After a few minutes of Jareth and I gazing into each other's eyes, we finally came back to our senses and resumed with class. "U-Uhm, I apologize about that, class. Now, shall we start off the class with history?" The class let out massive BOO's that were almost in complete unison. "Alright, then I guess we should start off with the next thing on my agenda: English. Now, I want you all to make up a short story. Then, after you have got an idea in your head on what you want the short story to be about, all students are required to share their story to the entire class." Some students rolled their eyes but kept their mouths shut, which was a good sign in some cases. "Jareth, would you mind if I went first?"
"Why, yes you may, Sarah," smiled Jareth. I realized he knew it was me without looking over to me because I was the only one in the entire class who called him by his real name. I slowly stood up from my wooden desk and made my way to the front of the class. 'I can do this,' I thought silently to myself. 'I can do this, even though I haven't told the story for about three years.' I looked around the classroom at my peers before taking a deep breath. I then cleared my throat and began.
"Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young girl whose stepmother always made her stay home with the baby. And the baby was a spoiled child, and wanted everything to himself, and the young girl was practically a slave. But what no one knew is that the king of the goblins had fallen in love with the girl, and he gave her certain powers. So one night, when the baby had been particularly cruel to her, she called on the goblins for help." My fellow classmates had been sitting on the edges of their seats as I took a minute to put on my best goblin-type voice. "'Say your right words,' the goblins said, 'and we'll take the baby to the castle, and you will be free!'" I felt my goblin impression going off and on within that sentence, but still it sounded particularly believable. "But the girl knew that the Goblin King would keep the baby in his castle for ever and ever and ever, and turn him into a goblin!"
There were a few gasps coming out of some of the more idiotic female students in the class and I could feel Jareth's loving eyes gazing at me as I told the tale. "Until one day, when she was tired from a day of housework, and she was hurt by the harsh words of her stepmother, and she could no longer stand it…" I paused dramatically as the students were struggling to stay on their seats. "'I can bear it no longer! Goblin King! Goblin King! Wherever you may be take this child of mine far away from me!'" "A-And?" "And what?" "What happens next?"
I smirked. "That is the end of my story." "You've gotta be kidding; there's gotta be more of the story than that!" "There indeed is, though the ending is for another time," I said taking a bow. Some students sighed with grief, though people did clap for my story. Jareth looked at me. I grinned and mouthed, "No, Jareth, you cannot take Toby away again."
He grinned and mouthed back, "I know that; I was just joking." I smiled. I almost expected him to say, "Well? Laugh," though I knew he wouldn't just blurt that out in front of the entire class. "Are there any more volunteers?" The class was silent an acted a bit shy. "Sorry, Jared, but we only like hearing that girl's stories." I sighed and smiled before hearing Jareth call on people to tell their stories, which, if I do say so myself, didn't quite match up the applause that my story did.
BAHHHH! I ALMOST BROKE THE CURSE! I'm sorry guys, but I couldn't make the chapter as long as the other one :'( please forgive me? Anyways, I mentioned Sarah's story that she told Toby right before the goblins took Toby away to the Goblin city, which had started the entire story of the Labyrinth. I also put in that Sarah enjoys reading the novel, the Labyrinth, just because I got bored and didn't feel like Macbeth or The Raven would fit with the plot line. Though if it would have been something of a Shakespearian book, I did contemplate on putting in Romeo and Juliet because Jareth and Sarah are star-crossed, or shall I say labyrinth-crossed, lovers! Oh, and because in the human world, their love is forbidden because they are teacher and student.