Sorry it took me a little while to update, I had vacation this week from school and I was super busy the whole time, anyway, Enjoy!
The wind whistles through the trees. The sun starts to set over the school as Anna leaves. Her backpack is hung over one shoulder, while her head is held high, and her eyes are turned down at the ground. She tightens her jacket around herself as she walks towards her sister's car. Elsa reaches over to the passenger side door and opens it for her sister. "Thanks." Anna says stepping into the car. Elsa pulls out of the parking lot as Anna is throwing her backpack into the back seat. Anna attempts to buckle herself in, but her hands shake and Elsa notices, she reaches over and helps Anna until the buckle clicks. "Thanks… Again." Anna whispers.
"Hey, Anna. What's going on?" Anna keeps staring out the window. She doesn't say anything. "Anna." Elsa insists.
"You want to know why I'm upset? Why I asked you to pick me up instead of taking the bus." Elsa nods her head, still keeping her eyes on the road. "Then you might want to pull over." Elsa looks over at her sister for a moment before doing as she was told. Anna starts quietly, afraid that she may just lose herself again. "It's Kristoff. Hans beat him up today, bad. They had to call an ambulance, the last I saw him he still wasn't breathing." Here come the water-works. "And it was all my fault, Hans wouldn't have hurt him if I had never talked to him, If I didn't help him up on the first day of school." Elsa's mouth is covered by both her hands. "I don't know what to do Elsa."
Footsteps echo down the hall of the hospital. The pungent smell of disinfectants and blood fill the air around her. The faint beep of heart monitors and other various machines can be heard from almost any point throughout the hospital. Walking through the brightly lit halls, a certain redhead fiddles with the flowers in her hands. She searches every one of the rooms she passes, even though she got a room number from the woman sitting at the desk. 457 At the end of the hall Anna finds his room. She hesitates before knocking on the door and stepping inside.
Kristoff is focused with the red band on his wrist when she walks in. For a moment she stands at the door not believing what she is seeing. Kristoff looks up and smiles at her. Tears begin to form in the corners of her eyes
"I thought you were gone." Anna says rushing over to the hospital bed to hug him.
"Well I couldn't just leave you here. I kinda made you a promise." Tears fall from her face and onto his shoulder as she sits on the edge of his bed. Her head lays in the crook of his neck. "I can't protect you from six feet underground." Kristoff laughs lightly before starting to cough. Anna stands up and gets a glass of water from his lunch tray.
"That's not funny Kristoff." She puts the flowers on the edge of his bed and sits in the chair next to his bed waiting for him to finish coughing before handing him the water.
"Thanks Anna." A few long moments pass in silence. "I didn't think you would come." He says out of the blue. Anna turns her attention to him and immediately gets defencive.
"What-why? What in the world would make you think that?" Kristoff stops smiling as Anna does as well.
"I just thought that maybe somehow I messed something up. I mean, you were avoiding me for weeks. Did I say something wrong-that night on the road-when you were crying?" Kristoff avoids making eye contact with Anna as she does the same to him.
"No-" She says, stopping short, as if she were going to continue. Kristoff looks at her now, with a questioning look.
"That's it, after about a month of you ignoring me, all you tell me is that I didn't do anything wrong? So it's me." Anna's mouth falls open as she looks back to Kristoff.
"No! It isn't you, and for the record I thought you were ignoring me." There isn't anything is wrong with him, right?
"I was keeping my distance because of Hans!" Kristoff yells a little louder than Anna was expecting. "I saw him yelling at you on the second day of school. I didn't want you to get in anymore trouble with him. I thought I was doing the right thing!" Kristoff exclaimed. She laughs in disbelief at his statement. He looks at her and she stares back at him.
"You thought that staying away from me was a good idea?" Anna asks with a catch in her throat.
"I didn't want to! I only was doing what I thought was good for you." Kristoff's voice is quiet.
"The only thing that's good for me is spending time with you!" Anna yells. Kristoff doesn't realize what she just said.
"Well, Anna-" He starts to say something when he thinks about what she said. He looks up at her. "W-what?" His voice falters.
"Soon, I'm going to lose all my friends, if I ever had any to begin with." Kristoff cocks his head at an angle at her. "I'll explain. But on one condition." Kristoff nods his head. "Come over, to my house-when your better of course. And we can watch a movie or something, and I'll explain." Kristoff stares at her for a moment before laughing and shaking his head at her. Anna stares, hurt, at him until he stops laughing.
"What will Hans do if he finds out that we were hanging out?" Kristoff smiles sadly at her. Anna turns away from him.
"I don't really care what he thinks anymore." Anna whispers quietly as she gazes out the window.
"Anna, I don't want you to get in trouble with him over me." Kristoff tries to say calmly.
"And I don't want him hurting you." Anna sits on the bed next to Kristoff.
"I think it's a little late for that," Kristoff says with a sad smile before motioning to his body.
"Not funny." Anna whispers sternly.
"I didn't mean that Anna." He apologizes.
"I'm sorry Kristoff this is all my fault. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't be here right now." He shakes his head at her statement, and looks over at her. Reaching over he lifts her chin so that she's looking into his eyes.
"If it weren't for you being there I might be dead. You saved me Anna. That's all that matters to me."
"Kristoff, if it means anything-I think you are a fantastic person. A much better one than me." Kristoff shakes his head and squeezes Anna's hand.
"Not everyone thinks I'm a good person Anna. I'm not anyone you want to concern yourself with." She turns to him, her face asking a million questions. But Kristoff can only answer so many. "Some bad things went down at my last school. My friend was an idiot and got hurt, and everyone blamed me."
"Why was your friend an idiot?" Anna asks quietly.
"I was on the Baseball team, a few of the players were doing some nasty drugs. I didn't know about it until someone approached me about doing them, I said no. Then I got kicked off the team, because I 'knew too much'. No one wanted to be friends with me after that." Anna gasps.
"Oh Kristoff, that's so terrible!"
"It gets better." Kristoff starts. "After a few weeks of eyes rolling at me, and dirty looks from about every kid in school, someone on the team died. Drug overdose." Anna covers her mouth with her hand and a tear trickles down her cheek. "Anna, don't cry." Kristoff wraps his arms around her and holds her to his chest.
"I'm sorry. You weren't done with your story yet. Please, I want to hear how it ends."
"Well, a rumor was spread that it was me who gave him the drugs. No one talked to me after that. I was questioned. The police searched my locker, my house, and found nothing. People still were talking about me behind my back, and I had no friends. My mom decided that enough was enough and I had to go to school somewhere else. It wasn't anything new, moving from place to place that is." Kristoff sighs and looks out the window, sun fading away behind the trees.
"What?" Anna asks quietly.
"I was a foster child. Most of my childhood was spent with different families that didn't want me, it's understandable, I mean even my parents didn't want me. Until Bulda, my foster mother, came along and took me in." Silence danced in the space surrounding them until Anna couldn't bear it.
"You don't have to worry about that anymore. I want you. You're kind and-and sweet-and you are selfless, always putting others before yourself. I wish I was more like you." She smiles a sad smile pointed in his direction.
"Well that's enough about me, What about you, where are your parents?" He says with a goofy smile on his face, and a blush rising in his cheeks. Anna's smile fades slowly and she stays silent for a few moments. Kristoff's face falls.
"I don't have any." She says quietly. "They died, Awhile ago. Almost 4 years ago."
"How?" Kristoff asks quietly, almost in a whisper.
"They committed Suicide. Together." She says with a catch in her throat that is wearing heavily on Kristoff's emotional state. "I guess they just got tired of Elsa and Me." Anna has tears streaming down her cheeks. "The worst part was that when they died-Elsa left. For a long time. I didn't see her for a year." She pauses for a moment, takes a few breaths and wipes some of her tears away. "When I walked down stairs that morning, no one was around, no one had woken me up to go to school. I ran into my parents room-and-there they were. Just laying there. I was so confused, so I walked up to the bed and-" Her hand grasps the snowflake necklace around her neck. "I was only 11." She looks over at Kristoff's tearful face and turns away. Struggling to wipe the tears from her face she tries to apologize. "I'm sorry. I've never really talked about them to anyone before. And I-I didn't mean to come here and make this about me because this is actually about you and -"
"Anna." He stops when Anna turns towards him suddenly, her face looking tired and broken. Her face contorts as she tries not to cry, but a sob ripples through her small body. He pulls her hand up to his lips and kisses it. She slowly lays down, with her head on his legs and cries. He wipes the tears from under his eyes and runs his fingers through her hair until he falls asleep.
Kristoff wakes alone in his hospital bed. The clock reads 3:47 AM. He lets his head fall back to the pillow, cursing himself for waking up so early. He studies the room and finds a bouquet of flowers on the side table next to his bed, a note underneath them. Anna. Slowly he reaches over and grabs the pink envelope, opening it the front reads Kristoff, he sets down the envelope and pulls out the card. Get Well Soon! is written in big fancy letters on the front. What follows is written on the inside:
Sorry that I wasn't here when you woke up. At 9 your mother woke me up, told me that visiting hours were over. She asked how long I had been here and it had been three hours. When I told her that, she just smiled. Then gave me a really big hug. It was nice. And I'm sorry again for coming over here yesterday and ruining your mood-I tend to do that a lot-ruin things. I still want you to come over sometime, only if you want to, and only when you're feeling up to it. I have something I want to tell you in private. See you soon XO Anna
After reading it he's smiling like an idiot. The sky still dark, he stares out the window at the sky, wondering what caused a girl like Anna to enjoy the company of a guy like him.
