Guardians and Angels

Chapter 5: Jack

Rapunzel.

My first impression of her was likened to an angel. Her long, blonde hair was like a perfectly lit halo atop her head, and her smile could only be described as heavenly. She had a very enlightening personality that was uplifting and cordial. She redefined beauty; not just because she was attractive, but because she was so enticing and likeable. In all honesty, she was everything Hiccup said and more... a lot more.

Everything was going so well until my girlfriend showed up. She ruined the happy mood we were all having with her appalling and extremely rude remarks.

Poor Rapunzel had a discouraged frown plaguing her once lit up face. When Merida tried to comfort her friend, Rapunzel had already fled the scene, not meeting any of our eyes and not saying anything.

"Great," Merida snapped and turned to Elsa. "I just got her feeling happy again and you just had to ruin it, didn't you?!" Merida raised her voice and gave off an infuriated scowl.

Then she turned to me in a sharp movement. "Learn to keep your girlfriend under control, Jack. And keep her away from my best friend." With that she turned and ran after Rapunzel.

Without speaking a word, Hiccup and I conversed of whether he should go help Rapunzel or not. We both decided it would be best if he went with them. She needed all the comfort she could get.

Now that everyone was gone, I jerked to Elsa and stared at her in disbelief. "What the heck was that all about?"

"I was just being honest. She did it to herself anyway," Elsa defended like she was completely innocent.

I narrowed my eyes at her even more. "What you did was way out of line, Elsa."

"She was being too overly sensitive." She rolled her blue eyes and scoffed.

"Unbelievable..." I glared at her for a moment, while she acted like she did nothing wrong.

I had a hard time believing that this intrusive and insulting girl in front of me was my girlfriend. She has never acted like that towards anyone before and I could barely look at her right now.

"We're leaving."

She looked a little hurt by my sharp tone, but right now I could care less. I needed to get her home before I blew up in her face about how callous she was acting.

To say the car ride was awkward would be an understatement. It was unwieldy. I couldn't look at her for fear of strangling her neck, my chest burned with a deadly fire and it was clawing it's fiery hands at me trying to consume my actions. This was my demon fighting it's way out.

"This is all her fault," Elsa mumbled.

I growled in the back of my throat but kept my mouth shut and my focus on the road. Dying was not on my agenda tonight, and no matter how mad I was at Elsa, I didn't want to end up killing her because I couldn't focus on driving.

When I finally pulled up to her house, I felt like I was released from from my job of sewage duty. My energy was drained and my enthusiasm sat in the gutter. Her sordidity caused this exasperation, just like it always has.

"Oh, by the way, I'm gonna start eating lunch with Anna now. Just so you know," Elsa spoke up, disregarding what we were talking about.

I nodded my head, but avoided looking at her.

"Well, tonight was fun. I'll call or text you later." She kissed my cheek and left.

I groaned and rubbed my temples. Elsa must be insane if she thought tonight was "fun" but that wasn't the cause of my massive headache. My head hurt because I was trying to logically reason with Elsa's behavior and the origins of the strangeness of her actions, but all it did was increase the pounding in my head. When that attempt turned out futile, my thoughts fluttered to the beautiful blonde I met tonight and how I would apologize to her tomorrow.