Jill and Jack

When Jack sees Jill walking alone in the hall, he can't help but wonder if she's that way on her own, or if people just forget she's there sometimes. Maybe she's just eccentric enough that it causes her to fade into the back-drop and be forgotten from time to time.

And when Jill sees Jack talking with the girl who lives a couple streets over, well, she bumps into her friend Reality and realizes that love is not a thing for girls who tumble down hills like tree branches.

Jill likes to make up excuses for the crescents underneath her gray eyes; 'Last night I couldn't get to sleep because I had a headache.' Or, 'I'm just not wearing make-up today.'. When honestly, the stress and heartache have gotten to the kid and she's border-line breaking.

The story they tell about the two, how Jack and Jill slipped down the hill last month, well, Jill actually fell first, despite popular belief. She was looking for her heart up behind the evergreens, and she didn't know that Jack had hidden it in his pocket. She slipped and rolled, and Jack fell too, because he was looking for the girl from a couple streets over.

One day Jack will arrive at Jill's door wearing the shirt he wore the day they first spoke, and he will hand her a note and leave. "Someday you will be loved," will be the words that break her heart and cause her to become life-long friends with Loneliness and Reality.

Jack and Jill slipped down that hill, and their hearts came tumbling after.