Just to be clear, when talking about the stories I reference on the first page, I meant to say "Brave" instead of "Brace."

Old Friends, New Friends, Boy Friends

Anna was hanging out with her best friends Belle, Merida, Quasimodo and Rapunzel at the mall, maxing out their credit cards and celebrating their upcoming graduation. Laughing, drinking smoothies while thinking about what they are doing after high school.

"So Belle what are you going to do after school? Well not right after school I mean there's still summer break but, any plans?" Asked Anna

"I am probably going to be a english teacher, I want to teach the next generation the joys of reading. I am going to share with them all my favorite books."

Belle has grown into a lovely young woman, still bookish but much more sociable, thanks to meeting a certain plucky strawberry blonde haired girl in Middle school. She still retains the blue bow tying her hair back into a ponytail, aside from that one hair she keeps pushing back off her forehead, but now she's adopted glasses.

"Aye..Good for you lass." Merida said faking interest in her friend's choice in life "Me, I'm going to help me dad in his hunt'n shop. Says I might take it over so'm day."

Merida has still retained her love of the outdoors and free spirited nature since she was a little girl, and having the responsibility of three younger brothers didn't change that. Her hair is as long and curly as ever, in addition to sporting a bear tattoo on her left forearm. She made friends with Belle on her first day of second grade, she noticed the little brunette getting bullied by the Tremaine sisters and gave them both black eyes. Since then they have had a sort of symbiotic relationship, Merida protects belle from bullies, showes away Gaston, and Belle helps Merida whenever she needs help with homework, which is a lot.

"Great! Then me and Quasi can hide there from our parents. They'd never think to look in a hunting shop!"

Punz said holding Quasi at her side, it was obviously a joke but it was only an indication on how they felt about their parents still. Punz had cut her long hair and dyed it brunette just to piss off Gothel, she particularly chose brunette since it was the same hair color as Belle's. Not that her boyfriend Flynn really minded. They were dating for three years before her 'rebellion' and was completely supportive, of course not that Gothel knew about him. They had to sneak around behind their parents backs since, aside from Adam, Flynn was the school's bad boy, of course being a foster boy who can blame him. He was put in juvie a couple of times for minor theft, but Punz saw good in him. Quasi had grown alot since childhood, still a head shorter than the girls, due to his hunch, but his arms were much thicker and bulkier. Made him a star on the football team, he was second best aside from the captain Hercules. Hard to believe that the boy who used to be skinny as a rail in middle school was now one of the strongest guys Quasi had ever seen.

Anna's phone dings "Oh hold on guys!" She pulls out her cell phone and looks at it. "Aww it's from Hans!"

"Ughh!" Everyone else said in union

Anna says reading Hans text

"Hey babe, looking forward tonight for your graduation, just a warning my dad and brothers are coming."

Then Anna says as she begins to write:

"That-is-o-k-!-Looking-forward-to-seeing-them-.-I-know-they-can-be-jerks-some-times-but-I-think-i'm-starting-to-crack-their-shells-:) Oh-and-today's-the-day-you-too-meet!-FINALLY!-x-o-x-o".."And send."

"Meet who?" Belle asked her friend

"Oh, good news everyone, Elsa is coming to see me graduate!"

"Elsa!?" Everyone said in union

"Isn't that the friend who hates you now?" Quasi asked

"She doesnt...I dont know. All I know is that she just started avoiding me and I haven't seen her in 13 years. But today she has agreed to see me again. Maybe I can get her to stay! Or at least...tell me what I did wrong."

Merida puts a hand on her friend's shoulder "Aye, I'm sure you didn't do anything, some people are just loners. This lass was hell of a loner before I came along." Merida said with her thumb pointing towards Belle, who just gave her an annoyed scowl back.

"Anyways, did Hans want to meet her or something?" Punz asked

"Yeah, I told him about her when we first started dating, he seemed really interested in meeting her."

"Ughh, I really think you need to be careful with that guy." Quasi finally said

"Why!? Seriously what is your guyses problem with Hans he's a sweetheart."

"Yeah too you! I swear everytime this guy interacts with someone her changes his attitude, he's like a living mirror" Belle said

"Yeah, remember that barbeque at my dad's house a year ago? He was acting all happy go lucky with you, then you left to get punch, we started talking and he started acting all aggressive and bold. That's me!" Merida said.

"Yeah, same thing with me! When he started talking to my dad he was acting all controlling and vain. Like him!" Punz added

"You shouldn't judge a book by it's cover Anna. I think he's hiding something." Belle said

"Lalalalala not listening." Anna said covering her ears.

"Anna we just..." Belle tried to get out but..

"Lalalala.." Anna kept going until Punz said

"Anna people are staring."

Anna stops and looks around, everyone is giving her strange looks, some walking bye, others just standing there. Anna takes her seat and puts her head down, her cheeks red with embarrassment. Standing in a corner off to the side is a mall worker looking at her, not with a blank stare, but with a smirk. He is a large man wearing a t-shirt with a reindeer on it under his work vest, he has blonde hair and his name tag says "Kristoff." He then walks away continuing to push his snow cone cart throughout the store.

That night at Arendelle high school, Anna stands with her friends wearing robes as principal Oaken begins handing out everyone's Diplomas. Anna looks at the audience, she see's her mother crying as her father records this event. She see's Rapunzels boyfriend Flynn waving at Rapunzel, while trying to tolerate Han's presence, those two had been shoving each other since they sat down. Hans similarly had been fighting off pokes from his older brothers. His father, mayor Westergaard was just sitting there and watching, his face serious and his arms folded on his barrel chest. Meanwhile his wife, Hans mother, was taking another sip of wine, though inside she was thinking on helping her youngest son, years of older siblings picking on younger siblings in this family made her lose the will to try. But what really caught her eye was the people sitting next to her parents, Kai and Gerda, along with the girl she had been hoping for, Elsa. Elsa was looking at Anna, giving her an assuring smile as Anna looked back. She was wearing an icy blue dress with sleeves along with icy blue gloves with her hair tied back in a pony tail. Her mother had convinced her to put on eyeliner since she wouldn't put her hair in a bun, but just seeing her again in years Anna was completely out of this world.

"Anna? Yoo hoo." Principal Oaken said as anna regained her attention and looked over.

"Your diploma. Ya?"

"Oh, right." Anna said as she nervously made her way up the stage, she wavey awkwardly at the audience until Belle moves her closer to principal Oaken and puts her hand on the diploma. Anna grasps it and puts it high in the air with a big smile. Her parents clap wildly while Elsa gives her a smile and a small clap.

Later, everyone is celebrating in the school's auditorium, Ella was talking to her boyfriend while her stepsisters were staring at them across the room, jealous that she got him and not one of them. Ariel, the student president was singing a self made song "Part of Your World" on a stage, her jamaican friend Sebastian was playing the drums, her younger friend Freddie "Flounder" Fisher in the yellow sweater was playing the guitar along with their wacky friend Norman "Scuttle" Foul. Her father, a tall man with a long white beard, was staring proudly at his daughter, while her older, fatter sister Ursula was looking at herin Jealousy filled contempt.

Elsa was just walking around with her gloved hands under her arms, trying to avoid touching anyone. Just then Anna comes up to her with a large group of people.

"Hey Elsa!" Anna waves as she approaches her

"Anna. It's nice to see you. You look beautiful."

"You look beautifuller. Not that you look fuller, just, your beautiful." Anna said "Oh these are my friends. This is Belle."

"Hi Anna has told me so much about you." Belle said extending her hand to Elsa, who only pulled her own back with wide eyes. Belle noticed that this was making Elsa uncomfortable and pulled her own hands back.

"Hello." Elsa said in response

"This is Merida"

"Hey. Whats with the gloves?" Merida asked bluntly.

"Oh, I, uh, have a thing about dirt." Elsa said making up an excuse.

"What you think my hands are dirty!?" Merida asked annoyed.

"Rapunzel" Anna said trying to change the subject.

"Hiya!" Rapunzel said rushing up and wrapping her arms around the awkward Elsa. She then lets go and backs away with a smile as Elsa responds.

"Hi to you as well." Elsa said with shock.

"Her brother Quasi"

"Anna said you like snow flakes so I made this for you in woodshop." Quasi handed Elsa a wooden snowflake. It was perfectly carved and painted light blue, covered in sprinkles. Elsa took it with appreciation.

"Thank you."

"And last, but not least, my boyfriend Hans."

"It is so nice to meet you" Hans said grabbing Elsa's hand by force "I have heard..so much about you. So tell me, what is it about 'dirt' you are afraid of?" Hans asked with a wide eye. But Elsa was interrupted before she could speak by a short bald man with a mustache.

"She's probably scared of the filth of a Westergaard!" Said the old man. Hans father then approaches the group.

"Well if it isn't Weasel-Town." he said mockingly

"Weselton! Duke Weselton!"

Mr. Weselton had been campaigning against Mayor Westergaard for the last 3 months in the mayoral election. One of Westergaard's more noticeable smear campaigns was a poster saying "Don't vote for Weasel-Town."

"Mr. Weasel-I mean Weselton? What are you doing here?" Anna asked

"My nephew is graduating from here. Im sure that your glasses wearing friend knows of him." He said pointing over to the large man with a back pony tail, Gaston. His nephew had told him a lot about the 'hottest girl in school that he was going to make his little wife some day' but Belle just looking over at Gaston just made her shrug.

"Don't be afraid to call him weasel Anna, he's almost as tall as one." Mayor Westergaard said again to mock, Weselton then stormed off. And the mayor just laughed.

"You've got a good sense of humor Anna, not bad figure either, why the hell are you still with him?" One of Hans brothers asked referring to Hans.

"That's a fair question." Merida added.

"Well to be fair they are almost the same height." Another one of Hans brothers said.

"Ok, assholes..." Hans was trying to say, but before he could say another word his father intervened.

"Do not speak to your older brothers that way Hans! Your brothers are right to point out your flaws, we Westergaards are lions and DO NOT TOLERATE WEAKNESS! You should thank them for making you aware so you can fix yourself."

Ok ok time to go." Hans said pushing his father and brothers out of the way as they laughed.

"Oh and congratulations Anna. Elsa." Hans father manages to blurt out to the two girls before being dragged away by his son. Anna looked pityingly at Hans then back to the group.

"That's why, Hans is in so much pain he needs a light in his life." Anna said sympathetically.

"If that is his family I know he's hiding a jerk side." Rapunzel said.

"Hey are you two lass's related in any way, I mean you look almost the same, cept ones blonde and the others a red." Merida said referring to Anna and Elsa.

"Oh please that's like saying I look like Anna." Rapunzel said teasingly.

"You look like them too!" Merida said back.

Anna and Elsa look over at the snack table, they see a man bring over a chocolate fountain with graham crackers, strawberries and marshmallows.

"Mmm, chocolate." Elsa and Anna said in union.

The two girls were gorging themselves in chocolate, Elsa pointed to a drop on her nose, then Anna took another drop and put whiskers on each of her cheeks. They both laugh. Meanwhile Belle was trying to shrug off Gaston's inappropriate advances, until Merida just grabs him the by collar and drags him away. Afterwards Adam, a unshaven boy with a black t-shirt with a flower on it, comes up to her with punch but with a scowl on his face. Belle knew he had a crush on her, but couldn't admit it so he hid behind a "beasty" facade. Belle just took the drink and smiled. After taking care of Gaston Merida was having a father daughter dance with Fergus like many of the other daughters were at the time. Meanwhile Agnarr, Iduna, Kai and Gerda were watching theirs interact. The former with worry, the latter with joy.

"I wish we could be like this all the time." Anna says to Elsa

"Me too. But we can't." Elsa says turning her back to Anna

"Why not. If-"

"I just can't." Elsa says with a sad look.

Anna then just walks away in disappointment. She looks up and See's Hans waving at her, then she runs over to him.

Hey readers, I know you're probably asking "does Elsa have powers in this story?" or "Why does Anna have a scar?" All that will be answered in the next chapter. Although the next chapter will take a while because I am currently in school right now. I will make time during the weekends to work on it but don't expect a update until a couple of weeks. I already have the whole story planned so it's just writing it. And please, please leave reviews, it motivates me to continue the story.