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Chapter 9
"Okay here she comes," Anna thought with an exited grin on her face. She had everything planned for this moment. The box of chocolate was heart shaped- and only half eaten by herself (she needed to check if it was good enough to offer Elsa). The last couple of days had been colder than the usual mid fall weather. Frost had covered the lawn this morning and Anna had to wear her warm coat when driving to school because of the low temperature. There was no explanation of this sudden change in the weather on the weather channel and several scientists were trying to solve the mystery but there hadn't been any clues yet.
Elsa approached the redhead, smiling.
- "Hi," she greeted Anna shyly. The redhead greeted back excitedly. Then the blonde looked down at the little heart-shaped box Anna was holding, and gave her a curious look.
- "Oh, they're for you, I just had them at home, you know, lying around…" Anna explained nervously while handing the box over. Elsa kept staring at it for a while and Anna thought she saw a tear form in her eye before the blonde cleared her throat and looked up at the redhead with a affectionate smile.
-"Thank you very much, Anna." She opened it and found half of the chocolates it contained were eaten. She grinned at the embarrassed redhead before her.
- "Well, I had to make sure that they were good enough for you…" Anna said, blushing.
- "It's all right," Elsa chuckled. "What is your first class?"
- "Well, it's Friday today so it must be Spanish," the freckled girl replied. She bit down her lip in insecurity when she continued. "I-I was wondering… I m-mean… What are you doing after school today?" Elsa was totally surprised about the question. A grin spread over her entire face. She was so exited that she didn't think through before answering,
- "Well, I don't think I'm doing anything in particular. What for?"
- "There is this party tonight at my friend Belle's house… It's really not a big deal, you know. It's just an excuse to see each other… but there will probably come a lot of people…" the last thing she added mumbling because she knew that, that might not seem appealing to the blonde. But Elsa had heard and her grin slowly faded to a tight smile. She took a deep breath and looked down before answering,
- "Anna… I… I can't." And then she turned around and walked away, leaving the redhead on the spot where she grew more and more frustrated.
- "What did you expect, Gingerface?" A cold, mocking voice sounded from behind her. She turned around and found Aurora, Jasmine and Vanessa smiling at her evilly. Anna tried to walk away feeling a rage heat in her cheeks but Aurora grabbed her arm and forced her to face them once more.
- "She's way out of your league, tomato," She said with a grin.
- "Let go of me!" Anna yelled angrily. "Leave me alone for once in your life!"
- "Oh, what's the matter Gingerface?" Vanessa asked with a smirk. "You can't handle the truth? You're a creep, a weirdo!" They all kept laughing at her and trapped her so she couldn't get away. Then they started pulling her braids roughly and shoved her away before she could do anything to defend herself.
- "What's going on here?" A cold breeze went through the room and they all turned around to see Elsa's intimidating figure looking at them her face expressionless but her hands trembling. But Aurora didn't let herself scare off so easily.
- "So, the ice queen has honored us with her presence," she said in a mocking tone. The redhead saw the hurt in Elsa's eyes, which she tried so desperately to hide.
- "Just… Just leave Anna alone," she tried to demand but her voice sounded weak and pleading. Aurora smirked evilly.
- "Why don't you just take off those ridiculous gloves and hand them to me and then I'll promise to consider never bothering Gingerface again."
- "You don't want me to take off these gloves, trust me," the blonde growled. The temperature in the room had fallen and they all saw their breath beginning to damp.
- "Wasn't that what I just said?" Aurora's voice suddenly sounded insecure whether she should take Elsa's threat seriously or not.
- "It's okay Elsa," Anna said with a soothing smile. "I'm used to this, they can't hurt me anyway, let's just go." She started to walk away from the three girls who had surrounded her, but they immediately pulled her back causing her to stumble and fall on her face. Elsa's eyes widened in anger and she felt a coldness threatening to form from her hands.
- "Just give me those goddamned gloves!" Aurora screamed. Anna saw Elsa take in a deep breath and exhale slowly, but no dampness showed from her mouth like it did with the others. Then she felt wetness spread from her nose and she automatically put a finger on the spot to find out her nose was bleeding. She looked up to meet the blonde's icy blue eyes and saw them grow even more concerned for her.
- "Please just calm down and try to handle this like the adult you are," Elsa continued desperately to get the redhead out of the situation. "Just let her go and I'll give you my gloves on monday." Aurora didn't fall for it though. She let out an exaggerated huff.
- "Hah! As if it is because I'm jealous at the gloves that you're wearing! You are so self-obsessed! I only want you to hand over your precious gloves to see what you're hiding underneath!" Elsa's eyes suddenly grew terrified. "What are you hiding, Els?" Anna wondered. She saw her having some kind of inner struggle before she looked up. The blonde's eyes grew determined when she finally spoke,
- "Just let Anna go and you'll receive them." Aurora smirked satisfied and pulled up the bleeding redhead.
- "Aww, look at that," she laughed mockingly. "You have even more redness on your face now than before." Anna glared at the golden blonde before she was pushed away. She turned her head and saw Elsa take off her gloves with trembling hands, exposing two beautiful pale hands with slim fingers and perfect nails. She then handed them, still trembling violently, to Aurora who ribbed them away from her and kept staring at her flawless hands. Immediately Elsa hugged her stomach, turned around on her heals and walked as fast as she could, her breath hitching, away from the scene.
- "Elsa, wait!" Anna shouted but the blonde didn't stop. She didn't show up the rest of the day.
Elsa made it to her car and found the extra gloves, which she desperately put on before starting the car and driving away as fast as legally possible. She didn't notice the snow that had started falling outside she was stuck in her own thoughts. "That was too close, your idiot!" a voice that sounded like her father's shouted at her inside her head. "You couldn't just let Anna handle her own troubles and stop being so reckless! What are you trying to proof? You are not a hero, remember?! You are a monster! A monster! A MONSTER!" Elsa felt tears running down her cheeks and grow into snowflakes on the way. She looked up and saw that her driving had leaded her to a forest. She pulled into the side, ripped off her seatbelt and ran out of the car, through the trees and leaves that were soaking wet on the ground. She suddenly slipped and fell on her back. Her eyes were closed but she couldn't hold back the tears and she finally started to sob. Ice spread on the trees and the leaves were covered in frosty snow.
- "Help me papa," she cried pleadingly and squeezed her eyelids together even more. But she couldn't fight the voice inside her head. "You're such a disappointment! You can't even handle yourself in public! You're a pathetic little fool! You can't do anything right! You're a force of destruction! You're a monster! Don't you get it?! YOU'RE A MONSTER!"
- "STOP IT!" she screamed and letting out the force inside her which turned the whole forest to a winter land. Dreadful ice spikes grew up from the ground around her and every tree and bush was covered with frost and snow. Elsa opened her eyes and saw her mother sitting on her left side.
- "Mommy?! Momma, please make it stop, please!" Elsa sobbed at her hallucinated mother, who was looking down at her in sorrow. She tried to reach out for her but in the same moment her mom disappeared once more. She was alone.
When Kristoff had seen Anna's hurt nose, he had taken pity on her and offered her a ride home, which she happily accepted.
- "This weather is simply too weird this year!" Kristoff complained. "I mean, what if the race gets cancelled because of snow in September?" Anna looked annoyed at her friend and growled.
- "Then you'll just have to wait until the spring race and you will have more time to practice, I really don't see the big problem."
- "Wow, wow, feisty pants!" Kristoff exclaimed shocked. "What's wrong?" Anna sighed.
- "I'm sorry Kristoff, it's just… something bad happened today and I don't know how to make it right." And then she started to tell Kristoff about the incident with Elsa and Aurora and how the platinum blonde had just ran off the moment she gave away her gloves.
-" So…" Kristoff started after hearing the story. "Do you have a thing for this blonde?"
- "That's not the point Kristoff!" Anna replied angrily with tears in her eyes. "The point is that I hurt her and I don't know how to make it up to her."
- "Anna, you really can't take responsibility for what happened. Aurora is a bitch, and if I had been around I would definitely show her that she couldn't treat my best friend like that."
- "Kristoff, this is not about me-"
- "This sure as hell is about you Anna!" Kristoff palmed his forehead because of Anna's obliviousness. "Don't you see? Elsa did this because she cares about you. She gave away her gloves and risked something, I don't really know what but something that made her scared, all for you. She is willing to defy her fears to get you out of harm. You didn't do anything wrong Anna. She doesn't hate you."
- "How do you know?" Anna's voice sounded fragile and a tear rolled down her cheek.
- "Because I would have done the same thing in her position, and I care for you…" He looked away and she realized that this hurt him badly. He was still in love with her and she talked about another crush. It was like torture for him. Only Elsa wasn't just a crush… That was what he knew and that was why he sounded so wounded.
- "I-I'm sorry Kristoff, I shouldn't have-"
- "It's okay," he smiled reassuringly. "I just want you to be happy." He pulled in her driveway and Anna hugged him tightly.
- "Thanks for the ride Kris. I love you." She pulled back and saw him fighting tears back. He really was just like a huge teddy bear. She took off her seatbelt and opened the door. Just before she stepped out she heard his voice from behind,
- "I love you too. Please just call Elsa and come tonight at Belle's" Anna smiled warmly,
- "Thank you… and I promise that I'll come tonight… see you." She stepped out, closed the door and winked at the trucked as he drove away. Then she walked into the house and found her mother in the kitchen, talking with someone on the phone. Anna guessed that it was her grandfather because Jane used her long lost British accent while talking.
- "… Yes daddy and he'll come home on Monday, isn't this just exiting? … You really don't have to come all the way from London just for that… Okay, you know you are always very welcome… yes and give them my best regards… yes, yes… bye." She hung up and saw Anna standing in the doorway.
- "Oh, hi honey, how are you?" She smiled at the redhead. "Did you have a nice day in school?" Anna shrugged and walked past her mother.
- "Your grandfather comes to visit us all the way from London when your dad gets home," she announced excitedly. Anna turned around and smiled happily at her mother. She loved her grandfather so much. This might make it easier to reunite with her dad.
- "That's awesome mom!" She exclaimed happily. Jane smiled back.
- "So what are you doing tonight pumpkin?" The redhead laughed at her new nickname.
- "Sorry mummy, there is this party at Belle's house, and I kind of promised Kristoff that I would come."
- "That's all right," her mother said smiling. "Then I wont feel miserable for eating dinner with an old friend tonight. Ariel is, as you know, visiting Erik for the night, who knows what they plan to do, so you would be home alone, but you're not so that's just great."
- "Well, that's just great, and please stop putting those disgusting pictures in my head of Ariel and Erik, I beg you!" Anna exclaimed exaggeratedly. She then continued walking up the stairs and entered her room. She stripped of all her clothes and hid her body in a bathrobe before she went to the bathroom and took a long time shower. When she finally came out she remembered that she had to check if Elsa was okay. She ran out of the bathroom, forgetting she was all wet and naked, and into her own room. Anna took her phone and dialed Elsa's number.
- "Hey, it's Elsa" She heard the blonde's beautiful voice say. Anna was totally taken aback that she had actually answered her call so she didn't speak at least the next five seconds.
- "Anna?" Elsa's voice grew worried. "Is that you, are you okay?" Anna snapped out of it and tried to squeak out a sentence,
- "Y-Yeah! I'm great… How are you? You kind of walked out on me before I had a chance to thank you for what you did there for me"
- "I'm fine, Anna… Just a little tired… and you don't have to thank me… I don't deserve that…"
- "Of course you do! You practically saved me from those monsters… Elsa I was just wondering if you'd reconsider going with me to this party tonight, I just think you need some fun or something…" Her grin faltered when she heard a sigh from the other end of the line.
- "It's really sweet of you Anna but… I'm just… I'm just so exhausted… I'll see you on Monday all right?" And then she hung up on her.
- "I guess…" Anna mumbled sadly.
The party was great but Anna still couldn't stop thinking about Elsa. She felt sad when she imagined her being all alone in such a huge house. She was just so lonely, she had lost her parent's and her sister, and no one seemed to care. It broke Anna's heart. So she had to get herself drunk from the stuff Flynn Ryder had brought illegally. It tasted like shit but it took her mind of things and she was actually abled to have fun. Until the time she hit the wall and felt unimaginable tired suddenly. Her vision was blurry and she couldn't find any of her friends. She walked outside the house and decided to call her mom. But her mother didn't exactly know that she would be drinking tonight and she really couldn't hide it from her with her current state of mind. So she gave up on the thought and tried to find her friends once more. The only ones she actually found were Rapunzel and Flynn but they looked very caught up with each other in the guest bedroom. "Why can't people learn to lock the door once in a while?" She thought while rolling her eyes. Then she walked out into the garden once more and tried calling Ariel, but it went directly at her answering machine. "God damn it, Ariel!" she felt her rage grow inside her. "Can't you just think of others than yourself and your perfect sex life for once?" She sad down not knowing what to do as her vision became more and more blurry. She couldn't feel the cold because of the alcohol but she still knew that she couldn't fall asleep outside unless she wanted to become very sick. She took a very last look on her contact list and her eyes fell on this specifically name that had haunted her mind all evening. Not really knowing what to say she pressed call and finally she got an answer.
- "Hello?" Elsa's voice sounded tired and hoarse.
- "Hi beautiful" Anna hiccupped and smiled her very own puppy smile.
- "Anna?" Elsa then sounded confused and a bit worried. "Are you drunk? Are you okay? Why are you calling me this early, it's like five AM…?" Anna couldn't help but laugh at the situation. Here she was, calling the girl she wanted to save, to come and save her.
- "Can you pick me up?" (Hiccup) "It's kind of cold out here… wait is that a snow angel? Sooo beautiful! Just like you!"
- "Anna, stay where you are, I'm going to pick you up and drive you home okay? Try to keep warm! Where exactly are you?" Anna laughed once more.
- "I'm in a beautiful winter wonderland in September! (Hiccup) How amazing is that?"
- "Anna, do you have an address?" Elsa was seriously worried now.
- "Oh! It's the (hiccup)… It's the fifth of Beast Street… I wonder why they will call this fine neighborhood for Beast Street..."
- "Hold on Anna, I'm coming right away!"
Elsa hung up her phone and spilled some ugly words from her mouth. She then pulled on a pair of grey shorts and a blue hoodie. She pulled on the old blue gloves she had used as a replacement from the expensive ones she had given away to Aurora. The car started and she tried to avoid the piles of snow in the sides of the road. She drove fast. And finally she got to the right house. She could hear the loud music, see the lights and smell the alcohol when she stepped out of the car. Then she tried to call Anna but she didn't pick up and that made her even more worried. The snow started to fall faster and she ran into the house, her mind only focusing on finding the freckled girl. She ran into a tall blond and muscled guy.
- "I'm so sorry, have you seen Anna?" They guy seemed confused as he looked at her.
- "No," he replied worried. "I haven't seen her like the last two hours… You're Elsa, right?"
- "Yes, yes I am, she called for me to come and pick her up…" She glanced around the room trying to remember what Anna had said to her. I'm in a winter wonderland… It's kind of cold out here… Is that a snow angel?... Now Elsa knew where to go.
- "Where is the door to the garden?" The guy pointed at something behind her and she ran off with a "thank you".
When she finally got out she saw Anna sleeping in the snow where she apparently had tried to make a snow angel herself. Elsa lifted her up in her arms and started heading back to her car. She laid her on the passenger seats and wrapped her in some blankets before driving home.
