Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, just the interpretation and the plot. If you wonder where this idea came from, read the note.

After knowing Elsa for five years, there are three things that Jack knows about her:

Elsa White, despite her cold formality, stunning punctuality, and impeccable manners, has a strange meld of humor and wit that is wicked sharp.

Though intimidatingly serious, Elsa White loves to pull (Well, not pull, per say. Elsa is too graceful to pull anything) pranks, and she is good at it. So good, in fact, that it is scary. Last time she'd played a prank on him, Jack had thought he was gay. Not his brightest moment, but, whatever. The point is: Elsa is good.

When she acts, Elsa is blinding.

Which is why when Jack meets his ex and accidentally blurts the biggest lie that he's ever told, Jack knows that he needs Elsa to pull this lie off without a hitch.

But really, the reason for the lie is so strange, so infantile that Jack muffles a curse beneath his breath when his ex finally waves goodbye and says, "Okay, Jack! Can't wait to have you and your fiancé over for dinner next week!"

The lie started in the grocery store while Jack was waiting in line with his box of granola bars and mini-packets of Lucky Charm Cereal. Somewhere in the corner of his eyes, Jack catches a flash of green hair and turquoise-violet highlights, and his heart freezes over. Because, really, who else but Toothiana Greene would have green and purple hair? After he pays, Jack pulls his hoodie high over his head and bolts into the rain.

And for a moment, Jack thinks that he has escaped, but then, chasing behind him, he hears Toothiana.

"Jack Frost!"

For a moment, Jack is blinded by the petite figure, blinded by improbability of it all. Meeting his once friend/friend/lover after five years and a nasty break-up in a small convenience store in a small college town three hundred miles away from New York. It seems like too much.

"Oh my god," Toothiana gasps, "Look at you! You look so different! How've you been?"

It is too much.

Toothiana is not only friendly but happy, and she isn't spitting out her words in snarling anger. Maybe she got amnesia?

"Um," Jack flounders for a moment. What should he say? Is there some sort of guideline for talking to exes? Because if there is some sort of guideline, some book, Jack could really use it right now. "I'm doing fine. Finishing my masters."

Toothiana's eyes widen, and then, of course, she offers that bright smile of hers, the one that had helped push him over the edge of falling in love with her. But suddenly, the brightness of her smile is overshadowed by the brightness of the ring on her right finger.

"You're getting married."

And if possible, Toothiana's thousand-watt smile turns a million times brighter. "Yes, to Aster Bowman. We went to college with him before you transferred."

"Yeah, I'm also getting married." The words slip past his chapped lips before he can even register them, much less stop them, and looking back, Jack thinks that this was a subtle way of trying to prove to himself that he is really, truly over their break-up.

As if.

Original Posting Date: June 20, 2016

Prompt: N/A

Word Count: 534

Note: This is just a short piece of whimsy, something inspired by fake engagements and "Dedicated" by Therentyoupay, an author whose portrayal of Jack and Elsa might just be my favorite. Feedback and suggestions are appreciated. If any of you would like to offer a prompt and possibly inspire a chapter, feel free to send me a note. But just to be clear, this well hopefully be an extremely short story that will end (hopefully) very soon.