The beginning of the chapter is devoted to showing the depths some take the rivalry and the latter part is purely for laughs.
"Hey, how was your date?" Anna asked as Elsa stepped in the room.
"It was not a date,"
"Okay. How was your not-a-date?"
Elsa rolled her eyes at her sister's smirk and lay down in her bed, with her feet hanging over the side.
"So?" Anna asked.
"It was…good." Elsa said, a small smile appearing on her face.
"Just good?" Anna asked suggestively moving over to Elsa's bed.
"Yes, just good," Elsa poked her in the side.
"You're no fun," Anna pouted, "Are you at least going to tell me what happened?"
"Mmh," Elsa bit her lip in thought, "No,"
"What! What does that mean?"
"N-O. No. It's a word that normally expressed a negative response,"
Anna flicked Elsa on the forehead, "You don't need to go all 'Louis' on me. Since when do you not tell me about your dates,"
"This was not a date, remember." Elsa stood up, starting to change for bed.
"This is punishment for me teasing you isn't it?"
"Maybe," Elsa smirked evilly.
"But you will still tell me about your night later, right?"
"Probably,"
"That is so unfair,"
"I don't say no, did I?"
"Then it's a yes?" Elsa shrugged. Anna let out a frustrated cry, "Sis come on. I won't be able to sleep until you tell me,"
"Then I guess you're in for a long night,"
"Two can play this game. I'm not going to move from your bed until you tell me,"
"Fine by me, I'll just sleep…" Elsa cut herself short when she saw her sister's bed, a jumble of sheets, books and wrappers. "Jeez, Anna how can you stand to have your bed in such a mess."
Anna shrugged from under Elsa's blanket.
"Scoot over," Elsa said hitting her shoulder lightly. Anna slid over so there was enough space for her.
"So, you're going to tell me," Anna asked.
"Go to sleep Anna."
"Please,"
Elsa didn't respond.
"Please," Anna tickled Elsa's side. The older girls squirmed.
"Stop it," She tried to grab Anna's hands.
"Tell me," Anna continued her assault. Elsa tried to escape, but ran out of bed before she got out of Anna's reach. She fell with a solid 'thud'.
"Elsa, are you okay?" Anna asked, leaning over the side of the bed. Elsa glared up at her, grabbed the edge of the blanket and pulled. With a cry Anna tumbled to the floor next to Elsa.
"Yeah, I probably deserved that," She groaned into the carpet. Elsa got back into her bed, making sure to take up as much of the space as possible.
"Well I guess I have to clean up my bed now…" Anna said in a forlorn voice, "Even though it will take a while…an hour or two at the least,"
Elsa tried to shut out the voice and she refused to look at Anna, knowing the younger girl was putting on some dramatic show of despair with her face and hands. "And it will mean I won't get a good night's sleep, and that means I could…"
"Just get under the blanket before I stuff a pillow in your mouth," Elsa said holding up the corner blanket. Anna squealed happily and practically jumped on the bed snuggling next to her sister.
"You're so annoying sometimes,"
"I love you too,"
Elsa couldn't help but smile. She sighed and, much to Anna's delight, she started to tell her about her night with Jack.
"Guys! Over here!" Rapunzel hailed out her friends from the front of the movie theatre. Anna, Kristoff and Elsa waved back making their way over.
"Hey," She said, "We already got the tickets and Eugene and Mer are inside buying snacks."
"Cool," Kristoff said. He opened the door, holding it for the girls. They found Merida and Flynn arguing over what to buy.
"How can you eat those things? They're horrible," Merida said in disgust.
"It's cheese and olives, what part of that is horrible? Olives, on their own, great. Cheese on its own, fantastic. Together, it's food of the gods,"
Merida made a gagging sound.
"Fine, I'll just buy for myself then," Flynn snapped.
"Please and keep your disgusting food away from me,"
The other four sighed, but knew better than to but in. Flynn turned his attention away from Merida when he saw the others. "About time you got here," He said holding out a fist for Kristoff to bump.
"We're ten minutes late,"
"Was that all?" He asked, "Guess it felt like longer being stuck alone with her," Merida punched him in the gut.
"Hey, watch the violence DunBroch,"
"Make me Rider,"
"Okay, let's get these two apart," Anna and Elsa hooked Merida by her arms pulling her out of the line.
"No, if you leave him alone he'll only buy cheese and olive bites,"
"I won't let him." Rapunzel said.
They sat down at a table waiting for Rapunzel and Flynn.
"Don't you think you should save that behaviour for the moonies, Merida?" Kristoff asked. Elsa felt like a stone dropped into her stomach.
"I've got plenty to go around, especially for the moonies,"
"I can't deny that," Kristoff said. Anna and Elsa were suddenly interested with anything but their friends' faces.
"So, how was last night?" Merida asked, making Elsa jump.
"What? No. Nothing was up," Anna stamped on Elsa's foot to shut her up.
"It was good, until I burned the chicken," Anna said laughing. Elsa let out a deep breath through her nose. Of course that was what Merida asking about. There was no way she could have found about Jack.
"What did you do?" Kristoff asked Anna.
"Forgot to set the timer when we put in the oven. But it wasn't too bad, just on the dry side," Anna said. Kristoff and Merida laughed at this.
"We got the goods," Flynn said walking over, already eating his cheese and olive bites, just to annoy Merida.
"I'm just going to ignore you," She said taking her stuff from his hands. He smirked at her but said nothing more. In the theatre they still made sure there were several people in-between the pair.
Two hours later they were leaving the theatre, trying to decide what to do next.
"We could go the arcade," Kristoff suggested.
"So we can watch you two race cars,"
"You can join in," Eugene said.
"Sure. In case you've forgotten the last time we played with you, you both lost to Anna and sulked for a week," Merida said.
Anna grinned proudly at the memory, while Kristoff and Eugene protested that the game had glitches.
"If that helps you sleep at night," Merida smirked at them. Elsa and Rapunzel, walking to the front of the group suddenly stopped causing the others to walk into them.
"Ouch, give us a warning next time," Eugene complained.
"Why don't we go that way?" Rapunzel said pointed in the direction they'd just come from.
"What are you talking about. Our cars are parked…" Merida trailed off when she saw the reason her friends wanted to turn around.
"Moonies," She snarled.
"Oh no," Elsa sighed covering her eyes.
"Here we go…again," Anna's head fell forward in a defeated manner.
Merida stormed past the group heading right for another cluster of teens.
"Ogre," She said once she was in ear shot. Shrek looked around and grinned when he saw Merida. He was surrounded by his usual gang.
"Hey, look who it is," He said to his friends, "Disney's little firecracker,"
"I thought I smelled something foul," Merida said placing her hands on her hips.
"We aren't just going to let her going to leave her alone?" Kristoff said.
"Like she needs our help," Elsa said. The boys still moved to flank her. Rapunzel, Elsa and Anna brought up the rear, expecting things to go south fast.
"And if it isn't…you two. What's your names again?"
"Boardman and Fishherbs, I think" Shrek's best friend, Donkey said, making his group laugh. Anna and Rapunzel grabbed the boys' hands before they could move forward.
"Don't," Rapunzel warned, "They're trying to provoke you,"
"How's life been?" Shrek asked, "You since, we proved we're better than you. You heard didn't you, we creamed Illumination in the finals,"
"Like hell you are better than us. You're pretty boy got lucky. Just you watch, we're going to kickass at the swim meet next Saturday,"
"I doubt, it."
"You can't match our swim team, and you know it." Merida snapped.
"That's funny, I seemed to recall hearing the same thing about the football team,"
Elsa grabbed Merida as she moved forward. "He isn't worth it," Elsa said.
"Let me go Elsa," Merida said struggling.
"No. Just walk away." Rapunzel helped Elsa pulled Merida back.
"Bye. We'll see you on Saturday." Donkey called.
"I could have taken him," Merida said once they'd managed to get her to the cars.
"He has a hundred pounds on you," Anna said.
"I could have taken him," She repeated.
"And then we would have to take to the hospital." Rapunzel said.
"No you won't,"
"Merida, come on. You're smarter than this. He's just a glorified meat cake who's basking in a little glory right now." Elsa said. "And you know you can't pick a fight with every moony you see,"
"Not everyone of them, just those mega jerks like Shrek."
"Let's just go home before Merida runs into another moony and tries to decapitate them." Flynn said leaning on his car.
"Yeah, the mood is ruined anyways," Kristoff.
"I could have taken him," The friends let out a groan.
Later that evening Elsa and Anna were in their living room with their parents watching the news. Elsa was surprised when she got a text from an unknown number, but she hit accept.
Hey, I was wondering y u choose a snowflake for your ID pic.
~Jack.
A smile appeared on her face. She texted back right away.
What? Don't like it?
She only had to wait a few seconds before a new message popped up.
It's pretty, but it looks nothing like you.
Really? I thought it was mirror image.
How is it I can hear the sarcasm in that text?
Elsa laughed when she read that text, peaking her family's interest.
"Who are you texting?" Anna asked.
"Oh, no one important," Elsa said unconvincingly even as she typed a reply.
Maybe because it was dripping in it.
"You're texting Jack!" Anna exclaimed. She leaned across the sofa trying to see. Elsa held her back with one hand.
"I wanna see," Anna whined.
"It's none of your business,"
"But, but…please?"
"No, and stop leaning against me," Just then her phone lit up with another message. Anna moved quicker than Elsa could believe grabbing the phone from her hand and disappearing from the room.
"You little…get back here!" Elsa ran after her, leaving behind two very confused parents. They could hear their daughters muffled cries from the next room.
"This 'Jack' isn't Elsa's boyfriend is he?" Their father asked after a few minutes. His wife shook her head.
"Elsa isn't one to keep something like that from us,"
"While that may be true, Anna wouldn't be acting like that if it was just a friend." They looked at each other then at the same time they called out "Elsa!"
Elsa had chased Anna into the dining room, and now they were running around the table while Anna tried to read the text.
"'Miss Winters'," She read out loud, "Oh, he calls you Miss Winters? How very gentlemanly of him,"
"Anna give me the phone or swear I will drop water on you while you sleep,"
"Then I'll sleep in your bed so you won't risk wetting your mattress,"
"Anna!" Elsa ran after her, but Anna was using the table to her advantage.
"Where was I? Right, 'Miss Winters, if sass was a criminal act you would be in jail with fifty to life.' He's funny. What should we type back?"
"There is no 'we'. There is me, and my phone. Give it."
"Oh, I know," Anna grinned and spoke as she typed, "If I'm going to jail for sass, what will you go to jail for?"
"Don't!"
"Too late, it's sent," Anna grinned. Elsa charged at her, changing direction at the last moment. Anna barely escaped her dashing out of the room. Anna grinned as the phone received another text and she read it out loud.
"'Why don't you tell me?' What fictional crime would Jack Frost go to jail for? I know," She grinned evilly over her shoulder at her sister and she typed back a reply. Elsa dived after her, literally, grabbing her by the ankle, knocking them both to the ground. Elsa crawled on top of her pinning her down. She held down her hand and took the phone from her. She was horrified to see Anna had sent another text.
"What did you send?" Elsa asked. Anna only grinned. Elsa quickly checked the outbox and suddenly left sick. The words Anna chose to type were…
You'd be charged for being devilishly handsome.
"You didn't,"
"Don't pretend like you weren't thinking it,"
"I would have never sent it,"
"Elsa?"
They heard their parents' voices calling them.
"I will get you back for this," Elsa said standing and helping Anna up. Anna simply continued to grin. They walked into the living room.
"Elsa, this Jack," Their father pointed to the phone in her hand, "Would it be the same Jack Frost you went out with yesterday?"
"Yes," Elsa.
"Is he your boyfriend?"
Elsa blushed up to her ears. "Wh-What! No! No. If I had a boyfriend I would tell you. Jack is just a friend. That's all, I swear."
"She wishes he was her boyfriend," Anna said under her breath, but Elsa heard.
"I do not!"
"Okay, if you say he isn't we believe you," Their mother said.
She felt her phone vibrate. Jack had texted her back. She looked at the phone, dreading the reply.
You flatter me, but you still haven't answered my question.
She felt some relief, it seemed he didn't take Anna's text too seriously.
I thought it would be smart, encase one of your friends saw your phone. It wouldn't be the best thing for you to be found with a picture of a 'princess'.
Seconds later he replied.
That is smart Winters, but I should expected nothing less of someone as brilliant as you. It's not anyone who can ev train their Pokémon team.
A smile grew on her face. Her father let out a groan.
"What?" The three woman asked together.
"That is not her 'just a friend' smile." He said with a sigh. Anna and their mother burst out laughing while Elsa blushed beet red.
:) That's all I have to say... :)
Nardragon~ until the next page.