Text from Tadashi,
Would I be interrupting something if I call you right now?
Text to Tadashi,
Other than my daydreaming, no, u will b not
And with that my phone rings, catching me off guard making me jerk in my surprise. I never thought he would call right away.
"H-Hello?" I answer, quite stupidly too. Way to sound cool Elsa, calm down girl.
"Hey Elsa," I hear Tadashi's deep voice over the phone. Wow how long has it been since I heard his voice?
I could hear his subtle chuckles from the other line. I've forgotten how cute his laugh was. "Gosh it's so weird hearing your voice like this after all this time," he continues.
I laugh a little, "that's what I thought too!"
"Anyway, quick question Els, the name of your school is Walt Works Academy right?"
"Yeah?"
"Great, so here's the thing…I have this little project I'm working on and my school has asked me to have a presentation of it there at your school this Friday!"
"Really? That sounds great Tadashi, congrats!"
"Yeah but my point is could we possibly talk right after? I just wanted to talk to you about that thing I told you when we last met…"
"Oh yeah sure, that thing…"
"So I'll see you then?"
"Yeah see you."
That thing… I ponder. That thing… What was that thing again?
And then it hit me. Like the school bus hitting Regina George on Mean Girls, like Loki being thrown around by the Hulk like a rag doll, it hit me.
"Holy mother of pearls!" I shout out.
"What? Who died?" Merida pops out from her bed.
"Elsa just called for the mother of pearls," Punzie says while she's painting her nails unbothered by my sudden outburst. "Tell me does this color make my nails look dull?" she says showing her newly painted nails up to Merida with the latter just looking confused.
I ignore them and went on to wake up Anna. I shake her again and again 'til she finally opens her freaking eyes. "W-what is it Elsa? Why are you waking me up this ear—" she sniffles a yawn, "—ly on a Sunday morning?" She looks at me with her eyes half open, and her hair untamed and with bits of saliva on her mouth.
"It's 10am Anna it's not that early," I say as I try to drag her down from her bed. "Please get up. I have to talk to you about something."
"What is it? Can't you just say it now?" she says sleepily.
"Anna come on, I have to talk to you, in private please."
"Okay, okay." She starts to slowly move and as soon as she got down, I grab her wrist and drag her to the closet and close the door behind us.
I place Anna in the middle of the closet and let her sit down at the small chair placed there. "Okay, I really need your full attention on this Anna please, you're the only one here who personally knows Tadashi and you know the things the happened before."
She beams up as soon as I mention Tadashi; clearly a topic about boys takes her sleepiness away. "Oh so it's about a boy, I'm all ears Els, shoot!" She shrieks.
I roll my eyes at her and proceed to talk, "do you remember what I told you about what happened at the Seniors going away party last year?"
She puts her hand on her chin, twisting her brain to dig for that memory. "Nothing really happened that night—" she quickly flings her head up at me, eyes wide open with her mouth forming a huge 'o' and silently screaming 'ooh'
Flash back to last year during the Seniors going away party which was mostly planned by me, along with the other Juniors, but again it was mostly me since the others weren't quite happy working with me so that's that. Anyway fast forward to the party, I was on my usual spot, at the sides where I am away from the crowd of teenagers with raging hormones. Parties aren't really my scene you see. I was a wallflower so to say. If I hadn't had Senior friends I would've opted not to attend, I just wanted to go home at that point.
I stare blankly at the punch in my hand debating on drinking it. Thinking whether someone put alcohol there or not 'cuz it definitely smelt like it's mixed with it. A tap on my shoulder snaps me out of my daze, and then appears the wide brown eyed guy wearing a black baseball cap. "You seem out of it Els," he says.
"Say Tadashi, do you thing this punch has alcohol on it or not?" I ask eyeing the punch filled glass on my hand.
"I've had a sip of it earlier and it definitely has alcohol mixed on it, quite a strong one might I add."
I slowly placed the glass of punch in a table nearby. "Thought so, just water for me then." I proceed to walk around and look for water.
Tadashi stops me by grabbing my right arm making me turn and face him. "Hey. Can we talk? Not here but somewhere quiet, without all these people?"
"Now your speaking my language, I've been dying to get out of here," I snicker.
With Tadashi holding my wrist we go around walking past the maze of students dancing, or in this case, grinding against each other. I don't know how teachers even allow this to happen, as far as I know there were supposed to be chaperones observing our party yet I don' see them— Whoop, nope they're here and they're about as drunk as the students here. So much for responsible adults! I groan as we left that sight.
We were outside the school yard sitting at a bench nearby, away from the party, away from the gym full of drunk and carnal teenagers.
I breathe in the fresh summer night air, bathing at the stars above us. "So what it is that you wanted to talk to me about Tadashi?"
He looks quite discombobulated when I asked; he seems to be forgetting why we came out here. I laugh in my mind with that thought, that's so typical Tadashi. He then took off his cap revealing his neatly cut black hair. He looks at me with these sincere eyes and that's when I thought, Oh crap, this is gonna be some way serious shit. I gulp. the tension was making me unusually nervous.
He takes my hand squeezing it with his. "Elsa, I think you're really nice…" Nope, no I'm not.
"And you don't know how beautiful you are, which frustrates me." Okay where is this heading?
"I really like you Elsa and I—"
I jolt up from the bench before he could continue. This is way out of my comfort zone!
"You know my throat is really getting kinda dry I-I should go and get some water, it was a nice talk Tadashi, really nice." I say and then quickly disappear back into the party, sneaking out from the back door and going home.
And that was the last time I saw Tadashi before he graduated and moved to San Fransokyo to go to college.
After contemplating on what to do about his confession, twisting my brain in and out trying to figure out what the hell I should do about it for a whole month. I opted to bury that memory deep within my thick skull and never thought about it again. I guess that was the best option and with my parents going abroad and transferring to boarding school I quickly got preoccupied and it never came up again.
Not until now that is.
"Hey calm down Elsa," Anna tries to ease my nerves. "So what if you chickened out and ended up completely forgetting about the strikingly fine Tadashi's heartfelt confession and texting him like nothing happened which must have been really hard on the guy judging that you never gave him a proper response, poor Tadashi must be aching to talk to you about it and get the answer he deserves."
Does Anna ever breathe in between her sentences?
"Not helping Anna," I retorted.
"Yeah right, I'm on your side I forgot."
I scowl, pacing back and forth inside the closet.
"Okay, let's figure this out calmly," she says, "do you like him back?"
"Yes…No…" I stumble around my words, "I mean I do like him but not like that, he's a good friend of mine and that's that."
"Well there you have it!" She says triumphantly putting her arms around me, "that wasn't so hard wasn't it sis?"
"Y-yeah but, how do I talk to him? What if he asks why I ran from him before? What if he says he doesn't want to be friends with me anymore?" I put my hands up covering my mouth as I gasp, "what if he confesses to me again!?"
Anna grabs both my shoulders shaking me out from my mind. "Elsa, stop overthinking, it'll be fine just tell him the truth. I know Tadashi. He's like the nicest guy out of all the nice guys. I'm sure he'll understand." She smiles at me and that calms me down, mostly.
I smile back at my sister, "okay, thanks Anna." I pull her in to a warm hug.
"Awe no problem Els," Anna says, hugging me back. "I can get used to this." She giggles.
"Okay, shows over now, you two spies can come in now." I shout at the two girls listening through the closet door.
Punzie and Merida came in as soon as I told them too. "So do we get hugs too?" Punzie says.
I just raise an eyebrow at them, folding my arms across my chest, looking unfazed.
"We're sorry Els, we were just curious and you know this Tadashi seems really charming it's a shame you don't like him back." Punzie says.
"I couldn't agree more couz!" Anna acknowledges with the two high fiving each other.
"I beg to differ, you're a smart and independent woman Els, you don't need a man!" Merida debates.
I just sigh. They were right in some ways, Tadashi really is nice and would've been a perfect boyfriend but I don't want to lie to myself. Call me hopeless romantic but I want to be in a relationship with a guy I truly like and the other way around. But at the same time, I am not so sure I'd want a boyfriend right now.
"Thanks guys, but right now I'll just have to talk to Tadashi and tell him the truth."
"Hmm well whatever you decide Els, we'll support you." Punzie says and proceed to giving me a hug and whispers, "but I still think it's a shame," she giggles.
"Hey I want in on that hug too!" Anna says joining in the hug.
We three look at Merida who's trying to be oblivious about the impromptu cuddle time. "What?" she asks, "I'm not much of a hugger…"
Punzie quickly pulls her in to our hugging circle and we giggle at ourselves.
It was cute but come to think of it four girls hugging and giggling inside an unusually large closet is not something you see every day.
Friday this week all high school students were called to gather at the auditorium to be an audience to a presentation from a student of San Fransokyo Institute of Technology, something about a revolutionary robotics project that would be a great help in our society. Yup, I always imagined Tadashi would be able to achieve such things.
Punzie was all giddy sitting beside me at the auditorium. And I, as Anna would describe it, don't know if I'm elated or gassy but I'm somewhere in that zone.
The presentation started with our headmaster, Headmaster Nicholas St. North, giving his introductory speech before he introduced the guest speaker, Tadashi Himada.
I feel my stomach churn as soon as he came out on the stage with this wonderful smile plastered on his face. Punzie nudges me and whispers, "you never told me he was a hottie Elsa, wow!"
"Tadashi…why does that name sound so familiar?" Jack mutters beside me.
Merida who sits at the far most left next to Hiccup snickers, "that's Elsa's text buddy!"
"What?" the boys; Jack, Hiccup and Flynn, simultaneously gasps.
I sink into my chair. "And that guy right there has the hots for our very own Elsa," Punzie continues.
"What?" Jack asks again.
Ugh someone please kill me now.
"Oh t-that's like from last year, I don't even know if he still likes me after I inadvertently ran away after he confessed," I say with an awkward and nervous laugh in between my sentences.
"He confessed to you?" another question from the oh so curious Jackson Overland Frost.
Can he just stop asking already? Geez!
"Damn, you have my respect Winters!" Flynn says.
"Shush you guys he's starting!" Hiccup shushes us which I am thankful for.
Hiccup is planning on entering that school so he's the most ecstatic one about this presentation. He's part of our school's robotics club and that's mostly why I rarely see him.
Tadashi starts off his presentation by introducing Hiro, his brother. "Wow he even brought Hiro, Anna must be thrilled!" I whisper to myself. Hiro is this 13 year old boy, but despite his age he's already in high school and he used to be Anna's classmate. He's a genius to say the least, probably might do more than what Tadashi has done I reckon.
Tadashi proceeds on putting duct tape on Hiro's arms and rips it back right away causing poor little Hiro to scream in pain.
Yikes I'd scream like that too if that were me.
Just seconds after Hiro's scream a white almost balloon-like machine, well I assume it's some sort of machine, inflates from a this red container and it slowly walks forward to Hiro.
"Wow, it looks like a marshmallow." We all gasp in awe.
The marshmallow waves his hand and starts talking, "Hello I am Baymax, your personal healthcare companion." Holy shit, it talks! "I was alerted to the need for medical attention when you said 'aw'"
Punzie whispers to me, "so your suitor is a genius who just invented a robotic nurse, nice Els!"
"Once again Punz, he is not my suitor, he's just a friend!"
An image of different emojis that range from happy to distressed flashed in the robot's chest as he says, "on the scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate your pain?" He proceeds to scan Hiro, "you have a slight epidermal abrasion on your forearm." He points up his index finger and says, "I suggest an antibacterial spray."
Before Baymax could do anything else, Hiro asks him, "what's in the spray specifically?"
"The primary ingredient is Bacitracin," an image of the chemical arrangement for bacitracin then flashes on his chest and then sprays the now red forearm of Hiro.
Tadashi then steps forward to talk, "I programmed Baymax with over ten thousand medical procedures." He pushed this sort of circular compartment on Baymax's left side chest and a green chip appears for it, "this chis is what makes Baymax, Baymax." He then pushes the chip back and continues, "now I know what you think, 'he looks like a walking marshmallow', I was going for a nonthreatening huggable kind of thing." He taps right by the two dots at the robot's face, "he's also equipped with Hyperspectral cameras, and inside he has carbon fiber skeleton and actuators which allows him to lift a thousand pounds."
He stands beside his brother, "and to deactivate him, you just simply say…"
Hiro says, "I am satisfied with my care." And with that Baymax walks back to his red sorta box thing and deflates back to have he was a minute ago.
"When I made Baymax my first concept was a robot that could take care of my brother but as I finish I thought, Baymax is gonna help a lot of people, that's why I came here to share him with you guys," I says.
Wow!
"Wow!" I hear Jack gasp from my side.
"So before I finish, are there any questions?" Tadashi says.
Hiccup immediately raises his hand enthusiastically.
"I think Hiccup just fell in love," Merida leans on her chair to whisper to us. We all giggled at her comment.
Not minding us, Hiccup continues to raise his hand until Tadashi gestures at him to go on and ask his question. "What kind of battery does it use?" Hiccup asks.
"Good question there lad, he uses Lithium ion."
Hiccup pleased with the answer, sits back down. "Is he cool or what?" He says to us. "Elsa if you date this guy, you have my blessing!" he says to me.
"Pretty sure you're the one that wants to date him Hic," I tease.
"And you have my blessing Third!" Jack agrees.
We all laugh as Hiccup flusters at us poking fun at his infatuation.
As the presentation ended, we were walking out from the auditorium, chatting and laughing.
A familiar deep voice then calls out to me, "on your left Els!"
My head quickly spun to my left and there he was, with his back cap and a sheepish smile plastered on his face. "Tadashi!"
As Tadashi walks closer to us, I could feel my friend's teasing gazes from my side. God I'm never gonna hear the end of this later.
"Hey Elsa, wow it's really you! I can't believe it," he says and catches me in a hug causing me to go from pale Elsa to tomato Elsa real quick.
Oh wow I did not expect that, I forgot how much of a hugger Tadashi is. I sneak a glance at my friends after our hug and… Yup, I am not gonna hear the end of this from them.
"Y-you look great Tadashi," I blabber out.
He just laughs and from his back a smiling Hiro pops up. "Hey how's our Ice Queen doing?" he jokes.
Tadashi quickly elbows his brother, "I told you to stop calling her that!"
I never really liked that nickname, Tadashi knows that. And he still does until now. I smile at the thought of that.
I was about to journey through my thoughts again when I hear someone clear their throat from my side. "Oh hey Tadashi these are my friends," I gesture to the people waiting at my side and start to introduce them. "So uhm this white haired fellow here is Jackson Frost—
"Just Jack, pleasure to finally meet our Princess's text buddy," he holds out his hand to Tadashi, grinning.
"Likewise Jack, Elsa talks about you a lot," Tadashi shakes Jack's hand.
"Oh she does huh," he smirks at me where I just roll my eyes. "And a lot too, interesting…"
I pull Jack away to stop him from doing or saying anything more, "okay before we inflate Frost's ego more. Let's move on shall we…" I go on to introduce the others, "this here's Rapunzel, my cousin, and her boyfriend, Flynn Rider."
"Hi! Really love Baymax back there and you…" she goes to pinch Hiro's cheeks, "you are just so adorable!"
"Hey no pinching lady!" Hiro growls at her.
Merida snorts, "he called you 'lady'! I like this kid already," he raises her right hand to high five Hiro, "up top!" Hiro does so. "Merida's the name, don't wear it out," she says to Tadashi.
"And lastly—
"Hiccup Haddock III, nice to meet you sir…I mean Elsa's friend, I mean I'm also Elsa's friend, so I guess we both are ha-ha something in common whaddyaknow!" Hiccup stammers while shaking Tadashi's hand vigorously.
"Someone please save Tadashi from Hiccup," Flynn says.
"Hey just let the poor guy fan boy a bit, he's been holding that in the whole day!" Merida snorts.
"So you're saying you're planning on joining the student's showcase?" Tadashi asks Hiccup.
"Hell yeah I am," He answers.
Tadashi puts both his arms around Hiro and Hiccup, "looks like you have competition here little bro."
"You're joining too?" Hiccup proceeds to interrogate Hiro.
"Uh-huh, I swore that I would get in to that nerd school ever since I saw what Tadashi and the other kids there do."
Hiccup and Hiro ends up talking about a lot of robotics stuffs with Hiccup offering to show Hiro his robotics lab. Both guys goes on to walk away to Hiccup's lab with the others following suite leaving me and Tadashi.
Alone.
Crap.
"So, any good place to get some grubs?" Tadashi asks.
"I know just the place!"
We get to Wonderland Café and ordered a whole bunch of chocolate cakes and drinks; Tadashi's a chocolate fan along with me and Anna. We chatted and laughed reminiscing about the past, how we hanged out and being in the student council together. No mention about the past confession yet, so, 'yay me!' We also talked about our schools, how we adjusted and everything.
"You mean to say you got detention for the first time in your life in your first day here?" He says in bewilderment.
"Yeah, but I blame Frost for the most part of that. He got on my nerves, hence, my outburst and calling out teacher a weasel."
"Wow Jack has gotten you in the pitch a lot huh."
"Yeah, but he helps me though surprisingly. He actually helps me more times than getting me into trouble," I say as I chomp onto my chocolate cake.
Tadashi puts both his elbows above the table and rests his chin at the back of both his hands. "Uh-huh, you seem to be getting along with Jack quite nicely huh."
"I guess," I say as I trail off and stare outside the café's window. "I mean amidst his narcissistic and incredibly annoying self, he can be sweet and gentle when he has to."
I see him smile at me as I look back at him from my daze. "You've changed Elsa, you know that right?"
I just chuckle at that. I did change as much as I'd like to deny it, I did.
"You seem happier and it makes you prettier than you actually are," he says.
I fluster when he said that.
"You know the real reason why I wanted to talk to you right?"
"Yeah about that Tadashi, I—
"What if I tell you I still like you Elsa, would you allow me to like you still?"
"I-I, I don't really know…"
Before I could finish Tadashi suddenly bursts out into laughter taking me by surprise. Wait did I say something funny?
He kept at it for more than 5 minutes leaving me confused and perplexed.
What the heck?
"Sorry Els," he finally says something after laughing for so long. "The actual reason I wanted to see you is to check if I still had feelings for you."
Okay now I am very much confused more than ever. He said what now?
"I'm sorry Tadashi, I'm confused."
"I mean I originally planned on confessing to you again, but I had to make sure if I still had the same feelings for you and I guess…not anymore?"
"Is that a question?"
He just laughs more and more.
What the hell? Am I getting dumped? I am so confused!
"Okay, okay. I'll make it short. I don't like you any more as I had before Els, so you don't have to run away from me anymore," he smiles at me. "Beside I'm pretty sure confessing to you now is pure suicide, you already have someone special in your heart."
"W-what?" Somebody please hand me a dictionary, Tadashi seems to be talking in a different language.
"Let's just set aside my old confession and just forget it, kay?" He says and hands out his hand to me, "so friends?"
I was still confused but I have to admit that took all my worries away knowing that. I immediately shook his hand saying, "of course, friends as always."
"As always…Ha-ha," he says scratching the back of his neck. "Any way, how about we hug it out ehy?" he stands up, opening both his arms gesturing for a hug.
I go on and give him a warm hug. Now this isn't as awkward as earlier, feels like it's just back when we were in Arendelle High.
"That seems cozy, may we join?" Jack says from my back catching both me and Tadashi on the hop.
I inadvertently push Tadashi away as I saw Jack standing behind us with Hiro making me blush like a tomato.
"Sorry to break your moment there, but little Tadashi here…"
"The name's Hiro, Frosty."
"I stand corrected." He pats Hiro's back and continues, "Hiro here was looking for his brother and knowing his with Princess, I assumed you both would be here."
"Yeah? What's the matter Hiro?" Tadashi asks his brother.
"Uh Aunt May has been calling you. I have been calling you and you weren't answering your phone!" Hiro says, "we're supposed to be heading to Arendelle now remember? Dinner with Aunt May? If we don't go now, it'll be dark soon."
"Ah of course," Tadashi exclaims and looks at me, "so I guess we have to go now? I have my car parked around here somewhere so yeah?"
"W-we'll take you to the parking lot, right Frost?" I nudge Jack.
He just smirks and says, "whatever you say Princess."
Just then all four of us went out from the Café, Tadashi and Hiro walks in front of us arguing something about Tadashi forgetting about his brother and toothpaste? I don't even want to know what that's about.
At the parking lot, we went on to say our goodbyes.
"Sad, I didn't get to talk to Anna before leaving," Hiro says to me.
"Just call her, she'll be thrilled to hear from you," I say patting his head.
He ruffles his hair, "yeah will do that, anyway see yah Els." He immediately went in at the front passenger seat of Tadashi's car.
I look to my left and I see Tadashi whispering to Jack about something that made him snicker in amusement. I wonder what these guys are talking about.
"Have a good one dude, hope to see you again." Tadashi says to Frost.
"Yeah you too bro," Jack says back.
Bro? That sound so weird coming from Frost.
Tadashi walks towards me all innocent and smiley. "So I guess this is goodbye Els?"
"I guess it is."
"No hard feelings though right? About all that confessing then taking back the confession thing?"
Damn, he really says it like his dumping me though.
"Yeah sure, none taken," I say with a cold dry laugh.
He opens his wide arms and asks, "last hug?"
I smile, "sure," and I hug him.
"Yeah this used to feel a lot warmer back in Arendelle High," he says.
After our hug, Tadashi proceeds to his car and waves us goodbye. "You take good care of Elsa now Jack," he says before he goes inside his car and starts the engine.
We wave at them as the car runs out from the parking lot.
"So tell me again why he asks you to take care of me?" I say to Frost as we start to walk back into campus.
He just shrugs and grins, "it's 'cuz I'm charming Princess."
I elbow his arm, "what were the two of you whispering about earlier?"
He grins again, "wouldn't you like to know?"
"I would actually."
"It's just guys talk Princess, nothing to be curious about."
"Why can't you tell me Frost?"
"Why are you so curious?"
"No, I just wanna know."
"You're curious."
"No, I'm— uuugh!"
Well this is frustrating, seems I'm not getting anything out of Frost anytime soon.
We continued to walk in silence after that debate heading to Ice Castle. Jack says our friends are gathered there for an ice cream. And I'd kill for an ice cream right now.
"So your boyfriend was cool, for a nerd that is," he says, breaking the ice.
"He's not a nerd and he's not my boyfriend," I say.
"Funny how you retorted him being a boyfriend last," he snickers. "Anything happened between you two?"
I let out a huge sigh, looking down on the ground. "Apparently I just got dumped without even saying anything or without having certain feelings for the guy," I look up to face Jack, "I mean is that even possible?"
He laughs as he swoops up his disheveled hair, "so you didn't have feelings for robot boy?"
"No, I mean yeah but not the romantic kind. I don't think I ever had any of that yet as a matter of fact."
"You haven't?"
"Didn't we already have this conversation?" I say, "no, I don't and will not for I the time being. I have way too much on my plate right now."
"Well that sucks."
What?
"What?" I say the words right out from my head.
"What?" He asks back.
"Which part of that sucks?"
He just laughs without even answering my question. "Anyway, you still haven't forgotten that we're attending Tooth's wedding next weekend right? I already have our passes to go off campus."
Way to change the topic Jack-sucks-Frost.
"Yeah, I haven't."
"Good."
A/N:
So it's been a while since my last update but I made it lol
Lucy: Thank you!
Anyhows, next chapter is Tooth's wedding and y'all are invited :D
See you guys in the next chapter Toodles~~