Loved - Crazy Trust Exercise

Anna the littlest princess of Arendelle was exploring the castle some more.

She'd asked her big sister if she wanted to play making a snowman, which she just knew was the best thing ever to do with her best sister. But she wouldn't come out and that hurt as she wrung her hands.

"You're a big, old stinky stinker." She murmured because she hurt so much as the tutors came and she would have to listen to boring old lectures on boring old stuff about boring old people. Anna was so bored, she had never been bored when her sister was around.

Rushing around the painting room was fun, as was pretending to be part of the scenes the painting showed, but she really wished she could be with real people more. And she had explored most of the castle already. That spiral staircase that took her up to the tower overlook was fun to slide down and the view was great, she could see people out there in the village.

Now she was in the throne room playing hide-and-seek with her dolls, but they needed a lot of her help to play. She would take a doll, they had to take turns, and throw it over her shoulder while she took the other one and go running the opposite way and then twirl around, it was fun to have her skirts flare like that. When she was so dizzy she fell over then she and her doll would be ready to go seeking, or at least they would when the room stopped spinning so much that she could stand again.

But this time as she was laying on the floor with the room spinning around her, she wondered why the banners weren't twirling around. She noticed that some of the columns had handholds that maybe she could use to see the banners better.

So up she climbed and it was neat to see the big red banner up close for once. There was some much detailed stitching. She reached out and wiggled one to see it better, but a cloud of dust rose.

Anna sneezed really hard and bobbled her doll who dropped away. Anna clung to the column as she watched her doll fall and fall and fall. It was such a long way down. The doll made a soft plop as it bounced a few times.

She started to pant as she realized just how far up she was, without a way down.

"Mama! Papa!"

It didn't take long but it felt like forever before her parents showed up.

"Anna, baby, where are you?" Mama called once they came in and looked around and not seeing her.

"Up here." Anna whimpered.

Her parents spun to look up at her. Mama's hands went to her mouth. Papa had his arms out as he rushed forward. Anna gripped the column tighter, she could feel their fear, being up here was a lot scarier now that her parents were scared.

"I'm right here," Papa said. "Just climb down. I'll be right here."

"I'm scared."

"I know. It's going to be okay." Papa had his arms out ready to catch her.

"No, it's not."

"Sure, it is my little princess. Just come down, I'll catch you if you fall."

"Nope, not coming down."

Papa looked around and picked up her doll. He looked at the doll and then back up at her.

"I'll catch you. Watch." He threw the doll up to where she was and the doll fell back down and he caught it easily. "See. I can catch your doll. I can catch you. You can trust me. Okay?"

Anna bit her lip. Papa had caught her doll. She was still a little scared, but Mama was looking at Papa with a smile and Papa was confident now.

"Okay." She she pushed off from the column and plummeted toward the floor. It was way faster then the taking the bannister down the stair and noisier too. But she knew that Papa would catch her.

"Uff!" The wind was knocked out of her a little as Papa caught her.

Papa hitched her up, gave her a kiss on the cheek and his mustache gave her a tickle which made her jiggle. "There now, a crazy trust exercise that got you down."

Then Mama was there hugging the both of them.

Author's Note: With real life being what it is I will be updating this story biweekly.