A Life at Dreamixney High: Senior Year

3: Pranks and Punishments

MERIDA received several texts from her friends for the rest of the week, she had been avoiding them as much as possible. Most of the messages were from Hiccup and Anna. All of them were asking if she was okay. How could she be okay? What did that even mean anyway?

One message finally caught her attention--it was from Elsa who had so far been the only one that seemed to realize Merida needed space. 

I'll be at your place in ten, pack a bag ~Elsa

Merida wasn't in the mood to question, she wasn't in the mood to do anything. But she stuffed a duffel bag with pajamas, a change of clothes, and her phone charger anyway. What was the point in fighting? There were only two people that matched her stubbornness, one being Elsa, the other was Hiccup. Usually Merida would be able to charm her way around Hiccup, but she could never win with Elsa.

Once she was done packing, she went into the kitchen to find her mother. She was barely able to look Elinor in the eye, still unable to share her secret with anyone in fear of what they would say or do. "Elsa's pickin' me up in a lil bit."

"Oh! Good!" Everyone in the DunBroch house had noticed Merida's bad mood, so Elinor was glad she was getting out of the house in hopes it would cheer the girl up. "Have fun dear."

"Yeah. Bye mum."

"Love ya dear." Elinor gave her a hug, causing Merida to tense. Thankfully the embrace didn't last very long.

"Love ya too. I'm going ta wait outside."

She didn't wait for her mother's reply, walking right out the ancient looking wooden door that lead to the front porch. Elsa was there exactly at the ten minute mark. Merida picked up her bag and got in the passenger seat of the car. "What ar' we doin'?"

Elsa pulled the car out of the driveway, "Rapunzel wanted to have a sleepover, and I can't tolerate them without you. The guys are there too, but Punz was expecting them later--they're gonna try to prank her." In any other circumstance, Merida would want in on the pranking, but she was to busy worrying over Hiccup being there that she didn't fully take in what Elsa was saying.

KRISTOFF watched from behind a bush as Elsa and Merida entered Rapunzel's house. He whispered into a walkie-talkie, making sure to use the code words they had agreed on earlier. "Snow Princess and Raged Red have entered the Castle."

"Roger that," was Flynn's response. He, Jack, and Hiccup had snuck into the mansion earlier without Rapunzel or Anna knowing, preparing their traps. Hiccup was caught by Elsa but, to the boys' surprise, she promised not to tell as long as they swore not to attack her.

"Phase one in position?" Hiccup asked--he was the one to plan everything out. 

"Copy, phase one in position." Jack answered.

Kristoff left his spot from behind the bush and crawled into the open window next to him. Careful not to let Rapunzel, Anna, or Merida see him, he joined a waiting Hiccup in the kitchen. "Merida is going to kill you, you know."

Hiccup frowned, his green eyes burning with nothing but determination. "That's why I'm doing this, her wanting to kill me is better than having her ignore me and sulk around like she has been the past week.  All I want is for her to talk to me, to tell me what's wrong."

Kristoff understood, but luckily for him Anna was back to her chipper self only two weeks after Mister and Misses Arendelle's deaths. "Jack's going through it with Elsa too, you guys just gotta hang in there."

"But Merida's parents didn't die, her mom didn't go into remission--I called Mrs. DunBroch to check--she won't tell anyone what's going on."

"If I knew I would tell you in a heartbeat."