A/N: This is a chapter that we can laugh about, because it will reveal Anna's devious (and surprisingly well-thought-out) plan. And just for the record, if it doesn't make sense at first, I promise it should make sense by the end of the chapter! :-)

Disclaimer: I do not own Frozen. Let's leave that with the professionals!

The next morning at breakfast, Anna pitched her idea to Elsa, Johan, and Kristoff.

"So, you want us to help you play matchmaker on Julie and Noah?" Elsa said.

"I'm in," Johan said without hesitation. "I've been watching the way they look at each other for years!"

"And Julie even admitted to me yesterday that she has some feelings for him," Anna said.

"But how do we know that he has feelings for her?" Kristoff asked.

"Well, I could pretty much tell just from the way he looks at her, but just to be sure, I'm gonna leave it up to him," she said, pointing at Johan, "to find out."

"Why me?" Johan said.

"Because Noah doesn't know the three of us that well, and if one of us asked him, he'd know something's up," Anna replied. "Also, I don't think he would trust any of us enough to tell us anything, wouldn't you agree?"

"I wouldn't trust us to keep a secret," Elsa agreed.

"Alright, fine, I'll do it," Johan said.

"So I guess that's our first step," Anna concluded. "We should split up and meet somewhere later."

"Alright," Elsa said. "So, where are we gonna meet?"

"Uhh..." Anna glanced at Johan for an answer, not knowing her way around the castle very well.

"How about the music room on the second floor?" he said. "No one else ever goes in there."

"Sounds great!" Anna said. "So we'll all meet there at..." She looks at the clock. "Noon!"

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Noon didn't seem to come fast enough for Elsa. She wasn't sure why she was so excited about this. It was just something to do while she was here and couldn't go outside. But something told her that she was excited simply because she'd get to spend time with Johan...

What? she thought to herself. No, I hardly know him. I need to calm down.

At about fifteen minutes before noon, she decided she couldn't wait any longer and started making her way to the music room. When she reached the door about five minutes later, she could hear the sweet sound of a flute from the other side. Taking a deep breath, she opened the door and walked in.

Johan looked up from his music. "Hey," he said. "You're here early."

Elsa shrugged. "Didn't really have much else to do," she said. "So what did Noah say? Does he like Julie?"

"Of course," Johan said. "I really probably could have told you that in the first place."

Elsa smiled as she pulled up a chair next to him and he kept playing. She stared at him as he finished the song and smiled back at her.

"You play really well," Elsa said.

"Thanks."

"I wanted to play an instrument when I was really little, but my parents said no because they didn't want to hire anyone to teach me."

Johan chuckled. "Well, hey, you still could! You want to try?" he offered, holding out his flute to her.

"What? No, I can't!"

"Sure you can. Here." He placed the flute in her hands and stood behind her. He held her hands as he positioned them on the right parts of the instrument and showed her where to place her fingers. He showed her how to blow into the mouthpiece, and she tried to mimic his technique. On her first few attempts, nothing came out of the instrument but air, but she kept trying and then finally made a sound that sounded like music.

"Hey, I did it!" she exclaimed.

"That was good!" Johan said as she tried to do it again, but she couldn't seem to do it a second time.

Finally she gave up, chuckling as she shook her head.

"That's harder than it looks!"

"Oh, that's nothing," Johan said. "Julie plays the French horn. That's even harder to play well."

"French horn?"

"Yeah, that's..." He walked to the other side of the room and picked up a somewhat large brass instrument off of its stand. "...this."

Elsa examined the instrument for a moment. It's twisted up tubing and large bell sure made it look heavier than a flute, but it didn't look as complicated to work.

"How is that harder?" she asked. "It's only got three buttons."

"That's exactly what makes it harder," he replied. "Just think: if you have only three valves, and only about six or seven combinations of them, you could push down one valve on this and be able to get like six different notes. So there's a lot more to playing this than pushing down buttons."

Elsa tried to ponder this for a moment. "Okay..." she said, nodding her head slowly. "Most of that went over my head, but I think I know what you mean."

Johan chuckled as he shifted the horn in his hands.

"Can you play it?" Elsa asked.

Johan shrugged. "Eh," he said. "A little bit. I mean, I know maybe a scale or two."

He blew into the mouthpiece and tried to struggle his way through a scale. He made a mock-thoughtful expression on his face as he tried to rack his brain to remember what to do. When he finally reached the top note, he smiled and shook his head as he put the horn back on its stand.

"Julie's way better at it than I am," he said as he sat back down next to Elsa, who giggled as he criticized himself.

The next few minutes were filled with the sounds of talking and laughing until Anna and Kristoff showed up a few minutes after noon. Anna always did have a tendency to arrive for things fashionably late.

"Okay," Anna said. "So our next step is to figure out how to get them together in a... somewhat romantic situation."

Kristoff chuckled. "A dimly lit bedroom?"

"Not that romantic!" Johan yelled with a look of panic on his face that made the others burst into fits of laughter.

"Relax! I'm kidding!" Kristoff said, raising his hands in surrender.

"Anyway," Elsa said, trying to get them back on topic, "what exactly did you have in mind, Anna?"

"Well, what kinds of things do they both enjoy? What do they have in common?" Anna said, looking at Johan.

"If there's one thing they both love it's going out into town," the prince replied. "Julie's a people-person, and so is Noah, to an extent."

"But we can't get out of the castle right now because of this storm," Elsa pointed out.

"Yeah, but it's starting to slow down. It'll be past us by tomorrow, and it'll only take another day or two for the streets to be clear enough to walk around."

"So we'll be able to get out and do this another couple of days or so?" Anna asked.

"Yeah, we should be," Johan replied.

"Alright, that sounds like a good plan," Anna said. "Now, ultimately our goal is just to get them alone together, but I think we should figure out a place to leave them alone where they'll really bond."

"And once we do split up, we should try to stay together in pairs, so that way we aren't all in one group, but none of us will get completely lost," Kristoff added.

"That's a good idea," Elsa agreed.

"Anna, do you wanna go with your sister?" Kristoff asked.

Anna stared at him with disappointment in her eyes. "Actually, I was hoping to spend the day with you," she replied.

"Oh," Kristoff said, surprised. "Alright then, that sounds great!"

"As long as it's okay with you, Elsa," Anna said, looking at her sister.

"Yeah, it's fine," Elsa said. "I'll stay with Johan." She smiled at the prince, and he smiled back. The gazed into each other's eyes for a moment until Anna spoke again.

"Alright then," she said. "So let's do this: you two-" She pointed at Elsa and Johan. "-figure out where and how we're gonna do this, and Kristoff and I will try to come up with things we could do in the meantime."

"Sounds great!" Elsa said.

"I've actually got a few ideas already," Johan said excitedly. "Come on. There are some drawings of some good places in some books in the library."

He took the queen's hand and pulled her out of the room. She giggled as he dragged her toward the library.

When they were gone, Anna's face broke into a wide, satisfactory grin. Noticing the spark of mischief in her eyes, Kristoff eyed her suspiciously.

"What are you doing?" he said.

Anna looked at him with a mischievous smirk on her face.

"Playing matchmaker," she replied. "What's it look like I'm doing?"

Can I just mention that that last line there is my favorite line in the whole story? :-D

Read on, write on, dream on. -bandgeek63