HEY EVERYONE! IM ON TIME TODAY! YAY! haha...
i really loved writing the last chapter and would LOVE to make this into a proper story but it's only a quick Christmas treat :( oh well.
let's carry on from where we left off eh? (ha! yeah coz im just gonna skip a couple years you know? jx XD i've gone mental! XD)
(As always, this is Jack's pov)
"So...Elsa," I said, trying my best to break the silence in the taxi I summoned, "What do you do for a living?"
"I design costumes for movies!" She said back, "You know Fleur Delacour's wedding dress?"
"You designed that?" I replied, absolutely astounded. That dress was gorgeous!
"Yep! And all of Alice's dresses in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland!"
"No way! That must be really fun! Do you get to meet the people you design for?"
"Well duh! How else am I going to get their measurements?"
"Ha..I knew that..."
"So what do you do?" She asked.
"I'm an architect." I replied simply.
"Any buildings I might know?"
"Ummm...don't think so. The buildings I do aren't very detailed. Just like skyscrapers but it's harder than you'd think because you have to think about all this sciencey stuff."
"That sounds pretty cool!" She said just as the taxi stopped outside my family's house.
"Is this where you live?" She asked, looking out the window.
"Where my family lives! Yeah!"
"It's so pretty!"
My family lived in a rather large cottage which had surprisingly good heating!
There weren't any other cottages near it and it was surrounded by trees and snow.
"Come on!" I said, getting out of the car and opening the door for her.
"Thanks!" She said back. She was smiling again. I liked her smile.
Tooth would never smile. She would just smirk at me.
We walked up to the front door and I knocked. My mom was the one who opened it.
"JACK HONEY!" She embraced me in a bone crushing hug, "I WASN'T EXPECTING TO SEE YOU UNTIL CHRISTMAS!"
Then she spotted Elsa.
"Umm...Jack...that's not Tooth is it? Did she get some sort of plastic surgery?"
"Oh no!" Elsa said politely, "I'm Elsa! I'm Jack's...acquaintance!"
I was a bit peeved that she didn't say friend but we'd only known each other six hours.
"I was on the train when she came running in because all her stuff was stolen by a taxi driver and she had to leg it to the train station or she would be stranded in New York!"
"What were you doing on a train to Vermont?" Mom asked her.
"I was going to see my family!" She beamed, "Jack was nice enough to offer to take me there after getting me sorted here! That's okay isn't it?!"
"Of course it's okay!" My mom beckoned her inside, "There's a bathroom upstairs where you can have a nice hot shower, I'll get you some of Emma's clothes to wear- You look small enough for them- And Jack can make you some hot chocolate in the kitchen!"
"Thank you so much!" Elsa said before giving me my coat and running upstairs.
"She's a sweet girl.." Mum said to me once she was gone, "If only you were marrying HER and not that Tooth girl.."
"Actually mom, that's kind of why I wanted to come..Tooth broke it off with me just this morning!"
"But you only just proposed to her last night!"
"I know...I caught her making out with her boss when I was delivering flowers and-"
"You were delivering flowers? Aw honey..she doesn't deserve someone like you anyway!"
"Thanks..but anyway, she sold the ring I gave her!"
"SHE DID NOT!"
I nodded my head.
"JACK, GIVE ME HER PHONE NUMBER!"
"What? Mom no!"
"Ugh, fine.."
I pushed all thoughts of Tooth aside and stared up the stairs where Elsa had run, wondering if maybe bringing her to her family would end our relationship or if maybe we would keep in contact.
"Jack honey?" My head snapped towards mom, "HOT CHOCOLATE! GO!"
I then rushed into the kitchen to make hot chocolate for Elsa.
"Hey Jack!" My Australian cousin Aster came in and clapped me on the back.
"Aster." I nodded.
"That's not Tooth in the shower is it?"
"No. You'll be happy to know that Tooth broke it off with me this morning after selling the ring I gave her."
"Aw no way!" He high fived me for some reason! "I mean, I am SO sorry!"
"You're just like Elsa." I smiled.
"Who?"
"Oh, that's who's in the shower! She was stranded on the train and I offered to take her home!"
"Well," Aster said, "She's got hell of a singing voice that's for sure!"
"What?"
I put the water on to boil and then went upstairs, curiously waiting outside the bathroom door.
"Christmas time...Mistletoe and wine...Children singing Christian rhyme...With logs on the fire, gifts on the tree..."
It was true. She was amazing.
I went downstairs, smiling to myself, and finished making the hot chocolate for her.
When she came down, she was dressed in some jeans, a blue t-shirt and a woolly jumper of Emma's. I swear she couldn't stop smiling.
"Your family is so nice!" She said to me after drinking the hot chocolate.
"I know.." I agreed, "So, you ready to go?"
"Are you kicking me out already?" She joked, "Just kidding! Don't you want to have a shower or something?"
"I didn't run two miles to catch the train! I'm sure I'll survive!"
"Okay then, let's go!"
On the way out, we ran into my mom.
"Thank you so much Mrs Frost!" Elsa said.
"It was my pleasure!" She said back, "We must see you again one day! How about tomorrow?"
"Mom!" I hissed. Secretly I really did want Elsa to come back and was glad my mom asked because there's no way I would've ever got the courage to.
"That'd be wonderful!" Elsa smiled. I really did like that smile.
And that's why, after about half a year of knowing her, I asked her out on a date.
I was already planning on asking her out but had no idea how. I had no creative talents or anything so I invited her to go and see a movie with me, Emma and Aster. Emma and Aster had come down to New York to visit me for a month and Elsa and I kept in contact.
The movie we were seeing was one of the old ones they put on really cheaply every week. We were watching 'Twilight' which Emma picked out not me!
When the movie was over, we were walking out and Elsa and I got talking.
"Man, every time I see that movie I'm reminded how awful it is!" She said.
"Yeah!" I agreed.
"Oh well," She said, "What matters is that Emma likes it and if she likes it, it's good enough for me! Despite the fact that the vampires in that sparkle instead of bursting into flames..."
"Perhaps..." I said back, now was my moment, "Perhaps next time we could go, just the two of us...and pick out a movie we really like!"
"Are you asking me out on a date?" She asked, looking up at me.
"I might be..." I never noticed before but I didn't just like her smile, I liked her eyes too.
"Sure!" She said loudly.
"Sure what?" I asked, astounded.
"Sure I'll go on a date with you! I thought you'd never ask and I'd end up an old spinster!"
"Ok..sure! Dinner tomorrow at...seven?"
"Dinner at seven? Are you kidding me? That's way too late for me to see you! I'll have fallen asleep before we even order! How about...five?"
"Five it is! I'll pick you up!"
"See you then!" She smiled again...
"See you..." Then I watched her walk off.
"Jack Frost, why do you grin so?" Emma asked suddenly.
"Elsa just agreed to go on a date with me..." I said subconsciously.
"Are you kidding me? It's ABOUT TIME you asked! What took you so long?"
"I have absolutely no idea..."
There it is guys! and im on time! YAAAAAAY! well, i literally have two hours until im late updating but still!
Did you guys like it? I'm pretty proud of it! :)
next week is the last week updating though...:'( I might do an epilogue the week after Christmas though because i REALLY love this story!
xx -SEH