Chapter 5.
Anna wiped her tears as she hung up her phone. She had never felt so determined, since what she told her sister about going to get her was real. She hurried to her closet and started to toss out all her clothes, which caused her room to be a mess. She threw a few other garments to her bed, when two gentle knocks were heard from the door. "Milady?" Anna heard from the other side of her bedroom door.
It's Kai! Anna thought. "Just a min—, hold on a second!" Panicked, the redhead tried to clean her room picking all her beautiful clothes, but she only made a mountain of dresses on her bed. "C-come in!"
"Excuse me. I brought you some chamomile tea, miss A-… Miss Anna," Kai stopped talking when he noticed the chaotic state of how Anna's room was; he cleared his throat and questioned her, "Miss Anna, what are you doing?"
"Good evening, Kai. Well, you see…" Anna took a deep breath and looked at the servant's eyes, "I want to go and see Elsa, and I'm going to San Fransokyo. Or… that's what I'm thinking… Kai, I really need to see her, I-I don't understand why she's so far away, I really don't. I am going to get her back, I really am!" A few seconds of quietness passed, and the redhead gasped happily, "What if… I get to live with Elsa in San Fransokyo! I think it'd be a nice change. I've always wanted to travel to a faraway country…"
"Milady, what about school? I'm afraid you can't drop it" Kai said, offering the white and elegant cup filled with chamomile tea.
"Ooh, I'd love to be a foreign student. I can practice my English there, and maybe even learn Japanese! It sounds perfect!" The teenager exclaimed jumpy, spilling the hot tea on her hands, "O-ouch! Anyways" she took a small sip, "maybe I can go there next week. I want to go there as soon as possible!"
Kai sighed and answered, "I'm not sure you can leave that soon, but I'll try to make it as soon as possible. I'm glad you feel a lot better, miss" he spoke quietly.
"Thank you so much, Kai. And thank you for the tea." Anna smiled warmly, handing Kai the half empty cup.
Elsa was lying on her bed, moving her right hand majestically, casting her ice magic. She only made small snowflakes, dancing on her hands; she was looking at them emotionally. Two hours had passed since she had spoken by the phone with her little sister. It was only afternoon and a lot of things happened to her that single day. She exhaled noisily, and closed her hand into a fist, making all the twirling snowflakes disappear. She closed her eyes, recalling all the things she made that day; she thought of Grand Pabbie and his unclear answers, she thought of Tadashi, the pork bun and the kiss. Elsa covered her face with her hands and groaned, thinking it was an uncanny day. She turned to her left in a fetal pose, looked at her non-moving cellphone beside her, and around five minutes later, she took a nap. She had a dream where she was with the 6-year-old Anna, jumping in circles around Elsa, shouting excitedly "Elsa, do your magic! Do the magic!" The blonde laughed and knelt in front of tiny Anna, moving her hands kindly and created a small snowball, then tossed it up, making a big and blue snowflake which turned into tiny snowflakes falling all around the living room. She played with little Anna for hours, Elsa felt so happy to play with her sister, that even joyful tears started to stream down her face. The blonde felt something vibrating on her bed, causing her to wake up from her dream. She felt her eyes wet and started to rub them, noticing that she was actually crying. Elsa wasn't surprised; she looked at her cellphone – item that woke her up – and saw that the time said it was four o'clock. Still in fetal pose, she unlocked her cellphone and noted that she had a new unread message.
Tadashi arrived to the coffee shop and greeting Aunt Cass, who was serving coffee to a customer. She smiled at him and greeted him back, "Welcome back, Tadashi. Hmm? Did something happen? You look happy!" She smirked.
"I do? Yeah, I guess something good happened today. I'll go upstairs and leave my backpack in my room" the dark haired replied, showing her his shoulder bag and slightly lifting it. As he went upstairs, he looked at his phone, and then searched for his contacts. He looked at Elsa's name for a long time, hesitating if he should send her a text or not. He took all of his courage and wrote her a short message that only said "Hello" and a smiley-face. He smiled and sent it, feeling a little anxious. Tadashi went to his bedroom and left his backpack on his bed; he saw his 12-year-old brother holding a straight face while playing a portable videogame, not noticing Tadashi's presence.
"Don't you have homework to do?" Tadashi asked.
"I already did it" Hiro replied, eyes locked on his game. Tadashi only rolled his eyes and headed downstairs, since he still had to work on his part-time job at the café.
Tadashi picked up a green apron from the wall hanger and put it on. He began to serve clients right away with a bright attitude that even some of the female customers –before leaving the coffee bar– left him a great amount of tip and a small paper with a cellphone number, their name, and a small drawn heart beside it. Tadashi didn't understand how he got the numbers from clients –not only female, but also got from a few males from time to time– pretty often, he didn't really mind, but he never had the courage to actually message them, or more like, he didn't feel like texting them.
The café's closing time came in a blink of an eye; Tadashi began to rub his eyes with his thumb and index fingers, massaging them from exhaustion since he had a long day. The dark haired went upstairs and prepared himself to go to bed, putting on his comfortable pajamas. He jumped to his bed and checked his cellphone, noticing he had a message from Elsa. Oh, right. He had forgotten about the message, he didn't notice since his phone was in silent mode. Tadashi half-smiled and opened the unread text from the platinum blonde, she replied with a "Hi!" and a cute emoji. He looked at the hour when he received it and it was just five minutes later when he mailed the text. He felt guilty leaving her without speaking for almost five hours straight, so he rushed to reply her, explaining why the so-late-reply.
"I'm sorry for the delayed reply. I had my phone on silent mode since I was on my part-time job at the coffee shop; I didn't notice you had replied. Again, I'm sorry."
Tadashi looked at his phone, and before he knew it, he had already received her text. "It's okay. You seem to be a very hardworking man."
"Thank you for understanding! I was wondering if you'll be busy tomorrow, Sunday, I know of this place and I was wondering if you'd like to go with me. Y'know, to get to know about us a little more"
Elsa bit her lips when she read Tadashi's message. She wasn't busy that day, but she just felt it wasn't the moment leave outside. Even though she was happy that Tadashi invited her to go together to some place, she wasn't in the mood to leave her room at all.
"No problem. Thank you for inviting me, but I'll have to decline your offer. You see, some things happened and I just don't feel like… I'm sorry, but I'm very happy that you invited me, Tadashi. Maybe next time. I'd still love to know more about you."
"Oh, I see. It's ok, don't worry. I hope everything gets better soon! "
They chatted for hours, until both fell asleep without noticing.
Two weeks passed flying by and Elsa didn't leave her house for that time. She woke up later than usual and looked outside her window and noticed that the sky was hidden behind dark clouds. It looks like it's going to rain today, the blonde thought. She looked down and saw that a black limo was parked with the luggage department opened, showing big suitcases laying in it. The blonde's sleepy face changed to a confused one, and suddenly remembered when she talked with her sister weeks before. Elsa gasped and ran downstairs and spotted everyone at the entrance door, however, she set her eyes on a pigtailed redhead, who was smiling excitedly at everyone. Elsa couldn't believe what she was seeing was actually real or just a dream, so she pinched her cheeks and arms. Her heart started to drum, "I'll come for you", she put a hand on her wide opened mouth and let out a nervous laugh.
Anna looked at the direction where the giggle came from and saw her older sister, still wearing pajamas. The redhead rushed to Elsa's direction, screaming her lungs out. "ELSA!"
"An-," Elsa was interrupted by a sudden hug from her younger sister, and she, unconsciously, wrapped her arms around her sister's slender body for minutes. They broke the embrace and looked at each other's eyes.
"Elsa, I've missed you, it's been so long…"
"I've missed you too, Anna" The older sister said, looking at Anna fondly. Then, she set her eyes on the clear streak on her strawberry blonde hair. Her face turned serious and cleared her throat, "There's something I need to tell you, alone"
Anna blinked a couple of times, and later nodded exaggeratedly. She turned to Kai and told him to leave her luggage at her room, –particularly a room near Elsa's–, and followed Elsa.
Elsa closed her bedroom door and locked it; she closed her large window's curtains and then looked at Anna. She was about to speak when Anna began to ask questions. "Elsa, why are you locking everything? No, I mean, I was about to ask you this first when I got here, um, why are you here? I don't understand why we were separated for a long time. Please, explain it to me…"
"Anna, have you ever thought how you got that… white streak on your hair?
Placing her hand on her head, almost touching the streak, Anna made a confused expression and told her sister, "It's a birthmark… It's a birthmark, isn't it?"
"No. It's not a birthmark. I did it to you"
"You did? How?"
Elsa observed her pale hands, and then gazed her sister. "I did it with…" She paused and let snowflakes fly from her hands, "this".
Anna, astounded, pointed at her sister's hands, "Y-you…! Wow! I don't know what's going on!" Anna began to laugh nervously.
"We were just kids. We were playing with my magic like usual, but something went wrong, and I hurt you. Anna, I could have killed you, but thank God that didn't happen. My magic can be dangerous if I don't learn how to control them. Somehow, you didn't remember what happened, and our parents told you that me having magic were just mere dreams. I became afraid of what was within me, my father thought that concealing and not feeling it were the answer, but he was wrong. He made things worse, even though he wanted to help me, he did the opposite to me, but he didn't know that. I still am afraid of holding these powers, but I'm doing my best to control them. I walked away, fearing of hurting everyone. I was just… trying to protect you." Elsa said with a trembling voice, eyes wet.
Anna grabbed her sister's hands, and stated, "Elsa, I want to make this clear to you. I am not afraid of you. You are my sister; I know you wouldn't harm me." Both sisters smiled at each other and laughed in tears.
"I'm still not sure what I'm capable of… do you want to go to the garden and figure it out?" Elsa suggested.
"Of course I want to! But, do you plan to wear those pajamas all day?"
"Oh, right… I'll change in a minute." Elsa's cheeks flushed because of embarrassment, making her little sister giggle.
Elsa changed her loose pajama pants to simple black jeans, her pajama blouse to a blue turquoise buttoned blouse with ruffles at the cuffs. After changing herself, both sisters headed to the pretty garden and hid themselves.
"Why are we hiding, exactly?" The redhead asked, biting her fingernail.
"I don't know! I guess… I still want to keep this…magic secretly?" They both laughed in silence, "Okay, okay. I guess we could start with…" Elsa stopped speaking and started to move her hands, making a small snowball in her hands
"Build a snowman!" Anna finished, jumping with excitement and wore a smile from ear to ear.
Elsa looked at every direction, making sure no one was looking at them. When she made sure no one was outside, she made the snowball even bigger and threw it at the sky. The both of them looked up, smiling, but their smile didn't last long when it began to hail.
"What the-, Ouch! Run, Elsa! It's not even rain or—ouch, snow! It's hail!" Anna yelled, scared.
"Did I do that? Ow, I didn't mean to!" Elsa yelled back, and started to run beside her little sister. "I just wanted to build a snowman!" She cried.
They both reached to their destination, a safe place where no hail could hit their heads, and both looked at themselves. "Maybe… we could try doing it indoors?" Anna asked.
"I need to fix this first… but I'm not really sure how" Elsa said worried.
Anna placed a hand on her sister's shoulder, encouraging her, "You can do it! I know you can! You don't have to be afraid, Elsa."
The platinum blonde felt at ease with her sister, she took a deep breath and then exhaled it. She tried to concentrate on the situation; she opened her arms and closed her eyes. Anna looked at the garden filled with hail, and in a blink of an eye, the hail started to levitate, turning into small snowflakes going to the sky, and then, an enormous snowflake was at the sky, which then vanished.
"Y-you did it! I knew you could do it" Anna hugged the blonde, and Elsa replied with a smile.
"Hey, do you want to go somewhere? I know this place where it has the best hot chocolate ever. Well, I've only had it once, but I really liked it. Don't tell this to anyone but I think it was a lot better than Gerda's hot chocolate"
"Of course I want to go! I want to know more about this place since I'm going to live here for a semester!"
"Great! Wait, what?"
"I had this great idea of living here for a semester, with you! Then, we can go back to Arendelle!"
Elsa sighed and looked at her sister, accepting her decision. She knew Anna was stubborn sometimes, so, with no other option, she agreed with her. "I guess it's okay. But I don't really know much of San Fransokyo, to be honest. You know… I grew with fear; I don't even know how I managed to leave home!"
"I'd still love to go there. But let's go when it's about five p.m. Okay?"
"Yeah, I think that's a great time."
Elsa helped Anna with her luggage and placed the things where they belonged to. Anna's new room was almost as big as Elsa's, it had a queen sized bed and all bedroom furniture, which were white pearl and they had and five o'clock had already come. Anna observed from her window and saw that it was raining outside, but rain couldn't ruin their plans, since an umbrella was her simple solution. She was about to talk to her older sister, and noticed that she was putting on her hands blue gloves. Puzzled, she questioned her sister. "Why are you wearing the gloves?"
"Eh? Oh… I guess it became quite a habit for me, it made me feel safe"
"You can wear them if you want to, but remember that I'll be here with you. You don't have to be afraid anymore. Okay! Let's get going. I really want to taste the hot chocolate!"
"Thank you so much, Anna. Yes, let's go!" Elsa smiled and both went to the café.
When they entered the coffee shop, both smelled the sweet scent of coffee. "Wow, I'm suddenly hungry" Anna exclaimed.
"I know, right? Let's sit, there's a table here" Elsa pointed at a round table that was near the entrance.
"Welcome to Lucky Cat Café! May I take your order?" the brunette asked cheerily.
"Yes. I want a hot chocolate, please." Said Elsa.
"Um… I want too, hot chocolate, please." Anna said, clutching her big pink sweater, face burning red.
"Okay! Two hot chocolates, do you want anything else?" The brunette chuckled.
"Anna, do you want something else?" Elsa asked her sister in their mother language, and Anna only shook her head. "No, that's all, thank you."
The lady left and Elsa turned to her sister. "Are you shy?"
"Well… It's just that I'm a little afraid of speaking English. They might laugh at my accent, I don't know. Plus, I still need to practice a lot more…" Anna bit her lips, and dodged her sister's gaze.
"Don't worry about it, Anna. Didn't you say you'll go to school? You are a brave girl! You'll be fine." Elsa was about to say something else to her sister when she saw someone familiar enter the coffee bar. Her face, unexpectedly, flushed bright red. Anna, at a complete loss, turned around and saw a tall, slender but muscular, guy. He was wearing a cap, a beige blazer, black t-shirt, and she could notice he was wearing a blue-grayish cardigan sweater; he had black jeans and mint-colored sneakers. The black-haired looked at their direction and noticed Elsa's presence. Tadashi smiled and waved at her. Then, Anna turned to see Elsa and she saw her smiling and waving back at him embarrassedly. A few seconds later, it hit Anna.
"Oh my god. Is he the guy that you once talked about?" Anna said a little loud.
"Shh…"Elsa shushed the redhead, embarrassed, "lower your voice"
Anna gasped and then whispered, "Does he speak Norwegian?
"No, no. I don't think he does, but still…"
"He's cute! Why do you like him? I love stories about love!"
"I don't… l-like him…" The blonde stuttered.
"Stop lying! I saw how you looked at him"
"Here you go, two hot chocolates! Enjoy!" Aunt Cass came up with two white cups of hot chocolate on each hand.
"Thank you" Both sisters thanked in unison.
"Wow, are you two sisters?" The woman asked curiously.
"Yes, my sister just came from Norway." Elsa replied smiling.
"Wow that explains your accent. I love it! Well, please enjoy the hot chocolate." And with that, the lady went to attend other clients.
Both blew at their hot drink and then took a sip. Anna's blue eyes widened, sparkling. "Wow! You were right! It is delicious! Even though I've never had Gerda's chocolate. Is this drink made with the hands of an angel and blessed by God himself?" And then took another sip, leaving a white cream over her lips, which looked like a mustache. Elsa just laughed at her sister's comment –and at the cream mustache–. "Anyways, you didn't tell me how you two met. What's his name?"
"I will tell you when we get home, Anna. He works part time here, he might hear his name and then he will deduce we talked about him."
"Fine…" Anna sighed, "I want to meet my true love too. Maybe when I get to this new high school here in San Fransokyo, who knows! Does he have a brother, by any chance?"
"Actually, yes, he does. He's twelve, though. He told me he was a genius kid that's actually in high school, too!"
"Seriously? That's impressive!"
"Mm-hm. Ah, I think that's him, he's going downstairs over there, do you see him?"
"Ah, yes! Heh, his hair is so messy. I could compete with him with my morning hair." The girls both laughed and continued talking and drinking the chocolate.
When they finished drinking the delicious hot chocolate and paid for them, they left the coffee bar, not before Elsa waved at Tadashi, saying goodbye to him. Tadashi smiled gently and waved back. He noticed something was different from the blonde, and after a few seconds of thinking, the gloves came to his mind and realized that she wasn't wearing them.
The girls arrived home safely and then Elsa talked about everything that had happened the times she had left home, when she lost her phone, when she met Tadashi for the first time, the dream about the book and everything. She also admitted shyly that she's been in contact with him.
"Wow. He seems to be such a caring and mature guy. I think he's like the perfect guy! But, haven't you gone to a date with him?"
"Heh… Um, well there was this time he invited me to some place, but I declined"
"What? Why?" Anna asked, shocked.
"Well… it was the day when… you told me about our parents…"
"Oh… I see." The silence took over the place for a few minutes, but Anna decided to break it, "And he hasn't asked you out since then?"
"No…"
"Ugh. Maybe he's waiting for you to say when you aren't busy or something? Do you plan to tell him about your powers?"
"I guess. And I don't know about my powers… what if he stops talking to me because I'm a freak?"
"Elsa, don't think like that! You are beautiful, and so are your powers. You are like the most majestic being ever, don't ever underestimate yourself, okay? I love you the way you are, and if he doesn't… then he's not worth it."
"Okay. But I still don't know if I like him, anyway!"
"I can read all over your face, it says that you have a crush on him!"
Elsa covered her face with a big pillow, freezing it unconsciously.
"By the way, I'm a little anxious about going to school. I want to go, but at the same time, I don't want to go…" Anna sighed. "Also, unfreeze the pillow, don't you get cold?"
"It will be fine, Anna. I never thought of cold as a nuisance, more like… it had never bothered me."
"I guess… it makes sense if it's you. Okay, I'm going to sleep! Goodnight, Elsa."
"Goodnight." Elsa watched her sister leave her room and then she lay down on her bed. She looked at her phone and saw a new message from Tadashi. She then wrote him that the girl who she was with at the café was her sister, Anna; she told him that she came from Norway to visit her and to live with her what was left of the year, and then they will go back to Norway soon. Elsa thought about the last part and something somewhere on her chest hurt.
Tadashi read the last part and made a face without thinking. For some reason, he didn't want Elsa to go back to her country, he felt so selfish thinking like that. Then, with his entire valor, he asked her out once again. He patiently waited for an answer, which he received it soon after sending it. "I'm not busy tomorrow and I'd love to go out with you" Reading the blonde's message made Tadashi feel all warm inside, he couldn't help but smile at his cellphone's bright screen. He then replied telling her the time and place that they would meet.
And before both knew it, the time came.
Anna helped Elsa which clothes to wear, a sky blue midi dress with sleeves, a gray cardigan, and blue flats. Elsa was about to tie her common low bun, but Anna stopped her.
"Elsa, I think you need to… I don't know. I'll help you with your hair!" Elsa let her sister do her hair; she somehow liked the feeling of someone touching her hair. Anna made a French braid and left Elsa's usual short bangs. Both liked the new change on her hairstyle. Elsa thanked her sister and hugged her, and then she left to meet Tadashi, who was already waiting for her at the place where they ate the nikuman.
"I'm sorry, did you wait long?" She apologized, cheeks red from running and her hair became a little disheveled.
"No, I got here just a while ago. Nice hairstyle, it suits you. I like it." Tadashi complimented her with a half-smile.
Elsa touched her hair and looked at her pale braid, avoiding his stare, "Thank you" She thanked him softly, and then they gazed at each other's eyes.
"Then, let's get going." Tadashi said and automatically stretched his hand, inviting hers to hold it.
She looked at his hand, her mind went blank and her hand moved on its own, holding his. They both looked at their clasped hands, and noticed how their skin tones stood out from each other. Elsa gripped his hand with tenderness and said.
"Okay, let's go"
A/N: Hello guys! This chapter was more about Elsa and Anna, but we will hopefully see Tadashi's and Elsa's first date next chapter, yay! Here, have a long chapter, hope you guys enjoy it! C: