CHAPTER 2

Three weeks later

A few weeks had passed since Anna discovered she was pregnant. Her body had changed quite a lot in the past weeks and so had her attitude towards kristoff and their engagement. She wasn't being mean but she also knew that she wasn't being as loving and warm as she used to be mainly because she was preparing herself for the inevitable.

Anna was almost four months pregnant and was still managing to conceal it. She shuddered when she realized that a few months ago it was Elsa who sat in her room trying to conceal her secret.

"How did she do it?" Anna thought to herself" this is so boring how could she just sit around and do nothing all day? "Luckily for Elsa her secret could be concealed with gloves Anna's secret on the other hand was growing every day making her midsection expand and her ankles to swell. She knew that it wouldn't be long before everybody knew but she just wasn't ready.

Every day she was spending less and less time with kristoff .it was killing Anna inside she missed him but she also couldn't bring herself to look him in the eye and tell him what was going on. She missed her sister, playing with Sven and talking to Olaf .the warm spring day looked beautiful but she couldn't bring herself to leave her room.

Kristoff sat under a tree munching on a carrot that Sven was fully intent on eating.

"Here you go buddy". he gave the now drooling Sven the rest of his carrot

It wasn't long before his mind wandered back to Anna.

"What is her problem Sven?"

"I don't know." He answered in his weird reindeer voice.

"She was happy and all of a sudden she doesn't care about me or the engagement". kristoff put his face between his knees and just looked at floor trying to figure out at what point his life had gone to hell.

"Maybe you should ask Elsa". He said in his Sven voice

Sven nudged in back as if trying to tell him to go

"Fine I will go ask Elsa thanks buddy." He gave Sven a pat on the head and another carrot before making his way back to the castle

Elsa was in the middle of greeting all of the new servants she had recently hired. With the open gates and the constant traffic of people she found herself needing a lot more help to keep the castle looking its best. She had promoted all of the staff that worked in the castle while she was a child including kai ,gerda and their son James. Kai was now in charge of the daily functions of the castle while gerda was promoted to supervising the staff and was relived of her original task witch was serving as Anna and Elsa's governess.

Anna and Elsa where very close to gerda and her family. She had taken care of the princesses since they were born. The girls loved their parents but the king and queen where very busy so they spent a lot of time with gerda who taught them everything they knew about reading, writing ,arithmetic and decorum. Gerda would usually bring her son James to play with the girls as a result of that they treated him like an older brother.

After Elsa accidently struck Anna the staff was reduced gerda and kai were sworn to secrecy and would no longer bring James. Gerda would teach the girls individually in their rooms. She tried her best to play with Anna and keep her busy but she knew that Anna missed her sister terribly. After the king and queen died at sea they became the only parental figures Elsa and Anna had and as a result of that they became much closer.

After Elsa began to socialize and opened the gates she reconnected with James who was still his old mild mannered self and offered him a job as the queen's assistant. He gladly took it and now spend most of his day cooped up in the office with Elsa sorting through papers and helping get the kingdom back in order.

The new staff had all dawned their best clothes to meet the queen. Elsa could tell they were a bit nervous so she tried to be as friendly as possible.

"Agatha, Claus, Gunter ,Johannes and Leif it is a pleasure to meet you all. Welcome to the castle I look forward to getting to know you all as time progresses"

"Yes my queen" they all said as they bowed

Elsa thanked them all for their time. And with that they were dispatched to their new living quarters.

They were about to leave when kristoff burst through the office doors

"Elsa I…. oh sorry I didn't know you had company". kristoff backed away from the door .he was about to close the door when Elsa asked him to stay

"Staff I present to you sir kristoff he is to marry my sister Princess Anna in a few months"

They all bowed to kristoff making him feel awkward

"Err Thanks" he said

Elsa rolled her eyes then she turned her attention to James . Can you please show them to their rooms?

"Of course ,I will be back in a few minutes". James said as he motioned for the group to follow him.

Kristoff waited until everybody left then he closed the doors.

"Elsa sorry to interrupt you I know you're really busy but I have a predicament and I think you are the only one who can help". He said while blushing a little he felt bad about keeping the queen busy with relationship problems while she was trying to manage a kingdom.

"It's all right I always have time for family". She said with a warm smile

"Thank you it's just that" he let a breath of air out" Anna has been acting strange lately and… I don't think she wants to marry me anymore".

"Well now that you mention it she has been acting weird .I went to her room yesterday and she didn't talk much she only said that she was tired". Said Elsa with a worried expression

"So she hasn't told you anything about what's going on? " Kristoffs only hope of knowing what was going on dissipated.

"No I don't but I can try to help you figure it out" said Elsa who extended her arm and put in on his shoulders. She hesitated at first but she knew that she had to get used to touching people without worrying about freezing them.

Her slightly cold palm on his shoulder made kristoff feel a lot better. After a few seconds of silence he got an idea

"Maybe gerda knows something". He said with a twinkle of hope in his eyes.

"That's right gerda …lets go" she grabbed his hand and started leading him out of the room.

"But Elsa what about your queen stuff"

"It can wait Anna's more important."