A/N: I got this idea today and decided to write it. Hope you'll like it. I promise my readers that they will see more to Arendelle University soon.
Anna and Kristoff ran around the castle grounds and enjoyed each other's company. Kristoff chased Anna as she laughed and as Kristoff crashed them onto the grounds she snuggled into his chest and held her arms around his shoulders as she closed her eyes to get lost in her dreamy thoughts. It was also there when Kristoff turned his head up to the sky and felt like he was out of place with Anna.
I don't understand why she can be with me when all these noblemen that would love to get her hand in marriage. They can offer so much more than I can anyway Kristoff thought to him.
Tonight there would be a huge ball at the castle. It was starting to run smoothly in Arendelle and Elsa wanted to celebrate with her trade partners that they had gotten going so great and Anna was a partying girl and she didn't know how uncomfortable Kristoff always became when he was attending such occasions with Elsa and Anna.
She was starting to get very exciting, so excited that she didn't seem to notice the discomforted Kristoff that still feared that someone of higher status would get to replace his place in Anna's life. He loved her so deeply and yet as he knew she loved him too, she was a princess after all and she could easily find herself a more suitable suitor if he didn't get into the royal life soon.
Kristoff and Anna was met by a cheerful Elsa who told Anna it was almost time for the royal sisters to welcome their guests and Kristoff didn't thought he was going to be asked to attend too, but as he was offered to be there to help them, he refused lying about have to go to Sven and help Olaf with secret stuff. He met up with Olaf and Sven in the royal stables and sat there in fear of what the party of tonight would bring, it wasn't anything positive, he was sure about that. Olaf seemed to sense the discomfort of Kristoff and sat down beside his friend.
"What's bugging' you Kristoff?" Kristoff didn't look at Olaf and tried to figure out how to explain it. It wasn't hard only, but a bit embarrassing as well.
"Is it about the party tonight?" Kristoff nodded as he kept staring at the hay filled floor of the stables and Sven sat down beside the other side of Kristoff trying his best to help Kristoff feel less discomfort.
"I know it's stupid, but I can't help, but fear what all these stupid high ranked persons will try and do. I don't even know if they are aware about my relationship with Anna" Olaf put his stick hand on Kristoff's shoulder for comfort and smiled cheerful as always at him.
"Kristoff, you know as well as I and Sven that Anna loves you and you alone, it's true love. You shouldn't feel worried, it's not like she'll leave you for another man" Kristoff knew he felt like Anna loved him, but he wasn't sure about he felt sure Anna wouldn't leave her. He wanted to feel sure on that, but since she could get engaged to someone she just met and so, then he didn't know what would happen if she was manipulated by some sophisticated grace.
He didn't tell Olaf and Sven as he left the stables to go get him washed and dressed up for the celebration. He was getting into himself into his finest suit and put his hair up to make it look more sophisticated. Even though he was terrible and so with graceful people, he tried his best for Anna's- and Elsa's sake, to not make them look bad.
He looked at himself one last time in the mirror before he walked out his bedroom and down the hall where a servant awaited him and smiled at him. Kai was the one to wait for him and he had build a good relationship up with him and Gerda after helping getting Anna back to Arendelle and get her to Hans when they tried to help her unfreeze her heart at the big incident with Elsa freezing up Arendelle.
Kristoff entered the ballroom and saw Anna and Elsa was talking to a man his size about the new trade deal Arendelle made with the Western Isles and then thought about ignoring them and just meet up with them later, but then Anna spotted him and smiled happy and got him over with a wave of her hand and Elsa nodded for him to come over as well.
"Hi Kristoff, you look truly handsome" Kristoff smiled and kissed Anna on her cheek and then Anna kissed his lips and embraced him. He looked at her when he pulled away from the embrace and saw a charming and beautiful Anna with a green, black dress and then he got out of thoughts and smiled sweetly at Anna and Elsa.
"Thank you Anna. You look beautiful, Anna, you too Elsa" Elsa blushed a bit at Kristoff's compliment and went up and embraced her sisters boyfriend who was like a brother to her, then they turned attention back to the Duke of the Western Isles that looked a lot like he was at least 10 years elder than Elsa and himself. At least 12 years from Anna and then Elsa stood beside Kristoff.
"Kristoff, this is Duke Andre of Western Isles. Duke Andre, this is Kristoff Bjorgman, he is my Ice Master and Deliver and boyfriend of Princess Anna" Kristoff offered his hand to the duke and as he took it, he sensed disgust by the duke. He was clearly seen as a commoner, but he was making a façade to hide it for Anna, but especially to Elsa whom he didn't want to get on bad ice with.
"Nice to meet you"
"Likewise Mr Bjorgman. You are lucky to have two such wonderful ladies around you" Kristoff nodded and then left the others. Anna looked at Elsa and followed Kristoff after Elsa had accepted that she wanted to be with Kristoff for just a bit. Kristoff got up to get some food from the buffet and then excused himself to get some fresh air. He walked out with a carrot in his hand that he planned on sharing with Sven away from all these arrogant, stupid and better knowing graces. Anna called out for Kristoff and he turned around to see her right behind him and he smiled as she got up to him.
"Where are you going Kristoff?"
"Just going to give Sven a carrot, besides I needed some fresh air" Anna saw the carrot Kristoff had taken from the buffet and then walked over to her boyfriend.
"Are you alright Kristoff?" Kristoff gave a fake nod and smiled at her.
"I'm fine, Anna. I just need to get some fresh air and then I'll be perfectly fine" Kristoff wanted the fresh air and hoped Anna would buy his lie. He knew he couldn't be fine or comfortable at such occasions and Anna thankfully bought it and let Kristoff go to the stables and enjoy a bit time with Sven.
Anna walked back at the ballroom and started to feel a bit out of place with Kristoff being so distant as he was, but she was taken out of thoughts as Duke Andre came up to her being polite and bowed for Anna. Being the nice person Anna was known as, she smiled at the duke and accepted his offer to go out with him to the balcony and enjoy the wonderful view over the fjord and over Arendelle.
"What a beautiful view you got here in Arendelle your highness" Anna smiled at the duke who seemed to suddenly standing so close to her that she didn't know what to do. She knew she had to be polite and humble to their guests and Elsa wasn't anywhere around as well Kristoff wasn't, therefore she was on her own now.
"Yeah, I really enjoy it a lot, from my room we can see ever wider, I often do so with Kristoff" Anna told him proudly, she knew most royals appreciate Kristoff very much, but Anna wanted therefore more than anything to show them how she loved him.
"You truly care for him, don't you? But of course if he's your boyfriend, but don't you care about status?" Duke Andre tried to make the question sound as gentle as possible and Anna seem to be a bit tricked at it, but kept it calm.
"I care about a lot of things and as much as I love being a princess, I don't care about status, I love Kristoff for his personality and because he cares for me" Duke Andre nodded and then tried to talk about another subject.
"Your dress is truly beautiful" Anna blushed. Even with her shyness that started to create inside her, she couldn't deny he was truly gentle and truly complimenting. She started to want Kristoff near her more than anything.
"Thank you. It is quite nice and I like green colour the most, but I guess it really is beautiful. We do have a good tailor" Duke Andre shook his head and let his hand rest on Anna's cheek and then let it slip down it like Hans did that time ago when he sang with Anna. She was feeling her heart beating intensely and it frightened her very much.
"It's not the dress itself, sure it's pretty, but it's the woman in it that makes it seem so beautiful, it's your beauty that makes it something special my princess" Duke Andre put on his best and most charming smile and Anna never remembered feeling so absolutely uncomfortable that she hoped Kristoff soon would show himself and spend some time with her before anything turned wrong.
Kristoff was indeed looking for Anna, but all the people around him made him want to sit and he then saw something that he didn't like one bit. He saw Anna along with the duke standing out on the balcony and chatted and Anna was looking like she having a good time, of course Kristoff didn't realize that she was just putting on her best acting by smiling at the duke to not infant him or anything. He walked closer and tried to listen to what they were talking about without being spotted and with Elsa busy talking to some of her other guests and Kristoff with no one else to talk to, he didn't like what was going on with Anna and the duke as well and started to feel an urge to just walk up and tell the duke to get away and leave Anna alone. He walked away, but in the progress, the duke made another to get close to Anna and she didn't seem to resist to the fact that the duke held her in a way so Kristoff couldn't see he did so.
Then for a moment Kristoff's world seem to be standing completely still as the duke made his lips touch with Anna and moved into her even more and Kristoff felt like he was about to cry and felt his knees starting to hurt badly threatening to bug under him.
Anna stared in shock and followed her eyes to the direction the duke was looking at and saw a devastated Kristoff standing close by and looked he could faint any second and Anna didn't think about anything as she raced towards him and saw he sprinted as he was trying to get away from her. Elsa bumped into Anna and saw the devastation in her eyes and before Elsa had a chance to ask her what was going on, Anna sprinted away and saw Kristoff jerk out of the doors.
What have you done Anna? Elsa thought as she was going after her sister. She needed to be with her and ask her what was going on and see if she had any chance of helping her, but she was pulled up by Duke Andre who told her it might be best if she let Anna be alone right now and made up a lie about another guy Anna supposedly had kissed in front of Kristoff.
Oh no Kristoff, he better not do anything stupid Elsa thought and then ordered for a guard to make sure Kristoff didn't do anything stupid or anything.
In the meantime, Anna was still racing to get to Kristoff and it was hard with him being a top shaped guy and fast runner and the fact that she wore high heels made it only harder and therefore she needed to hope for an unpredictable thing to help him. Just before Kristoff managed to reach the gates, he tripped because was out of position and made him crash and he took a moment to recover from the high speed he had run off with and as he was about to get up to reach for the gates, a red blond haired girl with blue eyes that was more like red blue eyes to the tears in them.
"Kristoff, please stop and let me talk to you" Anna saw the confusion and hurt in his brown eyes and he looked like he was about to cry as well. Yet, she also something she had never seen in his eyes before. Coldness and a bit of disbelief.
"What do you want to say Anna? There is nothing to say about what happened, it was at least pretty obvious to me that you were kissing the duke"
"He kissed ME" Anna agued, she was irritated that he was very stupid and unable to even listen to what she had to say. She could explain what was going on if she got a chance to do so.
"It was still a kiss and I can't believe I didn't see it coming" Anna never remembered feeling so hurt in her entire life. Not even the incident with Hans could compare to this.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean you are a royalty. The Princess of Arendelle and just like Elsa, one of the most attractive girls at this party and I'm just. I'm just me" Anna felt like hell. She hated her title right now and wished she could tell him wrong, but he was right about the status and she was almost speechless. It was hard to find a proper answer to argue on that.
"That doesn't matter to me Kristoff. I love and ONLY you!" Anna expressed herself so passionately that it was hard for Kristoff to deny that she clearly spoke out of feelings and emotions and she tried to get closer to him, but then he stepped back, she felt a pain she never felt before, it another kind of heartbreak that she'd never ever had experienced and always hoped she never would.
"Don't you love me Kristoff?" at the moment, he wanted to say he didn't, but he wasn't a liar and he couldn't deny his feelings for Anna, but he was also feeling out of place right now and wanted to find a way out of this.
"I do love you Anna. I can't deny that I love you more than anyone I've ever cared for, but we are out place, I'm out of place. I don't belong in a castle with you and Elsa, I just don't"'
"Why not? You saved me and you helped safe Arendelle"
"I didn't save you, Elsa and you did that and I can't be the man you need or the man you deserve as well, I want to, believe me when I say want to, but I just can't and maybe you can find him some day" the silence that lasted a minute felt like a thousand years as Kristoff collected all his courage to say the thing he never thought he would, but felt like he needed to say.
"Goodbye Anna"
Anna fell to her knees in devastation when Kristoff pulled Sven out of the main gates to the castle. It was just then Elsa showed up and when she saw Anna crying on the ground, she sprinted to her side as if it meant the difference between life and death. Anna sobbed hard into Elsa's shoulder
"Calm down Anna. Calm down. What's wrong? What happened?" Anna couldn't manage to get words out with all her sobs, it took her 10 long minutes before she cried out what she thought would have to be her heart, it felt like she had nothing to live for.
"Kristoff" was the only word she could manage to say, it was so hard to deal with the fact that he had just broken up with her because of her stupid status as princess of Arendelle.
"What about Kristoff? What made him so angry? Don't worry he'll come back after he got some fresh air"
"He won't come back to me Elsa, he just won't. I know"
"What are you saying Anna? Don't you love each other?" before she had a chance to continue, Elsa figured out what might have happened.
"He broke up with me Elsa. He said he loved me, but he broke up with me and it's all because of my royal status and because of Duke Andre"
"What have the duke to do with any of this? I heard from him a guy kissed you, but he didn't say whom. Was he the one who kissed you?" Elsa had a demanding tone and Anna only nodded while she was thinking of how to punish the duke for hurting the feelings of her sister and it wasn't going to be pretty.
Elsa took Anna to her bedroom and told Anna that she needed some rest to think clear even though she wanted to go to Kristoff and kiss off his doubts and make him feel like the luckiest guy in all of Arendelle.
Elsa sat at Anna's bedside until she had fallen asleep and even if her eyes were closed, Elsa spotted the depression in her sleep. Elsa knew she needed to go and see Kristoff and getting him to see sense and if Anna was unable of doing so, then she had to do it herself. Elsa called out a guard and ordered him to guard Anna's room and make sure no one entered or especially that Anna didn't leave the room. The guard bowed and Elsa got in her own room and put on a coat and ordered for some two more guards to throw Duke Andre of the Western Isles into a dungeon until she was able to take care of his punishment, they left immediately and left for a place she was certain she could Kristoff and Sven. The mountains.
I decided to make this a 2 chapter-story and I hope you guys like this one. Please read and review, I need your support.