Faith and Trust

Early Morning Plans

Jack hesitated outside of Mira window. Way back when he was friends with Jamie, he would've just opened the window and gone right in. However...Mira was a girl his age and he wasn't sure how to handle this. After a while of trying to figured out how to wake her and talk, without being... rude or bad or whatever, he knocked loudly on the window.

Jack winced as he heard a thump and yelp from inside. Oops. It worked however and a moment later Mira's window slid open.

"Jack" She hissed "What the heck are you doing? It's 5:00 in the morning."

"..Yeah"

"5:00 in the morning!!"

"I talked to the Guardians-"

"Couldn't you have waited to talk at least until the sun had come up"

" I did wait" Jack said defensively "I-"

"Wait a little longer" With that she closed the window and pulled the curtains across. Jack stared at the window in shock for a moment. Jamie had always always ready to play, no matter what time it was. Maybe it was a girl thing.

After waiting a few minutes in Mira's yard, Jack got bored and decided to explore the rest of Burgess. It had definitely changed since he had seen it and, for the most part, not for the better.

All the fun places like the Arcade and Movie theater and restaurants had been replaced by office buildings and school or just vacant lots. Burgess had expanded too, into the woods surrounding Jacks pond. Speaking of his pond it had been converted into a ice skating rink(Which he was totally cool with) but it looked like had been abandoned along time ago.(Which he was not cool with).

The dim grey light got slightly less dim, and he supposed this was the equivalent of sunrise. He headed back to Mira's house and saw her slip out of the house, looking nervously around.

"We can't talk here, I'll look crazy talking to myself...Well crazier" They once again headed down the path that lead to the clearing.

"Why do they think you're crazy, anyway?" Jack asked

"Well, like I said before, people don't like me talking about this stuff. Fairytales and magic I mean. They think it's all nonsense so they think I'm crazy for believing it's real"

"That sucks"She laughed bitterly. "Yeah pretty much. They mean well, I suppose. They don't want their child believing in something that isn't real and then getting their dreams crushed when they find out the truth."

Jack frowned "Kids should believe in whomever they want. And we are real"

"They don't know that" Mira said "And I'm glad you're real. Means I haven't given up my social life for nothing"

"You gave up your social life?"

"You don't exactly have friends when everyone thinks you're crazy" Mira said twirling her finger around her ear when she said 'crazy'. "Well, I did have my 6 year old cousin as a friend, but I never see her anymore..for the same reasons."

Jack was horrified. "You're not allowed to even see your own cousin!"

"Well, my aunt hasn't said that formally." Mira said "But after I told Taylor about the Tooth fairy, she got really excited and started telling my Aunt Suzan all about her and her mini fairies. After that, I've never seen her really"

This news disturbed Jack immensely, but he had a new idea knocking around in his head. "So you have a 6 year old cousin, who's a fairy fan" He mused

"..Yes" Mira said confused

Jack grinned at her. "Well, the Guardians won't be much help I'm sorry to say, but maybe we can spread belief ourselves." He gestured for Mira sit down as they reached the clearing. "One little kid at a time"