Heavy is the Head

Half Term - Broken Glass

Chapter 13

Aurora and Snow White were the first to leave out of the Seasons Squad because Aurora offered to give Snow White a lift and then her Aunt Merryweather came to pick them both up as soon as they were allowed out. There were a lot of family members in the reception room, waiting to pick up their children and this was due to the assembly that Mrs Oldenburg sprang on everyone that ran over time because there was a particularly exciting notice shared.

In summary, the weather forecast predicted that Arendelle would be experiencing the worst series of blizzards recorded in 21 years after the half term break and so in order to control the numbers and make sure everyone was safe, both the boys and girls school would be merging until the weather was back to normal. This would work by everyone moving to the new building owned by the school on the other side of Arendelle because it had better facilities to combat cold weather and was larger than both of the Northuldra Academies combined.

The building was located right next to the North Mountain, a popular tourist destination, and so the building's nickname was simply 'North Mount'. It was originally going to be a co-ed version of the Northuldra Academies with Elsa Oldenburg and Honeymaren Nattura being joint headmistresses in the new year after some of the classrooms were fixed up, but Mrs Oldenburg said that this was going to be sped up and all students would need to make their way to North Mount when they came back from their two week holiday as the normal Northuldra Academy buildings would be locked.

There were many different reactions to this news. Some were scared that they would be separated from their friends, because Mrs Oldenburg said that you would need to sign up for who you wanted to room with quickly otherwise you would be put with random people. Snow White was mainly just a bit annoyed at the fact that lessons would now be disrupted and a whole new timetable would need to be figured out. Snow White had just started getting the hang of things and now they would be flipped upside down again. Not to mention the fact that now there was going to be a complete lockdown on the school so no leaving for any unnecessary purposes. And who knew how long it would take until things got back to normal.

People such as Ariel's sister, Adella, heard that the boys would be going with them were over the moon. Others were fuming, and Snow White was fairly certain that she heard a girl in the year above them with a strong Scottish accent and a fiery red mane of hair mutter that she needed to restock on her arrows. At least, that's what she thought she heard.

Overall, the general outlook was positive though, because North Mount was a beautiful place with loads of space and larger dormitories people only had to glance at pictures of before they were sold on the idea. A substantial number of the younger ones loitered around campus in large groups for ages, excitedly chattering among themselves until Megara, Tinkerbell, Dory and Te Fiti came with megaphones and told them to disperse. However, it wasn't until Te Ka (Te Fiti's twin sister and joint resident hall director of the Fire dorms) made an appearance causing everyone to scatter immediately.

Snow White had already called Hilde to say that a friend was going to be dropping her off, even though she wasn't completely sure if Aurora even classed her as a friend. With Ariel it was obvious, and although Jasmine had taken a bit of time to warm up to her, she would definitely class her as a friend too. It was different with Aurora, mainly because of the fact that she had used her brother to try and find out information about her which she had apologised for to be fair, but it was still weird and slightly unsettling.

To make matters worse, Aurora was also an up and coming superstar who had millions of fans and in a normal setting, you'd imagine it couldn't really get any more intimidating than that. Unless you were rooming with a girl whose father was a billionaire and had just become the 'little sister' of a certain red-haired girl who was going to have an official title soon and who had won several high prestige swimming competitions and was well on her way to becoming an Olympic athlete. And what made Snow White sick to her stomach was how humble they all were, as though these things were standard! Snow White had only heard about half of these things from the other girls in the Air dormitories and if she had a hard time not comparing herself to other people before she arrived at Northuldra Academy, she was struggling far more now. Because realistically speaking, what did she have to offer? What did she bring to the table, and why had Mrs Oldenburg specifically chosen her for the scholarship?