Chapter 2 - Awkward/Flirting
A/N: Thanks for reading the first chapter. I hope you'll like this chapter as well.
Beta reader: My awesome pal, Snowstorm Thirteen.
"What's wrong, don't you like your drink?" asked Rapunzel.
"No, it's not that. I just don't want to get too drunk yet because I have barely eaten anything today."
"Give me that. I'll finish it for you."
Anna handed her half full glass to Rapunzel, who drank it in one swig.
She didn't know how many drinks Rapunzel had already drunk at the bar, but she certainly wasn't sober. And the bad news was, the more drunken she was, the more shameless her flirting became.
And speak of the devil, Rapunzel put her glass on the table and looked directly at Anna's eyes while drawing circles on the edge of the glass with her finger.
"I'm glad your eyes haven't lost their sparkle. They are as alluring as the sea around us on a warm day. Like a refreshing oasis in the desert."
Anna knew Rapunzel's words were cheesy, but her face felt warm nevertheless, and she stuttered, "Th-thank you."
Rapunzel just smiled at her sweetly and it made Anna really uncomfortable. When her ex used her A-game, it was almost impossible to resist her.
"Aww, you're so cute when you are embarrassed," Rapunzel said grinning. "I almost want to eat you up."
Anna had to look down because there was no way she could look at Rapunzel after her double entendre.
Rapunzel just giggled.
Then Rapunzel furrowed her brows and asked, "Do you hear that strange sound? Where is it coming from?"
"What noise, I don't-"
Anna realized to her horror that the source of the sound was Elsa, who was making a faint growling kind of sound.
"Is it coming from under the table, or-"
Anna panicked and quickly thought of something, "It's me!"
"What's you?"
"It's my stomach. You know what they say, hungry like an animal. Haha," Anna answered tapping her stomach and showing another fake smile with a fake laugh.
Rapunzel laughed and commented, "Yep, you haven't changed a bit."
Anna put her other hand, which was farther from Rapunzel, under the table cloth and showed a 'chill down' gesture to Elsa. She hoped Elsa would take the hint instead of getting aggravated.
"You and your stomach. I remember that. I bet you still have that weird obsession with chocolate as well."
Anna was taken aback by Rapunzel's words and retorted looking grumpy, "It's not weird... and it's not an obsession! I can stop any time I want."
"Sure you can, hon," said Rapunzel and smiled.
"Hmph!"
"I'm only teasing you. You are just so adorable with your grumpy face," said Rapunzel and pinched Anna's cheeks. "And you know I love you anyway. Even with your weird obsessions."
Anna turned away from her ex. It seemed childish to get annoyed by such a minor matter, but if there was something which was her weakness, it was her hunger for anything made of chocolate. She didn't like to admit it though. Elsa used to tease her about it as well.
Even though she is almost as bad as me when it comes to chocolate. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
When Anna suddenly felt arms around her waist, she almost screamed. Rapunzel hugged Anna and her cheek was pressed against Anna's back.
"You don't have weird obsessions. I only joked. Please forgive me for what I said."
"Rapunzel..."
Rapunzel started giving little kisses on Anna's bare upper back and neck as she said, "In fact, you're... perfect... just the way... you are."
Anna inhaled, closed her eyes and stopped breathing for a while. A wonderful sensation filled her mind.
Ooh, this feels so good...
A little voice in the back of her head said she shouldn't be enjoying this as much as she was.
Her eyes flashed open.
No, no, I have to stop her! She can't be doing this to me now.
Anna removed Rapunzel's hands from her waist and turned around to face her.
"You can't do this here," said Anna and looked around to see if they had gathered unwanted attention. "It's a wonder nobody noticed. I bet we were close to getting thrown out of the restaurant."
"I'm sorry, I got carried away. I have missed you. Missed holding you in my arms."
Oh crap, not this post break-up conversation again! That tone of voice and her puppy-dog eyes, they are the worst. I fell for them once, but I'm not gonna repeat my mistake. Even though the sex was great and-
No! Stop! I don't wanna think about that. It was a big mistake at my weak moment. It can never happen again.
"Rapunzel. I-"
Some waitress approached their table. When she came closer, Anna realized it was Julia, the same waitress that had served Elsa and her a moment ago, when they were enjoying their aperitifs. She looked confused to see Anna with another woman and was about to say something. Anna broke out in a cold sweat when she realized what would happen if she didn't stop the waitress from saying anything revealing.
"Can we get the menus? We are starting to get hungry," Anna said quickly before Julia had managed to say anything.
She looked at Anna, then Rapunzel, and back to Anna until she replied, "...Sure. I'll bring them to you shortly." She didn't look as enthusiastic as before and gave them only a very quick smile, which looked forced.
"Thank you," Anna said nevertheless.
Great, now she probably thinks I'm a two-timing hussy!
Rapunzel looked at Anna with a seductive smile and said, "It looks like you invited me for dinner without even asking me. You are so devious. Okay, I take back what I said earlier. Maybe you have changed after all."
Anna was forced to show a fake smile again.
Oh god. If I keep doing this too often, I'll end up like Joker in the Batman movies. A person with a permanent grin on his face.
"Actually I started feeling hungry just a moment ago, so you certainly read my mind. But I hope you can't read all that's in my mind. A girl needs to have some secrets of her own," said Rapunzel with a grin and stroked Anna's feet with her own. Anna swallowed when she felt skin to skin contact.
"...Although I wouldn't mind if you took a small peek," she grinned and shot a seductive look at Anna.
Before Anna started blushing Rapunzel turned away to pay attention to her menu. It wasn't too hard to guess what was on her mind - something the sisters wouldn't like.
Anna realized Elsa had seen and heard Rapunzel's shameless flirting. She would have to explain to her that nothing is going on between her and Rapunzel. Nothing could make her forget Elsa. She was her true love after all. Unfortunately, she was more or less forced to have this dinner with her ex.
As Rapunzel was still choosing her meal, Anna used the moment to dig out her phone from her purse, and write a message, which she secretly showed to Elsa under the tablecloth. She wrote:
I'm terribly sorry, but Punzie can't know about us. Please try to understand.
I'm just doing this because I have to do it, not because I like it.
And she surely isn't making this easy for me.
She felt Elsa taking her phone from her. She hoped the faint tapping sound would go unnoticed. Then she felt the phone being pushed into her hand again. Elsa had written:
I'm sooo sad this isn't easy for you, boo hoo.
Please, let me know if there's anything I can do for you.
Would you perhaps like to have my permission to sleep with her?
Would it make your life easier?
Anna sighed. She couldn't blame Elsa for accusing her, but she wanted to tell Elsa that nothing could change her love. All the flirting would be in vain. She started tapping the next message.
"Anna, what are you doing?"
Shit!
"Um... nothing."
"Could you leave your phone alone? I'm sure whatever you are doing can wait till another time."
"Okay."
She acted like she put her phone back into her purse, when in fact she finished her message and handed her phone to Elsa. Then she had to start paying attention to her menu.
"Have you already decided?" Rapunzel asked.
Anna quickly browsed through the menu. She wanted to keep this dinner as short as possible because she didn't want to prolong her (and Elsa's) suffering.
"Not just yet, how about you?"
"I think I'll have surf and turf."
"Okay, I think I'll have..."
Anna chose the first meat meal she could find,"...chateaubriand."
"Well, then we are ready to order," said Rapunzel and waved to a waitress.
"-And this Chilean red wine. One bottle."
"Excellent choice, Ms. And how would you like your stakes?"
"Medium rare," said Rapunzel.
"Medium plus," was Anna's answer.
"Thank you."
When the waitress had left, Rapunzel turned to Anna, took hers hands and said, "This is just wonderful. A warm evening, a romantic restaurant, good food, and you. It is as if fate has brought us together again. Don't you feel it too?"
"I think you're getting ahead of things. It wasn't fate. It was merely a coincidence. Le-"
"Deny all you want, but I know it's fate," Rapunzel brushed off Anna's comment.
They had eaten their main course and Rapunzel was waiting for her dessert - Anna hadn't ordered anything for dessert. Rapunzel had drunk most of their wine, which was more than welcome for Anna. One of them had to stay relatively sober. And that person definitely wasn't Rapunzel.
"I'm sleeping in the cabin 520 by the way. Would you like to come there to warm me up? I feel cold so easily. There's a double bed in my cabin which would nicely fit both of us," Rapunzel said with puppy-dog eyes.
"I think there's a thermostat in your cabin. You can easily make the cabin warmer if you feel cold," Anna replied matter-of-factly.
"Oh, Anna, you're such a tease," Rapunzel laughed and slapped Anna's thigh a little bit too hard. "Playing hard to get, eh?"
If Rapunzel doesn't turn down her flirting, this dinner will be the end of me, Anna thought and sighed.