One Year Later

It had been months when Jack had left to join the guardians and it had been even nearly a month since she had lost Jack when he had come to see her. Jack tried his best to visit her but being a guardian was a lot of work as he tended to complain about half the time.

But lately, his visits were getting short and the wait in between was getting longer. He said it was hard to get away for a few minutes and she knew it was because the visits were now a quick kiss, hi how are you before he had to go back. She was missing him badly though but the times he did come by, she was grateful and appreciative of the time he spent with her.

Every time he came, she felt a little better, a little happier, a little more in love. He would hug her, kiss her so passionately she was nearly breathless with the intensity of it all. His kisses were always sure as he would move her to her bed, laying her down before hovering over her, lips working hard at hers as her hands moved to his hair, pulling him closer.

It was always like this. His visits consisted of him coming in through her window late at night and he would rush to hug her, kissing her before pulling back and kissing her again. She would laugh at his urgency and he would laugh before he stopped and they started to talk.

She loved those times where he could spend hours talking and kissing her before he had to leave or if exhaustion was winning her out. It was worth to be half-asleep in classes the next day.

But now, Jack hadn't come back for nearly a month and it was the longest wait she had experienced since they had gotten together and have been together for almost a year now. She rationed that it was being a guardian doing his job that was keeping Jack from visiting her.

But a nagging doubt had been bothering her lately. What if he decided she wasn't worth it? What if he decided that he didn't want to be with her anymore?

She was ashamed to say that she had been thinking about these lately before she quickly banished the thoughts away. It wasn't healthy to think like that. She and Jack loved each other and they had been together for a year now. However, the longer Jack was away, the harder it was getting to hold onto to her hope of seeing him again.

She knew she was getting older and growing up while Jack was stuck at the age of 17. She didn't like to think about it and she pushed those thoughts back. But they were coming back with a vengeance.

"Hey, Kai!"

She turned around, hair whipping to smack her in the face before she saw a figure running towards her. Her heart raced with anticipation at the possibility of Jack meeting her. But when the figure got closer and she realized it was Joshua, a friend of her, her heart sank with disappointment and it must've showed on her face because he stopped in front of her, frowning and looking a little hurt before it was chased away with a smile, "Damn, should I head back and leave you alone?"

"Sorry," She said before she started walking up the street. She didn't want to be in the house right now because she didn't want to be reminded of Jack and how he hadn't come back.

Joshua followed her steps, hands in his pockets as he walked with her, looking around before clearing his throat. "So, should I ask what's going on or do I leave you to swallow in your self-pity.

"Shut up." She said, laughing but it died down quickly as she sighed.

"Any trouble?"

Joshua knew that she had a boyfriend and he never pushed for more information. She just didn't tell him that her boyfriend was a winter guardian in charge of protecting children's beliefs. In his mind, her boyfriend had moved away and they were working on a long distance relationship.

"Is it Jackson?"

She smiled. Jackson was Jack's full name and she was careful to use his full name when Joshua talked about her relationship. He thought it was kinda weird that she had no pictures of her boyfriend in her room or in her phone and she said that Jack was a very private person.

"Yeah, I haven't seen him for a month now."

"Can't you call him? Or, you know, video call?"

Yeah, sure. If the north actually had phones or phone lines or service for that matter. But she couldn't tell Joshua that. She had to pretend.

"I did but he's not answering." She said, hating lying to Joshua but also unable to tell him about Jack, the Jack Frost.

He hesitated as if he didn't want to say anything but when he opened his mouth, she knew what he was going to say before it left his mouth and she held up a hand, refusing to listen to a word he was about to say.

"No, stop right there. He's just busy because he works a lot. He'll call me when he gets the chance."

"It's been a month. Maybe-"

"I said no."

"Okay." She noted the wariness in his voice and she hate him for adding on more worries.

"I'm going home. I'll see you around." She said before she took off for a run to her house, leaving Joshua behind. She ran as fast as she could, as if she could run away from the worries and doubts that were plaguing her mind. Once she reached her home, she stopped and looked up to her window, a habit that Jack had made her grow when she was hoping to look for him when he came in.

Her heart raced when the window of her room was open and she knew that she never left it open. It could only mean one thing.

Jack.

She ran up the stairs, anticipation and excitement fueling her muscles. She burst into her room, his name on his lips but she frowned when she saw no one in her room.

"Jack?" She whispered quietly as she stepped in , a feeling of dread filling her bones as she walked around, seeing nothing out of the ordinary, except a piece of paper folded neatly in the middle of her bed.

Was Jack playing a game of sorts? Perhaps he was playing a prank. She rushed to the bed, smiling as she snatched up the note and opened it.

The smile fell from her lips as her eyes read the contents, the dread morphing into shock and disbelief. She squeezed the letter in her hand as her hands shook and tears began to fall onto the paper, smearing the ink making it ineligible but she didn't need to read it again to know what he had wrote.

Her heart broke into pieces and shattered to the ground as she fell to her knees, clutching the cursed letter to her chest. Jack had broken her, had took her heart and threw it to the ground. How could he do this? How could he do this to her? And in a letter?

Why?

Someone was wailing like a dying animal and it took her a minute to realize it was her crying like that.

The letter was running through her mind as she cried, her heart shattering and her pain and grief was sucking her down.

I'M WRITING THIS TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I CAN'T CONTINUE OUR RELATIONSHIP. I CAN'T KEEP PRETENDING THAT I LOVE YOU WHEN I DON'T. I DON'T LOVE YOU ANYMORE. IT'S BETTER IF YOU FORGET ABOUT EVERYTHING AND PRETEND NONE OF THIS HAPPENED. I HOPE YOU WILL LIVE A BETTER LIFE WITHOUT ME IN IT. IT'S BETTER THIS WAY.

SINCERELY, JACK.

She tossed the note away as she fell to the ground in a fetal position to try to stave off the pain but it was useless. His betrayal and words were cutting into her skin and killing her. How could he do this to her?

She cried out her pain and grief, not noticing that her pain and grief were calling to a person, a person who wanted revenge and he was going to use Kailani to get back at the Guardians by using her emotions.

It would be legendary.


This story is finished! Will there be a sequel? Do you guys want a sequel? Let me know!