New story! Miraculous/Frozen crossover.
I love Frozen. Elsa is my most favorite Disney princess. And thinking back on the original story and the original concept for the movie; Elsa, as the Evil Snow Queen, would make an awesome akuma!
I'm so happy to post this first chapter on my birthday.
Spring had sprung brightly and colorfully in Paris. The weather had been warm and sunny for several weeks, but today was especially beautiful.
Marinette left the Boulangerie Patisserie. Not in a rush for once, she was able to stop and enjoy a deep breath of the fresh spring air. Marinette loved spring. The warmth, the sun, things in bloom, and of course the gentle breezes that reminded her that summer was just around the corner. Although she wasn't a big fan of the cold, Marinette still liked winter well enough. It was a great time to go to the local ice rink and do a little ice skating. Despite her daily clumsiness, Marinette was quite graceful on the ice, with a pair of skates of course.
Giving a satisfied sigh, Marinette walked across the street over to her school where she could see Alya waiting for her by the stairs.
"Good morning Alya," the perky baker's daughter said to her best friend.
Alya just turned to her, looking at her grimly. "Who are you, and what have you done with my beloved best friend Marinette?" she said accusingly. Marinette stopped in her tracks, looking confused, until Alya's facade cracked, and broke into a chuckle. "You are never this early," she said with a teasing grin.
Marinette smiled back. "Hey, I'm not always late or rushing to not be late."
"Fine, you're hardly ever this early. You happy?"
"As a clam," Marinette said honestly. She truly felt very light and fresh in this beautiful weather. "It's such a beautiful day today," she said, fondly glancing at the clear blue sky.
"Yeah. Too bad we have to spend most of it inside," Alya shrugged, starting to walk toward the stairs of the school.
Marinette started to follow after her, but she stopped when Alya suddenly stopped walking, her head turned to the street. Marinette looked to and saw a big white limo just pulling up to the sidewalk in front of the school.
"Woah. Who is in there?" Alya wondered out loud.
"It's probably just Chloe," Marinette said, uninterested. She definitely did not want to catch 'her-royal-pain-in-the-buttock' coming in and spoiling her fair weather good mood.
"No, Chloe's limo already dropped her off before you got here," Alya informed her best friend. "And Adrien doesn't come to school by limo anymore," she added. That ruled out the only two possible candidates they knew of who would come to their school in a limo.
Curious, the two friends remained by the stairs, watching as the limo stopped, the driver get out, come around to the other side, open the door in back, and a girl with strawberry-blonde hair walk out.
She looked about their age, wearing dark boots with purple leggings, a magenta knee-length skirt, and an elegant blue blouse. Her hair was in two short pig-tails that just hung over the fronts of her shoulders.
"Wow," the girl said in awe as she looked up at the great building before her. "So this is public school." Her lips grew into a smile much too big for her face. "I love it already! This is gonna be the bestest day ever, I can feel it!" she exclaimed with unrestrained joy. But her smile shrunk when she realized she was missing something. The strawberry-blonde girl turned around and ducked her head back through the still opened limo door. "Elsa?" she asked the person still seated in the vehicle. "Come on, we don't want to be late on our first day."
A few moments later, another girl climbed out of the open limo door. This one a bit taller than the first girl. Perhaps a few years older. She also wore dark boots, but with white leggings, a dark blue skirt that ended in the middle of her calves, and a matching elegant dark blue jacket; a lighter blue blouse underneath. Her hair was platinum-blonde in a braid wrapped neatly around the back of her head in a bun. And sitting on the top of her head was a thin metal head band with a single snowflake decorated with diamonds off to the side.
Unlike the other girl she commuted there with, she did not look so enthusiastic to be where they were. She did not smile at the sight of the building, and she turned her eyes away from the blinding sun light that greeted her when she stepped out.
The driver stood by the still open door, two school bags in his hands; one a backpack, one a shoulder satchel. The younger girl took the backpack from the man with a smile.
"Thank you Kai," she said happily, slinging her arms through both straps as quick as she could. The driver, Kai, smiled back.
The second girl, Elsa, just looked up at the building before her with unsettled dread written all over her face. At the sound of a throat being cleared, she turned her head to their driver. "Your bag, Miss Elsa," the kind man said, offering her the satchel.
Elsa forced a small smile, taking her bag as well. "Thank you, Kai," she said in a small voice, but he knew she was sincere.
Her bag now over her shoulder, the older girl stood by the strawberry-blonde girl.
"Will you be needing anything else ladies?" Kai asked the two of them.
"No, I think we're all set," the younger girl said happily with a quick shake of her head.
"You'll come back and get us for lunch?" the platinum-blonde girl asked almost desperately.
"Of course," Kai nodded, reassuring the nervous girl. After finally closing the limo door, Kai looked over the two girls proudly. He had been working for their family for years, watched them grow up, and seeing them off on their first day of school gave him an odd sense of joy. "Well, have a good first day," he said happily before making his way back to the driver's door. Just before getting in, he turned back and waved to the two girls.
"Bye Kai!" the younger girl hollered, waving back to him. The taller girl beside her, waved back more calmly, smiling a small grin.
Kai finally climbed back into the driver's seat and seconds later, drove away. Seeing that they were alone now, Marinette and Alya shared a look with each other before starting to walk over to the two girls still waving by the road.
"Hi there," Marinette said to their backs. The two girls stopped waving to turn around. "Sorry, but, are you guys new students? We've been going here for a while and have never seen you before."
"Oh yes, this is our first day," the younger girl with strawberry-blonde pig tails said happily before sticking her hand out to the bluenette girl. "Hi. I'm Anna Arendelle," she said as Marinette shook her hand. After her, Alya shook it as well. The perky, new girl, Anna, took her hand back. "And this is my sister Elsa," she said, gesturing to the taller, platinum-blonde haired girl next to her.
Marinette stuck her hand out for the other girl to shake, but she made no move to take it.
"It's nice to meet you," Elsa said with yet another forced and very small smile, her voice very controlled and quiet.
Marinette discreetly withdrew her hand, accepting that this girl didn't want to make physical contact. "Nice to meet you too," she replied, doing her best to remain friendly. "I'm Marinette," she said with a hand to her chest. "This is my best friend Alya," she said, gesturing to the fiery-brunette to her left.
Alya gave a small wave. "I was new here at the beginning of this school year. So I know you guys will like it here in no time."
"Thanks. I already like it here," Anna said.
"So do you guys need any help finding your way around?" Marinette offered kindly.
"Oh, that's right. Our schedules," Anna said, slinging her backpack back around to her front to fish something out. Elsa did the same, looking through her satchel and quickly finding a sheet of paper. Anna finally pulled hers out and looked it over. "Do you know where Madam Caline Bustier's room is?" she asked the two girls.
"That's our homeroom," Alya said, grinning.
"Ooo, it says it's my homeroom now too. We're classmates!" Anna squeaked with excitement. "Who do you have Elsa?" she asked her sister.
"Monsieur Antoine Clement," the older girl said glumly. She was three years older than her sister. She knew she would be in different classes, and in different homerooms.
"We know where his room is too," Marinette said to Elsa. "We can bring you there and then Anna," she turned her speech directly to the younger girl. "we can all walk to Miss Bustier's room."
"Wait…" Elsa said a bit louder, but quickly shrunk in on herself when the other girls were just staring at her. Elsa hesitantly turned to her younger sister. "Anna, I should walk you to your classroom," she said in a small voice.
Anna quickly glanced at her two new classmates before pulling Elsa back just a bit more away from them, then turned them both away to talk. "Elsa, it'd be kinda silly for them to show me to my room first before showing you your room, and then they have to go all the way back to their room, which is the room they were just at," she said, trying to keep her voice as close to a whisper as she could. Marinette and Alya could obviously hear them but tried to look elsewhere while they talked to at least give them some privacy. "I'll walk with you to your class and then our new friends will take me to mine. And I'll see you afterwards, okay?" Anna tried to reassure her sister.
After several seconds Elsa gave a sigh and a slight nod of her head. "Okay," she agreed calmly.
"Okay," Anna said happily, turning back to Marinette and Alya. Elsa turned back to them as well, less enthusiastic. "Lead the way, new friends!"
The four girls walked into the school. Anna's head was constantly turning this way and that, taking in the whole setting. Not being able to get enough of it. Meanwhile, Elsa kept her head straight, her shoulders squared, and her eyes occasionally looking to her left or right. As if looking for danger coming her way. And of course she did well to walk as closely to her sister as possible. But she kept her chin up, looking confident. Underneath that show however, she was concealing discomfort.
"So where are you guys from?" Marinette asked the sisters. Although, it was more directed towards Anna, as the bluenette could tell that her new classmate's sister wasn't very chatty.
"We just moved here from our home in Norway," the strawberry-blonde replied.
"Wait a second," Alya thought out loud. "Arendelle… where do I know that name from?" the journalist looked up, scratching her chin, trying to remember.
"If you're trying to think of Arendelle Inc., then you are correct," Anna said proudly. Both Alya and Marinette stopped in their tracks, making the two sisters stop as well.
A wide grin spread across Alya's face. "I thought you guys looked familiar. The wife and daughters of the CEO are in the news almost as much as Agar Arendelle himself," she exclaimed, remembering all the news reports and events broadcasted about all the great things Arendelle Inc. has done for the world.
"I love that company. It has everything," Marinette added, very honored to be meeting members of such a wonderful family who owned one of the biggest corporations in the world.
"Thanks," Anna said as the group started walking again. The younger sister's sight then fell to just over her shoulder, where her sister followed closely and quietly behind. "You know, Papa is schooling Elsa to help him run the company after she graduates," she said, trying to get her sister into the conversation. Anna turned her head around to talk directly to the platinum-blonde. "You wanna tell them more about that Elsa?"
The three younger girls waited patiently for Elsa to acknowledge that she was being addressed and for her to reply. "I'm going to help our father run the company. And not just with the charities, but with sales, trading, finances, and everything else. After I graduate, he is going to make me an apprentice to the company. If I do as well as he and I both believe I will, he'll appoint me as his official successor," the older girl said calmly, her voice all business and icy sharp.
Marinette noticed this of course, but instead focused on what the girl had said. "Wow, that's impressive," she complimented, doing her best to be friendly and ignore the icy in the older girl's tone. "You must really love your family's company," she added.
"Family is everything," Elsa stated, about the same level of coldness. "And father wants to see the company in good hands before he retires. As do I," she said, straightening the strap of her satchel before looking straight ahead at no one. She was clearly done talking.
"Elsa is very smart. I know she can do it," Anna said cheerily, trying to cut the tense atmosphere created by her sister's cold attitude. "I've always believed in her," she said, looking back at her sister with fond eyes. To the other two girl's surprise, Elsa actually looked at her and returned the kind smile to her sister.
Another minute of walking and Anna rambling about how much she loves the school building already later, the group of four arrived at the hall of classrooms for the upperclassmen.
"Here we are. Monsieur Antoine Clement's room," Marinette said, gesturing to the door before them. "He's a really nice man. You'll love him," she said more towards Elsa, as this was her new homeroom.
But the older girl just stared at the door, frozen in her boots, her face a look of dread and fear. "Elsa?" Anna asked, concerned, trying to get her sister to reply. Even putting a comforting hand on her sister's shoulder, the older girl did not move. She knew this could happen. She had a feeling it eventually would, especially on their first day. Anna turned back to the two girls who showed them there. "Marinette, Alya, could you give us a minute?" she asked politely but hastily.
"Sure. Take all the time you need," Alya said in a reassuring voice.
"We'll be waiting for you right over there," Marinette said, gesturing to the other side of the hallway, further down, back way they came. They needed to go back that way to get to their classroom anyway.
When they reached a reasonable distance, not too far so Anna couldn't see them and meet up with them when she was done but not too close so they could hear what they were saying, Marinette and Alya glanced back at the two sisters. There was no one else around in the hall, so they had plenty of space to speak. Elsa had finally unfroze herself and they could see her exchanging words with Anna. Even if they couldn't hear them, the two best friends decided to turn the other way to give them more privacy.
"Do you think she's okay?" Alya asked her best friend.
"She's probably just nervous. It is her first day of school," Marinette reasoned. She couldn't count all the times she was nerves and couldn't speak or just frozen up. And this girl seemed pretty shy.
"It's Anna's first day too, and she's acting like a kid in a candy store… that's also a toy store," Alya said back. It was strange how differently the two sisters were acting on their first day; one a joyfully open book and the other shy and cold as ice.
The friends waited silently after that, thinking about the possibilities for another minute or two until Anna finally came over to them. Elsa was no longer in the hallway.
"Alright, all good to go," the strawberry-blonde said cheerily. "Please, lead the way. Again." Anna gestured broadly back down the hall and the three started walking back the way they came. Marinette stood to the new girl's right, and Alya on her left.
"Anna, is your sister okay?" Marinette asked, concerned.
"Yeah, she looked a little… uneasy," Alya added as they walked.
Anna's smiled faded a bit. "Oh yeah, sorry," she said, looking down. She sometimes had to explain about her sister to others if they were either curious or offended by her behavior. But she could tell these girls were good and concerned and maybe just wanted to help. "Elsa is just really shy. When she was a little girl, she suffered from major social anxiety. It was so bad she couldn't handle going to school with other kids, so our parents had her be homeschooled. When I started school, I loved it. But I saw how unhappy Elsa was when I left every day. Elsa was never shy around me. Every time she had fits of sadness or something, I was the only one who could really calm her down and cheer her up. So before I entered grade school, I made the decision to be homeschooled with Elsa, and our parents didn't object because they knew Elsa was better when I was around," she explained. "Elsa is mostly so sad and quite all the time, so she relies on me to help bring her out of her shell bit by bit," Anna said sadly.
"That was really nice of you," Marinette said, admiring the act of sisterly love.
"So does that mean you don't have any other friends?" Alya asked. She had to. If Anna was homeschooled, she must not meet too many people her own age. Like Adrien when he first came.
"Oh no. When I got older, my parents let me leave the house just to go out, socialize, and make friend. Plus I stayed in touch with a few friends I had while I was still in school," Anna said happily. "I even had a boyfriend for a while just last year," she also said happily but her expression quickly shifted sour. "but he turned out to be a manipulative jerk so we broke up. I was so sad, but Elsa was there for me." She said the last part about Elsa with fondness, remembering the sad time but thankful her sister was her shoulder to cry on.
"And Elsa doesn't have any other friends?" Alya asked as a follow up. Elsa was also homeschooled and she seemed to be very anti-social, so she seemed less likely to go out looking for friends like Anna apparently did. But she wanted to ask.
"As far as I know, and I know pretty much everything about my sister, no," Anna replied simply. "I tried to get her to go out to like stores, restaurants, the mall, the movies, anywhere with me but she always said no when I mentioned my other friends were gonna be there. If I wanted her out of the house, it had to be just the two of us or us and our parents. She goes to all the functions for the family company, but it's always with a forced smile. And she always stays by our parents or with me," she said with a sigh. "Elsa is just not comfortable around other people. And when she does speak to people, she always comes off as so… stoic-faced and even a little cold." Anna hated to say that about her beloved sister, but it was just how she was and she wanted these girls to understand.
"That's too bad," said Alya.
"Well, she has to be okay now though right? She wouldn't have come to public school if she wasn't," Marinette said, hoping she was right and that Elsa was improving from when she was back in Norway.
Anna made a face, wanting to disagree and correct her new friend. But then she decided Marinette was only part-right. "I will admit, there was definitely no way she would have done this a year ago, but she saw how unhappy is was making me to withdraw myself from the rest of the world for her, so she agreed to at least give public school a chance as long as I was with her. And it was great timing too, with us moving here. Elsa has always had a special love for Paris and was actually really happy we were moving here. And when our parents brought up school, she agreed to come to public school with me. I was so happy, but I knew it was going to have its challenges," Anna said with a hint of worry, but you could tell she was optimistic. "So no, she isn't so comfortable here, yet, but now that she is here, I am confident that with my help, and if she can make some friends, she soon won't be so uneasy out in public with or without me around," she said hopefully. "I love her dearly, but I want her to be more independent. Let herself go a little."
Marinette smiled, very happy she met this girl and hearing her doing such a noble thing. It really showed she was an honest, good and caring person. The bluenette stopped walking and faced the new girl. Anna stopped beside her, Alya behind her. "Well it's great that you're doing so much to help her. And if you need any help, you can come to us," Marinette said kindly, putting a reassuring hand on the girl's shoulder.
Anna smiled back, so glad she found some good and caring people to make friends with. And so quickly. "Thank you Marinette," she replied, very touched.
"Come on, our classroom is right up here," Alya said, gesturing a bit further down the hall and the three resumed their journey.
Less than a minute later, the girls arrived at their homeroom. Most of their class was there already, mingling about before class began, but the girls didn't notice as they headed straight for the teacher's desk at the front as they entered the room. Marinette and Alya wanted to properly introduce their new classmate to the teacher before going to their own seats.
The young women lifted her focus from the papers laid out in front of her as she saw the three girls approach her desk; two she knew well and one she had not seen before. "Miss Bustier, we have a new student for you," Marinette said, gesturing to Anna as the new girl gave the teacher a small but friendly wave.
Miss Bustier smiled, having a good feeling about this girl. "Ah yes, I was told a new face would be joining us today," she said. "Let's see," she muttered to herself as she skimmed through some papers on her desk, looking for something she was supposed to give her new student.
As this was happening, behind the three girls at the teacher's desk, a boy with golden-blonde hair and orange sneakers walked in and over to his desk in the front row.
"Hey Nino," the boy greeted his best friend who was already seated at his side of their shared desk, offering his fist to be bumped.
"Morning dude," Nino said happily back, bumping his fist with his buddy's over their desk.
Back at the teacher's desk, Miss Bustier finally found what she was looking for. "Here we are. Arendelle, Anna?" she read off the sheet with the class information she would need.
"That's me," the new girl at the teacher's desk said happily.
Behind her, the boy who just entered the room snapped his head up at hearing the name his teacher just spoke. His eyes immediately went to the teacher's desk where he saw his classmates and friends, Alya and Marinette, and in between them stood a girl with a very familiar set of strawberry-blonde pig tails. Pig tails he had not seen in several years.
"Anna?" he asked in disbelief to the front of the room.
The girl turned around at the call of her name and who she saw behind her made her big blue eyes widen even bigger. "Adrien?"
A smile grew very fast on both of their faces as the two stepped closer to each other. "Oh my god, Anna!" he cried with joy.
"Adrien!" she happily squealed as she wrapped her arms around him in a tight hug. The blonde model wrapped his arms around her as well, lifting her off the ground and spinning her in a complete circle before putting her back down.
The whole class watched this exchange, curious and a little confused. They had never seen this girl before, but Adrien obviously knew her. Apparently very well. Marinette and Alya were also confused. They thought they were the only people in their class who knew Anna so far, but they were wrong. Alya was mostly curious as to how these two knew each other, but it was Marinette's mind that was racing the most.
For those few moments, about as long as the hug she had witnessed lasted, she thought of one ridiculous scenario after another. Her worst was that this girl was some long-distance girlfriend of Adrien's and now that they were together, they would be inseparable and there would be absolutely no chance Adrien would fall for her and they would never be together!
She really hoped that wasn't the case. She really liked Anna, and she would hate to have a reason to resent her. But they did seem very close.
When their hug ended and the two pulled away, Adrien's face lit up as the questions came out. "What are you doing here in Paris? And in a public school?"
"I could ask you the same," Anna asked. "I mean the 'public school' part, not the 'Paris' part, of course I know you've always lived here, in Paris," she rambled on, correcting herself. "Papa is opening a new branch of the company here and needs to be here during the whole process, and it's going to take a while, so we all moved here so we could all stay together," she simply explained.
"Cool," Adrien smiled, happy to know she would be around for a while. "Um, father finally let me attend public school like I wanted," he briefly explained to her.
"Really? How much begging did it take for that?" Anna asked mostly as a tease. She knew how strict Mr. Agreste was and almost didn't believe it was possible for the man to allow it.
"More like sneaking out to attend my first day and then he just knew I wasn't going to stay put," he said goofily back, but that really was basically how it happened. "I still have my busy schedule; photoshoots, extra-curriculars, but I finally get to be out and make friends," he droned on, but was happy about the last thing on the list.
Anna smiled, taking Adrien's hands in hers, looking him straight in the eyes. "Well I'm so happy for you… Sunshine." She said the last word with a giggle. Everyone else in the room was more confused, hearing Adrien being called this name. Adrien smiled fondly at the name. "I know how much you wanted this."
"I know how much you wanted this too… Strawberry," he said back, the name he called her making her giggle again before pulling her into a more gentle hug then the first one. The class grew even more puzzled, hearing Adrien call the new girl an apparent nickname of her own. As they pulled away again, Adrien's expression shifted, remembering something. Or rather, someone. "Is uh… is Elsa-" he started to ask but Anna held a reassuring hand up to stop him.
"She's here. She's just in another class," she told him. This seemed to ease him.
"Oh, really? That's great," he said happily.
Marinette and Alya looked at each other. He knew Elsa too?
By this time, Nino had walked from around his side of the desk and was standing behind Adrien. Adrien noticed him and decided now was a good time for some introductions. "This is my best friend Nino," he said, gesturing to the young man behind him with darker skin and big headphones around his neck.
Nino stepped forward, shooting his finger in her direction. "Hey whassup?" he greeted her in his usual, laid-back way.
"Hello," Anna waved to him, happy to see Adrien had some friends of his own there. "Oh, and I already made some new friends too," she said excited as she grabbed a hold of Marinette's arm and dragged her back to where she had been standing.
Marinette nervously smiled as she stood in front of her crush, Anna still holding onto her arm, the brightest smile on her face. Alya simply walked up behind them, grinning.
Adrien smiled back when he saw his two other good friends with her. "Marinette and Alya are both very welcoming," he said, giving them a wink. Or he could have been winking at just Marinette. Either way, in made the bluenette blush on the outside and swoon on the inside.
Marinette was just enjoying the moment, before it was ruined by a snobbish throat being cleared behind them, jabbing its way into their conversation. The three girls turned around and saw none other than Chloe standing there, looking all high and mighty, Sabrina at her right hand. Anna released Marinette's arm and stepped forward as she gave the other girl her attention. Marinette wanted to say something, warn her before talking to the school snob, but Chloe spoke before she could.
"Hi there. Anna Arendelle? Right?" the bratty blonde girl said in her way-too-sweet voice. "A pleasure. Huge admirer of your daddy's company," she said, extending her hand to be taken.
Not being the wiser, Anna smiled and accepted the hand. "Hi," she said kindly. "And you are?"
It was a simple and reasonable question, but Chloe's face turned sour. "Seriously? You don't know who I am?" she said rudely as she yanked her hand back.
Confused by the sudden turn in the girl's mood but still trying to be friendly, Anna did her best to keep her smile up. "Am I supposed to know already?" Anna asked with an innocent shrug.
"Oh boy," Marinette muttered, knowing where this was going.
"Uh… Chloe. Chloe Bourgeois," she replied, a hand on her hip and the other gesturing up and down her body.
"Bourgeois…" Anna muttered in thought for a moment, looking down, trying to remember where she knew that name. Quickly, her head snapped up when she remembered. "Oh, Bourgeois as in Andre Bourgeois, the mayor of Paris?" she asked to verify.
"Obviously. And also the owner of the Le Grand Paris Hotel, the finest hotel in the city," Chloe replied like it was the most common of common knowledge. "How could you not know who I am?"
Adrien chose that moment to finally step in, walking up, past Marinette and up to his old friend's side. "Chloe, Anna just got here-"
"Three days ago," Anna finished for him.
Adrien just nodded and continued. "Yeah, three days ago. You can't expect her to know who you are right off the bat."
"Well she should. She's famous," Chloe said, gesturing to the strawberry-blonde. "You're famous," she gestured to him. "I'm famous," she paced her hand to her chest, her nose in the air. "We all need to know each other."
Anna's finally let her smile drop, letting herself just look puzzled. "Uh, I'm sorry but, you're famous?" she asked the girl, not understanding.
"Uh, of course I am! I'm the daughter of Andre Bourgeois; the mayor and owner of the Le Grand Paris Hotel!" Chloe blurted in rage.
"I know, you just said all that," said Anna, trying to resist rolling her eyes. "But that's him. That's who he is. Who are you? What have you done?" she asked not in a rude way, but honestly asking. Chloe was struck speechless so Anna chose to continue. "Adrien models for his father's company," she looked back at her old friend as he smiled at her in return. "And I help my parents host charity events sponsored by the family company," she gestured to herself, making sure to put extra emphasis on that the company was a family effort and not just her father's. "But what do you do? Do you help manage your father's hotel?" she asked but Chloe only looked from one side of the room to the other without a word. "No?" Anna assumed from her silence. "Well then, surely as the mayor's daughter, you must do some charity work for the city. Maybe work part-time at the mayor's office, helping to make the city a better place? Anything like that?" she asked, honestly trying to get an answer out of her. Although, from what she was getting from this girl's personality so far, she wasn't expecting her to tell her she did much. Meaning, she had no right calling herself famous.
"I…. I have-" Chloe stuttered, not sure what to say. She didn't want to say she didn't do anything, because then she would lose. "I don't…" she tried to defend herself but once again came up sort. At a loss of how to respond and frustrated, Chloe huffed before stomping back to her desk, Sabrina hustling to follow after her.
Everyone in the room wanted to clap, but knew that would lead to more of Chloe's bitching. So everyone just grinned and sent their new girl appreciative nods and a few thumbs up. Anna smiled back as she was approached from behind by her two new friends.
"My respect for you just doubled," Marinette whispered in her ear.
"Tripled," Alya whispered in her other ear. The three shared a quick giggle.
"Alright everyone," Miss Bustier called attention to herself, as she was about to start class. "Please take your seats, we're going to start." Everyone started taking their seats, except for the new girl who didn't have one yet. "Anna, you can take the seat behind Marinette, next to Ivan," the teacher recommended to her.
Anna nodded before making her way up the steps to the desk behind her new friends and sat next to the strongest looking boy in the class. Anna smiled and offered her hand to the boy politely. Ivan was hesitant at first but took her hand gently in his big one and shook it, offering her a kind smile.
When that class ended, Marinette, Alya, and Anna, along with Adrien and Nino, all walked out of the room together as a group. Anna promised her big sister she would meet her at her classroom when she got out, so her new friends agreed to walk with her back to her room. Also just in case she got lost. They only showed her where is was once.
"So Adrien, how do you know Anna and her family?" Alya asked, curious to finally know the story behind their friendship. Marinette eagerly listened.
"Oh, my father does some business with Arendelle Inc. He used to bring me along for some of the company meetings or events back in Norway," Adrien answered simply. "So while he was doing business with Agar, I would hang out with his daughters."
"And what's with the whole 'sunshine' and 'strawberry' thing?" Nino asked, amused.
"Oh that?" Anna chimed in. "Back then, when we were younger, those were our little nicknames for each other," she said happily.
"Was it because of your hair?" Alya asked as both a joke and a reasonable observation.
Adrien paused for a moment, thinking how that made sense but wasn't entirely correct. "Well yes, but also because chocolate-covered-strawberries were Anna's favorite treat back then," the blonde model explained.
"And they still are," Anna added proudly. "Well, anything chocolate or chocolate covered really," she said with a laugh. "And Adrien was always just a cheery ball of sunshine when we had play dates," she said fondly to her old friend.
"Does Elsa have a nickname too?" Marinette asked timidly. If the other sister had a nickname and is wasn't just a thing between Anna and Adrien, then it was less likely that they were more than friends.
"Of course," Adrien happily answered. This gave Marinette a bit more peace of mind. As well as some joy because Adrien was the one who answered her.
A few minutes of walking through the school later, the group arrived in the hallway of Monsieur Antoine Clement's room. A couple of older students had passed them by, so it was a good guess that the class had been dismissed already. As they approached the specific classroom, they could see the waiting form of Anna's big sister, standing across from the door.
"Elsa!" Anna squealed as she ran to hug her sister. Elsa smiled and accepted the hug with a great look of relief on her face. The group of friends that walked her there just hung back and watched with fond smiles. Anna pulled away but still held her sister close. "How was your first homeroom period?" she asked, very eager to know how Elsa liked her first time in an actual classroom. But the only response she got was her smile faltering before turning into one of her forced smiles and followed by a light shoulder shrug. Meaning that it was okay but she was still not thrilled to be there. Also she did not want to talk about it yet. Anna was a bit disappointed with the response, but she knew Elsa would talk to her about it eventually. Maybe later that day, when school was over and they were alone back at home. So she let it slide for the time being and decided to switch to a different gear to perk her sister up. "Well, look who I ran into in class!" Anna let go of Elsa and quickly raced back to the group behind her, grabbed Adrien by the arm, and dragged him back. Adrien happily let himself be pulled over to his other old friend.
Elsa's smile turned more genuine at seeing the familiar face of her and her sister's old friend. "Adrien," she greeted him. Adrien smiled at her, offering her his hands to hold and she gracefully took them. He knew Elsa wasn't comfortable with too much physical contact, so hand touching was like their equivalent of a hug. "It's so nice to see you again," she said, happy to have another familiar person in this place with her other than just her sister.
"Nice to see you too Elsa," Adrien said happily. "I mean, Snowflake," he added goofily. Elsa looked away for a moment, bashful at the childish nickname, but glad at the same time that he remembered. Elsa liked very few people outside of her family, but Adrien was definitely one of them.
By the time Adrien let go of her hands, the others had come up closer. Realizing there was still introductions to be had, Anna pulled Nino up closer, as she knew he was the only one who hadn't met her sister yet. "And this is Nino, Adrien's best friend," she introduced.
"Sup?" Nino said with a chill smile and friendly nod. Elsa merely smiled politely back and returned the nod.
Anna sighed, so happy she and her sister already had a group of friends in school. And Adrien was there with them too. "Oh, this is so nice. We totally need to catch up some time," she said, looking back and forth from Elsa to Adrien and her new friends. And with that in mind, her face shifted to more excited as an idea hit her. "Oooo! I just had a great idea!" she squealed in delight to her friends before turning back to her sister. "Elsa, why don't we invite Adrien and all our new friends back home for lunch today?"
Hearing her proposition put excited smiled on the four friend's faces, but Elsa's expression dropped significantly.
Grabbing a gentle hold of her younger sister's arm, Elsa pulled her back a bit and directed her full attention back to her. "But… Anna, I thought we were just going to have lunch… just the two of us," she said to Anna in a low voice.
Anna sighed before biting her lip. She remembered her and Elsa having a little lunch plan for themselves for their first day, but being surrounded by friends for lunch was good too. And Anna was determined to get her sister to feel more comfortable around other people. "Elsa, we can have lunch, just the two of us, any day. This is our first day, we already have new friends and don't you think it would be nice to have Adrien over so he can see our new house and we can all hang out like we used to?" she said, trying to gently convince her sister to go along with the plan change. Elsa looked away, really wanting to say no but couldn't bring herself to. "You promised you'd try," Anna said in a serious voice but still gentle tone. Sighing, Elsa forced another small smile before subtly nodding her head. She wasn't all too pleased, but she would go along with it. She did promise Anna she would try. Anna smiled and took a hold of her sister's arm as she turned back to the group. "If you guys are free, we'd love for you all to come," she told them happily.
"I'm in," Nino said raising his hand.
"Me too," Alya said, doing the same.
"Sure," Marinette said sweetly.
"I'd love to," Adrien also accepted.
The rest of the morning pasted by uneventfully. Anna escorted Elsa to all her classes, with Adrien or someone else from the group leading the way and showing them around. Chloe didn't try talking to Anna or Elsa again. She knew she wasn't going to get either of them to like her and want to be friends with her.
By the time lunch break rounded around, the whole group was excited for having lunch at the Arendelle's new Parisian home. Everyone except the oldest of the group. Elsa really wanted to tell Anna she didn't want to have lunch with anyone else, but Anna looked so happy to already have new friends to hang with and having Adrien around again. She was happy to see Adrien too and wouldn't have minded if it was just him joining them for lunch, but more people were coming along. Only three others, so it wasn't too bad. Still, she wasn't good with other people. But as long as Anna was with her, she wouldn't be totally lost.
Seeing her sister surrounded by friends made Elsa feel both glad and bitter. Glad, because she knows being with friends makes Anna happy and feel more loved. But also bitter because Anna is her little sister and basically her only friend, so having to share her isn't always easy. Plus, she often fears that if she had too many friends, she would forget all about her withdrawn sister. Without Anna, she would feel truly alone.
When they left the school and Kai came back with their limo, Elsa took note of how Anna's excitement only grew further. She wasn't sure if she could smile any bigger. As they all piled into the limo, it felt far too crowded for Elsa's liking. But the older girl smiled at seeing Anna sitting beside her.
As long as Anna stuck by her, Elsa could take other people for the time being.
With Anna beside her, she had nothing to fear.
Gabriel Agreste sat in his office at the Agreste manor, looking over his latest collection. He was expecting his lunch any time now. Adrien would be home for lunch soon too. Not that he would be joining his son. He was far too busy, so he always ate there in his office.
A knock on his door caught his attention. "Come in," the older man said, expecting it to be one of the house chefs with his lunch. But when the door opened, there was no chef with a dinning cart coming through his door, it was Nathalie.
"Mr. Agreste," she addressed her boss before starting to explain the reason for her visit. "Adrien just called, he's not coming home for lunch today."
The designer raised his head, sitting a bit straighter at hearing this.
"What do you mean he's not coming home for lunch?" he demanded. Adrien has never before skipped lunch and didn't see why he would not come home for food prepared specially for his dietary needs as a model.
"He called and told me he's having lunch with some friends today," she explained. "I don't know if you've heard yet, sir, but the Arendelle family has moved to Paris," she added.
That piece of information made Gabriel's eyes widen for a moment. He had not done business with Arendelle Inc. in a few years, but Agar Arendelle was still a close business allay. Plus, he remembered 'certain things' about their family.
"Is that so?" he said with a curious voice. But he made sure not to let just how interested he really was show too obviously.
"Yes, and apparently Agar has placed his daughters in the same school as Adrien."
"Daughters? As in, both of them?" he asked for clarification, even more intrigued.
Nathalie raised an eyebrow at the question, but answered it none the less. "That's what Adrien said. He seemed very happy to see them again and they invited him and a few of their other friends to their new house for lunch," she explained in her level voice. "And of course they'll bring him and the rest of their friends back for their afternoon classes and Adrien said he'll come straight home at the end of the day," she reassured him. He wasn't often pleased when Adrien did things off schedule, but he should at least take some peace in knowing his son was still getting lunch at a fine place and was coming home when school was over.
"Very well," Mr. Agreste said stoically. "And Nathalie, call Agar's office and see if he can meet with me," he instructed his assistant before she could leave.
"Yes sir," she said before exiting out his office door.
When he was once again alone, Gabriel allowed himself to smile, as he had been holding it back at the time. This new information that the Arendelle family was in Paris was very intriguing to him.
He didn't know too much about Agar's family, but the few times he had interacted with the man's daughters, he remembered that the oldest was particularly shy and withdrawn. He also remembered them being homeschooled. The oldest would surely feel even more so in such an emotionally trying environment, surrounded by so many new people.
Such an emotionally unstable young lady in Paris, shut away most of her life and now attending public school; such promise that held for him.
It would only be a matter of time before she reached her breaking point. And when that happened, Hawkmoth would be ready with a butterfly with her name on it.
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