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"I- uh- Y-you know I really don't think you're a Barbie right?" I asked shyly as Elsa and I calmly walked back down the stairs from the roof. She hadn't said much since she eased the waterworks down and I feared she would more than likely shut me out right after. I mean, who wouldn't after letting all of that out? I knew, for a fact, that after my mother died I avoided everyone like the plague even though it wasn't good for me.

Knowing the student council president like I tried to think I did, she wouldn't want to bring the rooftop scene back up unless she was comfortable enough to do so. I didn't blame her. Couldn't. And I wouldn't pretend that I knew what she was going through because the last thing I wanted to do was assume and be completely off point. If anything, she would inadvertently tell me without saying it out loud.

But luckily, she didn't run off and instead responded with an understanding nod. I also wanted to steer clear of the topic for her sake because, if I'd managed to help her out any, I didn't want to reopen some those wounds.

Once the entrance to the stairway closed, we continued languidly through the halls while I thought on other things. Like a certain song that suddenly popped into my head.

'I found myself dreaming in silver and gold. Like a scene from a movie that every broken heart knows. We were walking on moonlight and you pulled me close. Split second and you disappeared and then I was all alone...'

The melody was sweet and warm enough to make an inward smile captivate me.

'I woke up in tears with you by my side. A breath of relief and I realized: no, we're not promised tomorrow.'

I fought the urge to really belt it out and sway along, but I managed to quietly murmur it while we rounded a corner. I wasn't even sure if we were headed back to the boardroom or if we were just taking a walk now and I didn't particularly care.

'So I'm gonna love you. Like I'm gonna lose you. I'm gonna hold you like I'm saying goodbye wherever we're standing. I won't take you for granted 'cause we'll never know when we'll run out of time. So I'm gonna love you. Like I'm gonna lose you...'

"I'm sorry." Elsa suddenly broke through the not so silent silence, though her eyes still had yet to really look at me. She sighed softly and while her fingers fiddled nervously, she continued to try to explain herself, "That...I didn't mean for you to get all of that- I was just-"

"Hurt?" I suggested, resisting the urge to touch her shoulder again. Or anywhere else for that matter. Instead, I folded my hands behind my back and let my voice gently echo through the empty corridor. "That's okay, Miss Mariani. Someone once said that crying is the only way your eyes speak when your mouth can't explain how things made your heart broken."

Elsa stopped so suddenly that I didn't take notice until I was a few feet ahead of her. Looking back at the way she stood frozen on the spot, made me gulp awkwardly. Was that the wrong thing to say? Before I could ask if she really was okay, she took me by surprise and let out a strangled giggle and ultimately confused me. "Wh-"

"Could you stop doing that?" A light sniffle was heard next as she wiped a new tear from her creamy cheek. My mouth shut and there was a second of fear that jolted through me, making me think that I'd said something hurtful. But in the next second, she shook her head and let out another quiet giggle and it was then that I decided not to be so serious lest we part with bad tastes in our mouths. (Not that I was thinking of her mouth.)

"Doing what?" I asked innocently before slowly wandering back to her side since she didn't seem to be going anywhere soon.

"You know what." Elsa quickly glanced away when I caught those electric blues and gave her a small smile.

"Um, no. No, I don't think I do." I hummed lazily and then dug my hands into my pockets so I wouldn't resort to teasing her with them.

"Well..." Her full lower lip disappeared slightly between her pearly whites as she thought about how to say what she wanted. "You're supposed to be the tr- I'm the one that's supposed to be helping you." Her eyes managed to stay away from mine, but that didn't stop me from feeling a mixture of butterflies and bricks swimming around in my stomach at the sight of her slightly timid posture. It was an odd feeling. Like the thrill and chill of doing your first skydiving lesson.

"Wait. What does one thing have to do with the other?" I asked in confusion. I may have gotten her hidden meaning before, but now her words got stuck somewhere between my ears and brain.

That time she brought her alluring eyes to mine and held them firmly. "What sort of troublemaker cares about the well being of others?"

Oh. Oh yeah. Troublemaker. That was supposed to be me. "I don't care about others." I scoffed and crossed my arms over my chest indignantly. You, maybe. "I'm just like everyone else trying to survive this dumb thing called 'high school.'"

"Well, yes." Elsa brought a thoughtful finger up to her chin. "Having mostly C's and D's could count for being du-"

"That's not how I meant to say that and you know it!" I threw my hands up in exasperation and began to walk ahead of her. Elsa's small delightful giggle was the last I heard when a foamy Nerf ball suddenly hit the side of my head. "HEY, WHAT GIVES?!" I snarled dangerously and whirled on my heel to see Kida and Olaf running right for me. Uh?

"Anna, MOVE!" Kida immediately shoved me out of the way as she snatched up the ball and sprinted away. In the frenzy, she managed to make me slam back into a very surprised student council president. Elsa let out a yelp and started to fall backwards, but with superhuman speed, she managed to snag my wrist. My eyes widened and I felt like a cartoon that had disappeared off screen so fast that my outline was still there after giving a confused look to the camera as we immediately landed in a heap on the floor.

"Nedakh, what did I say about taking the game inside?!" Olaf complained with Kristoff right on his heels in the main hallway.

"Kida, get out of there! Anna's gonna strangle you if she sees you this time!" The mountain of a friend bellowed right after.

The thunderous sounds of running feet dimmed somewhere behind me, but I was too distracted by my heart already being in my throat to say anything to them. Mainly because, beneath me, Elsa Mariani was perfectly squashed. My forearms were nestled on either side of her rib cage and I found that my leg was awkwardly resting between her thighs. I froze, not knowing what to do in that instant.

Elsa groaned in pain before she opened her pretty blue eyes. It was then that I fully register how close we actually were. Our noses were almost within touching distance. Mere centimeters. I should have cared about being in that proximity, but I didn't. Not one bit.

I was too lost in the fetching cerulean pools that had easily grabbed my attention. Always grabbed my attention. Her warmth. My eyes flicked down to see her perfectly moisturized plump, pink lips and I absently licked my own dry lips. They look so soft... So nice and incredibly kissable right then.

That was when I surprised myself by automatically leaning in, being tugged by an unseen magnet somewhere in her. The urge to kiss the student council president seemed to be driving my every move. Soon enough, our lips were just a hair's length apart. So close that I could feel her warm, humid, sweet-smelling breath tickling my lips. Glancing back up, I found my eyes once again captured by icy blue irises.

She was giving me this look.

A strange one I couldn't decipher, and man did it do unintelligible things to me. Is it just me or is it hot in here? No. This predicament was quite an arousing one.

So much so that I suddenly snapped out of my trance and bolted upright. Whoa, what the- what am I doing?! With wide eyes I clumsily leaned away from her and ended up on my rear with my face as red and bright as a tomato. "I-I-I- that was- a-are you okay? I've told those three idiots time and time again to play capture the flag football outside and away from the school, but-" I face-palmed in complete embarrassment. "I-I'm sorry." Almost. I almost kissed her!

I could only think about how awkward it was going to be and completely missed the way Elsa lightly traced her lips with her fingertips before getting up. "...I need some water." Sweet Freyja, even her voice was tinged with a slew of mixed emotions!

She left me there on the floor with equally jumbled thoughts and tingling lips and I swear I saw the tips of her ears tinted a nice shade of red as she tried to calmly walk away from me. Again, that song entered my mind as I thought of how amazing she was. How gorgeous she was and I could say that I'd hopelessly fallen in love with her all over again.

'I'm gonna love you like I'm gonna lose you. I'm gonna hold you like I'm saying goodbye wherever we're standing. I won't take you for granted 'cause we'll never know when we'll run out of time so I'm gonna love you like I'm gonna lose you.'


At the garage. Two days later.

"Hey pretty lady, what's with that grin? It hasn't left your face all week." Petro asked nosily and leaned under my hoist with me, only to get oil on his face because I unscrewed the drain plug too fast and forgot to put the drain pan in place first. Whoops.

I didn't need to apologize though, because we all left dirty. I was sure I already had other black marks on my face before oil got on it too. "What grin?" I asked after safely getting out of the way as the thick oil emerged from the drain and teasingly threatened to hit him with the box end wrench in my hand. He twitched away, letting out a hearty chortle when I snorted too. His apology was to take and hold the drain pan for me while the car finished leaking.

"The boy has a point." Olaf was next to poke his head in on the other side of me. I cut my eyes back to him. When'd he get here?

"I even caught you humming along to one of your songs too." Kida ended up in front of me, making me take a confused step back. "That's a rarity, but I'd definitely recommend more of it because you have a rather nice voice." Her mischievous bright smile made Olaf and Petro sigh stupidly. I rolled my eyes.

"Yeah, did you cheat and lose your v-card before any of us did?" Kristoff asked from the right of me and I didn't hesitate to jam my elbow harshly into his ribs, causing him to cry out in pain.

"Shut up, Perve! Besides, weren't we all supposed to do it around the same time?" I asked sweetly, making Kida glance at each of us in disgust. Petro almost dropped the pan.

"What kind of messed up friendship do you guys have?" She wrinkled her nose and took a cautious step backwards.

"We're the strongest team!" I pumped my fist and quoted a line from one of my favorite shows at the moment. They got a good laugh out of it before dispersing to wander around like they were allowed to do such a thing. "Hey, what are you weirdos doing here anyway?" I decided to ask since they never came by the shop.

"Visiting our sister weirdo." Olaf turned back around to blind me with an innocent smile.

"No, we decided to visit and give you youthful company since you're always hanging around these dirty old-"

"Hey!" Petro defended himself before Kida could finish her reason. She shrugged with a grin, making him snort skeptically.

"They're nice men!" I defended too. "You're lucky Danny hasn't caught you snooping around. Being annoying."

"Ouch!" Kida put both of her hands on her chest in mock hurt.

"Actually, Danny is the one that invited us to stop by." Kristoff finally spoke up after watching Petro reinstall the plug. Moving around to the front, he then popped the hood while I went to get another wrench and oil filter.

"Oh? Then what's the occasion?" I asked blankly, going back to unscrew the old oil filter so I could replace it.

"...Your birthday of course!" They all shouted exasperatedly.

I froze. "What?" I had to do a mental replay of my life until that point. Wow. So it is.

"Are you serious?" Kida stopped my hands and forced me to look at her. "Even I know when your birthday is and you don't remember?!" I felt stupid.

"We just told you, like, two seconds ago." Kristoff snickered, making her glare at him.

"Yeah, Anna has a tendency to forget such matters sometimes." Olaf commented thoughtfully.

"I'm right here, you-" I began to snarl.

"Delivery to a Miss Anna Crescent?" Another voice cut through mine, causing us all to turn and see a random guy holding a stack of pizza in his hands.

"Yes. She's right here." Kida imitated my annoyed voice to a T as she patted my shoulder. Off to the side, I heard the other three giggling like idiots. I felt my face begin to heat up when the guy suddenly grinned at me.

"Y-you aren't going to sing to me are you?" I blurted nervously.

"Do you want me to?" He asked with an unnecessary wink, making my blush darken involuntarily. On the other hand, Kida and the others had to cover their mouths to keep from exploding with laughter. They are going to get it!

"Hey, you little rascal!" Boomed a familiar voice that made the guy stiffen. "Leave Black Bear Auto's only girl alone before I pop you one." Danny appeared behind me with a warm smile on his scruffy grace.

"Sure Mr. Walker. Anna." He gave me one last smile before going to set the boxes down on one of the tables in the corner.

"Delivery boy must have a thing for dirty girls...you know what I meant." Olaf spoke first and then scuttled off before I could smack him silly.

"You are pretty fetching right now." Kida nodded in agreement with herself.

"What with you half naked, your sun tanned skin and white tank top all sweaty and covered in oil and grease and-"

"That's it! I am officially going to murder all of you!" I declared, making Kristoff stop so he could chuckle and take two wary steps back. Olaf and Petro were already hiding behind a very amused Danny who was watching the whole thing. Actually, everyone was.

"I tremble with fear!" Kida raised her fists in a pathetically hysterical way and awkwardly bobbed on her toes. "Why don't you put that wrench down and we'll settle this like women?" She playfully swiped at me, making me turn away so I could try to hide the smile that twitched on my face. I was already inwardly laughing.

"G-get lost." I cleared my throat.

"I know you wanna laugh." Kristoff cooed.

"Don't be afraid of real emotion. Let it out." Olaf said in his theatrical accented voice.

I had to practically chew through my lip to keep from doing just that.

"She's smiling." Kida stepped forward and boldly poked my side, making me jerk away.

"Stop it." I bared my teeth at them.

"Laugh, or so help me I will force it out of you." Kida fixed her stance and twiddled her fingers in preparation.

"You wouldn't dare." It was my turn to take a step back.

"Dare, dare!" Petro raised his hand.

I let out a short squeak when Kida actually lunged at me. "Cut it out!" I couldn't stop the nervous smile from forming on my face.

"Cut what out? More of your shirt? You'll give that guy a bloody nose." Kida jabbed her thumb behind her to Petro, who flushed a bit.

"That's not what I-" I started to frown but instantly danced away when she reached for me again. "Kida, I swear-" an odd noise escaped me just as one of her stealthy hands managed to take a chunk of my side, firmly squeezing it.

"It is not nice to swear Anna Crescent." She grinned maliciously with fierce determination in her sky blue eyes.

"Wait. N-now, now Kida, you don't have to- ahh!" I unfortunately backed into Kristoff's big frame and his hands clamped firmly around my shoulders while stupid Kida wasted no time in tickling the life out of me. "S-s-s-stahp!" I managed to force through.

"It's tickling time or seventeen spankings!" Kida declared valiantly.

"A-are you saying you just wanna t-touch me i-inappropriately?!" I gasped and frantically tried to swat her hands away as I continued to laugh. Ugh, this torture!

"Who wouldn't wanna touch you like that?" Kida joked, not slowing down any.

"PETRO DO SOMETHING!" I wheezed.

"I am but an innocent bystander!" He lamented unhelpfully.

"I'll help!" Olaf jumped out from behind a doubled over Danny and rushed to me. Only to begin fluttering his stupid fingers at the base of either side of my neck. An embarrassing snort erupted from me then, making Kristoff let go of my shoulders so he could fall over in laughter too.

We all collapsed to the floor in a heap with sore stomachs and red faces for the next few minutes. Only when I calmed some did I yell, "KIDA!"

"Uh-oh." Blue eyes widened in fear as I scrambled to my feet. She let out a choked giggle before following my lead, though when she was in a crouched position, she bolted like she was running the thirty-meter dash. It took me half a second to snap out of it and then I took off after her.

She stopped once she was on the other side of another car and I. "Let's be reasonable about this!" When I dashed to the hood, she quickly retreated to the trunk and when I skirted around, she ended up safely on the other side of me. I wasn't fooling around. That time I didn't hesitate to throw the door open and practically flew through the car with superhuman speed, taking her off-guard in the process. Kida screamed and tried to run for it just as I reached for her foot, making her tumble to the floor with me already settled on her stomach before she even knew what was happening.

"Any last words, Nedakh?" I grinned wickedly.

"Um-" She quickly looked around, only to smile just as crazy as I. "You wouldn't dare."

"You sure about that?" I purposefully placed a single finger to her side, making her confidence falter and her body twitch. "It's payback time for embarrassing me." I whispered, forcing my finger into her side. A slight squeal left her, but when she tried to swat my hands away, I deftly grabbed both her hands and forced them to stay put.

"H-have mercy!" She squeaked.

"Never." My fingers spread and just about squeezed when a single accented voice made my entire being freeze over.

"Excuse me?"

...no. No way. Hesitantly bringing my eyes up and over to the entrance, I felt myself grow a thousand times more embarrassed when curious cerulean orbs met mine.

"Anna?"

"Elsa?" We both stated each others' name simultaneously in surprise.

"Kida." Kida announced and couldn't stop the laugh from bubbling over once again.


A/N: *cheesy grin* After spending much needed time with family, I figured a chapter like this would be fun. (Ever wonder why my characters tease and get along so well?) Anyway, Happy belated Thanksgiving to you all!

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