As I promised, two chapters today. Enjoy.

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Elsa's POV

"…and that wraps up today's meeting," I said gathering my things together to leave. I was ready for this meeting to be done. It was a really hot summer day and I looked forward to getting to my room and cooling off, one of the many benefits of having ice powers.

"Not quite yet, your Majesty," said Gerald. Gerald was my father's closest friend and adviser. He has been very kind to me since coming back down from my ice castle only a few days ago. As such, I stopped gathering my things and listened to him.

"Now, Your Majesty, the law states that by the time you are twenty-one, you should be married, but…" Gerald started, but I interrupted him.

"You expect me to get married in three months after the fiasco we just had with Hans!" I shouted. "I will not do anything of the sort. I will simply live my life as I have now and let Anna's family be my heirs and if you don't like that, well then…"

This time Gerald stood up and interrupted me, shouting loudly, "Please be quiet, Elsa, and let me finish."

I was very surprised as I had never heard him raise his voice ever, even at his own children. I calmly sat back down, having stood up during my rant. "Now," Gerald said, clearing his throat, "The law says that you have to be married by your twenty-first birthday, but in light of current events and given your circumstances, we have decided that we want you to begin your search for your future husband and our future king immediately. However, we decided that we will give you until your twenty-sixth birthday to have chosen a man and prepare to marry him. After that, if you haven't found a husband, we will begin the training of your sister's and her probable future husband's child."

I nodded. Gerald continued, "Now we suggest that you have a ball in order to meet others of your own age and begin making friends…"

Gerald continued to speak about what I should do and how I could go about going to find a husband, but I couldn't help but think, Who would want to marry a girl with ice powers that she can lose control of as easily as she can lose her temper?

As soon as this thought crossed my mind, the answer came to me. The only type of person who would marry me, I thought, is someone like me.

This thought saddened me and I wished that there was someone who was like me out there. I looked out the window which despite the heat were closed to keep anyone not in the meeting to find out anything they didn't wish to make public just yet. That's when I saw a boy looking in the window. He had white hair and was as pale as frost. This startled me because we were four stories up and there is no way to just climb up to the window. The only way that boy could be there was if he flew up there.

Gerald must have noticed me staring off and cleared his throat. I turned and looked at him. "Are you alright, your Majesty?" Gerald asked.

I looked at the window, but the boy was gone. "Yes," I said. "I was just thinking about what you were saying. Please continue."

Gerald continued to talk about how we should hold an annual Friendship Ball so that I could get to know people my own age and so that I could meet all the young men who would be eligible for me to marry. This time I didn't get distracted, except when the window seemed to open on its own and then close itself. After a few seconds of that distraction, I focused back on Gerald, who suggested that before the ball I should take some time for myself and figure out what qualities I am looking for in a man as a potential husband.

At this point, I began thinking again that the only person who would marry me is someone like me and then once again wishing that such a person existed.

That's when I heard someone say, "Boring."

I looked up. All my advisors were focused on Gerald. However, at the other end of the room leaning against a wooden staff and the wall was the boy from the window. He was wearing the strangest cloak, blue with a hood and a pair of pants that stopped well short of his ankles. Stranger yet was the fact that he didn't seem to be wearing any shoes. My staring must have caught his attention because he smiled a mischievous smile and winked at me.

I quickly looked back at Gerald, blushing. The boy was quite handsome and nobody had ever winked at me before. However, I had a feeling that it wasn't a flirtatious wink. The boy didn't seem the type to do that. It seemed more to me that he winked at me as if letting me in on a secret, a secret that only he knew and that I was going to find out. However, this didn't keep me from wanting to take a second look, but he was gone.

I decided that I was just seeing things and that the boy was just hopeful thinking. I turned my attention back to Gerald who was still talking, surprisingly, but this time about people that I should invite to our ball that we would be having. I was listening carefully to the names of all the people when suddenly my chair felt ice cold. I stood up giving a startled screech. All my advisers quickly stood to my aid. I looked down at my seat and saw that it was covered with a thin layer of ice. I touched it. It was cool to the touch, but there was something else to it. Before I could figure it out, all my advisers started to laugh.

I looked at them confused. Gerald, through his own laughter, said, "Forgive us, Your Majesty, but it seems that you have frozen your own bottom."

At this, they laughed all the louder and I couldn't help but join them. I got rid of the ice and all of us left in a merry mood. I went back to my room with a smile on my face. However, my room was on the opposite side of the castle that the meeting was being held and by the time I got there, the heat had once again gotten to me. I entered my room in a huff and shut the door.

As soon as the door was shut I quickly cooled down the room. Frost covered the windows and there was a little nip in the air, but I felt so much better. That's when I heard a knock on the door. I sighed and opened the door. It was Anna.

"Hey," she said. "I just wanted you to know that I won't be at dinner. Kristoff is taking me out tonight so I won't be here."

I smiled at my sister and said, "Well, have fun. You'll have to tell me all about it when you get back."

"OK," she said with a huge smile on her face. She quickly hugged me and ran to her room next door.

I laughed at my sister's giddiness, but for some reason my laughter felt empty.

A few hours later, I made my way down to dinner. The table had four chairs around it. One sat at the head of the table, one on the right, and two on the left. Normally one of the chairs on the left would sit at the other end of the table, but often Kristoff would join us for dinner and he and Anna would sit next to each other while I sat across from them as I usually did.

I moved the chair back to its original spot. This was the set up that we had while my parents were still alive. My father would sit at the head spot with me on his right and Anna on his left. My mother would sit in the seat that I was now standing behind.

Though I was queen and had the right to sit at the head of the table, I always sat in my seat on the right. However, tonight, perhaps because of the meeting today, I sat in my mother's chair. The food was already laid out for me at my usual spot so I moved it to my mother's spot. I began to eat.

As I ate, I thought about what I was looking for in a husband. As I thought about it, I began to imagine what it would be like to sit down at this table with my own family. I looked up and in my mind's eye, I saw the boy from earlier, but he was much more mature looking. We had two kids, a boy and a girl, who were running around the table laughing. The sound was music to my ears. I looked again at my imaginary husband and he winked at me. Then as quickly as my mind had imagined it, it was all gone and I was once again alone at the table. There was no loving husband, no kids running around laughing. I was alone.

That's when I felt the first tear roll down my cheek. I watched as it fell from my chin down to my hand. It was soon followed by a second and a third until I was sobbing and wailing. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't stop crying.

I felt a hand on mine. I looked up. Through my tear filled eyes I could make out Anna, Kristoff, and Olaf. Anna was closest and quickly gave me a hug. I hugged her back and continued to cry. It felt weird as I had never showed my emotions so openly to anyone before, and yet it felt good to cry with her arms around me, knowing that whatever happened, she would be there to catch me.

I felt another pair of arms wrap around me while I was still hugging Anna. They were a lot bigger than Anna's and mine, so I knew that it must be Kristoff's. They were later joined by a small pair of twiggy arms. Olaf had joined our impromptu group hug.

It was a really sweet moment that was made better when Olaf whispered, "Why are we crying?"

We all laughed at Olaf's blunt question. I wiped the tears from my eyes. The other's let me go. Kristoff and Olaf left and Anna and I headed to my room.

The entire walk up there, Anna didn't say anything about what happened in the dining hall until we were standing on my balcony. "It was about the meeting, wasn't it?"

Though she asked me this, I knew I didn't have to answer. She continued, "I know that there is someone out there for you, Elsa, and even if there isn't you will always have me, Kristoff, Olaf, and even Sven. You will never be alone, I promise."

I smiled at her, sadly. Her words had made me feel better, but I still wished that I could believe them.

Then Anna said, "How about you go to your ice castle and cool off? You can figure out the whole husband thing for a week, while I'll plan the ball for you. If we have any major crisis, I will handle it."

I looked at her and asked, "Have I told you that you are the best little sister ever?"

She smiled and said, "No, I just assume it."

We laughed. She then said good night and went to bed. I headed back into my room. As I closed the balcony doors behind me, I thought I heard a voice say behind me, "An ice castle you say." However, when I turned around, no one was there. With that I closed the doors and went to bed.