Chapter 8 Anna's struggle

Year 2004,10:11 a.m, The sister's bedroom.

The morning was bright crimson due to the curtains and the sun ray of light. Anna slowly opened her eyes and took in her surroundings. She watched the wind delicately push the curtains, and she heard the TV downstairs playing and a few voices muffled by the closed door. Then her gaze shifted to her sister Elsa, even in her sleep she looked troubled.

She got up from her and walked to the dresser and smoothed her hair into place with her hands and tried doing her pig tails. It was still messy, but she did the best she could. She shook her head so her pigtails could slap her in her face. Her hair was growing quite well, it would actually bounce the little red head noted. She let out a tiny giggle at the feeling.

She heard her sister groan in her sleep and turned slightly, smacking her lips. Anna walked up to her sister and watched her sleep for a little bit. She noticed how beautiful Elsa looked, so she decided to give her a kiss on her cheek and hugged her blanket covered body. She knew her sister wanted space but what she didn't know wouldn't hurt her.

After her tender moment she brushed her teeth in the bathroom and walked downstairs to the couch where Gerda and Jack were sitting watching something on television, eating popcorn.

"Eeey, morning sleepy head," Jack teased ruffling up Anna's hair. Anna grunted in response and got on the couch sitting next to Gerda. Anna looked her way and she wiggled her eye brows at her, and Anna sighed still tired.

"What we watching?" Anna asked fighting a yawn.

"The pinky the pinky and the brain brain brain brain brain," Jack and Gerda sang together. Anna glared at them then watched with them.

"Anna don't the brain sound just like papa?" Gerda suddenly asked

"I guess," Anna deadpanned scratching her ear.

"I'm serious listen to him, he sounds just like papa," Gerda insist. Anna rolled her eyes and faced Jack.

"What's the next cartoons for today Jackie?"Anna asked . Gerda pouted at being ignored. Jack checked the TV guide and pretended he wore glasses to look quite intelligent.

"Let's see let's see. Hmmm... Tom and Jerry, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Mary Kate and Ashley in Action, the Amanda Show, Hey Arnold, and Dexter's laboratory," Jack read. Anna switched over to another channel.

"Cool, Mean Girls is on. Isn't this a new movie?"

"Yip."

"Anna I was watching that!" Gerda whined.

"Tough!" Anna yelled and went back to watching television. Gerda pouted again, and Jack watched as well. They watched it for a while til they heard footsteps come downstairs.

"What're you guys watching?" Elsa said in a raspy voice, still a little asleep.

"We're watching mean girls, it's about this girl that's new in school. She makes friends with both popular and unpopular kids, but she prefers to remain unpopular," Jack explained.

"Oh does she get bullied?" Elsa asked.

"No she's just I dunno, actually it's not one if those movies."

"Oh," Elsa simply said and went to go pour her cereal. Anna decided to go make her cereal as well.

The both looked in the cupboard for bowls.

"Morning Elsa, wanna go play outside later? It's super warm outside,"Anna asked, she watched her sister face cringe in frustration. "W-we don't have to play immediately, just maybe a little bit don't even have to be for an hour."

"Anna."

"Maybe thirty minutes?"

"5 minutes!? Please we haven't played in forever!"

"Anna!"

"Wh-what?" Anna looked sadly at her sister, Elsa sighed.

"I'm busy today Anna. I got homework to do, and so do you," Elsa

said a little annoyed. Anna had bothered her everyday for the last few months on playing with her. Between the bullying, the homework, the responsibility on her shoulders, she had grown quite distant towards her siblings. But Anna still persisted because she was lonely and needed her best friend back.

"We can do it tomorrow, pleaaaase?" Anna begged hopping on one spot.

"No Anna," Elsa said, pouring the milk in her cereal.

"But Elsa-"

"I said no!" Elsa snapped. Anna looked at her completely hurt. Her face was scary. Gerda and Jack kept quiet as well. Their father came down the stairs completely oblivious to what had just happened.

"Morning everyone. Oh Elsa, your teacher called and told me you might get a diploma to honor your perfect attendance and perfect scores, I'm so proud of you," Agnarr said, getting his car keys and making fresh coffee.

"Th-thanks Papa," Elsa said softly. Anna looked a little sad. She didn't get good grades, but it's not like she hadn't been trying. She couldn't cope with the work and avoided the homework like it was the plague.

"Keep up the good work and you are going to an amazing college, you will see," Agnarr said proudly, sipping his coffee and out the door he went. Anna watched Elsa sigh.

"Nah let's go to the beach today," Jack offered. All three girls looked at Jack questionably.

"The beach?" Gerda questioned.

"Yeah! Sheesh it's Saturday. Sunny outside, mom and dad are busy bees... C'mon, let's have some fun!" Jack said excitedly. Anna turned to smile at her sister but she didn't return it, she was off in the distance again . Gerda cheered and ran upstairs to get her things for the trip.

"But Jack! I have a lot of homework to do!" Elsa protested.

"But jah, Neah Neah Neah!" Jack mocked, causing Anna to giggle.

"Jack I'm super serious here!" Elsa yelled.

"Jah Neah Neah Neah!" Jack mocked doing a feminine hair flip causing Elsa and Anna to burst out laughing. They couldn't help but love their idiot older brother.

"C'mon girls, let's to the beach and score some cute boys!" Jack said flailing his arm around.

"Eeeew!" The girls said in unison which caused Jack to chuckle.

It was a beautiful sunshiny day at the beach, especially with a few clouds that were moving in the skies. Jack and Toothiana laid down blankets and a picnic basket and rubbed sun tan lotion on the girls. Jack took off his shirt showing off his six pack, the girls all gave him an unamused look even Toothiana.

"Don't be jealous you wish you looked this good!" Jack mocked smugly, rubbing the sun tan lotion over his nipples in circles and pouting like a model, all four girls sighed which made him burst into laughter. After everything was settled and everyone was dressed in swim wear, Anna and Gerda played with the bucket and poured it over the sand near their spot to make it moist. Elsa helped them mold the sand into something close to a sand castle. Anna just watched and tried not to piss her sister off, and Gerda watched the waves.

"Hey Anna, let's go in the water!" Gerda suggested excitedly. Anna glanced at the water and smiled.

"Elsa wanna come with?" Anna asked hopefully. Elsa simply shook her head. Anna's happy face dropped a little, and Gerda pouted.

"You so boring!"

"I like being boring." Gerda rolled her eyes and tugged Anna's arm until they ran off to the water. The girls ran to the water and ran away from it a few times until finally they jumped in. Anna shivered as it was cold.

"Brrrr it's super cold!" Gerda said through gritted teeth. Anna had a devious smile on her face.

"It's okay come here it's much warmer here," Anna said to her younger sister gesturing towards her section. Gerda followed and noticed it was warmer there.

"That's better," Gerda sighed, lowering herself into the warm water.

"I know right? The pee is nice and fresh, I saved it all trip," Anna said darkly. Gerda hummed in understanding, not quite processing what her sister said then suddenly she rose and spat as loud as she could and aggressively splashed her sister wet.

"You so gross! Why would you be so disgusting!" Gerda snapped and trying to splash all the warm liquid over to her sister's side.

"Well it's your fault for being so dumb!" Anna countered. Gerda speared her into the water out of anger and the two did a little combat underwater. Jack picked them both up by their swimsuits.

"Hey hey hey! Come on now can't you two ever play nice? What are you two fighting about this time?" Jack asked, watching them trying to reach each other in the air.

"She peed on me! She peed on me!" Gerda shouted pointing furiously at Anna. Jack tried his best not to laugh.

"Anna don't pee on your sister, it's disgusting... And weird," Jack playfully scolded and Anna nodded. Gerda smirked smugly thinking she had won the fight.

"Ha!" Gerda shouted.

They spent a while playing in the water with their brother. Anna would every so often look back at Elsa. She didn't understand why her sister didn't want to play anymore. It soon nearly reached dusk and most people already left except for the Winters siblings. Gerda was asleep on Toothiana's chest. Jack was collecting shells that weren't broken around the beach. Anna and Elsa were watching him on their shared blanket.

"I like the sky, it looks so beautiful," Elsa said suddenly. Anna looked at her sister quizzically then the sky. It was a variety of colors, the sun was mixing with the clouds, creating a mix of orange and yellow in the distance.

"Yeah it is, I used to like going here as a kid with my father. We used to go fishing at this time because it was quiet and winds were always peaceful," Toothiana confessed. Elsa agreed with a hum. Anna looked at the sky trying to find significance at what they were saying then she saw something that caught her eye and blurt it out.

"Guys look! That cloud looks like a butt!" Anna said pointing at the sky giggling. Elsa and Toothiana just looked at her with confused expressions, then Toothiana giggled and Elsa sighed annoyed. Anna rubbed her arm in discomfort. Jack ran over to the rest with beautiful shells in his hands.

"Hey you girls ready to go?"

"Yeah," they all said together.

Sunday night 10:21pm. Anna sat by her table next to her bed, Elsa by the dresser, both doing their homework silently. Anna couldn't understand the mathematics on her papers. She was afraid to ask her sister but she tried anyway, slyly of course.

"I don't get this," Anna said out loud, she looked over to Elsa who was still writing down her work.

"This is so tricky. Hmm," Anna tried again, glancing over and sighed. She walked over to her big sister.

"Uhm, Elsa?" Anna called out meekly, rubbing her feet together and holding her sheet. After a minute her sister looked her way.

"What is it Anna?" Elsa said rubbing her forehead .

"Uhm, I was wondering if you could explain this stuff to me please," Anna said, handing Elsa the worksheet. They both were silent for a while, as Elsa was going over the questions.

"Didn't your teacher explain to you this stuff Anna?"

"Uh yeah bu-but I didn't know what she meant."

"Then raise your hand next time! Look Anna I don't have time for this, ask mama or papa I have a test tomorrow and I have to get this all done!" Elsa said in a neutral tone and threw Anna's worksheet aside on the dresser. Anna picked it up.

"Oh okay," Anna said sadly, smoothing out the crinkles on her sheet. She silently walked to her parents room and knocked on the door. Her father was snoring fast asleep and her mother was reading a book on her side with the lamp on.

"Mama?" Anna whispered meekly.

"Yes Anna," Iduna said nose deep in her book.

"Can you help me with my homework? I don't understand it," Anna said trying to get on the bed but it was quite high. Iduna sighed rubbing her temples.

"Anna, what have I told you girls about doing your homework at the last minute? Please, you are going to exhaust yourselves," Iduna said gently taking the page and adjusting her glasses. Anna waited patiently listening to her dad's rhythmic snores to pass time.

"I don't understand the last part of this, the other looks like basic addition but the bottom half doesn't look familiar. I didn't do this stuff when I was your age honey," Iduna said handing her daughter back the sheet. Anna sighed and walked out the door.

"Ask your brother honey he's smart," Iduna said before Anna closed the door. She made her way to his room and opened it to see him snoring fast asleep. Anna poked his side.

"Jackie!" Anna whispered harshly, but got no response.

"Jackie!" Anna said poking his said harshly, waking him up with a loud snore. He first looked around for a moment then put on the light switch. Squinting his bloodshot red eyes at Anna.

"Anna? What's wrong sis?" Jack murmured rubbing his eyes. Anna simply handed her work to him, and he looked it over.

"Give me a pencil, I will write you the answers," Jack said after a minute.

"No Jack teach me how to do it! I can't understand it!" Anna begged, Jack handed Anna the page, and rolled back in bed.

"Anna I'm exhausted from the beach and the dinner date I had today with Toothiana. I will explain tomorrow. "

"But it's due tomorrow!"

Snore.

Anna growled in frustration and decided to go downstairs and throw her homework in the trash can and go watch television with Gerda.

"You finish with you homework?" Gerda asked munching on her chocolate.

"Yip."

"Wanna play with our dollies?"

"Yip."

"Alright class time to show me your homework, please present it on your tables for collection," the teacher instructed. Anna didn't move as everyone was reaching in their bags and taking out their homework, including Kristoff.

"Oh man, I don't think I got all mine right," Kristoff said scratching his head, then looked at Anna's table to see no sheet.

"Where's your homework Anna?" Kristoff asked. Anna slumped in her chair grumpily.

"I didn't do it." Anna muttered.

"What? Why?"

"Because it's stupid!"

Kristoff was surprised by his friend's outburst. He knew something was troubling her but chose to ignore it for his own safety. They both patiently waited for the teacher to come by their table, once he did Kristoff handed his paper and Anna waited for her teacher to start the lecture.

"Miss winters, your homework assignment please," the teacher said authoritatively.

"I left my assignment at home ma'am," Anna said flatly. The class was quiet and so was the teacher, Kristoff gulped.

Here it comes.

"Anna, Anna, Anna for the last month you have done nothing but fail your tests and your sheets, if you don't take this seriously you will fail."

"I know..."

"Then why! Anna, I'm trying to help you pass I've given you help and went extra slow so you can catch up along with the rest of the class...What's the problem Winters, please tell me?"

Anna was quiet . She normally was when she got scolded like this in front of everyone.

"Is there trouble at home? Are you being bullied? Please tell me?"

Anna gritted her teeth in rage her teacher was making her feel stupid in front of everybody in class so she snapped.

"I CANT DO YOUR WORK BECAUSE YOUR TEACHING SUCKS BALLS!" Anna snapped running out the classroom. She heard her teacher calling out to her but she kept on running until she bumped into a tree and began sobbing while holding onto the tree. She felt alone, she felt like she couldn't do anything right. She was failing all her subjects, she couldn't help it, it was all just confusing to her. But she knew if she did fail she would be one step away from finishing school, one step away from living a happy life outside of school and more importantly one step away from being with her sister Elsa. The distance made her sob more into the tree, she never cried this much before, but she felt like she needed to get it out of the way.

Author's note: Sorry for the wait, just been going through some pains in my sides and private area, fucking doctor dunno dick what it is. It's hard writing fucking chapters when you in internal pain ya know? Anyway I'm going to take a bit longer with the smut fics cause my vagina and my sides are in pain! All in all I'm going to focus more on this Story. I hope you guys enjoyed and fuck you all peace!