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Chapter 3 – Wake Up!

Tiffany looked down at Jack's pale face as he laid down, not moving, in Jake's bed. "I feel so bad." She sighed as she brushed some hair out of his closed eyes. She sat on an office chair. "His skin is cold." Benjamin came up from behind her. "Don't be. It wasn't on purpose. And he was the only one that stormed out of here into the cold like that." Tiffany turned her attention to her companion. "Yeah, I guess so."

The Nerds were currently working on a new solution to return Jake's hair back to its normal colour. Too bad it's not Jake they have in the room with them.

Beep beep!

Beep beep!

Jack shifted in the bed. What the heck is that noise?

Beep beep!

Beep beep!

"Wake up…" It seemed to say. "Wake up…"

The boy groaned as he prayed for whatever was beeping to stop. Waking up from sleep powder isn't that easy.

He heard a door creak open. Must be North. He thought. He heard a little girl giggle. That's not North… "Jake's hair's still white." She said between her short laughs. Jake again… I'm not Jake. "Jake, it's almost time for school!" School? I don't go to school. I watch people go to school, but that's it. The little girl sighed. "Come on, Jake. Even the mention of school usually always gets you to spring out of bed."

She walked up to who she thought was her big brother and shook his shoulder. "Mommy's gonna get mad when I tell her that you didn't get up in time for school, Jake." Then, she noticed the frost-covered hoodie that her brother was wearing. "Where did you get that hoodie?" She asked. "Mm?" She finally heard him say something. "The hoodie…" The older boy flipped to his other side, no longer facing the young female. "Oh, for some time now."

Jack shuffled in the bed and sat up, yawning as he did so. "Okay, I'm up." He didn't open his eyes yet though. "Good. Mom said to make your own breakfast today. She had to leave for work early." Jack sighed. "Sure." He decided that since he is apparently this 'Jake' character, he might as well play along. It was kind of fun actually to live a human life for once. He'll call quits when he's had enough and reveal his true identity. The teen did wonder however where the real Jake went. He heard the girl's footsteps walk out of the room then close the door. "I'm still a little skeptical about the hoodie though." The girl called over her shoulder.

She found it a bit weird that her brother had a blue hoodie with frost covering the shoulders without her knowing, but she brushed it off. Knowing that he was a complete nerd, he probably just conjured that up with his friends the day before. Back in the room, something hit Jack like a ton of bricks. His plans of pretending to be human were ruined.

He was a Guardian. He still had his duties! He turned his head as his eyes shot open. They landed on the clock. 7:30 AM? I missed the meeting! It was hours ago! "Oh no!" He looked frantically around the room for his staff. "Ah!" he cried when he spotted it. Jack jumped out of bed, grabbed his staff, and began to run down the stairs.

Avery sat at the table eating her cereal. She had poured the milk and the cereal herself. She was very proud. Not every second grader at her school could do that yet. She heard the pounding on the stairs and knew it was her brother. Or who she thought was her brother anyway. "The meeting! I'm so late for the meeting!" The teen muttered. He dashed for the door. "Wait!" Avery cried.

Jack skidded to a stop. "You forgot your backpack!" He saw the girl step out of the kitchen and pointed with her finger. He looked down to where she was pointing and saw a dull brown coloured backpack leaning against the wall beside the front door.

In his rush, Jack just flung the bag over his shoulder. His brain didn't tell him that he didn't need it and it wasn't his. It only told him to thank the girl and pry open the door.

Well, he tried to pry open the door anyway until he realized that there were locks on it. That just gave the girl more time to shout, "Hey! You need to bring me too!" Jack knew he had to wait. The problem of the meeting flushed out of his mind. All that was in it now was waiting for the child until she was ready. He couldn't leave a kid behind, home alone. After all, his job as a Guardian is to protect the children of the world. He wasn't going slip up that task already.

Avery ran back to the kitchen and began to shovel the cereal into her mouth at top speed. When that was out of the way, she lifted the bowl to her lips and drank what milk was left. She was glad that she was already dressed for school. That was the routine anyway. Dress for school before eating breakfast.

Before dashing to her bright pink bag, she put her bowl and spoon into the sink. It was always a habit of the family. It was a good one too. "No breakfast for you?" The little girl glanced up at her brother as she slipped her arms into the backpack's straps. "Um… I'm just not that hungry this morning." He said, a little apologetically. He felt a little bad that he didn't do what the girl, or "his Mommy", told him to do. Then again, he thought. I didn't eat any of the family's food, so I guess its okay.

As they stepped out of the house, Jack already saw four teenagers about his physical age on the sidewalk, chatting to each other. "Hey! There he is!" The biggest one said in a deep voice as he pushed up his glasses to its proper place. Suddenly, the only female from the group came running in his direction… and wrapped her arms around him. "I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! We tried, Jake. We tried." Jack raised an eyebrow as he awkwardly hugged her back. "Sorry about what? What did you try?" The teenage girl tilted her head back so Jack could see her face features. Nicely combed brown hair was held back with a plain light purple headband. Bright green eyes sparkled under her square-shaped spectacles. Fluffy purple earmuffs covered her ears, matching her head band quite nicely.

"You don't remember?" She asked, confusion and shock clear in her words. "No…" Jack replied. He was pretty sure that it was still Jake that they were talking about. The girl's arms unwrapped itself from him as she turned back to the little group. "Benjamin," she began. "Are you sure you didn't knock him out too hard?" The tall lean teen Jack saw the day before answered. "I'm pretty sure I didn't… Unless I accidentally mixed some of the knockout powder with the forgetful powder…" He began to mumble to himself, trying to find what went wrong.

I need to get going! The meeting is way over and I still need to get to North to ask him what I missed! And this is my first meeting! Jack was getting a bit impatient and worried now. It was mandatory that the Guardians attend each and every meeting. The only exceptions were if you had someone there say you were going to be absent, and no one knew about his little situation.

Back at the Pole, indeed the meeting went by. A long time ago. Tooth went back to Tooth Palace a couple hours ago so she could see how her Tooth Fairies were doing. Sandy just came back from creating dreams and sending them to children across the globe. Really the Guardians left there were the Sandman himself, North and Bunny. It definitely wasn't going to be Easter egg hunting season any time soon, so Bunny figured, why not? He'll stay for a while. Especially when Frostbite is still passed out. The Easter Bunny found it weird that the teen would wear a coat though, and why he didn't seem as pale as he usually does. North got the coat off just a few minutes ago and there was the boy, all dressed up in proper and neat clothes. Bunny observed the fainted boy, who lay on the couch, from a distance in an arm chair. He had the full Geek Nerd set: a striped collared shirt with a formal looking sweater over it, pressed brown pants with the classic belt and golden belt buckle… And he was actually wearing shoes for once! The only thing missing now is the glasses and braces.

"Is he up yet?" A voice questioned in a Russian accent. "Nope, not yet." Bunny turned to see North at the door, peeking in. The big man then stepped in the room and walked next to Bunny. "He… looks a little strange, no?" He commented. "Yup. How did he get all those clothes? And the shoes?" North shrugged. "Maybe he wanted to play dress up to have fun." Bunny shook his head. "How could he find clothes like that just lying around?"

"Maybe he went into a clothing store?"

"I doubt it."

At that moment, the Sandman floated in. He gave a small wave to the two as he drifted to "Jack".

Sandman peered over his face. To Jake, it was really bad timing to finally wake up.

OH MY GOODNESS I AM SO SORRY! Homework and music practice and everything! It got in the way of me and writing! PLEASE FORGIVE ME! :(

Sorry again if this was kind of short/bad to you. I still have to do homework after this, and I'm trying to do everything in one day, but I'm not very sure how that is working out so far.

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