Anna snapped her mouth open and shut, yawned, and then slowly turned towards the opposite side of the bed. Her eyes scrunched up as a small ray of sunshine attacked her. She snarled and turned back over to her original position, lips turning upwards in contentment as the foul demon of sunshine was averted for now.
She was about to doze off into her dreamless realm before there was a heavy knock on her door. "Anna, we know you love sleeping in, but it's time to wake up! Rise and shine!"
Anna turned over again, forgetting about the penetrating rays and hissed when she discovered the pain once again. She sat up, mumbled a few choice words to herself, and called out, "But mum, it's like… morning! 7AM or something. Wake me up at noon…" With the last mumble, she fell asleep again, snoring softly before another knock interred her sleep once again.
Her mother was laughing. "Anna dear, it might be fully bright in summer down in Australia, but up here in Arendelle… when it's winter, the sun only comes up in the afternoon.
Anna's eyes snapped open. "What do you mean afternoon…" her head turned towards the door in panic as she heard her mum start heading down the stairs. Her head craned back towards a clock, which seemed to rub in the fact that it WAS one in the afternoon, not seven in the morning.
She scrambled out of bed, tossing the quilt covers roughly onto the ground and sprinted towards the shower. This was NOT how her reunion to Arendelle was supposed to start!
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Even though the ten minute shower was refreshing and she could feel slightly rejuvenated from the warm water, Anna still stumbled blearily down the stairs, her shoulder brushing against the wall as she slowly shuffled towards the dining room. The ten hour timelag she was suffering wouldn't be simply fixed with one easy sleep. She yawned and closed her eyes as she sat down at the dining table.
"Morning, sunshine," a sweet and soft voice teased.
Her eyes snapped open towards the voice that floated in from the living room.
Anna mentally sighed. Brilliant. So you've woken up late because you were so hot and bothered about your sister last night, and said sister is right in front of you.
In front of you, looking amazingly hot… if only she wasn't my sister, and if only I had no self-control…
Elsa smirked at the stray pieces of hair that was floating on Anna's head. "You look… extremely well presented today."
Anna's hand instinctively went up towards her head, smoothing out the last stray pieces that were defying gravity. "When did you come over, sis?" She asked, trying to deflect the attention from her and back onto the elder sibling.
"Came over around noon-ish. Finished off most of my work last night and this morning, so wanted to come over and see how my sister was faring." Elsa yawned as she finished the sentence. "I feel like going to a café in town, want to come?"
Anna's mother popped her head out the kitchen, deciding to join in the conversation. "Ooh, that's a great idea! You two need your quality time to catch up. I'll see you two for dinner!"
Anna yawned and traipsed back up the stairs. "Hang on, let me get dressed appropriately for this weather. I keep forgetting it's not summer here!"
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Barely five minutes later, Elsa's car was humming down the road towards town, Anna comfortably nested in shotgun.
"I've missed you Anna," Elsa blurted suddenly after a minute's worth of silence.
Anna blushed. "I've missed you too, Els," she whispered back. She suddenly felt so ashamed of not returning to Arendelle. My god, to think I've pushed Elsa away because of my own stupid feelings…
"I know you were busy and all in Australia, but…" Elsa's hands clenched tightly upon the wheel for the briefest of moments. "I'm glad you're back safely now, even if it's just for the slightest of moments."
Anna closed her eyes and smiled painfully. Running away for five years had done nothing but amplified her feelings for Elsa, but she could never say that to anyone. "I'm glad I'm back, too," she said sincerely.
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The atmosphere had lightened up amiably after the tense five minutes, and the rest of the twenty minute car trip was spent on catching up on the lost five years between the once-close siblings.
"What made you decide to start your own business?" Anna asked, after learning of Elsa's (booming) IT business that she started after her graduation.
Elsa fumed. "Because no-one would hire me! I graduated with top honours within the class, and it was because I was a FEMALE, not MALE that so many companies overlooked me! So I decided to simply go and make my own business. Shows all the other companies. They're in decline and everyone wants a piece of Icicle Corporation now."
Anna laughed. "You sure showed them Elsie!" She laughed harder at the name of Elsa's company. "Icicle Corporation? You sure still like winter, don't you?"
Elsa smirked. "Hey, winter is amazing. You can't deny the natural beauty of the crystallised ice, the drifting snowflakes, and the calmness of the wind as it howls around the valley. Compare that to your summer!"
Anna smirked back. "Hey, I had beautiful beaches in Australia! They were AMAZING. Nothing like eating chocolate and reclining in the sand… in summer!"
This time it was Elsa's time to laugh. Such a melodic sound, Anna though dreamily as she stared at her sister's face.
"Ah, we're here Anna. Wandering Oaken's Trading Post, Café AND Sauna!" Anna was startled out of her reverie when Elsa applied the handbrake.
"Old man Oaken is still here?" Anna gasped. "He's been around since… forever!"
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"Yoo-hoo! If it isn't my favourite customer, Elsa!" Oaken waved a greeting towards the blonde as the two girls stepped into the warm shop. "Oh! And what do we have here! If my eyes do not mistake me, I see little Anna, all grown up and back in Arendelle!"
"Uncle! I am not little anymore." Anna pouted and hugged the big man affectionately. Old man Oaken had been around Arendelle since she was a tiny toddler running the Trading Post, and now expanded into a larger business serviced by his quite large family, who conveniently popped out to say "yoo-hoo!"
Oaken smiled fondly at Anna and Elsa. "Oh, you two are so big now. Your parents should be proud of both of you. But enough rambling, what would you two like?"
Elsa stifled a yawn. "I've have my usual, with the eggs sunny side up."
"I'll take a hot chocolate with a full breakfast as well, sunny side up as well please," Anna said.
"Okay, it shouldn't take too long. Find a seat and I'll bring everything out to you two. Come on family, time to work!" With that, Oaken and his family strode into the kitchen, preparing a feast for two.
Anna and Elsa sat down at a booth with comfortable, squishy backings. "You and your chocolate, Anna," Elsa teased. "Some things never change, do they?"
Anna stuck her tongue out at her sister defiantly. "Chocolate is amazing! I could eat it for breakfast, for lunch AND dinner, so there!"
Elsa grinned gleefully at this. "Chocolate truffles for breakfast, black forest cake for lunch, and hot chocolate with more assortments of sweets for dinner!"
Both sisters salivated at the thought of a feast of chocolate. "Mmmm… chocolate!" They both drooled, and then laughed as they had the identical response to their kryptonite.
They were still laughing when the food came, and they started tucking into their late breakfast with aplomb.
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"So Anna… any significant others I need to know about?" Elsa winked at Anna, who suddenly choked on the fried eggs in her mouth upon the probing question from her elder sibling.
"ELSA!" Anna half screamed. "Those are NOT questions you ask early in the morning!"
Elsa smirked. "For starters, it's the afternoon, and secondly, you didn't answer my question."
Anna gulped. Now is NOT the time. Elsa smirked even harder. "So, who's the boy? Or…" Elsa started leaning in closer. "… Is it a girl?" Anna's cheeks became bright red, almost the same colour as her hair.
"G-g-get your mind out of the gutter!" Anna spluttered, reeling from the verbal assault that Elsa was dishing out upon her. Elsa drew her head back and laughed.
Anna decided to try and turn the attention away from herself and back onto the elder sibling. "What about you Elsa? Any cute boys? Or…" she leaned closer in and stared at Elsa with a wolf-like grin on her face. "Any cute girls?"
This time, it was Elsa's turn to change colours. A faint tinge of pink touched her face, and she turned away. "Hey, I asked you the question first, and you didn't answer, so I don't have to answer YOUR question!"
Anna grinned. "So what's her name?"
Elsa turned back towards Anna, her face once again regally composed. "I actually don't have one. Just never found any love interests, I suppose."
Anna pouted. "Aww. Neither have I really. I mean, there were cute guys in Australia, and really gorgeous girls, but none of them screamed "date me" or "love me"."
Elsa held out her hand. "To being forever alone!"
Anna high-fived her with a whoop. "To being forever alone!"
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Anna and Elsa exited the café, waving goodbye to old man Oaken and his family as they entered the winter landscape after their bonding session.
"Wanna come over for a while?" Elsa asked as they started entering the car. "My condo pretty much has everything there is for a bachelorette."
Anna laughed. "If it's that good, I might just crash and stay for a while then!"
Elsa smiled. "If you want to, you're always allowed to. I love you."
Anna smiled back. "I love you too, sis."
Both of them sat back in silence as the car travelled down the road, wishing they could just add "more than just a sibling" onto the end of their sentences.
"Could I give a call to mum using your phone?" Anna asked.
Elsa nodded. "Sure, my phone is just in my bag in the backseat, feel free to grab it.
Anna twisted around and grabbed the bag, pulling it into the front seat. "Okay, so time to delve into the infinite universe of Elsa's bag," Anna said.
After a few seconds of searching, she found Elsa's iPhone and unlocked it.
She made sure Elsa was glancing on the road before she decided to take a sneak peek at Elsa's photo album collection. Maybe there will be some good pictures, she gleefully thought.
When she opened the album that said "Night time", her eyes almost jumped out of her sockets.
There were dozens upon dozens of pictures with… redhead girls… in extremely risqué positions.
She quickly closed the photos application and deleted it off multitask. No need for Elsa to know what Anna was doing. She opened up the phone application and quickly started dialling her parent's home phone, trying to keep herself distracted and not think about Elsa's secret porn collection.
She didn't even have a passcode, for goodness sake.
"Hello, Elsa?" Her mum picked up the phone.
"Oh, hi mum! It's me, Anna. You know, your second daughter. Maybe your least favourite daughter," Anna weakly joked.
"Anna! I love both you and Elsa very much, you know that." There was laughter on the phone. "Now, what were you calling about?"
"Oh, just wanted to let you know I'm heading over to Elsa's for now… so I'm not coming home directly from the café!" Anna explained.
"Oh, that's ok. Good to see you two are catching up again. I'll see you two for dinner tonight! Bye Anna!"
Anna responded with her own farewell before hanging up the phone, and placing it back into the bag.
Elsa was still focused on the road. "All good with mum?" She asked.
Anna nodded. "Yep, everything is good." She turned her head to look outside the window, wondering about why her sister was so interested in red-haired girls. If only it was because of me, she thought glumly.
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A/N: I consider this fic as a warm-up piece towards my major Elsanna work that I'm planning to do.
I fucked up the first chapter majorly and if I had a choice, I'd re-do it, unfortunately I can't.
This piece should only be 10k words in maximum. I don't see it dragging beyond Anna and Elsa discovering and fucking each other's brains because I don't want to drag this piece into the mud, even though it's already in the mud due to my shitty writing. (Hey, I'm trying hard, so don't shoot me.)
Please review with criticism, this is the piece where I want every single flaw pinpointed and nailed down. I want to improve as a writer. Too much repetition? Is the flow too slow? Any honest opinion matters to me, even the "hey! You're really shit at writing, you should quit!".