"What are stars?"

"You know what stars are, Anna."

"Well, kinda'. But what are they?" The five year old asked, her eyes staring up at her ceiling. The girls had been put to bed nearly an hour before; but Anna refused to sleep. She kept firing question after question at her older sister, Elsa, whom desperately wanted to fall into a dream.

"Stars," Elsa said after a moment, her voice heavy with exhaustion. "Are magical wish-giving things that grant wishes to whomever wishes on it."

It was a story that her Mama had told the young princess when she was little- and she knew Anna would love it. Elsa had, so why should her imaginative baby sister not enjoy it? There was no reason. Elsa could remember, when Anna was just a baby, her Mama sitting her down one day and telling her about wishing stars. That night, the little princess had made her father wish on a star with her, but she refused to tell him what she had wished for. Years later, Elsa didn't remember what she had wished.

She could hear Anna gasp, and imagined her surprised smile upon what she had just been told. "Really?" Her voice was filled with amazement.

"Mm-Hmm." Elsa mumbled, nodding her head once. Her eyes were closed, waiting for sleep to take her, and her head was on her pillow. Anna though, was now sitting straight up in her bed, staring across at her snowy-sister.

"How?" Anna asked, turning her head to look out the window.

"How what?"

"How do they grant wishes?"

"I dunno'."

"But you said they grant wishes. So how?" Anna complained, sticking her lip out and crossing her arms over her chest. Elsa couldn't just tell her something and then not continue telling her that something. It wasn't nice. Nope, not nice at all.

Elsa had sighed. She wasn't going to get any sleep before Anna could make a wish on a star. She knew it. Maybe telling her about the wishing star story wasn't a good idea . . . Elsa thought. She willed her eyes to open, and glanced at the pouting pigtailed girl.

Elsa groaned, but pushed herself into a sitting position as well. "You want to know how to make a wish?" She said, lowering her voice as though it was a very secretive secret. Which, she guessed, Anna thought it was. The younger girl leaned forward. She bobbed her head.

"Well," Elsa glanced around, as if making sure no one was listening. Anna did as well. Then the older princess continued. "You have to say a special wishing song. And then, you have to sleep right away- or else the wish won't work."

Anna giggled excitedly. "Well what's the song?" She laughed, a little too loudly. Elsa hushed her and Anna fell silent.

"Okay, this is the song:" Elsa pulled herself from her bed and scurried to the window. To be honest, she was excited to show Anna. When she had been told the story, she had only truly believed in it for a short time. But now, with Anna, she'd be able to pass on the story.

" 'Star light, Star bright; first star I see tonight.' " Elsa whispered, and she created a snowflake in her hands- to represent the star. " 'I wish I may, I wish I might: have this wish I wish tonight.' " She closed her eyes tightly, scrunching up her whole face, before relaxing it a moment later. "Then you make your wish."

Anna smiled, and looked out the window. "Okay, okay- Um . . . I want to wish on . . . that star!" The red-blond little girl pointed the brightest star in the sky. Elsa pointed her head in that direction.

"Go ahead."

Anna tilted her head to the side for a moment like she was heavily considering what to wish for. She bit her bottom lip, and twiddled her thumbs. Suddenly her face brightened, as she looked up at the star again. "I got one!" She announced.

" 'Star light, Star bright . . . um . . . first star I see tonight.' " She glanced at Elsa. " 'I wish I may, I wish I might, have this wish I wish tonight.' " She sucked in a breath, still starring up at her star. "I wish I had-"

Elsa clapped her hand down on Anna's lips, and held one of her own fingers to her own mouth. "Shh!" She hissed. "You can't say your wish out loud!" Anna blinked in surprise for a moment, before nodding. She scrunched up her face like Elsa had, before relaxing it a moment later.

"Okay, I made my wish." Anna called out, as though Elsa hadn't seen it for herself. "Goodnight!" She hugged Elsa's waist, before running back to her own bed.

The older girl was a little confused, before she remembered what she had told the girl. You have to sleep right away- or else the wish won't work. The blond girl smiled to herself. "Goodnight, Anna." Then she returned to her own bed. She snuggled into her blankets, but now her mind was repeating a single thought.

I wonder what Anna wished for . . .

Yeah, short, I know. Sorry! I meant to write this a few days ago (and um, make it longer) but I was busy all weekend, and I've been writing the next chapter of Frozen Heart so…no time. Oh- So far, from the few votes I've gotten, it looks like a fanfiction contest it winning. Please vote on either a fanfic contest or a drawing contest- I gotta' know (check out my last Author's note for info). By the next chapter I'm going to have stopped taking votes, and whichever one won will be what we're doing. I'll start asking for participants too when the next chapter is up. Cool?

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