CHAPTER 4

"Alright, gather around, everyone!" Bulda said, her loud voice gathering the family's attention. "We're all going to try and skype Anna together!"

The various family members smiled and got up from their seats to gather around the laptop computer Kristoff had just pulled out. Elsa was sitting next to him, while the other family members sat nearby or looked over their shoulders.

"Alright Kristoff, go ahead," Bulda said after making sure everyone was there.

Kristoff pulled up Skype and clicked on Anna's profile picture. It said her status was "Away", but he decided to click the "Video Call" button anyways, just in case she was there. Her picture grew larger as the dialing tone rang, and the room was silent waiting for her response.

Come on, Anna, I know you're there.

Her picture disappeared back into the corner of the screen.

Call not received.

He sighed, as did Elsa and most of the rest of the family. He closed the laptop and slouched a little in his seat. He was about to get up from the table when Elsa broke the silence.

"Well, let's call her cell! Maybe she's away from her computer right now."

That was a brilliant idea. Kristoff was so saddened by the dropped call that he couldn't even think of the obvious. Elsa smiled at him and pulled out her cell, opening up "contacts" to find Anna's name.

As Anna's picture appeared and the phone rang, Kristoff couldn't help but notice how positive Elsa was trying to be about this. Anna must have really rubbed off on her during all the time they spent together after they were reunited. After their parents had died in a horrible accident, Elsa had left for college as soon as she could and barely stayed in touch with Anna, for apparently seeing her was too painful and reminded her too much of her past. Anna had actually joined the military because of Elsa, because she wanted to be able to help people all over the world. She didn't want anyone to have to go through the pain that she and her sister felt after their parent's death, or for anyone else to become distant like Elsa. Kristoff was secretly glad that Elsa did what she did, because otherwise he never would have met Anna. He helped them reunite 3 years ago, and Elsa realized that distancing herself from her sister had only made it more painful. Since then, they had hung out as much as possible, trying to get to know each other again.

He was glad Anna had made Elsa a more positive person, but some of her positivity faded when Anna's voice mail message played.

"Hey, you've reached Anna! I'm not here right now, well obviously because then otherwise we'd be talking, but if you could just leave a message at the tone or the beep or whatever you call it I'll try to get back to you ASAP! Thanks!"

*Beep*

"Merry Christmas Anna!" Elsa said into the phone. "I'm here at Bulda's with Kristoff and the whole family and we just wanted to let you know that we love and miss you!"

Kristoff chimed in, "I love you Anna, and wish you were here. Call us back when you get a chance and we'd all love to talk to you ok? Talk to you soon."

"Merry Christmas, Anna," Elsa said again.

Various forms of "Merry Christmas" and "we miss you" were said by family members until Elsa hung up the phone.

She looked over at Kristoff.

"I'm sure she'll call back," she said.

He just looked at her and nodded in reply. He knew that she probably would call. It was just the fact that she had missed two calls in a row that had made him miss her even more than he thought was possible.

**Authors Note*

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