BTT2:ROTQ Deleted Story/Chapter 1

G'Day Casters, I'm back with a NEW FanFiction! Today we explore the possibilities of a Bridge To Terabithia 2! I'm going to try to stay accurate to the fact that this is an American story. Meaning mum will be spelt mom, colour will be spelt color, I will use Fahrenheit instead of Celsius, it will be Elementary School not Primary School, Etc.
Enjoy!
Year = 2011
Chapter 1: Ghosts
Jesse's POV:
My name is Jesse Aarons, I'm fourteen and I go to Lark Creek
Elementary School where I am in ninth grade. (A/N I am using Australian grading
here because I don't know anything about American schools, they might be the
same.) I's currently 57*F (A/N 14oC, I can't do the Degrees symbol without FF
just making it look like o, because I use word so I would just put it up in the
corner of the word.) but I'm sweating like a pig, even though I'm wearing a
tee-shirt and shorts. I just got home from school where I had had a race and I
had beaten all the other ninth grade boys. I was now lying down on a picnic
blanket in the treehouse that we called our castle. Four years ago I had a
friend called Leslie Burke. She had an amazing imagination and had gotten me to
keep my mind wide open. We created a magical kingdom called Terabithia and even
though she died that same year, I have been keeping Terabithia alive with the
help of my now ten year old sister, May Belle. May Belle had grown up and
matured a lot over the past four years and now she was nowhere near as annoying
as she used to be. In fact she was my best friend. Not my only friend, but my
best friend. Although Leslie was my first and will always be my BFF, I had
gained three new friends over the years. The old school bully, Janice Avery,
and two new kids, Jaina Rhile and Joshua Puller. (A/N I know I'm lazy, just
reusing characters from DCP. Joshua is going to be closely based on Josiah.) I
was so caught up in my thoughts that I didn't notice May Belle climb up the
tree and lay next to me until she sighed. "Aren't you cold?" She
asked. I looked over at her. She was wearing a thin yet very warm jacket along
with a pair of tracksuit pants. "I just ran across the entire school
field, don't you think I would want to be cold right now?" I said. We both
liked the cold, but we also liked to rug up in warm clothes. The reason we had
the warm clothes is the same reason we had done some huge renovations on our
house. After Leslie died, the Burkes gave us a few thousand bucks because of
how close to her I was. Now that Brenda and Ellie worked at the local
supermarket, and dad had gotten a rise in his pay, we didn't have any money
problems at all. Joyce Ann was now seven and had her own room, meaning that I
didn't have to put up with just a corner anymore. I shared half of May Belle's
room now but we acted as if we both owned the whole room, because of the fact
that we had become such close friends as well as siblings. My old corner now
served as our art and school work area. We had both become a lot better at
drawing and now we put so much detail in the pictures we make that they look
real. And yes, I said we. May Belle has gotten into drawing as well. The corner
also had our PC that we shared, since we had managed to get a decent internet
and some PC's for school and work. With the internet, we both posted our
drawings onto DeviantArt and Facebook. It was getting late and we decided to
head home. I grabbed my simple yet warm jacket and the blanket. We went over
the bridge I had made after Leslie died and ran back home. We got inside and
when we got to our room I just crashed on the bed while May Belle turned on the
PC and started up the large playlist of music we had generated over the years.
Then she started making a new drawing. Soon, it was time for dinner and after
we ate we both went to bed.
The next morning, it was snowing. It was winter and coming up to
Christmas so the snow had been on and off all week. Much like the rain had been
for my favorite gaming YouTubers over in Australia, since they had 'Christmas
in Australia on a scorching summer's day,' as the Aussie Jingle Bells said. (A/N
Now I'm just being selfish, aren't I? He is talking about an all Aussie version
of Minecast Productions, with Star, Nise, and Oathy being Australian instead of
American. Sorry guys.) I went down stairs, had breakfast, got in some think
winter clothes, and went out to do the two or three chores that I still had. As
I finished my chores and was about to go inside, I saw a yellow Chevrolet Omega
(Holden Commodore Omega with a Chevy badge stuck on it) pull into the driveway.
Josh and Jaina got out and came over to me. "Hey Jess, how's it
goin'?" Asked Josh. "Good, what about you two?" I replied.
"Great!" Answered Jaina. I smiled and we headed inside to get warm.
"Hey May Belle!" Said Jaina as we entered our room. "Hey
guys!" Replied May Belle. She was scanning the picture into the computer
so she could upload it. Once it was finished scanning, I took it out and looked
at it. It was a very amazing drawing of Terabithia back when she first visited
with me, her, and what Leslie might look like if she was still around, standing
in front of the golden bridge. We were all wearing crowns and I could see the
Terabithians all crowding around in the background. Even the giant troll was
there. "Very good May Belle." I said, showing it to Jaina and Josh.
"Wow, this is amazing!" Said Josh. They didn't know that Terabithia
was a real place in our imaginations that we visited all the time, they just
thought it was a place we made up for a better surrounding in our pictures. I
hung the drawing on the door and asked the others if they wanted to go out and
play in the snow. They agreed and we all put our winter stuff back on before
heading out into the cold snow.
After about fifteen minutes of snowball fights and building
snowmen and snow castles (Sand castles with snow… Never heard of it but I'll
put it there anyway) and stuff, a black Cadillac Escalade pulled into the
driveway and a man got out. The windows were tinted but I could make out two
more people in the car. The man came over to us. "Are you Jesse Oliver
Aarons Jr.?" He asked me. I nodded. He looked back at the car and gave a
thumbs up. The other two people got out. One was a young woman, and the other
looked like a teen girl. She had one of those beanie's that cover your ears and
a giant puffy jacket which she was burying her face into so all I could see
were her eyes. Until she saw me and took her face out of her jacket. I froze
and out of the corner of my eye I could see May Belle freeze as well.
"Jess?" Said the girl. "Le-Leslie?" I managed to stutter. She's dead! How can she be here? This must be a dream. She ran to me and hugged me. She
pulled back and looked at me. "Bu-but you're dead!" I said. She
looked shocked and closed her eyes, facing the ground. "We thought you
were dead for four years Leslie." I continued. "Jess, I didn't die.
When I fell into the river I went unconscious and went into a four year long
coma. That's probably the longest coma I've ever heard of but it's true. I woke
up the other day and have spent the last few days remembering everything. But
there is one more spot that I can't remember at all." She said.
"Terabithia." Said May Belle. Leslie looked at her. "May Belle?
You've grown a lot!" She said, hugging her as well. May Belle laughed.
"Hey Leslie. Is Terabithia the thing that you haven't remembered?"
She asked. Leslie looked at her, thinking. "It sounds familiar." She
said. "We rule Terabithia." I said. "And nothing crushes
us!" Finished Leslie. She smiled and hugged me again. "Our
kingdom." I nodded. Josh and Jaina looked confused. They had not met
Leslie before but I had told them about her. "Isn't Terabithia just the
place that you two made in your drawings?" Asked Josh. I looked to them,
not sure whether to tell them or not. I looked to Leslie. "Terabithia is
the magical kingdom that Jess and I made to get away from everything. Just keep
your mind wide open." She said, looking at me. "Well, we will leave
you guys to catch up, we've got another call to go get." Said the woman
who had come with Leslie. "Okay." They drove off and we went inside.
Leslie took her beanie off and I saw her complete face. She was even more
beautiful than I had imagined her being. Her hair was still cut short and her
face had grown, making her look amazing. When we got to the kitchen and living
room, everyone except Joyce Ann froze. "You all look like you've seen a
ghost." Said Joyce. "That's because they probably have." Said
May Belle. "Leslie?" Asked mom. "Hi." Replied Leslie.
"Long story, will explain later." She said and we went to our room.
"So you've got more than just the corner now?" Asked Leslie when she
saw the room. I laughed and nodded. She went over to my old corner and found
the old drawing of our 'castle' on the ground behind a shelf. May Belle and I
had remade the picture with extreme detail and replaced the original one with
it. But Leslie found the original one. "Bells." She said. We laughed
again. Then she saw the new one. "Wow, this is amazing! There is so much
detail!" She said. She went over to the drawing that I had hung up this morning.
"I made that one last night." Said May Belle. "I see you're the
princess now." Said Leslie, giggling. "Yep!"
We spent most of the day showing Leslie our art. Josh and Jaina
headed home after a while. "Hey, do you think I can stay here tonight? It
would be more comfortable than the hospital." Asked Leslie.
"Sure." I said.
After we had shown Leslie all our drawings May Belle went down
stairs and left us alone. Leslie was laying on my bed while I had some music
playing on the computer. "Jess, there's something I've been wanting to
tell you." She said, sounding nervous. "Go on." I said, calmly.
"Jess, I- I love you. And it's not just a crush, I really, truly, love
you." I could see why she was nervous, I instantly become nervous as well.
"Leslie, I- I love you too…" She got off my bed and slowly walked
over to me. She sat on my lap and leaned her head on my shoulder. "You're
the only person I ever loved Leslie." I continued. She looked at me for a
second, before we both lent in and kissed each other. It was amazing, finally getting
to kiss Leslie. We heard May Belle coming up the stairs and finished our kiss.
"Dinner's ready you two." She said. We smiled and went down stairs
for dinner. Over dinner, Leslie explained what had happened to her.
After dinner, we went up to the room again and got ready for bed.
Leslie and May Belle got changed into their pajamas in the bathroom while I
changed in our room. They soon came back and we all went to bed, Leslie
sleeping in my large queen size bed with me.
Hope you enjoyed that chapter! Tell me what you think of this story, it's very different to what I've been writing before since that's got a bit more action in it. I want Leslie and Jess to have a relationship but I won't go any further than them kissing because I want to stay at the PG rating that the original movie was. Please R&R! This story will be the same as DCP as in I will only update it when I get ideas. See ya next time!
-Minecast Chris