I went through the rest of my day glumly, reassuring myself the Easter Bunny was real. I had seen him! They hadn't, so what did they know! People kept telling me it was a dream, but I knew it wasn't.
I remembered waking up to see them, hearing the noises and in alarm grabbing my flashlight and turning it on. I pointed across the room where I saw the Tooth fairy as I knew she'd come for my tooth, but I also saw the Easter Bunny, Sandman, and Santa Claus. I remembered not having any idea why they were there since it was only the tooth fairy's job. I remembered the Tooth fairy saying that I was still awake, and Easter Bunny telling the Sandman to knock me out, and then correcting him to use his dream sand. I noticed that they were all different than I imagined but I still recognized them instantly. Then Abby jumped up, I told her to get down because she was attacking the Easter Bunny, then for some strange reason my alarm clock went off. All chaos ensued; it ended up with me landing in the sandman's arms. That was all I could remember, but I remembered it in clarity. Not in the fuzzy pictures you get from dreams.
During supper, Mom spoke to me again. "Jamie, just because I don't believe in the Easter Bunny, doesn't mean he's real or you shouldn't. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion."
"Yeah I know mom." I said taking my dishes to the kitchen, I walked back over to her "I know he's real." She smiled at me and kissed my head,
"I'm sure he is, honey."
That night while getting ready for bed, I thought about what my mom said. Everyone may be entitled to their own opinion, but what if everyone else was right. I needed to know. So I went to my room, I saw my stuffed rabbit and got an idea. It was a crazy, stupid idea; but it was the only one I had. I sat on my bed facing my bunny, but I directed every word I said at the Easter Bunny. As I said the words I felt embarrassed, like I was the only one left who believed in this guy. "Okay Look," I said sternly "You and me are obviously at what some would call a crossroads." Then I leaned over and looked into his eyes "So here's what's going to happen, if it wasn't a dream and if you are real... then you have to prove it, like right now!" nothing happened, I frowned then said "I've believed in you for a long time okay? Like my whole life in fact!" I picked my bunny up and put it close to my face "So you kind of owe me now. You don't have to do much, just a little sign so I know." I pleaded "Anything, anything at all" I whispered. Nothing happened still; I frowned and hung my head "I knew it." I said glumly letting my Rabbit fall to the floor. There is no sign, he didn't show me anything! So maybe it was just a dream...
My thoughts were then interrupted by my window. The window was now open and frost quickly trailed up the glass. On the frost a picture was being drawn as if by an invisible finger. The picture was an egg, an Easter egg! I looked at my bunny lying helpless on the floor out of surprise; I wasn't expecting something this magical. Maybe something that could have been taken as a co-incidence. I looked at the glass again and an image of a bunny was drawn, I gasped "He's real." I whispered. At that moment the image of the bunny came off the window and bounced around my room. I playfully chased it, but when I finally caught it, it exploded into a puff of snow. "Whoa!" I said as it collapsed, then it continued to fall in my room.
"Snow?" I said aloud, I knew the Easter bunny didn't do snow, he was more in the egg department. A snowflake landed on my nose and it my nose felt nipped, I thought about it for a minute, then I realized what goes together with snow and nipping at noses. I remembered what my mom had said to me yesterday morning "You don't want Jack Frost nipping at your nose." This meant the only thing able to cause this to happen would be "Jack Frost." I said aloud.
"Did he just say...?" I heard a voice from somewhere in my room say,
"Jack Frost?" I said wondering if it was him, I slowly turned around while the voice whispered "He said it again! He said...you said..." the voice seemed to be at a loss for words. Then I finally turned around to see a boy-who looked around 18-with white hair, pale skin, blue eyes. He wore a blue frost crusted hoodie, brown tight pants, and no shoes; he was standing in my room! "Jack Frost!" I said in amazement, my eyes going wide and my mouth dropping in open, I clearly knew who the voice belonged to now.
"That's right! B-but that's me, Jack Frost! That's my name!" said the boy, Jack Frost, he leaned in closer to me "You said my name." Apparently Jack was just as amazed as I was that I could see him, then he frowned for a second as if realizing something "Wait, can-can you hear me?" I nodded, mouth and eyes still wide as ever. "Can-can you see me?" I nodded again a smile stretching across his face and mine. Jack stood back, almost laughing "He-he sees me! He-he sees me!" then he did a back flip in happiness on to my table, landing gracefully. He continued to laugh, I had to say something. "You just made it snow!" I said saying the first thing that came to my head and jumping once on the bed, "I know!" he said nodding,
"...In my room!" I said even more enthusiastically,
"I know!" he said copying my enthusiasm. He jumped off the table towards me.
"You're real?" I said not being able to believe my eyes,
"Yeah! I mean who do you think brings you all the blizzards and the snow days? And do you remember when you went flying on that sled the other day?" he said excitedly, of course I remembered! That was the most fun I'd ever had! Then I thought about it and said "That was you?"
"That was me!" he yelled,
"Cool" I yelled,
"Right?" he said agreeing with me. I couldn't believe this, Jack Frost was real! But I just had to believe this, and then another amazing thought came to me. "But what about the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy, I mean-" I was cut off by Jack
"Real! Real! Real! Every single one us is real!" he handed me my bunny that I had dropped, "I knew it!" I shouted, but this time my mom heard me.
"Jamie, who are you talking to?" she asked,
"Um..." I didn't know what to reply, but then Jack smiled at me gesturing towards the door. I knew the answer; my mom wouldn't believe me so the truth was okay. "Jack Frost?" I said,
"Okay..." She said humoring me, I laughed, it had worked. Then we heard a rustle outside and we rushed to the window. Jack jumped out the window and flew towards the street, since I couldn't do that (and I didn't want a neck injury), I ran out of my room, down the stairs and outside. When I got their Jack was talking to somebody, actually a bunch of somebodies, and when I realized who they were my mouth dropped open and my eyes went wide. They all turned to look at me as I ran up to them. "The last light..." I heard Santa say as I got closer. That's right I said it, Santa! He, the tooth fairy, and Jack Frost were all standing in the street; but they all looked sort of...well, awful. They all looked tired and weak but it was still awesome seeing them all. "Wow, it is you! I mean it really is you!" I said shaking Santa's hand; I turned to look at Jack "I knew it wasn't a dream!" Jack smiled, and then Santa said "Jack, he sees you!" Jack playfully nudged my shoulder with his arm, then, with a concerned look he asked "Where's Bunny?" Santa had a grave expression, and then he said solemnly "Losing Easter took a toll on all of us, bunny most of all." Santa turned toward his sleigh. Well, that explained their weakened state, but it didn't explain it as well as the state of the Easter Bunny. He hopped out of the sleigh and onto a wing. He was small, very small. "This is the Easter bunny?" I said, sounding disappointed as I walked over to him. Suddenly he spoke, saying "Now somebody sees me! Where were you about an hour ago mate?"
"He used to be huge and cool; now he's just...cute." I said scratching him behind the ears, his expression switched to a relieved look as his foot started thumping on the wing. Then he turned to Jack with an angry expression and said "You told him to say that, didn't you?" He hopped off the wing and immediately started fighting Jack's leg "That's it! You and me! Let's go! Come on!" I cut him off, kneeling down in front of him before he could continue "No, actually, he came and told me you were real, when I was starting to think that maybe you weren't." I said the last part softly, feeling ashamed. He looked at me with tears in his eyes, "He got you to believe... in me?" he asked. I smiled at him, he turned to look at Jack Frost and smiled, Jack smiled back. Everybody was smiling now. Then there was a crack of lightning in the sky, we turned to look. There was a dark figure riding on a cloud of black sand. "Oh no, Pitch." I heard Jack mutter. Only one person could look scary and possess a scary name like Pitch... the Boogeyman! "Get Jamie out of here!" Jack yelled to the others as he flew off to face pitch, and with that we ran from the Boogeyman; another person who was real.