The next morning dawned sunny and bright, the complete opposite of the day before. Kristoff had been incorrect, and Elsa took every opportunity to rub it in his face.
"Hello, Mr. Weather Expert," she said smugly as she sat down next to Kristoff in the media center. "So tell me again, what's the weather forecast?"
Kristoff scowled at her, barely hiding a smile. "Alright, you caught me. I'm not actually a weather expert."
"I knew it."
"Yeah, yeah."
Elsa opened her book and continued reading as the conversation drifted around her. She smiled as the boys joked around, annoying Milo as he tried to read. Eventually the media specialist had to come over and tell them to be quiet. Elsa was happy here, surrounded by people that she enjoyed watching as they did idiotic things and understood her… mostly.
In robots elective, the project that they had been preparing for had officially started. Anna and Hiro were working side-by-side to make the best robot- or at least one that functioned. Most of the time, Anna had no idea what was happening, having missed the first week or two of the class. Therefore, Hiro had to teach her as they went, and he was not a particularly great teacher.
"What's this?" Anna asked.
"That's the thing that controls the robot." Hiro answered, looking up briefly from what he was doing.
"How does it work?"
"It connects to a computer or phone and you can make it do stuff."
"Do these two things fit together?"
"No, that one goes there. Seriously, if you want to help, follow the instructions."
"The instructions are confusing."
Hiro stopped what he was doing. "Anna, we are literally making this robot out of Legos."
"Well they don't look like Legos." Anna muttered.
"That's because they're robot Legos!"
"That's not a thing."
"Just… put that there. I'll tell you what to do since you can't seem to follow the instructions."
"Thanks Hiro!"
"Whatever."
As Hiro and Anna continued to work together, Hiro got frustrated at Anna many times, but both of them could agree, it was fun to work on a robot with a friend, even if that friend didn't know what they were doing.
"Hey, Elsa." Jason greeted her as he sat down beside her in science.
"Hello." she replied.
"How're you doing today?"
"I'm good, I guess."
"Great. It's great that you're good. Do you feel prettier with your hair down and no glasses?"
"Kind of. People have been noticing me more."
"Good! That's good. It means you're moving up in the world."
"O-okay."
"Do you know what else would make you super pretty?"
"What?"
"Makeup."
"I don't know. I don't really feel the need to wear makeup, I'm only in middle school, and I don't really know how to do it..."
"Would you wear it for me? Please?"
I-i suppose." Jason was looking at her in such an adorable way that she found it hard to concentrate on anything but his face. "Yeah, sure."
"Thanks babe."
Elsa grinned in the way she did whenever he called her babe.
"Oh, by the way, Anastasia is having a sleepover this Friday. You met her at the party, right? You can learn whatever you need to learn about make up then, and believe me, you have a lot to learn."
"Alright. I'll be there."
"You're awfully quiet today." Kristoff remarked as Elsa and he waited for customers to come in.
Elsa was startled out of her thoughts. "Oh, sorry."
"Why are you apologizing? I just asked you a question."
"Oh, I'm sorry. I mean… ugh!" Elsa put her head in her hands. "Sorry, I just have a ton of stuff on my mind."
"You say sorry too much. What kind of stuff?"
"Just… I have a lot of school work and pressure on me and who knew socializing would be so hard?"
"Is it Jason?"
"No- Yes- I don't know! he just keeps telling me I'd be so much better if I did all this stuff like wear contacts and makeup, and I don't really want to do that, but I'm scared if I refuse he'll break up with me."
"Are you sure that would be a bad thing?"
Elsa looked at him weirdly. "Yes, that would be terrible! I don't want him to break up with me. I've had a crush on him for forever, and now I'm finally dating him! It's perfect, really."
Kristoff sighed and turned to help a customer. "Well, it's your decision to date him. I can't change that. Anyway, here's some advice for you: Listen to your friends and family. Often they can see things that you can't."
Kristoff's words stayed with Elsa the entire day, and rang in her head as she tried to sleep. "Shut up mind," she thought. "I'm fine. Jason and I are fine. Everything's fine." Even so, she couldn't get those words out of her head.
Well, this sucks. At least it doesn't suck badly.
I actually went back to try and count the weeks since school started in this fanfiction, and in the process discovered a giant continuity error that hopefully nobody will notice. Just saying, we are up to about 7 weeks.
For some reason I do my best writing when I'm supposed to be doing other things. I probably shouldn't do that, but I still do. *sigh*
-D&ATF :)