Elsa groaned quietly as her roommate sighed longingly for the umpteenth time that night, disturbing the platinum-blonde haired girl's attempts at studying for a test she would have to sit in the morning, forcing a pair of ice-shard like blue eyes to glance over at the girl sprawled across her bed, staring at something on her phone, completely lost to the rest of the world.
Bringing a hand to her forehead knowing that she wasn't going to get any work done with Anna completely love struck like this, Elsa closed her textbook and set it down beside her on her bed, before swinging her legs off of the side and standing up on her sock-clad feet. Putting her dainty hands on her hips she glared down at her roommate as she finally broke the otherwise peaceful silence that had fallen over the room, and disturbing Anna from her daydreams, "What are you sighing over this time Anna?"
Jumping in surprise at the other girl's voice, Anna flipped onto her stomach before holding herself up with her arms, her legs kicking up behind her as she faced her irate roommate, "oh, sorry if I was disturbing you Elsa," The girl apologized with a nervous smile as she scratched her cheek idly, "It's just that I have a date coming up with Hans, and I'm really looking forward to it."
Honestly, Elsa thought to herself, sitting back down on her bed and once again sighing at her friend's naiveté, before speaking up, "I have a test in the morning, so if you could turn down the volume on your love life, I would like to get some last-minute studying in before I have to call it a night."
Switching her position so she was on her back, and facing her roommate upside down, with her short red hair hanging down to the floor, Anna sized up Elsa with a smile, "Why do you need to do any studying Elsa?" The auburn haired girl asked, "You're like the smartest girl on campus, surely you could finish one measly test without having to spend all night studying and worrying over it?"
Elsa sniffed dismissively at the girl's claim, before looking away from the girl and picking back up her textbook, "That may be true that I hold the number 1 spot in the school, but that doesn't give me an excuse to slack off by any means. We can't all simply coast through life with our heads in the clouds Anna," The girl shot back acidly, alerting Anna, who had known Elsa long enough, that this went much deeper than a simple test.
"Okay, so what's really wrong with you Elsa?" Anna asked, sitting up fully and leaning back against the wall as she stretched out her legs so she could get a full view of her roommate, "You wouldn't normally be so prickly with me unless it was something really bad, and we've been rooming together for two years now, so you're used to my strange quirks at this point."
Biting her pale lips, in a way that made Anna's heart flutter a little bit but also made her giggle at how silly it looked, Elsa turned away from her friend, and tried to get back to work studying, giving Anna another sign that there was definitely something wrong with the blonde.
Now all she had to do was try to find a way to weasel the truth out of the girl, and as anyone could tell you on campus, Anna was a master of getting what she wanted.
Elsa didn't notice as Anna got up off of her bed and padded silently across the room to the taller girl's side. She only took notice when Anna grabbed her textbook and closed it with a loud smack, before tossing it behind her in a random direction, making sure that Elsa would have no chances to get distracted from her questions this time.
"H-hey, Anna, I really need to get at least some studying done, or else I might fail my test!" Elsa tried weakly to reprimand the girl, but Anna knew better at this point that it held no heat.
"Bull," Anna replied, before climbing onto the other girl's bed next to her, and brushing up against her side, "You've been studying for this test all week, and I know that by now you must know that entire textbook back to front, so why don't you tell me what's really bothering you?" The redhead purred into her close friend's ear, trying to rile her up so she may let something slip.
"knock it off Anna, I'm not going to tell you anything," Elsa said, trying to slide away from the girl and make some distance between them, putting her hand onto the other girl's shoulder in an unsuccessful attempt at pushing her away, "It doesn't matter what my problems are, why can't you just go back to fawning over your foreign boyfriend and let me study in peace."
Ah-hah, Anna thought to herself, this must have something to do with Hans, which made sense. Ever since Anna had announced she was going to begin dating the foreign boy, Elsa had been colder and more icy to her, always trying to keep as far away from the lovey-dovey couple as she could, and it wasn't as if Anna was blind to it.
"So it has something to do with Hans, then?" Anna asked with a chuckle, getting closer to the blonde girl with a wide grin, "is it that you wanted to date him too, and now that I have him you're all jealous of me?"
"That's ridiculous Anna, we both know I would never let a boy come between the two of us," Elsa snapped back, and Anna frowned, crossing that idea off of her list.
"Well then, is it because I haven't been spending enough time with you lately?" Anna tried again, knowing that despite all of her complaints to the contrary, Elsa always did enjoy spending time together, be it making fun of bad movies, or going out on the town to look at stores they found interesting, "You know that I still have enough room in my heart for you Elsa, you only need to let me in."
Putting her hand over Anna's face to keep her from getting any closer, yet still unable to push the girl away, Elsa grit her teeth as her annoyance built, "no, if you haven't noticed, I have been intentionally trying to avoid the two of you whenever I see you together, and it's only at night when you come back from whatever it is you were doing that I spend any time with you now."
"Ah, so it does have something to do with Hans specifically then," Anna said, nodding to herself while Elsa groaned, bringing a hand to her face to hold her head in. "Is it the way he acts, or the way he smells? Because I don't think that's a real reason to avoid someone like you have been," The redhead stated, wrapping her arms around her friend to hold her close, just to further ensure that Elsa had nowhere to escape to.
Grunting and trying to push away, Elsa further cursed the fact she never devoted any time to developing her muscles like she did her mind, as the dam she had built up began to crack, and she knew it was only a matter of Anna prodding a bit more that would cause it to shatter completely, meaning she needed to try harder to warn off the other girl before it was too late, "Stop it now Anna, I really don't want to talk about this with you."
"Then who would you like to talk about it with," Anna asked hotly, her own patience wearing thin, "Kristoff? Olaf? Your parents?" The last one was said with a bit of venom, but Anna knew she had gone too far when she caught sight of the way Elsa's blue eyes widened to the size of dinner plates, before narrowing angrily.
"If you must know," Elsa shouted, causing Anna to lean back, and ended up falling off the side of the bed, landing in a heap on the floor staring up at her now fuming roommate, who continued on without a care, "I don't like the fact that you and Hans just suddenly decided that you must be soul mates, when you barely said ten words to each other before the day you met and decided to start dating, and now you think that I want anything to do with that sleaze bag."
"Hey, Hans is not a sleaze bag, and I won't let you talk about my boyfriend like that!" Anna shouted back, her own voice able to match up with Elsa's easily, "And what does it have to do with you anyways Elsa, you've never cared about any of my boyfriends before, why does Hans get singled out like this just because the two of us clicked the first time we met?"
Elsa stared at the other girl incredulously, before sitting up on her own bed and glaring down at the redhead, "Are your ears sealed shut, or are you just oblivious to everything outside of your happy bubble Anna? Ask anyone on campus and they'll have stories to tell about all of the horrible things Hans has done to them, all to further his own ambitions."
"Name one!" Anna challenged hotly, making no moves to get up off the floor, unsure whether she would be able to resist smacking the taste out of Elsa's mouth if she moved a single muscle.
"From what both Kristoff and I have heard, Hans has slept with almost half of the girls on campus at least once, as well as several of the teachers, and even a few of the girls working in town," Elsa explained to her hard-headed roommate, though she was unsure if Anna would even believe her at this point, both of them were so wound up.
"Yeah right, they were all probably just jealous floozies wishing that Hans would give them the time of day, just so the two of us would break up and they'd think they had a chance with him," Anna defended her boyfriend.
"Do you want me to give Kristoff a call, and have him confirm what I'm telling you, or would you like to continue sitting in your little bubble princess?" Elsa snapped, unable to believe just how delusional this girl could be.
"There's no need, I would sooner believe my boyfriend over the two of you any day," Anna shouted back, causing Elsa to gasp in surprise.
"You would believe the man you only met a few weeks ago over the people you've been friends with for the last two years?" Elsa asked incredulously. She was only further hurt when Anna resolutely nodded her head in confirmation, making something break in the blonde's heart.
Features hardening, Elsa got up off the bed and walked past Anna, searching the room for her textbook and ignoring the red-haired girl. Once she found it amidst a pile of the other girl's dirty laundry, she marched back over to her bed and grabbed her backpack and began to fill it with her textbook, notebook, and both a fresh set of day clothes and her night clothes.
Deeming herself ready, Elsa shouldered the bag and turned to leave the room, Anna staring on in confused amazement at what she was seeing, "So that's it then, you're just going to walk away from me?"
"When you basically throw two years of friendship back in my face I most certainly do," Elsa snapped back over her shoulder, "I hope you have fun with Hans, and when he breaks your heart that you don't think you can come crying to me about it," with those parting words the blonde disappeared out the door, slamming it shut behind her and leaving the redhead by herself for the night.
Frowning as she stared at the door, Anna almost made to run after the girl, but thought better of it and turned away from the door, flopping back onto her bed and scooping up her phone once more, scrolling through her contacts until she found the one she had been looking for.
Double-clicking on the name, she brought the phone up to her ear, and listened to it ring for a minute, before the other person picked up, sounding tired, as if they'd just been woken up, "Anna?"
"Hey Hans, sorry to call you so late," Anna apologized.
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Kristoff was confused when he was distracted from his late night gaming marathon with Olaf by the sound of someone knocking on his front door.
"Hey Olaf, I'll be back before the next round starts, I think there might be someone trying to sell me something at my door," the blonde spoke into the headset, and received an affirmative from the cheerful boy on the other end, before setting it down on his coffee table, along with his controller, and walking up to the door.
Pulling it open, what he didn't expect to find was Elsa, wearing the same clothes he had seen her in a few hours ago during class, and carrying a backpack over one shoulder. Her normally well-kept blonde hair was a mess, and her eyes were slightly red, alerting him to the fact the otherwise aloof girl had probably been crying.
Quickly wrapping his arms around the girl's shoulders, Kristoff led her into the house, closing the door behind them with his foot, before taking her into the living room and sitting her on the couch.
Standing in front of the girl after turning off his TV to avoid any distractions, Kristoff stared down at her, waiting for the blonde to begin explaining this late-night visit, "Okay, so what happened this time?" He asked.
What he didn't expect was for Elsa, cool, calm and collected Elsa to burst into tears, and immediately wrap her arms around his waist, burying her face into his shirt. Unsure of what to do in this situation, Kristoff put one of his hands on the girl's head, and the other on her shoulder. Beginning to run his fingers through her hair in what he hoped would be a soothing feeling for her, he patiently waited out her breakdown.
Once she finally managed to calm down enough to speak, Elsa was all apologies for, in her own words, "snotting up your shirt." He waved her off, and claimed this was an old shirt anyways, and ran upstairs to change before turning the TV back on and rejoining the game with Olaf while Elsa explained everything to him.
Finally finished listening to her story as he slaughtered another enemy player, Kristoff leaned back into his couch, releasing a deep sigh as he looked over at the blonde girl, who had her legs pulled up underneath her as she partially watched the boy play his game, and waited for him to offer a response to her story.
"Well that is one heck of a story Elsa," Kristoff finally said, trying to play it off as lighter than it actually was, even though he knew it was much more serious than it appeared to be.
"Sounds like one hell of a mess," Olaf chimed in through the headset, though only Kristoff could hear the white haired boy's comment, and chose not to relay it back to Elsa.
"I just can't believe that after two years she would throw our friendship back in my face, and bring up my parents, just because I was trying to make her see what a sleaze-bag Hans is," Elsa said with a light sniffle, before grabbing a nearby kleenex from the box on the end table beside her and blowing her nose.
"I do have to admit that seems very much unlike Anna, since she knows how traumatized you were by your parents as a kid, but maybe you could also have treated that conversation a bit more delicately than you did," Kristoff explained, trying hard to choose his words carefully to avoid setting Elsa off again.
"I know, I shouldn't have gotten so defensive about it that I immediately started sniping at Hans in order to distract Anna, but it was all I could think of doing at the time," Elsa replied, holding her backpack in her arms for some comfort.
"Well, I know that it's probably not a good idea for you to go back to your dorm tonight, after everything you two said to each other, and especially not after you walked out like you said, so I don't think I would mind you crashing on my couch for the night, or in the spare bedroom if you'd prefer."
Finally Elsa's lips parted in a small smile, and she gently pushed the much more fit boy playfully, "I don't think I could get you off of this couch tonight, when it seems like the two of you are going to keep going until classes start in the morning," she teased.
"You're letting Elsa stay over with you tonight? You lucky dog," Olaf teased through the headset, and Kristoff hastily muted his other friend, before returning his full attention to Elsa, "So are you feeling any better now?"
The girl was quiet for a few minutes, before she looked up at her friend of many years, and gave him a small nod, "Yeah, I think all I really needed was someone to listen to me for a bit, and I'm really glad it was you," She admitted, reaching over to give her close friend a one-armed hug, "Thanks for being there for me, you big lug."
"Always happy to help, my ice princess," Kristoff returned playfully, remembering the games they used to play as kids together as he returned the girl's hug, "Now c'mon, you ought to get up to bed, don't you have a test in the morning?"
"Yes, but I think I'll be just fine taking it," Elsa replied, getting up and grabbing her backpack, "No more pre-test jitters for me tonight," She announced with a laugh.
"Good, it means I won't have to console you twice in one night if you wake up screaming about failing a test, heaven forbid," Kristoff joked with a deep chuckle, "Having you break down on me once was bad enough, I don't think any guy likes it when a girl comes to their place only to start crying."
"Oh get over it you big baby," Elsa gently chastised, pushing him again, "You and I both know you'd never have a chance getting that close to another girl like that in your lifetime," The blonde shot back, and Kristoff leaned back and brought a hand to his chest overdramatically.
"Your words wound me fair lady, like a spear of ice piercing my fragile heart," He claimed, falling back onto the couch with a groan as he un-muted Olaf.
"Oh barf, get a room you two," The man shouted through the headset, making Kristoff wince.
"Good night Kristoff, good night Olaf," Elsa said before making her retreat from the living room, and taking the familiar path up to the guest bedroom and adjoining bathroom, before getting undressed and changed into her sleep clothes for the night, able to hear Kristoff shouting at his TV through the floor.
Chuckling to herself, the girl drifted off to sleep, having completely forgotten about her troubles thanks to the antics of two adorable idiots.
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Is this the end? Probably not, though it's hard to say when I'll end up updating this story next, since this idea kind of came out of nowhere while I was working my way through the selection of other Frozen fan fics out there.
I do have a grand plan in mind, so take comfort in that, and don't worry, I will introduce the rest of the main cast with time, and reveal the things that were hinted at in this opening chapter. Until then everyone, Ja Ne!