I guess it all started the day Elsa froze everything. On accident, of course. She hadn't even realized it until Anna told her and she was pretty upset about it. That is the day I met them, though not the first time I had ever seen them.
I saw them for the first time when I was very young. The same day I met the trolls actually. It's funny how my whole life changed that day, in more ways than one. The King and Queen were riding through the woods with Anna and Elsa when Sven and I saw them. Behind one of the horses was a trail of ice, magically appearing where ever the horse went. Sven and I followed them through the woods and we ended up where the trolls live. We hid behind what we thought was a rock and discovered that Elsa, the oldest child of the King and Queen, had magical powers. She could make ice and snow appear at the wave of her hand. She had been playing with Anna and had slipped, accidentally hitting her in the head with a spell which caused a white streak to appear in Anna's strawberry blonde hair. They had healed Anna but had to remove the memories of magic, but he left the fun. Papi is very proud of that moment. He says that is why the trolls have been able to live in peace all these years.
After that, the King and Queen shut the gates and no one saw the daughters for years, until the royal funeral. It was a small service, but word quickly spread of Anna's beauty as well as Elsa's absence.
The day I met the royal sisters of Arendelle had started like every other day for Sven and I. We had just sold the last of our ice the day of the coronation and were leaving the village when we saw a man run into a familiar face with his horse. I started walking towards her to make sure she is okay when the man on the horse helped her up. Figuring she was in good hands with the well dressed man, I turned back around and we left. It was after dark when we started heading back to town with our haul of ice. After a few miles, I realized that the snow was not fading. If anything, it was snowing more and more the closer we got to Arendelle. An hour later, my world flipped upside down.
I had seen the young woman walk into Oaken's. It was the same woman that had been hit with the horse in the village. She was wearing a well made summer dress and it looked as though she had fallen into the creek that had yet to freeze over. Her dress was rigid and she barely made it up the small set of stairs and into Oaken's. My plan was to wait until she left before going in, but Sven knew Oaken had carrots and was very impatient. I walked into the small shop/sauna and grabbed the only pickaxe and rope he had to purchase.
The rest is history. Very complicated history.
It only took me a moment of glancing at the woman in Oaken's to realize it was Princess Anna. Her hair was exactly the same as when I had first seen her with the trolls. When she demanded that Sven and I take her to the north mountain, I knew I would end up helping this young, feisty woman. Well, technically she is a year older than me.
Anna had kept saying that Elsa would never hurt her. She was sure of it. She had risked her life trudging through the snow to find her sister and try to talk some sense into her. She described Elsa as a gorgeous, yet distant woman. Though we both now understood why she was distant, Anna couldn't seem to forgive her older sister for not confiding in her. It wasn't my place to explain to Anna why Elsa didn't confide in her and it was hard to keep this secret from a woman who was nothing but kind towards me and my anti-social ways. I started seeing Anna is a different light shortly before we saw Elsa. She was quirky and kind, feisty and determined. They were admirable qualities but she was engaged to Hans then. It wasn't until I saw Elsa that I realized Anna was naive and immature.
My first face to face with Elsa didn't go well, but I was able to see the pain in her eyes. I knew how hard it must have been for her to keep this secret from her little sister, from her best friend, and the pain was obvious if you just looked in her eyes. Those beautiful, bright eyes. Just one look into those eyes and I knew she needed someone on her side. Anna kept saying she didn't mean to freeze everything and I believed her. Those eyes did not belong to someone evil. If she hadn't created Marshmallow or accidentally hit Anna with her powers, I would have stayed with her. I would have talk with her and showed her that fear had become her worse enemy, just as Papi had predicted but together, we could change that.
But she did create Marshmallow and she had struck Anna with her powers, on accident of course.
I took Anna to my family for them to heal her but they decided she needed an act of true love to break the spell. Of course, they couldn't just say that. They tried to marry us first. I'm so very glad that Anna had Hans then and that we were not married. Life now would be very different, and I wouldn't trade what I have now for the world.
As you already know, we rushed Anna back to Hans who turned out to be a royal prick. Sven had pushed me back to Anna, thinking I might be her act of true love. I saw Anna on the frozen fjord but she turned and risked her life to save her sister, who Hans had just pulled his sword on. This was her act of true love. Love for her sister un-thawed her after she was frozen solid. It was a magical and wonderful sight to watch. I was so caught up in the magic and awe of the situation that I didn't realize at first that Elsa had started getting rid of the winter she had accidentally created. Anna punched Hans and when we got back to the village we threw him into a cell.
Most people don't know what happened in the week between Elsa unfreezing everything and when Anna and I kissed for the first time. To be honest, it wasn't much. Sven and I mostly stayed at home while the country celebrated their Queen and Princess were safe, despite people being wary of Elsa's powers. When she came clean with them about the extent of her powers, people started going to the north mountain to admire her ice palace. Marshmallow became the guard, making sure no one actually went inside. Elsa didn't want anyone hurting themselves on the ice. When I wasn't at home, I was in the castle with Anna and Elsa. They invited me to breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. It was obvious that Anna had grown feelings for me. She was not conservative with her flirting and always found a reason to give me a hug. What I really wanted was more time with Elsa. She could make perfect sculptures in just a matter of seconds. Her eyes attracted me first, her powers second. Her eyes always pulled me in. Whenever she laughed, I couldn't help but stare at her. She was beautiful in every way. Anna was beautiful too, but I never got lost in her eyes.
The day Anna gave me the sled, I had been talking to Sven about my mixed feelings. On one hand, I couldn't stop how I felt about Elsa, but she was the Queen and they would never allow her to be with a commoner who sells ice. Especially when she can just make all the ice Arendelle will ever need. On the other hand, Anna was obviously waiting for me to make a move. She was like a puppy, always wanting to be around me. Her presence was comforting and I found myself growing attached to her.
The sled was the cherry on top. I knew it was from Elsa, but when Anna presented it to me, I couldn't help what I was saying. I did want to kiss her, just maybe not the same way she wanted to kiss me.
We had been courting for two months when she left me for Prince Arjan. I acted like I was upset. Like I was heartbroken, but really I had seen it coming. She had grown tired of me just weeks after our first kiss. It was obvious she needed someone with more...money to keep her interested and I was unable to do that on a terrible salary. To tell the truth, I had been thinking of ending it myself anyway. I felt like I was stringing her along. She was always saying she loved me and I was saying it back, but not I didn't mean what she thought I meant. I loved her company, but I was not in love with Princess Anna of Arendelle.