A/N, I my stats, something disturbing has come up. Some of you have avoided reading "Corn Flakes". Since I don't get reviews, I have no idea why this chapter was avoided. Help a budding writer out and tell me why you avoided this chapter. It totally sets up Anna's and KK's night together, and the worst thing that happens to them is Anna tripping over her own two left feet.
Also, this chapter's kinda' salty.
"Driver, stop here please."
She had the limo stop just down the block of her house. No need to make things more difficult. If mom looked out the window while the limo pulled up she'd be accused of being a street walker or an escort, and she would do anything to lessen the pain today would surely bring.
Too late, she sees Brian on his bike, her coat rolled up and clipped into his rack on the back.
"Shit, shit, shit! Not now!" Anna said thru clenched teeth, the driver had already popped out of his door and was swinging around the car. Brian stopped his bike right in front of her door on the sidewalk, in stunned agony. He knew what this scene meant. She was backstage while her friends were worrying about her.
"You did The Walk, didn't you?!"
"Hello to you to, Brian!"
"Shit, Anna, you just pulled up in a limo!, in the morning!, after we were at a concert, what the fuck am I supposed to think?"
Anna looked down at her feet, she felt ashamed. She had ditched this guy to be with a total stranger. He was concerned for her welfare, he even brought back her coat. And she just shit on him.
"Look, it wasn't anything like you think. We went to his room and ate cereal, then we watched Rudolph. Had some hot cocoa, and he played me a song. We danced. Then we went to sleep, that's it."
Brian looked at her like she had lobsters crawling out of her ears.
"You expect me to believe that bullshit story, Anna? Jesus, how many times did you rehearse that bit on the ride home?"
"I don't give a fuck what you believe, Brian,...Ugh. Look, I really didn't want to do this right now, but..."
"You wanna' break up with me, that's it, isn't it?"
"Yes, Brian, I'm sorry..."
"Can you at least tell me which one?"
"It was KK."
"Damn Anna, what did he say, or do to you to bring this on?"
"He showed me what true beauty was."
"Oh,...H-Heres your coat, I guess,... I'll see ya around." With a trembling face, Brian slowly pedaled away, and out of her life. Brian was totally lost on her last sentence, and that was the whole point, he would never get it, and she had to move on.
Now she felt really awful, but at least that was out of the way, and hopefully the most painful thing she'd have to deal with. And it was time to switch coats.
Anna took a few deep breaths before turning the knob to the front door. She was greeted by the smell of bacon and eggs.
"Hi honey!, can I get you some breakfast?"
"Hi mom, I think I'll pass, but save me some bacon, will ya?
"What's wrong?, didn't you have a good time at Elsa's last night?"
Anna and Elsa pulled the ol', "I'm stayin' at a friends house" gag on their parents and it always worked, but Anna had gone AWOL, and Elsa coulda' easily ratted her out.
"It was OK, Mom. But we were up late, ya know, no school, girl stuff, that sort of thing." As she replayed that in her mind it sounded so lame. Then she thought about what Brian said about rehearsing the "Lie". But the truth was, all she did was girl stuff, until she slept with a grown man who had a reputation of being a womanizer, showed him her breasts, and kissed him with tongue, but other than that...
"I think I'm just gonna' go to my room and try to catch a few zzzzz's, OK?"
"OK, sweety, when you get up, however, see if you can clean up that sty back there."
"Alright Mom." Then she quickly darted into her room. Two down, one to go.
Anna was staring at the ceiling wide eyed when the phone rang. She almost dropped the receiver trying to answer it as quickly as possible, she didn't want her mom answering it.
It was Elsa.
"What the hell happened, Anna?, I just got off the phone with Brian, he seemed kinda' upset. Girl, I want details now, no, wait. I'll be right over, bye!"
"No, wait, Elsa?, Elsa! Oh, shit.." Too late, the dial tone was already in her ear. How was she gonna' explain this? She was supposed to have just left Elsa's house. This would look mighty suspicious. She almost had the mom thing covered and now Elsa could easily blow it for her.
"Hey, Marylin, Anna left her diary at my house and wanted it back right away."
"OK, hon, she's in her room."
Elsa sprinted back to Anna's room like she was in an Olympic tryout. Anna was sitting up on the bed when Elsa burst thru the door. She plopped on the bed face first on her stomach with her feet swinging back and forth.
"Alright, tell me every lurid detail, was it as big as he was?
"Yes, but..., shit. It wasn't like that."
"Like what?! Brian told me that coca-meme bullshit story you cooked up, now I want the real deal, what was he like in the sack?"
"We didn't have sex."
"WHAT?!, You got into the Perp Walk and refused to fuck him?, what was his reaction, did he slap you around a little?"
"I never made it to the Perp Walk, I was taken straight to a green room. And KK was a perfect gentleman, all night, as a matter of fact." This brought a slight smile to Anna's face, and a look of total shock to Elsa's.
"Am I supposed to believe that?" It was roughly the same response Brian had, no matter who she told this story to, even at confession, no one was going to believe her, she'd be labeled a liar forever. It would have been easier for her to say she did have sex with him. Her social status would have gone up several notches. And she had enough proof with the picture and the eyewitness account of her arrival home.
But this wasn't the truth, and the truth was a much more fascinating story to her. The friends she had now couldn't understand what happened, and this spelled the end of Anna's and Elsa's friendship.
"Elsa, I really don't care what you believe. I had a great time with Kristoff, he treated me with nothing but kindness, and respect. We had fun. We danced like a couple of kids and smashed a table. One of the first things he said to me was I'm not going to have sex with you. That must be very hard for you to understand, and that's why we can't be friends anymore, you never understood me and you never will."
Elsa recoiled to the end of the bed. "Serves you right, you stupid bitch!, you had the chance to do a God of Rock, and you drank hot chocolate with him instead!" With tears in her eyes she stormed out of the house, Anna heard the door slam on her way out.
The thing was, Anna knew what her tears were for. Elsa had completely struck out on her quest to get backstage last night. She wound up doing some strange guy in the back seat of his car for a ride home, causing her a few weeks later to make some trips to the clinic. She was jealous of Anna's opportunity, she could have at least reveled in Anna's victory if she had scored. Now there was only a story of brushed hair and girl talk, and that wasn't gonna' cut it.
A moment passed and Anna's door swung open. "What was that all about?"
"Have a seat, Mom. I have something to tell you..."
