A/N: I'M BACK! Yep, here's Chapter 10 of TDOW!
Liv lived on the west side of town, so we had to drive a little ways just to get near her house. Once we were on that side of town, it was another ten minutes before our three cars pulled up to her house. I jumped out of the jeep as Kristoff was rolling to a stop and I received numerous scoldings from Elsa on my "recklessness". I was laughing the entire time, which only earned me an elbow to the rib. I put my arm around Elsa's shoulders as we walked up the lawn to the front door of Liv's house. She unlocked the door and we all spilled inside. We made an immediate left and headed down to the basement where we usually hung out so we didn't disturb the rest of her family. I made straight for the closet to get everyone's spare clothes we had put in the foyer. Since we were all known to get a bit rowdy, we left an extra set of clothes at each of our houses in case we spilled something, bled, or just fucked around to the point of needing new clothes. I came to the realization that Anna, Elsa, nor Kristoff had any clothes to change into. Kristoff went outside and when he came back was in his shirt with the sleeves rolled up and a pair of NIKE sandals replacing his dress shoes. Relieved that he was set, I looked over to Anna and Elsa just standing there awkwardly. I walked over to Liv and nudged her on her shoulder.
"You think you could hook up Anna and Elsa with something to wear?" I whispered in her ear. She looked over at the sisters who were now talking with Aliy as she was getting dressed into her spare clothes. I guess she was trying to judge their sizes but she turned and nodded.
"I'll see what I can do," she replied. Liv walked over and escorted Anna and Elsa up to her room. As the rest of us got changed, I saw as Nick headed to the couch and plopped down on to it with a large thump as Chayse and Aliy went to the fridge to pull out anything that was of non-nutritional value. I simply sat down in one of the many beanbag chairs Liv had in the living room. We all started talking about how the night had gone and before long, we heard the door at the top of the steps open up. Liv emerged with Anna and Elsa behind her in their now comfortable clothes. Anna had on a pink (naturally) shirt with a pair of black socks and black leggins on. Elsa had on a blue v-neck with a pair of charcoal grey sweatpants and blue leopard socks. As they came and joined us, we all ended up sprawled everywhere in the living room watching random shows on the flat-screen TV. Nick ended up getting the entire couch, with Aliy next to him in the large La-Z-Boy recliner next to him. Chayse, Liv Anna, and Kristoff sat either on the ground or in the remaining bean-bag chairs. Elsa sat to my right on the floor with her head leaning on my shoulders as the TV continued to play. We flipped around the channels watching anything from Breaking Bad reruns to Party Down South. After a while, we all got bored from watching the TV, so Liv looked around and counted how many were at her house.
When she finished counting she looked and all of us and shrugged, "Truth or Dare?"
"Sure," I replied. We switched off the TV and gathered round in a circle. I motioned for Aliy to kill the lights except for the one lamp that hung over us, producing a single circle of light that surrounded us all. We all got as comfortable as possible since this game was known to go on sometimes for hours at a time if we wanted. Liv spoke up as we were about to begin.
"Okay, just to review. The game will start with me. I pick someone and ask a question. You lie, you do the dare, no matter what. Alright?"
"Alright," we all replied. She covered her eyes and started to wave her finger around until it suddenly stopped and landed on me."Truth or Dare?"
"D-dare," I stuttered out of fear. It sounded more like a question.
Had someone else picked me I would've been fine. Liv however, was a different story. She was always keen to ask the deepest, darkest questions that would make the bravest of heart squirm. And now that I had Elsa, she was sure to use her against me, as well as make sure my most embarrassing secrets were revealed to her. I gave her a pissed off look, but she only smiled mischievously at me and tapped her chin as she tried to think of a question. All at once it seemed to come to her, and she laughed to her herself before she looked me straight in the eyes.
"As this is Homecoming night, you are to tell Elsa what happened at your first High School Homecoming."
Fuck you, Liv Reynolds.
"He already has," Elsa cut in.
"What did he tell you?" Liv questioned.
"He told me he got embarrassed by a girl at his first dance and never returned since."
The entire group - minus Kristoff and Anna - burst into gut-busting laughter. Chayse was using Liv's shoulder to stay sitting upright, and the group laughed even harder as Nick fell off of the couch because of his roaring laughter. My cheeks were about as red as a frickin' apple. Liv finally caught her breath and tried talking between chuckles.
"Oh, he only told you the abridged version! Please enlighten the fair maiden on what the truth really is," she said.
"And if I don't?" I asked with my arms folded across my chest.
Taken aback by my sudden comment, she thought but then she looked at Elsa and back to me.
"I go Away Band camp on your ass."
JESUS CHRIST, LIV! I didn't know people could sink so low!
"OK, but since I do the dare, I do it my way. Liv tells the story."
"Fine," she said. She turned to Elsa and begun. "We decided to fuck with him a little for his first dance. So it was about three years and we all went to the dance as a Drumline, much like tonight. UNLIKE tonight, Edward didn't have a date. So we set one up for him. We got there, and here comes this SMOKING hot freshman girl in a tight deep red dress that came up just passed her knees. She had 'the goods' if you know what I mean." She motioned up and down her body before continuing. "We made sure he hung out with that girl all night. So he and her spend the night as a couple. One thing led to another and before we knew it, both of them disappeared down a hallway. We rounded the corner quietly and see those two kissing each other like the world is ending. I mean there are tongues fighting, hands going where they probably shouldn't have, I mean just really heated. So suddenly, she breaks the kiss and begins to unzip her dress. She leans in near his ear and whispers something like 'I need to show you something'. So being the turned on boy he is, Edward just nods as she leans down and puts her hair in his face. When she leans back up, he made the most disgusted face ever. We tricked him into going on a date with Justin, the old Pit Captain, and we wanted to see how far he could go before the gig was up. He just sees us all laughing our heads off as he sprints past us and out the back double doors to the school while Justin is just bawling his eyes out crying holding his latex make-up and blonde wig."
At this point, everyone is bawling their eyes out with laughter and I'm just doing all I can not to cry from embarrassment. Elsa looks at me and sees me in my state and laughs even harder. I look straight at Liv and she just has a wickedly humorous look in her eyes.
"Fuck you, Liv," I growled. She looked at me with a smile. She got up, took off her shirt and lunged at me swinging, the entire time smiling.
"FIGHT CLUB!" she screeched as her fist connected with my face. I was knocked backwards but recovered quickly and threw her off of me. I quickly took my shirt and shoes off as the other people began to roar with laughter and applause as they backed out of the way. I turned as she hit me one again, this time in my gut. I took a wide swing at her, but she ducked out the way punched me in the kidney. I fell to the floor as she grabbed my arm and pinned me down. I struggled with all of my might to throw her off, but it was no use. I tapped the ground three times and she rolled off. I rolled on to my back and sat up to catch my breath. Elsa ran over to me with my shirt and began to check my face. I was bruised in the gut and back and was bleeding from the mouth, but otherwise okay. Elsa stood up and turned to my opponent. As she got near her, she shoved Liv up against the wall. She pinned her with her arm to the wall, as she screamed loudly.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!"
Liv simply smiled. "The First rule of Fight Club is..."
The rest of us answered in unison, "...You do not talk about Fight Club."
Elsa let go of her and walked back over to my side. Everyone continued to praise Liv as Elsa applied pressure to my lip. She looked at me with concerned eyes and I just chuckled. She looked at me with a curious look.
"What's so funny?" she asked.
"You," I replied. "You're always so concerned for me. Just relax, I got this."
"It's because I care for you that you're still alive."
"I don't believe you," I said jokingly, not expecting a response. Elsa huffed and crashed her lips against mine. Usually, my mind would've raced if Elsa had kissed me, but I just pulled her nearer to me. I must not have heard the gasps, but one sound did cause us to break the kiss and turn.
Cl-Chk!
I looked to see Liv with a curious face. She had a camera in her hand and I wondered why she looked so confused.
Until I looked around.
There was at least a inch of snow piled around where Elsa and I were sitting. The others seemed to be in awe as I sighed and stood up.
"H-h-how did th-that get there?" she stammered.
Well...here goes...
"Elsa."
"What?" Liv asked.
I pulled Elsa up next to me and whispered in her ear. She slid open the screen door that led to the porch and went outside to the pond behind Liv's house. She got to the shore and thrust her hands out. Blue light seemed to shoot from her hands as she covered the water in a blanket of snow. She walked up to the shore and stomped on the snow. The lake turned to ice as the lake froze over. Liv took even more pictures as many of the group gasped in awe. I looked at them and gave them an apologetic look.
"Look," I said, "Elsa...well..she's special. She was born with this power to create ice and snow at will." They all looked dumbfounded as I went on. "I love her for who she is. I don't fear her, I embrace her gift. If you are the friends who I think you are, you will accept her and I and will stand by us. If you don't, that's is ok with me. But no matter what side you take, you CAN NOT tell anyone. They will tie her up in a lab faster than you can say 'lab rat'. So, what'll it be?"
I stood there as I watched Anna and Kristoff walk over followed by Chayse. Aliy whispered into Nick's ear, and he seemed to sigh. She skipped over to where we stood followed by Nick. Now I turned to see Liv standing alone with her camera. She walked up to Elsa and seemed to push us all to the side. She looked her in the eyes with welling tears as she lifted her arm and hurled her camera onto the ice. She pulled Elsa into a tight embrace as we all stood there, hugging each other as flurries fell as we listened to drumming of our heartbeats in our little slice of winter.
A/N: So I'm sorry if the power reveal was kinda shitty, but I wanted to get this one out before the holidays. I probably won't update until after New Year's for a few reasons:
- FINALS (duh)
- CHRISTMAS
- My school marching band is traveling to Atlanta to play the mass half-time show at the Chic-Fil-A Peach Bowl in Atlanta. I'll be gone form the 28th to the 1st, so yeah.
If you have any ideas for future chapters, PM me and I'll see what I can do. Reviews, as always, are welcome!
If I don't talk to you all before then, I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Bye guys!