olimacproductions: Lol, I was actually trying to describe Olaf's nose. The baby that died wasn't supposed to be Leif. He's still coming! (Maybe).
gabbybarber01: Ah those alpacas do sound creepy.
Guest Reviews: What reference? Ah, now that you said it I can I picture the scene now. Fun question answer: I forget a lot of stuff so that's probably why. Question answer: Maybe, I might be able to incorporate more for you. Have fun at the Chalet!
magge98: Good luck for exams. Science is not so bad. I loved it at school. I even do it at university.
BlackIris: Pitch is planning anything to do with Elsa, just her company. That is all the spoilers I will say.
Chapter 7: An Internal Struggle
Jack started pacing up and down. How could he still be in love with Elsa? Why didn't he see this coming? He had known that it had been hard getting over her. Dating Tooth had helped with that. Dating Tooth had put Elsa out of his mind but now that Elsa was back, she was back in thoughts as always. Jack couldn't get the way she smiled at him, the way she moved, the way she laughed out of his head. Ever since she returned, she had stayed in his thoughts. Why couldn't he get her out? He was supposed to be with Tooth for crying out loud! He was supposed to be thinking about her. He shouldn't be thinking about his ex. He shouldn't be thinking his ex in the romantic sense. He should be thinking about Tooth in that way not Elsa. This wasn't right.
But somehow, thinking about Elsa, did seem right and that itself didn't seem right. Jack ran his fingers through his hair. Did this mean he wanted Elsa back? Jack wasn't even sure if she loved him still. She had ran and spent two years in another continent to get over him. Did it work? Was she over him? Getting over Elsa had been the most difficult and painful thing he had ever done and Jack now knew he hadn't managed to succeed. Maybe he would have if Elsa hadn't come back. Just seeing her again, brought back a rush of feelings that Jack had thought had been buried or were gone, well maybe they weren't. Maybe they will always be there.
Jack clenched his hands together. He was still pacing up and down. He had spent two years trying to get over Elsa and now his heart was saying it had all been for nothing. Jack had been sure for so long that Elsa was his soulmate, the one as they say. He hadn't ever had a reason to change that way of thinking. Jack stopped pacing. If he really was thinking all these things then that could only mean one thing; he had never wanted to let Elsa go. He had always wanted her and when they broke up, it had killed him. He had asked to be friends and she agreed to that then Elsa goes and tells him that she had been pregnant. If he hadn't been such a stupid idiot he and Elsa would have been parents, married even. If he hadn't had been an idiot, he would have gotten everything he had dreamed of since he had been sixteen. He would have had a life with the woman he loved. He would have had a life with Elsa, a wonderful, beautiful life with Elsa.
Jack had to tell Elsa. He had to tell her now. He had to tell her how he felt. He had to beg for a second chance. Jack knew that they still had the spark. Jack knew that somewhere deep inside of Elsa, she still loved him. Jack dug in his pockets for his keys. He couldn't find them. He looked on the counter for them but they weren't there. Maybe this was a sign for him not to go to Elsa. Maybe this was a sign for him to leave things the way they were with Elsa. Jack had just gotten back to a good level with Elsa. They had finally figured out a way to be good around each other. They had finally gotten to a place where they could be friends. Did Jack want to mess it up when they had gotten to a good place?
The answer was yes. If there was a chance that Elsa still had feelings for him, Jack had to take the chance. Jack checked his coat pocket and he managed to find his keys in them. He had to at least know. Jack was about to go to the door when it opened. Jack froze as he saw Tooth come through the door.
"Hey honey," Tooth said coming up to him and giving him a kiss.
"Hey," Jack said a sinking feeling coming into his stomach. He had forgotten a little about her. He was dating Tooth. He couldn't just run off to tell his ex that he was still in love with her. He couldn't do that to Tooth.
"So anyway," Tooth said. "Mum and Dad are expecting us."
"For?" Jack asked.
"Lunch," Tooth smiled at him. "Did you forget? You silly goose."
"Um, yeah, maybe," Jack smiled back at her a little sheepishly.
"Come on," Tooth said.
Jack followed Tooth out of his apartment still thinking about Elsa.
Kristoff came home to his and Anna's apartment. He carefully opened the door to check that Anna wasn't home. He looked around and saw that she wasn't which was good. He sneaked into the apartment trying not to make a sound. He quickly raced around his bedroom looking for a hiding spot. He couldn't put it anywhere where Anna might find it. He wanted it to be a surprise for Anna. It would ruin the whole thing if she found it before he had a chance to surprise her. Kristoff started to look through the wardrobe they shared. Maybe he could put it in one of his shoes. Anna never went there. It could be a guarantee safety spot. Kristoff started to rummage through his shoes looking for a good pair. His sneakers! The thought just came right to him. Anna would never go there. He would put it in his spare sneakers.
Kristoff started looking for them. What did Anna do with them? She had done this massive clear out only a few weeks ago. Had Anna thrown out? He didn't think she had. All he thought was that she threw out some old clothes and some things they never use. Kristoff went into their wardrobe full on.
"Looking for something?" a female voice said. Kristoff whacked his head on something as he tried to duck out of the wardrobe. He stood up and saw Elsa standing only a few feet behind him with her arms folded. She had her eyebrows raised as she stared at him.
"Yeah," Kristoff said. "Just my old sneakers."
"Pretty sure Anna threw them out," Elsa said. "What happened to your new ones?"
"Oh nothing," Kristoff said.
"Then why were you looking for your old ones?" Elsa's eyebrows got higher when she said this.
"Oh," Kristoff had to think fast. He didn't want to give away anything just yet. "More comfy."
"Oh, okay," Elsa said before she left the room.
Kristoff watched her go. For the moment, he just pocketed it. He wanted to make sure it was safe and didn't want to risk Anna finding it just yet.
Jack was at the restaurant with Tooth's parents. Tooth was very engaged with conversation with her parents. It allowed Jack to think, to process what was happening. He had come to the realisation that he still wanted to get back together with his ex-girlfriend. But he was looking at Tooth and she was this perfectly good person. She was so right for him in so many ways. It wasn't complicated with her. He was happy with her. It had taken him so long to get to a place where he could finally be happy and move on from Elsa. But was that what he wanted? Did he want to move on from the woman who he loved for so long? The woman who Jack wanted to marry, have kids with, move to that big house with a great neighbourhood, that woman? Did he really want to settle for someone he wasn't completely happy with?
He looked over at Tooth. She was smiling and laughing at something her mum had said. Jack didn't really want to break her heart. She had been a bit nervous about dating Jack as she knew it hadn't been that long since he had broken up with Elsa and she knew how intense and serious his relationship with Elsa had been. Jack guessed it helped that Elsa hadn't been in the country at the time so the decision to convince her that he was over her wasn't that hard. Jack had thought he had been over Elsa but he wasn't. Jack knew that he would never be. They had been together for four years and they had been four perfect years. They had a wonderful relationship full of love, trust and respect for one and another. Tooth had seen that take place. Maybe she knew that Jack didn't act the same as he did when he was in a relationship with Elsa than he did while he was with Tooth. The answer to that was simple. He was more in love with Elsa than he was with Tooth. It was that simple. He wanted Elsa. He needed her back. He wanted that more than anything. But he knew that Elsa didn't want to be with him. At first he thought that Elsa may still be in love with him but he knew that Elsa was still quite bitter about what happened between them and Jack didn't blame her at all. He had done the most awful thing to her. He didn't blame her if she wanted to hate him for the rest of his life.
"So Jack," Tooth's father's attention suddenly came onto him and Jack did a small jump.
"How are you?" he asked. Jack breathed a little. He had been sure that he had been about to ask a much more serious question based on the tone he had used.
"Oh fine," Jack smiled. "Just fine."
That night it was just him and Elsa. Anna had a late night shift at the hospital so Kristoff had ordered take out for him and Elsa. All night he had been trying to ask Elsa something but his nerve kept failing him. This was Anna's sister. He had to ask her. There was no parent to ask and she was the older sister.
"Elsa?" he asked.
"Yeah," she said her eyes fixed on her phone.
"Could you pass the salt?" Kristoff asked his courage failing him.
Elsa did so before going back to what she had been reading on her phone. Kristoff hadn't really been paying too much attention to what Elsa had been doing. He had been concentrating a lot more on what he was going to say to her when he finally got the courage to say what he needed to say. Elsa hadn't noticed what was going on with Kristoff. She had been too interested in what was on her phone. Kristoff tried to sneak a peek at it but he couldn't see anything from the angle he had been looking at. Eventually Elsa said she was tired and decided to retire for the night. Kristoff watched her go. He then started to pace up and down the apartment before deciding on just doing it. He needed to talk to Elsa.
He walked over to her room and knocked on the door. She called to say for him to come in and he did. He found her lying on her bed with her legs on her pillow while she stretched to the end of her bed. She had a book in her hands which she looked up from when Kristoff walked through the door.
"What can I do for you Kristoff?" she asked.
"I need to ask you something very important," Kristoff said.
"Very important," Elsa repeated. "Sounds serious." She grinned at him while she sat up in her bed. She got into a crossed legged seating position on her bed and looked up at him. "So what's this very important thing you have to ask me?"
"I would like," Kristoff said. "I mean, would it be possible, I mean, would you allow, I mean…"
"Spit it out Kristoff," Elsa laughed. "It's just me. You don't need to be nervous."
Kristoff took a deep breath in. "Since your parents are not with us anymore, would you give me your blessing to ask Anna to be my wife?"
Elsa gave him an intriguing look. She continued to stare at him for a couple of minutes before she said anything.
"You want to marry my sister?" she asked.
"Yes," Kristoff said. "We've been together for over three years, we have lived together for a year, we work well together and I would love to spend the rest of our lives together."
Elsa looked like she was eyeing him up.
"Well of course I'll give you my blessing," Elsa said with her grin returning. Kristoff got an immense feeling of relief coursing through him. "You are by far the best candidate for Anna I have seen. Plus you make her happy, that's all I want."
"Thank you," Kristoff gave Elsa a huge hug.
"No problem," Elsa said. "That's what you were doing!" she suddenly said. "You were hiding the ring!"
"Well I kind of wanted in a place where she couldn't find it," Kristoff said.
"Let me see," Elsa squealed. "Let me see!
Kristoff pulled out the diamond ring that he had gotten for Anna. Elsa gazed at it. The diamond sparkling caused Elsa to smile and get tears to come to her eyes.
"It's beautiful," she said. "She will say yes to that."
"I really hope so," Kristoff said.
"Oh I'll hide it," Elsa said. She took the ring and hid it in a pocket of her bag that she had been carrying the day she came back to Burgess. "Anna would never look in there. I think you're safe there."
"Good," Kristoff said.
"How are you going to propose?"
"I haven't yet thought of something," Kristoff said. Now that Elsa mentioned it, he actually hadn't come up with any ways to propose. He had been so focused on getting the ring and making sure Anna wasn't going to figure out he was going to propose had taken up all his time and energy.
"Well I'm sure that if we put our heads together we could come up with a very good idea," Elsa said.
Kristoff grinned at her. "Excellent, thanks Elsa. Thanks for all your help."
"Hey you're the one marrying my sister. I think you will need all the help you can get."
Kristoff laughed at this.
Anna came home after quite an exhausting shift. She was glad when she saw her apartment door knowing that she had an evening with her beloved boyfriend and wonderful sister. She almost dropped her keys in her excitement to get home. Hopefully Kristoff would have something waiting for her in the fridge to eat. She was starving and Kristoff could cook pretty well. He would only bust out his best skills for her which Anna thought was rather cute. Anna put her keys in the lock and turned it. She let herself into her apartment.
"Hello?" she called when she placed her bag on the kitchen table. She then raided the fridge for what Kristoff left for her. She found that he had left her a decent slice of lasagne. She grinned when she saw it. She liked Kristoff's lasagne, it was one of the best dishes he could cook. She took it out of the fridge and placed it in the microwave. She set the timer on it. "Guys?" she called out again eating a small piece of cold lasagne she had snagged earlier. She let out a moan of pleasure as she ate it. She walked towards the bedrooms and heard laughter as she drew nearer. She pushed open the door and found Kristoff sitting on Elsa's bed with her. They both had grins on their face and they looked really happy about something. "Hey guys," Anna said when she walked in. They both looked up when Anna spoke.
"Hey," they both said very cheerfully.
"Why are you both really happy?" Anna said.
"Oh nothing," Elsa shrugged. "Just talking."
Anna raised her eyebrows but didn't say anything further. She heard the microwave beep so she left the room. She grabbed her food and started to eat it. Eating the food allowed her to think. Kristoff and Elsa were up to something. Anna could it in their smiles. She just hoped that whatever they were up to, it was something good and nothing mischievous.
Jack was lying in bed. He was staring up at the ceiling watching his ceiling fan operate. He watched it rotate and felt the cool breeze on his face. He looked over at Tooth who was sleeping peacefully next to him. Her thoughts were split down the middle. She didn't have her brain battling over what he should do.
Elsa's the love of your life.
But she's gotten over you.
She may not have,
She hates you.
Elsa could never hate you. She loves you.
But you love Tooth.
You love Elsa.
Tooth is good for you.
But Elsa is your soulmate.
She doesn't want to get back together with you.
Shut up, Jack told his brain. He honestly didn't know what to do. He wanted to be with Elsa so much. He wanted to kiss her, to touch her, to be with her again. But did she want to be with him? Jack was having a déjà vu moment. This was how it felt before he and Elsa started going out. Anna had given him that little push the first time and it worked out that time. Maybe all he needed was another little push to go for it again. If it didn't work out then he would at least know. He wouldn't spend his energy wondering if her smiles were a secret message. He had to at least try, didn't he? If it did all work out, he would have the person he wanted beyond anything.
He knew what he was feeling and thinking was unfair to Tooth. He did know that but at least he was feeling them now before their relationship got too serious. At least he wasn't feeling them before they were going to move in together or something. It wasn't right to cast Tooth aside like this. She was a wonderful person and was so right for him in so many ways but she wasn't Elsa. She couldn't make him feel the way Elsa used to. Elsa could make him skip down the road while caught up in his thoughts of her. Tooth didn't do that to him. Tooth did make him happy but she didn't fill him with happiness like Elsa did. Jack then finally came to a decision on what he was going to do about his situation.
He had to break up with Tooth.
A/N: I hope that everyone enjoyed this update. Please review =)
