God, I can't take waiting much longer. How did I make it through three years of having a seventh class?

Elsa shifted her weight around in a failed attempt at getting comfortable against the fender of her car. She glanced at her watch.

2:15. 45 minutes left.

She dropped her arm to her side. A pair of doves flew past. Elsa didn't really notice them, though.

After a minute or so she reached into her pocket and withdrew her earbuds. The cord had worked itself into a tight coil and the girl spent the next minute untangling it. She looked at her watch again.

2:18.

She sighed.

I hope Anna doesn't expect me to do this every day for her just because I'm doing it today because I seriously can't stand this.

A feeling of guilt came over Elsa.

I'm supposed to be doing this every day though…

With that thought the blonde removed her phone from her pocket and plugged in her earbuds. She pushed the silicone tips of the tiny speakers into her ears and began playing music.

"Elsa?"

A pause.

"Elsa!"

Still no response.

The inattentive girl's sister tapped the former on the shoulder to get her attention. The blonde jumped. She ripped her left earbud out angrily and looked up for someone to direct her displeasure towards but instead found Anna. Her harsh eyes gave way to softer ones.

"Oh, hey."

"Hey…"

The two eyed each other like awkward freshmen at homecoming, Elsa's music now replaced with the sounds of bus engines and distant conversations among other students. An environment so loud had never felt so silent.

"Who are you waiting for?" Anna finally asked.

Elsa didn't want to answer but she did so anyways. "You," she said.

"Huh. Alrighty then," Anna said. She pulled the strap of her backpack back over her shoulder and walked around to the passenger side of the car.

Elsa pushed herself off the fender of the car. Immediately she realized just how uncomfortable she had become after leaning there for the past hour and a half. She rubbed the crease the fender left in her backside a bit.

Why didn't I just wait in the car? I'm such an idiot…

"Hey, uh," Anna started, "mind unlocking it?"

"Yea, sure," Elsa replied. "Let me find my keys."

The girl searched her pockets but found nothing. She moved on to her backpack. "Hey, I'm thinking we should go get school supplies," she said while searching. "Second day, ya know. Teachers are gonna start checking soon."

"Yeah, and then we gotta get someone to sign our papers and stuff," Anna replied dryly.

"Yeah," Elsa said, now researching her pockets. She stopped speaking for a short while, her attention now shifted to finding her keys. She went back to her backpack when her pockets again proved devoid of her keys.

The silence once again became unbearable for both girls.

"God, where are my damn keys?" Elsa said, temporarily breaking it. Only her own rustling papers answered her.

After a third search Elsa gave up. She stood up and cupped her hands against the glass of the car's driver side window and peered inside. The keys were in the ignition. She groaned.

"Locked your keys in the car?" Anna asked.

"Yea…"

Elsa looked to the top of the window. It was rolled up completely. Elsa began looking around for other ways to get in and eventually worked her way around to Anna, who was now looking in at the keys herself.

"Ugh… We're so close…" she said.

"Yeah, but we're also so far away at the same time," Elsa replied.

Anna glanced up at her sister. "Not helping," she said oddly playfully before returning to peering in at the keys.

Elsa leaned against the rear door of the car and removed her phone from her pocket. Anna pulled away from the window and leaned next to Elsa.

"Whatcha doing?" she asked.

"Looking for a locksmith to call," Elsa replied.

"Huh."

Elsa remained focused on finding a locksmith, her fingers darting left and right across the screen of her phone. After a short while she lifted her phone to her ear.

"Hi, I'm looking for someone to come unlock my car for me. I locked my keys inside," she said. "I'm at Eagle Valley High School, in the front lot."

The world went silent to Anna as her sister listened to the person on the other end of her call.

"Alright, thanks," Elsa said before lowering her phone. "They'll be here in about fifteen minutes," she said.

Anna didn't speak. Neither did Elsa.

All the buses had left. The two were completely alone in the parking lot.

The older girl shoved her phone back into her pocket. She let her eyes wander as she leaned against the side of her car. A pair of porcelain white birds caught her attention and she watched them for a few minutes. They stayed in roughly the same area for the entire time, flying around each other in rough circles.

Elsa checked her watch.

3:20. I called the guy at 3:15. Only ten more minutes.

The ten minutes passed, still no locksmith.

Still neither girl spoke.

In truth both girls had a lot to talk about. They just didn't want to talk about the events of their PE class, and they both decided that the best way to avoid doing so was to refrain from speaking altogether.

Elsa looked skyward once more and found the two birds in the same place they had been previously, tracing out the same rough circles as before.

Must be mating season or something.

She kept her gaze towards the birds. After a while, though, she looked back down at her watch.

3:35. Where the hell is this guy?

She looked back up at the birds, still following the same pattern as before. She continued watching them for nearly twenty minutes, completely transfixed by their repetitive movements. It was her sister that brought her out of her trance.

"Hey, uh, Elsa… How much longer do you think it's gonna be?" she asked.

Elsa looked to her sister. "Oh, uh, I don't know," she said. Immediately she turned her attention back to the birds.

Another half an hour passed, and then an hour. At this point Anna was watching the birds as well.

A car passed by. Then a motorcycle.

"They never touch," Anna said. "Not even a little bit."

Elsa glanced over to her sister. She didn't know that the younger girl was also watching the birds. "Huh?" she said.

"The birds. They haven't touched this entire time," Anna replied.

"Yeah," Elsa said. "They haven't."

"Kinda strange how they can be so close without ever coming into contact."

"Yeah."

After almost two hours the birds flew down below the trees, out of view of the two sisters. Immediately they both realized just how long they had been watching them. The shadows on the ground had grown long, the sky boasting a faint red tinge as the day drew near sunset.

Elsa stood upright. She looked at her watch.

6:40?! Holy shit it's getting late.

"Ya know, I don't think this locksmith is gonna show up," Anna said.

"Yeah, me neither," Elsa said.

She waited about three minutes before she walked over to the nearest patch of dirt. She looked around for a short time, picking up a few rocks and putting them back down.

Anna strained to see what her sister was up to. "What are you doing?" she asked.

Elsa didn't answer. Instead she stood, turned to face her sister, and walked back to the car. She held a light grey stone in her right hand.

"I'm sick of waiting," she said. She drew her arm back and smashed the rock against the passenger side rear window of the car. She pulled her hand away, revealing a chipped but intact piece of glass.

"Elsa, what the hell?!" Anna said, startled.

"I told you, I'm sick of waiting," Elsa said flatly. She drew her arm back again and hit the window with even more force, sending cracks outward throughout the glass. She even chipped the rock.

"Elsa! We can walk home from here or something, you don't need to-"

The window shattered, sending glass flying into the backseat of the car. Elsa reached inside and unlocked the front passenger door by hand.

"Get in," she said, walking around to the other side of the car.

Anna just stared in amazement.

"Well?" Elsa said, giving a questioning gesture with her hands.

"Yeah, hang on," Anna replied sheepishly. She pulled the handle of the passenger door and brushed a few pieces of glass off her seat before sitting down. She reached over and unlocked the driver's side door for her sister.

Elsa got in, sat down, and started the car. She backed out of her parking space and began driving towards the exit of the parking lot. As she made her way onto the street another car entered the driveway to the school. Neither girl caught more than a glimpse of the vehicle but they both noticed one thing about it.

On the side was a small sign, with the words "Eagle Valley Locksmith" written across it.

"God fucking dammit," Elsa said. She looked over at her sister and let out a sigh. Anna said nothing, giving only a painful smile for sympathy.

They made it home in half the time it usually took.

As soon as the engine was off, Elsa got out of the car. She closed her door, grabbed her things out of the back seat, and stormed into the house. Anna followed a few seconds after, in a notably calmer manner.

Just as the door latched shut, a pair of snow white doves descended over the neighbourhood, landing on the power lines just in front of the two girls' home.

A/N Hey everybody, I don't have much to say other than that I'm back in school now so I'm not sure what my update schedule is gonna be for a while. As of right now though I'm hoping to update on about a weekly basis. Probably gonna introduce the meth in a few chapters, for those of you who might be wondering.

Happy Reading,

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