The next day, it was lunchtime and once again, Elsa went and sat with Kristoff. They were alone at the lunch table as, Kristoff had explained before, none of the people he sat with in the library had the same lunch time as he did. Some of them weren't even in the same grade.
"Hello." Elsa greeted Kristoff as she put her tray down across from him. "How are you doing?"
"I'm fine. You?"
Elsa put her head in her hands, her elbow narrowly missing the mashed potatoes on her tray. "I'm functioning on three hours of sleep and still have to go to work after school. I have three projects due next week and I haven't even started on one of them, and my boyfriend still expects me to go on dates with him in my free time. What free time? I literally have no free time!"
"Calm down Elsa," Kristoff said, stopping her before she became hysterical. They ate for a few minutes in silence, until Kristoff asked, "Are honors classes really that stressful?"
"It's not just the classes, it's everything else too. Work and drama and boyfriends and friends and ugh!" Elsa put her head on the table. "I'm too tired to be dealing with this." she mumbled through her hair.
Kristoff patted her head from across the table. He thought for a moment. "You're obviously extremely sleep deprived. Why don't you eat quickly, and we can go to the media center? You can take a nap on one of the couches there."
Elsa lifted her head. "That sounds wonderful."
That Friday, Elsa and Anna both had sleepovers. Elsa left the house with a bag and a bedroll and bicycled across town to the address Jason had given her. Anastasia opened the door when she knocked. "Hi," she greeted Elsa. "Come with me. We're in the living room."
Anastasia led her into a large, carpeted room. All the furniture was pushed to the edges of the room to allow for a cluster of sleeping bags and blankets set out in the middle of the room. The girls to which those sleeping bags belonged were clustered around a flat screen TV mounted on the wall. Anastasia cleared her throat to get their attention. "Guys, this is Elsa, Jason's girlfriend."
Elsa frowned a bit at that. Was her only identity the girlfriend of a popular guy? Then she remembered: to these people, that was her only identity. With a jolt, she noticed everyone was looking at her expectantly. "Um, hi. Hello. I'm Elsa."
Everyone turned back towards the television and Elsa let out a mental sigh of relief. Crisis averted, albeit awkwardly. She quickly rolled her sleeping bag out by the others and tucked her bag of clothes inside for safekeeping.
She went over and sat with the girls clustered around the TV. Some of them she recognized from the party, but the majority of the people were strangers to her. One girl had the TV remote and was flipping through the channels. The others were talking. Elsa felt rather out of place.
Anastasia came over and talked to her; she seemed excited to find someone less popular than she was to chat to. Even though it was her party, most of the girls were content to babble among themselves and not give her a second glance. As Anastasia had to constantly get up and answer the door as more and more people came in, Elsa was left alone for intervals, unnoticed by the people around her.
That didn't last long, of course. After the rest of the girls had found a movie to watch (The Fault in our Stars, no less), what seemed to be the leader of the ring of girls sat down next to Elsa and engaged her in conversation.
"So, you're Elsa, right? Jason's girlfriend?" she asked. The surrounding girls were pretending to talk to their friends, while watching their conversation. Elsa felt much examined.
"Yep." she said. "That's me. Jason's girlfriend."
The girl looked her over, much like Meg did at the party. She held out a hand. "My name's Maureen."
"Hi." Elsa shook her outstretched hand.
"Hey guys," called Anastasia from the kitchen. "I'm ordering pizza!"
Meanwhile, at Anna and Elsa's house, Anna and her friends were having a sleepover also, one that consisted mostly of dancing in the middle of the living room and occasionally settling down and watching a few YouTube videos before getting back up and dancing again. Before long they got hungry, so they did what everyone does when they're at a sleepover and are hungry: order pizza.
"Everyone fine with pepperoni?" shouted Anna, covering the phone so not to cause the person on the other end to become deaf. A chorus of affirmations reverberated back at her from the living room.
They had finally settled down and were watching a movie when the doorbell rang. "I'll get it!" shouted Anna. She opened the door to reveal Tadashi, again. "Are you the only person that works the pizza place on Fridays?" Anna asked jokingly.
Tadashi chuckled. "Yeah, pretty much. I'm the only one that delivers on Fridays. Here's your pizza." He handed her a pizza box.
Anna took it. "Okay, one second, let me get some money." She deposited the pizza in the living room and rifled through the change drawer until she found enough for a pizza. She returned to the door.
"You know, I saw your sister earlier this evening." Tadashi said as he counted the change.
"Oh yeah, she's at another sleepover. Apparently she has friends. Who knew?"
"I saw her friends. They didn't seem very friendly." Tadashi and Anna stood there for a second until Tadashi said, "Anyway, have a nice evening!"
"Yeah…" Anna watched him drive away. Shaking her head to clear it, she shut the door and returned to the movie.
Back at Anastasia's house, the movie had ended and nobody was sure what to do until Maureen suggesting makeovers. First up, she said, was Elsa.
"It's okay, you don't have to…" Elsa said quickly.
"Nonsense!" declared Maureen. "It'll be fun. Let's go upstairs."
Maureen nearly shoved Elsa up the stairs and seated her in front of a mirror. The rest of the girls came after her, various cosmetics and hair products in hand. They immediately started working on her, straightening her hair, applying foundation, etc.
"Stop blinking, you're gonna ruin the mascara!" screeched Maureen. "Ugh, hold still. It's like you've never put on makeup before!"
"Well I kinda haven't." mumbled Elsa. Everyone stopped and looked at her. She blushed under their gazes.
"Oh honey," said Maureen, putting a hand on her shoulder. "We have so much to teach you."
Wow this just slowly deteriorated. Oh well, I'm updating. I tried to update twice last week but then there was a ton of projects I had to do and stuff, so now I will try to update twice this week and probably fail.
Also, new OC introduced! I don't know why I'm happy about that; I didn't want another OC. But, I couldn't think of any Disney character to fill the part, so I created a new one! Hooray, more people to keep track of.
Have a nice life.
-D&ATF :)
