Princess Elsa
by AJ Marks
Part 16
Elsa’s eyes widened in shock at the fact that one of Lynn’s friends had passed out and felt bad about it. The red-head never hit the floor due to the fact Marshmallow caught her and now appeared to be looking as much in shock as Lynn’s friends had.
She looked over at a sudden laughter as Lynn’s male friend started laughing quite a bit.
“Oh, that’s so typical, I’ll have tease material for a week,” he said.
His laughter had broken the tenseness which had been in the room. Elsa figured him to be Hans, the other two Brea and Jessica.
“I have to know this story,” the other friend said taking a seat at the table and looking at Lynn. “I mean, you didn’t tell any of us, I thought we were your friends?”
Elsa felt Lynn stiffen slightly and gave her a back a rub letting her know they were there for her.
“Its complex Jessica,” Lynn said, looking at Brea and then at the other two. “But, let’s wait for Brea to return to consciousness.”
Elsa watched as the group dug into the pizza and beer following Lynn and feeling they were slightly alone.
“I didn’t cause trouble?” Elsa asked watching as Lynn sighed.
“No, it was my decision not to tell them, not yours,” Lynn replied. “And I’ve been meaning to tell them now, didn’t expect you all to meet at once.”
“Okay,” Elsa replied, grabbing a slice of buffalo chicken and a beer before sitting down next to Lynn.
They watched as Brea returned to the land of the living and looked at them all, eyes wide before looking over at Lynn.
“I’m not dreaming? Didn’t hit my head? I’m at your house and three princesses showed up, and Elsa said you’re her girlfriend?” Brea said.
“Nope,” Marchmallow said, handing her a beer, watching as she took a large swallow.
“Then what happened?”
“You passed out,” Hans said, smiling.
“Oh gods,” Brea replied back burying her head into her hands causing Elsa to worry a bit until she finished. “I’ll never live this down,” she said looking up at Hans giving him a glaring look. “I forbid you to speak of this.”
“Um, actually, if you wouldn’t speak much of it, we’d appreciate it,” Elsa said speaking up causing them to look at her.
“We’re still getting used to it ourselves,” Lynn said
“So you didn’t tell us why?” Brea asked.
“Well, it did start while on vacation, we got a bit close,” Lynn said. Elsa recalled that, one of the best few days she ever had as Lynn continued. “I actually did drop my phone when I saw them.”
“Yeah, in the hot tub,” Eugene chuckled. “She went diving after it.”
“I didn’t say anything because, well, I was angry with Kris and needed space from everyone, it was a perfect solution, spending time with them helped me relax,” Lynn said.
“You fell for the princess over a few days,” Hans said.
“I would,” Brea said, which for some reason caused Elsa to giggle slightly. “Really, who wouldn’t?”
“It was like having a super-secret all to myself, and I feared telling anyone might spoil it,” Lynn replied.
“And when she left, she wanted to concentrate on her studies,” Elsa said. “Even shunning my advances.”
“That was hard,” Lynn said, giving Elsa a grin and quick kiss to make up for the pout.
“You know, I really tried to seduce you,” Elsa said.
“Yes, and that swim suit almost broke me, if I hadn’t been on the rebound from Kris, well, we would have,” Lynn replied.
“Wait, wait, wait,” Hans suddenly said holding up his hands. “You mean, that picture was real?”
Elsa blushed slightly knowing he had seen the picture, Lynn telling her about it.
“Yes,” Lynn said.
“Then, it wasn’t fake like I assumed?” Hans said, his voice trailing off. “But, I thought, I mean.”
“Perhaps you should stop while you’re ahead,” Olaf said with a laugh.
“I’m afraid that was my hips, and skin color,” Elsa replied with a smile.
“Can I see it again?” Hans said suddenly, his eyes lighting up.
“No!” Lynn said.
“Anyways, so you two kept in touch during that last semester?” Jessica said from where she sat.
“We texted every day, and she even came to visit me the morning after Independence Day,” Lynn said.
“Is that why you were so moody?” Hans said.
“No, she thought I was having too much fun with Mr. Prince can’t keep his hands off my butt,” Elsa said, letting her annoyance at the prince come though.
“And the news kept saying what a cute couple, made me doubt what we might be having,” Lynn said.
“So glad I stopped by,” Elsa said.
“How did you manage that?” Lynn said turning to Elsa.
“Well, planned it with the help of Anna, and Olaf and Marshmallow,” Elsa said.
“And mother,” Anna said speaking up causing Elsa to freeze at that.
“What?”
“Mother knew, I, well, she cornered me and I told her,” Anna said. “She helped as well, probably wouldn’t have happened without her, she kept father occupied.”
Elsa thought she had been so smart, if her mother knew, how many others now knew?
“Well, this is an interesting development,” Brea said finally. “No more secrets, okay?”
“So, when will you be telling everyone?” Rapunzel asked.
“I’m not sure, I’d like some more time,” Elsa said.
“They’ll find out, better to announce it on your time,” Eugene said from where he sat.
“I’ll talk to mother,” Elsa said finally
“Sounds like a good idea, if she helped you sneak out, she might have some insight on this,” Lynn said, giving Elsa’s hand a squeeze.
The rest of the night went much better after Lynn’s friends loosened up to the fact they had royalty in the house. Elsa gave Lynn a kiss before leaving as they made their way back to the palace.
“She’s nice Elsa,” Rapunzel said.
“You knew that,” Elsa said.
“She most of her time with you, but even I could see there might be something else there, glad you reached out to grab it,” Rapunzel said, giving Eugene a hug as well. “It’s worth it.”
“Thanks,” Elsa said, now she had to figure out how to approach her parents with the next step.
*****
Lynn looked on a bit bored. They had finished setting up the exhibit and now people were going through the final touches and then she and Lance would walk through the exhibit to critique everything and make final adjustments in lighting and more.
“Lynn,” Lance said sticking his head into her office. “I got a request, the king and queen wish to meet with you this morning, as soon as you’re able in the king’s office.”
Lynn felt her stomach knot up with that bit of news. She was unsure what they might want.
“Better to not keep them waiting,” he said to her.
“Okay,” she said standing.
“Oh, we’ll go through the exhibit when you return, so don’t worry about that,” he said, giving her a wink and walked out leaving her confused.
She made her way down the corridor and actually got lost before asking for directions. Finally arriving at the destination and looked in seeing a secretary.
“An, Lynn Sauer, come in, the king’s expecting you, just go on through,” she said to her.
Lynn approached the door apprehensively and looked back at the secretary who merely nodded and shooed her to go inside.
Opening the door she peered in seeing both the king and queen standing in the room. They both looked at her.
“Um, sorry your majesty, you wanted to see me?” Lynn asked,
To her surprise it was the queen to walk over.
“Come in Lynn,” she said, opening the door and allowing her inside.
Lynn stood awkwardly unsure what to say or what to even do having never been in their presence. Elsa walked in before Lynn could say anything and looked around before she appeared to get angry and stood in front of her.
“Are you trying to intimidate her, or something else?” Elsa said to them.
“Elsa, I just got here,” Lynn said causing Elsa to turn around and look her over.
“But this does concern you two,” the king said looking at them both.
“I’m not giving up my relationship,” Elsa said, the words were warming to Lynn.
“Me neither,” she said speaking up deciding she had to stand with her girlfriend.
“I’m glad you two are together on this, but your father means something else,” the queen said looking at Elsa. “More like, people are starting to talk about you two. We think its time you make an announcement to the rest of the Empire.”
Lynn swallowed at that, unsure she was ready for such a step.
“We’ve been careful,” Elsa said.
“No, you think you have,” her mother said. “Rumors among the palace staff have begun. Once that happens it will only be a matter of time before the press gets wind of it, and once that happens it will be all over the news and entertainment news. You’ll be the number one rumor.”
“I’d prefer to tell them on our terms, it usually works better, especially for us to release certain bits of information than the press,” her father said, everyone knowing he was speaking of Lynn’s uncle.
Lynn gave it some thought while Elsa and her parents continued to talk. She knew what the king said was the truth and they had been seeing each other a bit too much. She recalled her boss’ reaction to the king asking for a meeting, the wink at the end. She realized Elsa was still protesting and laid a hand on her shoulder causing her to stop.
“He’s right,” she said to her. “We should do this on our terms, but we can’t wait forever.”
“But our relationship is still new,” Elsa said, almost as if she was pouting.
“Look at it this way, you won’t have to sneak around to visit me,” Lynn said. “Or I could come visit you.”
“No bedroom visits,” the king said suddenly. She looked over to see him and noticed at that moment he wasn’t the king of the empire, but a father looking at his daughter’s boyfriend, or in this case, girlfriend. Elsa seemed to want to protest from the look on her face.
“Of course,” Lynn said nodding her head in agreement.
“Now, we’ll need an event for you to come out in, something big,” the king said.
Lynn was unaccustomed to such thing and waited to see what they would have planned knowing her life was about to change again. She imagined herself walking down some red carpet beside Elsa with everyone taking pictures of her and she wasn’t sure if she could even handle such a thing. Already the nerves of going though that bothered her, looking up at feeling a hand on her arm surprised to see the queen looking at her.
“Come with me,” she said softly, tugging her away from the other two. “Let them come up with an event.”
Lynn looked at Elsa and her father and only saw a nod at Elsa and with a hesitant smile allowed herself to be led away. The queen was about the same height as Elsa, with blonde reddish hair which was probably where Anna got her hair from, the king had more blond hair like Elsa.
“Tea?’ the queen said motioning towards the tea set up on the patio.
“Um, no thank you your majesty,” she said.
Lynn thought she saw a slight twitch of her lips before she spoke again.
“Its only natural to be nervous, I still am,” she said surprising Lynn by the admission.
“No, you’re always so calm and composed,” Lynn said recalling seeing her on videos.
“Years of practice to show a certain exterior,” she replied back to Lynn. “We don’t expect you to have that ability right away, and we’ll help you out, but if you really want to be in Elsa’s life, it’s a step you have to take.”
Lynn looked at her and understood what she was trying to say.
“I know,” Lynn said. “I guess, I had hoped we would have a bit more time before I had to deal with the reporters.”
“Well, that’s a bit why Mr. Peters suggested Koenig Oaks,” the queen said.
“So, he does know,” Lynn said hearing the queen chuckle.
“He came and asked, seeing Elsa come by a few times,” she replied. “Elsa had never been down there before and wanted to make sure he, or you, didn’t get into trouble.”
“Yeah, I understand,” Lynn said.
“Come, let’s see what the two brainiacs have come up with,” she said, giving Lynn a smile.
End part 16