Chapter Two: Under the Ice
After Jamie, Sophie, and Molly went inside for the night Jack started making his way back to the lake. No matter what he did he couldn’t get Eva out of his mind. Her smile that she showed to Sophie was sad; the same went with her eyes. He could tell that she has smiled and was happy before but; something was bothering her. Jack heard a scream coming from the lake. He summoned the wind and made his way as fast as he could towards the lake.
The ice broke underneath her feet before she could shift her weight to go back down to the ice. She was able to catch herself from going all the way under but she didn’t know how long it would last.
“Somebody help please.” She cried “Somebody…please…it’s cold…the water’s so cold…” She muttered.
She took a deep breath and tried to pull herself up out of the water but end up slipping and submerging completely underwater. The water was so cold she ended up releasing the air that she had left in her lungs. She could have sworn she heard someone jumped into the water and someone grabbed her. Eva thought that she saw an outline of a teenage boy would looked to be not much older then her with messy hair pull her up to the surface. She started coughing up the water that she started swallowing.
“Eva, Eva, are you okay?” Jack asked quickly freezing up the lake where she was laying to make the ice stronger.
“EVA, EVA, WHERE ARE YOU?” Jack heard Jamie’s mother yell from a distance.
“Eva, you’re going to be alright, help is coming. Don’t go to sleep, please.” Jack begged as he watched Eva start to nod off as she was shivering.
“EVA…” They called again.
“I’ll be right back, what ever you do don’t go to sleep on me.” Jack ordered and quickly flew off towards the group. Jamie was with them.
“Jamie, follow me, I found Eva.” Jack told Jamie and then started flying off towards the lake.
Jamie started running after Jack. “Jamie where are you going?” His mother shouted and the adults ran after him.
“She’s at the lake.” Jack said and took Jamie down a safe path down to her.
Eva was fading in and out of consciousness and she saw people coming down to the lake. She remembers being picked up then everything faded to black.
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Eva’s parents got her home and into dry clothes once she started getting color back in her face and they could feel that she started getting warm again her father took her up to her room and tucked her into bed then placed a couple extra blankets over her to make sure that she would stay warm then he closed the door quietly behind him.
Jack opened the window and went into Eva’s room. He sighed in relief when he saw that she was still breathing and had gotten the color back in her face. She had a peaceful expression on her face as she slept. Jack sat down on the side of her bed and brushed some of her pale blonde hair out of her face. Her long hair was sprawled across the pillow like ice crystals in frost. Her smooth skin glistened in the moonlight that was shining through her window. In the moonlight her hair almost looked white. “I’m sorry Eva.” He whispered and brushed his hand against her cheek making her shiver a little. “I don’t know how I can make it up to you.”
When he looked around the room he saw all the boxes filled with stuff. He walked over to the open box that was sitting on top of a few others and pulled out a stuffed animal. It was a frog. He smiled a bit and brought it over to Eva and placed the stuffed animal under the sheets with Eva. After he did that he walked over to the window and looked back at her. “Don’t worry Eva I will make you happy again I promise.” He said then left with the wind.
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Eva woke up to the sun shining down on her into her eyes the first thing she was her stuffed frog being suffocated in a death grip of a hug and a mountain of blankets on top of her. She shot up off her pillow when she remembered what had happened last night. She got out of bed and went down stairs to see her mom and dad getting ready for work.
“I’m so glad you’re awake!” Her mom exclaimed running over to her oldest daughter and hugging her.
“Mom, too much hugging, can’t breathe.” Eva stated.
“Oh sorry hun.” Her mom loosened her grip and held her daughter out as arms length.
“Did you want one of us to stay home for the day?” My father asked.
Eva shook her head, “No I’ll be fine.” She replied.
“Okay then Eva, try to get some more rest, you’re still pale.” Her dad commented.
“I will.” She waved at them as they went out the door.
“Bye sweetie.” Her mom chirped.
“Bye.” Eva said as the door shut behind her parents.
She sighed and went back upstairs to her room to continue to unpack. She got about half way done and sat on her bed to take a break. Eva and Molly were home till January because the school this was the last week of school before Christmas break and there was no point in them going to school for a week then being off for winter break.
Eva looked at her alarm clock and saw that it was 8 in the morning. She didn’t really feel like unpacking any more at the moment anyways. Eva laid down in her bed and tried to relax a bit. She knew that she should start unpacking down stairs but she decided that she was going to work on that a bit later when Molly is up. For being a little girl that kid could sleep like she was a high school student who just pulled an all nighter to get their paper done. Until it hit Saturday then she was up bright and early to watch Saturday morning cartoons. Grabbing her frog and holding it over top of her she tilted her head when she looked at the stuffed animal.
“Well Froggy, what do you think I should do?” Eva asked.
“You should go outside and have fun.” Eva said in a squeaky voice pretending to be her stuffed frog.
“I have a whole bunch of unpacking to do though.” She stated.
“So, you can do it later.” She muttered as the frog.
She sighed and rested the frog on top of her stomach and looked up at the ceiling. “I know I just don’t seem to have fun any more though.” Closing her eyes she thought back to what happened yesterday.
‘There was someone who pulled me out of the water…but who was it?’ she thought to herself remembering the outline of the person she saw.
‘It had to have been a boy around my age or a little older.’ She pondered her mind to see if it was anyone that she might have meet yesterday when they got there and when she went out for her walk but she couldn’t think of whom it was.
“Eva, Eva.” Molly said from Her older sisters door way.
Eva opened her eyes and looked over to the door and Molly came in and jumped onto her sisters bed. “Well hello there sleepy head.” Eva laughed slightly.
“What cha’ doing?” Molly questioned.
“I was just thinking about last night. Someone pulled me out of the water but I don’t know who it was.” Eva answered.
“Maybe it was Jack Frost.” Molly smiled.
“It had to have been someone who was real Molly.” Eva stated bluntly.
“But, Jack Frost is real.” Molly said.
“Okay Molly whatever you say.” Eva replied.
“You just have to believe in him sissy. If you believe in him then you can see him.” Molly proclaimed bouncing up and down on the bed.
“Okay Molly, I’ll try to believe in him for you.” Eva sighed in defeat she could never say no to her little sister.
“Yay!!” Molly shouted and jumped off her older sisters bed and ran back to her room.
