When I got home that night I ran straight to my room and thought about everything that happened that day. Meeting Elsa at the lot, going to Jessie's, getting harassed by that guy, and then Hans saving me I remembered about Jessie's party tomorrow night. My plan is to tell Hans that I'm going to a party at some person's house and hope that he doesn't want to come or follow me. With that thought I drifted off to sleep.
Next Morning*
I woke up that morning the sun streaming through my window. I picked out my clothes for the day.
I wondered what I was going to do that day, but then I realized that it was Sunday and I had work. On Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, I work at the drugstore until 6:00. My shift doesn't start until 10:00 and it is 8:00 right now. I head downstairs and see Hans making breakfast again.
"Where's mom and dad?" I ask him, "Weren't they suppose to get back last night?"
"Yeah, but the plane had trouble so they're stuck in New York for another week."
"Okay." I said as I sat down at the table, waiting for my breakfast to be put in front of me. A few minutes later I had a plate of eggs and bacon in front of me. "Thanks, Hans. This looks really good." I told him as he got a plate for himself and sat across from me.
"You ok, Anna? You seem almost too happy." Hans said to me
"What are you talking about? I am perfectly fine. Do you have a problem that I am happy for a reason that is none of your business?"
"I guess not, well now I know that you're keeping something from me."
ShitI thought, I seriously need to watch what I say.
"Ok, you caught me. I am hiding something from you." I told him bravely
"Well, what is it?"
"I'm not going to tell you." I grinned.
"That's not fair, you said you had a secret. When you tell someone you have a secret you have to tell the person what the secret is."
"Fine." I told him as I tried to think of something to say. "I'm going to a party tonight at this person's house."
"Now, was that so hard? So whose house is it at?"
"You only want to know so you can crash it." I said
"Why would I want to crash a party?" Hans asked sarcastically
"You're not going to ruin my fun." I stated
"Ok, Ok, I wont go. But if you come home drunk or stoned you are in deep trouble."
"Ok." I looked at the clock and it said 9:30. "I gotta get to work. See ya later." I then waled out the door and made my way towards the drugstore. When I got there it was 10:01.
"Anna, you're late." my boss said
"What?! It's 10:01, that is not late." I argued back
"Yes, it is. Now go start your shift."
"Ugh."I said as I walked over to the cashier.
The day went by slowly and I only had two customers so far. By 3:00 I was basically dead. Then the bell above the door rang and I saw that it was jeff Curtis and David Randall.
"Welcome to Bert's Drugstore." I said to them. they both gave me a small nod.
I waited around while they were looking through the aisles. The the bell rang again and it was a bunch of Hans's friends. I knew that the next thing to happen was that the guys were gonna beat up the "Emrolleds".
"Can I help you guys with something?" I asked Hans's friends
"No, we can handle ourselves." one of them said
"What are you planning?" I asked them
"We're gonna give those Emrolleds a preview of what they're gonna get on Saturday."
"Not in here you're not. Actually they're not gonna get any preview at all. Period."
"Stay out of this girly." he said now in my face.
"How bout I tell that to Hans."
"Why would Hans listen to a little girly like you?"
"Cuz this girly's his sister and I will make sure to tell him that some of his boys are hurting his little sister. Didn't you guys hear what happened to Kyle?"
At the moment the guys looked scared. "They're not worth our time anyway. Come on guys." They walked out the door and out of the corner of my I saw the rack of potato chips sway back and forth.
"You guys can come out now, they're gone." I called out to the eavesdropping jeff and David.
"Thanks, you didn't have to do that. We could've easily beat their sorry asses." David said
"Well excuse me for stopping a fight. I thought that it was clear that until the rumble you guys aren't allowed to fight each other." I said
"Yeah, you're right. Wait, how do you know about the rumble?" jeff said
"I'm Hans's little sister, I know these things. But please do not judge me for being my brother's sister. I honestly do not see you guys as Emrolleds, just people."
"No worries. We're not the judging type." David said
"Cool. So you guys better get going before they come back."
"Okay thanks. Wait, we never got your name." David said
"Your welcome and I'm Anna. If your guys ever need help again I work here on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays."
"Well see ya, Anna." the boys called from the door. Then I heard the bell over the door ring again and I knew that I was alone again.
Skip to end of shift*
I am finally getting off of work and I am heading over to Jessie's in a few hours. When I got home I saw that Hans wasn't here and I aimlessly walked around the house to make sure of it. When I checked all of the rooms, he was in none of them, I went up to my room and redid my makeup and all that. I still could not shake the thought that I was seeing Elsa again. Maybe we should tell her friends about us, I mean David and Josh seem really nice; and one guy already knows. But then again, word could travel back to my side of town and get to Hans. He would hurt Elsa if he knew the two of us, I don't know if I could live with myself knowing that Elsa got hurt because of me.
I shook the thought out of my head and decided to talk to Elsa about it tonight. I checked the clock and it said 8:00. I wanted to be getting there around 9, 9:30. I had another hour to kill, I was wearing the same thing as this morning. I wanted so much to go now, but I knew I had to wait. I called Amanda and we talked for a while; this was our conversation:
"Hey, Mandy!" I said
"Hey, Anna. Whatcha up to?" Amanda said
"Oh, nothing. I was just bored and decided to call my bestie."
"Aww, I feel loved."
"So what you up to?"
"Same as you, nothing."
"Boring night, then." I said
"I'm going to a party later wanna tag along?" Amanda asked me
"Where is it?"
"This guy Jessie's place."
"Really?! I'm already going there in a little bit." I told her shocked, well I guess I will have her to talk to if I can't find Elsa.
"So how'd you know about the party?" Amanda asked
"Elsa lives in the building. She asked me to come tonight." I told her, "How'd you know about it?"
"I've always known about them, my older brother used to go all the time before he o.d. I just always wondered what they were like."
"I'm guessing that Hans doesn't know you're going." I said
"No. He would be so mad at me if he realized I was going to Jessie's. I'm guessing he doesn't know about you going either?"
"He knows I'm going to a party, just not where."
"Nice. So I gotta get finished getting ready. I'll see ya there?"
"Definitely. See ya there."
"Bye."
I hung up the phone and looked at the clock again, 8:45. Yes! I get to leave soon! I grabbed a ten dollar bill just in case I needed it. I looked at myself once more before heading out the front door.
A million thoughts raced through my head on my walk their. Luckily I live in the smallest town ever, so the walk wasn't that long. I thought about what Elsa said to me yesterday, about running away. I don't know if I could ever run away from my life, but if that is the price to pay to be with Elsa forever I'll gladly run away with her. I hadn't realized how close I was to jessie's until I heard the music and cheers down the street. I picked up my pace, longing to be there already. I reached the front door and just let myself in.
What I saw was chaos, and I loved it. For years I have wanted to live on the wild side, and now I finally get a taste of that life. I began searching the crowd for Elsa, I thought I spotted her near the bar. I walked over, taking in my surroundings of beer and craziness. There was a corner near the back of the room, where there was a crowd of people lost in smoke and they looked stoned. I got closer to the bar and saw that it was Elsa, and she was talking to someone. I did not recognize the person, he was dressed similar to Elsa; jeans, plain tee-shirt, and a leather jacket. His hair was messed up and it was a darker shade of blonde than Elsa's. I walked up behind Elsa and jumped on her back.
"Hey there." I whispered into her ear. I jumped off and she turned around to face me. As soon as she turned around she was dragging me upstairs. When we reached her door she pulled me in and smashed her lips to mine. This kiss was full and passion and said I missed you, never leave me again. We only pulled away from each other for air. She pulled me towards her so our foreheads met.
"I missed you so much today." she said
"I did, too. I was dying today to see you." I told her, "Who was that you were talking to?"
"That was Jessie. He was telling me that we have to be cutting the parties down for now, 'cause the coppers have been getting a little nosey lately."
"Oh. I guess Jessie isn't too happy about that." I said Elsa pulled me into another kiss, but this one was full of lust. She pushed me down onto the bed and pushed me down as far as I would go into the bed. Then she sat up and pulled her shirt off. I sat there admiring her figure, then I pulled her back down to me. She started to put her hand up my shirt when the door flew open.
"Oh, golly, Elsa!" I heard. Elsa and I pulled apart to see Josh and Kirk standing there.
"What are you guys doing here?" Elsa asked them agitated
"We got into some trouble." Josh said
"What kind of trouble?" Elsa asked them
"I killed a crip." Kirk said, as he said this I shot my head up.
"Do you know his name?" I asked him and Kirk and Josh looked at me for the first time.
"I think it was Charlie." Josh said
"Okay, that's fine then. I didn't like Charlie much." I said then I fell back onto the bed and closed my eyes.
"This isn't good you guys." Elsa said
"I know that's why we came to you, we figured that you could help us get out of this mess." Josh said
"Fine." I felt Elsa get off the bed. I sat back up and watched as she pulled out a shirt for Josh to put on since his was soaking wet.
"Okay, there's a train leaving at midnight going to Windrixville, but jump off the train before it stops. As soon as you get there go straight to the abandoned church on top of the hill. You can't miss it. Get enough supplies to last you guys a week. I'll be there in a few days to check on you guys. Take this." Elsa said as she handed kirk a gun.
"Why would we need this?" kirk asked
"You won't it's just in case something happens." Elsa said, "I can only give you twenty dollars right now. It'll buy what you need but maybe not for the whole week."
"I can help, here. Take it." I said as I pulled out my ten dollars I thought I might need. "Now you'll have enough for the week."
"Thank you guys so much." Josh said
"No problem." Elsa and I said in unison.
"Oh and sorry about walking in on you guys before." Josh said
"No worries." Elsa said
"Oh, I didn't catch your name." josh said to me.
"I''m Anna." I said as I shook his hand, "Now get out here you guys."
"Thanks again. Bye!" kirk said, then the two ran out the door.
"They're good kids. How did they get rapped up in all of this?" I asked Elsa.
"I don't know, but I just hope that they'll be fine."
"Yeah, I do too."
"Now, where were we?" Elsa asked me as she turned to face me.
"I think just about here." I said as I kissed her lips. She pushed me back on to the bed and I felt her hand go back up my shirt. I pushed her away then.
"What's wrong?" Elsa said
"We shouldn't be doing this now. The timing is a little off."
"Ok. If you want to wait, I can wait too."
I smiled up at Elsa, I sighed, "I should be going."
"No. Please stay here the night."
"I wish I could, but I need to get home before Anna comes looking for me. Especially after Charlie, he's gonna be even more on edge."
"A few more minutes please?" Elsa looked at me with a pleading face that I could not deny.
"Ten more minutes, then I need to leave." I said
Elsa smirked then pushed me back down onto the bed. Her lips met mine and stayed like that until she rolled us so that we were both on our sides and looking at eachother. Elsa pulled me into her chest and kissed my forehead. I could here the soft beat of her heart and I fell asleep in her arms, listening to it.