Chapter 8
At the end of the day, Elsa closed her locker and looked down at her watch. A soft curse escaped her lips at the sudden realization that she only had a minute to get to the cursed detention room. Groaning, the senior pushed her backpack strap farther up her shoulder and turned to hurry down the hallway.
All Elsa really wanted to do was get this hour over with.
Turning around the corner, Elsa glanced over and noticed a few students entering the the detention room. She picked up her pace and followed after them and through the door when she suddenly bowled into a bulky tattooed kid who stood twice her size.
"Hey watch it!" the guy cursed and shoved past her.
Elsa gasped as she stumbled back. Toppling over, the girl felt herself grab ahold of the nearest person before she could fall flat on the floor. Her feet stumbled and Elsa felt her face hit a tall, slender chest. As she gripped his waist desperately, a pair of hands grabbed the girl by the arms and held her.
"Whoa are you…well well if it isn't the Snow Queen." Elsa let out a small groan as her eyes rolled up to meet Jack's crystal blue eyes.
"Looks like someone can't stand on her own two feet. I didn't know I could still make girls swoon that hard." Jack teased as he helped her up.
Embarrassed, Elsa straightened and gave him a deep frown.
"Not in the mood for your dry sarcasm." she grumbled as she began to push her way through the crowded aisle and to the very back row.
Luckily there were two seats that remained empty, one behind Scar and another right behind that. Ignoring Scar's narrowed eyes, Elsa tossed her bag on her desk, slumped down into her chair, and crossed her arms over her chest. A few seconds later she felt Jack sit down into the desk right behind her with content sigh. Elsa sighed herself yet her response came out of complete annoyance.
"So what are you exactly in here for?" her white-haired companion asked, throwing his earphones around his neck.
"Do you really want to know?" Elsa snapped, keeping her eyes locked on Scar's black mangy hair in front of her.
"I think someone needs to take a chill pill. Did your ice palace melt or something?" Jack insisted.
Elsa spun around so hard that her braid whipped across her face and her knuckles were turned white as she gripped the edges of her desk. "Excuse me?"
Her silver-haired companion chuckled. "You heard me."
Elsa opened her mouth, ready to fire the nastiest comeback she could think of when all of a sudden her voice was cut off by the sound of the door opening and a pair of heavy footsteps thundering in. A few students straightened in their seats and Elsa turned back around just as Coach North entered in.
Aside from Mr. Aster, Coach North was the second teacher in the school that students were afraid of. Big, muscular, and tattooed, Coach North moved from Moscow and he was also the girls' hockey coach. When he saw Elsa, he smiled and Elsa smiled in return. It seems as though he was the only one who Elsa found worthy of having a descent conversation besides Astrid.
"Welcome to detention! Looks like we have a full house today. How exciting…or should I be worried?" Coach North dropped his huge stack of Leo Tolstoy books on his desk, causing some students to jump.
"What's today punishment?" Elsa asked over the grumbling of the rest of the students.
"Shut up!" Jack hissed, while all Elsa could do was smile wickedly.
"Essay writing. To get out I want each and every one of you to write an essay on why you're here, and how you can improve so you don't have to come here and waste my time. MLA format." Coach North ordered. He turned around and began to write his request on the board.
"Nice going Ice Queen." Jack murmured.
"Knowing you're a frequent visitor, I think this should be easy for you Frosty." Elsa said the last word in a hiss. She began to take out her pencil and notebook when all of a sudden she felt a random poke in her back. Her head snapped up fast as Jack leaned in towards her.
"Hey Elsie….you don't happen to have an extra pencil do you?" he whispered. Elsa's grip tightened on her pen as she grabbed an extra pencil and chucked it behind her.
"Ow! Hey watch the eye!"
"Next time come prepared!" Elsa fired back.
She turned back in time to meet Scar's surprised glance. "What? Do you need a pencil too Loki?"
Scar quickly shook his head and turned around. Before she could start on her assignment though, Elsa felt another poke into her spine. She ignored it and picked up her pencil when all of a sudden she felt an annoying tug of her braid.
Oh for the love of…. Elsa spun around and Jack was smiling wide and holding her pencil up in front of him.
"What do you want?"
"How do you expect me to write an essay with an unsharpened pencil?" Jack asked with a haughty grin on his face.
"Here's a wonderful idea! Go sharpen it." Elsa suggested.
"I could if there was a freaking pencil sharpener in the room."
Elsa let out an annoyed sigh and zipped open her pencil case. She handed Jack her pencil sharpener and Jack took it with a wink.
"Thanks Snow Queen."
"Don't call me that."
"Sorry…Icy."
"Urgh!"
"What? I'm just being friendly."
"How about you do us all a friendly favor and write your damned essay? I don't know about you but I actually have a life outside these walls."
"Oh do you now?"
"You're such an imbecile!"
"Hey I'm just trying to write my essay. And clearly I can't do that with you screaming in my face!"
Sitting next to Elsa, one student rolled his eyes and slipped a pair of earphones into his ears in hopes of drowning their back and forth bantering. Another student who sat next to Jack groaned and dropped his head on his desk. In front of the classroom, North let out an exhausted sigh and rubbed his head. He was in the middle of reading Anna Karenina when he began to hear the bickering.
"This is going to be a long hour. Good thing I just started reading this." he mumbled to himself.
Once Elsa turned around, Jack smiled and set his soda can down on the ground beside him. As he began to write his own essay, he was unaware of Ed grabbing at his drink and slipping it underneath his desk.
"Edward I hope you're not dilly-dallying back there!" Coach North spoke up.
Ed quickly shook his head with a cackle.
Thirty minutes in, the door to the detention room creaked open, causing some heads to lift up. Coach North looked up from his book and arched a brow as Mrs. Maudie approached him. Elsa looked up herself and her eyes widened at the sight of the small, chubby, and quite fidgety teacher.
"Ah Maudie! What can I do for you?" Coach North asked cheerfully.
"Coach North you better come quick! There's ruckus in the parking lot! A poor student is about to be terrorized by Pitch again!" Mrs. Maudie stammered in a tiny and frightened voice. At the mention of Pitch's name, Jack's head shot up and he arched a brow.
"Not again." Coach North groaned and shut his book.
"You better go! Everyone else left! And I don't think I can handle that hooligan on my own!" Mrs. Maudie exclaimed as Coach North grabbed his huge red jacket and slipped it on.
"Maudie I put you in charge of the class. I'll be back in no time." and without another word Coach North grabbed his black hat and marched out of the room.
The moment he was gone, Mrs. Maudie turned and starred wide-eyed at the rest of the silent class.
Jack finally cracked up. "Oh man now this should be interesting."
"G-get back to work everyone. Mr. North will be back in no time!" Mrs. Maudie assured, pulling up North's chair and slumping down. She pulled out her own Nora Roberts book and opened to a marked page.
"I wouldn't count on that. Pitch isn't exactly one for surrendering without a fight." Jack snickered.
In front of him, Elsa rolled her eyes. "Why don't you actually listen and get back to work?" she mumbled.
"That's a great idea." Elsa then heard Jack squirm in his seat and a zipper creak. When she glanced back, she suddenly caught sight of Jack scrolling through his music and one earphone in his ear.
Oh no he better not! Elsa seethed.
Much to her annoyance, "Ready, Aim, Fire" began to play seconds later, filling the space behind her with the loud music. Mrs. Maudie and the others remained mute to the sound (knowing what to expect if they complained), while Elsa's grip on her pen tightened as she began to scratch at the paper furiously, her fingers becoming as red as her cheeks.
Conceal don't feel. Conceal don't feel!
"Hey Ice Queen, got any song requests after this one?" Jack whispered behind her when the song was nearing to its end.
"How about Shut Up by the Black Eyed Peas?" Elsa cursed.
"Alright, Radioactive it is." Jack decided. Elsa closed her eyes and bit her lips, her pen almost on the verge of stabbing through her paper. A few seconds later she heard "Radioactive" play behind her.
I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones!
Enough to make my systems blow!
Welcome to the new age, to the new age
Welcome to the new age, to the new age
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh, I'm radioactive, radioactive!
Fine, two can play at this game. Elsa thought with a devious smirk. Leaning over in her chair, Elsa grabbed her bag and fished out her own iPod and earphones. The senior continued to smile as she slipped her earphones into each ear and grabbed her music device. She began to scroll through her music until she found "Bleeding Out" and pressed PLAY.
I'm bleeding out
So if the last thing that I do
Is bring yo-
Elsa frowned the moment the song came to an abrupt stop. Surprised, she grabbed her device and sure enough, to Elsa's growing annoyance, her screen went blank. Apparently she was in such a hurry this morning that Elsa forgot to bring her trusty charger, and sadly now her iPod was as good as dead.
"No! Please don't do this to me!" Elsa exclaimed.
She began pressing the power button desperately, hoping that by some spontaneous miracle, Dan Reynolds would regain his voice. When she realized that it was futile and the screen remained blank, Elsa growled and tore her earphones out of her ears and slumped back into her chair.
"Something wrong Icy?" Jack questioned over his own music.
"Don't talk to me!" Elsa growled, throwing her stupid IPod into her bag.
"iPod dead?"
"No!"
"Okay then," Jack shrugged innocently and lowered his gaze. He struggled not to smile in amusement at the little scene. Elsa continued to sit and bite down her growing irritation when she suddenly heard another cursed zipper.
For the love of all talking snowmen can this guy ever sit quiet? Elsa cursed inside her head as she listened to a bag creak open and a sudden crunch as Jack helped himself to a chip.
"Mmmm tasty." Jack chirped, grabbing another chip and popping it into his mouth. The obnoxious crunch rang right into Elsa's ears as she pressed the tip of her pen into her paper angrily.
Conceal it down feel it! Conceal it don't feel CRUNCH! Conceal it don't feel it! Don't let it show! CRUNCH! The steam was literally starting to spout from her ears.
"Are those BBQ? Dude can I have some?" a voice spoke up in front of her. Elsa lifted her eyes to see Scar smiling at Jack, who nodded gladly and handed him the oversized bag.
That was it!
"MRS. MAUDIE!" Elsa cried out and shot up from her chair.
Mrs. Maudie jumped out of her seat at the sound of the loud voice. "Y-yes Elsa?"
"I request a change of seats please!"
"Okay okay whatever you want dearie. We only have one seat left and that's on the other side of Ed." Mrs. Maudie pointed a stout finger to the empty desk to the right of Ed, who was looked up and grinned wildly.
"I'll take it! It's been then being around these two starving idiots!"
"Whatever you want." Mrs. Maudie held up her hands in complete surrender.
While Scar snickered at the scene and helped himself to some more chips, Jack watched Elsa grab her books, her half-written paper and moved past him and towards the empty desk. What she didn't realize though was that Ed has taken out Jack's soda and set it down on the chair. When Elsa stood to move, Ed chuckled and tipped the can over, making the drink spill all over the seat and on the floor all around.
"Elsa look I'm sorry." Jack suddenly apologized with a frown.
"Whatever." Elsa rolled her eyes and approached the desk. She reached out to make a move and sit down when all of a sudden Jack sprung up.
"Elsa wait!"
But it was too late, for the moment Elsa stepped to her desk, her feet suddenly slid and she slipped and fell right on the floor with a loud thud, her books and papers flying out of her hands and into the air.
"SHIT! WHAT THE HELL?" came the loud shout on the floor.
Mrs. Maudie and the rest of the class turned their attention to the girl, who was starting to blush from complete embarrassment and fury at the growing stain on her sweatpants. Ed looked like he was ready to explode with laughter and Jack ran a hand through his hair, looking equally surprised. Cursing under her breathe, Elsa struggled up and pulled off her sweatshirt, ignoring the snickers that were directed towards her thin see-through top.
Quickly Jack moved around his desk and towards her, holding out a hand. "Elsa here let me…"
"Don't even try!" Elsa growled, tying her sweatshirt around her waist.
Turning to the floor, the girl began to gather her scattered papers and books. A series of curses escaped her lips as she held up her splotched essay and wet book.
"Great! Absolutely great!" Elsa seethed, crumbling her ruined work into her fists.
Before she could reach out and make a move to sit somewhere else, Elsa suddenly felt a tap on her hip and the girl turned to see an innocent Ed holding up Jack's now drained soda can.
"Shit!" Jack cursed, paling at the sight.
"YOU!" Elsa spun around and prepared to pounce on him if it were not for the strong Kronk holding her back.
Jack slumped back into his chair and Scar and a few other students moved back in fright. Mrs. Maudie looked like she was about to bolt out the door, judging by her ghostly pale face and huge terrified eyes.
"It wasn't my fault." Jack assured her in a high voice. For once he actually felt nervous. This girl looked beyond pissed.
"You think everything's a freaking game to you is it?" Elsa shouted, her face glowing red and her bright hair framing it.
Jack could only raise his hands in surrender.
"Why don't you go clean yourself up Elsa? Maybe take…ten? Or twenty?" Kronk suggested, looking equally nervous as he let go of her.
"Thanks Kronk. I think I will! If you need me I'll be in the bathroom writing this damned essay in perfect silence." Elsa cursed.
And without another word she grabbed her stuff and marched out the door. The classroom practically shook the moment Elsa slammed the door right behind her. As soon as the dead silence took over, all heads turned and glanced at Jack.
"Oh boy." Jack grumbled, running a hand through his hair.
Mrs. Maudie flashed him an irritated look and suddenly Jack expected the worst. "Coach North will definitely be hearing this!"
In response, Jack moaned and dropped his head into his hands. Beside him, Ed chuckled hysterically and picked up his own pencil.
All alone inside the girls' bathroom, Elsa slammed the door to the large stall and let out an irritated huff. This was the last straw. How could he be that stupid?
"Urgh I hate him!" Elsa growled, throwing her books aside and opening her gym bag. Luckily she still had her hockey jersey and an extra pair of leggings that she could change into.
"Who does he think he is?" Elsa asked herself as she untied her sweatshirt and tugged off her stained pants. She could only imagine what he was doing back in detention at the moment. He was probably cracking up with good old Scar or smirking his stupid smirk and remembering how she almost shot through the ceiling.
God his smirk is probably the worst….no it's his eyes….his stupid icy blue eyes…..no it's probably the…. argh get it together Elsa!
"Why should I care about him?" she mumbled.
When Elsa finally tugged on her leggings and changed into her jersey, she slumped down into the usual corner and opened up her unfinished essay. Casting a glance at her watch, Elsa let out a sigh and began writing.
"What am I supposed to even write about?" she suddenly groaned and threw her head back.
Curse you Jack Frost!
The cold air nipped at Jack's face as he pushed open the doors of the school and marched out. After fifty eight torturous minutes in detention, the senior was finally done for the day. Now all he wanted to do was go home, lie back, and watch some Game of Thrones. Yet as Jack made his way to his truck he suddenly caught sight of a certain blue bug standing on the other side of the lot and he froze.
All he found himself thinking about as he walked out of the detention room was her. God he never saw a sane girl act that vicious before. Pitch was right, this girl was a rhinosaurus...no scratch that she was way worse. Jack could only imagine what she was doing in the girl's bathroom right now. Perhaps she was cursing her heart out and writing all sorts of insults on the walls to let all the anger out.
Urgh I can't believe I got myself into this mess. Jack thought with a rub of his forehead as he approached his truck and opened the door.
"What's her problem?" Jack mumbled as he slipped into the front seat and turned on the heater to warm himself.
A few minutes later he slipped off his gloves and turned on the radio full volume. Maybe that'll drown the raging Elsa curses that still rang in his head.
"Why should I care about her? I'm only doing this for the money….just for the money." Jack assured himself as he drove away.