The Past Is In The Past

Chapter 7: Desperation

Chapter 7: Desperation

The rest of the year passed with the same sort of style as the rest of the year had. Elsa's test results all came through – all of them had an A+ stamped at the top of them. Her father was at least pleased with those results. Elsa kept her head down and continued working as hard as she possibility could. Her father seemed to like this. She kept out of his way and did what she was told to do – this limited the amount of suffering she had to endure. It was a strategy that she had formed over the years. At least she didn't have to go to the ER as much when she implemented this strategy.

Nothing interesting happened over the rest of the year which Elsa was thankful for. Nothing unexpected jumped out at her which Elsa hated – that was the whole trouble with Hans, Anna behaved in a way that Elsa didn't expect at the time. But now that she thought about it, Anna did behave in a way that a lovesick teenage girl would behave. Rapunzel and Flynn continued to date over the years. Due to this, Elsa had to deal with a love struck friend but she didn't mind a single bit – in fact she loved it immensely. At least her friend was having the time of her life which was something that Elsa didn't know. Rapunzel wasn't the only one who was love struck. Kristoff seemed to be sulking ever since Anna left to go back to school. Elsa had to stifle some laughs whenever she saw his sullen face. He seemed to have it bad. He asked Elsa about Anna a few times but Elsa didn't really have any answers for him. She and Anna didn't really talk a lot since they didn't have much of a relationship. Elsa didn't mind that – it kept Anna further away from Elsa's little secret.

Finals came and Elsa buried her head into her books. Her father made sure that she studied from dawn to dusk. He kept saying that he didn't want some slacker running his family business. Elsa seriously doubted that her father would let her run Winters Corporation. She was sure that he wanted Anna to take over the family business but Elsa got better grades than Anna. It wasn't that Anna wasn't smart; it was just that she got too distracted at school which meant her grades weren't the best. Also, as the oldest born, Elsa was entitled to inherit the company as that was the way the company was passed. But Elsa was sure that if her father had it his way, he would cut her out and leave everything to Anna. Sometimes that sounded so heartless but then Elsa would look at whatever injury she sustained that week and realised that maybe that was just how her father played this game called life.

The finals came and went – very quickly for some reason. Despite Elsa thinking that they were going by so quickly, everyone else didn't seem to share this thought; they all thought that they were stuck in time. Elsa often heard Rapunzel moaning about how long these exams seem to stretched on. However, unlike Rapunzel who wanted the finals to be over as soon as possible, Merida wanted them to never end. She was terrified about starting university. It just seemed a little too much pressure and responsibility for her liking. She had recently been accepted to the University of Arendelle under a sporting scholarship – Merida was an archery champion and was probably heading to the Olympics in a few years' time. That was something that Merida was looking forward to very much so. It had been her dream for many years to represent either her home country, Scotland or Norway. Merida was born in Scotland and lived there for many years until her father decided to send her to Arendelle to have a better education. Rapunzel was applying for a Fine Arts degree – a degree that focused solely on someone wanting to work in the art world such as a painter or a sculptor, that kind of thing. Rapunzel's dream was to teach art at their school which mean she was also doing an Education degree before she was going to apply to Teacher's College – where you go to get certified to become a teacher.

"Where are you off to Elsa?" Rapunzel asked as she slammed her locker door.

They were standing by their lockers. Elsa had just finished her Chemistry exam and was preparing to go home so that she could study for her final exam the next day. It was Maths and Elsa was looking forward in getting it over and done with. She was glad that school was over. It could mean that she could potentially get out of Arendelle.