Anna Summers was a small five year old girl with ginger-red hair in pigtails and aquamarine eyes. She was an orphaned, only child and was taken into Oaken's Orphanage, a small orphanage with only a handful of children, just before her first birthday. Yet for some reason, she was an extremely energetic and happy person. Her only family left was her cousin, Rapunzel, who was also orphaned and an only child. Rapunzel was the same age as Anna and was orphaned when she was three. She had long blonde hair and brilliant green eyes. "Come on come on come on!" Anna exclaimed, pulling her cousin down the stairs of the orphanage. "What are we in such a hurry for?" Rapunzel was confused. She had just woke up to Anna forcing her to get herself ready quickly without telling her what for. Rapunzel was a big sleeper, but she barely ever woke up after Anna. Anna definitely had a reason to be up in such a hurry. "Someone new is coming, someone new is coming!" Anna said loud and excitedly. "Oh, that." Rapunzel rolled her eyes. "But that's not for another hour, Anna..." It was true. The new child was to come at ten o'clock am, but it was still only nine.
"Fine. You go do something for an hour. I'm going downstairs." Anna skipped downstairs to hear Oaken and Gerda, an appointee, whispering. Anna hid herself behind a bookshelf to hear their soft whispers better, leaning her ear closer.
"She should be here in a few minutes, ya?"
"Yes Oaken. Elsa Daries, I think. Poor girl is eight years old. Been orphaned since she was four but her caretaker has just passed. Oh! I hear a car in the drive way now."
Gerda walked up to open the orphanage door and a little girl with pale blonde hair and blue eyes walked in with a man, who instantly bowed. Anna held a giggle as his wig hung off his head, clamping her hand to her mouth.
"Mr. Weselton, madam. fifteenth uncle of Elsa Daries."
"Yoohoo! Welcome Mr. Weaseltown. I am Oaken and this is Gerda, yeah?"
"Mr. Weselton, Sir Oaken. Well, I'll be off now. Have a good time, Elsa."
The tiny man walked out the door into a large car and drove away.
"Well Elsa, I am Gerda, and this is Oaken. We will be introducing you to the other children in about twenty-minutes. You can have some time in our play area!"
Elsa didn't look very happy, but not upset either. She just stared at Gerda, and walked to the play area. She was only three meters away from Anna at the bookshelf when Anna got to her senses and managed to quickly sneak back upstairs. She talked with Rapunzel for another twenty or so minutes before Kai, another appointee came up and called everyone down to meet the new child. Everyone seemed excited but Anna looked overjoyed. Did Elsa like the same things as she did? What did she like to do? Did she like chocolate as much as she did? Running downstairs, instantly the kids got into a circle on a small carpet. "Everyone, meet Elsa Daries!" Kai announced, holding a hand in Elsa's direction, who was standing in the middle. Gerda stood up from a chair and started to speak. "Can everybody stand up and say their names as we go around? Let's start with you, Ariel." And names went on. From Ariel to Belle to Adam and Merida, everyone was listed. Elsa just stared at the ground. The emotionless eyes flicked to people as their names were called, but they were not interested. And Gerda, who loved seeing children get along, was not very happy with Elsa's interest in no children. But she knew just who to call. As the reset of the kids were playing or eating a snack, Gerda called Anna. "Anna." She said, gesturing the small girl to herself. She walked right to her. "Yes, Gerda?" Anna looked a little worried. Was she in trouble? "I just need your help. Can you try to be Elsa's friend?" Anna's face went from worried to excitement and delight, playfully saluting and running straight to Elsa, who was sitting on a chair.
"Hi Elsa!"
"What do you need."
Elsa's voice was straight forward and it was ice cold. Nothing Anna's warm voice couldn't do.
"I'm Anna."
"I know."
It wasn't easy socializing with Elsa. But Anna was still determined to be this quiet girl's friend.
"Can you tell me something about yourself?"
"...I like to read."
It wasn't much, but it was a start. Anna ran to a bookshelf and pulled out one of her favourites. Charlotte's Web.
"This is my favourite book. Would you like to read it?"
Anna held the book in front of her, and Elsa cautiously took it. She opened the cover and began to read the first page. Anna continued to stare, at first Elsa's eyes were slowly going through the words, but soon they were darting across the page, clearly interested in the book. She considered it a triumph and went back to Gerda. "Gerda! Gerda! I gave her a book and she read it, and I think she likes it cause she likes to read and she was reading it so fast and-" "What great progress. Especially for someone who hasn't smiled in four years. My, you are a wonder Anna." Four years? Anna was baffled. How could someone possibly live four years without smiling. Anna would giggle at almost anything. It'd be impossible to live like that for a couple of hours. The determination Anna had once had went up my miles and she ran up to her bed, scribbling on a piece of paper with a green crayon. Her favourite colour. And soon, night came and she fell asleep.
The next morning, she actually woke up later then others. She rushed to get ready and go downstairs, dashing up to Elsa, who was once again on the chair, and reading Charlotte's Web. Anna smiled and went up to her.
"Elsa. I drew you something."
Elsa looked up from her book at the green drawing on Anna's paper. It was messy, of course. But the details in it were great and she could see just what she had drawn. A pig with looking up at a spider in it's web. Charlotte and Wilbur. Elsa tilted her head, slowly reaching her hands out to the drawing, and handed the book back to Anna.
"I'm finished."
"Already?!"
"I told you I liked reading."
And Anna dashed to the bookshelf again, returning with another book, this one titled Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The next day Anna came back with another picture and another book. This went on for two weeks and eventually they started reading together.
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"And he shouted... Ava-... Avee...Avae..."
"Avada Kedavra."
"Right. totally what I meant. And the little baby was... Let's finish this chapter tomorrow."
"Alright."
They walked to the kitchen counter, where they took each took a piece of chocolate from a small plate, Anna taking milk chocolate and Elsa taking white.
"Mmmmm... I love chocolate." Anna said, devouring her piece. Elsa ate her's more delicately, but just her eyes told you how much she enjoyed the sweet treat. Turns out the two had a lot in common. Their favourite books were fantasy, but there was still a lot of other good books out there, they both adored chocolate, and they both loved snow. Anna's favourite season was Summer. But she loved snow. You could do everything with it. Snowmen, snow forts, snow balls, everything. So on the first snow day at the orphanage that year, Anna's eyes practically were twinkling. She shoved on her jacket and mittens and ran outside with Elsa and the other orphanage kids.
"Elsa! Elsa! Come on come on let's have a snowball fight!"
"Alright, but don't slip Anna."
The two were classified as friends now, but Elsa still hadn't smiled. There was flicks of happiness in her eyes here and then, but her mouth hadn't even curled once. The two ran over to where there was lot's of snow and made about twenty snowballs. And they fought with each other for a long time. Eventually Anna started running, making it harder for Elsa to aim at Anna.
"Anna, slow down!"
"Woo!"
"Anna!"
"Agh!"
Anna had jumped over a large snow mound, Elsa slipping on ice, the snowball in her hand soaring at Anna's head midair.
Kai, who was supervising everyone, ran straight to the two, Elsa holding Anna in her arms.
"Elsa, what have you done?"
"It was an accident! I'm sorry Anna."
But then Anna's eyes fluttered open, cheeks still red from cold."
"Elsa."
She whispered.
"You told me not to slip. But you still slipped."
Anna giggled. Elsa's mouth started to curve, and then they both started giggling their hearts out. Elsa's first smile in four years. And they giggled there for a solid five minutes, waists aching, tears falling out of their eyes. They ran back inside to get some hot cocoa, coming right back out again to start building more things with snow.
It was the most fun either of them had had in years.