Sharon knelt down beside Anna and gently turned Anna away from facing the crowd. "Anna, sweetheart, ignore the people who are being stupid about this and answer me a question, please."

"Okay."

"When did this happen?"

Anna looked at her for a minute then sighed and said, "When did it start or when did it end?"

"I'm not going to like the answer either way, so let's go with both."

"I had only managed to get away from them this time about fifteen minutes before your security guard grabbed me. They grabbed me off the street this morning around seven fifty. I was running late, so I took a way to school that I normally don't anymore."

"Anymore?"

"This, umm…wasn't the first time."

The people in the crowd has still been listening to what was going on on the stage, and some of them heard that.

"Wasn't the first time?" Sharon sighed and shook her head a little. "Anna are you hurt?"

"Yes, but I can't go to the hospital. Please don't make me go to the hospital."

"Is there anything I can do to help you? Anyone I can call to help you? Anyone you want, like maybe your mom and dad or sister or brother?"

"I want Elsa."

"Who's Elsa?"

"She's my girl…my best friend."

"Do you know her phone number?"

"No. I don't have a phone, and I can't generally remember things like that."

Sharon sighed then remembering that this speech was televised stood up. "What's her last name?"

"Arendelle. Just like the town."

Sharon walked over to the podium. "If you are here or watching us at home, Elsa Arendelle, your best friend really needs you right now. Please don't be afraid to come to her aid."

In the middle of the mass of people, a blonde haired reporter from The Snow Flake Messages the school newspaper of Sofia Potts High School had been listening to the events unfolding on stage and in the audience with rapt attention, but not seeing them unfold because of the people around her being taller than her. She didn't realize who was on the stage and speaking until the governor said her name. She stood up then and pushed her way through the people, stuffing her notebook, and camera, which had seen no use, into her bag as she went. When she reached the front of the mass she stopped dead.

She had hoped she heard wrong. But when she saw her little red head "best friend" on stage with the governor, her clothes looking like they fought a losing battle with a pissed off kitty cat with a lawnmower, she almost started crying. She walked quickly up to, and pulled herself onto the stage and wrapped Anna up in her arms. "Anna," she whispered.

Anna hugged Elsa back, tears starting to stream down her face. She had been holding the tears back since she had gotten away from the men, and that was about forty minutes ago.

"Anna," Elsa kept whispering and holding her.

Anna squeezed herself closer to Elsa and cried.

"Anna," Elsa whispered one last time then asked a question of the crying girl in her arms. "How many times has this happened?"

Anna looked up at Elsa and sighed still crying. "Today makes eight."

Sharon looked over at them, she had almost started her speech again with a different way of approaching the topic when she heard that.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

Anna stared at Elsa for a minute. Tears still falling from her eyes and said, "I was afraid."

"Did you tell anyone at all?"

"Yes, the first time and that's why I was scared."

Elsa looked at Anna with her head tilted a little, confused as to what she meant. "I don't understand."

"I went to the police the first time and they didn't even listen to me. They said, 'this is why you shouldn't take short cuts down dark alleys and should never be alone,' and made me leave the station."

"Did you tell your parents?"

"I told my dad what happened and he told my mom and they disowned me for kissing you. They didn't even care what the men did to me, as far as they were concerned I didn't exist anymore. I haven't been back in their house in six months."