Jack and Elsa had made it about halfway to the gym when they heard to school bell ring.

"Oh, I guess you can show me another time" Elsa frowned.

"What? We're nearly there. I can take you now." Jack said, looking around at her, a mildly bemused expression on his face

"But, class.." Elsa trailed off as Jack just smiled at her.

Smirking again, he waged a finger at her in mock annoyance.

"Now Elsa, what did I tell you earlier? School is about more than learning!"

"But we should go to class. It's the rules isn't it?" queried Elsa

"Break the rules!" said jack simply, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"I don't like breaking the rules. I've never broken the rules." Elsa was feeling a little nervous now. She knew she should go back, but she also knew she didn't want to.

"If you've never broken a rule, how do you know you don't like breaking them?" he replied a little smugly.

Elsa hesitated.

Jack's smile softened a little.
"Look, we won't be that late, and you can just blame me. They'll understand and I'll just end up with detention. No big deal, really."

Elsa bit her lip. Jack held out his hand and smirked again.

"You coming?"

Elsa shook slightly in disbelief at herself.

"I can't believe I'm doing this" she said as she took his hand.

"Rebellion lesson number one" Jack grinned as he started to run down the last hallway, pulling Elsa along behind him.

...

"This is it" he said as they approached the pool doors. "But wait here just a sec" Jack said as he dove into a storage cupboard and pulled out a large duffel bag.

"What's in there?"

"You'll see" Jack said and lead Elsa through the empty boys' changing room and out into the pool.

It was entirely, solidly - "Frozen" breathed Elsa. "How on earth do you freeze a pool?"

Jack just softly taped the side of his nose.

"Nuh-uh, Elsa, I can't go giving away my secrets now, can I? It might make me lose my mysterious allure."

Elsa laughed. Jack faked a hurt expression.

"You don't think I have mysterious allure?" said Jack, sniffing and dabbing at his eyes dramatically.

Elsa just rolled her eyes and smiled as Jack's pretend weeping split into a wide grin.

"What's in the bag?" she asked

"Oh, right." he reached into the bag and pulled out two pairs of skates.

"You ever ice skated before?" Asked Jack, shaking the skates at her.

"Yeah, I love it." She said taking them from him.

"They'll be a bit heavy. Those are from the girl's hockey teams' supply. I just grabbed a random pair and hoped they'd fit.

Elsa laced up the boots, they were a little big, but not unusable. She looked over at Jack, who had pulled a pair into his own feet.

"C'mon" he stood and motioned for Elsa to follow him onto the pool's surface.

Elsa hesitated.

"Is it going to be thick enough for us to stand on?" she asked.

"Yeah, I was skating on here earlier, see?" he said nodding towards some grooves that had been cut into the ice already. "Totally solid, I did well."

Elsa nodded and stepped out onto the ice. She slipped a little before finding her footing and pushing off properly towards the middle of the make shift ice rink.

"This is weird" she said staring down at the bright blue tiles at the bottom. "I've never skated on a pool before."

"I'd be disappointed if you had!" said Jack, who was doing slow backwards loops around Elsa, hands behind his head, eyes closed, looking relaxed. "I mean, it would suck if I bring you here to impress you, and you'd already done this before."

Elsa's face started to feel very warm as she heard that.

"You're trying to impress me?"

Jack's smooth skating was interrupted by him stumbling a little at Elsa's reply.

"uh, yeah well" He coughed a little, trying to regain his easy-going demeanour. "You know what I mean, 'cause you're new, you know. Gotta leave an impression."

"Well you've certainly done that." said Elsa, skating in a long smooth line to the other end of the pool. Jack spotted what she was doing and grinned.

"Race ya!"

"What? No!" she started as Jack whizzed towards and then past her.

"UNFAIR!" she shouted, but her heart was beating fast in excitement as she took off after Jack.

Jack looked over his shoulder and saw Elsa coming up fast behind him, so he decided to skate into her path, causing her to swerve, which she did. But the sudden change in direction caused Elsa to stumble and grab onto Jacks outstretched arm for balance. This, in turn, caused Jack to wobble. They both took a second to regain their balance.

Jack started laughing first, but Elsa soon joined in. As they were lost in the moment, neither of them noticed the door gym door swinging open until a loud voice was heard from the doorway.

"JACK!"

The two froze, and simultaneously turned towards the door, smiles fading from their faces. There, in the hallway, stood the coach looking very angry, and behind him, looking a mixture of horrified and stunned, was Merida.

"Off the pool, you two, NOW!" The man boomed as he strode around the makeshift ice rink, towards the two teenagers.
Merida hurried behind him. As soon as Jack and Elsa had pulled of their skates, Coach Bunny Bunny snarled.
"With me, now."

Jack and Elsa followed sheepishly. The coach began to storm through the halls so quickly that the three students had to practically jog to keep up with him.
As soon as he was far enough away from the trio to be out of earshot, Merida started speaking.
"Oh my god, Elsa I am so sorry! I just came back to the caf and you weren't there, so I assumed you'd gone to class but you weren't there either! I just freaked out that I'd lost you, I didn't think! I really didn't mean to get you in trouble, especially not on your first day, I mean, really I just..." She trailed off, looking very guilty.

"It's alright Merida, we shouldn't have been in there anyway. We were asking for trouble. Anyone could have walked in." Replied Elsa, trying to sooth the panicking Scott.

"That doesn't make me feel much better because it WAS me! I should have just kept my mouth shut, and I definitely shouldn't have told coach, especially when I could have figured out Jack was involved. "

"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?" Chimed in Jack.

"You know what it means!" Said Merida, exasperated "it's not exactly some big secret you and Coach Bunny aren't exactly best buddies. You wind him up too much."

"He should learn to take a joke!" argued Jack.

"Or maybe you should learn to stop being an idiot" that was coach Bunny's voice. The three looked ahead of them to see the older man had turned to face them, scowling. They'd been louder than they'd thought and he'd heard them.
"In here." He said holding the School's office door open. Elsa sighed as she walked into the little waiting room for the second time that day.

"You can go if you want" Coach Bunny said to Merida.

"I'll stay, I'm supposed to be Elsa's buddy for her first day." she replied, staring at her shoes, clearly still upset at the mess she felt she'd caused.

Coach Bunny just shrugged and let the door swing shut behind them as he went into the office to talk to the Principal about what they'd done. Elsa felt an unpleasant heat creep up her face and, to her horror, felt tears of shame prickle in her eyes. How had she managed to be sent to the principal's office on her first day? Seriously. How on earth had she managed that? What was her Aunt going to say? Or her Uncle? Or Anna? She gulped. She hadn't thought about Anna.
Her little social butterfly of a little sister was going to get labelled with her weird older sister who skipped class and messed around on frozen swimming pools.

A tear made its way down Elsa's cheek, which she wiped away quickly.

"Elsa, no! Don't cry!" begged Merida. Elsa glanced up to see she was also looking very teary eyed. "I'm really sorry! I'm so SO sorry!" Merida's apology only made Elsa feel more guilty and she began to cry properly, and, by the sniffling she could hear, Merida had too.

"Hey girls" came a soft voice from their left. They both looked up, it was Miss Tooth, she was holding a packet of tissues out to them. "Don't cry, I'm sure everything will be okay." The two girls nodded as they wiped their faces.
Miss Tooth gave a tiny smiled and said "Hey Jack, I thought you were joking about trying to corrupt the new girl."
Elsa and Merida laughed weakly. Neither of them found it very funny, but they appreciated the receptionist trying to lighten the mood.
Jack, however, gave no response. It was then Elsa looked at him for the first time since they were on the pool together. He was sitting slumped back in the chair, arms folded and staring at the corner of the room.
He wasn't smiling. It was the first time she'd seen him without a smile on his face, let alone looking so serious. She tried to think of something to say, but her mind was blank. She just couldn't think of anything to say. As it turned out, she didn't have time to say anything, as the door to principal Claus's office swung open and he and Coach Bunny walked out.

"You two, inside please." said principal Claus, looking exasperated and holding open his office door.