A Perfect Date
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I regret to inform all of you that my beta reader had decided she can no longer edit my chapters before I submit them. But please, all of you, feel free to comment and provide your own feedback and suggestions. I am always open to criticism.
"Wow, so this is London."
Anna says in bewilderment as she and her companions descend from the sky on the back of the winged horse Ping. She and Elsa were looking at the city with wide eyes, seeing all the tiny people, enormous Big Ben, A gigantic ferris wheel (which Anna was DEFINITELY going to go on with Elsa). And a McDonalds. Which caught Anna's eyes the most, or rather her stomach the most.
"It's beautiful." Elsa says also admiring the view, also wishing she had her architecture binder to help her capture the buildings style.
"Let's head down." Joan says pointing her finger downward, signaling Ping to descend towards the harbor.
"Hey wait, won't people see a flying horse?" Ask Elsa concerned..
"Oh don't worry." Joan says reaching into her pocket, she pulls out one of the rings that Li had given her. "I will just put this on Pings ear so no one will notice us."
Joan slips the ring around Pings left ear, once it slides on Joan smiles. Elsa and Anna look at each other confused. They look at their hands, they look at each other, they can both see each other perfectly.
"Um Joan, I can still see myself. And you. And Anna." Elsa says poking Joans shoulder.
"Oh well the ring doesn't make you invisible-invisible. It just creates a bubble that prevents anyone outside from seeing you. Like it cuts and edits you out of their vision." Joan explains.
"Why can't it just make you actually invisible?"
"Well Anna, if you were actually invisible then you wouldn't be able to see." Joan says as if it were obvious. "Now these rings also make it so that no one on the outside can hear you. But they will if they get too close."
"How close?" Elsa asks curiously.
"The bubble is about three feet around." Joan says just as they get closer to the docks.
True to her word nobody saw them. Sailors, children, ice cream vendors, they just carried out their business as if they weren't even there. Ping lands on a dock behind a large rusted old fishing boat, nobody was there so Joan was able to remove the ring without any fuss. Elsa and Anna get off, stretch their arms in the air, touch their toes, say how good it feels to be on the ground again. But Joan remains on her pet.
"Ok guys here's the deal. I will let you guys sightsee for a few hours. So use this time to go to the bathroom. Buy new clothes. Have a good breakfast. But at 12:00 you need to be back here to take off. I am going to fly around with Ping some more to look for food for him."
"But Joan. What are you going to eat?" Asks Elsa.
Joan just shrugs.
"Just buy me fish-in-ships or something, i'll eat during flight."
"But Joan we dont have any money. Well I still have a few dollars in my wallet but doesn't Britain use pounds?" Anna asks, pulling out her wallet and looking sadly at the little money she had left in it. And of course she couldn't use her card anymore.
"Relax Anna." Elsa says passively. "We can just take a few dollars out of my account. It should transfer over."
"Good, problem solved. Now go on, enjoy yourselves." Joan says before patting Ping on the side of the face, telling him to take off.
Anna and Elsa stepped out from behind the boat, they were not invisible anymore, but no one seemed to think anything of them. Anna turned to Elsa.
"So Elsa. I think I saw a McDonalds that way." She said pointing left.
Elsa smiles and says "Lead the way."
After walking through the streets of London for a few minutes Anna and Elsa arrived at the London version of a McDonalds. It was similar to a regular McDonald's but the menu was slightly different. It had something called a "Bacon Roll." Anna decided to try it, it was just like a sandwich, except it's main ingredients were bacon and ketchup. Elsa decided to order a healthier choice, a Fruit-N-Yogurt. Thankfully as Elsa said the cashier was able to use her card without an issue.
Once Elsa and Anna ordered they sat down at a booth close to the window.
"So Elsa. Do you really think we have a chance against Jory?" Anna asked.
Elsa, who had been looking outside when Anna asked that, turned around and looked at her confused.
"Jory?" Elsa asked.
"Jory. Nessie. Whatever he goes by now the days. Or, she goes by. Hey is it supposed to be a "he" or a "she"?" Anna asked referring to Jormungand.
"Well...I have heard both. Listen Anna right now I just wanna have some free things me with you. Ok? We can worry about gods and monsters when we get to Scotland." Elsa replied.
Just then the waitress comes and hands the girls their respective orders. Anna looks at with with a large smile and drooling lips.
"Thank yo-" Elsa tries to say to the waitress but she walks off as soon as the girls have their food.
"Well she was rude." Anna says.
Elsa takes a bite of her fruit.
"Anyways Anna. Assuming things don't go as planned, I want us to have a nice date."
"Ok. But I hope Kristoff is ok. And Flynn." Anna says thinking about her cousin and cousins friend.
"Don't worry. Kristoff is with his family and we left Flynn with Joan's friend." Elsa says confidently.
"But Joan's friend works for Asgard."
"If Joan trusts him so do I." Elsa said.
"Well to be fair you didn't trust Joan for a while." Anna pointed out.
"I also didn't trust you and now look. We're on a date."
"Yeah. Thanks." Anna said blushing.
"Now Anna, just to break the ice. What is it that attracts you to me?" Elsa asks smiling and raising a brow.
"What isn't there to be attracted to? Your gorgeous, your smart and your just the sweetest most warmest person ever! When your not mad I mean."
Elsa chuckled.
"Wow, me and warm in the same sentence? That's a first."
"So Elsa, what do you like about me?"
"Well I like redheads with freckles."
Elsa takes another bite of her yogurt as Anna stares at her. A minute passes and Elsa takes another bite while Anna just looks at her asking if she was serious.
"Is that it?" Anna finally asks, smiling nervously.
Elsa lets out a small smile.
"But what really made me like you was your cheery attitude. Your just so happy and preppy . You could make anyone smile." Elsa said truly meaning it.
Anna scratched the back of her head.
"Kevin said I talk too much."
"Well I like that you ramble. I think it's adorable." Said Elsa taking another bite of fruit.
"Really? Well then maybe I should ramble some more then?"
"No, you do enough as it is. I think everyone else would agree." Says Elsa smirking.
"Excuse me?" Asks Anna indignantly.
Anna was about to protest some more but Elsa stuck a piece pineapple in her mouth with her fork. Elsa laughs slightly as Anna stares at her with narrow eyes and a smirking, chewing mouth.
After eating the two girls decided to tour the streets of London. Since they were "dating" now Anna would occasionally lean her head into Elsa's shoulder, not too hard since Elsa was quite a bit taller than her. Elsa chuckled a little bit, even though she was a little disturbed the the stare's they were receiving. It was just a few, but still.
"It's a shame Joan couldn't have stopped in France. I always wanted to see The Louvre." Elsa said making conversation.
"You like art?" Anna asked perking up.
"I like to draw every now and then. I wanted to be an artist when I was young but my dad told me that I should pursue a more stable career." Explained Elsa nonchalantly.
"Well that's not right. You should be an artist if you really want to." Anna said gazing up at Elsa. But she seemed indifferent to it.
"Nah, I like designing buildings. It's fun. Plus I can still draw in my spare time."
Now Anna released Elsa and stepped back, causing them both to stop looking. Anna looked at her septically.
"Really? Well I haven't seen you draw anything." Anna raised an eyebrow.
"Well..." Elsa pulled some folded pieces of paper out of her pocket. They were wrinkled a bit and of the yellow lined variety. "I did do some rough sketches back at the motel but they aren't my best work."
"Well I still wanna see them. Anna said reaching for the papers, but Elsa held them above her head.
"No." Elsa said.
But Anna still kept trying to reach them like a little girl trying to snatch a toy from her older sister. She was even jumping a bit, causing most of the people walking by the look at them briefly like 'what the hell?'
"Oh come on! What is your boss going to say when you wont show him your drawings?"
"My building designs are different." Elsa defended.
"Why?"
"Because these are personal."
Anna looked at her seeming defeated. "Ok...oh hey Joan's waving to us."
"What?" Anna quickly snatched the paper form her hand when she lowered it. "Hey!"
Anna opened up the papers and flipped through the drawings Elsa had done. They were drawn in motel pen ink and smudged from the movement of her hand, as well as the wrinkling of the paper, but they were still in relatively good condition. Anna was impressed, sure Elsa could have made them neater but that is hardly her fault. Aside from that the quality of the drawings was really good. She saw an image of her and Joan sparing at the pool area. Small sketches of Joan throwing punches and Anna blocking. Anna trying to kick and being thrown to the ground. If you put them together you would have a flip book. There was Joan flexing, wearing a bra (probably posed for Elsa). Anna was actually a little jealous of how detailed Elsa made Joans figure compared to her other drawings, especially her muscular arms and the "bra" area. There was Flynn drinking a 'Corona' beer can. She saw a picture of Kristoff sleeping on the motel bed, a magazine in his face. It seemed slightly less detailed from the others, probably because Elsa had to freestyle since Kristoff wasn't actually there. And then there was another picture that made Anna blush.
"Wow Elsa. These are all really good."
"The outlines are smudged. I didn't do proper shading and I think I did Flynn's nose wrong." Elsa said critiquing herself.
"Well these are still really good." Then Anna gave a mischievous smile and lifted up the one that made her blush. "Is this supposed to be me?"
"ANNA GIVE THAT ONE BACK!" Elsa yelled, but now Anna was holding it away from her. Elsa was so embarassed, a small amount of ice even formed at her heels.
"Is this me getting out of the shower?" Anna said pointing out the face that she was naked in the drawing. There was a towel around her waist and her hands were behind her head, her chest was stuck out, her hair free falling down to cover her nipples. Her eyes closed and biting her bottom lip like you would see in a romantic movie right before they cut off the bed scene. Anna looked at her breasts in the drawing and saw that Elsa had actually drawn a pair that was closer to her actual size, then erased them and drew new ones.
"Ok that's enough." Elsa said blushing.
"I think it is...is it me or did you make my breasts bigger?" Anna put the picture of her next to the one of Joan to compare. "They look even bigger than Joans? And there's a drawing next to it of my butt. Elsa you perv." Anna said with a big stupid grin handing Elsa back the pictures. Which Elsa promptly snatched back.
"You were standing right in front of me for half a hour. Did you want me to notice!?"
"Maybe...oh hey look there's a visitors center. We can get you a pad of paper and you can draw me with clothes on!"
Inside the gift shop Anna was checking out the nick-nacks.
"Hey look! It's snowing on Big Ben!" Anna said showing Elsa a snow globe with the large clock in it. Elsa was looking at cameras for sale. She chose a small blue one with a wrist strap.
"I can make that happen for real."
"Well I'm buying it anyways. Along with your pad of paper." Anna said stubbornly insisting on the drawing part.
"I will look for the proper drawing pencils and coloring pencils." Elsa said as the turned her back and continued looking.
Anna looks over and sees a small roatissory glass case for jewelry by the cashier. It had necklaces and earrings, pearls and diamonds, but just one pair caught Anna's eyes. It was a pair of small snowflake shaped earrings. Anna quickly made her way to the cashier and slammed the money from her own wallet on the cashier, this was something she was going to pay with herself.
"Sir, I must have those earrings!" Anna says to cashier as he looks at the money Anna had given him. He looks at her septically, then at the earings.
"Aw these? It's not even winter?" The cashier points out.
"Then why do you have snow globes?" Anna says in a very un-amused tone, very different for her. "How much?"
"£15."
Anna had no idea what that meant. The cashier groaned.
"Ugh...$21 US currency."
"21 dollars for these tiny things!?" Anna shouted in disbelief.
"That's 20 pounds with the snow globe."
Soon after Elsa and Anna were walking out of the gift shop. Elsa had decided to just buy the camera which was £13, or $18, she was glad that Anna didn't push her to buy the pad of paper and pencils, which would have cleared out their money.
"Wow that guy was expensive. So Anna like your snow globe?" Elsa asks walking next to Anna.
"Oh I didn't get it." Anna answers.
"Then what's in the bag?" Elsa asks pointing at the plastic bag Anna had been carrying in her left arm.
Anna was about to pull out the gift, but Anna saw the London eye, the line wasn't that long and they still had some money left.
"Hold on. Every good date had a Ferris wheel in it." Anna said pointing at the 443 foot beauty.
"Anna, that's the London eye." Elsa said.
"Then were going on the London eye."
Anna grabbed Elsa and ran to the line. It was still quite long so they were standing for a few minutes. Elsa used this time to take some pictures, she took a picture of Big Ben, a picture of Anna squishing Big Ben with her fingers. Them making funny faces in line, the other line members funny faces. Then finally a woman in blue greeted them at the ticket booth.
"Hello, we would like two tickets please." Elsa says handing the vendor her money. The woman counts the pounds in her hands, them looks at Elsa still smiling friendly.
"£27.00 adults, £22 for children."
"WAIT WHAT!?" Both women screamed. They did NOT have that much money on them right now.
"Are you serious?" Anna asked.
"No, so will that be £54 or £44 total?"
"Ok, well can I run to the money machine? It will take a few minutes." Elsa asked.
"Elsa no, we dont have too." Anna said not wanting Elsa to spend too much money on her.
Elsa leaned in to Anna's ear and whispered. "I want this to be fulfilling Anna. Besides we might not have another chance." Anna hoped she was referring to them never coming to London again. But she knew she didn't mean it like that….
"If you want you can buy your tickets now and pay when you get off."
"Can you do that?" Asks Anna.
"Just promise ok?"
Both women agreed.
"Alright, enjoy your ride." The vendor said.
Anna and Elsa had been on the wheel for 25 minutes, and they were only half way up. Anna was actually pretty scared realizing just how high up they were going, but Elsa held her hand and made everything feel better. They were so high up even the buildings looked like tiny legos, the people looked like ants, Anna loved the view, so did Elsa who was taking pictures of the landscape. The wheel stops a quarter of the way down. As soon as it stops, Anna feels the bag touch her leg.
"Oh Elsa. I almost forgot." Anna reached into the bag and pulled out the earrings. "Ta-Da. Woah." Anna almost drops the earrings and, thankfully, catches them in time. She presents them to Elsa. Elsa touches the snowflake shaped earrings in her hands.
"Oh Anna I love them. But you didn't need to buy me earrings."
"These are the same kind I had when I was younger. Actually I was going to give them to you as an apology gift before you left." Anna admitted.
"Oh Anna I'm sorry. Guess I should have stayed. We might have been friends." Elsa said putting the earrings on.
"Nah. I thought that would happen. But when I think about it I am pretty sure as long as the twins were around I would have messed up." Anna admitted.
"Well, the past is in the past. Let's focus on the future. So, were on a ferris wheel, you gonna kiss me?"
Anna's eyes widened. Elsa was actually telling her to kiss her! Anna didn't waste any time, Anna pucked her lips, leaned into Elsa's gorgeous face and pressed her lips against Elsa's own. The feeling was mutually extraordinary. Anna had not felt better before in her life, it was so much better than she felt when she kissed Liz, and it was miles away from when she 'had' to kiss Kevin. This felt real, passionate, like this is what Anna had been looking for her whole life. Elsa felt a similar feeling, it was like fireworks were going off as they kissed. A shock of feeling spread from her lips down her body, tingling her spine, fluttering her stomach and her heart beating like a bongo. It was better than her dreams, better than her past girlfriends. It was special.
They lost track of how long they had been kissing, they just wanted to stay in this embrace forever, not think about abandoned parents, or dead parents. Gods and monsters, bullies or betrayed friends. They didn't want to think about pain and fears of the future anymore, just stay in this wonderful moment. But they hear a voice that breaks it.
"Um excuse me. It's our turn." A male voice calls out.
Anna and Elsa open their eyes and realize they were at the bottom of the ride. People were looking at them and wanting them to get out. Elsa and Anna hastily did.
"Sorry."
After paying the vendor Elsa and Anna spent some left over money on ice cream cones. They got the same thing, chocolate on a waffle cone. They looked at Big Ben and saw it was 11:30, they still had some time before noon. So they decided to take a stroll through Kensington garden. Elsa was taking pictures of Anna as she stood next to a statue of Peter Pan.
"You wanna know why I chose this place?" Anna asked as Elsa continued snapping pictures.
"Is it from a story you liked?" Elsa asked rhetorically.
"Peter Pan was the best. So beat the movie." Anna said.
"And here I thought you only read comics."
"Oh no, I'm a total bookworm. Ask my parents I read just about every book in the library. Some twice." Said Anna enthusiastically.
"I love reading too, almost as much as drawing. What are your favorites?" Asks a excited Elsa.
"Fantasy mostly. Anna responds. "Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Twilight, just about every fairy tale with a handsome prince."
"I like mythology. Not just The Prose Edda, I have also read The Iliad, the Odyssey. I also liked 20,000 Leagues under the sea, and I have read the ORIGINAL Wizard of Oz." Elsa said, emphasising that she read the book not the movie Oz.
"Well I like Peter Pan. Never grow up!"
"Don't move." Elsa said taking more pictures. "Speaking of growing up what kind of job do you want?"
"Well seeing how my dad cut off my savings I don't see that happening." Anna replied sadly. "Of course he wanted me to go to law school, become a lawyer, maybe a politician like him. But I really wanna be a teacher."
"Teacher huh?" Elsa asks.
"Yeah. I love kids."
"Well Anna I promise you, once we get home, assuming we don't die or get arrested I will convince your dad to give you your savings back…..And now...I….am…..done! Here you are." Elsa said handing Anna her camera, Anna looks through the photos on the preview screen.
"It could be better." Elsa said critiquing herself, again.
"Hey what time is it?" Anna asks.
They both look over at Big Ben, they see it is almost 12, just four minutes before.
"Yeah we should head back now." Anna said.
"No wait, we gotta get Joan fish and chips first." Elsa reminded her.
Anna and Elsa, lockeing each others arms, made their way out of the garden, heading back to the docks where Elsa said they would meet. Smiling happily not thinking this day could get any better.
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