Elsa
"So how long have you two been with each other?"
"For the millionth time, I don't like Luke" Trevor laughs.
"Yeah right. Then who do you like?" I look over at the picture hung up in my bedroom wall. It's a picture of Jack and I when we were 4. We were making mud pies and Jack had it all over his white hair and I had it all over my icy blue dress. Trevor follows my eyes. "Jack?" I look back at him. He sighs. "Oh Elsa" he hugs me and I hug back.
"I just can't stop myself, we fight a lot and that's a problem. We both want different things but I just can't stop myself from liking him" he pats my back.
"I know" he says. My door opens and in comes my mom.
"Elsa?" She asks.
"Hi Marisa" Trevor says.
"Trevor, what's going on?" She asks and sits next to me.
"It's Jack" I don't dare look up at my mom. I continue to stare down at my feet. "I'm going to go" Trevor says getting up. "Please, call me if you need anything"
"Thank you Trevor" my mom says, most likely with a smile. I hear the door close and I know I'm alone with my mom. "Elsa look at me" she says. I slowly lift my head. Here blue eyes are soft as usual and her smile shows that she cares. "Why are you crying?" I'm crying. I hate crying, it makes me vulnerable. I try to stop it but it doesn't work and my mom seems to notice. "Elsa, I'm your mother. It's okay to let it out"
"I-it's Jack. We're in the middle of a fight and, and-"
"Rapunzels mother told me" she says. "About her and Jack"
"Gosh this is so stupid" I say and put my head in my hands.
"It's not stupid" she says. "But it's also not worth crying about. You made a mistake and all you have to do is fix it" I look up at her.
"F-fix it?"
"Everything can be fixed" she says. She wipes away my tears and I slightly smile. I know what I have to do now. Jack and I can't work out as a couple but I like him to much to let him go. I lay my head on her lap. She runs her fingers through my hair.
"Where's dad?" I sniff.
"He's coming in another hour or two"
"That's good. Is the problem solved?" She sighs.
"Yes, but not in a good way"
"I can help" I say sitting up. "Please, let me help"
"Honey I'm afraid that I can't let you help on this one. At least, not yet"
"Yet?" She doesn't answer directly but instead she answers with a question.
"How's the toy drive coming along?"
"Good actually, I'm almost done" she pets my hair.
"You may not know it but your helping us more than ever now" she gets up and kisses my head.
"W-where are you going?"
"I'm going to make some quick phone calls. I'll be over before you know it" I nod and she leaves. I sit alone in my room wiping away some tears. I grab my phone.
'Can you be Santa for the toy drive? It's not about us it's about the kids...Please, your fathers done it before so I thought, maybe you'd like to try? plz text me when you can' ~E
A few minutes went by and hope started to fade. But then, my phone beeped.
'I'll do it' ~J
'Great, can you help out today?'~E
