Never See You Again

By ChibiNagisaSakura

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Chapter 3. Stubborn

The two boys glared at each other. The one with the sharp blue eyes eyed the bloodied razor on the desk and the red soaked towel the boy held to his arm. The brown eyed boy saw the looks and tried to hide his arms behind his back.

"J-Jack!" he gasped at the sight of his old friend.

"Jamie?" the spirit of ice and snow questioned.

It was too late. He already saw and Jamie already knew.

"Jamie," Jack Frost inched closer to the now grown child. "W-What...b-but...why? I don't understand."

"Y-You're here!" Jamie was in disbelief. It had been a long time.

"Yes I'm here! Now what are you doing? Why are you bleeding?"

"I-I-I um..."

"Did you do that!?"

The mortal teen looked down guilty on himself and embarrassed. This has what he's reduced to. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. It was mortifying and pathetic to be like this. He took a deep breath in through the nose. Jamie's eyebrows lowered down over his eyes and tilted in wards towards his nose. He looked up with a fiery rage in his eyes and stood up strong as a rock.

"What's it to you?" he became defensive. "It's my body, I do as I please with it."

"What's it to me?" Jack rhetorically asked. "My friend is hurting himself and I don't care if it's your body, I don't want you to do it any more!"

"Why?" Jamie asked turning away. He opened up his drawer and brought out a cigarette and lighter and quickly lit it and blew a puff of smoke out from his mouth. "It's not like you cared before."

Jack's jaw dropped. What had become of his young friend over the years? It's like he's a new person now. He did not recognise Jamie Bennett. Not one bit.

"I've always cared...Jamie." Jack murmured softly.

"BULLSHIT!" Jamie screamed throwing the cigarette away from him. He marched over to Jack in full rage stomping his foot on the ground loudly as he did yelling loudly and backing the spirit into the corner where he grabbed him by the hoodie: "If you cared where the fuck where you all these years? I've been here alone! I've gone to middle school and now I'm high school and only now do you make a sudden appearance! Why!? You 'guardians' in trouble again? Well...DON'T count on me to help you out this time round you weird albino!"

Jack when he looked into Jamie's eyes saw nothing more than pain that had been building over the years. Tears threatened to spill during the pregnant pause. Silence was exchanged between the two but it spoke louder than what words could do alone. Jamie loosened his grip on Jack and set him down turning away trying to calm himself.

Jack turned to the burning cigarette and with a hand froze it over taking out a near fire start.

"Jamie...I-" Jack cut himself off. What could he say that could make the situation any better?

Instead of speaking, Jack flew over and set a hand on Jamie's shoulder. To his sadness, Jamie flinched away from Jack. The young boy straightened up and walked over to the table to get another cigarette. Blanking Jack out, he sprawled over the bed and pulled out a playboy magazine to flick through.

Jack looked around awkwardly not knowing what else he could do. So he sat. Sat down on the desk with his right leg stretched out and his left leg bent while his staff was placed up right between his legs and Jack leaned his head on it while it back arched on the wall. He put his hood up. He stayed.

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The clock on the beside turned its red digit from 0159 to 0200. Jamie was now on the laptop flicking through different porn sites with the earphones in but Jack could still hear the sounds. His mum still wasn't home. God knows what's happened to Sophie. Jack sighed and flattened himself out and slide off the table onto his feet. Snow began to fall from the ceiling by accident due to Jack's emotions. Recently he realized he can use his powers without the staff. The staff was just a way to concentrate his power into one point. Now-a-days he's been trying to control his powers without his staff but he still needed to practice. He wondered how she managed.

"Hey!" Jack tore an earphone out of his ear. "Quit it with the snow Frosty the fucking Snowman!"

"Sorry." Jack sighed taking hold of his staff tighter and locking his powers into that stick.

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0430: Jamie was taking another smoke. Jack opened a window in search for fresh air.

"Hey! Not all of us aren't bothered by the cold!" Jamie yelled at him.

"Sorry." Jack apologised again and closed the window. "So...how was middle school?"

"What you mean how was middle school? It was middle school; it was fuckin' shit!"

Jack awkwardly rubbed the back of his head. "Oh." Was all the snow-white boy could manage to say. He cleared his throat again. "High school?"

Jamie glared at him with daggers. Winter knew then and there not to open his mouth again.

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0500: the front door opened and Jamie's poor mother came in barely able walk on her own two legs. The tired woman's toes and fingers were numb and her clothes were soaked through. She turned on the hallway lights and dropped everything she had in her arms into the corner of the hall and staggered into the living room to crash on the sofa as it was closer than her bed. Switching off the hallway lights, she made her way to the living room. The moonlights helped guide her way through the shadows.

Approaching the sofa, she could see her youngest curled up with her wellyboots, coat, hat, scarf and mittens still on. All of them soaking wet as well as her pyjamas.

"Sophie." she rocked her daughter from side to side till her lime eyes fluttered open.

"Mum?" Sophie rubbed her eyes.

"Sophie, why are you wet?"

"...snow..." Sophie yawned going back to sleep.

"Why aren't you in bed?"

There was no reply. The child had gone back to sleep. With a breathless sigh, Sophie's mum picked her up in her weak arms and struggled up to the top of the stairs.

At this point Jamie was listened to music and read comic books while Jack floated about in the air.

"Your mum's back." Jack informed the ignorant Jamie.

He didn't listen. Completely ignored. Jack sighed and floated down onto the floor were he lay.

"Why aren't you going to sleep? You're going to die in class at school tomorrow y'know if you stay up any longer."

The black bags under Jamie's eyes proved to Jack this wasn't the first time he's done this. Jamie was severely depressed and Jamie needed help.

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The sun's rays flickered its way in through the window. Jamie's eyes squint as he opens them and with a face full of disgust, he gets up and closes the curtains with anger before crashing back down on his bed. Jack sighed and knew there was no way he was getting up any time soon. The clock's red lit up digits now said 1007. School had begun and all. Sophie had gone and poor Jamie's mum was gone to her next job that started at 10am. Right now, she was surviving on three and a half hours sleep, coffee and a packet of crisps.

Jack left to get on with his own job. He maybe the Guardian of Fun but this Guardian had a job to do too.

Jamie's mum came home around 3pm and shocked to find her son still in bed and an angry principal over the phone to her. She thumped his bedroom before barging on his just to be hit with a wall of smoke. Coughing, she swatted the 'air' and made her way over to the bedroom window where she opened the curtains and window.

"JAMIE!" she screamed at her son. "GET UP!" she dragged the covers away from him.

Jamie in his boxers ignored her.

"Why are you not at school?! Your principal called today. At this rate you're going to get expelled! What have you to say for yourself?!"

In his defence, the sleeping teen could only say two words: "Go away."

Jamie's mum rubbed her throbbing head and took a few seconds to calm herself and catch her breath. "Jamie. Please. I can't do this any more."

There was no response.

"Why are you being like this!?"

No answers.

"That's it Jamie. If you get yourself expelled from school you're leaving this house."

"Oh really?" Jack sat up to stare at his mum with a blank expression.

"YES! I MEAN IT! YOU'RE GOING JAMIE! I WILL KICK YOU OUT IF YOU GIVE ME ANOTHER REASON TO DO SO! GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER!"

"OH YEAH?! THEN WHAT? YOU GONNA BE HAPPY YOU GOT RID OF ME? IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE SO HAPPY WHY DON'T YOU DO IT RIGHT NOW!?"

"I don't have time for this Jamie. I love you, I do. But I can't handle you doing this each and every single day. What's wrong? Whatever it is you can tell me! I'm always here for you."

"Bullshit! You're never here. I bet you're going to be late for your second job now." Jamie stood up.

"I HAVE BECAUSE I'M THE ONLY PARENT IN THIS HOUSE, YOU DON'T HAVE A PART TIME JOB AND I CAN'T KEEP UP WITH THE RENT AND YOUR NEEDS. AT THIS POINT I MAY ACTUALLY LOSE SOPHIE AND SHE'S JUST A CHILD WHO NEEDS HER FAMILY!"

"Why don't you make like Dad and run off."

"Jamie...I'm never going to leave you like your dad."

"I DON'T CARE IF YOU DO! IN FACT, I HOPE YOU DO BECAUSE THEN YOU WOULDN'T BE IN MY ROOM!" Jamie pointed towards the door.

"THIS IS NOT OVER!" Jamie's mum held her finger up at him. "Trust my words Jamie Bennett, get kicked out of school, you'll get kicked of here, GOT IT!?"

She stormed out of the room to grab a quick bite to eat before she went on her second job that day. During the week she had three jobs, then on the weekend she had two different jobs. She loved it when the bank holidays, Christmas and Easter holidays came for it meant she could actually sleep and see her children.

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Days seemed to pass but Jamie made no effort in going to school. The week ended and soon Monday was close by again. Jack had been lingering round with Jamie getting nothing but insults or the silent treatment. Jack liked it when he got insults. It proved Jamie still believed in him and could still see/hear him. Freshly out of the shower, Jamie stared at his laptop blankly browsing through different YouTube videos.

"Jamie," Jack begun his speech. "I think you should go to school tomorrow."

"Why?" Jamie quickly responded to Jack's statement surprisingly.

"I um...think you're mum's being serious about kicking you out." Jamie's mum came back for round two like she said she would when Jack was present to see.

"So?"

"So?" Jack echoed his words. "Where are you going to go then? Where will you stay? What will you do?"

"I don't know."

"Exactly! You don't know!" Jack grabbed hold of Jamie's shoulders and looked straight into his dead eyes. "Come on! How bad can it be? If you want me to come with you I can. But you need to go! You hear me?"

"Yeah I hear you." Jamie pushed him away and turned to his laptop.

"What you say?" Jack looked hopeful.

Jamie thought for a minute with a finger to his cracked lips. "No." was his simple answer.

The room flashed blue and an, "AH!" was heard from the street. Jamie was now going to school in the morning so went to sleep around 0100. Jack smiled proudly at himself.

Another chapter. It's took a long time, I know. Losing all motivation to do things now but I'm trying to get my motivation back!

Yes, this is back to Jamie again while the last one was about Elsa. The next one will include Elsa. Yay! Enjoy this for now

~ChibiNagisaSakura