Cold Hearted

Stitch Me Back Together, Sweetie

Harry POV

Kristoff chuckled as I wrapped up the story and chopped the last piece of wood and threw it over to me. I caught it in one hand and tossed it into the back of the cart. I swung the axe over my shoulder and wiped a bead of sweat from my brow as Kristoff walked on over to the cart and organized it a little bit before throwing his axe in the back,

"Why am I not surprised about Elena tripping over her own feet and nearly falling into a lake? Thanks for catching her nonetheless but I'm truly not surprised, she can be rather clumsy at times"

Kristoff said with a laugh as he slowly shook his head and the reindeer seemed to smile a little bit at the story too. The reindeer is a little odd, but the talking snowman tops it for sure. I chuckled a little bit too for a moment before Kristoff said,

"Sounds like you really care about her man"

He said under his breath, I chuckled a little more and without thinking too much I said,

"I do, I really do"

I sucked back a little bit and widened my eyes at my own statement as Kristoff looked over to me with a slightly raised brow and a smile, it's almost as if he could read my panic and knew what I truly meant without me needing to say a word more,

"Oh yeah? Now, do you actually wanna talk about that or no?"

Gods, he got me dammit. I looked over to him with slightly narrowed eyes and took a very long sigh, like a very very long sigh. Would it be awkward to literally tell Elena's uncle "hey yeah, I actually have this huge and sometimes hard to handle crush on your niece who is also my best friend" like who does that? I mean I wouldn't say exactly that but ya get my point. I looked at my feet and stayed quiet for a moment before he spoke up again,

"Either you can tell me or we can make a detour to visit my family"

I furrowed my brow some and looked back up at him and chuckled some,

"Wha?"

"My family, a group of trolls who are obsessed with love and can definitely figure out if you love my niece in that way or not, but they'll perform a full song and dance while doing so, so it would just be easier to tell me straight up"

Woah woah woah, what? A troll family that is obsessed with love? This trip only gets stranger and stranger I see, well I do love me an adventure so I guess this is exactly what I asked for. That and plenty of wonderful time I'm getting with Elena but ya get the point. Kristoff crossed his arms and gave me a sort of look... I gotta tell him. I sighed and simply allowed defeat,

"Fine... it's just... I've never really... felt so genuinely about someone before. She's just such a wonderful lassie, I think I would be insane not ta find myself falling... and falling.... harder in love with her every day.... please don't freak out at meh"

I nervously spoke, but I couldn't help but smile some as I spoke. How couldn't I? I haven't been able to express the fact that I love her, and yeah it was to her uncle but my gods it felt nice to say it out loud! Kristoff took a moment or two to process which made me rather nervous, but eventually, he got a little smile to him,

"Why would I freak out at you? You're a good guy, I'm cool with that"

That's... that's it? He's just cool with it? Well, slightly underwhelming but good! I was slightly surprised but smiled rather stupidly out of pure happiness.... the feeling is just growing every day to the point where... to be honest... I don't know how much longer I'll be able to hide it from her. Especially because I see her every day, it's hard not to blurt out something I could regret if she doesn't... love me too.