You do realize you both look like idiots, right?
Jack shook his head, smiling. Better a happy idiot than a depressed scholar, he reasoned. "So, I have to ask," he said to Anna as they walked along the hallways back towards the ballroom. "What exactly is the party for?"
Anna giggled. "It's a celebration of springtime. Arendelle celebrates both the beginning and end of winter now."
Jack had a puzzled look on his face. What was the point of celebrating a season? "Why do you celebrate that? It sounds boring," Jack said, still trying to work it out. Maybe they're, I don't know, completely crazy?
Anna whirled and looked at him. "You mean you don't know?" she asked, a look of shock on her face. Jack shook his head, causing Anna to stand there for a few seconds, her mouth in a perfect 'o' shape. She then began leading him down the halls in a different direction.
…
They reached a door that Jack had not yet seen. Anna knocked her knock on the door, and from inside he heard the voice of Anna's sister, Elsa. "What do you want Anna, I'm busy!" she said, obviously occupied with something else.
"Yeah, you know the thing that happened last year? Apparently, Jack doesn't know about it." Anna said through the door.
Jack was quite confused. "Um…what happened last year?" he asked tentatively.
"Shush." Anna said, waiting for a response from her sister.
As if in response, the door opened a crack, revealing half of Elsa's face. "Anna. I am very busy, and this is not that important. If you want to tell him the story, be my guest."
"But I thought you'd want to tell him. Seeing as you thought he already knew, and that him knowing is kinda key to what you wanted to do with him." Anna said to her, apparently oblivious to the fact that Jack was standing not three feet away.
Elsa sighed. "You tell him your side of it. Then, after this party is over and everyone leaves, I'll start with him. Now shoo! I'm very busy!" The door shut then, and Anna led a very confused Jack away from the area.
Um…what the hell just happened?
…
Jack sat down on a couch in yet another new room. Anna stood by the window.
"So," she said. "You want the short version, the slightly shorter version, or the long version?"
Jack went with the short version. He wanted this over with, as he was bursting with curiosity.
Anna launched into her narrative. "So, basically, my sister Elsa was born with Ice powers that grew stronger and stronger until one day when we were kids she apparently accidently hit me with her ice powers and nearly froze my head so my dad took me to the trolls and they made me better but they warned my dad and Elsa that Elsa's powers were only going to get stronger and-"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Jack said. "Slow down. You lost me about halfway into that."
"Oh, aha, sorry." Anna said, running her fingers through her hair. "Where was I? Oh, right. Anyway…
"My father decided that it would be best to isolate Elsa until she was able to control her powers. So, she stayed in her room. All the time. Then, when we turned sixteen, they went on some trip that I can't even remember now, and, well, their boat sunk. At this point, Elsa was terrified of herself.
Fast forward a few years and Elsa comes of age and becomes Queen. On the day of her coronation was the first day the gates were opened and I actually saw other people. So, I maaaay have made some...questionable choices.
I met this guy. Hans. And I thought it was love at first sight, but we'll get back to that tidbit. Anyway, he proposed and I said yes. No. Don't say it. No comments. Shut up.
Anyway.
We tried to get Elsa's blessing which, predictably, backfired. She got mad, I got mad, and pulled off her glove. Did I mention she wore gloves? ….I didn't? Oh. Well, she wore gloves to help conceal her ice powers and I pulled one off. Oops.
So she got even more angry and may or may not have blasted some ice at everyone. Ehehehe. Um…yeah. So, Elsa ran away and kinda set off an eternal winter. Did I mention this was in the middle of summer? No? Well, middle of summer, she set off eternal winter, blah blah blah.
So, I decide to chase after her, which is how I met Kristoff and Sven and Olaf, and we found her, but she accidently struck my heart with her magic, which isn't as easy to fix, so I tried to find Hans to kiss me, and….what? Oh, right. Only an act of true love can thaw a frozen heart. So I needed Hans. Or…I thought I did.
Anyway, it turned out that Hans was only using me, ouch, and he didn't love me at all. So I was kinda screwed. But then Kristoff came back, and Olaf said that Kristoff loved me, so I should kiss him.
But while I was trying to find Kristoff I saw that Hans had a sword and was gonna kill Elsa, who was on the ground for some reason, and I ran and stopped the sword. Oh, how? Well, um, I kinda froze under it. And it broke.
Then Elsa hugged my frozen statue body, and I melted! Then I punched Hans in the face, Olaf didn't melt, Kristoff got a new sled, and a year later, here we are!"
Anna finished with a big 'whew' and a smile. "And that is why we celebrate the beginning and end of winter!"
Jack still didn't get it, but he didn't want another long winded story.
A knock on the door caused them both to jump as one of the servants said "Ma'am, the party will be starting shortly. Are you coming?" Anna squealed, and ran out of the room. She then turned back and poked her head through the door to make sure Jack was coming.
They made their way towards the ballroom with Anna always about ten feet ahead of Jack, and as they arrived the ballroom was already full of people. Jack managed to break off from Anna and found an unoccupied corner and sat down in it, watching.
I don't think our lovely princess thought this whole 'bring the uncontrollable ice powers to the party where there will be LOTS OF PEOPLE' thing through.
For once, Jack agreed with the Voice. This wasn't going to be easy.
