A/N: Chapter title from Lana Del Rey's song. I love it.
Existence
Chapter Six: Ice Queen of Disaster
By: AlienSnowflake (Formerly PPLyra)
The number one out of a million reasons of why Anna hated Winter so much was getting up early for school. That meant leaving her warm blanket and bed to face the cold weather in the mornings. She was never a morning person. She was only a morning person when she had somewhere to go to that didn't relate to school.
Second was putting clothes on. Not only removing her pyjamas was cold enough, but putting clothes on that had been on her desk overnight was more annoying because they were freezing cold to put on. Twice as cold she was before. Felt like they were made from ice or were just taken out from the freezer.
Third was the weather. She had to wear five layers of clothing to make herself warm. She felt fat. It was hard to move with such thick material wrapped around her body. She wrapped herself with a thick pale green snow jacket. On her feet, she wore her cream coloured fluffy boots. Her fingers were numb. Felt like they were slapped by a spiky mace when she was shoving her feet inside her boots.
When she was finished, she headed for the kitchen and placed four sliced bread into a toaster and waited. She looked at the time, she has six minutes until her bus leaves. Anna sighed in frustration, knowing her toast will take some time, so she opened the fridge to get the strawberry jam out. She also grabbed a butter knife and some tissue paper. When she looked at the toaster again, the four toasts suddenly popped out. "Mother of Arceus!" she screamed out her lungs. Damn it! Why do I always get scared by this stupid toaster?! The toasts always pop out when I look at it!
When she was ready, she headed out. To her surprise, it was wet outside. Rain poured down. Anna was not amused. She ran down a few flight of stairs in a hurry, causing the toasts on her hands to slip out the paper tissue. She only noticed when they fell off. "Shi-" Flop! Anna's four toasts fell on the ground, making them all soggy and unable to eat for her taste. "Motherfu- toast!" she exclaimed, then she looked up. "Can this morning get any worse?!"
Elsa awoke with a bit of a snowflake that landed on her cheek. Mmhhh... Her cheeks and eyes twitched. She sat up and wiped the small particle off her paled skin, seeing her dried wound on her palms. They're not healed yet... How useless... She stretched her sore body and let out a yawn.
Moving herself out of bed, she put on an overly massive sized dark blue shirt with white sleeves inside over her white singlet and showed her pale coloured shoulder blades. There was a photo of a white electric guitar shaped like a spider on the shirt. She then wore her faded blue pants over her boxers. She didn't bother looking at her mirror, she already felt dead-looking anyway like she was possessed by some ghost.
As she made her way out of her room, she slipped on her newly washed blue and black striped fingerless gloves. Clenching her fingers, her knuckles went from reddish brown to white. Finally... They're covered up... She scrunched the edges to make them smaller. She didn't like them covering her whole arm. She only needed to cover her wrists.
Once she went out her room, she shut the door closed. Bits of cracked icicles flew everywhere. She turned around and saw her dad having some cup of coffee at the kitchen table. He had a pile papers on the table. His hands scrunched his short and messy hair. There was an uneven cut pencil between his fingers. Elsa walked over to the kitchen to see what he was doing. "Uhm," said Elsa, startling her father, "good morning, Papa..."
"Oh, Elsa," he said, looking up at his daughter. "I didn't hear you come in." Ignoring what he said, Elsa looked at the papers that were placed on the table. His work is too much for him... Yet he still keeps going... "Elsa...?"
"Hunh?! Oh, anyway, Papa, I must go. Bye." That moment, Elsa ran out and shut the front door closed. It was windy and cold outside.
Her father watched as she helplessly ran out the house. "But... You haven't eaten since dinner last night..."
Elsa was walking along the side walk, puddles of water splashed as she walked passed them. Her mouth was breathing out white smoke as she paced. I could really use a piece of bread or some toast right now... Any toast.
When the bus came, Anna hurriedly went inside and tagged in her card to pay, hoping she wasn't late for school. She usually takes the bus before that one and visit the library and tried to finish her leftover homework everyday. But she ran in late because of her toasts incident. She sat herself way up front, just behind the driver's seat. Sigh... Her hand made its way inside her pink bag to search for a notebook to start her homework. In the third stop, she looked at the few people that were boarding the bus. To her surprise, she saw the familiar blonde. She saw her paid the driver fast and made her way to the seats. Anna met Elsa's gaze for a few seconds before she tore her eyes off the two braided haired girl and made her way to the empty seat located three seats away from Anna, opposite to where she was seated. The person who Elsa sat next to shivered uncontrollably when the Ice Queen was seated.
Anna looked at her while she was staring directly at the person who sat in front of her. She crossed her arms and sighed. Anna wanted to look away, but she took that moment to gaze at her charming looks. Her hair was slight messy like she hasn't untied it for days. Faded freckles were seen on her cheeks. Her neck... Why does she have to wear something so revealing? Isn't she cold at all?!
That moment, Elsa was pissed that a creepy looking girl was staring at her. Even though she wasn't looking back, she felt that she was spying on her. A pair of icy blue eyes from the blonde stared at the other girl's topaz eyes. The other girl was astonished. She had shot her a mean looking glare and fixed her shirt to cover her shoulder to prevent her to stare at her more.
Anna swiftly sat her back on the seat and her pulse quicken. Gahhh... Why am I staring... again?!
They were like that for the rest of the ride. Half an hour later, they've arrived to front of their school. Elsa ran out in a hurry before the people started to stand up. Anna tried to follow her. "Wait!" she called out.
She took out her card to tag off. "Please try again," the ticket machine said, not accepting the card. She couldn't run out the bus without tagging her card off. She'd pay $10 for penalty issues. "Please try again." Anna kept scanning her card in frustration, card almost slipping off her hand. "Thank you," the machine beeped.
Anna ran out in a flash, looking around the front gates for Elsa. She was nowhere to be seen. Only other students from her school were there. Where could she be? Anna kept walking, adjusting the one strap she held her bag over her shoulder. She looked in every corner as she went passed the black tall gates that says "ARENDELLE UNIVERSITY" that were written in big white writing on an arch right above the gates. Bushes and black gates surrounded the cream coloured school. It was like a castle or a museum like school. People were gathering around to meet up with their classmates and friends. They were all chatting about their weekends.
The strawberry-blonde haired just kept pacing, still looking around for the blonde girl. Damn! She ran so quickly! That moment, the bell rang. Anna gasped in shocked, with her hands on her face. "Oohhhh!" she shouted to herself. People around looked at her. "My homework!" What am I going to do?! I can't go to class like this! My teacher will throw me out! She sighed deeply. No. I'm going to face it like a man and tell her I didn't finish my homework! Better yet, I did finish my homework, I just forgot it at home. Or the dog ate it. Wait, what? I don't even have a dog! Or left it in the bus... and it's gone forever... Hmm. Maybe that one will do... "Anna, shut up..." she whispered under her breath.
The second bell rang just as she sat herself in her seat in the music class. The room was filled with musical instruments. There was a drum set all the way at the back of the brown coloured room. A long desk covered the left side of the room and had seven black keyboards sat there. Four acoustic guitars were nearly stacked in one corner and two electric guitars were inside an open door closet. Flutes and trumpets were sitting on top of an organ right next to the drum set. Class stopped talking when their black short haired female teacher came in to place. "Good morning!" she called out. The class greeted back.
The day was passed so quickly for Anna. Luckily, her teacher didn't collect the homework or else she would be staying after school to clean up the white board. The whole day, she didn't even see the Ice Queen. The lunch room was still the same. No Elsa to be found.
When Anna arrived home, she flopped herself on the sofa, waiting for dinner. "You're not going to help me with dinner, Anna?" her mom asked.
"I'm not hungry," her daughter replied, in almost a dull zombie voice. She grabbed a pink coloured cushion that was flatten under her rear and placed it on top of her head and groaned. "I just came from hell... Uhm, I mean school..."
Her mother walked up to her, just behind the sofa. She looked down at her with her hands resting on the top of the sofa. "Something happened with Elsa again?"
"Yes!" Anna shouted, sitting up. The cushion on her face was thrown across her body and fell on the carpet. "I saw her this morning when I caught the late bus!"
"Then what happened?"
"I wanted to talk to her but I couldn't. She disappeared in the crowd at school before I could find her..."
"Maybe she just needs a space, honey..."
"Probably. I mean, for how long?! I'm very impatient!"
"Just have dinner for now to feel better. Try again tomorrow."
Sound of footsteps were heard behind the front door. Elsa came in and saw her father in the same place as she left him that morning. The coffee cup was gone though. "Elsa? You're already here? There's food here," he said as he pointed at the bowl covered with a used plate on top to cover it.
"Hmm..." Elsa replied, making her way into her room.
"Elsa?"
"I'm fine, Papa. Just going to drop my bag inside my room and then I'll eat dinner."
"All right."
And with that, Elsa went inside her refrigerated room and threw her school bag across the room, landing on her bed. That On-nah girl... Why does she keep stalking me?! What's her purpose?! She closed her room and went back to the kitchen.
The following morning, Anna woke up and pressed "OK" on the sound of her alarm blaring from her phone. She felt the cold going through her body. Brrr! Stupid winter! She got up ten minutes later and got herself changed. Damn. I thought wearing singlet and tights were good enough to take in the cold! She quickly put on her cold clothes. I want to see Elsa today. I have to talk to her before school. I'll just catch the late bus...
Elsa was walking along the side walk, it was raining slightly. She put on her hoodie to keep herself getting wet. A few buses came before she reached the bus stop, but they weren't the one she rode on. When the white, red, blue and yellow bus came, numbered 080x, she prepared herself to get inside and grabbed a couple of coins from her pocket. When it was her turn to pay, the driver stopped her tracks before she could proceed to take her seat. "Excuse me, uhh... Miss?" he said. "You gave me $5. You need $6.80 to pay up."
Elsa shot him a glare look. "Son of a fuck, that's all I have! What are you going to do about it?!" she shouted. Her fists clenched and smoke was coming out her palms. Conceal, don't feel!...
Anna was seeing this from the third row of seats. She grabbed her wallet from her pocket and wanted to help, but Elsa grabbed her money and ran out the bus before she could do anything dangerous. A $10 note slipped out of Anna's fingers. Anna stood up to give the money to Elsa, but the bus speedily drove off. Her balance wobbled, sitting her back down. She grunted and looked out her window, seeing the Ice Queen standing alone as the bus fully drove off. "Elsa..." she softly whispered. Should I get out the bus and talk to her? If I do, I'll be late for school...
To be continued...
A/N: Winter currently where I am. I did experienced toasts dropping on the wet ground before xD
As for that Guest review, Elsa has Pokemon X (Mentioned in Ch4). I don't think there's a Glaceon 3DS that exists in the real world. Plus hers has a very unique design. I will draw it sometime
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-AlienSnowflake (Formerly PPLyra.)
