When Jack found the girl by chance. She was mumbling and groaning to herself in an exasperated manner.
"Why me?! Of all the things I could have seen it was THAT! Why not Sasquatch?!" She groaned as she stared up at the sky. He raised a brow.
"What does Sasquatch have to do with anything?" He muttered furrowing his eyebrows
He watched her grin and mutter to herself about how the world wasn't as boring as she thought. He was confused and very curious. He circled her as different expressions went across her face, she was probably in deep thought.
She was amusingly odd.
She then stood up and began to walk, he followed her with interest. He still had a bit till he had to leave Burgess to spread winter around. So why not spend his time basically stalking an oblivious teenage girl.
He began to guess when she'd slip and fall. She tended to drift in thought, so it was obvious at some point she would slip on the ice, even if she were making careful steps.
"There she goes." He snorted just as she took the wrong step.
"Wind. Do you mind?" He grinned.
As she was in motion of falling, a strong wind gust hit her, putting her up right before she even neared the concrete.
She looked shocked and confused when she got her footing.
"What the fuck?" He heard her mutter.
He gave a bow.
"Your welcome." He mused as she looked around, as if looking for someone. He suddenly got hopeful, he couldn't help the way his heart leapt in excitement.
Would she see him?
She looked in his direction, but she didn't see him. He hated how much it hurt to know she didn't believe. He didn't know her, yet here he was, desperate for her to see him.
Don't get him wrong, this wasn't him having a crush, but he just felt if he had a shot of getting someone his 'age' to believe in him, it was her. He just had this feeling, something he guess he could say matched North's gut feelings.
He watched as Ari adjusted her black rimmed glasses.
"This town is so weird." She groaned.
He quirked a grin.
"You have no idea firecracker." He laughed as he leaned against his staff.
"I wish the wind was as helpful at home as it is here. The wind at home is brutal when I'm on the bike." She huffed as she began walking again, deciding to stay off the sidewalk.
"Bike? As in bicycle or motorcycle?" He questioned then eyed her jacket.
"A motorcycle rider, that's pretty sweet." He grinned, that was pretty impressive.
He followed her into the supply store, and watched her grab a notebook, some pens, and some pencils. Did she draw or write? That was the only thing he could think of as to why she was buying that stuff.
He looked around the store and decided to be mischievous. He picked a random victim, a man in his late twenties, he froze he shoes to the floor with a laugh, causing the man to yelp as he tried to get free. Noticing Ari was leaving the store, he quickly followed her as she looked at the ground. For once paying attention and being careful.
The weather of course was cold, thanks to him, snow was on the ground. It wasn't too much snow, but just enough to get kids out for snow days. By now more people were out, he could only guess it were around 8, but he wasn't sure.
Focusing his attention back of Ari, he took notice in the expression on her face. He didn't think she knew it, but she had the slightest onset of a goofy smirk forming. Following her line of sight, he saw a group of boys around her age, her eyes were on the one in the middle. He had long-ish blonde hair, brown eyes, but he had this dark and brooding sort of thing about him. He was laughing with his friends, and while Ari didn't notice, his eyes flicked over to her briefly before he elbowed his friend once they passed her. He turned his attention away from them when they were further away, just in time to hear a whistle escape Ari.
"Hot damn that guy was sexy." She had an approving tone
He snorted in amusement.
"Just wait till you see me sweetheart, you don't even know sexy until you've seen me." He stated cockily.
"If I was more confident I would lay out pick up lines. I have so many stored away." She mused, catching his attention.
"Oh? That would be something I'd love to hear." He laughed, finding the idea of her throwing a pick up line his way deeply amusing. She seemed like she'd wither away in embarrassment if she managed to choke one out.
He followed her the rest of the way back to the park. Watching people who passed by and avoiding being walked through. He hated the feeling of someone walking through him. It didn't hurt, too bad anyways, but it brought this awful feeling of dread and helplessness that made him want to wither away in the nearest hole.
He jumped up onto the tree branch above Ari as she began to sketch something out on the notebook. He laid out on his stomach and watched her, twirling his staff around silently as he tried to figure out what she was drawing. She started out sketching out several circles and different shaped then began to go over them. He had absolutely no clue what was going on or what she was drawing. He spent several minutes trying to figure it out till finally he could make out a skull.
"Aha! Wow that's so cool! How did you make that with all that?" He said with an excited and baffled voice
Slowly and surely he began to realize she was drawing the grim reaper, at least that's what he thought. No one has ever seen the mysterious being, some say he works in a completely different realm from what he, the guardians , and other spirits did. Some even say he's older than the moon himself. No one knows for sure though.
Ari finished the sketching and switched to a pen and began to make the drawing more detailed and eye catching. The drawing was intimidating and very well done despite the messy sketches in pencil. The pen lines were neat and done with care, and she got the skull down very well, without even needing to look at anything.
"That's so cool." He grinned when she finished. She had erased all of the pencil marks and signed her name on it.
He watched her look it over critically before shrugging.
"It really doesn't do him justice, I wonder what he'll think of it?" She mused.
That definitely caught his attention.
"What?" He questioned with furrowed eyebrows as he sat up and jumped down in front of her.
"Could you repeat that?" He pressed, but as expected, she didn't hear.
She put her book away and stood up, and before he could react, she walked through him. He gasped, the air was knocked from him, he clutched his chest as he staggered. He heard a gasp as well, and slowly turned her way. She was holding her chest as she looked around in alarm.
"Thanks for walking through me, that felt really swell." He spat out sarcastically. He always got a bit irritable when walked through.
"Who said that?" She called and his eyes widened.
"Can you hear me?" He questioned, not sure if he could hear right.
"Where are you?" She questioned looking his way.
She could hear him!