Author's note: I'm so glad to those who followed, favorite, and reviewed this story. It warms my heart to see you appreciate it. So, here comes another chapter. I'm sorry I won't be able to answer yet your questions about who Snow Angel is. You'll just have to wait for it. ;) I still dedicate this to my friend QueenyLeAcH for being patient in editing my story. :) I'll end my blabbering here. Enjoy!
Chapter 4
Merida's POV
"Look!" a petite girl with glasses squealed in delight. "It's the Four Seasons!"
A chorus of cheers followed the girl's earsplitting screech like some celebrity showed up and graced the red carpet. Bah! I rolled my eyes. Another day of torture for my poor eardrums, what else? I mean, please, we were just normal people trying to live normal lives. I didn't practice archery just to be idolized by mobs of teenage girls, for Christ's sake. And, if I'm being honest with myself, they are rather annoying to have surrounding the field while I'm shooting.
Of course, the only ones who could understand me were my friends, sisters even, who had stood by my side for almost eleven years – Elsa, Anna and Rapunzel. They were my second family. We'd been through a lot and we're always there for each other. So, no one could really blame me with the way I treated Hans the Scumbag. For now, however, I'm contented with him getting expelled and being detained in jail for who knows how long. He completely deserved it. Damned almost rapist. If he had succeeded, I would have ripped his testicles off with no remorse.
I shook my head and just focused on walking on the school grounds. The four of us were about to go on our way to the school cafeteria for dinner when I saw something out of the corner of my eye. Since it was already dark, I could not see very clearly. Everybody had gone ahead of me to the cafeteria. The hidden stranger and I were the only ones left.
"Who's there?" I asked warily. I cursed myself for leaving my bow and arrow back in our dorm room.
"What's wrong?" Elsa asked turning back. She looked at me with great concern. The other two continued to walk having not heard any of what I had just said.
I saw Elsa scanned the grounds for any signs of a threat. Out of the four of us, Elsa was the one who was constantly worried for us. She was like the four seasons' mom. She was even worse than my own mother when it comes to almost constant anxiety which was saying a lot.
I shook my head to stop her from worrying too much.
"Nothing. It must have been my imagination." She was still unconvinced but decided to let it go. We followed Anna and Rapunzel to the school cafeteria.
The place was already packed with students. Almost every seat was taken. I guess one of the only advantages of being a member of the Four Seasons was that there was always a reserved table for us. I glanced at the far left of the cafeteria and there it was – unoccupied.
"Guess what?" I heard Anna say as we were getting our food. I picked up whatever the cafeteria was serving, and then I took three apples. "It's my lucky day!"
Anna squeezed Punzie's hands in excitement. In turn, Punzie got caught up in her excitement too and they both jumped up and down. They almost knocked over another student, who was carrying a big bowl of soup. I have never seen two best friends that were so alike. Elsa and I, on the other hand, were very much different.
"I met someone," she said mysteriously as she sat down in her seat of preference. Anna's was bedecked with a small mural of budding flowers. Rapunzel had helped her with it after she finished painting the scene of a summer night on her own chair, complete with fireflies, no less. Each of us had creatively decorated our own seats. Of course there were no other decorations except for our own preferred season. "He saved me from falling down the stairs."
"What?!" the three of us exclaimed. Each with different intonations and expressions on our faces.
Elsa said it with shock and anger combined, though she managed to keep it contained. She was good at controlling her emotions. Rapunzel had a different reaction, she said it in her own special brand of high-pitched delight. No doubt she found it romantic that some guy saved Anna from her clumsiness. I, however, said it in an exasperated tone. Seriously? Another guy?
"Anna, you've just dealt with Hans. Are you telling me that you've already moved on from that incident?" Elsa said sternly to her twin. Yes, they were twins- fraternal twins.
"No," Anna said defensively. She stuffed her mouth with pasta before she continued. "I'm just telling you guys that I met someone. It's not like we were dating. Besides, he's sort of annoyed with me."
"That's a first," I remarked. Everyone, inside and outside school, liked the Four Seasons. Well, except for a few jealous students. Maybe he was one of them.
"I know," Anna said sadly. "He doesn't even know my name."
I stared at her in disbelief. Not knowing us was a different story.
"I met a guy who doesn't know my name too," Rapunzel chimed in. She was raising her hand as if she was reciting in class.
This day was a very strange one. First, a guy who called himself Jack Frost interrupted our 'supposed revenge' on Hans. Second, Anna and Rapunzel met two guys who didn't know them. Third, I kept having this feeling that we were being watched right now.
I looked at Elsa to ask her what she thought of this. I saw her shifted uncomfortably in her seat.
"What?" I asked her.
"I… I don't know. My seat feels weird to me," she said.
"We'll buy you a new one." Rapunzel said. I forgot to mention that each of us were the heirs to enormous family fortunes.
Elsa nodded but still looked uncomfortable. She saw us giving her concerned looks, so she waved her hand and changed the subject.
"Others do not need to know our names. Remember? We hate being treated like royalty. Besides, we don't want to have another enemy," she said. "I'm going to get another plate of chocolates. Do you want some?"
Anna was the only one who nodded. Those two had had an addiction to chocolate since forever.
As Elsa stood up from her seat, I saw her source of discomfort. Her white fitted pants were tainted with red on the butt area. I looked at her chair and saw fresh red paint all over it.
The other students in the cafeteria noticed it too and started laughing.
"Oh, was it your red day, my lady?" a voice said. We saw Jack Frost came out of his hiding place. Obviously, it was one of his tricks.
Elsa turned ghostly white as she saw the red in her pants. Then, her face morphed into that of anger ready to explode and was about to inflict bloody murder on a certain someone. Jack Frost saw this and run before Elsa could catch him. I was about to follow when someone grabbed a hold of my arm.
"Um… Sorry about that." I flinched when I found out that the one who grabbed me was guy. It was a brown haired guy with green eyes and freckles on his face. "I tried to stop him but I can't. I… um… H-hiccup, by the way."
I was still shocked when the guy run and followed that Frost. What was that all about? I turned to look to our humiliated Elsa.
Anna and Rapunzel rushed to her side. Anna gave her jacket to Elsa and wrapped it around Elsa's waist to cover the red paint. Once she was set, Anna and Rapunzel took her away from the cafeteria. I just stood there watching at the crowd.
"Was it fun?" I shouted at them. "Did you enjoy laughing at another's embarrassment? And, You all had the nerve to call yourselves our admirers!"
I stomped my foot on the floor at the last syllable. They all glanced down in shame. No one dared to talk.
I pushed the door of the cafeteria hard and got out of that stupid mess. I was going to hunt that stupid Jack Frost. No one was allowed to hurt my best friend physically or emotionally. That stupid Jack Frost better be ready.
I marched to the boys' dormitory and was ready to enter when someone blocked my way.
"You are not allowed to enter the boys' dormitory," The dorm adviser said. He was bald and looked around forty to forty-five years old.
"I don't care. I need to see that moron Jack Frost," I yelled at him. I know it was not his fault but I was so frustrated that I vented out my anger to him.
After a few seconds, someone came out of the dormitory, but unfortunately it was not the one I was looking for. It was the guy named Hiccup who came.
"Um, please calm down. There are others resting," he said. The landlord rolled his eyes and walked back inside. He must have thought that this Hiccup was the one I'm searching for.
"Why do you care anyway? This is none of your business," I snapped at him. I saw him blinked when some of my saliva got into his face.
"I'm sorry for all the trouble that Jack caused to you and your friends," he said while he wiped his face.
"You didn't answer my question-" I stopped. I stared at him wide eyed. "You're friends with him!" I accused. He gave me an apologetic look.
Here I was thinking he was just some random guy who was stupid enough to say sorry for someone else's faults. Now, I figured he was worse than that. Friends of Jack Frost will also be our enemies.
"What's your full name?" I asked.
"H-Hiccup Horrendous Haddock," he stammered. He was clearly confused that I asked his name.
"Well, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock. You and your friend should go to hell!" I shouted every word just to make myself clear. I glared at him and stormed off.
The students in the cafeteria were quiet the next day. Luckily, Elsa was not too traumatized by what happened last night. When I got to our room, she was pacing back and forth and was fuming mad. I could practically see steam pouring out of her ears.
We ate in silence in our usual seats, but before that, we made sure that there were no tricks or paints or anything else on them.
There was a deafening silence in the cafeteria when suddenly the doors flew open disrupting the silence. Four guys walked in looking like they were rulers and we were the servants waiting for orders. Well, at least three of them looked like that. One of them slouched like he would die out of embarrassment. Those four guys approached our table.
"Man, if it isn't my favorite Four Seasons. How are you?" Jack Frost said. He leaned on our table and gave us a wink. I saw Elsa clenched her fists. This guy must be really annoying to her. Elsa used to be so good at concealing her emotions no matter what happened. Now, it was so obvious you'd be blind if you could not see it.
No one spoke; we all just glared at each other. Our fellow students held their breaths if they were a watching a fight between two prides of lions.
"Oh. Where are my manners? I forgot to introduce my friends!" he said in mock surprise.
"This is Eugene Flynn Fitzherbert," he said, pointing to a tall and muscular man with dark brown hair and goatee. Both were groomed to near perfection. "You can call him Flynn."
I saw the Flynn guy looked at Rapunzel. However, Rapunzel didn't pay him any attention.
Next, Jack Frost pointed to another tall and muscular guy but this time with blonde hair. "This is Kristoff Fitzherbert. Kristoff and Flynn are adoptive brothers, just in case you're wondering."
Anna gaped at Kristoff but then she composed herself and glared at them. I was willing to bet that that Kristoff guy was the one Anna was talking about yesterday.
After that, Jack pulled at the scrawny one who I knew was named to be Hiccup.
"This is Hiccup Haddock, my best friend."
"How nice of you to introduce your friends to us," Anna said, sarcastically.
"It would be good to introduce yourselves to us, too." That Flynn guy was the one who replied. "Jack, you didn't tell me how beautiful these ladies were."
He flashed us his smile and also leaned on our table. I knew that look. It was one of the dumb, confident look of those certified players who brought nothing but trouble. Rapunzel shoved him off of our table.
"You'd better leave. We don't have anything to say to you," she said. Her usual smile was replaced with a frown.
"But we do have," Jack Frost said. A smile plastered on his face. "You see were the kings of our old school and you're sort of the queens here. We can't have both now, can we?"
"So, you're saying that you are challenging us," I said, smirking. It wasn't a question, it was a statement.
I loved this. I would never back out of a challenge. Besides, we needed to protect our pride and dignity.
"Yes," Frost answered simply. All three of them were smug, thinking that they already won. Haddock was the only one who had the decency to be embarassed.
"We accept," Elsa said. She stood up, dignified and poised. I knew the reason behind the acceptance of the challenge was that she wanted to get back at Jerk Frost. Speaking of, I saw him looking at Elsa with a twinkle in his eyes. A look that I did not understand.
I shook my head. Never mind that. The challenge was accepted. Let's get this war started.
