It wasn't like she had come to class unprepared; she always had her things with her, and was far from a slacker. She had known that Mr. Anderson would be assigning a new project in her science class.

Still, that didn't mean that she couldn't be surprised both by who she was partnered with and what their project would be about. She hardly knew Kristoff; they had similar classes, but they hardly ever spoke with each other. He was friend's with Elsa's sister, but even then she rarely saw him.

"Ice," Kristoff said with a large grin. "Isn't that awesome?"

Elsa nodded, though her eyes were on her books for her other classes.

"She should probably know something about that; everyone knows that Elsa is an ice cold bitch." Hans, a rather rude boy in her class, began to laugh, and his friend's soon joined along.

Elsa could only stare in shock at him; she knew that not everyone liked her (and she certainly didn't like everyone either), but she hadn't expected someone to say that to her face.

"Hey," Kristoff said. "Shut up, Hans. Since when are you even doing this project, anyway?"

Hans quieted.

Finally, Elsa spoke. "You should probably start working with your partner, Hans. If you get one more bad grade then they'll probably kick you out of this class."

The red head looked away from her, then grumbled something that she couldn't hear.

"Sorry about that," Kristoff said. "Hans can be such an asshole; the guy is in most of my classes, and he somehow has a ton of people who like him. Meanwhile, I'm trying to block him out. He says the same stuff about me."

"That's terrible." Though she didn't know Kristoff well, she did know that he worked hard as a student and was a nice guy, if a bit of a loner.

He pulled his notebook from his messenger bag, then flipped it open. The front page showed a number of detailed drawings of snowflakes. "I just really like ice; it's less dense than the water it floats on, which is incredible! Most stuff doesn't work that way."

"Water's special in that way." Elsa smiled. "You probably have a ton of ideas for this, huh?"

He nodded. "Want to hear some of them?" He began to flip through his notebook.

"Definitely."

"You and me are going to ace this project; I already know it."