Let me tell you, having someone in your home that only you can see and hear, it's something very hard. Especially when you share the house with your mother and a cousin; but Elsa told me to just go about my business as normal.

"But, what about the preparations you said we have to do here?" I inquire that night, after my mom has gone to bed. Elsa and I are both sitting on my twin bed, both of us in pajamas, and I find it funny that she could fit into some of my pajamas.

"Well the only thing you have to worry about, is just keep going about your daily duties as if I never arrived. That's all you have to do. There isn't much I can do to prepare you here; it'll all have to happen in Arendelle."

This surprises, and confuses me. "But then, why do we have to wait a week before we can go to Arendelle? What all do you have to do here in that period of time?"

"It's nothing like that, Kendra. I could take you to Arendelle right now, but there's a reason why we must wait, and it has to do with all this strange magic at work." I tilt my head curiously, the silence broken by a very soft snore from my sleeping dog, curled up beside me on the bed. "When the clock strikes midnight, welcoming the New Year, it somehow has an effect on the spell over our worlds, and the magic involved. We'll go to Arendelle, and no matter how much time passes there, you won't have to worry about missing any time in your world. So you won't have to worry about being missing here, no one panicking over your whereabouts. When our mission is complete, you'll return to your world, and it'll only be like a blink in time here."

"Wow…" I breathe out softly. "That's…incredible! And that makes perfect sense."

Elsa smiles with a nod. "It'll also give me plenty of time to come up with several strategies, to better improve our chances. If at all possible, the first thing I'd like for us to do is rescue Anna, Kristoff, and Olaf, so we can have more heads working together."

I nod with agreement, but my mind ponders something else. "Elsa…I'm so sorry, it's still just, so strange you knowing these things. I mean, I believe you, don't get me wrong!" I throw my hands up in defense, worried that I may be offending the ice queen, but she merely chuckles with a warm smile.

"No no, it's ok Kendra. To be honest, I'm pleasantly surprised that you've been so agreeable thus far, but it just saves precious time that we can use to our advantage."

I reposition the bit of my hair locked behind one of my ears. "You've already explained a lot to me, and the dark magic is doing all kinds of strange things, positive that no matter what you did, you wouldn't be able to return to stop them. I have no reason to doubt you, honestly… I'm so sorry Elsa…"

She merely pulls me into a hug, catching me completely off guard. It's the first hug I've shared with her, and it makes my world stop, yet spin faster. I fully expected to feel the cool sting from her icy powers, but amazingly, she feels so warm…just another human being, like me. She smells just as nice as you'd expect, and I can't help but wrap my arms back around her in return, closing my eyes with a content inhale of her subtle scent. We stay there, holding each other in silence, letting the warmth of each other and the soft sounds of our breathing, our heartbeats, and Tiny's occasional soft snoring, be the only sounds in the quiet space of my dimly lit bedroom. I almost don't want to let go, it feels so nice to get a hug from someone. A good, real hug… But Elsa breaks it off after a while, holding my arms while smiling at me, though my face still shows a little confusion as I recall what she said.

"Elsa…how can you be so sure about all this? I mean, how and why would the magic let you know all this? I'm sorry, I really don't want to sound suspicious, I swear… I just, don't understand it…"

She just chuckles once while placing a hand along the side of my head. "Don't worry too much about it. Magic is just strange that way. It doesn't always make sense, and we may not always understand it or how it works. But that doesn't stop it from acting that way. We merely have to accept it, and adapt to it."

I just nod, understanding what she's saying completely. "Yeah, guess you're right." The silence returns for the span of a few heartbeats, before Elsa holds her hands together in between us. She starts using her powers to form a small, swirling vortex of ice and snow. It's so small, but beautiful and captivating all the same. She smiles at me as I gaze in awe, and I can't help but smile back at her with a sheepish grin and soft blush. Seeing her powers up close and in person, it's enough to ease my mind and worries.

She starts moving her hands around the small orb-like aura, which responds by spiraling in complex shapes, twisting and turning like a winter's wind through a snowy forest. The snow and ice start to compress together, and a shape starts to form as she works. After another few seconds, she ceases her movements, and there sitting in the palm of her hands, is a small ice figurine. It's a person for sure, but when I look closer, I see that it's a perfect replica of myself, and I blush.

"It's…beautiful…" I whisper, still amazed by her skills. "Elsa, you're so talented, and your gift is so beautiful…"

It's her turn to blush this time. "You think so?"

I smile shyly up at her, still feeling the modest embarrassment at having an ice replica of myself created. "I know so. And now that you have much better control over it than you used to, it's even more of a beautiful gift and talent than it ever was."

The snow queen smiles with her own modesty, and makes the figurine disappear with a wave of her hand, the ice swirling around into nothing in a matter of seconds. "Well, we should get some rest. Tomorrow's Christmas Eve, and I know you have to work."

I nod, "Yeah but it won't be as bad as my shift the day after Christmas."

Elsa just gives me a smile of confidence. "I know you'll be able to handle it. And I'll be right here waiting for you when you get home."

This makes me feel odd again, not knowing how to react to having the snow queen waiting for me to get off work, knowing that each day is another day closer to our journey to Arendelle. Suddenly I stop, my eyes getting wide as I realize something. "Elsa, where are you going to sleep tonight? I mean, I know I'm the only one who can see you, but I'd still feel so weird if you were to sleep on the couch in the living room… But my bed is a twin so it'd be really hard for us both to fit, especially since Tiny always sleeps with me. But my room is such a mess, there's no room here… Ugh!" I grab my head, feeling ashamed of myself, and feeling a little hopeless.

Elsa just giggles as she grabs my hands, pulling them away from my head and holding them in hers. "Don't worry about it, we'll be fine. Promise."

For some reason, just hearing that one word, and seeing that sincere smile of hers, that look deep in her eyes, I feel reassured, and can't help but to believe her.

Somehow Elsa and I both manage to fit in my twin bed, me not being able to make her sleep alone in the living room, and her refusing to put me out of my own bed. So, this was the only compromise, not that it's a bad one. Normally you'd think a twin bed is far too small for two people to share, let alone two young adults. But somehow, we both shockingly fit, even with my little doggie.

The next morning I depart for work, putting Tiny in her crate like normal, leaving Elsa to occupy my bedroom while I'm away. I worried about her, but she made too good of an argument, so I head into work knowing that she'll be fine, keeping herself occupied by strategizing in the relaxing atmosphere of my…messy bedroom, ugh. Gotta get that room cleaned up…

I return home to find everything normal, and Elsa doing well, just like she said. She shares her ideas with me that night before bed, and we swap some ideas for a while before having to go to sleep.

Christmas is the next day, and Elsa assures me a thousand times that she'll be fine while I have a day with family. So the whole day while I have family over, laughing and eating and spending time together, she schemes in my room. And that night when I return to my room for the night, she's surprised me with a little Christmas gift of her own. A little playset made of her ice, that we get to use to make miniature snowmen together, all from the comfort of sitting on my bed, the snow safe in a little table of ice sitting between us, with crystallized snowflakes and designs hanging from my ceiling over us. We have a nice evening together, making it the best Christmas to date.

A week later, and New Year's Eve is upon us. Having Elsa around has become the norm for me, and so far no one has suspected anything was amiss. She and I have tossed many things back and forth, but so far we've yet to come up with any kind of plan worthwhile, much to both of our disappointments… But, we're both also confident that we'll be ok. I've offered to bring many things with us, some of my swords, knives, anything that may be beneficial to us, but she reminds me that we're dealing with powerful magic, and that everything we'll need will be found in Arendelle. It's been a strange week, trying to figure out what to do, but New Year's proves to be the oddest in a sense. The whole day I try to catch up with things around the house, mainly doing laundry and taking a much needed shower, and steeling myself for whatever may happen tonight at midnight. And all too soon, that time is upon us.

Elsa and I sit together on my bed, the time ticking by as it slowly gets closer and closer to midnight, and she can tell that I'm starting to get nervous. "Kendra? Are you ok?" She asks so gently, with such concern, placing a hand so lightly on mine, as if I might break like a sandcastle.

I take a moment to exhale through my nose, long and slow, like a sigh releasing tension. "Elsa, each day that has gone by, we've yet to make any progress, and as it got closer to tonight, I've became more and more nervous. I'm just so worried that I won't be any help at all, and that I'll just, get in the way. Or worse… That I'll cause the complete fall of Arendelle to the dark forces…"

"Kendra…" Elsa gently pulls me into her arms, holding me in a warm hug as she smiles with assurance. "Don't worry so much, I have great faith in you. I know you'll do fine. We'll save Arendelle, and it won't be possible without you."

I smile with a very soft 'hmph', holding onto my new sister figure. "Thanks for the vote of confidence Elsa… I'll do my very best not to let you down."

She lightly squeezes. "I know you won't."

That fated time finally encroaches on us, Elsa and I both as prepared as we can be. Elsa has done all necessary preparations for the transport through the portal, however it's gonna work, and midnight is just minutes away. My TV is on, showing the activity in Times Square, though we're hardly paying attention to their words. We sit together, hands together and fingers intertwined to give both of us courage, and reassurance that we'll stick together. I know that it'll also be winter in Arendelle, but somehow with this odd magical effect midnight will have on the portal, it won't be midnight when we get there. Elsa predicts it'll be around late day, maybe a few hours before sunset, giving us enough time to sneak into the castle, so we can sleep there, and then truly get preparations started the next day.

Just two minutes away. I swallow nervously, squeezing Elsa's hand for support. She squeezes my hand back and leans her head against mine, speaking with a gentle voice. "It's ok, we'll be fine."

One minute. The final minute of 2013. The countdown is upon us. Sixty seconds to go.

Elsa's power has already started. I can feel the temperature in my room drop a few degrees. My hair starts to lightly wave, just ever so slightly, in the very gentle breeze caused by the light icy wind swirling around us.

Forty-five seconds. Our held hands start to glow, and I have trouble looking away from it.

Thirty seconds. The ball is still slowly dropping in Times Square. The swirling ice and snow is somehow not disturbing the things in my room, which I find extremely odd, but am so thankful for. Elsa mentioned this earlier as the power of the portal, caused by the strange spell of the magic.

Twenty seconds. I can see our entire bodies are lightly glowing now, and I start having an odd feeling inside, rising from the pit of my stomach, from my heart, my head, everything feels strange and surreal.

Ten seconds. The final countdown.

Nine…

Eight…

Seven…

Elsa squeezes my hand tighter. "You ready Kendra?"

I swallow hard. "Ready as I'll ever be. Let's do this."

Three…

Two…

One…

The ball reaches its place as the New Year officially arrives, the celebration in Times Square reaching its highest mark. The lights go crazy, confetti and streamers blow all around the city. And all the same, the swirling ice and snow in my room starts to move even faster, as Elsa and I start to glow really bright. The swirling ice spins faster and faster, and then without warning, we disappear in a flash of light, leaving my room completely empty, aside from my precious Tiny girl, curled up my bed, fast asleep, and completely unaware of what has just happened, as Elsa and I cross over from my world, into her world through the portal, directly into the heart of Arendelle.