The Call

2 years passed really fast since I started vlogging and it actually felt nice when sometimes people would recognize me on the street, telling me 'Hi! You're Elsa, right? I love your vlogs. You and your sister are hilarious!' a couple of times people would ask me for a picture. Anna had warned me about it. It happened to her too, but not as often, probably because she was 12 when she started covering songs, because now that she's 15-years-old it does happen a little more often. Anyway, I had finally graduated last year and Anna was actually right: I did ace the SATs! Now I study law in Harvard University, it's hard, but I can do it! The best thing about it is that luckily for me, I didn't have to move all the way across the country, since I live just half an hour away from campus. That's not the whole news, I also found a 'job' you can say. I work as an intern in a law firm, and they pay me too!
As soon as I was done with work, I got into the car and drove back home. Today I was going to vlog again with Anna. We were going to have a Sister Tag… which was more like a Sister Quiz, actually. As soon as I got home, I was immediately welcomed by Anna's affectionate warm hug, which I gladly returned. Anna told me that Mama and Papa were going to be back after dinner so that meant we could record the Sister tag without having our parents burst into our room and ruin the shot… which wasn't uncommon. As soon as we found the tag questions, Anna got my new camera, which was her present for me for my 18th birthday, set it in front of us and on the count of 3 she pressed record and sat next to me.

"Hello there, Youtube!" I started, finally feeling confident about this. After 2 years of vlogging, it came kind of natural now, and I wasn't as nervous as I was the first time "Elsa and Anna here and today, we are doing…"

"…the Oh-So-Much-Requested…" Anna continued

"SISTER TAG!" we chorused "Jinx! Jinx again!"

"Jinx again again!" I said just a split of a second before she did.

"Argh! Darn it! We're not off to a good start…" Anna grumbled.

"No, actually we're even now" I said.

"Oh, right! I got you yesterday- wait… didn't I get you another time?"

"Nope…" I said proud of myself "Anyway, today we're doing the Sister Tag to see how well we know each other…"

"It kind of sounds more like a Sister Quiz, though" Anna said.

"Yeah…" I muttered looking at the questions on my phone "Anyway. Her middle name" I started and looked at Anna, motioning for her to go first.

"Astrid" she said

"Sylvia" I said.

"So it's Elsa Astrid and Anna Sylvia" Anna confirmed "Next!"

"Eye color… what kind of question is that?! Who doesn't know her sister's eye color?! Blue!" I answered "Even though they look green sometimes, they're beautiful" I added smiling.

"Oh, well, I call yours crystal blue" she said smiling back

"Do you really?" I said surprised. Anna laughed at my face

"Yeah, they're such a clear shade of blue like… like ice under clear ocean water" Anna explained.

"Wow, thank you… we always end up complementing each other in the videos we should probably stop that" I said looking for the next question.

"Yeah… people might talk" Anna said. I got the first stack of papers on my desk and hit her straight in the face without even looking at her. The only sound that came was Anna's 'ouff!', the papers she put back on the desk and our silent giggles.

"Heels or flats?" I went on

"Well, we both usually wear heels, but not very high ones" I said.

"Like you need really high ones, anyway" Anna added.

"I'm going to reply to that with the next question which is: who is taller?" I said "I'm older and taller, but I'm not that tall, I could wear high heels"

"But you are tall; I get to your eye-level"

"I'm 5'5", Anna" I insisted

"No, you're taller!" To cut the conversation short, I walked back to my bag, got my wallet with my I.D. documents and showed it to her "You're 5'5"…"

"See?"

"What's the next question?" she said. I took a look at the phone.

"Favorite: memory together, book, color, food" I answered. We looked at each other in a silent agreement, then we looked towards the camera smiling "Building snowmen together" we chorused.

"Then…" Anna continued "Your favorite book is… Tales of Terror by Edgar Allan Poe, then your favorite color is blue and your favorite food is white chocolate" I couldn't help but smile and pull her in for a hug.

"My little sister knows me so well!" I said "And her favorites are Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian, if we want to be specific, by Rick Riordan. Her favorite color is purple and her favorite food is chocolate in general" I answered keeping an arm around her shoulders.

"Do you ever bicker?" Anna read. We giggled at that.

"Yes" we chorused "You just had a taste of it" Anna added

"Something that she does, that you wish she didn't do" I read off.

"Well…" Anna thought for a moment "When something happens on your day that makes you upset and when I ask what happened to help you, you shut me out because you rather deal with it on your own and play heroine" she said with a glare.

"I do that because I don't want you to worry about me. I can hold my own" I explained.

"But I am your sister! This is what family and sisters are for! To support and comfort you. I really don't like when you shut me out, I feel so… rejected" I actually wasn't expecting that from Anna. I knew she didn't like it, but…

"Sorry, I didn't know it made you feel so bad" I apologized "I won't do it again, I promise"

"You do?"

"I do. Plus, we're being recorded so. If I do that, show me this" I said. Anna smiled and kissed me on the cheek. "Okay, back to business. I want you to guess it, Anna… but I'm not going to ask you to promise not to do that, since it's just a bad habit you have" I said. Anna though about it for a moment, then she lit up.

"When I need help with my homework or to find something and I call you while you're at work" Anna said.

"That is true, but it's not what I'm thinking about" I said.

"It isn't? What is it then?" Anna said surprised.

"When you borrow my stuff, but never put it back in place, adding it to your mess in the room" I said. Anna thought about it for a moment then nodded with a smile.

"Yeah, I do that too" I couldn't help but laugh and she with me.

"I get so mad!" I said laughing.

"Yeah! She actually yells at me when that happens… which is like… every day, basically" she said laughing with me. Shaking my head I looked at the last question.

"Who takes longer to get ready?" I read "Okay, it depends… if we're talking about waking up and getting ready: it's Anna. If we're talking about just the getting ready part: it's me" I said.

"Yeah, because she's a morning person and I'm not, but even with my terrible morning hair, I'm actually really fast at getting ready" Anna said.

"Yeah. I have no trouble getting up, but it takes me more time to get ready because I also put some make-up on and I'm a little too neat of a person. While if you wake Anna up at 6:30 a.m., maybe at 11 she's out of bed" We both laughed at that, and then my phone rang. I told Anna I had to get that because it could be my boss, so she ended the video on her own. When I looked at the I.D. I saw it was a private number.

"Hello?" I said picking up the phone as I got out of my room.

"This is Officer Smith, am I talking to Miss Elsa Arendelle?" said the other voice in a serious tone.

"Yes, this is she" I said seriously, and worriedly. Why was a police officer calling me? The next words from the man made my world collapse. With few words, I felt like I was being hit by a ton of iron bricks, like I was suddenly holding the weight of the sky on my own. The moment I ended the call, I felt like color had drained from my face. How was I supposed to tell this to Anna? With what face? How was I supposed to look at her in the eyes? The moment I re-entered our room, Anna had just started the editing of the video. She immediately skipped towards me, her red braids bouncing, but as soon as she looked at my face her eyes darkened.

"Elsa, are you okay? You're pale white" she asked worriedly. I was about to speak up but no sound came out. Anna took my face in her hands, reassuringly "Hey… what happened?" she said. Then I spoke up.

"Mama and Papa…" I started "There was an accident… They're gone" Anna's hands dropped from my face in shock, and went to cover her mouth as tears streamed down her eyes. Anna sat down on the edge of the bed and started crying. Not able to hold down my own tears, I sat down next to her and hugged her tightly, protectively cupping the back of her head with a hand, letting her soak my shirt with her tears, as I miserably failed to hold back my own.

"What are we gonna do?" Anna said crying, clenching on my shirt "We only have each other… we're alone…" I hugged her tighter.

"We're together" I told her "We're gonna make it… together…" I said and kissed her head as tears streamed down our eyes.


And there goes Episode 2! Poor Anna and Elsa! What did you think about this? You'll see Hans on the next episode!

See you next episode! ;-)