Anna's eyes darted to and fro between the walls that comprised the hallway before her as she made haste to reach her bedroom. She was absolutely desperate. Desperate to let everything come out of her, desperate to yell into a pillow and scream into the empty, cool air of her bed chamber. She needed to let everything go.

Reaching her door, Anna pulled out a nervous hand and clasped it onto the doorknob swiftly turning it and opening the door. She wasted no time to get inside the room, close the door and flop on her stomach on her bed. Anna groaned as she lifted her face from the soft layer of blankets and before cupping it in her ready hands. Her eyes zig-zagged between the pillows in front her and grabbed the nearest one and crashed it and her face against the blankets. Then, a sigh. A deep, anguished and fatigued sigh.

A moment passed. Another moment passed. Then a third one came before Anna lifted her head once more exposing fresh, naked tears running down her cheeks to the calm air. She sat up straight blinking and wiping away the confounded tears. She didn't need them to bother her. She just needed some time alone and think. Composing herself, Anna took deep breaths, one for each moment that passed by her.

"Calm down. There's nothing to cry about. Just calm…down. Calm…down."

Despite her best efforts to calm herself down, Anna could feel her heart pound in pain. If her heart was a blacksmith project, then it would be laid down against the anvil of anguish and hammered down with jealousy. The pressure just increased. Hot air layered against itself in heavy piles inside Anna and was about to collapse. She needed to get rid of the pressure from within herself before it destroyed her from the inside out. Anna swiftly lifted her pillow to her red face and screamed into it. All the pressure and hot air that had built up inside of her was released all at once into the scream. Once her lungs were too weak for Anna to scream anymore, she some took deep breaths to calm herself. Once she was composed enough to speak, Anna took time to reflect her current feelings.

"Why does this bother me so much? Why am I bothered to see Elsa spend time with Karen? Princess Karen and Kirsten are our guests, our friends. Why should I care who Elsa spends time with aside from myself? I mean, I don't care when she spends time with Kristoff or Olaf. I don't care that she spends time with councilmen, advisers, trade partners, castle staff, soldiers or even villagers. Why do I care that she's spending some time with Princess Karen?"

Anna pouted as she stared at her pillow as if it could give her the answers she was search for to her questions, but she got nothing. Of course she shouldn't expect finding life's answer in a plush, embroidered pillow. It was just a pillow. It couldn't speak to her and give her awe-inspiring wisdom and solutions to her problems. Anna tried to figure out why she was so peeved about Princess Karen spending time with her sister, Queen Elsa. Well, Karen was the same age as her, so Anna could see that Elsa might act a little motherly toward Karen possibly treating her like a little sister. It also occurred to Anna that Karen had similar powers to Elsa. Maybe those two simple factors is what really bothered Anna. Maybe it was because Elsa and Karen could bond over their magical abilities that Anna was afraid that Elsa might like Karen better than her over time and secretly wish for Karen for being her new little sister. But what confused Anna was it didn't seem like Karen was trying to steal her sister away from her. It seemed to Anna that Karen was perfectly content to have Kirsten as an older sister and that was simply grateful to have Elsa as a tutor. But if that was true, then why did Elsa shush her while they were touring the castle before she and Karen went off to the garden for the tutoring session? Anna supposed that Elsa was trying to be a good hostess and didn't mean to do that to her. Even if that was true, that didn't stop Anna feeling inadequate and unwanted as a younger sister to Elsa. She couldn't stop the dreadful feeling that there was a possibility of Karen stealing away her sister from her and replacing her as Elsa's younger sister.

Anna didn't know what to do or feel at that moment. She couldn't decide if she wanted to convince herself that she had nothing to worry about or go find Karen and Elsa and prove to Elsa that she wanted to be with her. She just stared blankly at the empty air in front of her puffy, blue eyes. An overpowering feeling of paranoia gripped her heart and Anna's eyebrows slouched heavily against her eyes. The strawberry blonde princess made up her mind: she would find her sister and Princess Karen. Hopefully, if she found them in time Elsa's invitation to joining for tea would still hold and she could simply tell Elsa what's been on her mind, but in a discreet way as not to make Princess Karen feel uncomfortable.

Satisfied with her resolve, Anna gently tossed the pillow back to the pile of pillows against the head board and stood up from her bed. She smoothed out her dress and left her bedroom.

Anna made her way down to the tea parlor where she was sure she would find Elsa and Karen. She didn't waste a second getting to her destination determined to catch up with the duo. Yet when she was about to round the corner, she heard Karen and Elsa laugh. They must have started their tea time. Anna wasn't sure is she should make herself known or turn back toward the garden where Kristoff and Kirsten were. She should probably let go of her paranoid feeling of Karen replacing her as Elsa's sister and join Kristoff and Kirsten since they were expecting her to join them in the garden. But Anna couldn't pull herself away from the wall she was leaning against because she was intrigued with what Elsa and Karen had to say once the laughter had settled down.

Anna noticed that at the start, all Karen and Elsa talked about was their relationships with their respective, blood siblings-Kirsten and herself, their tutoring session in the garden and shared some personal information about themselves. While Anna seemed bored with all Elsa shared about herself with Karen because she simply knew about the information, there still were parts of her sister that kept her intrigued with the conversation. But at one point, Anna seemed utterly absorbed in the conversation when Karen prompted Elsa to talk about what happened to her before Anna froze to death and threw herself in between Elsa and Hans. Anna listened carefully as she had no idea about what Elsa went through before she travelled across the frozen fjord. Unfortunately, she had to endure listening to Karen's inquiry.

"So, Elsa, what happened to you when Prince Hans and the Duke of Weselton's bodyguards came to the castle and confront you?"

Silence. Anna assumed that Elsa must be drinking her tea. She could swear that she could practically hear her sister sip the hot beverage. And she was right. Soon after, Anna could hear the slightest and softest clatter of a tea cup and saucer set down on the table. Even more so, she could tell her sister was about to speak; breathing in some air and she imagined that Elsa was folding her hands in her lap perfectly because everything Elsa did was perfect. Yet Anna wasn't annoyed by Elsa's perfection since her sister did it a way that was acceptable; it wasn't robotic but her movements were certainly that of a swan, dove, or angel.

"The bodyguards attacked me before Prince Hans came into the scene. I held off the bodyguards, but I got a little carried away with anger boiling inside. Ironically, I was grateful for Prince Hans to have come when he did and tell me not to be the monster people thought I was. I calmed down and backed off, but one of the bodyguards that I had pinned to an ice wall, lifted her crossbow and aimed it at me. He was about to shoot at me, but Prince Hans saw before I did and intervened. Yet the arrow still shot and hit the ice chandelier that hung over my head. I tried to escape the crashing chandelier but blacked out. When I woke up, I was on a metal cot and found myself in a prison cell with my hands encased in cuffs that were chained to a central point in the room."

"Oh my gosh."

Anna felt the same way as Karen did. She was utterly shocked by hearing that piece of information from Elsa. She couldn't process any other proceeding words since everything else was just mute sound to her. Anna had no idea that Elsa was under attack and was thrown in a prison cell. She did recognize that Elsa had tried her best to keep Anna up-to-date with her life and Anna did the same with Elsa as they spent time together to make up for lost time and opportunities, but Elsa never told her about her time in prison or being under attack at her ice palace. But why wouldn't Elsa hadn't told her before the royal family from Denmark came for a visit? Surely, Elsa was meaning to tell Anna about those events in her life soon enough, but Anna felt hurt knowing that Princess Karen heard the information first. Karen had the privilege to know about so intimate about Elsa's life before Anna her own sister. How could Elsa tell Karen before her? Before her own younger sister? Anna felt a painful sting of betrayal rise up in her heart and manifest itself into her now free- flowing tears. How could Elsa do this to her? To still keep her in the dark in certain parts of her life? How could she not tell Anna about that part of her life? Anna would want to know about those things that happened in her sister's life.

But it was clear to Anna that Elsa didn't want her to know everything about her life. It was clear to Anna that Elsa trusted Karen more than her to tell Karen this part about her life. All logical thought left Anna's mind without a word. The Norwegian princess left without bothering to hear any further words from Elsa's side of the conversation feeling that her so-called older sister had decided to replace her after all.

To Be Continued…