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I woke up in the middle of the night with a strong scent of cotton candy and the cold touch of something. "Hmmm..." I opened my eyes slowly to find a monochrome clown looking at me with a wide smile and white; super pale skin. He had an insane smile on his face.
"Missed me, lollipop?" His voice was raspy. I tried to scream but he covered my mouth with his cold hands. He smelled like candy.
I tried to push him away but he was way stronger than me. "You won't scream okay?" I slowly nodded and he let go. I turned on the oil lamp and finally was able to see him propperly. "J-jack?..." His smile widened "Missed me?" What had happened to him?...
I held the feather in my hand, looked at it and instantly became pale. "What the..." the feather was no longer blue. It was black. I started panting. That feather, the only thing that reminded me that I was a kid once.
"What happened to you?" His eyes filled with sadness and some anger "You abbandoned me for 10 years, Y/n. All those years isolated... alone in the carnival. With nobody to talk to. I was completely silent for 10 years."
I felt tears running down my cheeks and a turn in my stomach, both because watching my childhood friend like this. But it was my fault. I did this to him. I abbandoned him. How could I forget about him?
I felt so guilty that I hugged his waist wrapped in dusty white bandages while crying on his chest "I'm sorry, Jack... I didn't mean to do this to you..." I sobbed and he hugged me back, stroking my h/c hair. I felt so numb in his arms that I fell asleep dreaming about Jack, when he was a colofrul happy clown.
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Jack's pov
Finally. I'm out of the music box after 10 long years.
I saw Y/n laying down in a deep sleep so I got close to her and stood on front of her bed watching her. She still had the feather she took from me when she was 5. But... why did she leave me? It was so sudden. I forgot her voice, her touch, her smell. But I never forgot her e/c eyes, h/c hair and clumsy, beautiful smile.
She woke up and saw me with her wide, scared eyes. Something happened in me that I smiled so widely; still so insanely. She was so scared but I just couldn't bear it. I told her what she had done to me. She started crying silently, like she did when she was little, and then she hugged my waist.
"I'm sorry..." she said sobbing. Those sobs I heard almost every night coming from her mouth because of her dad. I hugged her tight remembering everything I had forgot about her and stroked her soft hair.
She soon fell asleep in my arms so I layed down with her cuddling her and making her warm. I turned off the oil lamp and I fell asleep dreaming about her.
