Elsa set her phone down and snuggled beneath her duvet, when she heard a muffled noise. She stopped and listened carefully. The noise came again, and sounded like a sob, coming from the next apartment.
"Anna?" She said. More crying.
"E-Elsa?" Anna gulped. "Did I wake you? Shit, I'm sorry, I'm so-"
"No! Shh, don't worry. What's wrong?" Elsa asked, biting her lip when she heard the sobbing continue.
"I- he- I've just been dumped." Anna said, tears streaming down her cheeks.
"Oh my god Anna, I'm so sorry." Elsa said, sincerely, completely ignoring the part of her brain that was racing with hope. "Do you want to talk about it?"
"Yes, I do actually." Anna said, eyes growing dark with a hidden fury. "So, he took me out for dinner, paid and all, the usual. Then just as we got near here, he goes 'Look, I wanted to tell you this for a while but, I don't know how much longer I can go on like this' so I say 'Like what, what do you mean' and then he says 'Not coming home with you. Not doing anything more than kissing.' So I started crying saying 'you promised you could wait until I felt ready' and then he said 'yeah but I thought you meant a few weeks or so, not two months' and then he said 'it's over.' I got out and he rode off in the taxi and I don't even know what to do because just when I thought somebody actually cared about me enough to wait until I was ready to do... you know and then he just goes and ... UGH I fucking hate him and I wish this didn't happen every single fucking time!"
Elsa waited until she was sure the rant was over, then spoke. "So, this has happened before?"
"Well, I've had 4 boyfriends, and I'm still a virgin. One of them lasted 8 months, until it turned out he was getting what he needed from other people." Anna growled.
"Shh, its okay," Elsa soothed her. "You're going to be okay. Believe me Anna, one day somebody is going to walk into your life that's worth the wait."
"I don't even know why I don't ever want to do... it. I really think I love them, y'know, but when it comes to the... intimacy I just coil up like a snail."
Elsa couldn't help but giggle quietly at that.
"Don't you ever get a little turned on by them?"
Not as much as I was at that Beyoncé concert.
"No. I mean, I don't know. Not enough to want anything like that. It scares me a little, if I'm honest."
"That's okay." Elsa reassured her. "But you sound drained. You need some sleep."
Anna yawned. "You're right. Thanks Elsa."
"For what?" Elsa asked. After all, I've only done what any decent person would do.
"For listening to the midnight ramblings of a tipsy Anna Solberg."
"Anytime." Elsa settled back down, but stayed awake until she heard Anna stop moving. Good, she's asleep. And single...Elsa shook her head. Not now, brain. Time for sleep.