Jackunzel Drabbles (The Original)

A Little Competition

“Whas’ the poeint of this ag’n?” Merida scowled watching from the theater chairs as the students yelled out ‘freeze and replaced another student in the scene. It was called improv and the Scott would rather watch Hiccup brush his dog than sit through one more lame joke. It was like some sick form of torture but she couldn’t back out now. Rapunzel had taken elective classes with her last year that she didn’t like so it was only right that the red head would do the same this year. On the upside it was better than pottery or heaven forbid an art class. She visibly shuttered at the mere thought of having to sit through a lecture on paint. It was literally a class of watching paint dry.

“It’s just a warm up, Mer!” she said, watching the stage as if they were real actors.

Her bubbly demeanor was adorable yet today was just one of those days where she felt like being a bitch of a best friend and ditching. She opted for sighing obnoxiously, thinking about the boxing class she could’ve taken instead of this. Jack was in that class and she was itching for a reason to hit him in the face if only to say she did. She chuckled at the thought.

“See? It’s funny!” she whispered excitedly. Merida gave a halfhearted smile, not having the heart to tell the lass that her own thoughts were funnier that these bampots (1). The scene had finished not long after, Rapunzel had taken her turn in the spot light for a moment before the professor called ‘end scene’.

“Before you go, I want you to partner up with someone you don’t know,” Professor Tooth said, giggling at everyone’s mumbles and grunts of disapproval, “After you do that, come and pick up a scene from me. We’ll be starting acting techniques on Wednesday so it’s up to you to practice and apply the techniques on your own time. Performance day is in two weeks.”

With a flick of dainty bangled wrist, the woman with rainbow hair set off the class to find a partner. Merida’s face was frozen in a look of utter disbelief.

“Aye! Punzie, d’s is ‘ot wut aye signe’d up for!” she practically yelled. Rapunzel winced and stood up, looking about as people began to mingle and get partners.

“Oh come on, it’s supposed to be fun! We get to meet new people, make new friends. We’ve always been partners, it’ll be something new!” she said with a grin, shaking Merida slightly in her excitement. The Scot scowled.

“Aye don’ waunt to mak’ nuo friens’.” She glowered. It wasn’t long before a large boy, easily over six foot made his way up to the red head. His size betrayed the nervous look he had, messy blonde hair under a backwards baseball hat. His chest was much broader than his waist, his legs seemed almost short in comparison. His large hands fiddled with the strap of his backpack. He looked utterly shaking, though he towered over the two girls.

“Umm…would you…uh like to be my partner?” he said, his voice was soft and childlike, muscles bunched under his baseball shirt as he fidgeted.

The girls looked at each other before Merida spoke up, “yoo mean mei?”

He nodded, “I know you’re on the lacrosse team and we p-practice at the same t-time so I thought we could f-figure out a schedule b-better that way. I understandifyoudontwantto—”

“She’d love to!” Rapunzel gushed, pushing Merida forward.

The boys smile was as innocent and full of unexpected delight that the Scott had no choice. He reminded her too much of Hiccup to say no. Merida held out her hand to him,

“Gimme ‘ur phon. Yoo can text me af’tr practice taeday.” The boy nodded and fumbled through his backpack for his cell phone as Merida watched him with a bored look. She turned over to Rapunzel, “Aye, go fin’d a par’ner. Tis gonne tae awhil’.”