Mob had seen Frozen a thousand times before.

Maybe even more, now that she thought about it. She knew the whole movie word for word. Not just the songs, those were easy to remember, but the talking parts too. Like how Elsa was so mean to Anna at the party…but only because she had to be. Anna couldn't be allowed to know about her powers because then the ice in her head would grow back or…something. It wasn't really explained. Their lives would have been so much easier if Anna could have known about Elsa's powers. Then Anna wouldn't have fallen in love with Hans so fast. You couldn't fall in love with someone you just met. It made perfect sense...but even the things that made the most sense could be the hardest to get through your head.

Mob had seen this movie more than a thousand times but somehow she hadn't even able to get that through her head.

'No, I can't live this way any longer!'

'Then leave.'

So mean.

Elsa would have had more luck if she had actually sat down and talked to Anna about why you couldn't fall in love with someone you just met. A lot of the time people mistook wanting to do all the things with someone as love, Mob knew that she had…well she had been too little to want to do all the things with Teru when they'd met but she had wanted to kiss him. Well he had kissed her first but it had been the best moment of her life and…and she had thought that she had been in love when, really, she had just liked kissing. Love was different than that and…and she didn't think that she was ever going to actually feel it. It was way too much trouble. Love…love was…when you loved someone they could have left you, or they might not have loved you back, or maybe they did love you back but then they died or something….

Anna should have listened to her sister.

Mob heard a door open and close. Dad's aura was moving. She snuggled deeper into her blanket cocoon. She was sleeping on the living room floor tonight. Sho had locked himself in their room and told her not to come back in no matter what. She had no idea what he was doing in there but she wasn't mean enough to ask again, she had been told it was none of her business, and she certainly wasn't mean enough to use her powers to undo the lock. She wasn't Elsa. It was hard to be a mean big sister…or maybe Mob was just bad at it….being mean on purpose, anyway.

She could be very mean on accident.

She could do a lot of things on accident. She could accidentally make the windows open and close. She could accidentally make her hair float. She could accidentally say a bad word in her head. She had never been the best at controlling her powers and her thoughts had been kind of mean lately. She wished she could have been with Serizawa, she never had mean thoughts when she was around him, but by the time she had finished with her bath he had fallen asleep and she didn't want to risk waking him up. She wished that Sho hadn't been all locked up, either, because…ok, sometimes they fought and he was still kind of mad about the whole Shimazaki thing but he was still her best friend who was also her brother. Her best friend who wasn't related to her at all…if they were even still best friends…was probably asleep by now too. She didn't know and she couldn't go and find out. If she did then she might have risked running into Shimazaki and…and she had no idea what she was supposed to do if she did. They'd…well it had been a lot and it could never happen again and…and every time she looked at him she remembered what happened and….and it was a lot. It was a lot to deal with and it was really late so she didn't want to deal with that right now. She didn't want to deal with anything or anyone by now.

She just wanted to be a blanket burrito and watch Frozen, so that was what she'd do.

'Wat are you so afraid of?!'

'I said enough!'

So mean.

Really, Elsa was kind of mean there. She should have just let Anna have a party but then hid in her room or something…or maybe she could have even joined the party. Parties were so much fun…Mob couldn't even remember the last party that she had been to…well that she had thrown. The last party that she had been through hadn't been very fun at all and it had ended in her and Minori not being friends anymore. She hadn't exactly been happy about being friends with Minori but…but it was still hard losing a friend…having someone call you a b-word and telling you to get out of your life. She didn't really want to hang out with Minori but…but maybe she was just being selfish, or something. She could have told herself that she wanted to be friends with Minori to see how she was doing and to look after her but…but she already knew how Minori was doing. She was sad. She used to post all the time about stuff she bought and places she went and stuff but now all of her posts were about how tired she was and how everyone in the world was just using everyone else and how friendship and love didn't exist….

Mob hadn't been a very good friend to her at all, if that was the way she was thinking.

Mob hadn't been a very good anything, lately. She had been a bad best friend and a bad girlfriend and a bad big sister and a bad daughter and…and maybe she was just bad at being Mob. She was already bad at being Suzuki Shigeko, that was why people had started calling her Mob in the first place, and if she was bad at being Mob then…then who was she? She wished that Tokyo had mountains, big ones with ice on the top, like in Minecraft. Then she could have been alone and free…that would have been nice, being alone…since she was so bad at being around people. Since she was so bad at being a friend and a girlfriend and a sister and a daughter….

She didn't want to be alone, though, not really…even if she had been free.

"….free in a week or so…."

"….whatever you want to do…"

Walking. Talking. Mob wondered if Dad was deaf, at least a little bit. Old people had a lot of trouble hearing, that was why they were always saying 'what' all the time, and Dad was getting kind of old. He had white in his hair, now, some in the back by his ear. He had more wrinkles in his face, another set at the corner of his eyes, and also if she really looked there were some at the corners of his mouth too. Mob wondered if any of that stuff, that antiwrinkle stuff, worked…if maybe she should have recommended it to Dad….

No, he had someone else for that.

'Just stay away from me!'

'Monster…Monster!'

So mean.

Mob wondered if Elsa's life would have been easier if she'd had at least one esper parent. Someone who could have taught her how to control her powers…or maybe they would have just been all 'conceal, don't feel' even if they had powers too. Dad was like that…even though he wasn't the best at it either. She could see his aura from here. It was kind of like when you left milk on the stove for too long. Like it was trying to bubble right out of him. Not like he was mad, though, he was happy. He was happy because of….of HER. That witch-bitch. That was what she was and…and she didn't know why this lady had to come in and try and ruin her family! Mob pulled the blankets up higher. The picture on her laptop got all pixelly…she needed to calm down. There wasn't anything that she could do…Dad didn't care how she felt. Dad didn't care that…that he already had three kids and…and that Mukai was the baby. He didn't need to have another baby since he already had Mukai and, ok, she could walk and talk but she was still practically a baby….

She knew that Dad didn't care what she had to say…he didn't care about her at all anymore….

"…miss you as well…."

"…of course…."

Mob could hear her voice on the other side of the call. She or E. Her period dad, so called girlfriend. Her future evil, Wicked, stepmother. That was nothing against stepmothers as a whole, this woman really was wicked. She was mean and nasty and she had dad all twisted up so he didn't even know which way was up anymore! She might have been like a black widow, not like the lady from Avengers, but like the evil killer lady that she and Minegishi had seen all those years ago on that network that was just bad things happening to moms and stuff. A black widow was a lady who pretended to love the dad of a family but only so she could make sure that she got all of his money and stuff before she killed him. That Shiori lady seemed like the type to kill someone for their money and Dad had a lot of it…or maybe she was trying to take Claw from him…or maybe she just wanted a baby but she was going to get bored of it and run away and then Mob would have to take care of it or something.

Mob really didn't know.

Mob knew nothing about Shiori besides the fact that she lived in a tiny house, but not like the tiny houses in the tiny house show, and that her house smelled like cats. Oh! She had a garden, too, Mob had seen it through her fence. Minegishi's was nicer, though, they grew pretty purple flowers and tasty fruits and vegetables. That lady mostly had leafy plants, which were boring, and a few plain colored flowers. She wished that she had been better at figuring people out…that she had been less clueless. If she had known more about that lady then she would have known just why…why she was coming here, now, into Mob's family…

Out of all the families in the world she had chosen Mob's.

"You still owe me a new pair of slacks, nice ones. It's damn near impossible to find pants in my size. I'm too tall for a petite but too short for actual pants, and I don't have people to buy my clothes for me either."

"I know, I know, but don't speak of that right now. I've left my room."

Mob peaked her head up and out of the blanket nest she'd made. This was the kind of house with no walls on the first floor. They called it an open concept but Mob just called it noisy. She could hear every single step Dad took, ever word he spoke, and every cabinet he opened. They didn't all match now, since Sho had fallen and broken one, and Mob was more bothered about that then she should have been. She should have been happy that Sho was alright, not annoyed because now every time she stepped into the kitchen she was reminded about how she hadn't been there to catch him when he slid or how she hadn't been there to make mashed, scrambled, eggs for Mukai. She shouldn't have been thinking about it now…about how Dad was opening and closing every single cabinet in the house…how if he needed to find something then he should have just asked her.

She was right here.

'A kingdom of isolation and it looks like I'm the queen.'

Mob looked out over the top of her blankets. The opening and closing had stopped and now the water was running. She heard it hitting the glass….Dad hadn't let it run cold. Dad never thought to let it run cold. She didn't know why, even with the air conditioner on it was hot in here…or maybe because she was all wrapped up in a big, heavy, wintertime blanket. She wiped her head on the blanket. Maybe she was just making herself too hot…maybe it was too cold in the house…maybe she didn't know what she was talking about. Maybe she didn't know anything. Maybe-

"Excuse me for one moment."

Mob heard Dad getting closer. His aura was still bright, and it was getting closer and closer. She wondered if he was planning on crossing the living room to get back to his room. It would have been the long way but Dad didn't always do things that made sense. Or maybe she just couldn't understand him anymore. Maybe she had never been able to understand him. Maybe she had never been able to understand anyone. Maybe she didn't even understand herself. With each footstep Dad got closer to her, and every time he got close to her she wanted….Mob had no idea what she wanted. Maybe she wanted him to say sorry. Maybe she wanted him to take it all back. Maybe she wanted him to tell her that he was never going back to Osaka and that he was never going to see that Shiori lady ever again…

Or maybe she just wanted him to stay and watch Frozen with her.

His footsteps stopped. He looked down at her. She looked up at him over the top of her blanket burrito. She didn't know what he wanted. His phone was still in his hand. She didn't think that he had ended the call. If he had then his phone would have been in his pocket. So that meant that SHE was still there. That Shiori woman was there listening to her right now….why? Why did this lady have to go and-and-and just stick herself right into their family like that?! Did she have anything better to do? Didn't she have friends or kids or a job or…or anything? Mob didn't know and she didn't want to ask.

She paused her laptop.

"Shigeko, I was watching that." Said Dad. There was a laugh from the phone. Mob turned away from him. She didn't know what was so funny, when it had become polite to eavesdrop, and also why Dad didn't just go to Osaka and watch Frozen with his girlfriend if he absolutely couldn't be without her. Mob…she wanted Dad to watch with her. She wanted him to come and curl up in the blanket burrito with her and then they could watch Frozen and he could tell her all about how the plot would have been better if they had been called espers and how because Rapunzel and Eugene were there then it meant that there was a whole Disney crossover universe, and Wreck it Ralph didn't count because he didn't like that movie, and how…Dad used to have a lot to say when they watched Frozen together.

But only to her. Not mean ladies who made your Dad hit you and also might have been black widows.

"Why?" asked Mob

"Because I like this song." Said Dad. He reached out with his powers and hit the space bar. Mob didn't stop him. She knew that this was his favorite song from Frozen, not his favorite version of it, though. No, his favorite version was the one from the play of Frozen, and his second favorite was the pop version from the Disney Channel, and then his third favorite version was the fan song from YouTube where Elsa was evil and had fire powers…and then he had other favorites, too, that they had figured out together…back when they had been friends.

Back when she had still been someone wort loving.

"Ok…I guess." Said Mob. Dad did the same thing she did, sang along, but quietly. She did that sometimes without even realizing what it was that she was doing. Sho had said that it was weird. She had probably gotten it from Dad. He was a weird person and…and it was weird having him here. Even though they had watched Frozen a million times before, together, and even though this was his living room as much as hers, it was still just…they hadn't done this in a while. Just been together like this.

It almost felt like old times. It almost felt like….like he still thought that she was someone worth loving…or at least not hating….

"What's wrong with you? Normally you enjoy this part as much as I do." Said Dad. Mob wanted to ask him what was wrong with him, to see how he liked it, but she kept it to herself. She didn't want to fight with him…she didn't want to say anything to him.

"Nothing." Said Mob. She knew that Dad was just as clueless as she was but even he had to get the message…but he didn't. He just stood there with his phone…Shiori said something…Mob didn't know what….she forced herself to ignore Shiori…

So mean.

"Don't lie, I know that something is wrong, I can tell by your aura." Said Dad. Mob wanted to tell Dad that everything was wrong. She wanted to tell him that him marrying this woman was long. That this woman was just…well Mob didn't know what it was that she wanted from Dad but she knew that it must have been bad. She didn't know what exactly but…but Mob knew that she didn't want to get to know this lady enough to know! She wanted to tell Dad that this was what was wrong, that she always felt like she was alone, that someone was coming to mess up her whole family, that she didn't need any more people to take care of, that she didn't want any new brothers or sisters, that she…she felt sort of like she was drowning, that something was crushing her, that she was stuck in that cube thing from Sho's movie about the people trapped in the cube. That she…that there was so much going on and she just needed someone to pull her out before-

-she didn't say any of that.

"Nothing, just tired, that's all." said Mob, not turning to look at him. Dad made a noise like he was about to say something but Shiori said something else, Mob pulled the blanket up over her head so she didn't have to hear it. Dad and Shiori were talking and…and when did it become ok to just stand there and have a conversation while someone was trying to watch a movie!?

Her aura flared out.

Her laptop tipped over onto it's side…she hadn't done that. No, Dad's aura had been brighter there…she turned her head so she could see him. He held his phone to his ear, now, and she guessed he'd finally figured out where the volume button was. He looked down at her, their eyes met, and their auras…and he didn't feel mad at her…but she almost wished that he had been. That way it would have been ok to want him to go away….

Or maybe if he had been mad at her then she would have known what she'd wanted.

"You were straining your eyes. This should be more comfortable for you….so goodnight. Don't strain your eyes and try to return to your bedroom soon." Said Dad

"Sho won't let me in. He locked the door and told me to go away. Dad got a look there. His aura went through a look, or too, two. First he was mad and then kind of closed off…she didn't get it…but she didn't understand a lot of things about him these days.

"Leave your brother to his solitude and…goodnight, I suppose." Said Dad

"Goodnight Dad and…and Dad." Said Mob as Dad walked away. That had been mean, so mean, but…but maybe not mean enough for someone like Shiori. Mob had never disliked anyone this much before, and there were some people in the world she disliked. She disliked Minori when she was mean, she disliked mean people in general, and also she disliked people who disliked her brother and sister…but she disliked Shiori the most….

So mean.

Mob wanted to be alone…more alone than this. She wanted to be alone on a mountain, like the one she'd made in Minecraft, where…where even if she would have been lonely she could have been free from…from feeling. This crushed in feeling. She used to just get it when she was alone with Shimazaki, being crushed by how much he liked her and how terrible she had been to him by not liking it back, and now she felt it when she even thought about being near Minegishi after…after what she'd done, and…and now she felt it when she was with Dad. When he looked at her and she knew how he felt and…and how she didn't know how to fix it and…and how Shiori was just THERE and…and even though she was far away it still felt like she was right there next to Dad trying to come into their family and…and…

…and Mob had seen Frozen a thousand or more times before…and she was going to see it again. Alone.