dream."

"Well to answer that, you were lonely and really needed me, you didn't know it, but you hoped to have time to talk to me and believed you could. Belief and hope are really powerful you know."

So, Bridget (the name of my imaginary friend) was here because of my belief. That was relieving until I had a scary thought.

"Isn't it dangerous for you to be here then? Pitch hates all belief that isn't in him."

"It was already dangerous for me to come here. I almost didn't want to go."

"What made up your mind?"

"Let's just say, the moon told me what to do."

So Bridget was sent from the man in the moon himself. Well now I know I'm not neglected. That's when Bridget heard something.

"I have to go now, remember what I said." She quickly put.

"I will, now go!"

I didn't want anything happening to her, she was one of my best friends. She gracefully landed on the floor and sprinted out of the lair. I knew deep inside her, she looked back and said good bye.