Song: 19 something

By: Mark Wills

Start song at (1)

"Tell us more! What else was different!" Max coxed.

"Oh, you guys don't want to hear all the little details." Susen said.

"Of course we do!" The kids, Jack included, shouted in answer.

"Well of you insist!" Uncle Keith told them. (1) "Let's see, I saw the movie Star wars at least 8 times. I played pac-man's arcade game so often I had the theme song memorized, and my friends and I stretched the stretch armstrong toy to the point where we saw what was put inside it."

"Oh I remember that day." Grandma said. "You begged for that toy till you were blue in the face and it didn't even last two days!"

Keith had the decency to look guiltily nervus, which lasted all of five seconds. "Any way I loved to play football in my backyard, pretending I was Roger Stall. I also collected baseball cards, had a whole shoebox of them, and some Evil Knievel scars that I got from doing stunts on my bike." He showed off his right arm where you could make out the faded scar lines. "I was a kid when Elvis died and Mom I believe you cried that day."

"Elvis was and still is the best musician there ever was, when he left this world we all felt the loss."

The kids looked between their teary-eyed Grandmother and there Unkle who was rolling his eyes.

"That was the 1970's-when Farrah Fawcett hairdos, bell-bottom pants, and 8 track tapes were all the rage. Looking back now I can see me, and oh man did I look cheesy, but I wouldn't trade those days for nothing!"

Uncle Whain taped Keith on the shoulder. "Let me have a go." With a wave Keith gave the reins over. "The new decade dawned; we got out first microwave and my dad finally shaved his sideburns off. I cheated the rubik's cube by taking the stickers off and loved to watch MTV all afternoon long." His face changed a bit then, almost like he was blushing. "I, ah," choff " I fell in love with Daisy Duke in her cut off jeans."

His wife gave him a playful, and yet meaningful, shuve. He quickly went on to another subject of memorie.

"Ahhhhh, Oh! The space shuttle fell, the tragedy had the whole world in tear. That was the 1980's-when skating rinks, black trans ams, BIG hair, and parachute pants were all anyone wanted. Looking back now I can see me, and oh man did I look cheesy, but I wouldn't trade those days for nothing!"

"Nowadays we have to worry about Mortgages and SUVs, boy I got to tell you sometimes I wish it was still the 1980's."

"Or the 1970's." Keith added.

The kids constantly bombarded the uncles, after they were done, with questions. "What's a stretch armstrong toy?" "Who were Roger Stall and Evil Knievel?" "How did a Farrah Fawcett hairdo look, how long did you keep your haircut like it?" "Can you show us some Bell-bottom and Parachute pants?"

The next few minutes was spent answering, showing, describing, and exaggerating.

"I'm Telling you North, I looked everywhere! Around his pond, the woods and the town of Burgess. I froze my fur off searching the coldest places on the planet, and dug so many new tunnels under islands I might have to put water tight spells all throughout my underground systems just to make sure the ocean doesn't come crashing in!" Bunny had returned to the Pole, his worry and frustration now mingled together to create a scary combination of emotional outpouring.

North, oblivious, had asked: "Bunny? What took so long and where is Jack. You were suppose to get him for meeting."

After hearing Bunny describe his search, and an unsuccessful one at that, Tooth was now in full threatening mode. "You don't think Pitch has come back do you? Or, Mim forbid, he's been injured in another training fiasco! I thought we fix that problem!"

Sandy had been waving to get the others attention for most of the conversation. He had noticed that Bunny had said nothing about checking near kids, specifically Jamie and his friends, to see if Jack was with them.

"Toothy, let's not get over worried." North tried to calm the fairy.

"The kid knows better than to train with his old methods, he's probably playing a sick humor game of hide and seek." Bunny added.

Sandy created an image of Jamie and his friends playing a snowball fight. Nobody even glanced his way, and unfortunately there were no conveniently nearby elfs. They had all started to learn to stay away when Sandy got like this.

"I don't think Jack would take his jokes this far." North said.

"I do!" Bunny challenged.

Sandy got right in the middle of the other three, only for them to continue to ignore him. With sand steam coming out his ears Sandy Lasode Tooth's wings, Bunny's ears, and North's arm and yanked. The three found themselves literally knocking heads.

"Oiy! What was that for!" Bunny complaned.

"Sandy, what is it?" Tooth asked, rubbing her tender head.

"Shusticovis!" Swore North.

Sandy Showed everyone in depth sand pictures of Jamie, Sophie, Cupcake, Pippa, Monty, Claud, and Caleb.

"The kids?" Bunny looked to the globe to see if the lights were flickering. "The kids are fine, mate."

Sandy grabbed Bunny's ear and stared him in the eye. Then he created a snowflake.

Finally it dawned on the Pooka. "OHHHHHHHHHHHH! You mean Jack may be with the kids!"

Sandy let go of Bunny and gave a curt nod, his face showing his obvious exasperation.

The training I mention in this chapter is a reference to a spin off arc of chapters in my story songs of 300 plus years. You don't have to read them to understand this comment however if you are coureurs the arc is titled Training and each chapter in that arc has training in the title.

Bunny is about to find Jack, what will happen? How will Bunny react to the Bennets, How will the Bennets react to Bunny? Stay turned. LOL I always wanted to say that. Sorry couldn't help myself. :)