He was so fragile yet so strong. He reminded me of roses, beautiful, strong, defensive and soft. I thought of his eyes when we got off the eyes and he flew away to find someone. His eyes where the raindrops on the petals, sparkling, the jewels of the flower. His hair was the color of the white rose and his hugs… well, when he hugs me touching something cold has never felt so warm. Stop thinking like that! I turned on myself. He probably, no actually definitely has someone to love and you're just a bad joke, a pest.
My thoughts were interrupted by a thud followed by a giggle, then Jack's laugh and then a little boy ( 10? maybe? ) laughing.
"Hazel!" Jack shouted. "Look who I've brought here to meet you!"
"He can't see me." I said miserably looking at the boy who's brown hair was covered in snow and eyes glowed wildly. "It's not important."
"Aw," he pouted, then smiled. "c'mon! At least try!"
And with a sigh I made some leaves rustle and a wind blow, the kid didn't react.
"Okay, Jamie." Jack turned to the boy. "What did I tell you?"
"You said:" Jamie started. "she's a fall spirit, she's a girl, her name is Hazel F… uhhh."
"Fall." Jack helped him.
"Fall," Jamie corrected himself. "And you also said that she's really pretty."
"Hey! You weren't supposed to say that!"
"Clever kid." I smiled at the comment, but could still feel my cheeks blush.
"Okay," Jack said to me. "Try now." I summoned some green leaves that were still lying around and raised them with a small breeze in front of the child and when he concentrated on the leaf, I slowly turned it brown.
"Ah" he gasped. "Hazel? Hazel Fall." he cheered when his eyes stopped on me. On me. He sees me!
"Y-you…" I stuttered. "You can see me!"
"You were right she is pretty." he told Jack.
"I know, right?" Jack whispered back. I ignored their muttering and just could not believe this.
"He sees me!" I shouted then repeated it quieter every time. I looked a bit at Jack and a bit at Jamie. Then out of nowhere I hugged the boy. "Thank you." I started crying on his shoulder.
"It's my pleasure." He said hugging me back. "Sophie will like you."
"Sophie?" I said as I pulled away, kneeling and brushing away the tears.
"My sister. C'mon! Let's go find her!"
"How old is she?"
"4."
"How will I make a 4 year old see me?" I asked when I felt Jack's hand rest on my shoulder. When I looked at my hands they were covered in black eyeliner and make-up.
"Oh god! Do I look really messy?" Jack laughed at my question, but then rested his eyes on my face.
"It suits you well." He said brushing my hair away from my eyes. I held my breath for a few seconds. But fortunately Jamie broke the silence.
"Are you coming?"
"Yeah." I followed him to a nice backyard and sat down on a swing.
"Sophie!" he screamed for his sister. "So, can you fly too?"
"Yes, I can." I smiled at him. Then I noticed that Jack has gone to bring Sophie here.
"Do you know that he really likes you?" Jamie asked.
"Who? Jack?" I asked. Jamie just nodded. "No. He's just met me. He isn't supposed to like me."
"But he does." He said looking to see if Jack has returned yet. "He said that he's been watching you for the past 2 years."
"What?"
"Yeah. Ever since I've started believing in him he's been going on and on about some girl he was trying to get close to by watching her from afar."
"You mean spying on."
"Well, maybe… But do you like him?"
"I don't know…" A shadow moved on the roof and I could swear I could see something blue and white zoom past us.
"Ha!" I heard a little girl squeal. "Don't cry!" The mop of blond hair and pair of blue eyes came running to me and put it's little hands on my knees.
"You're so pretty! Don't cry!"
"Oh! You're Sophie. Right?"
"Yes." she gave me a grin.
"Well Sophie. Do you believe in magic." I smiled at her and in the corner of my eye I saw 2 smiling, deep blue eyes.
"Yes! Are you magic too?" she whispered the last part like if she said it too loud we would explode.
"Yes." I said it like it was a secret, leaning in close.
"Ha! Can you fly?"
As an answer I held her hands and slowly lifted off of the swing. I went just high enough for her to be on tiptoe.
"You are magic!" she screamed with delight. Jack flew to my side and looked at me expecting a reaction. I just fixed my eyes on his and let him now, tackling him with a hug, that this was the best thing anyone has ever done for me.
"Thank you." I whispered into his ear.
"No problem."
After a while when we said our goodbyes and flew back to the tree I slept in the night before Jack stopped me by turning me to face him.
"He told you, didn't he?"
"What?" I acted like I didn't know what he was talking about.
"Don't be stupid! I heard you talk."
"Oh, so you were spying on me like for the past 2 years?"
"I wanted to-"
"What? You wanted to what, Frost? Get 'to know me better'?"
"Listen I-" he couldn't finish. "I-, you wouldn't understand."
"That's right, I don't. If you don't tell me what's going on how am I supposed to know what to say?"
"Okay, listen. Let's just forget this ever happened. That you didn't have that conversation with Jamie and that we never argued. Okay?"
"Fine." I made a deal with him and watched him fly of. If he's gonna keep doing this, how is he able to deal with much more serious arguments?
I went to sleep with that though clawing at my brain.
"Good morning sunshine." woke me up in the morning followed by a smile, just like nothing happened.
Thank you for reading! Hope you'll enjoy the next chapter. Just a WARNING: in this story they will not be together for a longer period 'cuz I think that a relationship doesn't work that way, and I want them to fall in love slowly, I want it to be hard for them to admit their true feelings for each other. THANK YOU FOR BEING PATIENT! See you in a couple of days!
