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The little girl looked up at Jack sniffling, "I don't have time for a game," she said as blunt as kids are. Jack puffed his cheeks out at the child as she watched the two trails in front of her, as if waiting for somebody.
"Who are you waiting for?" Jack asked curious, this child was a very unusual one. She looked back at Jack again and he saw tears filling her eyes. Eyes that reminded him so much of his little sister. Her pale blonde hair whisped around her face, and she shivered in the cold breeze that suddenly shifted in her direction. Jack couldn't feel the cold, but he could feel the familiar sting on his cheeks from the wind, to him it was comfortable, but to mortals it was just comfortable.
The girl suddenly began crying, "Woah woah," Jack said, putting a comforting hand on her shoulder, looking into her eyes,
"Hey, it's okay," Jack said.
The little girl looked up from crying in her hands, her eyes large saucers that would convince any adult to give her the whole world.
"Do you need help? I can help you," Jack said ready to give anything and everything to make the little girl safe.
After stifling her cries down to a sniffle she told Jack, "I'm lost, so I'm waiting for my caretaker." her eyes red. Jack smiled at the adorable little girl.
"Well do you know your address?", he smiled at her. The girl nodded and told him the address she had memorized by heart. Jack chuckled at how silly this little girl was.
Jack then scooped up some snow and threw it at a nearby tree, the girl looked back at him confused as to why he would do that. He then pointed his head back at the tree and suddenly the shape of a bunny popped out of it. The snow bunny hopped up to the girl and she giggled as it began to hop away out onto the trail the girl came back on.
The little brown eyes girl unthinkingly followed the snow rabbit giggling the whole way. She stopped following it when it suddenly blew up into snow, some snow touched her nose and melted, "Jack Frost." She whispered. When she looked up she saw she was in front of her apartment building.
When she went up to the very top, she got a very harsh scolding from her caretaker, and was forced to take a hot bath and eat some chicken soup before she caught a cold. A few days later, when Jack came back to that park, he wondered if he would ever see the little girl again, but he never did.
Keira ran away, yup. Just like that. She's not going crazy, of course she's not going crazy. It's not like she didn't just see Jack fucking Frost! Oh wait, she did. But isn't that a natural reaction somebody can make when they see an immortal spirit, that nobody else can see, and haven't seen since they were six years old?
Keira Bates is a normal seventeen year old girl, she goes to Burgess High School, and does not believe in Santa Clause... or the tooth fairy... or the Easter Bunny... or the sandman... and she most definitely does not believe in Jack Frost. He is not real. There is no such thing as a big white bearded man with tattoos on his arms, who climbs down your chimney and leaves presents under a ornamented tree and rides a sleigh with flying reindeer.
There is no such thing as a colorful fairy and her little colorful fairy minions, that comes in the night for your tooth and leaves behind a quarter. There is no such thing as a giant Easter Bunny with boomerangs, an Australian accent, and short temper that paints walking eggs.
And there isn't a person made out of gold sand, who can't talk, that gives children around the world good dreams. And there isn't an immortal boy with white hair and a mischievous grin who helps lost children in the middle of a stupid park in New York City!
It's fundamentally impossible for any of those people to exist. A Jet Liner can only travel around the world in about forty-two hours! Not that that isn't impressive, but how can a sleigh hauled by reindeer fly all over the world stopping at each house in one night? The Reindeer would die out of exhaustion!
And do you know how many forests and plains there are around the world? How can one giant rabbit put eggs in every stinking field and tree in every nook and cranny for kids to find? And there are seven continents on Earth!
How can a fairy tell where there is a tooth under a pillow? And don't even get started on a man made out of gold sand, that in itself is even more impossible than explaining a tooth fairy.
Keira Bates walked up the front porch steps of her Aunt's house, her backpack weighing down one side of her shoulders making her look crooked. She moved to her Aunt's house when she was about seven, she doesn't remember, just sometime when she was really little. She used to live in New York City. But thanks to her neglectful parents, it was decided for her to move here.
To a small town, with small people, where her mom grew up with her sister. This town is so small, that every family knows one another. It is so small, that walking down to the store takes ten minutes. This town is so small, that it is near impossible for people not to know every detail about your life. Oh you got straight A's on your report card? Great, you are sure to become mayor when you grow up! Oh congratulations on your volcano project, I know it didn't explode like it was supposed to, but the model was very impressive! Oh, you're from New York City? Oh, so your parents are big business owners? Oh, why don't I just list every detail I know about your life with a question, as if I don't know that about your life until you confirm it!
She hates this town, in New York nobody knew who you were. You were a blank face, an anonymous that nobody would care about. In New York you didn't have to focus too hard on your life itself, you could just focus on your dreams and aspirations. Keira had everything she needed there to help her fulfill her aspirations. But all because one day she sneaked out of the apartment to go for a walk and didn't come back for five hours, it automatically makes her caretaker unfit to watch over her and she has to live with her Aunt instead.
She liked her caretaker, she was a plump woman who gave the best hugs and made the best chicken soup. Keira can't remember her name, as she was too young, but she would never forget the plump woman who took care of her in her parents absence.
Keira stomped up the stairs, ignoring her Aunt who was smoking and watching some soap opera, and flew open her bedroom door. She dropped her bag on her bed and made a bee line straight for her laptop. Keira's room isn't like normal girl's rooms. It's not pink with frilly curtains, it doesn't have a bunch of girly frilly things in it. That doesn't mean that Keira doesn't enjoy girly like things. Her closet is filled with cute clothes to prove it. And she loves to paint her nails. Her room is not like most rooms, because it is covered with things from all over the world. She has African marriage masks on one wall, and she has a very stylish map wallpaper on the side with her closet. Her armoire is covered in little trinkets from around the world, from little wooden figures of animals to coins from Fiji.
Keira's parents travel, for their business, and when she was little they would always give her gifts from the places they went to. When they would come home after months of traveling, she would hear stories about the chief of an exotic island that was near to a main island that they were working for. How they got into a skirmish and the Chief's people and they ended up almost cooked for dinner, but then the Chief intervened and would say he was sorry for his people's strange diet. As the tribes people had mistaken their strange business appearance as a different species, and he sent them back home with a gift. And the gift that they would give her would be from that said chief.
Looking back on it, Keira could tell that they made it up to humor her child-like mind. The story was absolutely ridiculous. But, one thing that those gifts did convince her, was to travel. She wanted to travel everywhere. She wanted to see Japan, Africa, Russia, China! She wanted to see all of the different life styles of all the people around the world.
Because of this 'hobby' of hers, Keira was very good at her geography and cultures class. Although, Geography was mandatory, the Cultures class she took just for fun.
As Keira settled into her room, she took out a five from her back pocket and put it into a jar that said "Indonesia" under her bed. Keira has only been to one place out of the United States, and it was a business trip to the U.K when she was very young. Apparently, Keira had been too young, and she didn't enjoy herself on the trip at all. So her parents put her on a flight back to New York, where her new Caretaker was waiting.
Today, wasn't the first time Keira had 'convinced' herself that those immortal guardians where not real. In fact, a few days before she saw Jack in the hall on her way to the bathroom, she ran away that time too. Keira knows that she is kidding herself, trying to make herself not believe in them. But the truth is, that she knows exactly how Santa Clause, the Tooth Fairy, Bunnymund, and Sandman look like, and she has never met them before. Jack doesn't count as she met him in a memory a long time ago, but, for some strange reason she thinks it has something to do with the moon.
It's hard to say if she is crazy or not, people shouldn't see figments of their imagination and know that they are real. Usually she ignores it all together, out of sight out of mind kind of thing. But when she finally takes a break from staring at her computer screen, and looks out the window, she sees the moon. And when it is full and bright, she knows. She just knows that it is real.
A/N: lol, so yeaaahhh I kinda made her really sarcastic and angsty in this chapter :P Don't worry she wont always be like that! I just thought it would be funny to show you her irritated side first before her nice and shy side. Cause she is a very complex character :O
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