Chapter 4
A/N Thank you guys for the awesome follows, favorites and reviews! I wanted to wait until Saturday, but I wanted to get this out. I will edit it tomorrow so sorry for the errors.
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Some-Asshole
"I know she's just a fetus, but it's been a week and she still hasn't talked to anyone but Elsa! That's ridiculous!"
"She'll come around Kristoff. Just give her time OK? Remember when Ariel first joined? She didn't talk for a month! At least Anna told us her name."
"She told Elsa, Del. Not us."
"Whatever," the lady got up and turned towards the door. As she placed her hand on the handle she heard the man talk behind her.
"If you can't get her to talk, at least have Elsa get close to her OK? That girl needs someone to trust, understood?"
Del nodded and walked out the door, rolling her eyes and chuckling lightly as she walked down the hall and pushed through the double doors.
"OK girls get up, get up! It's eleven o'clock and you all look like drunk hookers!"
Elsa sighed loudly as she shook Anna awake.
"Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey." the blonde heard the redhead groan and smiled. "We need to get up. I'm still not done showing you around."
All this week was spent by Elsa telling Anna everything that was there to know. From their working hours to when they eat, everything was covered, except for the jobs and the way they rotate. Elsa left this for the end because it's the most complicated thing, and Anna didn't seem to be coping with in a place such as this.
Anna sat up, her bedhead causing Elsa so chuckle, which the blonde quickly covered with her hand and by coughing.
"I-Umm..." the blonde looked at all the impossible directions Anna's hair was sticking out on and her face began to turn red as she held her breath in. The redhead was half-conscious when she woke up so as she tried to put her elbow against her knee, it slipped and she went face first onto the floor.
"WHO IS IT?!" she yelled as she sat up, rubbing her chin and staring at Elsa who couldn't hold in the laugh. The blonde erupted into soundless laughter, her eyes filling with tears and her nose crunched up.
Anna's eyes fell then, her face dropping as she took in her surroundings. Elsa stopped laughing at this, her eyebrows furrowing as she stared at the girl who brought her arms around her.
"Anna, y-you still need to tell me why you're here an-"
The redhead shook her head and stood up, covering her face with a pillow as she brought her legs up to her chest. This action caused the blonde to sigh and look down at her hands.
"I still need to show you the rest of the jobs you can do here, but before we do that, how about we talk a little about ourselves?"
The redhead slowly brought the pillow down and stared at Elsa, cocking her head to the side as she took in the offer, slowly nodding and faintly smiling.
"Alright," Elsa cleared her throat and looked at Anna as the redhead looked back at her, "my name is Elsa."
Anna rolled her eyes and nodded her head, "I know that," she said in a scratchy voice as she brought her arms up and tried to untangle her hair with her delicate hands.
"Right, OK, so that doesn't count. Umm..." Elsa face lit up as she thought of a good thing that could start a conversation, "I am this place's main bartender."
Anna cocked her head, clearly not knowing what a bartender was.
"A bartender is the person who mixes the drinks in the bar."
The redhead nodded and crossed her legs, setting the pillow on the space between her feet and her thigh as she rested her elbows on it.
"I am a high school senior..." said Anna slowly, her voice just above a whisper. She turned to see Elsa and her eyes glazed over as she tried to hold back her emotions, something Elsa had told her to do the second day she arrived. "I came here from Texas, I took buses and got rides from strangers who would touch me a-and ask me to do stuff in order to bring me here, to California..." The girl wiped her eyes and then closed them, breathing in slowly as she brought her hair over her shoulders. "I can't remember how I came here, I just remember falling asleep on a trucker's backseat and then being thrown out."
Elsa remembered this. That night, when Del brought Anna in, the girl had a bump on the back of her head, the back of her shirt was slightly stained with what seemed to be blood.
"Anyways, now I am here and I need money and Del said I had the face and the body to be a...a..."
"A prostitute," finished Elsa for her, the word causing Anna to flinch slightly.
"Yeah...The funny thing is, I used to swear that I was never, under any circumstance, turn tricks. Not only did I find it dirty, but I-I used to think that it was the lowest- lowest way of gaining money."
The blonde reached forward to touch the girl's hand, to show her that she wasn't alone, but as Elsa's pale skin touched Anna's, the redhead flinched and pulled away earning a small gasp from Elsa.
"Pl-please don't..." said Anna weakly as she looked down.
Elsa brought her hand up to her chest and kept it there as she talked.
"D-do you have any...d-dreams?" Elsa mentally kicked herself for such naive question. Of course the girl had dreams, who doesn't?
Anna chuckled lightly and looked at the window covered by dark-red curtains.
"You might think this is cliché and dumb, but I have always wanted to visit the ocean."
The blonde's eyes widened.
"You've never been to the ocean?" the redhead shook her head no and turned to Elsa, "Not even the beach?" Once again, the girl shook her head no. "That's unbelie- here!" The blonde stood up and brought her hand forward wanting to pull the girl up, but then she remembered what the girl had said and pulled back, slowly signaling for Anna to follow her to her bed.
"Here, I have this really pretty post-card that I got when I went to-" the girl opened her bottom drawer and took a small box out. Inside the box was a variety of items, from small necklaces to big, crunched up letters, "-From when I went to Florida with my dad when I was eight. This was the only thing in my pockets when I came into this place so it's pretty special to me, but since you haven't seen the ocean, I'd like you to have it." she extended her arm and Anna's eyes widened, "I ca-can't keep this! It-it's yo-" the girl shut up as Elsa pressed the post-card against her chest.
"Please take it, at least then you can see the way it looks under the sun."
Anna took the post-card between her fingers and stared at it in awe. The way the sun reflected over the water, the horizon that made it seem as if the water was endless, the breath taking sparkling of the water, it was all so beautiful.
"It's prettier in person," said Elsa, earning a soft sigh from Anna.
"I want to go here..." said the redhead as she brought the picture closer to here face, looking at each small detail conserved withing the post-card.
"Hey," said Elsa, earning the girl's full attention, "If you want, we can get some money and go there."
The girl's face lit up as she began to jump up and down. "Really?! We can go here?!" The redhead pointed at the middle of the picture and literally pressed it against Elsa's nose, earning a small chuckle from the girl.
"Yes Anna, we will go there, I promise."
The redhead shrieked and turned around as she ran to her bed. She put the picture inside her own drawer and went up to Elsa once again.
"OK, show me around!"
Elsa's eyes widened as she realized the girl's delicate body was going to be sold in a few hours.
"Hey, you seem to be pretty excited about learning the different jobs..." said the blonde sadly, making the redhead's face to fall as she also realized where she was and what she was.
"I'm excited about the o-ocean not t-this..."
Elsa looked at the girl and sadly smiled.
"Let's go then, we need to get you ready for tonight."
Anna's eyes widened, "tonight?"
The blonde turned to face the redhead, "Yeah, tonight you start working."
"B-b-but I... Does it go by fast?"
"Does what go by fast?"
"When a man lays on you...is it fast?"
Elsa stopped for a moment, trying to find a good answer to give the girl, an answer that wouldn't frightened her.
She couldn't come up with anything.
Saying that it didn't take long was a lie, saying that it was slow, painful, frightening, was the truth and she had to tell this girl the truth.
"Anna, this job is horrible. It hurts, the men abuse you, you can't say no...it is not fast...sometimes they take their time torturing you by making you kiss their drunk mouths, they make you touch them in dirty places and you have to do it, there is no way around it! They want to feel you up and touch you all around and you have to let them!" Elsa looked at the redhead's horrified expression, she knew Elsa was right, she knew she was going to need to do this. "Anna, I now it's hard, but this what you have to do to survive, this is what I have done to survive."
Goose bumps took over Elsa as she closed her eyes, wanting to make this end. She couldn't take it anymore, nor could she watch Anna going through the same pain she went through, but as she opened her eyes and saw Anna's face beginning to transform from being afraid to gaining courage and determination.
Anna finally understood that this job is not about loving, this job is not about enjoying yourself, this job is about surviving and making money.
That's all a prostitute's life is.
That's all her life would have to be from now on.
