Chapter Two
Anna couldn't sleep very well that night; she was too excited for the game against one of Arendelle High's biggest rivals, the Agrabah Gypsies. Her team had almost lost to them the year before, but they managed to pull through just in time at the last ten seconds of the game, thanks to Anna and her cousin Rapunzel. There was also something else that kept making her wake up, or rather, someone else. Anna smiled as she recalled the blondes face, but was curious as to why she looked so panicked and left in a hurry. Her brows furrowed as she thought of possible answers to it. She did recall seeing Hans and his fellow bastards just outside of the athletic hall, glaring in.
Oh man, I swear to god I will kill that son of a bitch if he so much as touches a hair on her head! And with that thought in mind, Anna slipped into a rather weird dream at last. It didn't last very long, however, and she hardly remembered it when the alarm clock sent it's piercing buzzes through her ears, scratching at her skull and racking her brain. She slammed a hand down on the clock, silencing it at last and rolled over, trying to get more sleep before she had to get up and get ready. She was about to drift off to sleep when she felt a heavy weight land on her stomach and a loud meow sounded as the weight in the form of paws came jumping up her stomach and onto her chest. She felt a leathery pad pat her face a few times and another loud meow. Anna groaned and turned over.
"Figaro, please! I didn't get much sleep last night!" Anna moaned. Another weight joined the other, but this one much lighter. There was kneading on the blankets over her thigh and Anna bolted up, giving a yelp of pain, and nearly sending Figaro flying across her room. Anna rubbed the sleep from her eyes and looked down at the two black and white cats that had woken her up.
"Mittens, I think you're rubbing off on Figaro." Anna commented, still groggy from sleep. The slender she-cat gave a purr and a meow.
"No, that's a bad thing." Anna giggled. She scooted the two cats off the bed with much protest from the two felines, tossed her blankets to the side and swung her legs over the edge of the bed. Anna gave a long yawn and rubbed her eyes once more, sniffling. She slowly stood up, her feet sliding on the light brown carpet of her room and walked to the closet to get changed.
Anna picked out a blue flannel button-up, black wife-beater, skinny jeans with the string covering the holes, her black converse and dark green knit hat. After she changed into her outfit for the day, Anna walked over to the large cat tower and picked up their food containers and fed the two fussy felines before grabbing her school bag and walking out of her room and down the hall to the spare bedroom and knocked.
"Punz, it's time to get up. I'm not waiting for you again, we have an important game today and Coach Phil would be pissed if you're late again!" Anna called. She heard a thump from the other side of the door and opened it to make sure she was alright. Well, the sight Anna saw, she wouldn't exactly call it alright, but she was alive and awake, and that was what Anna needed. Apparently Rapunzel had rolled over and fell off the bed when Anna knocked. Rapunzel groaned and sat up, irritated.
"Are we going to need to get you guardrails for that bed?" Anna asked, amused at her cousin.
"No, but it would be nice if I would just remember to set an alarm on my phone." She replied.
"Yeah, because that makes sense. Common, get dressed and get your things, we're leaving in ten minutes." Anna demanded and walked out of the room, shutting it so her cousin could get dressed in private. She walked down the hall a little further until she entered the living room which was open to the bar of the kitchen, walked around the bar and started to make coffee in her quick and easy coffee maker. As she sat waiting, she pulled out her phone to check her e-mails. She saw one from a college who has been asking her to enroll for at least three weeks now. It was a nice college and offered a basketball scholarship, but Anna wasn't sure if she even wanted to play in the professional leagues; she actually just wanted to coach basketball instead. The college offered those classes, but she wasn't going to enroll until she knew she would be able to pay everything off.
Rapunzel walked into the kitchen wearing her V-cut pink and red striped shirt with jeans and converse, and looked uncertainly at the coffee maker.
"Are you sure caffeine is a great idea after a migraine like yesterdays?" She asked worriedly. Anna shrugged.
"I was fine enough to go to work and clean up Kristoff's grandparents' house yesterday, so why not? Besides, unless you want a crabby Anna for the rest of the day, I think I'll be taking some coffee." She commented.
"True, I guess. So, think you'll be up for the game today?" Rapunzel asked, leaning on the kitchen counter.
"Yeah, I should be fine, so long as I take it easy during classes and practice." Anna replied, taking the now full coffee pot off the burner and filling a large mug.
"You're never one to take it easy though…" Rapunzel muttered.
"No, but if I want to play, I'll lay in bed all day if I have to." Anna replied as she poured some hazelnut liquid creamer into her mug until it turned a wonderful light brown. Anna took a sip and sighed happily, slowly drinking it and starting to feel more awake. Rapunzel also poured herself a mug, much smaller than Anna's, and put some sugar cubes in it before stirring and drinking. Anna cringed.
"How can you drink black coffee? I mean, it tastes like butt." Anna commented, cringing. Rapunzel laughed.
"Same way you eat your grilled cheese with onions in it!" Rapunzel countered playfully. Anna's face turned serious.
"Hey, don't dis the onions. Those little things are healthy as fuck." She commented. Rapunzel eyed Anna.
"Language, girly. You won't be able to land a date with that mouth." Rapunzel teased and Anna rolled her eyes.
"It's called English, and I have actually landed two dates with this mouth, thank you very much!" Anna replied, sounding hurt.
"Yeah, I bet you sweet talked them too." Rapunzel said slyly. Anna's face lit up like a red lantern and she nearly choked on her coffee.
"I'm still a virgin, thank you!" Anna sputtered through the coffee that was now dripping down her chin. Rapunzel smiled sweetly.
"I know, I made sure of that! After all, I am your personal cock-blocker!" She returned. Anna managed to swallow the last sip of her coffee and briskly walked to the door after putting the mug in the sink.
"If you don't hurry up, I'm leaving your ass here!" Anna barked over her shoulder. She heard Rapunzel gulp down her coffee and rush into the living room. By the time she caught up with Anna, she was already opening the door to her car and getting in. Rapunzel jumped into the passenger seat and buckled in just as Anna was pulling out of the driveway to her house. She turned and began to drive down the street and got on the freeway to the school.
"You weren't really going to leave me behind, right?" Rapunzel asked nervously. Anna only smiled and didn't look her cousin's way. Rapunzel laughed nervously and turned on the radio to their favorite station; 89.7 Power FM. They jammed out to a couple of their favorite songs before they got to the back of the school parking lot. Anna turned off her car and got out, waiting for her cousin to get out so she could lock the doors. She's heard too many stories of the girls cars getting broken into and hers was nearly hijacked, so it was necessary for her to take the precautions. They walked up the back steps to the main building and was about to enter when they heard a car pull up on the curb. Anna turned around for curiosity's sake and stopped walking altogether, her jaw coming close to being well acquainted with the concrete ground. Rapunzel shared a similar expression. A beautifully waxed and shiny dark blue two door Honda Accord Coupe had pulled up close to the door. Anna couldn't really see who was driving, but she knew it was a woman with long hair in a tight bun. The passenger door opened and a platinum blonde head poked up, then ducked back down a second before standing up completely.
If it weren't for her trying to keep calm, Anna would have gasped at the girl's attire. She wore a flowing baggie light blue shirt with snowflake designs. To complement the shirt, the girl had a slightly darker colored blue scarf worn loosely around her shoulders and neck that covered any exposed skin other than what little collar and neck was already showing. Much different from the khaki capris she wore yesterday, they were instead replaced with dark blue skinny jeans and a soft brown colored pair of casual flat boots that came up just below the knees of the girl, and slung over her left shoulder was a blue messenger bag with a gold snowflake keychain clipped to the strap. Her hair was worn in the same lazy side braid as the day before, but it looked much neater this time.
The girl turned around and saw Anna and Rapunzel staring at her, both wide eyed and blushed as she closed the door and walked behind the car to let her mother drive off. As she walked over to the two girls, she kept her head down, but her eyes trained on the two, face still reddened. Rapunzel smiled widely and approached her halfway.
"Wow, girly! You look great! Trying to vie for someone's attention, are we, hm?" Rapunzel greeted. Anna saw Elsa's eyes flick slightly in her direction before she looked down completely, shaking her head. Rapunzel laughed.
"Aw, common! You've got to be crushing on someone big time to dress like this! It's so different from what you wore yesterday!" She continued. Anna shook her head and approached them as well.
"Punz, you're making the poor girl nervous!" Anna remarked, stealing a sideways glance at the taller blonde. As Anna approached, the blonde's face got slightly redder and Rapunzel smiled.
"Not as nervous as you're making her! Aw, just look at the cutie-patootie, all dressed nice and fancy like!" Rapunzel went on. Anna sighed and smiled.
"Yes, she does look nice, now can we go inside before the janitors lock us out like they did last week?" Anna asked, gesturing to the doors, her cheeks rather pink. Rapunzel sighed and nodded, allowing the blonde girl to go first behind Anna as she led the two to the common room where Kristoff, Sven, Olaf and Marshell were waiting. Olaf jumped up and waved as the three girls walked over to them.
"Hey! Anna's back today! Oh, and hi Elsa!" Olaf greeted enthusiastically. Anna cocked her head at the foreign name Olaf called and turned to Elsa, then looked at Rapunzel.
"I may have forgotten to introduce you, but Anna, this is Elsa, the new transfer student I was talking about yesterday!" Rapunzel said. Anna looked over to Elsa and smiled as kindly as she could without making a fool of herself.
"Nice to meet you, Elsa! I'm Anna, but if you were hanging around these guys yesterday, then I guess you already knew that." Anna introduced, offering a hand for her to shake. Elsa looked down at the hand and gave a weak smile, taking it in her own and shaking it. To Anna, Elsa's hand was the softest she had ever had the pleasure of shaking. To Elsa, Anna's hand was gentle but firm; trustworthy was the only way she could explain it. Anna noticed that their hands had been lingering in each other's a second too long and quickly pulled away, avoiding eye contact and glanced at Rapunzel, who had her eyebrows raised and was smiling widely. Anna coughed slightly, hoping to break the awkwardness of the situation and offered a smile to Elsa.
"So, what are your classes like?" Anna asked once they all sat down. Anna was sitting next to Elsa with Rapunzel on the other side of Elsa, Marshell on Rapunzel's other side with Kristoff, Sven and lastly Olaf sitting next to Anna, completing the circle.
"Their alright, I guess. Very different from homeschooling that's for sure." Elsa replied. "But's it's a good different! There are a lot of nice people here, and the food is… decent." She added. Anna laughed which was music to Elsa's ears.
"The food here is something to be considered comparing to the other schools, but it's still noting like a good home-cooked meal!" Anna commented, but glanced around and leaned a touch closer.
"There are also a bunch of nice people here, but there are also some bad eggs that stalk around, if you know what I mean. See those three guys over there?" Anna asked, pointing discretely with a thump towards three boys Elsa immediately recognized with a small shudder as the ones who were harassing her the day before. Elsa nodded, not wanting to look at them for a second longer and turned her gaze to Anna.
"If they ever give you any trouble, be sure to talk to me, Kristoff or Marshell, and we'll put them in their place. They're not exactly people we consider decent human beings." Anna commented. Everyone around the table nodded in agreement and Anna sat back in her seat.
The group talked some more, mostly about Elsa regarding what she learned while being homeschooled and how she's liking her classes. Everything was pretty hunky-dory until Rapunzel asked a question Anna somehow knew she was going to regret her asking.
"So Elsa, do you have a crush on anyone so far?" She pried. Elsa's face lit up and she quickly shook her head no.
"Awe, there's got to be someone! I mean, you're blushing like mad! Is it someone we know? Oh wait, are they sitting here at the table?" She was starting to get excited. Anna noticed how uncomfortable Elsa was starting to get and decided to interject.
"Honestly Punz, at least wait until she's been here a week before asking her that! Today is only the second day for her after all." Anna defended. Rapunzel rounded on her, smiling widely.
"Maybe I should be asking you this question then! Do you have a crush on anyone?" Rapunzel asked. Anna's cheeks turned pink and averted her eyes away from her cousins.
"That is none of your business…" Anna mumbled.
"Aha! So the rising basketball star of Arendelle High does indeed have a crush! So, is it a boy, or a girl?" Rapunzel pried.
"I told you, that's none of your business!" Anna fumed.
"Yeah, it kinda is. I don't want some drug-addict bumpkin boy or some prissy bossy bitch dating my cousin!" Rapunzel returned. "Now, boy? Or girl? Drug-addict bumpkin? Or prissy bossy bitch?" Anna was about to open her mouth to finally comply with the girls question when the bell for first period rang.
"Saved by the bell! I guess we'll figure it out at lunch!" Olaf chimed in as he picked up his backpack and walked to his first period with Sven.
"She won't be safe for long! I have them both for first period! I will find out! I always do!" Rapunzel exclaimed after the other boys who were also leaving for their class. Rapunzel looked to Anna and Elsa slyly.
"Shall we get going then?" She gestured.
"I don't trust you behind me at the moment, so I'll let you lead on." Anna said, pushing her cousin ahead of her with Elsa falling beside her. When they finally got into class, Anna took her seat at the back of the class with her cousin. Luckily there was an open seat due to one of the students being moved to a different class because of grades, so now Elsa could sit just two rows ahead of the other two girls. Elsa was just glad she didn't have to sit at the very front of the classroom. Mrs. Elinor handed back the homework, now graded, and was astonished by Elsa's.
"She managed to solve all of these in a different way that I've never seen before! She placed the first few steps in one single step and solved it from there! We'll have to try it like that some time, if you don't mind showing me." Mrs. Elinor asked Elsa. Rapunzel turned to Anna and mouthed 'I told you so!' towards her. During the rest of the class, while everyone else was taking notes, Elsa was timidly showing Mrs. Elinor how she solved the questions on the overhead smart-board projector. Anna watched in astonishment, having never seen it done that way before.
Anna found herself watching not the board, but Elsa herself; how she stood so proper and upright, the delicate way she held the pencil, how she would awkwardly shift from one foot to the other as she explained how she could substitute one part of the equation for another to isolate the X value. Anna never dreamed in a thousand years she would ever find herself actually enjoying Algebra. She heard snickering beside her and turned around to find Rapunzel taking a picture of Anna's dreamy state with her phone.
"No!" Anna said a little bit too loud, making everyone in the class jump and turn to face her. Anna's face was beat red as Mrs. Elinor eyed her.
"Is there a problem, Anna? Do you have a different solution?" She asked. Anna quickly shook her head and put it down on the desk, unable to look at Elsa or even her cousin at this point. When everyone uneasily went back to taking notes and listening to Elsa, Anna heard Rapunzel whisper 'This is golden!' Anna groaned silently and waited for the bell to ring so she could finally be released from her prison of embarrassment.
Elsa was feeling really uncomfortable at the moment. She was standing at the front of the classroom teaching her first period class how she managed to solve last night's equations with shorter simplified steps. Every once in a while, Elsa would cast a glance around the classroom to make sure she wasn't loosing anybody, but would always avoid Anna or Rapunzel's look. She finally decided to glance their way to make sure they were also on track and stuttered with her explanation as to how she isolated the X value when she saw Anna staring at her. It wasn't the fact that she was staring at Elsa that made her as nervous as she now was, it was how she was looking at her.
Anna's head was propped on her left arm, elbow to the desk, and was writing absentmindedly on her notebook paper, her head tilted and her eyes showing interest, but definitely not in what she was saying. Elsa's cheeks turned slightly pink as she noticed an ever-so-faint smile etched into the redhead's face and she quickly turned back to face the board, now trying to remember what she was talking about. She heard a snickering somewhere in the back of the class and slightly looked up, only to jump when Anna had suddenly said something that was probable supposed to be a whisper.
"Is there a problem, Anna?" Mrs. Elinor asked, obviously not too thrilled with the sudden scare. "Do you have a different solution?" Elsa quickly glanced towards Anna and saw that she was quickly shaking her head. When Mrs. Elinor turned back to Elsa for her to continue, Anna put her head down on the desk and it didn't rise back up until the bell rang for second period when she gathered her things, gave Elsa an awkward smile and wave, and left the class to her next one. Rapunzel skipped over to Elsa with a little pep in her step.
"It looks like we'll be having next period to ourselves! Mrs. Amelia isn't here today and her sub is late, so we'll be hanging out in her classroom until they get here! In the meantime, let's chat a bit!" Rapunzel said excitedly as she led Elsa to their next class of English. When they took their seats in the back of the class, Rapunzel sat on the desk in front of Elsa, her feet in the desk and her head in her hands as her elbows rested on her knees. Elsa sat back a little bit so not to be so close to the spunky Junior.
"So. About that crush of yours." She started. Elsa's cheeks turned pink and she glanced down.
"I don't have a crush on anyone…" Maybe a little one, but it's not big enough to talk about. Right…? Rapunzel smiled.
"Well, whoever it is, I'm fairly sure they like you too! I mean, what's there not to like about a cutie like you?"
Actually you'll be surprised…
"Olaf says you draw really well! Mind if I take a look?" Rapunzel asked, glancing at the sketch book that was peeking out of her bag. Elsa slowly nodded in approval and Rapunzel smiled, took out the sketch book, and flipped slowly through the pages, admiring each work.
"Wow! Where did you learn how to draw so well? This looks like you've taken a picture of it! You just made this entire image up?" Rapunzel praised. Elsa gave a tiny nod.
"I used to take lessons when I was younger." Elsa replied.
"Wow, they must have been a really good instructor." Elsa smiled.
"They were."
After a bit more talking and the sub not showing up, Elsa learned a few things, not only about Rapunzel, but about Anna, Sven, Olaf, Marshell and Kristoff. She learned that Rapunzel used to have a huge crush on Kristoff until she met her boyfriend, Flynn, who she met during culinary class in their freshmen year. Rapunzel accidentally whacked him in the back of the head with a frying pan when he scared her, thinking she was someone else.
She learned that Olaf is trying his best to succeed in an art program that is bound to give him a degree when he enters a certain college. His parents were both artists and had tried to make Marshell into one as well, but he stuck to sports such as football, basketball, track, and baseball. Both were rather successful in their pursuits, though both had a long ways to go before they were scholarship worthy.
She learned that Kristoff and Sven were actually adopted by Mr. Pabbie, their AP History teacher, and weren't really related. Kristoff's parents had left him at an orphanage when he was too young to remember and Sven's parents disappeared somewhere in the Norway seas under mysterious circumstances. Sven used to sing as he played cello, but since his parent's disappearance, he has stopped talking altogether.
She also learned that Anna used to have a girlfriend named Megara, but Meg had been cheating on Anna for months with a guy named Henry 'Hercules'. What came to a surprise to Elsa is that Anna and Hans also used to date, which was after she and Meg broke up.
"Really? They used to go out?" Elsa asked in disbelieve. Rapunzel nodded sadly.
"I won't give out the details, I'll let Anna tell you when she's ready, but it didn't end very well. In fact, there're still pissed at each other, and that was two years ago!" She explained. Elsa nodded slowly. She now understood why Anna and the others hated the boys, although she didn't need very much explaining with what they tried to do to her the day before. Rapunzel flipped through more of Elsa's drawings before the bell finally rang for her favorite class. Rapunzel walked Elsa to her art class before going off on her own to her history class. As soon as Elsa walked in, Olaf jumped up and waved happily for Elsa to come sit with him. Elsa smiled and saw across the table from him with his now finished Paper Mache oak tree in front of him.
"Hi Elsa! Do you like my tree?" He asked. Elsa nodded.
"It looks very nice, Olaf! I like the details you put in the bark and leaves." She commented, taking a closer look at the tree.
"Thanks! I made it because it reminded me of summer time! Because there are always lots of Oak trees around that time!" Olaf explained. Elsa smiled at his enthusiasm over summer and found herself wondering if Anna liked it just as much as Olaf. She pictured Anna wearing shorts and a tank top, showing off her wonderfully toned freckled skin as she splashed away in a shallow part of the beach. She quickly dismissed the idea with a shake of her head as a blush slowly crept up to her cheeks. Luckily for her, Olaf was busy adjusting the branches of his tree so he wasn't paying her any mind. After the other students turned in their projects, he led them all outside to the bus pavilion where two tables were set up, each one with easels sitting around them. On one table was a bowl of fruit on a red cloth and the other was a vase filled with purple and silver marbles with a lanyard hanging out. At the base of the vase was a purple cloth wrapped around it and on top of the cloth at the base of the vase was a yellow unicorn plush. Elsa noticed that at the edge of the pavilion were three other easels pointing out towards a beautiful scenery of the rolling hill that slowly flattened to the sandy beach of the lake the school was by, and on the other side of the lake, Elsa saw the tree line of the forest on the other side.
She was captivated by it and her hands were already itching to get started on painting. She could see the faces of the other artists as well, all looking as though they would jump onto the canvas if they were able to. Mr. Q laughed and allowed everyone to take a seat wherever they wanted to and to go ahead and start painting.
"But there's one rule in this project that everyone must learn!" He added. Everyone looked up from their paints and canvas'.
"Do not copy what you see onto the canvas! Add your own style to it, something that makes it yours! Don't just paint the scene in front of you, paint what comes to mind when you look at it! You see a stuffed animal and a vase? I see a majestic unicorn under a glass tree filled with hopes and dreams!" He instructed. Some of the students looked at each other, confused, but others smiled at how much free reign they had to work with.
Most of the students were at the stuffed animal station, while the others were at the fruit station, including Olaf. Elsa was the only one who wanted to attempt painting the scenery. While others would find it rather awkward to be the only one to do something, Elsa quite enjoyed it; it gave her space away from others so she could dive into her imagination and put it on paper, or in this case, a canvas. She dipped a paint brush into a blue and mixed white with it to get the perfect sky-blue she needed, adding a small dot of black to make it a cloudy blue-grey and began her work. The canvas was small, only a thirteen by twelve, but Elsa didn't mind it at all. In fact, she preferred a smaller canvas.
When Elsa was done with the sky and achieved the perfect cloudy affect, she set to work on the hills, starting with white to make the hills that matched the ones in the scenery she was painting. She dipped the very tip of the brush in the stormy blue-grey she created and began doing the high-lights of the whiteness she placed on the ground, light gentle strokes as though petting a newborn kitten. She looked up over the hills to the lake and the tree-line and smiled; she knew exactly what she wanted to do with that. She looked harder at the scene and noticed a clear hill with a sort of strange monument on top. She didn't know what it was, but there was something about it that made Elsa want to include it into the painting.
She added more blue to the stormy blue-grey color, creating a foggy icy color and started with jagged edges that started in the middle of the canvas where the hills touched the sky, making a frozen lake with faint light blue snowflakes, giving it an extra boost of the feeling she was trying to convey. She dipped her brush back into the original blue-grey paint to do the horizon with the trees and hill, but Mr. Q's voice echoed behind her as he made an announcement.
"Alright everyone, class is about to end! Take a picture of what it is your painting and we can continue them tomorrow! I won't have the things out tomorrow, so you'll have to use the picture and your imagination! Go ahead and pack up for your next class." He called. Everyone gathered their paints, brushes, canvas', and backpacks and walked back inside to the cool art room where Mr. Q gathered the paintings and stored them in the back room with the supplies so they could dry. When he saw Elsa's he stopped and his jaw dropped, eyes wide.
"Miss Elsa, are you the one who painted this?" He asked. Elsa's heart started to beat faster with fear. Was it not good? Did I not meet the criteria? She slowly nodded her head and Mr. Q stared at the painting a while longer.
"This is extraordinary! I have no words to express how beautiful this piece is turning out to be! I can't wait to see the finished product!" He complimented as he held up her canvas for the rest of the class to see. They all gasped, 'oooed' and 'awed' at it before Mr. Q placed it high up so no one could mess it up while it dried. The bell rang and Olaf and Elsa walked to Economics together before Olaf had to go to his Latin class. Elsa saw Anna and Rapunzel talking animatedly about something as she approached.
"No I don't! It's more like a friendly-" She heard Anna say before Rapunzel interrupted with a smile.
"Date? Come on, Anna, you and I both know you're into her! You're so into her, it's painfully obvious!" Anna's face turned a bright red as she saw Elsa approach them.
"Oh, hello there Elsa! Anna and I were just talking about-" Rapunzel was about to say before Anna interrupted her this time.
"The game today! We were talking about the basketball game! Nothing like innocent crushes or anything!" Anna said and sent Rapunzel a glare, to which she replied with a sly giggle.
"Oh, I'm sure that's just what it is now. Anyway, speaking of the game, are you still coming to watch?" Rapunzel asked. Elsa nodded and Anna's eyes widened, quickly turning to her cousin.
"She's coming to the game today?" She asked. Rapunzel smiled.
"Yup! She'll be cheering us on with Kristoff, Sven, Olaf, Marshell and Flynn while we kick Gypsy butt on the court!" She replied and turned to Elsa.
"I hope we'll get to hear you cheering louder than them all!" She said with a determined look on her face. Elsa only blushed a bit and smiled, glancing down towards her desk behind Anna.
"I can't promise I'll be the loudest, but I will be cheering you on…" She said quietly, hardly audible, as she took a seat and class began. It was the most distracting class Elsa has ever been in with Anna now sitting up, close enough for Elsa to be able to smell the lilacs and strawberries, but this time there was an under scent of a fragrance that reminded Elsa of the fresh oceans of her icy home in Nolia during the short summers they experienced.
She couldn't rightfully concentrate on whatever it was Mr. Ludwig was lecturing about, taking in Anna's smell and the fiery red hair that looked so soft to touch.
She's a jock, damn it! She's not supposed to smell this beautiful! Jocks are supposed to smell dirty and sweaty, not reminding me of summer and home! Elsa sighed softly and shook her head. Their also supposed to be gruff showoffs, not charming caring individuals… Soon enough, Elsa found herself doodling Anna, sitting in a desk very much as she was now, but by herself, head on her hand with her elbow on the desk and gazing outside the only other background design in the image; the window. Elsa smiled to herself and scanned over the work, looking for anything that the image might be missing. She noticed the window seemed empty, so she added snow falling outside and part of a tree.
Elsa was completely unaware of the fact that Mr. Ludwig had ended class for the day, unaware of the fact that Rapunzel had turned around to talk to Elsa, and unaware of the fact that Elsa was still smiling.
"What's that you're drawing there?" She heard Rapunzel ask, snapping her out of her doodle zone. Elsa's face burst with the red blush and she quickly snapped her drawing book shut, hiding the image she drew.
"Nothing! Nothing at all! Why do you ask? I'm not drawing, no, no, not me!" Elsa sputtered out, refusing to look up at Anna, who was now looking back at her confused. Rapunzel smiled widely.
"Really? Because I could have sworn you were drawing someone just a second ago! It is embarrassing? Someone we know? It's not a nude, is it?" Rapunzel questioned. Elsa's blush deepened and she hugged her sketch book to her chest before Rapunzel could get her hands on it and find it.
"If it's really nothing, then why can't I see it?" Rapunzel pressed, eyes glinting mischievously.
"Because…!" Oh no, I'm doomed! I can't let Anna or Rapunzel see it! Why did I start drawing her to begin with?! She looked to Anna for help. Damn it, stop being so charming!
"Punz, please. Stop tormenting her! If she says she wasn't drawing anything, then it's probably none of your business." Anna interjected. Rapunzel puffed her cheeks out in childish annoyance, glaring at Anna.
"You and I both know that's a flat out lie! You want to see it just as bad as I do!" Rapunzel fumed. Anna blushed.
"T-that might be true, but at least I have the decency to keep my nose out of other people's business!" Anna countered. Rapunzel smiled triumphantly just as the bell rang. They all stood up and Rapunzel dramatically cat-walked out of the room, slyly eyeing the two as she went and nearly bumped into the door frame. Anna shuffled a laugh as Elsa smiled, bringing her hand up to cover it.
"Well that was an adventure. You have Chemistry next, right?" Anna asked as she turned to Elsa. She nodded, removing her hand just as her smile disappeared, replaced with a soft grin. Anna blushed profusely at the sight of such a dazzling smile on the beautiful blonde. Oh no, she's adorable! Just keep it calm, maybe she won't notice!
"Are you feeling alright?" Elsa asked.
Shit.
"Y-yeah! I'm perfectly fine! Everything is A-Okay! Just Peachy!" Anna replied, dismissing any fantasies that might have begun to crop into her mind. Anna and Elsa walked along to their chemistry class in silence until they got into the classroom, being one of the last ones in class.
"Elsa dear, could I have a word with you real quick?" Ms. Honey asked as they entered. Elsa nodded and followed Ms. Honey just outside of the classroom as Anna took a seat in her normal stool at the chemistry table, three rows away from the back, and took out her notebook and missed chemistry work from the day before, checking over it and making sure everything was answered and correct. She didn't notice Ms. Honey and Elsa walk back in or Elsa walk over to Anna.
"Mind if I sit here?" Elsa asked timidly, making Anna jump slightly. She looked up at Elsa and smiled.
"Of course! What did Ms. Honey want?" Anna asked as Elsa took a seat beside her.
"She said that since we're starting a new unit today, we'll be needing partners. She already chose pairs, but there were an odd number of people and you were the third person. But since I came, she wants to pair us up." Elsa explained. Anna smiled.
"Awesome! I wonder what the unit is over. We've already done ionic and covalent bonds and balancing equations." Anna sat and wondered about what their project was going to be over just as the three boys everyone knew and hated entered the classroom. Anna had noticed and glared at one boy in particular. He was the one with the sideburns Anna just wanted to rip off of his pug ugly face; Hans, Anna's ex-boyfriend. Hans looked over and gave a sickly smile, then noticed Elsa, who was looking away, trying her best not to make eye-contact and shivering. Anna was too busy glaring and imagining him being hit by a bus to notice that his smile shifted from Anna to Elsa before walking to the back of the class. She only noticed when she felt Elsa's arm brush against her own. Anna looked down and saw Elsa shaking, looking away from Hans and his minions.
"Are they giving you trouble, Elsa?" Anna asked quietly. Elsa quickly shook her head and moved away from Anna, though still lightly shaking. Anna was unconvinced, but was unable to ask further because Ms. Honey called everyone to attention.
"Alright class, we're starting a new unit today over physical and chemical reactions. In this unit, we'll be doing a large project that will count as three test grades-" a lot of moans and boo's sounded from the students, but Ms. Honey pushed on. "But, you'll be able to have partners." She added. A lot of excited voices popped up, most of the students picking their friends as their partners. "You're partners have already been chosen, so picking partners won't be happening! I'd like to have a productive class, not a group of chattering children!" more moans and groans commenced.
"Alright, before I explain the project, I'll be calling out your groups! The first pair is Anna and Elsa," She started. Anna and Elsa smiled at each other, already knowing they were working together. "Gaston and Aladdin, Hans and Vanessa, Alice and Cinderella," She went on and on until everyone was paired up.
"Now, this project, since it's so big, will be a chosen project. I'll let you choose your own experiment, but it must either have a physical change, chemical change, physical reaction, or chemical reaction. When you choose these experiments, I want you to demonstrate it in front of the class." There were lots of curious glances at others partners as she went on.
"What you'll be turning in is a paper explaining the experiment. I want you to have your hypothesis, what you're trying to find or do, the list of materials, your procedure, and a short summary of what happened when you did it on your own time. And please, don't wait until the day it's due to test your experiments, because if it fails and you haven't done it before, and trust me, I will know, I'll be taking thirty points off both of your grades." She threatened. Lots of gasps sounded, but it only made Anna giggle. She's heard the stories of last year when a couple groups decided to procrastinate on the project and it failed horribly, nearly catching the classroom on fire.
"We'll be going to the computer lab tomorrow to look up projects, but for now, I'll be passing out the grading rubrics. The due date should be written at the top. Today, I want you to take a look at a few of the really good projects from last year to get a good idea of what is expected." She said and started handing out papers. Once she was done handing out the rubrics, the class got up to move to their partners to look at the other papers Ms. Honey set out that were last year's project papers that were turned in. Anna got up to get a couple papers for her and Elsa to look over and get an idea while Elsa sat and thought about a few cool ones to do that she's heard of. Anna came back with a few papers and they began their research.
"Oh this one sounds fun! Bouncing bubbles! It says here that all you really need is distilled water, Joy or Dawn soap, glycerin, and plastic kitchen gloves!" Anna pointed out.
"There's also this one; sodium polyacrylate with water, making fake snow!" Elsa showed. Anna watched as Elsa was growing excited about the fake snow and smiled. She's so adorable when she's geeking out over snow! Anna watched as Elsa looked over the paper of what would need to be done if they did the experiment. Elsa looked up, still smiling and excited, but when she saw Anna smiling back at her, her face erupted in red and she quickly looked back down at the paper. Anna laughed as Elsa fumbled with the paper.
"S-sorry! I pushed your idea aside and went off in my own little world!" She apologized frantically.
"It's fine, really! If you want, we can do that one for our experiment! Or we could do something with it other than just making the snow. Like a snow globe or something." Anna suggested, shrugging. Elsa only smiled and they continued looking over the papers Anna collected. After about fifteen minutes of looking at all of the possibilities of their project, Ms. Honey stood up from her desk.
"Alright class, I'm going to step out for a couple minutes to make some copies of the rubric for the other classes since I didn't make enough copies. I trust you not to blow up the school while I'm gone?" She said as she crossed the room. A few snickers and sassy comebacks met her words, but none loud enough for Anna to really understand. As soon as the door to the class closed, loud talking ensued and just about half of the class stood up to walk around and talk to the other groups. Elsa and Anna were both too busy looking over the papers and procedures to notice a group of students, three boys and one rather intimidating girl, walk over to their table.
"You may not be the best looking girl in here, but beauty is only a shot of vodka away." One of the boys said. Anna's head twisted so quick towards the sound of the voice, she nearly broke her own neck. There, standing right beside Elsa with his hand one her shoulder and tracing dangerously down her back, was Hans, staring at the two of them with a wicked smile lighting up his sinister eyes. Elsa tensed up to the point of shaking, her eyes wide with fright and she refused to even glance in his direction. The other students in his mob circled the two, smiling almost as horribly as Hans was.
Anna stood up quick enough to slide her chair out from behind her a good ten feet before she slapped Hans hand away from Elsa and move herself between Elsa and the group of agitators.
"If we wanted your damn monkey opinion, I would have rattled your cage! Now why don't you shut up and give that hole in your face a chance to heal before I call the doctors so they can stitch it up!" Anna threatened, keeping herself between them all. Hans sneered at his ex-girlfriend and stepped closer threateningly, looking down at her and puffing out his chest to make himself appear larger than he already was. Anna didn't back down and instead glared right back up at him, trying not to gag herself on his smoker's stench.
"And if I wanted the opinion of an egotistical orphan, I would have gone to the foster home for one." Hans retorted. It was like a dagger to Anna's heart, and the truth in his words twisted it. Anna only clenched her fists as hushed murmurs broke out into the class as they watched on.
"You know, I'd love to see things from your point of view, but I can't fit my head that far up my ass." Anna replied. Several eyebrows shot up.
"Shots fired!" Someone in the class shouted. Anna glanced towards the group of student on-lookers and glared back at Hans.
"What's up with this damn school and attracting all of the fucking dykes?" Hans asked, looking at his friends.
"Gay? Sir, I'm straighter than the pole your mother dances on!" Anna retorted.
"Maybe if the pole was a circle!" One of the other boys in Hans' mob threw.
Hans opened his mouth to make another witty remark to add to it, but the classroom door opened and Ms. Honey walked back in.
"I see no one blew up the classroom, but students are out of their seats! Go on, get back to work! You'll have plenty of time to talk and visit during lunch!" Ms. Honey said and everyone walked back to their seats, Hans only lingering long enough to glare at Anna before he too returned to his seat. Anna stayed standing for a couple seconds and sighed, walking back to her seat and sat down.
"Don't take anything that shit flinging ape says seriously. He's just an ass trying to get into every girl's pants he can." Anna said as she propped her head on her hand, looking at the papers, though not really reading anything written on them. Elsa glanced at Anna and noticed how distant she looked. She glanced back at the papers in her hand.
"I'm sorry…" Elsa muttered. Anna sat up and looked at her, confused.
"What for?" She replied. Elsa didn't know the specific thing she was apologizing for, but she felt as though the horrible exchange between Anna and her ex was somehow her fault and felt bad about it.
"If it's because of Hans, don't apologize. Lord knows what he would have done or said if I didn't get in his face." Anna smiled. "Besides, that's what friends are for, right?" Elsa smiled and a small blush creeped into her cheeks as she glanced back down at her papers.
Keep this up, and you'll go from delightfully charming to just plain attractive.
Chapter End
Wow, sorry for the long pause guys. I was struck with writers block for this story and working on a lot for some other stuff that has nothing to do with writing fan-fiction lol Anywhoo, thanks for all the followers and favorites guys! I'm glad I finally wrote something that hooked people into the first chapter! It means a lot, honestly!
Keep being the cool kids you are!~