Can't Trust Summer

(10) Stubborn Scowl

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Kurt has learned over the years that Anna was very good at giving the silent treatment for hours on end - but this time, he truly underestimated her ability and willingness to spend days ignoring the two of them.

When she wasn't hidden in her room, she was silently sitting at the dining table - reading, writing, doing anything she could to deter from conversing with the ones she was upset with as she visibility showed her scowl. She had her phone taken away for a while, but Kurt gave it back after taking it away.

Just as Anna's dad had underestimated her, she had also underestimated her. She thought the grounding would blow over... be lifted in a couple of hours, but it lasted for more than a week and it wasn't until the exact week of her mother's passing that Kurt lifted her restrictions.

She took her first opportunity to leave the house, and she went to the only place she had wanted to go for days. Her mother's grave. That's all she wanted from anyone - to understand that she was hurting during this painful time of the year, and she knew her dad should have known that this was the root of her sudden outbursts and strange behaviors, but he seemed so blinded by Linda that it didn't matter.

The walk to Pine Ridge Cemetery was a rather long one - one that gave Anna enough time to compose herself as she reached the space holding many loved ones. A lump caught in her throat as she slowly strolled through the gates. She stopped visiting regularly just a few months prior, but it never got easier. Each time felt like a jab to the heart and she couldn't help it.

She stared at all the differing headstones as she walked down the little cobblestone path that led between the graves and steered the walking from being directly on the plots. She wiped her hands on her shorts as she approached the headstone that read Renee Pierce. She looked at her name, reading it over and over again until she got the courage to sit down. The groundskeeper had a good job of keeping the weeds out of the areas, but the sun had kissed the grass so much that it was a faded brown and green color.

She swallowed hard as she choked the feelings back that wanted to rush to the surface. She had cried so much over the last few days that she felt like she wouldn't be able to shed another tear or even feel an ounce of the right emotion without someone getting upset about it.

The sun was beating down on her heavily as she sat there in the open. She broke out in a sweat on her forehead and her skin felt sticky from the heat. Still, she sat in the spot - not caring about the weather around her. She had so much she wanted to talk to her mother about - but it was all useless. She'd never get the answers that she wanted.

I wish you were here so you could listen. You always knew the right things to say.

Anna swallowed hard as she ran her fingers through the dying grass, feeling the sharp blades through her fingers. She knew sitting there all day wasn't an option for her - but she stayed as long as she could bear the heat beating down on her. It took everything in her to force herself away.

Life is unfair.

She tucked her hands in her back pockets, deciding to take her time walking home. She didn't exactly want to just go home yet so she tried to think of any sort of distraction that would keep her away. Despite her last interaction with Javi, he was the one person she wanted to call in hopes for a distraction. Then it dawned on her that she didn't actually have his number. She only had his sisters - so that's who she called instead.

Izzy answered on the second ring and the two girls talked about meeting up in the park for a little while. Anna was already almost there, so in her time waiting for Izzy she tried to pull herself together so that it appeared as if nothing was wrong. Putting on a good front was key to her success, but if Izzy was anything like Javi, then she might just see right through it.