Scene 4: Anna, now
She doesn't trust him.
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She's horrible to Kristoff—she knows that.
Ever since they met, she's been pushing him away, even though she knows, instinctively, that he's not a bad person, or a liar.
(But maybe that's part of the problem, since she doesn't trust her own instincts anymore, not when it comes to people—and especially not when it comes to guys.)
And that's only reinforced, she thinks bitterly, by everyone around her—by the other rich brats on campus who've made her a pariah, a veritable legend as Anna Andersen, the rich girl who got fucked and chucked by the whipping boy of the Southern Isles and her own sister—and even by the people who helped raise her, who now look at her, no, stare at her in judgment every day, shaking their heads, wondering how she could have been so blind.
He's not like them, not in the least; he's blunt, and honest, so painfully honest that it makes her, contradictorily, even more suspicious of him, because sometimes even the people who say "I love you" and "I would never shut you out" are also the ones who say "I've been searching my whole life to find my own place" (and what they mean is their own place in a giant pile of her money, or between her sister's legs).
It doesn't help that he's just a cab driver in a big city, hardly making ends meet, so even if she wanted to let him in—and she doesn't, she thinks with a frown—it's hard to believe that he's really interested in her for anything besides her inheritance, and sometimes she wishes he would just tell her that that's the real reason he hangs out with her.
After all, their "friendship" (if you could call it that, which she didn't know if she could) had begun in the strangest way—her curled up on the curb with a red face and tear tracks down her cheeks, staring at the pavement accusingly, him standing above her, his shadow enveloping her, asking if she was all right—and it only continues to be strange, and obviously one-sided, since she's just using him, isn't she? Using him to complain to, to take out everything on—even though she knows he's not built for that, because he's a quiet guy, and he doesn't like people much (and she's starting to see why, after everything that's happened).
But he never tells her what she wants to hear—and maybe there's a part of her that resents him for it, because without that explanation, she has nothing.
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Aftermath
Fanfiction[Frozen; Modern AU; Hans x Elsa, Anna x Kristoff.] He was her sister's fiancé, then; but he wanted her, and Elsa wanted to let someone in-and now, he's a stranger, but she can't leave, because she needs him. She was engaged to the perfect guy, then;...
