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Elsa.

Jack couldn't get her out of his head. The way her blue eyes would narrow at him in annoyance, or how the corner of her mouth would tug up in an unwanted smirk. Or how a rosy-red blush would consume her face, emphasizing her pale skin and delicate features. Her reaction to him confused him, but he figured that with a little time, she'd see what a catch he really was.

Smiling to himself as he unlocked his door, he kept replaying what had happened in the hallway. He had tried flirting with her again, and she shot him down. Again. It was frustrating, yet it only made him want to try harder. She was acting indifferent and aloof, and he was going to melt her cold exterior. It was what he did.

Jack Frost wasn't necessarily a player, but he did go on his fair share of dates, and he had rarely ever been turned down. But today was throwing him for a loop - this Elsa, who was undeniably beautiful, seemed to be immune to his charm. And he couldn't have that.

Maybe she was big on first impressions, and spilling her drink all over her probably wasn't the best thing to do. But it had obviously been an accident, and he had even offered to buy her a new one. An unconventional way to break the ice, maybe, but he figured she'd accept.

She didn't.

He could hardly believe that had even happened. He was Jack Frost, after all; charming, handsome, hilarious, and a downright gentleman. With his ice blue eyes and dazzling white smile, he always had the ladies melting for him. And yet, Elsa didn't.

Shaking the thought away, he slowly entered his dorm. Because he had transferred in the middle of the year, he had been placed randomly with a sophomore for a roommate. And this guy was pretty strange. Their room was filled with odds and ends of whimsical inventions and whatnot, which made it particularly hard to navigate through. The guy, Hiccup (Jack was 99 percent sure that wasn't the dude's real name), was a bit of an inventor, and more than a bit unorganized. The floor was littered with pieces of machinery, and the walls were covered with various blueprints.

Hiccup had been under the impression that he would be rooming alone for the whole year, so Jack didn't have much space to put his belongings, though he didn't have much to begin with. Just a bag of clothes, his books, and a few pictures were all that he had taken with him when he transferred to Arendelle, so he hadn't really complained. As long as he got a bed, and maybe an end table, he was content.

But what he wasn't so content with was his other roommate.

As Jack walked across the room, he could feel the little guy's eyes on him.

Hiccup had begged Jack not to say anything - the dorms had a strict no-pets rule. But apparently, the guy couldn't leave behind his beloved Toothless, a pure black cat with glowing green eyes and a nasty bite (or so Hiccup claimed; Jack wasn't in any hurry to test it). The little guy suffered from extreme separation anxiety, and Hiccup didn't want to cause his pet any emotional trauma.

Like Jack was saying earlier, the guy was pretty strange.

"Hey there, Toothless," Jack cooed gently, hoping the cat was as friendly as Hiccup had claimed. The slightly scrawny brunet was out at the moment, and Jack had never been left alone with Toothless, so he was hoping that he wouldn't be seen as an intruder - weren't cats territorial like that?

The creature's bright green eyes observed Jack curiously for a moment, before he nestled his head back between his paws and continued napping. Letting out a relieved sigh, Jack maneuvered around the mess on the floor and plopped down onto his bed. He then pulled his phone from his pocket and quickly checked his messages, only to find that he had none.

Huffing in frustration, he dropped his phone onto the bed and rolled onto his back, his eyes tracing invisible patterns on the ceiling. He had been hoping for a message from his sister, Pippa, but it seemed she was still settling in. He couldn't blame her, really - she was, after all, just a fourteen-year-old girl who had moved across the country, leaving behind all her friends. But she was also a fourteen-year-old girl who had just lost her mother. And Jack figured she'd want to talk to him.

They had grown up with a single-mother, whose health begun to fail when Jack was around Pippa's age. But she still provided the best life she could, and Jack tried to make things as easy as possible, losing his childhood reputation of troublemaker and busting his butt off in school. He had even won several scholarships by the end of his senior year, so their mother didn't have to pay a cent of tuition for his college. He had opted to stay close to home, and went to Burgess Community College up until his mother's death.

It was then that their absent father came back into the picture, and uprooted their life in Burgess. He was granted custody of Pippa, and relocated her to Arendelle, a small town where he lived with their step mother. Jack had been outraged, and tried to gain custody of his younger sister, but the courts denied him a hearing. So instead, he had to pool together every cent he had, and moved to Arendelle as well, enrolling himself in the local university.

And so far, he had only seen Pippa once since moving - their step mother had talked their father into inviting Jack over for Christmas dinner, though it did end in a violent yelling-match between the two men. Jack had never really gotten along with his father, and it didn't come as much of a surprise when Mr. Overland banned him from ever stepping foot inside his home again.

Feeling his fists curl in anger, Jack decided to distract himself from his torn home life. Instead, he attempted to focus on how he liked Arendelle so far. It was a cute little town, consisting of upper class individuals who weren't snobbish, for the most part. His off-brand clothes and rusty old pickup truck had earned him a few odd looks, though he didn't really mind. So far, nobody had said anything to him that couldn't be seen as friendly.

Well, except for Elsa.

The way she dismissed him so easily was maddening - never before had Jack been brushed off so quickly. He was basically an expert on wooing women, and finding a date for every Friday night was a piece of cake (even though he enjoyed spending his weekends alone with his video games). But if he desired a bit of female company, he was never disappointed.

But the blonde-haired, blue-eyed beauty seemed to go out of her way to avoid him. She even ditched her sister to get out of a potential conversation with him, and he had the feeling that her and Anna were pretty close. So, it was obvious - either Elsa legitimately hated his guts, or she was just playing hard to get.

Jack really hoped it was the latter.

His musings were soon cut short, though, when the door to his dorm swung open, and a pile of wood and scrap metal walked in. Looking closer, he could make out his roommate's legs beneath the mass of junk.

"Well, hey there, Toothless! Did you miss me buddy?"

The cat had perked up immediately at the sight of his owner, his eyes shining bright with curiosity as Hiccup kicked the door closed.

Jack watched in amusement as his roommate staggered into the room, before dumping his load onto the floor. It was then that the brunet noticed him lying on the bed, and nearly jumped a foot in the air.

"Whoa - I didn't see you there!" Hiccup exclaimed, once he found his footing.

Jack merely smiled, unsure of what to say. He had arrived in Arendelle a few days before Christmas, so he had been living with Hiccup for well over a week, yet they hadn't really talked much. Despite it having been winter break, Hiccup had been particularly busy with his inventions, and Jack had elected to explore the town with his younger step brother, Jamie. Which really meant that he had spent most of his time in Jamie's old apartment, playing endless hours of video games.

Despite the fact that Jamie was part of his evil step family, Jack got along with him pretty well. In fact, he got along with his entire step family fabulously; it was his dad that he had trouble with - but that was beside the point. Jamie Bennett-Overland was an exceptionally bright seventeen-year-old college freshman, who gracefully gave up the apartment his parents were paying for and moved into the dorms. Apparently, Mr. Overland had been worried that Pippa's added cost to the family would put a bit of a strain on their otherwise easy lifestyle. Which only fueled Jack's hate for his greedy, absentee father.

But Jamie was a good kid, even though Jack's father had been his male role model for most of his life. Don Overland had left Jack's mother shortly after Pippa was born, and remarried Jamie's mother a year later, when the boy was four. He used to visit Jack and Pippa every three months, but after their half-sister, Sophie, was born, the visits decreased to yearly, and eventually none at all. A phone call or two during the holidays was as much as they ever received from their father.

Feeling his anger return, Jack decided to distract himself by maybe making some small talk with his roommate.

"So..." he began awkwardly, having nothing really to talk about. Hiccup was an engineering student with a strange love for cats - they didn't have much in common.

"Have you got your schedule all sorted out yet?" Hiccup asked absently as he sat himself on the floor, his hands busily making use of the junk.

"Yeah, this morning, actually," Jack replied, his face twisting in confusion as he watched his roommate tinker.

"That's good - it can be hell trying do that when classes have already started."

"Uh huh."

They fell back into an awkward silence, though the brunet didn't seem to mind. He appeared to be content with the quiet, giving Jack the impression that he didn't have much of a social life - despite being a nice guy. Maybe it was the cat thing?

"Any particular reason you're wearing a coffee-stained hoodie?" Hiccup mused casually, not even lifting his eyes from his work.

Feeling his face flush slightly, Jack looked down, only to see he had, in fact, neglected to change. Smiling sheepishly, he pulled himself out of bed and headed for the small closet. Opening the door and dodging a few failed inventions as they fell from the shelf, Jack hurriedly pulled out a clean shirt and quickly changed into it.

"It's a long story..." he replied with a chuckle, before an idea popped into his head. Despite Hiccup seeming pretty uninvolved with the other students, he wondered idly if the brunet could answer a few questions of his. "Hey, Hiccup?"

"Hmm?" his roommate grunted absently.

Hoping to seem nonchalant, Jack strode over to his bed, sitting down on it casually.

"Do you happen to know a... huh, what was her name," he began, feigning confusion for a moment. After all, Hiccup could have been a big man on campus for all he knew, and Jack didn't want to seem too eager. Maybe Arendelle chicks were into the nerdy type. "Uh... Elsa! Do you know an Elsa?"

Not even glancing up from his junk pile, Hiccup let out a hearty chuckle. "Don't even bother, dude. She's a Princess."

Genuinely confused now, Jack knitted his brows together as he regarded his roommate's answer. "She's a what?"

"A Princess," Hiccup answered simply. But after Jack failed to show any sign of understanding, the brunet let out another chuckle. "She's a Delta Zeta - we call them Princesses," he explained, finally gracing Jack with eye contact. "They're like, the sorority here at Arendelle, and Elsa's like, the Princess - her name is Elsa Arendelle, after all."

Jack quickly put two and two together, his eyes widening at this new information. No wonder Elsa seemed unphased by him - she was probably used to being pursued by countless guys. Not only was she gorgeous, but she was in a sorority and most likely a member of the founding family of Arendelle - unless that was just some really crazy coincidence. But Jack doubted that.

"So you do know her?" he asked, pretending not to care about her potential status.

"Not personally," Hiccup shrugged, his focus returning to his tinkering. "I mean, I think she was in my psych class, but I've never talked to her. She doesn't really associate with non-Greeks."

Jack had figured as much, though he decided not to say anything. Instead, he asked a more pressing question.

"Does she have a boyfriend?"

Another bout of laughter slipped through Hiccup's lips as he sat back in mirth. Toothless, who had been eyeing his owner curiously, took the opportunity to hop into the brunet's lap, though Hiccup didn't seem to mind. Once he controlled his breathing, he gave Jack a look of pity.

"Like I said, dude, don't even bother." But again, Jack only stared at him blankly, causing Hiccup to release an exasperated sigh. "No, no boyfriend that I know of," he admitted, idly stroking his cat. "But either way, you have no chance. She's a Princess, and Princesses don't date mere peasants."

Scoffing incredulously, Jack held his hand to his heart in mock-offense. "What makes you think I am a mere peasant?"

Another laugh escaped Hiccup's lips as he continued petting Toothless. "Well, the glaring absence of Greek letters on your shirt might have given me that impression. Plus, the fact that you're living in these ratty old dorms is kinda giving you away, too."

Jack rolled his eyes fondly as he leaned back against the wall. Even though Elsa had acted like she wanted nothing to do with him, something told him she wasn't one to dismiss people who didn't belong to the Greek system. She seemed like a nice, polite girl, and he just happened to run into her on a bad day. Maybe their next meeting would be more in his favor.

"Damn it," Hiccup muttered to himself, attempting to work around the sleeping cat in his lap. Jack shook his head in amusement, before reaching for his phone. Unlocking it once more, he felt his heart sink when he saw that there were still no new messages. Hopefully Pippa wasn't mad at him - she did seem pretty upset when he and their father were fighting. Perhaps she had taken their dad's side? That would really suck.

But as he thought on it further, he realized she was probably just busy with Sophie, their half-sister. She was turning ten this year, and was a bit of a handful. Though the two girls always got along, Pippa was an irritable teenager now, and hanging out with their little sister probably wasn't how she wanted to be spending her time.

Smiling at the thought, Jack decided to instead send Jamie a quick text. They had agreed on meeting at his new dorm earlier, but when Jack finally managed to find it, Jamie hadn't been home. Of course, it did allow him to have a brief conversation with Elsa, whose sister was living right across from Jamie. Maybe there would be more run-in's with the Princess in the near future - a thought that brought a devious smirk to Jack's face. He was going to get Elsa to go out with him, one way or another, whether it be for coffee or a quick tour of the campus. She was just too beautiful for Jack to ignore, as well as infuriating. But Jack always liked a challenge.

Realizing he had spaced out, Jack quickly texted Jamie a simple 'where were you' before hopping off of his bed and heading towards the door.

Giving Hiccup a quick "See you later", Jack exited their dorm and headed for the elevator. Maybe giving himself a tour of the campus would take his mind off of his family, and he'd might even run into Jamie. Or Elsa.

Hopefully he'd run into Elsa. Like she had pointed out earlier, he seemed to enjoy it.


Hopefully my writing is clear enough to understand, but in case anybody got lost, Jack and Pippa are full siblings, with Sophie as their half-sister and Jamie as their step-brother. I decided to go with the conventional name of Pippa for the sister (since I like the name haha), and then I figured that Jamie and Jack being related would be a believable way for those two to be friends. Also, I aged up Jamie so that he could be a freshman in college.

I hope everyone is in character, and that Hiccup being an engineering student made sense. Though, I'm not sure what I'll have the others major in - so I'd love some suggestions. Something that fits their personalities, I guess. Also, the others will arrive shortly - I'm basically introducing a new character every chapter, as not to bombard you guys with a butt-load of people!

Also, I'd like to thank everyone who has reviewed and whatnot! And I hope you guys will continue enjoying this story! :P