My Frozen Heart

Chapter 3: The Coming Spring (Part 1)

Serena's PoV

I woke up early the next morning and got dressed before I went downstairs to eat breakfast with my parents. When I walked into the kitchen they both looked up at me like I was insane.

"What are you doing up so early? Its only 8:00." my mom said.

"I don't know... I have to start getting use to waking up early again anyway." I replied, "So um, I was going to go for a walk after breakfast. Would that be okay?"

"Where would you be walking to?" my dad asked, raising his eyebrow at me.

"I don't know, I just want to get some fresh air." I said.

"Then you can stay in the back yard. You don't need to go anywhere, you stay where I can keep an eye on you." he replied.

I sighed and started to toast myself a blueberry poptart. While its toasting, I head over to the fridge and get out the milk, grab a cup from the cubbord and pour myself a glass of milk, then procead to put the milk back in the fridge where it belongs. I grab a paper plate from the pantry just as my poptart pops out of the toaster, I grab it out quick and put them on my plate, then head to the table to sit down and eat.

I looked up at my parents who were both still sitting at the table giving me funny looks.

"What?" I asked them. They were looking at me like i had some sort of deformity on my face, like the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera.

"You usually skip breakfast on the weekends." My mom finally said.

"Only when I sleep until eleven o'clock." I replied as I started to eat my poptart.

My dad looked up from reading the paper and turned to my mom to talk about some current event. I tuened them out as I silently ate my poptart, thinking about Jack and how I would escape my yard so we could go out somewhere and do something.

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Though I wasn't doing anything besides eating, it took me a while to finish my poptart because of how deep in thought I was. I finally decided to get up from the table to throw out my plate and put my cup in the sink.

Should I go out now? I wondered to myself as I looked out the window, then to the clock on the stove. It read 9:24.

Is Jack even awake yet? I wondered. Then I wondered if he even slept at all... I decided to wait a little while before going out, so I went back up to my room.

Not sure why... Its not like I have anything up there to do besides fool with my computer, draw or play with my 3DS...

As I got closer to my room, it seemed to get colder. Instantly I smiled and continued walking, knowing Jack must be in my room waiting for me.

I opened my door and looked to my bed where Jack was laying with his eyes closed. I closed the door behind me.

"Well hello there Jack." I said with a slight giggle.

He opened one eye and smiled back at me. "Hey." he said as he sat up. "So what do you want to do today?"

"Well about that..." I began, "I'm not allowed to leave my yard."

"What? Why?" he asked, sitting up on my bed.

"My dad said since I have no where to go I don't need to go anywhere..." I replied, looking down sadly then to the large window in my room.

"We could fly out the window, like we did last night." he suggested, but I knew if I were to do that my parents would call for me and find me missing.