(Jack shows up in Chapter 2. Oh, I didn't put this on my other Chapter, but I don't own Frozen or RotG!)
"Two point two points. Two. Point. Two!" I vented in the car on the way back to the hotel. "Two stupid points, that's what's stopping me from the Olympics!" Carmen sat in the front passenger seat, and Anna sat next to me in the back seat. Our driver was silent as he accelerated and decelerated accordingly.
"We'll just have to work harder for the next time." Carmen said. "We can start tomorrow, five am." Anna shot a glare at my coach.
"Don't you think she's been working hard enough? Maybe that's why she messed up. She's taking tomorrow off. No training, no practicing, just shopping and talking." I loved my sister sometimes, but how was shopping going to help? I sighed and she looked at me. "No arguments about it." She was so stubborn.
Shopping with Anna was kind of fun, and relaxing. We went to nearly every store in sight. We tried on dresses, and shoes, it was almost like before I started wanting to go pro. We were just two sisters hanging out. We stopped for lunch at this outdoor café. I ordered a salad and water (on a diet), Anna on the other hand ordered pasta, a slice of chocolate cake, AND a chocolate milkshake!
"I don't know how you can stand eating that, Elsa. Not when life is full of other wonderful things that taste so much better!" She spoke after taking a long sip from her shake.
"Salad isn't that bad; besides, Carmen has me on a diet that way I stay thin."
"I stay thin too, that's what exercise is for! Go on, I won't tell if you have one sip." She offered. It did look enticing, my mouth started to water.
"Promise you won't tell?"
"I cross my heart!" She took her pointer finger and made and X over her chest.
"Wow, I suck at peer-pressure." I said as I took a miniscule sip. "mmm." I closed my eyes briefly. I had forgotten how good milkshakes had tasted.
Anna giggled and took it back. "I bet they have even better ones at the hotel!"
I smiled. "What are we waiting for?"
The rooms were situated like this: Anna and I shared a room with two beds, and a nice bathroom. Then Carmen was in the room opposite us, rooming with some other girl's coach. Nearly our entire floor was filled by skaters. At first it was nice, until you realize that no one ever wakes up at the same time. Some of the coaches would be knocking on their skater's door at four am. And some of the girls would be awake and talking until midnight. It was ridiculous.
I knocked on Carmen's door to see if she was here or not, she wasn't. I sent a thumbs up to Anna. She was on the phone with room service.
Within the next ten minutes our food arrived. Anna had ordered two servings of fries, chocolate pudding, chocolate shakes, cherry pie, and ice cream for the both of us. I laughed and closed the door as the waiter left.
"I am going to get in so much trouble." I said as I started dipping my fries into my shake.
"No you won't. We'll hit the gym after this, and you can blame the whole thing on me!" Anna selected our favorite movie, The Princess Bride, and set it to play while we ate.
Once the movie was over and the food was gone we both changed and headed down to the gym.
"I probably just maxed out my calorie intake for the week." I told her with a smile as I hopped on the elliptical. Anna shook her head.
"Stop worrying. Oh, shoot, I forgot my water bottle. I'll be right back." Anna ran off back upstairs while I worked on sweating away the calories.
When she came back she looked really excited, she also didn't have her water. I looked at her with a questioning gaze.
"I found a solution!"
"To what?" I asked as I moved to the bicycle.
"To the Olympics! They've tried out singles, but the pairing competitions are for another three months!"
"Anna, I'm not a pairs skater, I'm a singles skater. Besides, for pairs you need to people, and I'm only one." Maybe the chocolate had mad her forget that or something.
"Yeah, yeah, I know! I was on the elevator and there was this guy and his coach came on looking
really defeated. So I asked them what happened. And he missed his chance of third by three points on the singles too! So I had this great idea. What if you both got a second chance? I mean, what is pairs skating? It's really just two people skating to the same music with the same choreography, with a few dance moves thrown in! It's perfect!" (A.N. - Yes, I know that pairs skating is a lot more than that, but Anna doesn't.) She was practically jumping with excitement. "So I ran the idea by both of them and they love it! The skater, I don't remember his name, anyway, he's going to come by our room and help me convince Carmen that this is a good idea! What do you think?" I swear, she was talking at forty miles per hour.
"Umm, I don't know Anna…"
"Oh come on! It's either try this or wait for the next two year!"
I sighed. "We'll talk to Carmen."
"Yaaay!" She clapped. "It'll work, I promise!" She hopped on the treadmill.
I was sitting on my bed in my pajamas. They were just a white tee shirt and some fuzzy blue pants with snowflakes on them. My head rested on the snowman that I had picked up on the rink. I was reading a book; "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green, Anna had practically forced me to. (A.N. –Awesome book by the way!) Anna was talking to Carmen on the other side of the room. Talking makes it sound so civilized, it was more like arguing. Anna was saying that it would be a great experience, and the Carmen should at least conceder the pairing. Then Carmen was arguing that it's ridiculous, and even if it did work it would be hard to master a routine good enough to win. Etc. Etc. Etc. They went on like that for a while, none of them even bothering to ask what I wanted. They stopped when there was a knock on the door. Anna went to open it.
"Hey, I'm Jack." The boy said awkwardly, knowing he had walked in on a fight. I looked over at him. The first thing I noticed was his shoes. I've found you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes. He wore dark blue Nike running shoes. They were well loved, but not quite worn out. Sort of like mine.
He had on grey sweatpants with the word "Frost" written along the right leg. His shirt was blue, very plain, but it accented his body. He was quite muscular, but not so much that it looked like he tried too hard. The characteristics that caught my eyes were his hair and eyes.
His hair was a white color, like shaved ice right before the Zamboni comes along and polishes it out. It was messy, in the way that most guy's hair was; like he ran his hand through it repeatedly throughout the day. And his eyes, his eyes were the color of the sky when you look through an icicle at it. That was my favorite color.
"Jack! That was his name!" Anna exclaimed, causing me to snap back to what was going on. I sat up. "So, Carmen what do you think?"
