My mother said that the only thing in this world that never changes is change itself. She said that our life would constantly change; nothing ever stays the same.
I was never a believer of this, in my 17 years of existence I haven't had anything change except maybe on my body; you know puberty. I mean that's just a natural occurrence so it doesn't count.
I have lived on the same house, same neighborhood, had the same friends, same parents, same sister and I can't be any happier.
That is what I thought, but life says otherwise.
"Leaving?" I shouted out, which, let me tell you is uncharacteristic for me, so imagine how shocked I am right now.
"Your dad decided to have a worldwide reach for our company so he will be traveling around the world to make negotiations with possible partners," my mother says.
"And you're going with him?"
"Yes. I handle our finances, I have to honey."
"And we're going too? Me and Anna?"
"No, of course not, you have to continue school!"
I let out a huge sigh of relief, "Oh, great! For a second there I thought we had to leave everything behind."
"Well," she pats my shoulders yet trying to avoid eye contact. "We're sending you and Anna to boarding school."
In my shock I stood up, my eyes widening. "What?" I shout at my mother again. Sorry mother.
"We're sending— "
"No I don't want to hear that again." I turn away from her, crossing my arms around my chest.
"We just thought it would be the best option for you and your sister," she holds out her hands and place them on both my shoulders, rubbing them lightly to calm me down. "Your cousin Rapunzel goes to that school, it'll be fun Els."
"Can't we stay in this house and in our school? That would be fun too," I face her again. "Besides it's my last year in high school; I can't start over again when I'm on my Senior year mother. Everybody probably already know each other on that school and I'll be the weird new girl or worse, I'll become an outcast! Is that what you want for me mother?" I exaggerated on that a bit, but I made my point. It's nice to be in the same school as my cousin but I am perfectly fine with what I had here and the last thing I wanted was to leave them behind.
She looks away from me again. She closes her eyes, takes a deep breath and faces me again with big apologetic eyes looking through me. "Maybe it's time for a little bit of change Elsa," she says.
I wince when she says change. I never wanted change, not now, not ever.
"Also, your father already made arrangements, and he mortgaged our house to pay for our overseas plans," she continues.
"So, you're telling me that you and Papa are sending me and Anna to an uncharted territory by ourselves while you guys travel around the world." I can feel my throat tightening as I speak. "Gee, thanks mother!" I surprise myself with my sarcasm, which I don't normally do. I have been doing a lot of unElsa-like things today. I go on and turning on my heel, went up to my room, slammed the door behind me.
Call me melodramatic but this was it, things were going to change and I, Elsa Winters, a firm believer that there were no such things as change, was going to have her life turned upside down in a blink of an eye.
I sunk into my bed, back against the sheets and stared blankly at the ceiling. A small tear dropped from my eyes, followed by another and another. They just keep on coming.
I bawl my eyes out thinking how I'd be leaving all these things that I grew up with just because my parents wanted to be richer.
There was a light knock on my door, and my sister, Anna, peeks from it.
Remind me to lock the door after storming out like that.
I turn away from her, not wanting her to see my puffy eyes.
"Elsa?" she softly calls out.
"Go away Anna."
"Hey Elsa," her voice was shaky and about to crack. "Is it true? Are they really leaving us? And our house? And school?"
I turn around and see my precious little sister in tears and it broke my heart. The last thing I wanted was to see her cry like this.
I got up from my bed, burying her into a warm embrace. I could feel her heaving so I lightly rub her back.
I was such an idiot to tell her to go away, she was going to be the most affected on this news. She was the closest to our parents and she has more friends here than I do. Saying good byes would be harder for her to do than me.
"Don't worry Anna, I will be here," I say. "I won't leave you."
"Promise?"
"Promise."
It was a month after that awful news and the dreaded life changing event was finally happening.
We sent our parents off at the airport first before we headed out to our new school. We were advised to be at school a week before the semester started but we insisted on spending those days to be with our parents at our house before anything else. Hence, we ended up going to our new boarding school a day before the start of semester. Exciting, right?
Not!
Definitely not.
It was already quite dark when we arrived at Corona. Corona was supposed to be a 2-hour drive from our hometown Arendelle, yet it turned to 4 hours since Anna wanted to stop by a few of her friend's houses. And by few I meant a lot.
The car stops at a huge beautiful castle-like building. The sign by the entrance wrote:
Walt Disney Dormitories
Apparently this was the Academy's dormitory for girls; from the outside I quite like the vibe from the place. Not bad for first impressions.
We were standing at the front of the dormitory, bags in hand. We simultaneously sighed, looking at each other, forcing smiles from our mouths. Our cousin, Rapunzel, was the one who made arrangements to our dorms so we had to wait for her. I grabbed my phone to text her that we've arrived.
I text her, Punz we're here outside the dorms. Where r u? xx Elsa
She texts back, On my way out! xoxo Punzie
I return my phone back on my pocket and look at the building in front of us.
Just then, our cousin Rapunzel come out from the building running excitedly towards us and almost knocking me off my feet as she crushes me with a hug. "Elsa!" she shrieks. "Anna!" she goes on to hug Anna, while I try to catch my breath.
"You're both finally here! I'm so excited!"
Clearly.
"Yay. Me too." I say in a dry, sarcastic tone, which Rapunzel did not notice and was still smiling widely at us all giddy and happy.
Anna elbows me, not happy of my sarcasm. I too wasn't pleased of my tone. I sound mean and bitchy; I hated myself for saying that. I am not usually a sarcastic person! I loathe sarcasm, but with all things that has happened, I became this loathsome bitter potato.
"Are these all your bags?"
"Nope, we have more, they're gonna be dropped off by a helicopter flying over soon."
I did it again, please kill me now. My cousin was being so nice and I was being so mean to her.
Rapunzel blinked twice trying to figure out what I said, while I earned another elbow from my little sister.
Strike two for Elsa Winters! Woot! Woot!
"She meant, this is the only bags we have Punz," Anna points out. "Sorry, Elsa's just a little touchy right now with everything you know."
My jaw drops and I look at my sister. I am not! I scream on my mind.
"It's fine," Rapunzel still bubbly. She looks back and calls out someone, "Eugeneee! Come help us with the bags!"
An auburn haired guy with a goatee walked towards us, "This is my boyfriend Eu-"
"Flynn Rider, pleased to make your acquaintance," he said cutting Punzie off.
Rude.
But I swore Punzie called him a different name earlier, but whatever.
I eyed Rapunzel but she just brushes it off. "These are my cousins, Elsa and Anna Winters!"
He holds out his hand and gives us a weird smile.
I just nod and say, "Pleasure."
Not really.
Anna not wanting to make it awkward shake his hand, being the friendly Anna that she was.
I wouldn't say I was unfriendly, I am just not the type to make friends right here and there. I rather prefer to get to know the person first before deciding to get close to them or not. And no, I'm not judgy, I'm just observant and I want to be surrounded by people that don't make me want to shoot myself in annoyance. Take Gaston for example, Sopphomore year, biology class; he kept on flexing his muscles in front of me with arrogance plastered all over his face. His presence annoyed the hell out of me, especially his constant boasting of how fine of a man he was, which trust me he was not. He was just some jock jacked up with so much steroids. I miraculously lasted a week in the same class with him before switching to zoology and took up biology the next term.
The things I do to avoid killing myself from annoyance.
Flynn grabs our bags and goes ahead inside the dorms.
"Are guys allowed inside our dorm?" I ask. I don't have much knowledge with dormitories but as far as I know ours was a 'girls only dorm' and I assume guys are not allowed inside.
"Yes, only until 9 p.m. though, they aren't allowed to stay past that."
"Well that's just enough time," Anna cheers.
My eyes widens hearing what she just said.
"Anna!"
"What? I'm 16 Elsa," she explains with a big duh painted on her face. "Plus no parents here, which means we can finally meet boys!"
"Not what we're here for Anna."
She just stuck her tongue out at me, and runs ahead from us.
Just imagining Anna with a boy just makes my head hurt. I don't think my baby sister is ready to have a relationship yet or will ever be for that matter.
Rapunzel walking by my side just giggles and rests her arm around my shoulders. "Don't worry Elsa, boys here at our school are quite decent I can promise you that."
I just sighed as we stepped into the elevator. The problem was not the decency of the boys; the problem was my sister is thinking of getting a freaking boyfriend!
Rapunzel pushes the button for the 3rd floor and I feel like I want to hurl, not from the movement of the elevator but the thought of my baby sister canoodling with some guy.
My thoughts were still at Anna and boyfriend when we got on our room.
We were greeted by a girl with a wild curly red hair. "Hey lassies welcome to Walt Works Academy!" she says with a distinctly thick Scottish accent. She sounded like one of those characters from Game of Thrones that Anna used to watch. I remembered how she continuously ranted about the final episode. I don't blame her though; I thought the writers rushed the final season of that show.
"This is Merida Dunbroch," Punzie stands beside the redhead introducing her to us, "she's my roommate and will be yours too from now on!"
"This is Elsa," she goes on gesturing to me and then to my sister, "and Anna."
"Hi," I say.
"I love your hair!" Anna comments.
"Thanks, tried to keep it as wild as I can." She jokes, obviously aware of her untamed hair.
I looked around the room and surprised at how spacious it is. The two bunk beds were at the corners of the room with a long study table at the middle. There was also a couch by the window where I see my self spending a lot of time on. At our left was a door to our bathroom which was also huge and we had a tub. On the right was a door to our separate closet which was like a mini mall, think Princess Dairies 2, our closet was like Amelia's, remote controlled compartments and all.
When my parents said this was a prestigious boarding school they never mentioned, large dorm rooms and automated closets!
"I was glad we weren't assigned new roommates before Uncle Agnarr called me about you guys transferring here," Rapunzel ushers us inside.
"You haven't had roommates besides yourselves?" Anna asks, also quite overwhelmed by our new room, her eyes scanning every part of it.
"We had, but Cindy and Aurora graduated last year so it's just us now," Merida answers her.
"So I guess my job here is done?" Flynn now free from our bags, walks towards the door.
Rapunzel follows him, "Thanks hon."
Anna and I also say our thanks. Guess I was too harsh on the guy; he did bring out all our bags up here without an ounce of complaint, one point for Flynn Rider on my tolerable guys list.
"So I'll leave you girls to catch up, and I'll see you in class tomorrow Blondie." Flynn says ready to leave.
Punzie gave him a quick peck in the cheek and said goodbye.
Anna squeals at the PDA.
I shudder at the sight of that. Merida and I quickly say in unison, "Ew, barf!" Seems like I share this thought with her, for a while I assumed girls here only came to this school to get boys. No offense to my cousin though, but it just strikes me that way with what I had seen so far. Hmm maybe I am judgy.
"And Rider," Merida calls out at the now leaving Flynn. "I hope you get rid of that god-awful squirrel on your chin!"
"I will, as soon as you return that mane on your head to the lion it belonged too, it must be feeling chilly right now being stripped off his precious mane." He fires back earning a laugh from everybody in the room except for Merida.
"Oh fuck off Fitzherbert!" she shouts, clearly annoyed.
"You started it Dunbroch," and then he disappears into the elevator.
"Well that was fun," another sarcastic bomb shoots out from my mouth. Shit.
"You should see her with Hiccup, its way worse," Punzie says as she sat on her bed.
"Hiccup, that's a person?" I ask.
Merida laughs at my question. "Yeah I know right, I mean who names their son Hiccup." She continues to laugh her socks off.
"It's a Viking thing; his family is like this descendant of Vikings. So long story short, his name is Hiccup and he's Merida's victim of torture," Rapunzel giggles.
"Was, but now the guy fights back. Dunno where he got the balls to." Merida shruggs and climbs up to her bunk.
"Prolly just sick of your teasing Mer, and he got a girlfriend too!"
"Is everybody at this school in a relationship or something?" I growl as I fall into my bed.
"Or something," Merida says.
"Can't wait to get my own boyfriend," Anna says in a sing-a-song tone while opening up her bags.
I throw a pillow hitting her in the face. And everybody giggled away.
The day ended with me and Anna arranging our clothes in the closet, putting up other things in our own studies and making our beds. It was surprisingly tiring, not to brag and sound like a spoiled princess but we usually have other people doing these for us. Our family is quite well-off so brings me to question why my parents needed to go overseas. But there was no hope in dwelling into what's already happened. I have a bigger problem to face tomorrow, first day of school.
Great,
Just great.
"Hi, I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs." I say as I move the stick I placed as a hand for the snowman I built for Anna.
"I love you Olaf!" she hugs the snowman.
A snowy day outside the Winters abode is like an early Christmas for us.
I closed my eyes for a while feeling the winter breeze around me.
"Elsa catch me!" I hear Anna call out.
I whip my head to her direction and I see her atop of this tall slope propping herself to slide down. Before I could do anything she already slides down, I could see her sliding towards a tree. I panicked and ran towards the end of the slope hoping to catch her before she crashes to the tree.
I was too late; she hit her head on the tree and fell unconscious.
I hold her, trembling and crying. "Mama, Papa!" I call out to my parents.
"Elsa, what did you do!" my father says as he got on the scene.
"I-I didn't catch her. I was a bad sister!" I bawl out.
"It's alright honey we'll get to the hospital. She'll be fine." My mother hugs me tightly.
"I'm sorry Anna."
"I'm sorry…"
My eyes flashes open, and I look to my phone. It was still 5:45 a.m. "That wretched dream again," I sigh.
I am usually an early riser, force of habit. Our previous school used to start at 7 a.m. which meant we had to wake up as early as 5. Anna never really liked this and it was painfully hard to get her up every morning, I sometimes would have to drag her out of bed to avoid being late.
But this school surprisingly starts quite late, 9 a.m. to be exact.
I had set my alarm to 7 but my body was faster than my alarm. I went on to get ready, took a bath and fixed my hair.
By 6:30 Punzie got up. "Good morning Elsa, you're up early." She muffles as she gets out off her bed.
"Force of habit," I reply shortly. I was not being mean, I was braiding my hair and I need to concentrate on that. I just hear Rapunzel giggle as she went in to the bathroom.
Damn, that girl really likes to giggle.
At 7, I try to wake Anna up. "Anna, get up. You have to get ready so we can grab our breakfast."
She sits on her bed eyes still closed, her chin resting on her right hand. "I'm up, I'm—"
And she gets back to snoring.
I got down from her bunk, still talking, "Come on Anna, it's the first day of school, we don't want to be late."
"Yeah, it's the feast day," she mumbles drowsily.
And in a sudden realization she shoots up from her bed, "it's first day of school!" she shrieks followed by a loud 'eep!' that wakes Merida up from across the corner.
Anna bolts down from our bunk bed and goes straight to the bathroom.
"Did I just hear someone dying?" Merida sleepily goes down from her bed and joins me in the couch. "Seriously, is your sister this loud every morning?"
"Mostly."
"Hey Elsa, can you braid my hair too? It's kinda hard to do by myself," Rapunzel asks turning away from her vanity, facing me.
I look at her long ass hair that runs until her ankle, she should really think about cutting a couple of inches from that. I smile a little to her and go on to do her hair.
"Braid my hair too Elsa!" an ecstatic Anna got out from the shower for after about 5 minutes in.
"You take quick baths little Winters, I like that," Merida grins as she goes to the bathroom next.
"Force of habit," she giggles.
"5 minutes is already quite long for her, she used to do it under a minute." I matter-of-factly say.
Rapunzel trying to twist her head to join in the conversation, "and you get clean after that short time?"
"Hey, don't move your head."
She apologizes and faces her vanity again.
We had our breakfast down at the dorm's canteen before heading out. I ask to stop by at this small café beside our dorm called, Wonderland Café. I have a gut feeling that this would be a long day, so I'ma need my caffeine to push through it.
I like the ambiance inside the café. I marvel at the vintage style interior and the whimsical decorations in the walls plus it had a huge bookshelf full of old books. Heaven! I thought.
I proceed to order a large mocha latte, while Anna had a regular sized choco drink. My sister is not a big fan of coffee, she says it makes her jumpy.
Punzie opted for milk tea, and Merida ordered a donut, the girl must've been still hungry.
To my dismay, we exit the café as soon as we had our order. But I will be back for sure!
We got into the high school's main building with 10 minutes to spare. I look around as students wander around the hallway, chatting and laughing amongst themselves.
"So, since the three of you are all Seniors, I'm off to the Juniors hall to get to know my own peers," Anna squeals excitedly. "I'll see you guys at lunch?"
"You know where to go Anna?" Rapunzel ask.
"Yeah, just go straight, right?"
"Across from here Anna," Merida corrects, her pointing out the right direction.
"Right, I knew that." She then bolts off and yelled, "Bye!"
I sigh, "She worries me."
"She'll be fine Els, anyway, what do you have for first period?" Rapunzel grabs my class schedule before I could even answer her.
"Hmm, we have the same classes in the afternoon," she continues to read my schedule. "I see you have World Lit for first and French for second, interesting. So I guess we won't be seeing each other 'til lunch." She gives me back my schedule list. "Piece of advice, Mr. Weasleton, the one handling World Lit spits whenever he talks so better take the seat farthest from him."
I laugh when she said, Weasleton. "Pretty sure I think his name is Weselton and sure, I'll keep that in mind, thanks Punz."
Merida props her backpack on her back and gives both me and Punzie a pat in the back. "Well, I'd love to stay and chat with you ladies but I have AP Econ waiting for me, Fiona isn't really fond of late comers so gotta bolt!" She says and bids us goodbye. Apparently we also don't have morning classes together. So I'm basically alone for the first half on my first day, great just great.
"Well, I'll be on my way too Els. I have Music Theory for first period; have to head to the music building."
This school is amazingly huge; the main buildings are specifically for, well, main classes such as; Science, Math, English, Laboratory classed and others. All music classes are done in the music building separate from here; Physical Education classes are done in either the gym or in the school field.
"Just go right from here and straight to the edge to find the World Lit room Els,"
"Okay, thanks Punz."
I give my transfer papers to Mr. Weasleton, I mean Weselton, crap it's stuck in my head. He welcomes me to the class and I swear I could see bits and pieces of his saliva in the air as he spoke, Rapunzel was right about that. "Your grades are impressive Ms. Winters, I hope to see great things from you in this class," he says trying to sound impressed but ended up just sounding like a sour old man. "You may go and find a seat."
And I do so. The classroom was already almost full when I got in, but thankfully the back-most seat near the window was still empty.
The school bell rings and I feel my stomach turn as soon as I got on my seat.
God, am I this nervous? Prolly just had too much caffeine, should've opted for regular sized mocha latte rather than large. But I'm fine. I'm okay.
Weasleton started classes a while later with the seat next to me to be the only vacant seat. This is perfect, don't need to interact with anyone just yet, and I smiled to myself.
"So wonderful of you to join us this morning Mr. Frost," Weasleton greets dryly.
My head shoots up to see the latecomer.
A lean boy with a slightly disheveled snowy-white hair has entered the classroom, his hand scratching the back of his head. He has a playful grin on his face as he talked. "Sorry Sir had an encounter with a deer this morning."
I swear his voice sounds a lot like Chris Pine, not that I'm fangirling or anything, he's just one of my favorite Chris's in Hollywood, I mean Hello he was gorgeous in Princess Diaries 2! And he's a wonderful Steve Trevor in Wonder Woman and he played a perfect Captain Kirk in Star Trek. Oh did I mention he sings as well? He already has such an enthralling voice when he speaks but when he sang Agony in Into the Woods, that was just so damn beautiful!
So yeah I'm fangirling a bit. But hey, a girl can fangirl on her own too you know.
"A deer within the school grounds Mr. Frost? I find that hard to believe."
"I'm telling the truth sir, there was really—"
"Save the excuses Frost, I would've let you off if you just said you woke up late, now go find a seat!"
"I woke up late sir."
"Too late for that now Frost, off to your seat and I'll see you later after classes, in detention."
"What?"
"You have a problem with that?"
"No sir," he scoffs and goes to the only seat available, next to mine.
"Remind me never to make Weasletown angry. It felt like it was raining on my face as he talked," he was wiping his face as he takes his seat.
I couldn't hold back a chuckle at what he said.
When he made aware of my presence he quickly turns to me. I could feel him staring from my side, I tried to ignore it but it was really bothering after some time.
I spin my head to face him and raise an eyebrow. "What? Do I look like the deer you encountered this morning?"
He throws his head back as he chuckled at my question, "Hardly."
He studies my face as he stops laughing, "hmm, let's see platinum blonde hair, pale skin, light freckles, you must be one of Punzie's cousins. Anna? Elsa? No wait, Anna!" he snaps his fingers like he got the right answer, clearly not.
"Elsa."
"Right, I said Elsa didn't I?" he had this goofy grin on his face. It was cute, he was cute. Dammit.
But he screams trouble, so nope.
He holds out his hand to me as he introduces himself in this smooth Casanova tone, "Jackson Overland Frost, pleased to meet you Elsa." Damn, he really sounds like Chris Pine.
Keep it cool Elsa.
I eyed his hand and then him and turn my face back in front to listen to Weasleton's lesson. "Pleasure," I say.
"Quite a cold Princess we have here don't we," I could feel a smirk from his tone.
I just rolled my eyes.
Class was about to end when Jackson Overland Frost goes and talks to me again. "So tell me what makes a girl like you this icy huh?" he flashes me with his winning smirk once again. "Let me guess, crazy ex-boyfriend?"
I just rolled my eyes and shrug, he was talking nonsense.
"Ah, you probably never had a boyfriend before."
My head turns to him, my eyes looking ready to pop out.
"Bull's eye!" he grins.
"My relationships are none of your concerns," I try to keep myself calm.
"You probably scare them away with this cold exterior of yours Princess."
I jolt up from my seat and scream in annoyance, "don't talk like you know me!"
"I don't believe I was ever talking about you Ms. Winters." Weasleton say, clearly angry from my display of raging anger.
"I apologize, Mr. Weasleton. Uhm I mean Mr. Weselton sir."
Crap.
I could hear Frost laughing from my side and my classmates were silently chanting 'ooh'
"I-I…"
I could see Weasleton's eyebrows meeting with his scrunched up nose. "We'll get to know each other better Ms. Winters, later, in detention."
I lower my head and sit back down.
"Well what do you know, detention buddies!"
I shoot him death glares before getting all my things back on my bag.
"Hey what's the hurry Princess?"
The bell rang as soon as he spoke again and I got out of my seat and out of the classroom before he could finish keeping his stuffs.
Detention in my first day of school, perfect! What a perfect way to start my Senior year no thanks to that fucking Smooth Criminal! Curse that snow-haired Michael Jackson. So what if he sounds like Chris Pine, he's no Lord Nicholas Devereaux, not even a Captain Kirk or Steve Trevor. I swear to God if I ever see his grinning face again I'll be plucking out those teeth of his faster that he can say 'hee-hee'
I was stomping through the hallways to get to my next class, face all crumpled up to a frown.
"You know you should really smile more, it would look great on you." A familiar crooning voice said from my right ear.
I roll my eyes for a millionth time today and let out a fairly audible 'ugh'
Finally arriving to my next class, I scan for a vacant seat, quickly grab the first one I saw. Michael Jackson himself took the empty seat next to mine still wearing that goofy grin.
Annoyed, I finally turn to him. "Are you following me?"
"Believe me or not Princess, I too, take French, Senorita." He winks.
"Listen here MJ, two things," I lift my right hand curled up in a fist, He backs away for a bit thinking I would punch him. I'm not that violent. Yet.
"First," index finger up, "Senorita is Spanish not French you schmuck. Second," middle finger up forming a V sign with my index finger, "Get me in trouble again and I'll personally cut out your tongue, capishe?" I move both fingers together miming scissors cutting.
He laughs hysterically, "I was joking on that Senorita part, I'm not an idiot Princess, Geez! Relax. Why are you so uptight?"
I didn't answer him, I glared instead. He kept quiet for a while, cleared his throat and talks again.
God does this guy ever shut up?
"So MJ? Where'd that come from?"
Michael Jackson. I laugh on my mind.
"Mr. Jackson."
"Huh. That's creative. But I prefer my friends to call me simply as Jack."
"So, we're friends now? You're getting way ahead of yourself Frost."
"Hmm, seatmates then?" he grins again.
Fuck, does his mouth do anything else except grin?
"Would you please stop grinning like that, it's getting annoying."
"Really? Most girls usually blush whenever I grin like this."
"I'm not most girls." I could feel my stomach churn again, this time it's not caused by nerves. Ugh.
He chuckles again, "Apparently."
He opens his mouth again obviously still wanting to continue talking, but I'm still bothered by my stomach weirdly acting up to tolerate him. "Would it be too much to ask if you just keep your mouth shut throughout the class?"
"What do I get if I do so?"
I turn my attention up front as I saw our French teacher arrive. "I'll consider getting acquainted with you."
"Deal."
I channeled my inner flash and ran out of class as soon as the bell rang. I headed straight to the ladies room knowing my iffy feeling wasn't normal. As soon as I got into the bathroom stall, I was greeted by a red friend. What a great day to have my period, thank you for your wonderful choice of day to arrive.
Thankfully though I always bring emergency tampons.
Well this explains my mood and sudden out of character outbursts this morning.
Curse you womanhood!
I was spatting all sorts of curses in my head as I walk to the school cafeteria. I looked around for my cousin or Anna or Merida after I got my lunch and saw the familiar blonde sitting at the table by the fountain with her goateed boyfriend and what do you know, Michael Jackson himself is with them smirking around.
Fun.
Rapunzel spotted me from afar and waves at me, telling me to join them. I paint on an unpleasant smile as I join them. I could feel Frost grinning in front of me.
"So," Rapunzel cheers. "How was your first two classes Els?"
I take one spoonful of my lunch, look at her with a smile and say, "hmm let's see, I got the most annoying seatmate who doesn't know when to shut up and oh did I mention that same seatmate got Weasleton to give me detention? Isn't it just wonderful?" I clinch my teeth as I glance at Jack choking on his food trying to hold his laughter and I take another spoonful of food.
Yes, I am hungry and angry. I'm hangry god dammit!
"You got what now?" the confused Rapunzel asks.
"Let me guess does your seatmate's name rhyme with Frackson Jost?" Flynn mockingly asks eyeing the chuckling Jack.
Rapunzel smacks Jack's back making him cough. "You got my cousin a detention?" she fumes at him. "Jackson Overland Frost you are inconceivable!" she smacks him again. I chuckled at his pain, call me sadistic or anything but this was amusing. Flynn seems to agree with me who's also laughing aloud.
"Hey it wasn't my fault she called Weasletown 'Weasleton' out loud." He tries to save himself.
"You did?" Rapunzel's questioning eyes hovering over my face.
"Wow, didn't know you had it in you Winters," Flynn still chuckling.
"I only spurted it out because Snowy here was pushing my buttons."
"Ha-ha Snowy, good one there Princess!" he grins.
"Ack!" Rapunzel smacks him again.
"Why do I hear pain and I'm not there causing it?" Merida appears from my back with her lunch and proceeds to sit beside me.
"Jack annoyed Elsa throughout first and second period and got her detention." Punzie says and smacks him again.
Merida flicks his forehead earning a big 'ouch' from Jack. "Jeezus Merida, is your finger made of iron or something, that freaking stings!"
Flynn and I just laugh at his misery.
"Okay, okay. I get it! I'm sorry for getting Princess here in trouble." Frost growls as Merida was preparing to flick him again.
"What's with all this ruckus guys?" A scrawny boy appears sitting beside Jack. His voice sounding like he was still going through puberty. "Damn Jack what happened to your forehead? It's blazing red."
"Dunbroch happened."
The whole table laughs at him, but the lanky kid just snickers.
"Hey Hic, what's wrong dude? You seem down," Flynn asks noticing his dejected friend from the side.
"Nothing Flynn just had an off day."
Hiccup? Oh the guy we were talking about last night, I realize. "So you're Hiccup? The Viking descendant?" I couldn't help but ask.
Everybody snorted, Hiccup was stunned yet he answers me, "Uh-huh, and you are?"
"Oh, this is my cousin Elsa, you know the one I told you about, the one with the sister." Rapunzel says.
"Right, you did mention that." He holds out his hand across the table to shake mine, "Hiccup Haddock, III nice to meet you Elsa."
"Same here," I shake his hand.
"Take note Els, he's the third so there had been 2 other people named Hiccup before him." Merida teases.
"Shut up Dunbroch!"
"What's wrong with you Haddock, on your period or something?"
I wince when she said period and I swear Jack saw how I reacted and flashed me a knowing smirk. I just rolled my eyes at him which has seemed to be my unconscious response to him with whatever he does.
"Don't start with me cotton ball."
"Yeah? Whatcha gonna do about it Skeletar?"
And thus, they started to bicker.
I got a bit concerned when they did so I turn to the people in front of me and ask, "Aren't you guys gonna stop them or something?"
"Don't worry Els, this happens all the time." Flynn assures me.
"Yeah, it stops in a while Princess." Jack adds.
I frown at him, still not thrilled to be in the same table with him. It seems to finally register to him how annoyed I was and he looks away.
About 30 minutes has passed on lunch time and everyone on my table was talking peacefully when I remember, Anna!
God how could I forget about my sister! I quickly retrieve my phone from my pocket and text Anna.
Anna, where r u? What about lunch? xx Elsa
She quickly replies,
I'm with friends, don't worry. Sorry didn't text you beforehand, I forgot. Luv u! xx Anna
I breathe a sigh of relief as I read her message.
10 minutes 'til classes resume we all headed back to the main building. All six of us had the same classes the whole afternoon; Drama, Chem, Global studies and English II.
In class, I was glad Jack was no longer sitting beside me. He was at the back with Hiccup while I had Merida with me across them. Punzie took the seat behind us with Flynn.
The classes finished off without anyone getting a detention and with a calmer Elsa Winters. Big thanks to probably one of the best teacher I have encountered, Professor Genie, our Global studies teacher. He made the class really fun and he was actually really funny!
On our way out from English II, Jack walks beside me. "So, excited for detention Princess?"
"Thrilled Frost," I roll my eyes again. Seriously this has become a weird habit.
He chuckles, "keep that up and you'll be cross eyed by the end of the week."
I push him aside as we arrived back at Weasleton's classroom. I sit at the same seat I had earlier today, and to my surprise Jack took the seat next to mine.
"Well this is surprising; you're sitting next to me again." I say dryly.
He raises an eyebrow and gives me a sly smirk. "Missed me Princess?"
"In your dreams Frost," I elbow him and again roll my eyes. He's right, judging from the amount of eye rolls I do, I will most likely get cross eyed by the end of the week.
Just then, Mr. Weasleton arrived and we spent an agonizing hour at detention.
As detention finished, I quickly stood from my chair making my way out the classroom. I'm dying to be in bed right now with cramps creeping its way on my body. But before I could walk towards the hallway, I felt someone's arms snaking onto my waist and I swear I caught a whiff of mint in the air.
I turn and I see Jackson Frost himself with his arms around my waist.
"Hey what are you—"
"Don't move Princess I'm trying to save you here." He was looking straight and not at me.
I notice how he had just his t-shirt on right now.
Wasn't he wearing a blue hoodie a second ago?
I look down and his hoodie was wrapped around my waist.
He pushes his face near my left ear to whisper, "You have a bit of a red spot on your back Princess."
Damn his voice is really cool, and when he whispered oh man, total eargasm, and that minty scent, is that his shampoo?
Wait, hold on.
I snap from my daze and comprehend what he said.
Shit.
I open and close my mouth like a fucking trout trying to put out words. I can feel blood rising to my cheeks; I was flushed, red as a tomato.
"Hey, it's alright. No one saw it, just me." He gives me a reassuring smile.
"Come on, let's go. I'll walk you to you dorm." He softly ruffles my hair and gestures me to walk. I follow suite.
We walk side by side going out the main building. I keep putting together words in my head to say to him, but I didn't know what to say, as outspoken as I was earlier today, I turned mute after this embarrassing situation. I keep glancing to my side, trying to see if I could find the right words to say. But I just end up getting flustered whenever I look at him. Oddly enough though, he was being so calm about it, being quiet and all.
We were almost at the dorm and I just couldn't let this go without saying anything to him. I take a deep breath, stop walking and grab the hem of his shirt that stops him from also walking. He turns to me, "What's wrong Princess?"
I let go if his shirt, and fidget for a while. Crap, this is a first for me. I never fidget god dammit!
"I-uhm..." I let out a big sigh and look straight at him. "I'm sorry for being mean this morning, I overreacted and you became a victim of my moody outbursts."
"Its fine, already forgotten," he grins again.
"Sorry for saying crap about your grin, it's actually cu—" I was about to say cute when I realize, too much Elsa, way too much information.
He laughs a little covering his stupid grin with the back of his hand.
"—cunning, it's quite cunning," I avert my gaze from his as I feel my cheeks burning again. "And thank you, for helping me with this debacle."
"You're welcome."
"I owe you big time Frost."
"Nah, its fine I mean anyone would've done the same thing."
"No, seriously I owe you," I give him a warm smile.
He grins widely the end of his mouth almost reaching his eyes and says, "That smile is enough for me Princess."
My heart almost bursts out from my chest, I was palpitating like a maniac. How dare he say that with that voice and with that smile!
This is illegal!
This is a low blow!
This is not fair!
I look down trying to hide my flushed face. These are the moments that I wish I wasn't so darn pale. "Ha-Ha really cheesy Frost," I manage to fake a laugh. That laugh sounded so damn awful that I gagged from the inside.
He grabs my arm and I feel sudden bolts of electricity just from his touch. Fuck. I sound like a love struck character from some chick flick.
"Come on, we gotta get you home before I get beaten up by your cousin and that Amazona-like woman again," he shudders as he remembers the scene at lunchtime. He lightly pulls my arm to get me walking again.
"Sorry that you got hit by them, but you know full well you deserved that Frost," I snicker.
"Yeah, I'm sorry too, for getting you in trouble. Piece of advice though; try not to call Weasletown 'Weasleton' in front of him. Stick to Sir, Mr. or anything else that's not his name."
"I'll keep that in mind, thanks."
"You're welcome," I could see another smirk when he spoke even though he had his back turned against me and it made my smile like an idiot.
He walked me up until the entrance of the dorms and waved me goodbye.
I still had a stupid smile on my face when I reached our room; all eyes were on me when I opened the door.
"Is that…" Rapunzel starts.
"…Jack's hoodie?" Merida finishes.
Shoot. I forgot I had it on me. I thought looking down at the jacket wrapped around my waist.
"Jack, isn't that the guy you told me about, the one who got Elsa detention?" Anna trying to figure out the situation, and Punzie and Merida simultaneously nodded. "And didn't you guys also mention that she was furious at this so called Jack?"
"She was," Punzie giving me a judging look. "Or so we thought."
"So, why is she wearing Jack's jacket on her waist?" Anna says. "Jack's Jacket; that rolls off the tongue quite well doesn't it?" she trails off.
"Apparently, something happened in detention," Merida continues not minding Anna side tracking.
I let out a deep breath and took out Jack's jacket, turned around and showed them the massacre on my bottom. The three girls gasped in chorus as they saw the red splatter on my butt. "Jack prevented me from parading with this on the hallway. I didn't expect to have this heavy flow today so yeah."
"Well who knew Jack Frost was capable of being a gentleman for once," Rapunzel still bewildered by the flow of circumstances.
"And with his favorite hoodie too," Merida exclaims.
Wait this is his favorite hoodie? I quickly check his jacket if I got it stained and fortunately it didn't. I do have to wash it before giving it back to him.
"So, he annoyed you during classes, got you into detention, and saved you from your menstrual mishap?" Anna recounts the incident. "Is he bipolar?" she jokes.
Everybody in the room laughs at her, typical Anna I thought.
"No Anna, he was being nice," I correct her. "I honestly wasn't in my best mood this morning and I might have overreacted a bit, but he's actually really nice." I smile.
"Ah. I know that look," Merida jerks from her seat grabbs my sleeping clothes from my bed and hands it to me. "He's a cunning little fucker Elsa, don't get caught by his charms. Believe me, he's had tons of girls fall for those antics of his, don't be one of them."
"Thanks, but I am not falling for anything. I am merely looking back on my earlier actions and I admit to have judged him wrongly," I point out.
Merida shrugs as she walk back and sits on the couch, "I'm just giving you a warning Els."
"Jack, he's our friend but his naturally flirty with girls, just don't take his actions to heart." Rapunzel says.
"Okay, I'll take note of that."
"So," Anna joins in again. "He's not bipolar?"
We all burst out into laughing and I went on to wash myself clean and got into bed.
He was really just being nice I thought as I lied down on my bed. I wasn't thinking of anything else behind his actions, really, nothing at all.
I misjudged Michael, I mean Jack Frost. I should properly thank him tomorrow. My eyes slowly shut close.
As fast as I fell asleep, my eyes flutters open and I quickly check my phone for the time; 5:00 a.m. well this is earlier than yesterday. I shrug and try to sleep again, which I couldn't. So I got up, and did my morning routine.
Everything was the same as yesterday. After we got ready, we had breakfast down the dorm's canteen. We once again stopped by Wonderland Café for coffee and everybody ordered the same things. And again we got out as soon as we got our orders. As we were about to walk away, I remembered something and asked the girls to wait for me outside for a while. I go back inside and order a chocolate mint brownie and ask Alice, the girl taking our orders, to wrap it to go. She nods.
After about a minute she has the brownies in a cute mini box and hands it to me.
"Thanks."
"Anytime," she smiles. "Come back again!"
"For sure," I left her a smile as I place the brownies on my backpack and go out to rejoin everyone.
We went our separate ways as after arriving at the main building. Walking towards my first class I saw a glimpse of the familiar snow-haired fellow before he disappeared into the small corridor. I smiled coyly and opted to follow him. I planned on giving him the thank you brownies now while I still had the courage to.
I peek from the edge of the small corridor and right then and there I witnessed the great Jackson Frost in action.
My jaw drops and my feet froze to where I was standing. I blink rapidly trying to register what I just saw. I had just been a witness to Jack freaking Frost making out with god knows who.
Oh my poor innocent eyes!
I slowly turn to my heel, staggering through the hallways and when I finally reached the classroom I plop on my chair slapping my cheeks, trying to erase the image of Jack's morning rendezvous.
Get it together Elsa. Think of something else. Think of Chris Pine, yeah Chris Pine. Captain Kirk, Lord Nicholas Devereaux… shirtless—
Wait. Elsa you pervert!
So,
That was that,
Jackson Overland Frost was a sexually active boy!
A/N:
So, this is my first time making these, please spare this small potato~
I've just had this on my mind for a while now and I finally was motivated enough to write it and I really wanted to put it out there.
Also, it's inspired by a loooot of chick flicks so yeah.
(Might have a few grammar/spelling mistakes here and there but I tried my best! _)