I woke the next morning, lifting my head from my pillows. Bed… I thought, How'd I get in my bed? I disregarded how I got to my bed, thinking I didn't remember going to bed as I was still in my party gown. I clambered out of bed and stumbled into my bathroom, staring at my reflection in the mirror.

"Ew…" I groaned as I saw my swollen eyes, smudged makeup and crusted drool trailing from my mouth. Swollen eyes… That's right… Anna is engaged and… I looked toward the massive window, slowly walking towards it. The ground was covered in a thick layer of snow and on the window was the leftover finger smudges of JACK. I placed my hand on the name. Jack… I sighed, so it was real, it always has been. I yawned and headed for the bathroom once more, removing my clothing a drawing up a hot bath. As I stepped in, my mind reeled on the name Jack. Jack. I finished my bath and dressed in town strolling clothing, since it was my off day, I'd planned this for weeks, so I finished my work early so I could have the day off with Anna.

I heard a knock at my door.

"Elsa?" I heard, speaking of the devil and she shall appear. I opened the door to see
Anna's beaming face and I saw that she had her left hand over her heart to show the world of her new gift.

"Good morning, Anna," I smiled tenderly, pushing the thought of the ring out of my mind. This was my day with Anna, not Kristoff's. We embraced in a quick hug, my body warming up from the touch of her, Anna had a way to just make everything feel alright and we looped our arms together as we headed for breakfast.

"Where were you last night?" Anna asked, squeezing my arm with hers. I continued to walk but gazed out of one of the hallway windows. Jack.

"I had an urgent matter to attend to, I'm sorry, I wanted to be there, but as queen-" Anna cut me off laughing.

"I know, I know, being a queen this, being a queen that," she teased, "I'm just glad you were able to get the day off and spend it with me. I feigned another convincing smile, as queen you tend to master things like that, convincing people everything is alright.

"Me too, so about Kristoff," I didn't want to talk about it, but Anna kept bouncing up and down like she always did when she wanted me to ask about something and subtly flashing her ring at me. She jabbered on and on about how she wasn't expecting it and that it was actually about time since they'd been seeing each other for years, "years" meaning only two, and that I had to be her maid of honor.

We finished breakfast and began strolling into town. Anna had just about finished her spiel about her wedding when she turned and asked me.

"What about you?" She asked.

"What about me?" I asked. She smiled slightly.

"What about you, I haven't seen you talk to many boys." She gave me a wink that cause me to get caught off guard, but remained calm. I chuckled slightly.

"Anna, be a single ruler… you don't have time for that stuff…" I smiled as I began looking at shops as we entered town. It was all decorated for Christmas as it was only a couple weeks away. The wooden shops decorated with wreaths and strands of holly, the light poles wrapped with ribbons and the smell of mulled wine and apple cider in the air.

"Elsa, you can't do that to yourself. Make some time, get out there, find someone, then you can make him do all the work and we can goof off." She teased.

"That sounds amazing, just push all the duties onto someone else-" I laughed, but then noticed I had lost Anna who was now headed toward a shop with a beautiful white gown in it. I slowly followed behind, my heart dropping. Be happy for her, I know it's your day, but… be happy… Anna gasped as she stopped in front of the store.

"It doesn't suit me and I'll be wearing mom's dress, but… I'm getting married!" She peeled her eyes from the dress and they landed on me. It was hard to be sad when Anna looked at you, especially if she was smiling. "It seems like only yesterday that we were singing about building snowmans…"

"As I recall, it was you who sung about building snowman's," I teased, jabbing her with my elbow. We both laughed as we continued to window shop. Anna bought some gloves for Kristoff, his were worn from holding reins, and a couple of other things I didn't pay attention to. We got ourselves some mulled wine and was about to head back to the palace as we were freezing and it was about time for lunch when my eyes landed on a book that had the name Jack on it covered by a couple of other books. I caught me off guard, that I had to double back to look at it.

"Elsa?" Anna asked, following me to the store.
"Just a minute…" I said as I entered the shop, the bell jingling as we stepped inside. It was a bookstore. The smell of fresh parchment and ink filling my nose. The keeper came out.

"Who's th- My Queen! How pleasant to see you!" The keeper, he was an old, adorable man, he's what I thought a typical grandfather looked like, smiled and bowed. I smiled, but I wanted to see the book, Anna must've picked up my thought wave as she walked over to the keeper and talked to him. I rummaged through the pile of books, my hand landing on the book that I saw. I pulled it out of the pile, it was rather thin and frayed and the title read Jack Frost. I lost my breath for a second, clutching the book to my chest.

"How much for this?" I asked, gingerly placing the frail book on the counter. Anna looked at it puzzled. The keeper put his hands up and shook his head.

"For you, your majesty? Nothing." He stated. I shook my head and reached into my bag pulling out a couple golden coins and placed them on the counter. The keeper gasped and tried pushing them back to me.

"Please," I said resting my hand on his, "I insist." He chuckled slightly, blushing. He took the coins and bid us farewell.

"Jack Frost? Why did you get that?" Anna asked, looping her arm back through mine. I clutched the book in the other arm and smiled.

"Mom used to read this to me as a kid, since he too was special like me, y'know… with the ice powers and all…" My voice trailed off. Jack. I put two and two together and gasped.

"What, what's wrong?" Anna asked worriedly. I chuckled and shook my head.

"Nothing," I smiled, "just trying to remember if I'd turned in a trade roster to the Duke of Treaten, I did, just… a lot of thing running through my mind." Anna nodded and giggled and we talked all the way up to the entrance of the castle when I stopped mid sentence. There at the entrance was Kristoff. Anna saw him and bolted in his direction. I knew they'd be inseparable once they began hugging each other. Anna must of saw me look sad as she peeled off of Kristoff and headed back in my direction.

"No," I told her, "stay with him. I just remembered something that needed to get done soon, so better now than never…" I guess my smile wasn't convincing enough as Anna shook her head and looked sad as well.

"No," she said, "you took the day off to spend time with me and I'm going to respect that."

"Anna, it's really ok-"

"No, it isn't. Elsa, I love you," she leaned in, "surprisingly more than Kristoff" she winked and I snorted, "so I will spend today with you!"

I smiled and hugged her. Anna ran back of to Kristoff and pecked him on the lips, gave him his new gloves and sent him on his merry way.

"Now," she looped her arm back through mine, "where were we?"

The day passed by so quick, I couldn't help but feel sad when Anna said she was tired and left to go to sleep. We said our goodnights and left to each others rooms. I shuffled to the window, JACK still crusted faintly on the window. I cleaned up and slipped on my night gown, sliding into the chair in front if the window Jack Frost opened in front of me. Reading the tale brought back so many memories and we I finished, I honestly felt a little sad. I sighed and closed the book after rereading it a couple times.

Jack Frost continues to warm the hearts of many children to this day. I gazed out of the window, my ice palace still shining in the distance.

"I believe in you, Jack Frost."

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Slow introduction chapters. You gotta love them!