Woooo boy this is long over due...
I will admit I was a little lazy getting to this story, cause frankly I have like 20 other stories I'm working on that I haven't posted yet...don't judge me!
Enjoy!
It was early this year. It's usually not this early. Elsa stares at her screen, at her emails. Why was it so early this year?
After her brief frozen panic she prints the email and grabs it from the printer before rushing out her office, down the stairs and to the kitchen. She plops the email down on the counter in front of Rapunzel. Why the woman was still here and not on her honeymoon yet was a mystery. The action makes the brunette jump and squeak before her eyes are casted down to the words. She says nothing and Elsa can feel her heart trying to climb out her throat.
"It's early," she says and green eyes slowly make their way to blue.
"Also not a lot of notice," Rapunzel says and they just stare at one another.
"They changed the rules," the blonde whispers and Rapunzel slowly sets down her piping bag.
"They did not change it, they added, deep breaths Elsa. You've beaten her before you can do it again," Rapunzel says slowly as she takes her cousins hands in her own.
"What's going on?" Anna asks as she steps closer. The girl had some chocolate smeared over her cheek. Elsa wanted to ask why, but she saw the girls hands were also covered in mostly dried chocolate and a half made sculpture was standing on the redheads table.
"The chocolate convention has been moved to an earlier date, something about unveiling something new. So Elsa here is freaking out because that means the chocolatier-ing competition is also earlier than she's used to. They also added a rule that the senior chocolatiers need to bring a junior with them. Preferably a prodigy," Rapunzel explained as Elsa's eyes kept roaming over the sculpture.
Her eyes snapped to Anna's and she threw her arms in the air. This made both women startle at the look of either surprise or clarity the blondes icy blues were showing.
"Anna! You are my prodigy!" She shouts then hugs the girl like she's a life line. Anna can only give Rapunzel a confused look. The brunette shrugs.
"Elsa hasn't been the same since that one time Maleficent went all crazy after Elsa won," she gives as an explanation and Anna understands. She still had that video saved on her phone. She liked watching it. It's funny.
"I was terrified Rapunzel, you didn't see the look in that woman's eyes! She's evil," Elsa pouts and shares a glance with Anna. They both knew how evil she was, if she were willing to stoop to black mailing that is.
"Well now you'd have Anna there to protect you and Kristoff doesn't have to play bodyguard," Rapunzel smiles. Just then the men joined them from the back and Kristoff loomed over the redhead.
"I don't have to do what now?" He asks and Anna looks up to the large man.
"Be Elsa's bodyguard for the chocolate convention," Anna says. Kristoff blinks then his mouth turns down in a pout.
"You mean I don't get to go to Switzerland this year? How mean!" He whines and Anna tries her best not to laugh at his face. The man looked like someone kicked his puppy.
"So when is Festichoc® this year?" Anna asks to try and keep her occupied. Elsa sighs and picks up the email she printed and holds it out to her. Anna takes it and reads through it.
"Wow that is early. This gives us what? A little over a month to prepare?" Anna asks and Elsa nods. She'd need to make a few calls. Get their visa's sorted, book a hotel, book their flights and so much more. She'd need to practice working on a sculpture or two with the girl to see if they could even work together. She's never had to work with someone on a sculpture before!
"Hey, hey, Elsa everything will be fine okay?" Anna says as she sees the blonde have a slight internal panic. Elsa takes a shaky breath and smiles as best she can.
"Yes, everything will be fine. Belle can make a few calls to set a date for our visas and book our transport and hotel, the only thing we need to focus on right now is working together," Elsa says, more to herself than Anna, but the girl always knew how to make her calm down.
"See, there we go! Everything is sorted," Rapunzel smiles and heads back to her own decorating. She hardly picks up her piping bag when her head snaps up.
"Oh! Elsa, what if Eugene and I go with you girls? Like a little pre-honeymoon thing? That can be your wedding gift to us," she smiles and bats her eyelashes at Elsa.
Elsa narrows her eyes and purses her lips together.
"I got you a perfectly good pressure cooker for your wedding," she says and the brunette shrugged.
"Fine you can have our first born," she says and Elsa lets out a snort that makes her clamp her hands over her mouth and nose, but it was too late. Everyone was laughing at her now, even Tiana in the front. Elsa groans and rolls her eyes.
"Fine, the child's name will be Athol," she smirks and Rapunzel narrows her eyes.
"I'm not agreeing to this," Eugene pipes up and the cousins just start smiling at one another.
"It's just a joke Eugene, besides the child is already cursed with a last name like Fitzherbert," Elsa chuckles and the man pouts.
"Yea well it's still better than Snøfnugg," the man grumbles and Elsa's chuckles stop.
"You just butchered my last name," she says in a flat voice.
"Well I don't speak Norwegian!" He shouts and everyone is laughing again.
"Det er ikke et vanskelig språk å lære deg å vite," Anna says and everyone just stares at her. She looked between them and starts to blush.
"I know like 8 languages okay?" She shouts then pouts as everyone starts laughing again. Elsa felt better, this was relaxing her. They could work together and truthfully it would be nice to bring home a trophy with both their names on it.
~Chocolatier~Chocolatier~Chocolatier~
Anna hummed as she waved goodbye to Tiana as she left. Now it was just her and Elsa at the café. After Elsa had calmed down and asked Belle to make some arrangements for the upcoming Festichoc, she asked if they could start now with some training. She watched the older woman tie on her apron and straighten her chef's uniform. They were just going to check how well they can work together, to get a feel for one another before taking it from there.
Anna knew Elsa wouldn't be happy if she was the reason the older woman lost her title. All though Anna has full believe in herself that she can be just as great as Elsa if she really tried or at least share some new and fresh ideas.
"Alright Elsa what do you want us to make?" Anna asked as she smiled to her boss and girlfriend. She loved that statement, loved that she could call Elsa her girlfriend.
"Let's try doing an actual order together, where's the list?" Elsa asked as she looked around. Anna handed her the list. There weren't much left. Anna was a fast worker.
"I think we should do the birthday party one, it's for a girl's sweet 16," Elsa says as she places the list down. Anna hummed and glossed over the list.
"Sure, how hard can it be to make a white unicorn with rainbow locks and tail and sparkles the size of a small child?" Anna said trying hard not to let sarcasm drip from her lips. There was a reason she had left that one to do on the weekend so she could come in and work in peace. But if her boss wanted to do it now then she will have to do it now. Maybe the help would be most useful.
They started out with Elsa making the plans and Anna getting the ingredients together. So far so good, Anna thought as they talked over the design and where to being. They voiced a few concerns to a few things before nodding and setting out to do what they loved.
Things were going well, for about an hour.
"Anna for the last time you have to start with the big pieces first!" Elsa growled and Anna slammed her hands down on the table, breaking the mould she was working on.
"The smaller pieces take the longest time to make, so why not make them first?" Anna countered and Elsa sighed rather dramatically as she face palmed.
"Anna it's best to make the biggest part so that if there are any changes that need to be made can be made as the smaller parts are being added," Elsa says as she returns to the moulding chocolate on the table between them.
"You're already doing the main piece! While you're doing that I'm doing some of the smaller things, saving time you know?" Anna grumbles and throws the broken mould into a bowl before starting a new one.
"Anna, we can both work on the main piece together, it'll go faster if we do," Elsa sighs. Anna waves her hands to the unformed sculpture.
"I don't understand why you want to literally sculpt it in one go! Why not make it piece by piece and then put it together in the end? Like I do with all my sculptures I've done so far," Anna says exasperated. Elsa blinks to her and tilts her head.
"You do what?" She asks and walks closer to the redhead.
"I know I didn't stutter. I make each part individually then put it all together like a puzzle," Anna explained. Elsa frowned at her before turning on her heel to head into the walk in freezer. Anna follows her to the big Easter bunny standing on a trolley in the middle of the freezer.
Elsa walks closer to it and studies it intently. Anna shivers a little at the cold, but Elsa seemed unfazed. She watched the blonde circle the chocolate creation and squinting at some parts.
"That's what I finished today. All I need to do now is paint it and make sure everything is perfect," Anna explained and Elsa turned to her.
"I can hardly see where you put it together," she whispered and Anna smiled.
"We all have our own way of doing things. I obviously studied your method when in collage, but for my end of year sculpture I was stumped at what to make. So to clear my mind and practice a few things I made random things, then decided to put it all together for my finale assignment," Anna explains and pulls out her phone. She scrolls few a ton of pictures before coming to the one she wanted.
"You made that?" Elsa asked as she eyed the sculpture. It was a decent size and a little bizarre.
"What is that?" Elsa asked, her mind couldn't decide if it was an animal or a machine.
"It's a mechanical cat, I tend to make machine parts when thinking, cause it takes a lot of concentration and helps me relax," Anna grins. Elsa looks to the younger girl with new found amazement.
"Alright then let's do it your way then," Elsa smiles and Anna blinks.
"Wait really? You're letting me lead?" Anna squeaks. Elsa giggles and steers them out of the freezer. The poor redhead's lips were turning blue.
"Yes, I'll let you lead," Elsa smiles and Anna lights up. By the time they needed to head home they weren't nearly done. A sculpture takes a good bunch of hours to make and they only had 4 to work with. They would take on the rest tomorrow.
Okay! Next chapter will have them at Festichoc and there will be a a slight change to the format for that one chapter. It's a special chapter that will guest star one person by name and a few others by appearance (it's not cause I suck at making characters pfft)
So! If you would like your country represented for Festichoc let me now in the reviews yea?
Shout outs!
Haley Universe : Well here's more! Excited for the next one?
ArrowFan252016: Lol sorry this one doesn't have one, the next one won't either, but maybe the one after. Depends how much ya'll want it!
Reithel: Hey sometimes people get distracted yea?
Reza Novaria: Dude drop me a PM and maybe I can work on some supplies for you yea? *wink wink* We'll see what happens in the future with this one.
Guest: I'm glad you liked it! Haha thanks for the idea yea? The box will remain a mistery (what's inside the box?!) It was realistic? Yay! I wasn;t sure, never been in a situation like that before. My pleasure!
So...I am eagerly awaiting your thoughts!
You can always drop me a PM too!
Till next time!
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