The End...?
"Elsa. Elsa!"
Anna furiously pounded on their bathroom door, her nightly gown reaching up to her knuckles.
"Elsa come on Jack didn't know! Please can we talk about this?"
The low drone of the shower silently crept betwixt the door and a low hush of a yellow light echoed from underneath. She had been in the shower for nearly 45 minutes and still hadn't come out. Anna had tried to of course talk to Elsa when she had returned to their dorm but alas the other wasn't willing the same. She just kept her head in her books, throwing off "mhmm's" or "it's fine Anna." But she knew she wasn't.
Anna never truly knew why her parents passing bothered her sister so deeply. Yes, it bothered herself, as it still does, but she's accepted that they are gone. It seems Elsa still hasn't. Anna wasn't quite sure if she was glad it hadn't affected her as badly as Elsa, or should she feel guilty for not feeling the pain as intensely as Elsa. She loved her mom and dad, with all her heart. So what was it with Elsa that kept her away from people?
Elsa let out a sigh as she heard Anna do the same, guessing from the footsteps, judging that she finally walked away and went to bed.
She slipped down further into the shower's floor, her knees curled up to her chest and her hands softly draped to her sides, albeit one timidly rested on the wall of the shower, the cold surface feeling beautiful on her warm skin. The rain like pool lapped over her pearlescent like skin, it's temperature just warm enough to make steam, yet not enough to overheat her. She was winter in a sense. Her shoulders ached as the water worked its way into her back, creasing out the dead knots of trouble and pain. She'd be returning to classes tomorrow, and boy did she have work to do. Sure she had only missed about 3 days, that's still 3 too many. She was in all honors courses, and catching up that amount of work would be the death of her, she was sure of it.
Then there was Jack.
Who knew smiling again could bring so much trouble?
Ever since she had met the man her life has been nothing but a ride of twists and turns tossed in with a rolling loop and a plinth of hope. He was so arrogantly cocky with his attitude, yet simply playful and care free. No responsibilities. No cares. She envied him. She envied everyone.
Jack didn't know, and bless him for not knowing, but Elsa didn't like to talk about her parents. It was all due to they were her only source of comfort. For 18 years they were her solid fortress of comfort, enough to last her a lifetime, and it was ripped away from her. Elsa was alone.
She felt water roll from her cheek, and she wasn't sure if it was the shower, or her tears, but one thing was certain.
Elsa was crying.
Jack had spent nearly all morning searching for Elsa. He had gone to her dorm, the library, outside by the lake, the music hall, but the girl was nowhere to be seen. He was running frantic, ripping his hair out of every which way trying to find the girl. First morning classes started in 15 minutes and if he didn't find her soon he'd be worrying himself ragged all day. Well...he'd still do that even if he apologized but he craved an apology and needed to act on it fast.
He quickly turned a sharp corner before quite literally knocking into someone nose to nose, both him and the figure falling to the floor.
"Okay ow." He said whilst rubbing his nose.
"Oh I am so sorry!"
Wait that voice...
He glanced up. "Elsa?!"
"Jack." Elsa said helping herself up and Jack as well. Her blonde hair was swept over in a braid, and she had on a nice blue laced hoodie with a matching blouse underneath.
"I, well I've been, how are, are you okay? Is your nose hurt? I've been searching for you all morning. What happened? Are you okay? Wait didn't I already ask that? Elsa I-"
"Jack. Slow down. It's alright." Elsa said gaining her posture and waving the frantic boy down.
He sheepishly rubbed the back of his head, casting his gaze downwards; something Elsa figured out was a habit.
"What I'm trying to say is...I'm sorry. If I knew about your parents I would have nev-"
"It's okay Jack really. You didn't know." She said taking her side swept braid in her hands, rubbing it gently.
"But it's not okay. You looked hurt..."
"I'm fine. Honest."
He was about to retort but the first bell ran off, and the halls began to slowly get dimmer and dimmer by the minute. Elsa quickly looked past his shoulder at the clock before looking back towards the man infront of her.
"8:25. Gotta run. Bye Jack!"
Elsa tingly took a fidgeting hand to grasp her backpack before scurrying off down the hallway, a bewildered Jack behind her.
"See ya..." Jack waved a bit too slow for his tastes. This girl was...was something else.
He sidestepped backwards, and began to head out if one thought hadn't of crossed his mind.
That was a front.
He knew it anywhere. She was hiding her pain behind a mask, sheltering it from the world as it slowly decayed her rotting insides; Elsa was dying, theoretically of course, but none the less vain. She was hurt and needed help, and Jack would be the Guardian to do it.
Elsa absentmindedly doodled down her notes, her own scribbling perfectly handwritten beauty down on notebook paper, and it was only physics.
Her mind kept wandering back to Jack, but she shushed it away, throwing it behind her mind and trying to focus exactly on what the teacher was saying.
Delta x equaled what again...?
She groaned silently and buried her head into her arms, curse jack for making her feel this way.
"Ms. Arendelle? Please come to the board to write down your answer."
Curse Jack.
She gingerly took a book from her backpack, some mythical story on the old warlocks of age, something just to satisfy her fantasy hunger.
She had the book resting in one hand and an apple in the other as she leaned against the window frame in her spot in the library, the mid afternoon light blending her well into the world. Her blonde hair flew brightly in the light, and a glow almost presented itself around her. The sun felt a bit warm on her cheek, but the ice inside only dwindled that down.
What was she trying to do?
Oh yeah, read.
As hard as she tried to focus, she couldn't. Her heart either weighed just a tad too much or her mind wouldn't stop thinking of him. Why couldn't she just forget him!? She makes life worse for everyone, so it would do everyone a favor if she just stayed away.
She sighed.
This was going to be a long day.
"Well, well, well. Look who's here."
Elsa didn't need to look around to know that fiery stench or all too familiar clicks of heels.
She glanced to her side, Victoria walking with her 2 hoards of lopsided puppy followers.
"Victoria." Elsa said, calm and composed albeit on the inside she was screaming.
"New rule, you don't get to speak in front of me."
A heavy dew of stress blanketed over the 4 as uncomfortable pressure settled in. The tension grew until Victoria glared at Elsa with death, a burning glow around her.
"Grab her."
Elsa's eyes grew wide as the girls struggled to hold her down, when they had grabbed her she couldn't say, but now she lay face to face with Victoria, with no one around.
"What, no Jacky to come rescue you this time?"
Victoria nearly sang as she spat in Elsa's face.
"I've said this before Elsa. What I want, I get, and if I can't have it...no one can."
She let a smirk play as she paced in front of the struggling Elsa, flickering a flame beneath her heels.
"I'll start with Jacky, and then move into to that little group of theirs." She bent down and brushed a strand of Elsa's hair lying on her cheek, she smirked. "I'll save Anna for last, make sure she REAAALLY enjoys it."
A spark inhibited inside of Elsa, and instantly a low animal-like growl burst forth from her lips, something which startled even her.
"Don't you touch her!" Elsa seethed.
"What are you gonna do? Beg me to stop?" Victoria laughed, laughed and laughed. The two lackeys binding Elsa burst forth in joy as well, and soon it tore through Elsa's ears, making her head pound in frustration.
She knew this is where it had to end. No more of this, she was fed up, tired, weak, and completely done with this life. Victoria wasn't going to mess with her anymore. No one was.
"Don't worry, this won't hurt too much." Victoria listed as a lust filled flame enfolded within her hand.
Instantly jet spikes of ice sprung out, darting in different directions, sending all 3 girls backwards, Victoria skidding back and the two puppies being trapped to the wall, hung by thin beads of ice never once piercing the skin but so skillfully close.
Elsa stood still, her chest exploding in spreading sporadic convulsions of motion. An ice coated frost spread from her feet in a sparkling like manor, and dropped the room instantly by 20 degrees.
Victoria stood up among scattered books and an upturned shelf, her golden eyes set ablaze.
"Now you've done it."
Elsa didn't say a word, nearly waited. She wasn't a talker during fights no, she was a thinker. Victoria flared up a spike of flames and spun it at Elsa, she responded with a wall of ice, dissipating the fire into mist and a ball shaped indent in the ice.
This continued for a while, Victoria blowing flame while Elsa merrily blocked them with her own ice, easily controlling the field. The library's upper deck was now covered in smoldering ash and beautiful frost, something which apparently set Victoria off.
She looked around, seething between her teeth, before darting at Elsa and letting out a bone crashing scream.
An immense wall of fire burst from the pressure and slammed into Elsa's own wall of ice, sending her flying back into the window. The glass shattered upon contact, breaking and letting Elsa's body zoom out into the sky, directly into the courtyard.
Luckily she landed on a patch of snow, thankfully skidding her fall to a less harsh of a crash. She sat up with a groan, grabbing her head as it now feverishly pounded in her mind. Victoria jumped down after her, using heat from her hands as a propulsion method. As she landed, everyone was forming in the courtyard, students from all grades wanting to watch the fight.
Truly, Elsa didn't want to fight. She was just done with being the weakling. Done with being the insult, she was defending herself for once in her life. She wasn't going to stand down anymore.
"Elsa!" A female voice called.
Elsa stood from the pile of snow as she saw a bustling red-headed female try to make her way thre the crowd.
Anna.
"You stay out of this!" Victoria belted, knocking a strong wind infused with fire towards Anna. Thankfully someone had pulled her back just in the nick of time, but it still grained her arm quite badly. She let out a yelp as her arm burned from the heat, and Elsa's ears tingled with the energy.
She snapped.
"That's it!" She screamed as she stood upwards.
Victoria flew Elsa as she ran, a wall of flames igniting behind her.
Elsa let loose, all thoughts of any guilt or judgment freeing from her mind.
A mass swirl of ice intensely burst forth from her chest, the winds picking up and ice darting from the ground at lightning speeds. A bright white like overtook the area as her magic was let loose, completely and freely, loose.
As she came from her high, she slowly opened her eyes and nearly dropped at the sight.
Victoria lay blown back, her body half covered in snow. A small spike of ice pierced directly threw her left arm just above her elbow, blood freezing as it gently dripped from the wound. It fell in a sickening shade of intense red, and the students recoiled and screamed as the sight unfolded. Elsa's eyes grew Wide as she backed up against the tree behind her, clutching her hands too her chest.
What had she done?
However, the damage done wasn't what Elsa had seen. Her fear changed the scope of the picture into something much more worse than it was. In reality, Elsa's magic had only pricked at Victoria's skin, somehow Elsa's subconscious directed the blast askew just a smudge, and it was just enough to not pierce the skin. The scrape however had shot tightly into the side of her arm, and a small trickle of blood came lose, but aside from that she had no damage.
"Everybody move!" A male voice boomed.
The principle came rushing to Victoria's side, not once hesitating as his suit dipped into the snow.
"What happened here!?" He screamed voice hoarse yet full of determination.
Elsa found all eyes lay on her, and she lurched deeper into herself, she messed up bad, messed up real bad.
Looks of hatred, fear, and awe crossed over the student body's faces, she knew what they were thinking, and she could feel their judgment. One set of eyes set out among the most though, one set of opalescent blue eyes, as bright as a snowflake.
"Elsa..." He mouthed breathlessly.
No, no, no, no, no, no not this.
Her eyes flashed with fear as her world melted into a pit of dispense despair and agony, she glanced to her right, all which lay over the fields past the sports area were woodlands, the lake, her haven. She shared one look with Jack, one which had a million emotions pooled into one.
I'm sorry.
She ran, the eyes trailing her back as she fled the courtyard, they would have gone after her, ran and comforted the poor girl. But all were too shocked to move. Elsa the quiet girl, Elsa the ice cold shoulder, was gone.
Don't hate me! I left it on a cliffy I know...but the next chapter is coming next week. :) On the ultra super fantastic plus side, WE GOT STRAIGHT ONES! THAT'S A PERFECT FREAKING SCORE! It's my senior year, and we got a perfect freaking score. That was my last assessment ever...even though I completely messed up a few times...most of which the judges and EVERYONE else noticed, we still pulled off a Superior. I'm so happy...I can't even describe it.
Great assessment is done, one less thing to worry about. -.- I've got so much going on it isn't even funny. It makes me glad I wrote these chapters before hand, trust me, if you're writing and finding uploading a hassle, write the chapters before hand then start uploading. It makes it so much more stress free, because I don't feel like I'm on a time constraint and have to push the ideas out. Plus it's better for the readers too, because you can upload for them knowing you have a chapter ready to go and can upload on a timely schedule. I usually update every Wednesday or Thursday. But yes...sometimes I forget...DON'T JUDGE MEH.
Anyway, I hope you guys had just as good as a day as I did. This is so amazing. :) God I'm so happy.
As always,
R&R
