Chapter 10 Changes
Year 2005, 10:12 am, Corona's traditional Hall.
Dancing and enjoying the variety of foods presented on the tables. A DJ was hired, the decorations giving off an autumn feel with fake leaves and balloons, snowflakes painted on the walls, odd but in the liking of the two newly wedded Jack Winters and Toothiana. Everyone was truly happy the two finally got married. The two were on the dance floor with everybody else dancing, Iduna was dancing with her sister. Agnarr was having wine with his brother and sister. Anna and Gerda were talking to their Cousin Emma. Elsa sat on his brother's main chair eating cake flailing her legs. Each sister had a beautiful matching dress with different colors. Anna's was lime green, Gerda's pink, and Elsa had aqua blue, each with their own customized studs.
"Elsa honey what are you doing sitting here all alone?" Grandpappy asked walking over with his cane.
"Hi grandpappy, I'm just sad." Her grandpappy sat on the main chair of Toothiana next to Elsa with a sigh of relief, this made Elsa giggle.
"What's wrong?"
"My mama said I'm not suppose to talk bout it, she said I should be happy and I shouldn't make other people unhappy because of my little problems."
"Wow my daughter the perfectionist, tell me anyway honey."
"Marshmallow died."
"Oh-h no?" Grandpappy said tilting his head a little.
"It's my dog Grandpappy, he died a day ago. He had this tick bite and didn't recover from it. He was in pain and they had to give him the needle. It's not fair! I was so busy and exhausted with school I didn't have time to play with him! And now he's gone!" Elsa snapped, smashing her glass of apple juice against the table. It made a loud shattering noise, causing some people to look her way.
"It's okay I just clumsily dropped the glass its fine I'm fine," Grandpappy lied, chuckling. Everyone resumed what they were doing. He looked down to see Elsa gritting her teeth breathing heavily with tightened fists. Rage in her eyes.
"Elsa." Grandpappy shook her no response.
"Elsa!" He shook her again, the look of anger disappeared and she looked up with innocent eyes.
"Oh no my glass, that's my favourite orange juice," Elsa said pouting. Kai squinted and examined Elsa's facial features, no signs of rage at all.
"Elsa?"
"Hm?" Kai looked into her icy blue eyes, just the usual cute and unsure expression fixed on her face.
"Uh your sister failed correct? How do you feel about that," Kai asked. Elsa looked sad and watched Anna and Emma laughing.
"She was upset, but I'm happy she failed..."
"Why?"
"Because the more away from me the better," Elsa said bitterly. Kai gave Elsa a concerned look, but he decided to change the subject.
"Young love is the purest and most spontaneous of them all, don't you think Elsa dear?" Kai asked. Elsa looked over at Jack and Toothiana doing the chicken dance, and shrugged.
"I guess. I wouldn't know about love I'm only turning nine," Elsa said, crossing her arms. Kai chuckled at her response. He looked around the room for an ideal analogy to view love until he spotted a stray flower.
"Picture love as a flower dear girl."
"A flower?"
"Yes a flower, delicate and beautiful..and how do you bring life to a flower?"
"Water I guess?"
"Water is one thing but it takes day to day dedication to get the flower to blossom. You add water but not too much water,it needs plenty of sunlight and soil...then over time you will get a beautiful flower. They will take care for all eternity." Kai and Elsa watched Jack moon walk. Toothiana and the other girls laughed.
"It don't last though, I watch this show Jerry Springer and they cheat and say they don't love them anymore, the only love I see is in fairytales... And they always end it when they get married, what happens after? That Jerry Springer stuff?"
Kai sighed.
"Honestly what does your mother let you watch? Elsa those people don't love the people for who they are...those relationships either lack water or is left in the sun too long which is technically the same thing, their flowers slowly die out.
"Elsa if you want a truly happy love life," Kai continued, "you don't go for looks because that's temporary, you don't go for personality because that changes over time..Those are the temporary reasons to love someone. "
"Then what should I love about them?"
"The same reason you love your sisters."
"Because they make me look smart?" Kai chuckled and ruffled Elsa's hair.
"No, because they are apart of your life and always there to make you smile." Elsa nodded and smiled.
"Unconditional love should be your goal and the seed that will be the flower will be your wedding day."
Elsa liked upon her sister's, her brother and her parents.
"Love..."
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"You're leaving us!?"
"Yes, forever!"
"Why!"
Jack turned around from his suitcase to face his three adorable sisters. Fierce pouts with puppy dog eyes were present on their faces, demanding an explanation for Jack's sudden departure, he rolled his eyes and chuckled.
"Because I'm married now, I bought a house . I have to go look after my wife and get a job and be an actual adult now." Jack said softly to the girls.
"B-but, who will read us weird stories that don't make sense?" Gerda asked sadly.
"Who will play baseball with us and show us how to cheat?" Anna asked.
"Who will teach us how to do our homework and make fun of our questions?" Elsa asked.
Jack looked at the girls and hugged them all.
"I wanna cry right now but men don't cry," Jack sniffed.
"You are no man Jackie!" Anna whimpered.
"You right!"Jack sobbed, They all huddled close together and sobbed into each other, spending the last moments together before Jack left. Finally after a few moments they finally stopped crying.
"Gerda and Anna, you two be good. Elsa come with me." Jack gestured and Elsa looked at the two girls before walking off with Jack upstairs to his room. He unlocked it and opened it up. Elsa admired his room, still painted with white snowflakes, it's own mirror, comfortable double bed, a radio on the dresser, am alarm clock, and it's own television.
"You like this room Elsa?" Jack asked examining her face. She nodded.
"It's yours sis."
Elsa looked up at him in disbelief. Jack simply smiled.
"You're so quiet nowadays Elsa, I know you've been dealing with bullying and stuff, so maybe this room will help you think. It's quiet and peaceful, unless you turn on the radio or TV of course," Jack joked. Elsa just looked around still processing that this room was now hers.
"I can always give it to Gerda?"
"No- I- I- uhm, thank you." Elsa hugged Jack's leg and nuzzled into it, Jack chuckled and patted her head.
"Well I hope Anna and Gerda won't be on your case since I did this for you, it's not favoritism of course you are just older," Jack explained. Elsa nodded.
"But although we all know who is my favourite. He's devilishly handsome."
"Shut up Jack."
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Elsa was looking around at her new room. Her mother was already packing all her stuff into the room without question. The window was situated by the bed so she wouldn't get hot at night, turned on the radio and cringed when the music was blaring with bass and beats. She quickly turned it off and rubbed her hands indecisive on what to do, then she let out a sigh of anticipation.
"So you leaving us too?" Elsa jumped and turned around to see Gerda with an angry glare and Anna awkwardly holding something behind her back.
"No, I just want to be alone," Elsa answered honestly.
"Alone? You always alone Elsa you never play with us anymore! You always doing your homework and sometimes talk to us then ignore us again what the fudge!" Gerda snapped looking quite hurt. Elsa sighed, feeling a little anxiety coming over her.
"I just need time to myself, I will play with you guys later," Elsa said softly, walking up to the television and turning it on. The channel was currently on Cartoon Network. Their father took this out of his salary and bought the girls good cable tv. Multiple channels of cartoons for the girls to enjoy.
"You always say that and I'm sick of it, enjoy your new room sis!" Gerda hissed with a crack in her voice before she stormed off. Elsa felt hot and a stray tear was making it's way down her cheek. She sniffed and looked at the entrance and jumped a little seeing Anna still standing there.
"What are you still doing here?" Elsa said darkly, more out of embarrassment than actual anger. It still scared Anna. She silently put the toy she made for her sister on her new dresser, gave a small smile and made her way to the entrance of the door.
"Our cousin gave us a disk of games called MAME 32. W-we can play it when you have time or if you want," Anna said softly. Elsa only listened to her sister, she couldn't bare looking her in her face. When Anna got no response she left slowly.
Elsa tried to take another deep breath to calm her emotions but when she did she wheezed, so she tried again. Her breathing felt restricted and she rushed to her inhaler and squeezed it two times, inhaling as best as she could until she felt she could breathe. Elsa closed her eyes and sighed like she wanted to do. She walked up to her toy megazord her sister made for her. She smiled at the memory and placed it somewhere more safe on the dresser.
"Kids, dinner's ready!" Elsa heard her mother call out from downstairs. Elsa made her way down stairs to her family to eat with them.
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School. Elsa was in third grade now, and she wasn't excited about either. She hated school at this point, all the children constantly picking on her. She tried telling her second grade teacher once again being the only child being picked on her class, they would target her and she just didn't have the energy to cry again, so she kept to herself as much as she could.
"Elsa honey, please you need to eat, you don't want to be hungry on your first day of school," Iduna reminded her. Elsa played with her cereal, Anna was still eating her cereal gradually looking up at her older sister. Gerda was scratching her butt watching Disney's Buzz Lightyear series. She wasn't use to her new uniform.
"Man these cartoons are awesome sauce! We need to do an all nighter and watch all the channels! Well the cool ones," Gerda suggested. Anna nodded at the idea and Elsa was distant as usual.
"Not on a school night you're not, you can do that on the weekend," Iduna interjected. She then saw Elsa still didn't eat.
"Elsa honey please eat, we need to leave in like 10 minutes...it's a long walk to school."
"I can't."
"You can't? Elsa you going to starve if you don't eat."
"If I do eat I vomit and if I vomit, you yell at me so no! I'm not going to eat!" Elsa snapped. Anna and Gerda both felt uncomfortable. Idunna stood in place, chewing on the inside of her lip for a while and then let out a sigh.
"I will make you something when you come home," Iduna said with all the enthusiasm she could muster. Elsa didn't answer. She continued playing with her cereal, anxiety subconsciously in her stomach from speaking up to her mother. She felt like crying but held it in.
"You girls ready?" Iduna asked, taking the house keys with her and checking her makeup one last time.
"Yeah," Anna and Gerda said simultaneously. Elsa stayed silent. They all got their bags and made their way outside. Gerda waited in front of the entrance with their mother while she locked the door. Elsa and Anna proceeded walking on their own along the side walk towards school. Elsa felt anxiety filling her stomach. She really didn't want to deal with school right now. She didn't feel like she had the strength to endure more.
She just didn't want to go to school.
"Mama do I have to go to school?" Elsa asked, but she got no response. She played with her fingers nervously.
"M-maybe I can stay at home just for today? Please?" Elsa tried again sounding meekly. She cringed when she heard her mother sighed loudly out of irritation. It made her feel sad, like she was a burden. Tears streamed down Elsa's face.
"I don't wanna go," Elsa whispered softly to herself.
The made their way to the school entrance where a lot of kids were still entering, which meant they were early. Anna and Gerda walked forward ready to enter the school. Elsa on the other hand was still behind her mother, with fear on her face.
"Elsa homey c'mon, you're going to be late," Iduna said nicely. Elsa shook her head vigorously wiping her tears. Anna and Gerda watched the scene along with other kids.
"Elsa."
"I wanna stay at home!"
"Elsa it's your first day, you need to register and find your new class, c'mon you can stay at home tomorrow," Iduna urged, gently pulling Elsa towards the school but Elsa resisted and walked further away.
"No! I don't want to go! I don't want to go!" Elsa sobbed. Iduna gestured to Anna and Gerda to enter the building and they did so. Iduna walked closer to Elsa and was now face to face with her.
"You have to go to school Elsa! Now stop fucking crying like a baby and let's go!" She whispered harshly, tugging on her daughter's arm. Elsa resisted with all the energy she has in her body.
"NOOOO!" Elsa shrieked in her sobs, this caused even more attention. Some of the children were watching in amusement and some were snickering about it.
"Fine! You wanna stay at home? Let's go home . Then you can stay at home all you want and be a failure!" She pulled her daughter arm but Elsa whipped her arm away.
"No mama Noooo!"Elsa sobbed.
"THEN WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT!" Iduna snapped. Elsa stared up at her mother then cried hysterically. They stayed in that position for quite a while . The children cleared out, not wanting to miss their classes. Iduna not looking at anything in particular, waited for her daughter to calm down so they can move on from this.
"Are you okay?" Iduna asked in a soft voice.
Elsa nodded.
"I'm uh going to go get your registration information by your old teacher from last year, you can stay here." Elsa nodded again still sniffing slightly. Her mother went to get the information she needed to know about Elsa's new class. They walked home in silence, Iduna did stop to buy something for herself, but other than that they traveled without uttering a word.
Finally home, Iduna closed the door and sat herself on the stool near their dinner table, holding her hand over her eyes. Calming herself down from the current events that just happened. Elsa put her bag down silently on the sofa and watched her mother for a while . She felt guilty that she was the one causing her this stress.
"Mama I-"
"You can put your school clothes on your dresser I will go get it later okay? Get some rest sweetheart." Iduna said emotionless, Elsa just nodded even though her mother couldn't see her. She undressed and laid in bed, tracing patterns into her pillow, feeling anxiety and sadness from her what she had done.
Iduna opened her pack of cigarettes she got from the store and lit it up, took a puff and let out smoke with a sigh of relief. She sat back and tried her best to relax.
Elsa really didn't want to go to school.
Author's note:Hey guys, sorry I haven't uploaded in a fucking while..God damn college is wasting me so I try and write when I can...Also I made a collaboration fic with 07's disciple..its a frozen, star wars cross over type deal...pretty cool it has sex in it if you miss my smut . Also I will try and upload this weekend...maybe... But I won't leave this incomplete I don't roll like that! That is all...you may fuck off