Arendelle Academy [high school AU mericcup jelsa RotBTFD Big 8]

Chapter 10: Jack

"Elsa, is that you?"

Oh, I get it, I'm a prop!

"Hey, Flynn."

His eyes registered surprise, but in a good way.

Gag!

"What are you doing here? I thought you were homeschooled?" He asked, smiling from to ear.

"Obviously not anymore!" She replied, grinning in return.

"So what are you doing here?"

"Oh something happened at home, and umm," she bit her lip, "yeah, so now I'm here."

She put her head on my shoulder, and I hate to think so, but it felt so . . . right.

It was then that "Flynn" finally saw me standing there. He looked a little disappointed.

"Oh, I didn't realize you were with somebody now."

"Yeah," she smiled, "uhh, Jack and I have been together for while."

If by a while she means five seconds, then yeah, we've been together for a while now.

I already felt the moment get awkward as they stared at each other like old friends. No, old more-than-friends.

"Ok, well we should get going," I interrupted.

"Oh yeah, I should get to class, my tour giving period is almost over."

"Ok. Well, see you in the halls, Ice Queen."

"See you in the halls, Charmiester!"

Charmiester! Ha! They even have nicknames for each other.

I felt like I had just walked into a knife, looked down and said 'Oh look, I've been impaled!'.

I felt used.

I felt . . . mixed emotions, because Elsa's head was still on my shoulder, which really didn't bother me at all.

She smelled like . . . peppermint.

As soon as Flynn had left the hall we were in though, I took my arm off of her shoulder and moved away before I felt too much temptation.

"Oh," she blushed, "I hadn't realized that I was still doing that."

"Yeah, I bet you hadn't, you were too busy googly eyes at the Charmiester. I don't see why you needed me anyway, you could've easily gotten back together with," I sighed and switched into my girly voice, "Flynn, without me in the way."

"Jack that's the point! I'm just not ready for a relationship right now. I'll tell you why later, but right now you just have to trust me when I say, you totally helped me dodge a bullet just now."

I hung my head playfully.

"C'mon," she pleaded.

"Ok," I replied reluctantly with my head still down.

Suddenly I felt something cold hit the back of my neck.

What was that?

I reached for the back of my neck and picked off some of the pieces.

Ice pieces.

SNOWBALL!

Oh it's on!

I held my hand in front of me a blew myself a snowball.

Ok, maybe two or four more, I thought.

So I blew myself a couple more snowballs, but its till didn't feel like enough.

I made myself about 12 dozen, decided I was ready, and spun around on my heel.

Retreat! Retreat!

In front of me stood Elsa, with the most humongous snowball I'd ever seen.

"Are you, by any chance, gonna separate that into one hundred independent snowballs?" I asked hopefully.

"You know what," she began, smiling her beautiful smile, "I don't think so."

Suddenly the snow was flying towards me. First it my chest, but the force of the ball was so great that it pushed against the wall. Hard.

"Woohoo!" I heard, before I closed my eyes and lowered my head.

"Alright Jack, that was fun but now you have to clean this up. Jack? Jack! Jack, are you ok?!"

Oh, revenge would be sweet.

"Please, please, please be o-"

"Gotcha!" I yelled as I almost got whiplash from bringing my head up so fast.

But the picture I "awoke" to was definitely not good.

Tears streamed down Elsa's face and she fell on the floor with her back hunched over like all she had were her arms to support her.

"Elsa? Elsa, what's wrong?" I asked desperately.

She raised a fist and was about to punch me in the chest when her arm drooped and she let the fist fall on my stomach without any strength.

"Don't! Don't scare me like that!" She cried.

"Is that why you're crying? Elsa, it takes more than a snowball to make me pass out, much less kill me."

I put my arm around her like I had before, but this time it felt more intimate. More real. It was only meant to comfort her, but I couldn't help hearing my heart beat a little faster, a little harder.

She sniffled.

"Just don't do that. So many people have died around me, I don't want it to happen all over again," she got a little more quite and lowered her head as she mumbled the last part, "Especially not to my first real friend."

My ears turned red, but I stayed in the position I was in.

I didn't want to leave.

And I had a feeling she didn't want to leave either.

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I checked the time. Seven minutes had passed. I could stay like this forever, but I needed to be able to go to class.

Plus, we couldn't sit in the hall together during a passing period without people looking at us funny.

"Elsa, we have to get up."

"I guess I'm ok now, so yeah, we should get up," she agreed.

We both stood up and before we started on our way to theatre, I grabbed her shoulders and made her face me.

"Are you really alright?"

"Yeah, I'm alright."

"Good, because I promise that I will never, ever, ever do that to you ever again. And when I promise something, I never break that promise. I'm sorry."

"Thanks, Jack," she smiled weakly, "your a good friend."

So we walked on, constantly "accidentally" bumping hands, but never apologizing.

Then she stopped.

"Jack, my free period still has a little bit of time left, can I swing by somewhere real quick?"

"Alright, where to?"

"Umm, I don't think you want to go with me to the restroom."

I chuckled.

She blushed.

"You know I didn't mean it like that!"

"Ok, I know, I know," I said raising my hands in surrender, "But you're right though, I'll just meet you at theatre."

"K, see you in theatre!" She shouted as she headed down the opposite hallway from mine.

For just a moment I could still smell peppermint on my sleeve.

That girl, she's pretty cool, I thought, as I strolled all the way to my next class.