Princess Elsa
by AJ Marks
Part 10
Elsa found her attention drifting once more as she sat in the meeting with her father. More issues for the empire which he felt she had to be part of. There were a couple of senators who were expressing concerns about the economy. However, she found herself wanting to pull her phone out to see if Lynn had texted her this morning despite the fact the morning was when she had class.
They had continued to text each other quite regularly, or at least as much as they could seeing her schedule was normally chaotic. Lynn’s was more regular, class in the morning, head out for lunch, study in the afternoon and then whatever in the evening. Elsa’s schedule varied every day, meeting this person, seeing this group, heading here and there following her tightly regulated schedule.
She never realized how tightly regulated it was until her vacation, the relaxation of being able to determine where you wanted to go. She looked up realizing she missed something as her father was looking at her.
“Sorry father,” Elsa replied.
“Do you have any impute in all of this?” he asked her.
“Not at this time,” she said diplomatically. She thought she caught a bit of disappointment from her father’s eyes, but he didn’t push her on it.
“I think that will do for now senators,” he said to them.
Elsa watched as the group of men and women stood and walked out leaving her alone with her father. He finally turned to her and knew he felt disappointed with her.
“You’ve been distracted since you’re return,” he said to her.
Elsa twisted her fingers wondering what she might say. Part of her wasn’t ready to say anything about Lynn, not yet. Her parents might over-react and who knows what might happen. It wasn’t the fact Lynn was a girl which bothered her.
“I’m just working some things out on my own,” Elsa finally replied.
“Well, if there is anything we can do, let us know,” he replied.
“I will, but I have to figure this out on my own,” Elsa stated hoping he wasn’t too disappointed in the answer.
“All right,” he said. “Now, you have a dress fitting this afternoon for the ball.”
“Where are we going this year?” Elsa asked.
“To Venius II,” he replied as Elsa’s heart skipped a beat, that was the same planet Lynn was on. A new plan began to form in her mind wondering if she might be able to pull it off.
“I’ll be ready,” she said, standing and heading off to get some lunch. Once out of the room she pulled out her phone and quickly looked seeing a reply.
I had to get the most boring professor on campus. Fell asleep in class.
Elsa chuckled at that before relying back.
I got caught daydreaming as well in a meeting.
She almost put in that she was dreaming about Lynn but restrained a bit not wanting to sound too pushy, or clingy.
Ouch, so what are you doing next?
Fitting for a dress for the Empire’s Independence Day Ball.
Elsa wondered what it might be like to have Lynn there, but didn’t want to ask. The Independence Day was more of a day of an Empire wide celebration to party. It wasn’t even on the day of independence either, but had been picked to be the day most cities were in summer in the empire. Barbeques, festivals, fireworks and more were all part of the day.
I’d like a picture of that.
The text made Elsa smile and another thought came to her mind, something she would do tomorrow morning before Lynn woke up. She was a few hours behind her in time difference.
See what I can do. Off to lunch.
With a new plan in mind, she made her way to the dining room where lunch would be set out wondering what they were having today.
*****
Lynn stretched, the weekend, finally. Things had settled down in to a pattern after the first week of school. She had a test coming up Monday, so she’d be studying this weekend, not that she was too worried about it. She was more concerned with her paper she would have to turn in, her thesis. Something the entire class would work on for the entire semester. Because it was a summer class she didn’t have as much time.
Moving into the kitchen, she set about making herself some breakfast before heading over to her phone to see what Elsa was up to. She usually texted early stating what was going on, how busy she might be and Lynn would reply with her schedule. It meant they would be texting when the other was busy.
Turning on the phone she noticed a text from Elsa and opened it, and stopped staring at the phone. There on the screen Elsa had seen a picture, but not any such picture, a picture of her in her underwear.
Rise and shine
Lynn looked at the picture then back at the text. Oh yeah, she’s rise and shine all right if she was there. She wanted to play that game, well, two could do that and went back to her bedroom and looked though the drawers before finally finding the matching set of bra and panties she had been given as a joke, but were sexy.
Once she had put them on, she arranged herself in the mirror, took the picture and sent it off.
Ha, take that, Lynn thought to herself. Tease me, I’ll tease you back you little minx. Even as she thought that she too another look at the photo taking time to look at the feminine curves and overall sexiness that Elsa managed to give off without even trying.
She was awake now, that much was for sure. Walking towards the kitchen she wondered what Hans might think of such a picture. She had to be careful handing her phone to anyone or they might find pictures she couldn’t explain too much. Hans already was asking where she had found that one picture hoping she might remember where it was.
Her phone vibrated indicating another message.
Sexy, glad I wasn’t in a meeting seeing that.
The comment made Lynn smile knowing she had gotten to the princess.
And yours wasn’t sexy? About fell out of my chair.
She almost put the phone down when a new message came in from one of the places she had applied to for a job after graduation. Another decline offer, so far she had nothing but sorry, we filled the position with someone else answers.
She made a mental note to check the ads once more to see if there was another place she might be able to apply to. For now, she’d work on getting ready for school.
*****
Elsa made her way out of the shuttle, along with the others for the annual Independence Day event this evening. Her schedule would be full for the rest of the day, events planned, places to be, even breakfast had been planned well in advanced.
At the moment Elsa couldn’t wait for something to eat, they had been traveling so far all morning to get here from the other side of the empire, stopping by the home planet and picking up the queen, Anna and Kristoff.
The food on board the shuttles was all right, but still wasn’t that good and she wanted a proper breakfast. The group made their way to the waiting transports and stepping outside she gave a slight smile to the onlookers, reporters and paparazzi waiting for them. Pictures were taken a few still used flashes.
Making her way into the transport she was glad she was wearing pants today as she entered the transport and moved over to sit down waiting a the rest of the group entered and sat down as well.
“Not sure I’ll ever get used to that,” Kristoff said sitting down.
“It does take time to get used to,” the queen stated. “Its really not something one just becomes accustomed to.”
Elsa had to consider that, she had grown up with such things all her life, and for her, just another everyday occurrence. Part of her was able to block it out while walking to her destination but it was also annoying as it prevented her from doing normal things.
That hadn’t stopped her from making a plan already, and she hoped she would be able to do it, at least with Anna and Kristoff’s help, and help from a few others.
“Elsa,” her father said.
“Yes?”
“The event tonight, there will be a lot of potential suitors to look at,” he said to her.
Those words caught Elsa off guard.
“It’s time you start looking,” he said to her.
Elsa felt a bit caught, looking at him then over at Anna who seemed to share a same look.
“Now, no one expects you to fall in love in one night, so keep an open mind tonight when they come up, please,” her father asked.
“Um, okay,” Elsa managed to squeak out. Her mind went to Lynn and wanting to get to know her better than some pompous kid who came from a spoiled background thinking he was entitled to her attention.
Of course the papers and news outlets would be all over it probably making odds as to which one ‘suited’ her the best. Ever since seeing that one program she wondered if this wasn’t somehow putting her out as bait for all the sharks.
“Good, you’ll do fine,” he replied back to her.
She looked back down at the floor wondering if she would even have time to try and gain a relationship with Lynn, or explore if they even had more than an attraction to each other. She thought back to their texts, and knew the other woman had been doing well, and hadn’t mentioned anyone else.
She could meet someone else, but that thought caused her an unexpected pain and pushed it from her mind. No, she would work for her plan and enact it, this was only another obstacle she would have to overcome to achieve her goal.
*****
Anna sat back in the hotel room, flopping on the bed.
“Tired?” Kristoff asked as he sat down on the couch.
“Full,” Anna replied hearing him chuckled.
“Don’t eat so much next time,” he replied.
“But it was good,” she replied.
“It was chocolate,” he stated, both of them knowing her weakness for chocolate things.
He was about to say more when a knock on eth door interrupted their thoughts. They looked at each other before he moved to the door and opened it. Anna was surprised to see her mother walk into the room
Anna sat up wondering what her mother wanted, especially considering she had a look on her face. She watched as she moved into the room and sat with all the grace of a queen onto the chair at the table.
“I think it’s time we had a talk,” she said to Anna.
“Um, if its about the bird and bees, too late?” Anna stated giving her mother a smile.
“Actually its about Elsa,” her mother replied.
“Um, if you want to talk about that to her then are you not in the wrong room?” Anna asked, unsure what her mother wanted.
“Perhaps I should head out?” Kristoff said, slowing making his way to the door.
“No, you stay as well,” her mother said, folding her hands in front of her. “Now then, I don’t think your father has noticed yet, but she’s been different since you returned from the vacation.”
“She has?” Anna stated, wondering if this conversation was going to go where she thought it was.
“Yes, I think something else is going on, not drugs or anything, but something else which can be addictive as well,” her mother replied. “In fact, she reminds me of you when you were dating Kristoff.”
“Ah,” Anna said, looking over at Kristoff who merely gave her a look back as they both though of the same person, Lynn. Anna conflicted with herself before finally deciding to tell her mother everything about the trip. Her mother sat there in silence listening to the conversation and when Anna finished sat in silence waiting.
“Well, not what I expected when I suggested a vacation, but I understand,” she said, standing and heading to the door. “Things will work out.”
With that she left the room and Anna debated on telling her sister.
End part 10