There are a lot of texts in this chapter. To make our life easier, Jack's messages are in italics, while Elsa's are underlined and in italics.

Favourite comic book villain?

Killer Frost

Oh,nice. Mine's Icicle Jr. Particular enjoyed his humour in Young Justice.

110% agree.

You can only agree up to 100%.

Details. Can't a girl emphasis?

Fine, I'll give u that. Ur turn

Fav fairy tale?

How the Grinch stole Christmas

That is not a fairy tale

Bite ur tongue…oh…wait…text message…bite ur thumbs! Grinch is a Seuss classic!

Never said it wasn't. Said it wasn't a fairy tale.

Okay, if you want to be political. I guess my favourite fairy tale is…huh, I don't know.

Just think about the first one that comes to your mind

Jack and the Beanstalk

Really?

What's wrong with it?

Nothing, you just always struck me as Camelot and mythology kind of guy

How are those fairy tales?

I donno

Nope. If you can call Camelot I'm changing back to Grinch.

No. If Jack and the Beanstalk is what you like, that's what you like

I'd remind u Miss Winters u were the one who said to say the first 1 that came to my mind.

And that was it?

Yes

Can I ask u another question?

No! It's my turn, (P.S technically you just did)

Please (P.S you stole your P.S from Dumbledore)

Fine, (P.S I totally did)

Does ur love of Jack and the Beanstalk have anything to do with the fact that u share a name with the protagonist?

…maybe…

Elsa laughed, not for the first time that night, at Jack's reply. While she was laughing another text came from him.

BTW I do enjoy the Arthurian tales and mythology, particularly Norse.

So I was right

Who's the stalker now?

Is that ur question?

No, I already know the answer to that anyway

Really?

Yes, really. No stop asking questions. It's my turn.

Then ask a question

Favourite ice cream flavour?

Vanilla

That is not an ice cream flavour

Yes it is

No, it's not

Ur just doing this to annoy me for saying no to Grinch aren't u?

I would never be so underhanded and wicked…except I that is exactly what I'm doing. But there is another reason that vanilla it's a flavour.

And what would that be Jackson?

It's the safe flavour

Well excuse me for enjoying a 'safe flavour'. And BTW you just called vanilla a flavour

Okay, so maybe technically it is a flavour…but its soooo boring.

Alright then, what's your favourite flavour?

Cho-chocolate chip mint crunch, DUH

Never heard of it

WHAT! You have not lived yet Winters

I'm pretty sure I'm living right now Frost

No, it's impossible. You cannot categorically say you have lived until you taste this ice cream.

Elsa laughed at the text, only to have a pillow fly out of the dark and hit her square in the face.
"Elsa, go to sleep," Anna whined across the room.
"Suddenly you're not interested in my relationship with Jack,"
"Not when it interferes with my six hours, and since when are you in a relationship with him? You spent two hours trying to convince dad that he wasn't you boyfriend."
Elsa felt her cheeks heat up and was thankful Anna couldn't see in the dark room. "I didn't mean it like that. A relationship as a friend,"
"Uh-huh, can we wait till morning for your feeble attempts to deny there isn't anything between you and Jack,"
"Okay, I'll tell Jack good night…What do you mean 'feeble attempts?!'" Elsa only got a small chuckle in reply. She huffed and returned her attention to her phone.

Sorry, I have to sign off for now. Anna's complaining again.

Aww :(. You realise every time we stop talking at night is because of Anna. Explain to me why you still share a room with your kid sister.

Well there is a room in the house for me, but I just never bothered to move in. There was point when every break from school we would say we'd make time to move my stuff. But then the vaca would come and go and I'm still in here. We all gave up entirely a while now. Anna would probably just end up crawling in my bed when she has a nightmare anyway.

She still does that?

Hey, you have a little sister. You know how it is.

Yeah, but my sis is nine. That's acceptable behaviour at that age

Well Anna can definitely act like nine sometimes.

I'll tell her you said that

Sure…and where exactly are you going to meet Anna to tell her?

Maybe when I pick you up Sunday to take for some Cho-chocolate chip mint crunch, or I could just tell her if I see her tomorrow.

a) When did we agree to meet on Sunday? And b) Where would u possibly see my sister on a Friday? Unless u really r stalking me?

a) Just now and b) tomorrow isn't Friday, it's Saturday

Did u get hit on the head and forget the weekdays? To remind u, it goes Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

I know that. If you look at the time u'll c it's after midnight, so today is Friday, yesterday is Thusday and tomorrow is the meet, that I assume all the princesses will be attending to show their mouse pride.

Elsa looked to the top corner of her screen and saw he was right. It was almost 2am…but how was possible. They started texting around half ten. Had they really been talking for more than three hours.

Wow, times flies. We both really should get to sleep

As you command ur majesty, sweet dreams princess

G'Night Frost

Elsa put the phone on her side table and closed her eyes, but only for a few seconds before she heard it vibrate. She opened one eye looking at the screen seeing another message from Jack.

I'm serious about Sunday

She smiled and replied I'll confirm tomorrow, now go to sleep

The next morning Anna had to wake her when her alarm didn't. She blinked in the sunlight.
"It can't be morning already,"
"Maybe if you didn't stay up until three in the morning,"
"I didn't stay up until three,"
"What time did you go to sleep?"
"…Two," Elsa blushed.
"Yeah, that's so much earlier," Anna smirked at her. Elsa pushed a pillow in her face as she got up from bed. Miraculous she managed to get downstairs only ten minutes behind schedule. Anna and her parents were already at the kitchen table helping themselves to eggs and bacon. He glanced up from his newspaper, looking at his watch as she sat at the table.
"Anna's normally the one who has to scarf down her food,"
"I'm fine dad, I just overslept," Elsa said.
"That's not like you to sleep in, especially on a school day. Are you feeling okay sweetheart?" Her mother asked placing a hand on her forehead.
"I'm fine,"
"Oh she's very fine," Anna said grinning as she drank some orange juice.
"What does that mean?" Their father asked.
"Maybe if she didn't stay up half the night flirting w-owww!"
Elsa went on eating her breakfast like she hadn't just aimed a well placed kick at her little sister. Anna glared at her, but Elsa took no notice. Their parents didn't even bother asking, they were too accustomed to the sisters' behaviour.

In Elsa's bag her phone buzzed.
"Already?" came three voices at once. Elsa tired not to blush (and failed) as she grabbed her phone.

Cereal and milk

Nope

Toast

No

Leftover pizza

On a Friday?

Damn it, I got it with two guesses yesterday. What is it?

But you didn't get it Wednesday. It's bacon and eggs

Aww man, I could have guessed that!

Elsa smirked, Enjoy school Frost

I shall try my best princess. You try not to fall asleep for that maths test today.

I shall try.

Elsa looked up to find her family looking at her.
"Every morning," Anna said.
"What? It's a game we made up,"
"Why?"
"I don't know."
"Are you sure you're not dating him?" Her dad asked, looking up from paper.
"Yes dad," Elsa said, "But speaking of Jack he invited me out for Sunday,"
"For a guy you're not dating you're going on a lot of dates,"
"It's not a date,"
"Yeah, 'not-a-date'," Anna said with air quotations. Their mother stiffed her laugh by drinking some juice.
"Elsa you know I'm not against you dating, but I'll like you to be honest with me,"
"Daddy, if I was dating someone the first persons I would tell would be you and mom. No, actually the first person I'd tell would be her," She pointed at Anna with her fork, "And you two would be the first persons she'd tell."
"Where are you going with Jack?"
"Ice cream, apparently I haven't lived until I try some chocolate mint flavour,"
"Where will you be going for ice cream?"
"He didn't mention."
"Find out where and you can go,"
"Thank you daddy," Elsa gave her father and mother a quick kiss picked up her plate and carried it to the sink, "I'll see you later. Love you. Anna, come on, or we'll be late. We said we'll be there early to help with the banners for tomorrow."
"Wait, what? I'm supposed to be ahead of you today,"
"Not my fault you took your time eating,"
"Ahh," Anan shovelled the remainder of her food into her mouth, swallowed it down with the rest of her orange juice. She planted a quick kiss on each of her parents' cheeks and with an even quicker "Love you! Bye!" she hurried after Elsa, skidded to a stop, turned, grabbed the plate and glass being held out to her by her father, placed it in the sink and continued after her sister.

The couple waited until they heard the front door close.
"I'm still not buying the fact she doesn't have feelings for this boy. Do you?" She asked her husband. He didn't even look from his paper.
"Absolutely not," He agreed, "We'll have to meet him soon,"
"We could have him over for dinner,"
"Please wait until I get home before you ask her to invite him over. I'd love to see her face," His wife smiled at his comment.

The next day the Universal swimming centre was filled to capacity by competitors and spectators alike filed into the area. Majority of the people were finding spots in the stands that surrounded the Olympic sized and 25 metres pools. It wasn't hard to figure out who was sitting where, with the sea of red, white and black on one side, and the blue and white to the other. And there were also the yellow and dark blue of Illumination and the light blue and grey of Blue Sky.

In small groups around the pools were the swim teams, with a few competitors in the water getting warmed up.

"Alright dudes," Disney's swim coach said to his team. He was an older gentleman, with greying hair, but a youthful twinkle to his eyes, "I don't want you to worry about winning. What's the important thing?"
"To have fun dad!" One of the freshman said jumping in the air, "Oh, I mean Coach Crush,"
"That's right Squirt," Crush said tousling the boys' hair. "Okay, everyone hands in, I want a nice loud 'dude' on three," Everyone on the swim team put their hands together in a tight circle.
One…two…three…Dude!"

At the sound Disney's cheering squad let out a bellow. DreamWorks side answered back and the shouting match begun. The crowds only got more pumped up as the first percipients for the freestyle at the junior level stepped up to the diving platforms.
"WHOA! GO! Nemo!" A female yelled loudly. A man sitting next to her tried to pull her back into her seat.
"Dory, you promised you wouldn't embarrass him."
"He's not embarrassed, looking at him Marlin,"
A boy, who was visibly smaller than the other competitors, and he was walking with a limp. But despite this he looked eager and happy.

"What's that Disney's got swimming for them?" Alex yelled from DreamWorks side.
"That's not fair, the kid's a cripple, put him out of his misery now," Sherk yelled.
"You're really scraping the barrel this year Disney!"
"Did you find an actual mouse for your team!"
In his seat Marlin grew furious. "It's not his fault, he was born with one foot shorter than the other,"
Dory placed a hand on his shoulder, "Just wait until they see him the water, they won't be cheerful then," She said smiling. Marlin smiled as well, as did anyone who'd ever seen Nemo swim.

"Who's the lad's competition?" Merida asked a bit worried, since she was one of those who hadn't seen him swim. Anna took out the program.
"Let's see, Nemo is swimming for us, DreamWorks has a kid named Sherman,"
"Is he any good?"
"We've never seen them swim before," Kristoff told her. But he was lost against the sound of the starting pistol. And Disney's defining screams as Nemo took an instant lead, and only made it grow. DreamWorks side grew quiet as they watched the 'cripple' boy smoke their own participant. When the race was finished, it was announced that Nemo, not only came first but broke the centre's time record in his age group.

"Yeah!" Merida yelled happily, "What you got to say now Moonies!"

"What's the rest of the day like?" Elsa asked looking at the program with her sister. Nemo was entered for the freestyle as well as the butterfly. Squirt was entered in the backstroke and was another boy, Roo was taking part in the breaststroke. In the female categories Lilo was swimming. In the other categories and other age groups there were even more names.
Ariel was taking part in the freestyle and the breaststroke. Nani was taking part in the backstroke, and Slivermist for butterfly. For the men's events Florence, aka Flounder, Trazan and David were taking part in the freestyle, butterfly ,breaststroke and backstroke, respectively (Flounder was taking part in the first two two events).

For the other teams, Oscar, Simbad, Chel and Angie were entered for most events for DreamWorks all of whom were stiff competition. Sid, Crash, Eddie and Eille were the biggest competition from Blue Sky, while there were several different guys signed up for Illumination- Dave, Carl, Billy, Larry etc. But there were only two girls, Margo and Audrey.

The races were into full swing when Anna suddenly poked Elsa in the ribs.
"Seen him yet?" She asked in Elsa's ear. Elsa frowned at her sister.
"No, actually I've been busy cheering for my school," Elsa said.
"I've seen you looking over there,"
"Then you're seeing things."
"Am I?"
"I'm going to canteen, do you want anything?" Elsa asked. Anna shook her head. Elsa turned around to ask her friends, but they were too busy yelling for Nani to notice. It was only when the race finished they noticed she was gone.
"Where's Elsa?" Flynn asked.
"She went to grab some bites," Anna said.
"Aww, but I wanted some food," Kristoff said.
"She asked,"
"She did?"
"Yeah, but you were cheering,"
"Go after her, will you?" Flynn said.
"No, you go,"
"I'll go," Merida volunteered, "The next race isn't for a couple of minutes anyhow. What do ya' want?"
Both boys started to rattle of a list at the same time. Merida held up her hands.
"You know what, text me. It's be easier anyway, than trying to remember."
"Got it," Kristoff pulled out his phone and started typing it up right away, with Eugene leaning over his shoulder, saying whatever he'd left out. Merida headed down from the stands.

Elsa was walking towards the canteen when her phone received a message. She saw the now familiar number and name.

Behind you.

What? She turned and crashed right into Jack Frost's chest.
"Oww, jeez Jack,"
"We gotta stop meeting like this,"
"You did that on purpose, you jerk," She pushed him playful, "How'd get so close without me hearing?"
"It seemed like you were distracted by a text, maybe from a handsome young white haired hellion,"
"Could you be anymore vain?"
"Hey you called me handsome, 'devilishly handsome' I believe the exact words were."
Elsa blushed, "That wasn't me. I told you Anna stole my phone,"
"I don't buy it. Your just too shy to admit it,"
"Like I'd waste such an opportunity to sass you by telling you you're handsome,"
"That is true," He rubbed his chin thoughtfully, then a horrified look came over his face, "Wait does this mean you don't think I'm handsome?"
"Get out of here before someone sees us,"
"That wasn't a no," He grinned.
"It wasn't a yes either," She smirked and pushed him down the hallway, "Go,"
"I'm going, I'm going." He turned around walking backwards, "But I'll see you tomorrow right? Ice cream at the coast?"
"Get out of here Frost,"
He winked and turned forward heading down the hallway. Elsa shook her head, a small smile on her lips.

"I can't believe you," That voice made her smile disappear. She turned in time to see Merida emerge around the corner of the hallway.

…Not good…

Cue the dramatic music!

Nardragon~until the next page.