My Frozen Heart

Chapter 10: The Past (Jackson & Melody)

--Melody's PoV--
It was an unusually warm winter morning and I had just woken up to a fierce knocking at my door. I sighed and yawned, then got up to answer it, still in my pajamas.
It was Jackson.
"Oh good Mel your up!" he said, excited. "Wanna go skating with Liz and me?"
"I don't think thats a good idea. Its really warm today, don't you think? You should wait until tomorrow so the lake can freeze over night. Why don't we hang out here or something?" I suggested.
"But that's not fun we always do that Mel!" he protested.
"We can have a snowball fight? I mean, I know we always do that too but I just don't think that its a good idea." I repeated.
"C'mon Mel!" Liz chimed in now, trying to get me to go along.
I sighed. "Right then, let me get dressed." I closed the door and went over to my dresser, changed quickly and grabbed my ice skates. I had a feeling it was going to end badly... If not today then tomorrow for sure. I sighed again as I opened the door.
"Alright, lets go. I still think this is a bad idea though." I said.
"Yay!" Liz chimed and started skipping away, leaving Jackson and I behind.
"Don't go out on the ice until we get there Liz!" he yelled after her.
When Jackson and I arrived at the frozen lake, we found Liz trying to get her skates on.
Jackson laughed. "Here let me help." he said, knealing down to help her.
I brushed a rock off and sat down. I wasn't sure if I wanted to go skating.
"Are you going to skate Mel?" Liz asked, who was having trouble standing in her skates.
"I just think it might be a good idea to inspect the ice before anyone starts skating on it..." I said.
"Ugh fine, I'll show you that its okay." Jackson said, leaping onto the frozen lake.
"Jackson be careful!" I yelled at him, knowing that he would fall though the ice if it was thin.
He walked around the whole lake and jumped around on it.
"Its fine see!" he yelled back.
"Alright alright then! Stop jumping on the ice!" I yelled, then started to put on my skates.
Jackson helped Liz onto the ice, and helped her skate around.
Once I got my skates on I got up and walked over to the lake surface. I was still unsure that it was the best idea to go skating today, but I decided to go have some fun with Jackson and Liz anyway.
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To my relief, even after skating around for hours nothing had happened.
"Jack I'm tired! Can we go home now?" Liz asked.
"Alright, yeah. Let's go." he said. "We'll go skating again tomorrow."
The three of us headed back home.
Jackson told Liz to go inside, then stood outside my house with me for a while.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"Its- its nothing, I just don't think its a good idea to go skating tomorrow... I feel like something really bad is going to happen Jackson..." I looked down, but as soon as I did I felt his hand under my chin- which made me look up at him, feeling my face get warm.
He leaned in, and I froze.
"It will be fine." he said, "Nothing is going to happen tomorrow. If you don't want to come you don't have to."
"But Jackson-" I tried to protest, but his lips touched mine before I could get another word out.
"J-Jackson..."
He smiled at me, and that's when I knew. I shook my head.
"What?" he asked.
"Nothing." I said, this time smiling at him. "I like you Jackson, and I have for a long time. I just didn't know how to tell you... So I'm glad-"
He laughed and pulled me into a hug. "I love you Mel."
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The following day.....
--Liz's PoV--
The next day, Jack and I got up really early to go skating! We didn't invite Melody to go along this time.
"Why didn't we invite Melody?" I asked Jack on the way to the lake.
"She told me yesterday she didn't want to come. And I don't want to wake her up." he replied.
"Oh. Well alright then..." I said as Jack and I arrived at the lake.
He helped me put my skates on and off I went.
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--Jackson's PoV--
Liz went off on the ice as I began to put my skates on. I looked away for just a second when suddenly I heard a crack.
"Jack!" Liz yelled.
I dropped my skate and looked up. The ice had started to crack around Liz.
"Hold on Liz!" I yelled and quickly found a long stick.
"Jack! I'm scared!" she said.
"Its okay, its like a game. Ready?" I said, trying to calm her down.
"O-okay..." she replied.
I smiled. "Alright, one, two-"

"Three!"
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--Liz's PoV--
In that second, Jack flung me back onto the snow bank.
We smiled an laughed but then-

Crash.

Jack had landed where the ice was cracked- he was too heavy and fell through.
I screamed- ripped off my skates and ran back to get Melody.

"Melody!! Melody!!" I yelled for her.
"What? What is it Liz?" She came to the door, still in her pajamas and looking half asleep.
"Jack fell! Jack fell through!!" I yelled, starting to cry.
I watched her eyes widen, then she pushed me out of the way and started running towards the lake.
"Get someone else to help too Liz!!" she yelled as she ran.
I hurried and grabbed Kent fom next door and we hurried to the lake too.
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--Melody's PoV--
Jack.
I knew something was going to happen.
But Jack.
I can't believe that he didn't get me to go with them this time. I bet he knew I would have made him and Liz stay home today...
But then...
I arrived at the lake and I didn't even think.
I jumped into the hole where Jackson had fallen in.
Where is he?
Jack...
I was prepared to look for him down there until I died- but... I felt someone grab me from above.
I hit the air and caughed and gasped.
"Jack! Jack!" I yelled, trying o get away from who grabbed me to go back to the freezing water.
"Melody- he's gone. Jackson is gone." he said.
"He can't be- no... He- he's not... He's down there we have to save him! Please!!" I pleaded, turning to look at Kent and Liz.
"Its too late-" he replied, sighing and looking away from Liz and I.
"But he saved me... Then its my fault." Liz said, crying more.
I covered my mouth- I didn't know what to do. I wanted to throw up- I wanted to die- There is no way that I can go on after what happened last night, now he just- because he didn't listen to me.
He didn't listen.
Jack.
He never listens...
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I woke up in my bed- I sat up, confused.
What just happened?
I held my head and touched my cheak.
Tears?
Had I been crying?
Wait.
Jack.
I quickly got dressed and went outside.
The village's people were gathered by a bonfire.
What's going on?
I walked over, as I got closer I could hear crying.
"...gathered here... to celebrate... life of Jackson Overland who died yesterday in a tragic accident saving his sister from falling through the ice... in turn, he fell instead..."
It is real...
I droped to my knees and looked at the ground.
"No!" I screamed.
I could feel everyone turn and look at me.
"No!" I screamed again and started crying.
I can't believe this.
I thought it had been a dream.
I was wrong.
He didn't listen.
Jack....
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Serena's PoV
Where am I?
What happened?
I stood up and looked around. I felt different.
I walked over to a mirror in the tiny room to find my clothes had been changed.
What are these clothes?
It was a floor length purple and black dress, complete with corset and long gothic like sleeves.
I was very confused.
I sat back down and held my head- recalling the vivid dream that I had while I was unconcious.
What the hell?
Now I'm even more confused.
Confused, angry, sad- probably other emotions that I can't remember the names of...
Ugh.
Can today get any worse?

"Ah your awake, good." I heard.
I sigh mentally. Yes. It just got worse.
"What do you want?" I asked the tall dark man called Pitch.
"I told you what I want dear, all those lights to go out. And you are going to help me.
"Why would I-" I paused.
Something broke inside of me when he said those words.

"You are going to help me."

Did he repeat that or am I hearing things now?
I don't know.
But the next thing I said- I'm sure wasn't really me.

"Of course I'll help you my darling."

What? No. What am I saying? I don't want to help him at all! And 'darling'? What the hell's that about?

I saw him grin and then creep closer to me.

Oh hell no.

He leaned in.

Jesus.

He kissed me.
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A/N:
Yup. That's what I'm ending it with! Muahaha.
So finally. Chapter 10 complete! Yay! Hopefully the next chapter will come out in the next couple of weeks? I don't know. I need to get a writing agenda or something. Next time; Chapter 11: Rise of the Guardians