Hey, I'm back! I just got the news that a cast for Elsa in Once Upon A Time has already decided. This season is going to be awesome.
Oh, I'm sorry that I forgot to tell you I have changed this story's title. It used to be Thrones, but I've changed it into Tattering Thrones. Sorry if I've confused you all! :)
Anyway, here ya go. Enjoy!
Tattering Thrones
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5 : Another New Start
I woke up from my dreamless sleep. I then peered over to check my alarm clock. 9:15 AM? Well, it's okay. Today is Saturday, so, no school right? Father once told me to always wake up at six no matter what day it is. Since he's not home at the moment, screw that rule.
A soft knock erupted from my door. "Excuse me Miss, are you awake?"
"Yeah, I'm up. What's up?" I asked.
"I was worried you were going to wake up later than I expected. Good morning, Miss Elsa. Your breakfast is ready... Since three hours ago." Kai answered.
"Crap, sorry, Kai. I'll go take a shower right now!"
"Alright. I will warm up your breakfast. I'm taking my leave now." His footsteps receded.
I took a shower because I was not in the mood to bathe. I decided to wear my favorite cream turtleneck sweater with a snowman design on it, blue jeans shorts, and black cotton stockings. My hands moved to put my hair into my usual braided bun. Because I'm in a good mood, I will try... to put on some makeup. I applied BB cream on my face, eyeliner to make a smooth line on my eyelids, and lastly, a coral pink lip tint on my lips. At first, a thought nagged me to use purple eye shadow, but I don't know if I look good in it. So I brushed the thought away, did nothing more to my face, and walked out from my room to go downstairs. I made my way to the dining room and quietly ate my breakfast.
Hmm... The weather is nice today. I can consider going out, maybe I could go grab some new books. After finishing my delicious kiwi waffles and a cup of earl grey tea, I grabbed my purse, wore my brown uggs, and shouted, "Kai, I'm going out to grab new books!"
"Alright, be safe, Miss!" His shout echoed from one of many rooms in this floor.
I headed out and greeted by the cool breeze of autumn. Mmm, I just love the air, the feeling, and the surroundings. After I get the books, I'll surely read them on my hammock and enjoy another cup of tea with some oatmeal cookies.
I went to a plaza not far from my house and wasted no more time to go in to a bookstore. I picked up three books; two popular books by John Green and a crime fiction book by Christie Agatha. Oooh! A Walk to Remember! I'll take that. So, four books. As I made my way to the cashier, I suddenly bumped with someone who held so many books on her hands, and we both fell. My books are safe in my arms, but the girl's aren't.
"I'm sorry." She apologized curtly as she stood on her knees to pick her books up.
"Here, let me help." I looked up and I was a little surprised to see a familiar person. "Hey... You go to West Everbranch, don't you?"
The girl with long, curly red hair looked up to meet her blue eyes with mine. "Aye. I think I know yer name... Elisa?"
"It's Elsa." I wanted to call her name, but I don't know it. So I picked up her books and gave it to her, to avoid awkwardness.
We stood up and walked together to the cashier. I let her to go first since she was carrying like, tons of books. My eyes caught the titles and surprisingly, they were all almost the same; Etiquette 101, How to Learn Etiquettes, How to Be Polite, Manners & Etiquettes, and so on...
It's my turn now. But I can see the girl leaving the store, with a bag full of books. After paying my books, I walked out the store, and then I felt I stepped on something. I looked down to see a... book?
I picked it up and scanned the title. Develop Your Archery Skill by Lumiere Anders... The only people in the bookstore earlier were just me and the red haired girl. Could this be hers? I mean, all her books are etiquette and moral related, but this book is something contradictory. Either way, I have to try to ask her first. I ran to where the girl walked off, thankfully, she was there!
When I put a hand on her shoulder, she jumped in surprise and spun to look at me. She immediately relaxed that it was me. "What is it?"
"Um, I found this. I don't know but I think this is yours," I lent her the book.
Her eyes widened for a moment before she reached out to take the book. "Yeah... This is mine. Thanks, Elsa."
"You're welcome, uh..." Crap. Why, name, why!
The girl noticed me and chuckled. "It's Merida. Ye could've just asked if ye didn't know!"
"Sorry, I was afraid it would offend you," I let out a sheepish smile.
Merida shook her head while smiling back at me. "Hey, ye busy? Wanna go grab something to drink?"
That's new. We never talked and barely knew each other. Merida seems to be a good person, so why not? "Alright. How about we go to this place, it sells the best drink in the whole world!"
"Awrite, I'm following ye." She agreed.
Later, we arrived at Smoothie Island. I ordered my usual kiwi smoothie while Merida ordered an apple smoothie. We sat down and let ourselves take a sip of the drink. I could see Merida's eyes literally glittering, and I bet it was because of the awesome taste of the smoothie.
"Holy bonnie smoothie! This tastes pure heaven!" Merida gazed her drink with mouth wide open.
I giggled at her funny reaction. "I knew you'd love it."
"Ye are a loyal customer here, aren't ye?"
"No, actually, I know this place from four... or five days ago. My friends somewhat kidnapped me and showed me this place."
"What amusing friends ye have. I wish I have someone like them." Merida smiled bitterly.
"Hey, what's wrong? Your friends must be amusing in some way, too." I tried to lighten her up.
"Eh, I don't have any friends." She casually shrugged and gulped her smoothie.
"W-what?" I said, trying not to be surprised, and failed miserably.
"Yeah, I don't stand out in school. Ye didn't even know my name back there, rite?" Merida noticed my sad expression after hearing her words and held her hands up. "Hey, it's okay. I'm cool with that. I'm used to being an outcast."
"But, but, there must be someone who's there for you," I murmured.
"Well, there was someone." Merida only smiled.
It's... kinda hard to position myself as her. She looks energetic and outgoing, but she's... alone. I mean, she is alone the whole time! I could barely stand it. I have Toni, Mrs. Corona, Kai... But seeing her strong and acted like nothing's wrong, it greatly touches me somewhere in the heart. I know the loneliness she feels. She used to be close with someone, and now she's not and left alone.
"What's with your books, anyway? You're into etiquette things?" I tried to lightly change the topic.
Merida seemed not to notice it. "Hell nae! I only bought this crap because my mom told me to."
"Shouldn't you be home to give them to your mom?"
"Eh... About that... I kinda asked ye to go here because as soon as I get home, I have to practice every single thing from everything I just bought. Sorry," Merida grinned sheepishly. "Minus the archery one, tho."
"It's okay. I totally get it." I said.
"How come? Ye suffer the same thing?"
Crap, I almost gave out something related to my real identity! Gotta keep calm, gotta keep calm. "Yeah... Something like that... But more complicated... Or less complicated...? I think."
But Merida seemed not to want to push the topic even further. She gulped her smoothie again while travelling her eyes around the shop. Suddenly, her stare stopped on the entrance door. "Is that one of the Five Stars? And Sanderson?"
Huh? I looked to where she was looking, and hell yea, Jack and Sandy were about to enter this shop. They entered, spotted us, and walked to us.
"Hey, Elsa and Merida! What are you two doing here?" Jack asked.
Merida looked slightly surprised that Jack knew her, but she immediately regained composure. I was a little bit surprised too, actually. Well, Jack must know almost everyone in the school, since he's popular.
"I took her here for drinks. You?" I asked him back.
"We were bored. Sandy sucks; he doesn't know how to skate, so we're here." Sandy glared Jack and smacked his arm. "Ouch! But that's true!"
"Can we join you two?" Sandy asked, ignoring Jack.
"Sure," Merida replied.
Jack sat in front of me. A while later, Sandy joined us with two smoothies on his hands. "Sweet, thanks bro." Jack said, taking one from Sandy's hand.
Although we were sitting together, it seemed like we were split into two worlds. I communicated with Merida while Jack with Sandy. Fortunately, that happened until Jack's phone rang. It looked like a new text message alert. I continued to talk to Merida. "Holy shit!"
Instantly, six eyes fell on Jack. His eyes quickly landed on me, a worried emotion swarmed his eyes. "Elsa, Hans told me you were supposed to come to detention after school yesterday..."
...Oh hell no. HELL NO. I got a detention from the super strict teacher Mr. Gaston, and I missed it. Missed it. I DIDN'T COME AND I JUST LITERALLY OFFERED MYSELF TO WEST EVERBRANCH'S DEMON. If I were home, I would roll on the floor and swear every single word I know, but I could only whisper, "Goodness."
"Hell nae. That teach is pure devil. Ye really missed it?" Merida stared at me in horror.
"Unfortunately, yeah." I rubbed my temples.
"Sweet lord of green roasted meatballs." Merida uttered.
"I, uh, I'm really sorry. This is my fault." Jack looked down.
"It's okay, I totally forgot yesterday. So it's not your fault." I gave him a smile to assure him.
Jack was about to say more, but I abruptly stood up. "Okay, I'm going home. I have books to read. See you all on Monday!" And I left.
I know it's weird for me to leave suddenly. I feel guilty too for leaving Merida. I should have say goodbye to her... She is nice, and I just abruptly left. I will make sure I make up to her on Monday. It's just... I don't want Jack to blame himself for something that's clearly my mistake. And why would I care for him this much? I just... I don't know, we've been really great friends; I don't want him to feel bad.
I arrived home and headed straight to my garden. I plopped myself on a hammock and took out a book to read it, trying to escape reality for a moment.
Monday. Ugh. Why does time run so quickly? Today's the day I have to roast myself in hell. I walked into an empty English room and I have to say I wasn't so surprised to see Mr. Gaston sitting on his desk, writing on a paper. His eyes travelled to me, and in a matter of second he let out a scowl.
"Good morning, Ms. Blanche. What can I help you?" Mr. Gaston's words were nice but his displeased tone didn't help.
"I'm so sorry, Mr. Gaston, I forgot that I had detention on Friday. I'm alright if you want to double my detention and if you do I'll be sure I won't miss it again." I said steadily.
Mr. Gaston's frown was still there. "I honestly don't know what was wrong with you that day. Your grades are always perfect, you always keep your attitude in class, and you're always on time. But you came late, I gave you a chance which was the detention, but you missed it and said that you forgot about it. That means you're being irresponsible for what you've done. You're alright if I double your detention? Is detention always a punishment to you? Clearly no. I'm disappointed in you, Ms. Blanche."
That... Actually hurt. I set my gaze on my feet along his gripe. God, just let him finish already! Time is ticking, time is ticking, and he was still not finished yet. Blah, blah, blah... Until he set his eyes on mine.
"Now, do you understand?"
I didn't even listen. "Yes."
"Good. I expect you to clean the sport hall after school, alone. I'll be seeing the result tomorrow."
My jaw dropped. "But, Mr. Gaston, there will be a basketball match there today!"
"Exactly. You'll clean the mess after the match. You're dismissed."
I wanted to protest more, but knowing that he would make it more hell if I did, I decided to leave the classroom. I sighed. It's going to be pure torture.
I walked to my class in exasperation. Dealing with Mr. Gaston was surely something I'd never do again. Before reaching my destination, I found Merida on her locker.
I decided to approach her. "Hi, Merida."
She looked at me for a few seconds before continuing to rake through her messy locker. "Hey, lassie."
"I'm sorry I left you behind yesterday." I apologized.
"Nah, it's okay." She pulled out a study book. "Finally! Found ye, ya keech!"
Merida closed her locker and was about to walk away, but I hurriedly clutched the hem of her jacket. "Wait! Let's go to class together!"
She raised an eyebrow. "What class do ye have now?"
"Um, Math."
"After that?"
"Chemistry."
"Looks like I'm going to be stuck with ye for two periods."
I smiled and walked with her. Merida is actually a cool and funny girl. She is sarcastic and looks so fearless. The entire two periods were fun, we passed absurd notes, made faces at teachers when they weren't seeing, and did a doodle contest! I never had fun this much in class until now. I don't know why people don't want to befriend Merida.
After the lunch break bell rang, we headed to my spot, the persimmon tree. Merida climbed on the bench below the tree and jumped to retrieve a persimmon. She then sat down beside me and munched on the fruit.
"Good spot ye have here. Free food, no people, and shady." Merida said between munches.
I giggled. "I know. Hey, if you don't bring your lunch, wanna share with me?"
Merida eyed my lunch. It consisted of fish and chips, mashed potatoes, and grapes. She looked at me unsurely, "Ye sure? If I were ye, I'd never share these goodies."
"Of course! Friends don't let each other starving."
Then I saw it. Merida's smile. A small blissful smile that held more than it looked, when she heard the word friend. Lunch time was pretty nice today. I got to spend time with a friend in school... Who is a girl.
Now that school has ended, I'm waiting for the match to end too. After I heard no more noise around the sport hall, I immediately knew that the game was over and I had to do my job.
Thank goodness the hall was empty; otherwise I'd be laughed at for standing here with a broom on my hand. Judging from the mess, I could tell that our school didn't win. But since it was a friendly match, I guess things should be okay. Huh... There were litters everywhere on the floor. Why didn't people just watch the match instead of making a mess?!
I sighed. I'll surely arrive home late. Thankfully, Father's still gone. If he knew I was in detention, I would be dead. Because yeah, this is my first detention.
After a good 12 minutes of collecting litters, I slumped on the floor. 12 minutes and litters could still easily be seen everywhere. God, this is so hard...
"Are ye just going to sit there and do nothing?"
A voice startled me. I hastily looked up. "M-merida?"
A girl with her distinctive mass of red curly hair was standing tall with a broom on her hand. "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you have gone home?" I asked.
"I prolly should have, but nah. Yer lie was too obvious, try something more convincing next time." Merida said.
After school has ended, Merida offered me to go home together. But I refused, lying to her that I have a work to do. She then asked me what work was it, so I just told her nothing big and ran away. I didn't want her to know that I was given such a heavy task, if she did, she would probably offered to help. I was afraid it would bother her. But she was here, beside me, with a broom that was clearly not mine.
"You should go home." I said.
"Why? Friends don't let each other sweep the hell out of the hall." Merida grinned while lending her hand to me.
I widened my eyes for a moment before returning her grin. I took her hand and stood up, ready to face the land of litters one more time with a new friend beside me.
That sounded silly, yes, I know that. And I thanked myself for returning the archery book that day.
Yes, done! I'm sorry for the lack of Jelsa in this chapter, because this chapter is meant to show the start of a friendship between the girls. Now that those two adorable dorks are friends, what will happen next?
Seriously, I'm soooo excited for OUAT's new season. I hope it'll come out soon!
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Oh yeah, guys, I just heard Life's Too Short (Reprise), it's an outtake song from Frozen, a song that was meant to play when Elsa is locked up by Hans and Anna begins to freeze to death. Tell you what? I cried. IT'S SO SAD. YOU HAVE TO CHECK THE SONG OUT.
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