Chapter 1

Elsa POV
"I'll be right back" Elsa said to her dad "I'm just going to throw this away" holding up the empty candy wrapper in her hand. She got out of the truck, jogged over to the trash can balled up the wrapper, and tossed it towards the bin. She missed because of the gentle breeze that caught it. Seeing where it landed she walked back behind green trash bin that smelled of rotting burgers and vegetables. She heard a screech of tires as the big black van that she had just left thirty seconds ago left the school parking lot. "Crap" she muttered. Her brother had just gotten in the car and her dad had left without her… again. Now her last hope was her younger sister Anna, both girls looked like their mother, pointy nose and chin, blue eyes and high cheek bones, but with different colors of hair, Elsa's was so blond it could be called white and Anna's was a bright reddish orange from their father's side of their small family. First Elsa tried her phone but it had died in her pocket, then she asked a woman to borrow her phone but hers was also coincidently dead, finally she gave up and left Prairie View Elementary to walk to her boyfriend Xane's house to see if she could stay there for awhile. He met her on the porch standing there with a grease smudge just above his left eyebrow, hey was tall tan from working on motorcycles in the sun, a largish nose but cool blue eyes and a chiseled chin. He told her she could hang on the couch because he was almost done with a bike. She might as well tell him now.

Anna POV

Anna was running out of breath on the way to her to the squat little brown brick Ashburn house where she hoped Elsa wasn't at. Anna had gotten a really, really worrying text from her about Xane and Elsa. It said something along the lines of Elsa thought she was pregnant and hadn't told dad or Xane yet. If she told dad then he would beat her, he'd beat the girls before and it couldn't be in anyway good for the baby if Elsa was pregnant. She walked in their old paint-chipped white front door and saw an open yellow envelope on the table… it looked like it was from the government, it was either good or terrible news, considering their mom was in Afghanistan. Elizabeth, the girls' mom, had the girls when she was young, still in school with Elsa and shortly after with Anna, she'd called herself irresponsible for it and had moved in with their father. After they got married she had Olaf and he was a surprise, Elizabeth joined the army when she was 30, Elsa was only 14, Anna was 11, and Olaf was 5 so, he couldn't remember her very well. Anna picked up the nerve racking envelope, she looked inside tentatively, and Anna shakily pulled it out, then read the letter and immediately started to cry. She finished crying and looked for Elsa. After searching all of Elsa's hiding spots she called her, but only got voicemail so, she tried Xane. He answered and said Elsa was at his house and she was fine, thinking she was worried because she couldn't find her sister; he handed the phone to Elsa and she casually said "Hey Anna"

Conversation between the girls

E: Hey Anna

A: hey sis *sniffles*

E: What's the matter?

A: We got a letter about Mom…

E: … What does it say?

A: It says *clears throat* "we regret to inform the Ashburn family that Private Elizabeth Ashburn has gone MIA"

E: *drops phone*