Anna had a dream that night. It wasn't a particularly relevant dream, considering all she had done that day was sail into the Arendelle ship port, and meet her roommate. She had moved in and packed her things away, while talking to Elsa about her life and where she came from.
"I'm actually from around here," said Elsa.
"Wow, seriously?! It is so beautiful up here!" said Anna, dropping her clothes in her hand and racing to the window to once again see that splendid view from her and Elsa's room. The Sun shone over the lake then, reflecting off its surface and partially in to their window, lighting up the whole room.
"Yeah, well… that's what I've heard many people say when they come to visit Arendelle." Said Elsa, looking out the window calmly with her arms crossed in front of her chest. Elsa thought Anna's excitement with a simple window view was adorable, and she grinned at her ecstacy.
"So, you're just used to it is all?" Asked Anna, turning her head around to face Elsa.
"Sure, you could say that… I mean, it's a great place, but I've never, you know, actually left… it."
"Left what?"
"Left the city…"
What's considered the city? Where are the city limits?" Anna said with a laugh. "Please define the city limits up to the nearest centimeter. This is college after all!"
Anna looked over at Elsa and noticed she had begun to look down at the ground, with her arms still crossed, and her face glowing a slight red. Her eyes looked sad. The sun shone on her shirt and reflected, casting little bits of blue on the walls. It was a beautiful sight, except that Elsa looked distressed, and embarrassed. Anna factored this into her head, and came to the conclusion that she must have said something wrong.
"Hey, you okay?" Asked Anna. She sat down next to Elsa on her bed on the other side of the dorm room. Elsa was still looking down.
"I'm sorry, Elsa, I get your point… I was just playing was all." Anna smiled. Elsa smiled at the ground, and then shifted her eyes to give Anna a sideways look.
"That's okay… I was just thinking about how something like this would happen."
"You'd get made fun of for not ever having left Arendelle before?"
"Well, not only that… but then I'd be questioned again and again, and I'd have to… to tell them all… I'd have to tell them…"
At this point Elsa had lost her look of emotionlessness and her face had scrunched up. The red on her face grew into a redder shade, and her eyes squinted together. She was holding back tears, and Anna could tell.
"Elsa, Elsa its okay!" Anna didn't know what to do, and what would be outside of Elsa's comfort zone, so she went for the safe one-arm hug. Anna wrapped her arm around Elsa's shoulders, and Elsa reacted by curling up slightly into Anna's arm. Elsa's head rested in Anna's shoulder. Anna looked at her shudder as silent tears ran down her face and tickled her ears. She was breathing irregularly as her sobs came out in chokes.
Elsa calmed down as Anna held her. She sat up and out of Anna's grasp, sitting with her hands in her lap.
"I'm sorry, Anna, I… I freaked out is all… I, I have, I just… j-just have", she stuttered.
"Elsa it's okay! You don't have to tell me! It's okay!" Anna said with open eyes.
"I mean, I completely get it. It's like, you have something personal you don't want to share, it's okay I have those too! Like I have thousands of them, like, I guess even though we're roommates it would be kind of rude not to at least mention some things to each other and-"
Anna caught herself ranting and stopped when she saw Elsa look at her with a confused and stressed look. Elsa's cheeks were still a bit red.
"Sorry… I rant. I do it… often, I guess, but anyway, what I wanted to say was, you don't' have to tell me anything you don't want to."
Elsa smiled and looked down at her lap where her clasped hands lay. "Thank you…" She said with a smile. The smile lit up her face. Relieved, Anna reached out to grab Elsa's hand and help her up from the bed, but as soon as Anna's hand got close, Elsa drew her hand back instinctively. Anna was taken aback at this motion, but still offered Elsa to a walk around the campus. Elsa knew the campus much better than Anna did, and they had much fun viewing the sights of the university, and its secrets. Anna felt closer to Elsa than she had with any of her hometown friends. Elsa was funny, loved chocolate almost as much as Anna did, and they shared a common love for winter season.
But it was the hands that Anna dreamed of that night. Elsa's hands… who otherwise seemed like the nicest and most beautiful person on earth, Elsa would not let Anna or anyone else make extended hand-to-hand contact with her. This puzzled Anna, since Elsa seemed fine with hugs or sitting back to back, but not her hands. Almost like she had an extreme and secret case of eczema leprosy, and if she touched anyone's hands, hers would crumble into dust.
Anna was still dreaming when her alarm rang at 8:30 am.
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