Chapter 6: Skate

Elsa's POV

I ate my lunch with everyone at my table. It was a very good one. I then realized that it was time for us to go for our next class.

"Wanna come to back again?" Hiccup asked. I looked at the rest of everyone who locked their eyes with mine. I eventually laid my eyes on Jack. His eyes looked hopeful and beautiful. I could see so much in there. But it was all some I couldn't understand. He looked as if he wanted me to say yes. But I just didn't want him to think that I would be coming to hit on him. Which I won't deny, he is very attractive. But he has a girlfriend. So I won't get in the way of that. And, I don't want to be in a bunch of drama too. Then that'll ruin my senior year. And I want to leave by having a great, fun, and happy year. With lots of friends too.

I nodded my head and answered yes. Jack's eyes lit up as I looked at him in the eyes once more.

"All right you guys! Stop drooling over each other. Jeez, gonna give me a heart attack." Merida said while snorting. The whole table looked around each other and started bursting out laughing. I was blushing a little as well and I think I saw a tint of pink on Jack's cheeks too.

"Well I'll see you guys later." Merida said while getting up from the table with Astrid. As Astrid got up she placed a hand on Hiccups shoulder. She leaned in and kissed Hiccup on the cheek. I could see him blush a little. She gave him a small smile before walking out of the cafeteria. Belle went with them as well. It was just me, Hiccup, and Jack.

We sat in silence for a few minutes until I looked at Jack and saw his eyes grow wide. Looking at the lunch line. I raised my eyebrow and looked to see what he was looking at. My eyes widened too.

Punzie.

I saw her with her friends getting lunch. Laughing. The sight of them made me sick. I wanted to go up to her and smack her. But if I did that, Jack would hate me.

I looked back at Jack. He looked back at me. "Elsa. You need to go, if she finds you...who knows what she'll do to you." Jack said looking at me. His eyes had 'worried' all over them. Does he care about me? No. No that's impossible. How could anyone care about someone so fast?

"Elsa...you should go. I don't want her to hurt you again." Jack replies still staring into my eyes. I could stay like this forever. Looking deep into the windows of his soul. All I could see was worrying. For me. I think anyways. Probably not but what else could it be?

"Elsa! Go! I don't want her to see you!" Jack whispered. I shook my head coming back into reality. I nodded towards Jack and got up from my seat. I then started to walk to my next class.

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I walked into my English class and saw people look at me smiling. Like they were trying to hold back laughter. I sighed deeply and just walked to my desk. Our teacher told us read a book for the day. As I was reading my book I felt something hit the back of my head. I turned my head and looked down to see a yellow piece of paper crumpled up in a ball. I leaned down to grab the paper. I picked it up and unwrapped it with my two hands holding it. It read:

Make sure your shoe laces are tied.

I moved my head up and turned towards the class to see them all chuckling. They know about me falling over in the cafeteria from the other day. It's just best to ignore them. Then they won't bug me.

Our teacher told us to write down in our journals a paragraph of our book so far. As I was trying to find my journal I saw a sticky note in the front. I pulled it off and read it:

Here's my number,

241-765-9999

-Jack

I smiled and placed the sticky note into my pencil case. I couldn't wait to text him. Maybe even call him. But why would he do that? Maybe he just felt bad for me. Or he just wants to be friends. I don't know why but I just kept smiling and was excited. What would I say? What would he say? Thoughts piled in my mind.

But it'll need to wait until after skate practice.

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The day flew by pretty quick. I just had skating to do them I could text him. As I walked down to the girls locker room I could see a few girls there. Some I didn't know. But I did recognize one girl. She had her hair tied in a bun. Her hair was black and wavy. She wore a blue t-shirt with jeans and sandals. I walked up to them, they were all circled around and the coach was in the middle. The coach notices me and waved her hand to me. Telling me to come over. I walked over more and stood within the circle with everyone. The girl I recognize is Moana. I thought she would've done swim classes. Maybe for summer sports. All the other girls I didn't recognize.

"Alright ladies. I am Mrs. Gorman, your skate coach for this year and for some seniors, your last. We have a new skater with us today. Elsa Winters. I really love the name. Literally says winter. Matches skating too." She chuckled a little bit. I did too. So did the girls. I didn't see Punzie or her friends here. That was some good news.

"Alright girls we are gonna start with some basic rules of skating after you all dress in your appropriate attire. Now get to it!" Mrs. Gorman said and me and the girls headed off.

We walked to our lockers and started to undress. As I opened my locker I saw a black suit with some beatiful white skate shoes. They were absolutely beautifully crafted. As I looked at them I saw on the blade of the eighth skate it had "Whitewater High" labeled on it. I decided to take a picture of it and maybe I would send it to Jack later. Maybe. Or would that be too weird? Only time will tell.

"You like the skates?" I looked to my side and saw a girl with black hair tied into a bun. "Yes. They are so beautiful." I said still looking at them with amazement. "You know if your this amazed about the skates then you should be more amazed about the outfits we are gonna get later in the year." She said while grabbing her skates and walking out. I wonder what they will look like. I tied my hair in a bun and headed out the door to the rank with my skates in my hand.

As I got out I saw some of the girls while they were waiting were already on the rank skating. They all looked really good. Some where spinning and just skating in circles. The coach was watching the others skate around clapping for them. I thought of a move I learned from one of my old teammates in my last school.

I decided to skate onto the ice. As I skated I warmed up by skating around the rank until I got comfortable and started to do the move. I skated into the middle of the rank. I started to spin in a circle in place. It got faster and faster and faster. I then stopped myself in place and skated along the rank and I did a front flip. I landed perfectly on the ice with both my hands out to my sides like a bird ready to fly. I then spun in a 360 degree circle in the air and landed with doing another front flip. I landed perfectly. I stayed still for about 5 seconds and looked up. I saw all of the skaters including the coach smiling and clapping for me. I smiled. That move gets them every time. My old coach was right. That is the best move to make them proud.

"That was beautiful Mrs. Winters! Maybe I'll make you the next team captain!" She replied with a smile and clapping. I smiled back.

"Well I think that's enough for today! Head home! Call your parents to get you! Tomorrow we will start with practices. See you all tomorrow!" All the girls then skated to the locker room but took off their skates before they got in.

I walked into the locker room and started to change into my cloths. As I was changing one of the girls walked up to me. The one from before that talked to me about the skates.

"You did really good out there, Elsa. Where did you learn that from?" She asked me raising her eyebrow. I put on my brown boots and grabbed my bag. I stood up. "I learned it from my old coach. At Golden Oak High School. She was an Olympic ice skater. She retired and decided to teach there. She was the best coach. I miss her. She was like a mother to me. I felt so comfortable telling her things that no one else knew. Not even my friends knew." I explained. The black haired girl put her hand on my shoulder.

"You might see her again. Only time will tell." She smiled and took her hand back. I smiled. "Thanks. For being a good person to me," I said.

"What's your name?"

"Jasmine."

"That's a very pretty name, Jasmine." I said. She smiled. "For short you can call me Jaz." I nodded and waved to her. She waved back.

I walked over to the exit of the school and decided to call my mom. I held the phone to my ear. I waited.

"Hey hon. How was skating?"

"It was good mom."

"That's it?"

"What do you mean?"

"Tell me about practice! I wanna hear about it!"

Why is she so jumpy today? She's never usually like this. Unless she eats chocolate. We have a history of eating chocolate and going crazy.

"Well, the coach might consider me to be captain of the team." I said. I heard her gasp. "Wow hon! I'm so proud of you! I just wish that I had time to see you. But you know how the office is. How they are pushing me. But if I don't work there...what else would I do?" She said. I sighed. My mom is sometimes a pain in the butt but she definently has been working her *ss off to figure out who killed my father. It's a fortune to get that here. You have to be really lucky to afford it. She's been working hard. She loved my father. A lot. We all had a happy life until that happened.

"Yeah I know mom. Hey can you pick me up? We are all finished."

"I'll be there in about ten minutes. I'll see you soon."

"Bye mom."

I hung up my phone. All I need to do is wait.

Your probably wondering Elsa your a senior. And you don't have a car yet? But like I said my mom is working hard and I have a part time job to try and get one. We are kinda poor but not too too poor. We are just a busy family.

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I saw my mom pull up the car in the front of the school. I walked out with my backpack and got in the car. We sat in silence the whole ride home.

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We got home and as soon as I got in went straight to my bedroom and threw myself on my bed. I laid there staring at my ceiling. Why did my father have to die? I thought to myself. What did I do to let this happen? Why me? I felt a tear role down my cheek. I wiped that away quickly. I propped myself on my elbow and reach into my nightstand. I pulled out a family album and laid on my back on my bed. I flipped through the pages, going back to when I was young. When my father was still alive. There was a picture of him me and Anna standing on a stone balcony and a lake going back to where you can see NY city. We were on the Statue of Liberty. I remember Anna almost fell trying to stand on the railing to see if she could fly. My mother and father caught her before she could do anything. I laughed at that thought.

I saw another one which showed me when me and my father found the owl feather. I ran my hand over the picture. I hope that my father is in a better place now. Maybe he's watching me in heaven. I looked up to my ceiling and I smiled. Hoping my dad was smiling back at me.

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A/N: Hey guys! I'm so sorry for the late update. I've been really really busy lately. I'm in Drama Club and they have pushed rehearsals to 9:00 pm at night but I have to leave earlier cause that's my bed time XD then when I get home I need to take my shower and get a bunch of other stuff too. I know 'TMI' but that's Incase you are wondering what been taking so long. And I haven't had much inspiration for this one. Probably why it's so short. But keep reading please. I do have an ending for this story planned. Please give me some reviews on how to make this better or how to make the next chapters. I hope you liked this story and I'll see you all later!

Bye guys!!