Here's the next chapter! Again, I'm very, very sorry for the long wait. But, thank you for anyone who's still sticking with me! It means more than you think and of course all reviews are appreciated! Enjoy!

Arrows didn't know where they were going, so she let Jack lead the way and pull her along as she relaxed. Jack started talking to her, but she zoned out rather quickly and started day dreaming.

What she day dreamed about, she wasn't sure. Everything probably, but she forgot everything she was thinking about when she felt her feet touch the ground.

"We're here, honey." She heard Jack announce. Lucky for her, the spell was wearing off, but it wasn't completely gone. Hopefully Jack will be back to being the annoying Guardian of fun he usually is soon.

The sky was an inky black and the two spirits were standing in the middle of an old ice cream parlour's parking lot. It wasn't really much to look at. The little shop sat in the middle of nowhere as if it had been tossed there by a tornado. It looked as if it had been in a disaster, too. Its grey brick walls were crumbling and the sign was half burned out so it looked as if the ice cream shop was called the "L ck y lit" (Arrows guessed that it was actually named the "Lickity Split."

Arrows turned to Jack and stared at him as if he was crazy. "This is the place you hang out at for fun?" Jack nodded his head and walked inside. Arrows followed him after a moment of hesitation.

The inside looked better than the outside, that was for sure. There were bright red booths that lined one wall and along the other was a bar that stood in front of the cash register. Above the bar hung a sign that had all the different choices of ice cream you could get and behind it sat a middle aged woman. Despite the sweet ice cream she was surrounded with, the shopkeeper looked as bitter as coffee.

When they walked in, she didn't acknowledge them, she just kept reading her unknown fashion magazine. The two sat down on stools in front of the bar.

"What would you like?" Jack asked as he handed Arrows a menu and started reading one of his own.

Arrows skimmed through the brightly coloured menu. Her eyes have widened as she was bombarded with a multitude of flavours and toppings. Dip cones, waffle cones. Strawberry ice cream, moose track, too. Every topping from sprinkles to trail mix. They had everything you could ever dream of, and it hurt Arrows' brain just to try and read it all.

"I – I don't know." She stammered as she flipped the menu around to look at the back. There were even more choices on the other side. "Hey Jack, how are we supposed to pay for the ice cream if she can't even see us?"

Jack momentarily looked up from his menu and smirked at her. "Who said anything about paying?"

Arrows' eyes shot open to the size of a bush baby's at that. "B – but we have to pay! That's illegal!" She started shrieking at Jack and he just started laughing at her. That made her stop short. "Why are you laughing? I'm serious, we are going to pay, okay?!"

Jack just continued to howl with laughter. He was clutching his stomach as if he was in pain and wiping tears from his eyes with his other hand. Yeah, he was laughing that hard. "Oh my god, Arrows! I'm joking calm down! I didn't expect you to be like that. Your face was golden!" He morphed his face into a little pout with wide eyes and put on a false falsetto voice. "What! B – but, but we musn't steal! 'Tis wrong!" He wiped away another tear and practically fell out of his chair.

Arrows put her hands on her hips. "I do not sound like that!" She rolled her eyes as Jack actually fell out of his chair and started dying of laughter on the ground.

She was getting annoyed with the winter spirit so she did what a normal sprite would do. She kicked him firmly in the stomach. "Oof!" She heard him say as her hard shoe came into contact with his abdomen. He got up with a huff and sat back down in his stool. He glared at her. "That hurt, 'yknow."

"It was meant to."

"Jeez thanks, means a lot." His voice was dripping with sarcasm and Arrows almost sighed with relief. The spell was fully gone.

"So," Arrows said after a moment of silence. "What are you gonna get?"

Jack studied the menu for a minute longer before answering her. "I'm gonna get chocolate cake batter ice cream." He said in triumph of beating the confusing menu. "What are you getting?"

"I'm getting a banana split." Arrows responded, putting the menu back from where she got it. "So, how exactly are we gonna get the ice cream if the server woman can't see us?"

Jack's mouth turned upwards into a cheeky smile. "Leave that to me." He jumped over the counter and landed gracefully on his feet. He then proceeded to walk through the worker and to the ice cream machine.

Arrows was in shock that he walked right through the woman. She's walked through people lots of times. But seeing someone else do it was unsettling. She couldn't ponder the unsettling feeling in her stomach for long, for Jack soon came back with an ice cream cone in one hand and a fancy plastic cup filled with the tastiest looking banana split ever. She couldn't wait to eat it.

She hungrily snatched it from Jack and stuck the little green spoon int her mouth. It may have looked good, but it tasted even better. The ice cream had little chunks of chocolate in it and there were even small bits of caramel and waffle cone! Arrows was in heaven while she devoured the large bowl of ice cream.

About when she was half way through the edible heaven, she looked up at Jack. His eyes were as wide as a bush baby's and Arrows couldn't help but laugh at his expression. "What? I haven't eaten all day and this ice cream is hell of a lot better than what I usually eat." Jack looked at her for a further explanation. "You see, Flora makes me eat healthy food so then I don't break my wings trying to fly. The girls a health freak I swear!" Jack smiled and began eating his ice cream.

Arrows finished quickly and politely waited for Jack to finish. He took his sweet time eating his cold treat. Before he finished it, he began to dig around in the pocket of his well-worn jumper. His face broke into a smile of triumph as he pulled out a small wad of bills. He took two out and placed them on the counter.

"There I paid, happy?" He said with a smile as Arrows playfully rolled her eyes. "Come on, let's go."

At that moment a young couple walked into the small shop. The two lovers were holding hands as they walked in. Jack turned to Arrows. "Let me guess, you made those two fall in love?" He asked her with a undertone of humour in his voice.

Arrows smiled. "Ya, I did. They're from Sydney Australia actually, I guess they're on vacat. . ." Arrows stopped and let out a gasp of surprise as one of the lovers sat through her onto the seat. She turned to Jack and he was also being sat through by the other lover.

"Let's go." He squeaked out before getting up and leaving. Arrows followed right after him.

She met him outside and they walked away from the ice cream shop on the outskirts of nowhere. Neither of them wanted to be the first to say something, but finally Jack let out a forced chuckle. "Sorry 'bout that, I just hate the feeling of someone going through me. Bad memories, 'yknow?" Arrows nodded her head. Honestly, she understood what Jack did. In fact, she would've probably done the same thing if Jack hadn't done it first.

"Ya, I get it." She responded after a minute. The two walked in silence for awhile and this time it was Arrows who broke it.

"I should probably get back to the cottage before Flora starts freaking out." She huffed and Jack nodded his head.

"Ya, I need to go give the kids of Burgess a snow day for tomorrow. 'Gnight Arrows."

"Good night Jack. Hey, we should do this again sometime, it was fun." She said with a smile.

Jack's face lit up. "Ya, it was fun. Except for the whole 'under a spell thing.' Anyways, good night Arrows."

And with that the winter spirit flew away. Arrows was happy he was back to normal, and she was happy to have a new friend.