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She woke up with a honk. A loud banging honk which came from her cell-phone's ring-tone.
Anna's hand went autopilot as she pressed the answer button with loudspeaker on.
"The car is here." A familiar voice came through the phone. There were several ways to wake people up and Anna's secretary's cold voice was enough to get her on feet immediately. There was promise and threat in those simple words.
"Okay, okay, I'm up!" She proceeded to walk half-asleep to the bathroom. Her right foot got tangled with her bed sheet making her tumble down from bed to the floor. "Ow, ow!" Yesterday it had been her nightstand that had betrayed her foot and now Anna couldn't even get a break from blanket.
"Do I need to come up?" The woman's voice on the phone now sounded concerned.
"No, don't. My blanket just ate my foot." Anna grunted and kicked the blanket full of vengeance.
"Can I trust you to come down and be ready for the next 15 minutes?"
Anna grinned, it was an easy challenge. "Totally. Oh, Elsa?"
"Yes?"
"Don't hang up." After that the young redhead dashed into the shower.
"Understood. However please don't sing." There was a sound of rustling paper. "I need to concentrate on your weekly conference for today."
"You say it like it's a bad thing." One of her skill she's very proud of was her shower singing. It was only magic that could explain why people's voice tended to be more attractive in the bathroom.
Elsa chose to not comment on that further.
Anna punched her shower tap, got rid of her clothes in record time and jumped into the shower. "Alright, fill me in."
There was beeping sound and Elsa's voice came back up again on the line, Anna suspected that her secretary had just switching between two lines. "In the morning you have weekly conference with the development team from marketing department at seven sharp, which by the way happens in 30 minutes. Then before lunch, you need to finish the rendering and test-run from design team. After lunch we will visit the new store on North Mountain Street before the launching day. On the evening..."
Anna almost got shampoo into her eye, "whoa, Elsa. Hold on there. I thought my evening is free?"
"On the evening you want to clear out dungeon level and wish for no one to disturb you unless someone is dying." Elsa continued after Anna cut off her speech.
"That and I need to level up my guild too," To be honest Anna was stuck on that level for the past 3 days and she was frustrated about it. She was the best player in her guild and included on top ten global ranking list, this level was a poke in her skill.
An audible sigh later Elsa reprimanded Anna that she would not be responsible if the board will hound her next month.
Anna hummed in response, despite Elsa's harsh and clipped tone the blond would always help her anyway. It was always Elsa who calmed the grumpy old men at bay.
"7 minutes." Elsa reminded her.
Finally Anna finished her shower. She sloppily put on clothes and her hoodie. She let her wet hair loose intentionally as she knew that Elsa always came prepared with a hair-drier inside her purse.
The young redhead slid down the banister instead running down the stairs.
At the end of the stairs below, Elsa was waiting for her. She expertly caught Anna's momentum as the redhead plopped down from the rail.
"Nice catch," Anna grinned, giving her secretary two thumbs up.
Elsa glanced at her wristwatch, "impressive, you have 12 seconds left."
Anna eyed Elsa's flawless appearance. Today the blond secretary wore black pencil skirt and simple dark blue blouse. The red-haired stared at Elsa's ridiculous high-heels as if those shoes had offended her personally. Elsa was few inches taller than her, with those heels; Anna had to look up even more just to see Elsa's bright blue eyes.
They both walked outside the front door. Her driver Mr. Marshall was waiting for both women to show up while enjoying his morning coffee. He bowed a little to greet them. "Good morning CEO Summers, Secretary Frost."
"Hey there, Marshall. Have you had a breakfast yet?" Anna greeted back warmly.
Mr. Marshall finished his coffee in one big gulp before answering, "Yes, ma'am."
Anna threw Elsa a look, "That's good. At least one of us is not starving this morning."
Elsa's expression wasn't amused at all, "I bought you sandwich."
Anna perked up, "you are my guardian angel." Her attitude flipped immediately once Elsa mentioned food.
Elsa beat Mr. Marshall to open the backseat door for Anna. "Come in, your hair still wet."
Anna entered the car but not before throwing a wink at Elsa. The blond secretary just rolled her eyes and closed the door. She walked around and entered the car from the other side.
Inside, Anna had found the sandwich wrap from Elsa and was half-way in unpacking the treat.
Marshall started the car, Elsa reached Anna's side to buckle Anna's seatbelt. Anna cut the sandwich into two and gave the other half for Elsa.
Elsa accepted it since it had been their daily routine to share breakfast in the car every morning.
They spent the car-ride with Anna chewing her sandwich and playing her video games while Elsa was busy arranging some reports in her tablet. Occasionally Anna would sneak a glance at her secretary's serious face.
She loved playing video games since she was 5 years old. Her love had led her to the world of programming and design. Some self-published simple games and a generous sponsor later Anna found herself to be the youngest CEO and founder of Summersoft Corporation. The company was one of the few leading corporations for developing and marketing video games in the world.
At the beginning, Anna had no idea of how to build a company from scratch. First few months were a compilation of lucks and after that until today, it was all because of Elsa Frost. The blond had been helping her tremendously in past 6 years. Anna still remembered the day she read Elsa's application e-mail. The blond woman was a top graduate from Arendelle University and claiming that she loves Anna's 'Snow Queen' game. A pixel puzzle game Anna had built during her high school year.
Anna was too fired up in beating the boss that her joystick fell under the seat. "Ooops." The young CEO unbuckled her seatbelt to reach it.
Elsa noticed it, "Anna, leave it. Let me..."
"I almost got it." Anna lowered her body as her hand reached across below the front seat area. It was quite a struggle until Anna's fingers could feel the plastic surface of her joystick; she pulled her hand back up and showed it her achievement to Elsa like it was some kind of trophy. "See?"
The car suddenly jerked and lurched forward as Marshall stepped on the brake out of blue. Elsa's arm reached out to keep Anna in her seat in order to prevent her boss's head to collide with the front seat.
"Watch it, Marshall." Elsa hissed, chiding the driver in front of them.
"The car in front of us stops abruptly, I apologize, ma'am."
Swiftly Elsa did Anna's seatbelt again before Anna could do it herself. "Next time, listen to me about reaching fallen things under the seat on a moving car." Elsa said softly with a deep frown between her eyes. It was a sign for Anna that the blond secretary was irritated by the situation.
Anna nodded compliantly.
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The car arrived at the office and Elsa wasted no time to get off to walk around the car, opening Anna's door.
One of the staffs had set down a self-balancing electric scooter a.k.a CEO Summers's hover board which Anna cheerfully stepped on it once she got off from the car. She was glad to be the same height with Elsa, it was easier for her to see Elsa's face directly.
Both women then headed toward the conference room. Anna was on her two-wheeled scooter and Elsa gracefully strode along beside her. The two were quite a sight that people in building couldn't help but stealing a stare.
Elsa gave her the reports which she had simplified so Anna could understand the brief version of last month's sales performance.
Anna frowned at the paper, "you change your highlight pen? It's neon green." Anna flicked the paper with mostly colorful neon green remark. Elsa's highlight color pen was always light blue.
"It's not mine, that's an attachment from the development team." Elsa replied casually.
Some employees greeted them along the way but most just simply gave them path like a red sea. Anna caught that Elsa was glaring at a personnel who moved away last second, almost knocked the redhead over if the blonde hadn't stepped in between them.
"I could've dodged him." Anna said since Elsa was still scowling. There was something off with her secretary that Anna hoped she could ask it later.
"He should've paid attention." The blond secretary fastened her pace to gain a few steps ahead and opened the conference door for Anna to wheel in.
The whole team was already there. Anna stepped down from her scooter and took a seat at the end of the long table. Elsa followed by taking position on her right side.
Anna would've rather skipped the day and finish her dungeon level than watching boring presentation slides. The slides were all about number which was annoyingly confusing in her opinion. There were too many zeros to deal and again, those many zeros were all hers to handle.
"The sales performance last month dropped 0.8 percents compared to 2 months before." Elsa said beside her.
Anna rolled her eyes, she tapped the desk to get everyone's attention.
"It dropped because you all didn't proceed to Elsa's suggestion about free trial demo of the new project." Anna huffed crossing both arm on her chest, it was the most obvious thing inside the thick reports on their desk. "So, let's give them the free-trial. Invest more to gain more, am I right?" Anna glanced at Elsa's direction who was displaying her thin smile of approval.
Anna's heart swelled of pride. "Oh, and there is a miscalculation on the interest column, it should be 215 percents, not 275." The young CEO pointed out the left side column on presentation slide. The team leader then hastily pulled out the calculation to do recounting again.
Anna smirked catching Elsa's surprise expression. She had read the whole report last night just to see the blonde's priceless reaction. It was worth the effort.
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Once they concluded the meeting, Anna was back, riding her wheel across the office building toward her office room. Elsa stayed a little longer to make sure that the aftermath would go smoothly with the department head.
"Hey, Anna. Catch!" Anna barely caught the flying USB flash drive. The perpetrator was a tall blond man who was grinning and waving from the creative design room.
"Kristoff! If Elsa sees you throwing things again, you will be dead." Anna said animatedly to her best friend. The man had been with her from day one as the head of character design and true best-friend.
"I see no Elsa so I save both our time for me to walk into your room and give you a test-run version for the new project." Kristoff shrugged, his left hand was holding what Anna guessed as his third glass of coffee this morning.
"Already?"
"Say, I'm the best." The man gave a mock salutation to Anna before drifting away back to his nest. This week his department had been working overtime to catch the evil deadline.
The moment she reached her room, Anna immediately set up her consoles and computer. She put the headset on and plugged in her controller.
"Has the test-run come in already?" Elsa's voice made Anna jump on her seat. The young CEO spun her chair to face her secretary. There was a slight squeak escaped as her chair swiveled.
Elsa narrowed her eyes and pulled out her cell-phone to contact the maintenance department. They needed to replace Anna's swivel chair with a new one that's more durable.
"It's because you love to spin it so much." Elsa commented after she spewed rapid instruction over the phone.
"What's the function of spinning chair if not to spin it?" Anna gasped dramatically as if Elsa had said something scandalous.
The redhead snickered and put her headset on. She extended a second joystick to Elsa. "Play with me, Elsa." It was their habit to play together in Anna's office room. Sometimes it was a test-run more times it was a random game for reference.
"I need to arrange the store's launch thing. There are several appointments for next week too."
Anna had to make sure that she had heard it right. Elsa never refused to play with her. "Are you sure?"
The blond secretary smiled. The kind of smile that had fooled Anna multiple times about everything-would-be-alright and she doesn't need to worry since Elsa had got it under control.
So Anna let her go.
Since the CEO office wall was made from giant glass window, everyone could practically see what their boss was doing from the outside. So Anna would always wave animatedly or doing a new kind of back flips if she needed Elsa to her office. The blond secretary would then give Anna a full speech about how a back flip could break a human's neck.
By the time lunch arrived, Anna walked out of her room, planning to eat lunch in company's cafeteria. However, she saw Elsa on her desk still working the report from before. Anna spotted a chocolate bar on top of her desk.
"What is this?" Anna gestured on the snack.
"My lunch. I need to finish up this report today. Do you want me to set up reservation or delivery?" Elsa offered her, picking up the work-phone and ready to dial any numbers that do lunch-delivery within the area.
The young CEO huffed, taking Elsa's snack bar and tuck it inside her pocket. Now that she observed on Elsa closer, Anna noticed black circles under the bright blue eyes and a strand of hair was out of place from Elsa's perfect bun.
Anna unwrapped Elsa's chocolate bar in slow motion, "your lunch is gone, so you will eat with me." The redhead took a big chunk of the chocolate, she grinned in victory.
Elsa sighed, "Fine! I will eat with you."
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Anna's hover board was humming softly while Elsa's heels were clicking steadily around the office hallway.
They took their usual table nearby the tall window that held Arendelle city view. There was an unspoken agreement among the employees that the table was reserved for only the CEO and Secretary Frost.
Anna eyed Elsa's tray distastefully. The blond woman chose salad and cheese with 2 cups of coffee. The redhead stopped Elsa from taking the first bite on her lunch.
"Are you kidding me? That's rabbit's food!" Anna spoke with serious tone. "No way I'll let you eat them."
Elsa didn't waver, she tried to yank Anna's grip on her wrist. "It's healthy." Anna loosened her grip and finally Elsa could chew her lettuce.
However, the redhead quickly swapped Elsa's tray with hers. Now Elsa had burger, fries, and Anna's chocolate pudding in front of her. Her nose wrinkled in disgust, "That's greasy."
The young redhead CEO picked a cube of cheese among jungle of lettuces from Elsa's bowl and chewed them carefully. "You have had too much coffee." Anna said with a shrug. "People will think I've been paying you less since you eat green leaves every day."
Elsa glared at Anna and picking up one of fries to prove a point, "fine, but I will see you swallow those rabbit foods for lunch."
"What? No."
"Yes," The blond secretary's lips twitched a challenging smile.
Anna shuddered. Her mind went into the experience a week ago. Elsa had practically shoved a kale into her mouth, since the redhead had ignored all the vegetables on her plate.
Again, Anna nodded compliantly.
This time Elsa had a victory smile upon her face.
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On the afternoon, they both went to North Mountain district to check the ongoing preparation for the launch day. They were given a quick tour around the store by the head branch manager Mr. Oaken.
"It would be great if we can show some demo of the new project during the launch day." Anna expressed her idea to the man. A step behind her, Elsa was jotting down everything that needed to be done.
Mr. Oaken led them to the third floor which functioned as a storage room. "Yuhuu... here we have a bit difficulty on arranging supply goods. Last year models need to go away to make room for the new one."
"Or we can sell it with generous price so players can reminisce the old days," Elsa put in her thoughts.
Anna nodded in agreement. "I totally will buy them just to play that first saga of Fantasy's End."
Elsa and Mr. Oaken continued their discussion regarding summer sales. Anna chose to wander around, checking out every stuff stored in the room. So far, she had found old game posters, Jedi light-sabers, a superman cape, and snowman helmet. She put them all on and paraded as Snowman with cape, bearing a light saber.
Two aisles ahead, Elsa found her boss with the ridiculous attire battling an imaginary dragon.
Anna waved at her, asking the older woman to join her. "Check this out, Elsa. It's not a bad set up as protagonist character design, right?" Anna motioned at her whole props.
Elsa stared since instead of Anna's smiling face, a snowman with carrot nose was staring back at her. The blond secretary couldn't hold her laugh.
"Sure, Anna. If we plan to make a parody spin-off from several famous franchises or else we will be sued for original content." Elsa deadpanned.
"You-are-not-fun." The snowman head bobbed around.
Anna then grabbed a spare light saber from the box and threw it to Elsa's direction.
Working with Anna for the past 6 years had made Elsa an expert of catching unidentified flying objects, this time she caught the toy with ease.
"I, Anna Summers hereby challenge you, Elsa Frost to a light saber duel." The snowman said with a dramatic voice.
Elsa raised an eyebrow. She got a red light saber which apparently made her a villain in this story.
A minute later, they dueled each other. Anna attacked and Elsa parried. The snowman head was indeed distracting until Elsa's saber accidentally poked the carrot nose and it fell over to the floor.
"Oh no, Elsa. You ruined Mr. Snowcape's nose."
"It has a name now?"
Anna pulled the snowman's helmet over her head to take it off but it stucked halfway.
"Uh-oh. Elsa, help!" Anna's muffled voice desperately groaned as Mr. Snowcape's head would not come off.
The blond secretary immediately took over, "stay still, Anna!" She inspected the head prop carefully before finding a small panel behind its head.
Meanwhile beneath the snowman's head, Anna was flushing. She couldn't help but focusing on Elsa's light freckles and thick eyelashes. She wondered of why she hadn't noticed them until now.
There was a soft click and Anna was free from the snowman head mask. Elsa was upset but Anna gave her a big hug anyway.
"I will burn this head trap." Elsa said with Anna still clinging on her like a koala.
Anna looked up, "why Elsa? He is cute! I will take him home with me."
Elsa shook her head, "Don't you dare to put it on and then call me to come and help you again."
The young CEO grinned, releasing her hold from Elsa's waist. "How do you know my genius plan? You always come anyway." And it was true. Many times Elsa would come running to Anna's house just because the redhead calling her over the phone with distress voice. Anna couldn't blame her since Elsa always assumed that Anna was in real trouble instead of in desperate need of second player to beat the dungeon boss level.
Elsa was about to give a second retort when Mr. Oaken came and interrupted their bantering.
"Miss Summers, Miss Frost, let's go to the display for Big Summer Blowout!"
Anna quickly followed Mr. Oaken downstairs but not before sticking her tongue out on Elsa's direction.
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They left the store when the night came. Anna and Mr. Oaken had had serious argument over the best arsenal to equip for the dungeon level that they had spent past two hours doing a re-run on the level. Elsa had been watching the two playing while finishing her works, occasionally made a comment on Anna's combo attacks.
Anna yawned and it was Elsa's cue to excuse themselves.
During the car ride, Anna kept playing the game using the console which had been installed in the car.
"I have a brilliant idea! Elsa, why don't you stay over at my place and we can clear this boss level together?" Anna shifted her glance to Elsa's direction which had cost her a treasure box of gems on the corner.
"I can't, Anna. I need to prepare the store launch day."
"Come on, Elsa! You are better player than anyone I know, so that makes you the best player in my list."
Anna saw how Elsa would've given in with a bit more persuasion. However, something flashed on the blonde's eyes that she quickly averted her gaze from Anna and back to her journal.
"Next time, Anna. I promise."
The young CEO pouted but she knew defeat when it came to Elsa. So she didn't push it anymore.
The car stopped by in front of Elsa's apartment. It had been their routine as Mr. Marshall would pick up Elsa every morning and double back to the mansion to get the young CEO to the office. It was the result of long compromise between Elsa and Anna since the young redhead had insisted to buy Elsa a car so she would not take public transportation anymore.
"I have asked Gerda to cook a supper since you only ate my salad for lunch." Elsa said.
"I don't eat dinner, you know that." Anna huffed, her hero was throwing giant axe to the hoard of monsters.
"You do and you will. I am going to make sure of that."
"Bossy." Anna murmured with a smile.
Elsa was hovering on the opened car door. Anna noticed it since it was so unlike her to be seen hesitant and nervous.
"What is it, Elsa?" Anna turned her head around to get a better look. This time her character died and a game over flashed on the screen. Anna barely paid attention on it.
The blond secretary turned around, she bit her bottom lip. "There is something I want to tell you."
The young CEO felt something serious was coming so she put down her controller to give Elsa her full attention.
".. I think you need to find a new secretary."
The words had not been fully registered into Anna's head when Elsa continued speaking.
"I am going to resign next month."
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AN: Let me hear your thought ;) Yes, this universe is inspired by that drama :p