FROZEN at Sea
Chapter 6: Keeping Secrets
The moon is shining bright over the calm waters. Alone, Elsa walks around the ship deck. She looks down at the water as the waves hit the ship.
"Maybe it's not that bad," Elsa tells herself.
All of a sudden, thunder rumbles and light crashes. A heavy shadow hovers over her. Elsa turns around to a big wave coming down on the ship. The ship begins to rock by and through with the storm. Elsa tries to hang on to the siderail. As another wave hits the ship, she falls off. Elsa screams as she lands in the water. She starts to sink. "Elsa!" The voice of Anna comes from the surface. She tries swim to the light, but she can't. She soon runs out of air, and continues to sink. "Elsa! Elsa!" Her world becomes dark. "ELSA!"
Elsa gasps as she opens her eyes. It was just a nightmare. She sits up in bed, sweating and shaking, in fear with Anna right next to her side. "I'm sorry to wake you, but Roland wanted to see the compass."
Elsa breathes heavily. "It's in my bag." She points to her closet
"Thanks, sis," Anna walks over to Elsa's closet, "You can go back to sleep if you want."
Elsa rubs her eyes. "No, that's okay. I'm good."
"Rough night, huh?"
"Sure, you can say that. How about you?" Anna turns to answer, but she stops. Elsa tries again "Anna?"
Anna wants to tell her sister what happened between her and Kristoff, but she may not understand. "It was fine. Thank you."
"Are you sure?" Elsa throws on her rob, "Because if there's something wrong, you can always talk to me about it-"
"It's nothing wrong. Really," Anna cut in. "Oh. Here it is." Anna pulls out the magical compass that Pabbie gave them. She leaves the room without saying a word.
Elsa is now hurt. She knows there is something wrong, but Anna won't talk to her about it. Then again, she doesn't want to talk about what on her mind either. Once again, secrets have come between them.
KNOCK! KNOCK!
"Come in," says Elsa.
The door opens and Olaf peers in. "Morning. Is Anna here?"
"She just left."
"Oh, good," Olaf quickly shuts the door, "Can you keep a secret?"
"What is it, Olaf?" Elsa scoots over to give Olaf a spot on the bed.
"Don't tell Anna this but" Olaf looks around and leans over to Elsa's ear, "Kristoff want to marry her."
"I already knew that."
"You did?"
"Yes, I gave him my blessing to marry Anna. Let me guess. He was going to propose but he didn't have the ring."
"No, he had a ring."
"So, he asked her," Elsa grabs Olaf, "Did she say yes? Please tell me she said yes!"
"Well, no."
"No?"
"No as in he didn't ask her."
"What did he do now?"
"It wasn't his fault. It was mine."
"Then what did you do?" Elsa gives the snowman a confused look.
Olaf fumbles with his twig hands. "Well, you see. Kristoff was going to propose, but I sort of interrupted them. Actually, I fell from the crow's nest. Anyway I asked what they were talking about, but I didn't know he was asking her to marry him. Then Kristoff got mad and then Anna got mad. Then she left and he left and I was left alone. It's all my fault." Olaf sniffles.
"That explains everything," Elsa though to herself. "Olaf, you shouldn't blame yourself. You didn't know."
"But what do I do now?"
"Right now, they need to work it out on their own. All relationships have their ups and downs. No one's perfect." She remembers what Anna said the other day, "We all make mistakes but we learn from them."
"I'm not perfect!" Olaf proudly confesses.
"No, Olaf. You're special," Elsa smiles.
Olaf sets his hand on top of Elsa's. "We both are." Elsa looks at the snowman, who just gives her a smile. "Thank you, Elsa."
They share a hug. "No. Thank you, Olaf."
Later that day, Roland is at the steering wheel. Anna comes up with the compass in her hand.
"Here's the compass, Roland," Anna hands the compass to the captain.
"Thank you, princess," Roland takes the compass.
The compass begins to glow. Like a magnet, it sticks to the steering wheel, steering the ship in the right direction.
"It's driving the ship!" says Anna.
"Interesting," Roland says in awe, "That's some compass."
"Do you might if I ask you a question?"
"You just did," Roland points out.
"Oh, right. But can I . . . Do you ever feel like there's something wrong, but it doesn't seem like it?"
"I'm not getting you."
"I think Kristoff is hiding something for me. I know there's something going on, but he won't tell me. And it's making me think that he doesn't trust me."
"He does trust you," Roland tells Anna, "You got to give people their space. You can't just force them to speak out. They'll tell you when they're ready."
"But I want to know now! It's killing me!"
"No. You just don't have any patients."
"You sound like my sister," Anna pouts. "By the way, are you single?"
"What?"
"Nothing." Elsa would kill Anna if she heard that. "Thank you, captain."
"Sure, I guess," Roland watches Anna run off happy, "Young love." He turns his attention to a map, trying to figure out where they're at. He reaches over to his cup of coffee.
From far away, Kalimore sees the Arendelle ship through his telescope. He sees Anna wandering around the deck. "What? How did they get ahead of us?"
Fenny is polishing his boots. "I'm not sure how, s-s-sir."
"I wasn't asking you, Fenny!" Kalimore barks, "You missed a spot by the way."
"Oh, sorry," Fenny continues to scrub.
"MEN!" Kalimore points forward, "FULL SPEED! We're going to give our friends a warm welcome to the sea."
Hey guys. It's me, Creepy!
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