Anna yawned and stretched, looking up at the ceiling. It looked different. Everything looked different. The previous night came back to her. I'm in Esmeralda's bed. She glanced over at the form of the beauty lying next to her under the covers. She couldn't help but take a moment to admire the raven-haired woman before her panic set in. I left Olaf at Giselle's! Kristoff still has no idea where I am. What am I doing, I can't just abandon my kid and sleep with the first girl that looks my way. She continued staring at the sleeping woman. But I don't want to just run off on her either.

"Esmeralda?" She tried. Her voice was quiet and the younger woman didn't stir. She tried again, louder this time. "Esmeralda?"

"Mmrn," the body under the sheets muttered back.

"Good morning," she added.

"Murnin'," the voice mumbled back. Esmeralda sat up, the sheets falling away from her to reveal the body Anna had enjoyed the previous night, as she blinked away the confusion that sleep had brought her. "Anna?" She smiled, her eyes landing on the redhead and softening. "Good morning. Sorry, I'm really not a morning person."

"Want me to make you some coffee?" Anna offered.

"That would be amazing."

Anna threw on the dress she'd worn the previous night and went out to the kitchen. The only sound in the house was a faint snoring coming from several directions. She found the coffee maker, loaded the grounds, and started it up. A few minutes later, she returned with two mugs of coffee. "I wasn't sure how you take it, so I just put a little milk and sugar in it."

"That's fine," Esmeralda yawned, taking the offered cup. She sniffed it and blew on it.

"You sleep all right?" Anna asked, sitting down on the bed next to her date.

"Best sleep I've had in weeks," the younger woman grinned. "You wore me out."

Anna blushed, but offered a meek smile in return. "I slept really well too."

"I'm glad." She kissed the older woman, savoring the taste on her lips. Anna returned the kiss and almost spilled her coffee. Esmeralda saved it at the last moment and pulled away.

"So are we like –" Anna's face grew a darker red. "I mean are we, um, I mean –" She faltered, the words sounded too terrifying to say. "Together?"

Esmeralda stared at her. "After one date?"

"I mean not if you don't want to be. I wasn't trying for anything. I didn't even think this was going to happen. But it was really nice, I had a great time, and I really want to do it again, and I don't know how this stuff works. Aren't we supposed to be a couple after that?" She took a sip of the hot coffee and promptly burnt her tongue. She fanned at her mouth with her free hand, tears forming at the corners of her eyes.

"Anna," Esmeralda sighed. "Are you okay?"

Anna nodded, still fanning her mouth.

"Do you want us to be together?"

She nodded again, shakily.

"Well then there's something you should know," Esmeralda began, taking a deep breath.

"What?" Anna asked, blowing on her coffee.

"I'm poly."

"You're Polly? What do you mean, I'm pretty sure you're Esmeralda. Are you feeling all right?"

Esmeralda ran her hands through her hair, trying to decide how to explain this. "Polyamorous. I don't believe in monogamy. I can date and love more than one person at a time. Or I can just sleep with people, which I'll admit is more often the case."

"So, you cheat?" Anna asked, staring in confusion at her first crush in over a decade.

"No, cheating is about lying. I'm completely open with my partners, or as open as they want me to be, I just don't believe that sex and love need to only be shared with one person. It's unrealistic to expect that one person should be able to be everything for you, and I don't put that burden on people."

Anna blinked. "So... If we were together, you'd still want to date other people?"

"Yes." She confirmed, knowing full well that this was too much for the inexperienced woman.

I bet I could convince her otherwise eventually. "But do you want to be together with me?" Anna asked, trying to focus on the positive side of this conversation.

"I think it's rushing a bit, but I would rather like that, yes," Esmeralda agreed.

"But you'd still date other people?"

"Yes. Or sleep with. Like I told you, dating requires someone really special, and that doesn't happen that often. And you could date or sleep with other people too. I think that would be really good for you. You're still trying to figure out what it is that you want and who you are. I don't want to tie you down and prevent you from doing that."

Anna stared into her coffee, the steam continuing to taunt her. "But you'd be my girlfriend."

"I usually go with partner, but yes, we'd be girlfriends."

Anna swallowed. "I think I can handle that. I mean, it's weird, and I don't understand it, but it doesn't sound bad."

"So does that mean you'll tell your husband about me?" Esmeralda smiled, taking a sip of the boiling liquid without burning herself. How did she do that?

Anna continued blowing on her own drink while she processed the other girl's words. That does seem reasonable. I mean how can I be bothered by her being with other people when I'm still married? I need to be honest. "I guess," she sighed.

Esmeralda kissed her partner's cheek. "Good. I'm gonna go take a shower. Want to join me?" She gave the redhead a wicked grin. Anna was sorely tempted.

"No, I need to pick up Olaf. And I'm sure Kristoff is freaking out by now. I should get going."

"All right. I'll see you tomorrow."

"I'll see you then," Anna grinned, "my girlfriend." She kissed the younger woman, pulling her close and causing her eyes to widen with the hunger of the kiss.

"If you're sure," Esmeralda gasped when their lips separated.

"I am."

"All right then, we're together. Go talk to your husband." She left her girlfriend to see herself out.

Anna arrived at Giselle's, still wearing the clothing from the night before and smelling faintly of sex. I should have taken that shower. She knocked on the door to her friend's house and waited. Her phone had died while she was at her girlfriend's, so she had been unable to alert her friend or to see how terrified Kristoff may have been.

After she waited there for a good two minutes, Giselle finally came to the door. The other redhead beamed at her. "Looks like someone got lucky."

Anna glared back.

"Date went well?" Giselle asked, inviting her in.

"Yes," she mumbled, following her friend inside.

"Come on, you have to tell me about it. Sorry for embarrassing you."

Anna hesitated for a minute before squealing, "It went amazingly! She's so perfect for me. I wasn't sure if I really liked girls or if I was just convincing myself that I did, but I think I might REALLY like girls. And she's my girlfriend now! We're together! I can't believe it."

"She knows you're still married to Kristoff, right?" Giselle asked, worry clear in her voice.

"She knows. She's fine with it. She's poly, whatever that means."

"She's polyamorous?! There is no way you're ready for that."

"I am so! And how do you know about it?" Anna asked. Why does everyone know so much more than me about this stuff?

"So you understand that she'll still date other people, right?"

"Maybe not forever," Anna replied, hopefully.

"You should not be getting into a relationship with a poly person hoping to turn them!"

"I'm not," Anna lied. "Just if it did happen it would be nice, but I mean I'm still married, how could I complain if she wanted to date someone else?"

Giselle hesitated. "You're sure you'll be able to handle that?"

"Why wouldn't I?" Anna insisted. "I just have to communicate with her and it'll be fine." And maybe if I'm too uncomfortable she'll stop.

"All right," Giselle agreed, watching her friend suspiciously. "Olaf is still asleep, do you want some breakfast? Maybe a shower and a change of clothes?"

She does have some outfits I really want to try on. "Can I have both?" She asked, finally realizing how hungry she was.

"Sure thing," Giselle smiled, the fear finally beginning to subside. "You go shower, I'll make pancakes."

"Thank you." Anna turned to head up the stairs.

"Congrats on the new relationship," Giselle added. "I'm proud of you. You two seem like a good fit. I just hope you know what you're getting into."


When Anna returned to the kitchen, wearing Giselle's lacy pink blouse and blue skirt, she found Olaf sitting at the table, eating a stack of pancakes drenched in syrup. "Mama?" He asked, his mouth full of food.

"Good morning, Olaf," Anna greeted him nervously, taking a seat next to her son, as Giselle handed her a plate of pancakes and bacon.

"You didn't pick me up last night," he replied, staring at his food.

"I'm sorry, honey, I was just out really late with Esmeralda and I figured you were probably asleep."

"Did you two have a sleepover?" he asked.

Anna almost choked on the strip of bacon she had just placed in her mouth. "Um, yes, we did." I'm not gonna just lie to him.

"That's nice," Olaf confirmed, turning back to his food. Oh, that was easier than I thought it would be. "Did you have fun?"

"Yes," she replied. "We did." So much fun.

He ate in silence for a minute before asking, "Is she going to be my new –" he fumbled for words. "Other mama?" Okay, not that easy.

Giselle coughed. "Now, Olaf –," she began.

Anna cut her off. "It's okay. Olaf, I don't know what she's going to be, right now she and Mama are very close friends, but you're never going to lose your papa and she's not going to replace him."

"Okay," he resumed eating his food. This conversation has been a roller coaster ride.

Giselle and Anna exchanged glances, as she sat down across from them with her own plate of food. "Kristoff called a few times," she explained. "I told him you were fine, probably just had a bit too much to drink and stayed the night and that Olaf was fine and you'd pick him up in the morning. Haven't heard from him yet today, maybe he's not awake yet."

"We should hurry home then," Anna decided.

"That might not be a bad idea."

"But I'm still eating," Olaf whined.

"Finish your meal and then we'll go," Anna decided.

Anna tiptoed inside, leaving her high heels at the entrance, and put a finger to her lips to shush Olaf. She could hear the faint sound of Kristoff snoring; he was still asleep, which meant she had time to come up with what to tell him. The truth, obviously. Right? I mean I shouldn't lie to him. He knows we're separating. At least, I think he does. I guess I haven't exactly served him divorce papers yet. I wonder if I heard back from Elsa's friend? Anna, focus.

Olaf sat down in the living room and turned on the television. The snoring stopped. Anna stared at her child in panic. So much for that time to plan. Okay, just tell him the truth, Anna, you can do this. She took several deep breaths, though it started to turn into hyperventilating. Oh crap, oh crap, this was a terrible idea, what was I thinking, I can't have a girlfriend, I still have a husband, he's going to freak out, I already hurt him so much, I can't keep doing this.

Kristoff appeared before her in a bathrobe. He had run down the stairs when he heard the noise. "Anna?" he asked. "What happened? Where were you all night? Are you okay? You didn't answer my calls!"

"Sorry, my phone died," she attempted to explain.

"So you couldn't borrow Esmeralda's? Just so I knew you weren't dead!" He was glaring at her, torn between hugging her out of relief to know that she was alive and screaming more out of sheer frustration and rage.

"Sorry, I didn't think about it."

"Of course you didn't," he grumbled. "I know you don't care anymore, but come on, Anna!"

"No, you know what," Anna took in another deep breath. Fine, I'll just tell him. "You know we're over, we just have to work on the papers, you are not in charge of me, and I can be wherever the hell I want. You have Giselle's number, you knew Olaf was fine, that's all you needed to know. But since you're so demanding, I'll tell you, I was on a date –"

"Oh, so you already replaced me with some new guy. Is that why you're leaving me?" He took a menacing step towards her, anger burning in his eyes. Anna backed away. Kristoff stopped, his eyes softening on the frightened woman before him. "Anna, I wouldn't –"

Anna regained her ground, taking a step forward and glaring up at the large man, pointing a finger at him accusatorily. "I was on a date with Esmeralda. Not that it's any of your business. But no, that is not why I'm leaving you, I'm leaving you because this just doesn't work anymore, like I already told you, and you trying to threaten me into staying with you sure as hell isn't going to change that."

"Anna, I wasn't—" he held his hands up, trying to appear as unintimidating as his massive form would allow.

"Yes you were. I'm leaving." She shoved her feet back into her shoes and reached for the door knob.

"Please, wait," Kristoff begged. "I'm sorry. I just woke up."

"Goodbye!" She dashed out and slammed the door behind her. Great, now where am I going to go? I can't call anyone, my phone's still dead. It's still too presumptuous to go back to Esmeralda's, right? I mean she is my girlfriend, but no I think that would be too much. Maybe I can go back to Giselle's?

Anna stormed out to her car, climbed into the driver's seat, turned on the ignition, and stared out before her. She still hadn't decided on a destination.She plugged her phone into the car charger and waited. She reasoned that before long either she would have calmed down enough to go back inside, or her phone would have charged enough that she could call someone up and see them.

She turned the radio on, and hummed along to a Protozoa song while she waited. By the fifth song, she was singing along and bobbing her head to the music. Her phone was at twenty percent by the time she checked it again and she was feeling substantially better. She powered the device on.

As it started up, her phone informed her that she had 30 text messages, 10 voice mails, two Facebook messages, and six emails. She went through all of them. By the twentieth message from Kristoff she was growing angry again. All ten voice mails were him growing progressively more angry and yelling into the phone, while the text messages and Facebook messages were variations on "Where the hell are you?!" She ground her teeth, as she checked the remaining text message. It was from Nani: "Hey, I know it's last minute, but a friend of mine is in town, and I have a babysitter for Lilo, so I was wondering if you wanted to join us for a girl's night out tonight."

Anna sent back a message telling her that that sounded amazing and that she'd be there. Then she checked her emails. She had two emails from student's parents bothering her about their children's grades, three spam emails, and an email from the lawyer that Elsa had referred her to. Now this is the news I needed today.

"Mrs. Bjorgman,

Your sister informed me that you were in need of some assistance with your divorce. If that is still the case, let me know when you'd be available this coming Thursday, and I should be able to squeeze you in for an appointment. I'll give you a reduced rate, since your sister is calling in a favor, but divorces are long and messy, so I still have to charge. Let me know when you're available,

Elizabeth Swann, Esq."

And Kristoff didn't think I was serious. She hastily punched in a reply on her phone.

"Mrs. Swann,

Thursday at 4:00 would work perfectly if that's at all possible, or any time after that. I look forward to hearing from you.

Anna Bjorgman."

Now I just need to get back to being an Agnarrsen. Why is divorcing so complicated? I mean I guess I don't really know what breaking up is like otherwise as I've never done that either, but it seems so much easier. You just split up your stuff. Though I guess since we have a kid it wouldn't be easy no matter what. I wonder what my breakup with Esmeralda will be like – Anna, stop getting ahead of yourself.

She glared at the house she had not yet actually left. She'd only been sitting in the driveway this entire time. She still didn't have anywhere to go, at least until that night. Should I just go back inside? Am I ready to face Kristoff again? I would like to actually let my phone charge for a while. Said device buzzed. It was another message from Nani. "Wanna let the kids have a playdate and do some clothes shopping now? I haven't seen her in ages and I wanted to buy a new outfit. Olaf can stay when the sitter comes too if you want, Wendy would probably be grateful, Lilo is way easier to manage when he's around."

Yes! An excuse to go somewhere else. "I'd love to, I'll be right over," she replied, before going inside and grabbing Olaf. Kristoff glared at her from a seat in the kitchen.

"Where are you taking Olaf?" He asked, trying to keep the anger from showing in his voice.

"He has a play date with Lilo, we'll be back later," Anna responded coolly, heading to the door.

Kristoff rose from his seat, the anger rising along with him. "Oh, so you can go off and see Esmeralda again?"

Anna stared down the larger man. "I'm having a girl's night with Nani and a friend of hers."

"Oh is that what they're calling it now? Just going to go have a big lesbian orgy?" Kristoff growled.

Anna's stare grew pitying. Even I know better than that. At least I think I do. I mean, Nani is straight, so that would be really weird. Wait, isn't Nani straight, I'm so bad at judging sexuality, and I can't even recall the last time she had a boyfriend. "Don't wait up," she said as she closed the door behind her.

"Mama, what's an orgy?" Olaf asked as they walked to the car. Of course he had to say that in front of our son. How do I even answer this question?

"It's like," she hesitated, searching for words. "An adult party."

"Oh, when I'm older can I go to one?" He asked, sounding impressed.

Anna pinched the bridge of her nose and closed her eyes. "I think that will be up to you, Olaf." She helped him into the back seat and climbed into the driver's seat, hoping desperately that he wouldn't have any more questions.

"So are you and daddy really over now?" Olaf asked.

Anna looked at him in the rearview mirror. I take it back, I'd rather have the orgy questions. "Yes, honey, we are."

"Does daddy know that?"

"He seems to be learning it at least," Anna sighed. "I'm sorry you had to hear all that."

"I don't like it when you fight," he sniffed.

"I don't either."

"Am I still going to get to see Papa?"

Anna's heart broke. "Of course, honey. I would never stop that, he's your father, he'll always be in your life." She turned her gaze back to the road just in time to stop and avoid hitting another car.

"What about Sven?" he asked, fear still evident in his tone.

"You'll still see your dog, I promise, you don't have to worry about anything. Things will change, but we'll both always be your parents and will still be there for you."

He seemed to accept that. "Okay. Can I have some chocolate ice cream?"

"Not right now, we're going to go see Lilo."

"We could bring her some too!" he insisted.

"Maybe we'll stop while we're out." She sighed, focusing on the road.

They arrived at Nani's house in one piece, with Olaf still whining that he wanted ice cream. Anna dragged him from the back and headed to the front door of Nani's apartment building. She hit the buzzer and was promptly let in. Anna and Olaf ascended three flights of stairs and found the door already open for them. "Come on in!" Nani called. "I'm just finishing getting ready, I'll only be a minute."

They headed inside. Olaf ran over to see Lilo, who was currently blowing up something on the television. Olaf watched her play the video game and cheered her on. Anna took a seat on the couch and watched the two kids.

Nani returned, wearing a green t-shirt with blue jeans and some sneakers. "I love that outfit," she said, admiring Anna's borrowed clothes. "Where'd you get it?"

"Giselle's closet," Anna laughed.

"How'd you end up borrowing her clothes today?" Nani asked.

Anna double-checked that the children were adequately distracted by their video game and then motioned Nani over to the kitchen. They sat down at the bar and she began her explanation. "Okay, so, you know how I told you Esmeralda had a crush on me?"

Nani nodded. "Yes, what does that have to do with-"

"So I asked her out on Friday, and we went out last night."

"Oh..." Nani stared at her old roommate, her eyes wide as saucers. "So you're actually, I mean, so you're sure, you like girls?"

"Seems that way. Well, the date went really well, seriously she's amazing, I met her goats, and she's even my girlfriend now! Though she's poly and I still don't really know how I feel about that, but I like her a lot."

"You went on one date and she's your girlfriend?"

"Well I had to insist a bit, but yes. What's so weird about that?" Anna asked, genuinely confused. "Anyway –"

"Wait, she has goats?"

"Yes, they're adorable, and they seemed to like me too. Djali is grey and Porridge is black. But I ended up spending the night, so I wanted a change of clothes when I picked Olaf up from Giselle's this morning," Anna explained.

"Why was Olaf at Giselle's? Couldn't Kristoff have just looked after him?"

"He had work, I didn't know how late I'd be," Anna replied, waving the question away.

Nani digested all of this information. She then burst out laughing, causing a quizzical look from her friend. "You're going to love Moana."

"There's more of me?" Anna stared. Did I break her?

"That's my friend's name, the one who you're meeting tonight. I mean I already thought you two would get along, but... Well hopefully you two don't run off together and leave me all alone with the bill." Nani sighed. "I swear I only have one type of person for my friends, I just didn't realize it was to that degree."

Anna blinked at her friend in continued confusion.

"You'll see when you meet her. Let's go, I still need to pick out my clothes." Nani stood from her seat and grabbed her purse.

"Can we get ice cream while we're out?" Anna asked, joining her friend. "Olaf has been begging for it."

"Sure, that sounds great," Nani agreed, as they gathered the children. The four of them filed out and took Nani's car, a beat up old Toyota sedan. At Olaf's request they stopped for ice cream first. He and his mother both had chocolate with chocolate syrup, Lilo had bubblegum ice cream, and Nani had coffee flavor.

After their ice cream, they went to the mall. The children ran around, as Nani and Anna tried to keep them under control. Eventually Lilo and Olaf settled down when they decided that they were on a safari and were observing the local inhabitants and taking notes. Both of the women tried on a few dozen outfits.

Anna found a blue and green flannel shirt and showed it off to her friend.

"You're really taking this whole thing seriously, aren't you?" Nani asked.

"I mean I don't know if it's me at all, but how could I resist it? I mean I just got a girlfriend this morning, I'm pretty sure it's a rule that I have to own one," Anna insisted, grinning brightly.

"I can almost guarantee Elsa doesn't own one."

"Well I want it!" Anna stuck her tongue out at Nani.

"At least try it on, and not with the skirt. Let's see if you can even pull it off," Nani relented.

"All right," Anna grabbed a pair of jeans and ran off to the changing room, while Nani continued trying to find the perfect outfit.

A minute later Anna returned. The shirt hung just the slightest bit loose on her, while the jeans were a perfect fit. Her pig tails were an odd addition, but still worked. Nani squinted, not quite believing her eyes. She was actually pulling it off. "Okay, I can't believe I'm saying it, but you have to get that shirt."

Anna beamed. "You really think so? I was nervous about it, but it was just so cute."

"Yes, get it, seriously."

Nani finally found an outfit a little while later. She found the purple blouse first, but only finally found some grey slacks that she liked with it after another half hour of searching. They checked out and paid for their clothes. Anna gave in and bought the jeans too, even though she already had more than enough pairs.

By the time they arrived back at Nani's it was five o'clock, and the sitter was supposed to arrive at six-thirty. The brave explorers, having adequately cataloged the various species of shoppers they had encountered at the mall, returned to their video games. Nani poured herself and Anna some wine, and they discussed their plans for the week, relationships, Anna's divorce, and anything else that was going on, while they waited for Moana's arrival.

At 6:25, the buzzer sounded. Nani let the guest into the building, and Wendy knocked on the apartment's door. "Wendy, I hope it isn't any trouble," Nani said by way of hello, "But would you mind looking after Olaf too?"

Wendy tried to hide her smile. "I would love to," she replied, looking noticeably relieved.

"All right, you know the rules, here's some money for pizza, we're just waiting on my friend and we'll be out of your hair," Nani explained, handing the young girl a twenty dollar bill.

Before long the buzzer rang again and was soon after followed by a knock on the door. When Nani opened the door, Anna's heart stopped. Okay, I am definitely gay. She now understood what her friend had been talking about earlier. The young woman before her was gorgeous and wearing a well fitted black suit. Her shoulder-length curly hair pooled around her head, haloing her brown eyes which had already landed squarely upon Anna. She's checking me out!

"Hi," Anna managed to squeak, raising her hand in a little wave.

Moana waved back, her mouth opening but not quite forming words.

"Yep, called it, great," Nani mumbled. "All right, Moana, this is Anna. Anna, Moana. Whenever you two can manage to pull your tongues back into your mouths we can get going."

The two waved again. "So, Anna?" Moana asked, grinning. "It's nice to meet you."

Anna went completely red. "Yeah, hi, Anna, I mean I'm Anna, apparently you're more of me, I always said you can't have too much of a good thing. What am I saying, that sounds ridiculous? Um, it's nice to meet you too?" She offered. Nailed it.

Moana giggled. Okay, seriously, how did I never notice I liked women with how much I am clearly attracted to this girl? Am I just that oblivious? Nani interrupted the two before they could say anything more sickeningly adorable. "I'm hungry, let's get going." The two stopped ogling each other for long enough to turn to Nani and give their ascent. The women bid farewell to Lilo, Olaf, and Wendy and headed out to dinner and drinks.