"You ready Anna?" Said a voice behind her.

She looked over her shoulder to see a small roundish man walking towards her. "Of course I'm ready Olaf. I was born ready." Anna said excitedly.

"Great! I can't stay out here for long. We are very busy, and Oaken is going to need my help back in the kitchen. But I just wanted to wish you luck."

"Thank you Olaf. This so is amazing." Anna looked back at the stage. "I'm going make him so proud." Anna said with determination. The only thing her dad wanted for her was to be was happy. It didn't matter if it were taking all those music lessons or eating chocolate until each of them was sick, her father only wanted what was best for her.

"He was already proud of you Anna. Now make the rest of us proud." Olaf said warmly.

"You mean you weren't proud of me before." Anna said jokingly.

He gave a small laugh. "You know what I mean." The lights for the stage came on and everyone in the restaurant slowly fell quiet. "A warm hug before you go on?"

"Sure!" She hugged Olaf and he wished her luck again. Taking a look at the stage she took her first step into the light. If there was any time that Anna could say she was a little nervous, this was it. Everything her father had done, and everything they worked on together came down to this moment. She sat at her piano and looked around. She saw her friends, her mother, and the rest of the customers. She didn't see the blonde who hid her face by staring at the menu. She smiled as her eyes went around the room. This was the first time in what seemed to be forever, that Anna could finally be who she really was. Taking a deep breath she put her hands on the keys and began to play.

Earlier that day:

After she dropped Anna of at school, her mother unlocked the doors to the restaurant. There were some regulars that came in during that time but the morning was usually slow. It was Anna's big day and her mother had to get started on clearing the stage. There wasn't much room to put the chairs and tables on the floor below. She opened the door behind the stage and started taking the chairs down to the basement. She would have to wait until Olaf, or Oaken would arrive to lift the tables. They were to heavy for her and it wouldn't be good if she threw her back out on this day in particular. The basement was usually for storage anyways but there was already too much stuff to begin with down there.

She heard the front door open as she was coming out from the basement. She knew it was the old couple that worked at the zoo in the city. They always ate here and were always happy. "Hello Mr. and Mrs. Fredricksen. How are you two this morning?" She said with a smile on her face.

"We're fine Jen." The older woman said.

"How are you?" The older man said immediately after.

"I'm great. Today is a big day." She said with a little excitement.

"Really, you here that Ellie?" She smiled at him and he asked. "What might be the occasion."

"My daughter, you know her."

"Anna right." Ellie said.

"Yes. She's going to sing tonight right here tonight around 8 O'clock."

"That's great. Carl if we can, I'd like to come."

"I don't see why not. Put us down for a reservation Jen. We'll be happy to come."

"Anna's going to love that." She brought them to one of the tables against the windows and took there order. They didn't order much and Anna's mother was just as good of a cook as Olaf and Oaken. After she was done, she went back to the stage and kept bringing down the chairs. While she did this Tiana, and Belle walked in and punched in for the day.

"Mrs. Summer what are you doin?" Tianna asked with her slight southern accent.

"I'm moving these down to the basement. There's not enough room for all the tables and chairs down there?"

"Okay, but why move them in the first place?" Tiana asked

"Anna's father built this stage two years ago. It was finished the day he died." Anna's mother stopped lifting the chairs as she waved the both of them over. "I never told anyone what it was really for, other than an add on to the restaurant. And until 2 days ago that's all it was." She said as a slight sadness came to her voice.

Belle knew something was getting to her boss and asked "You okay, Mrs. Summers?" She walked over to her and took down one of the chairs Anna's mother stacked, and placed on the floor so Ann's mother could sit."

"I'm fine." She said with assurance. "Today, Anna is going to sing on the stage that was built for her. It's what her father wanted." It's want I want too. A tear of happiness rolled down her right cheek. Standing up she added, "Hopefully after today, Anna is never going to serve tables. She's going to prove me wrong and make a name for herself."

Both Belle and Tianna felt the determination of their bosses words and each said how happy and exited they were for Anna. The rest of the staff arrived around the same time and Anna's mother told them what was going to happen tonight. Each were happy and glad to hear Anna was getting her chance to sing.

It was around 11 O'clock when all the tables and chairs were in the basement. The next part was getting the Baby Grande Piano through the front door and into the restaurant with scratching it and making sure it didn't scratch anything also. It had been a gift for Anna for her eleventh birthday and she loved that thing as if it were her child.

All the audio and lighting was already set up; it only had to plugged in. The speakers and lights had been set up before her husbands death. It was all connected to a set of switches and outlets in the office.

Anna's father had gotten everything for Anna to sing on that stage. The speakers were all around the restaurant and were all synced to the wireless microphone that was hidden somewhere in the basement. He had spent a lot to give Anna her dream. And her mother never understood why but tonight she would. And tonight someone else would feel the power of Anna's dream.

Kristoff and Rapunzel were both extremely excited and eager to here what Anna was going to do for what she was going to sing. The only thing was Anna was being very firm about not telling them, she wanted it to be a surprise, and that she still didn't know what she was going to sing still.

"Please, Anna. Just tell us. One song, a verse from a song, one line from a song, hell, just the hum a damn song." Rapunzel was getting a little irritated that Anna was not telling her what she planned on singing

"No, I want them to be a surprise. Now lets talk about something else. Lunch is almost over and you two have not even eaten." She said smilingly.

"Well we would have, but you're not telling us anything." He suddenly thought of something. "Are you still deciding on what to sing?" Kristoff looked at her to see if that would give a reaction. Which it did. She tried to brush the question off by seeing if she saw someone. He started to laugh a bit. "Wow! You still are undecided. That's hilarious." He started laughing harder. Rapunzel tried hiding her laughter but eventually succumbed to an unstoppable laugh as well.

"Oh real mature you guys. Thanks for making this more stressful." She rolled her eyes as her friends collected themselves.

"Sorry but that was just too funny. But," Rapunzel tried to get serious, "Anna it doesn't matter what you sing. As long as you're happy up there, nothing else matters."

"And you know no matter what happens you'll have our support no matter what." Kristoff added.

"Well, that was much better than laughing in my face." She gave each of them a smile. "But, what if I do mess this up. Then what? I try and suffer my way through Weselton's boring ass class."

Kristoff was the first to reply. "No Anna. Don't even think that. Nothing is going to go wrong. Tonight is your chance to change your future for the better. Who knows maybe someone will over her us and come to just see you."

Anna shot Kristoff a stern face and the smile he had was wiped away. "Kristoff, I don't want to date anyone right now. My mom is starting to give my dream a chance and if all of a sudden I start to date someone she'll find out one way or another and I don't know how she would react."

"Sorry Anna. You know I'm only kidding right."

"Duh she knows Kristoff but it's still clear that she doesn't want it brought up more than it has to." Rapunzel said. "Oh and how goes the 'making friends' thing with Elsa." Both Rapunzel and Kristoff were staring at her more intently.

"I don't know to be honest. The past two days we've listened and written about songs alone. This whole friendship thing is a lot harder than you think." Anna was sort of glad the subject had changed but this one was more complicated.

"Kristoff tells me she ran off after you made her choose a song for a small project."

"Why would you tell her Kristoff." Anna whined

"Why wouldn't I?" He replied.

"Because that makes it sound like I forced her to say something." She looked at Rapunzel, "Which I didn't. The only thing I did was play a song and tell her that it was okay to talk."

"That's not what you told me." Kristoff was starting to get on her nerves.

"Either way she answered and I don't know why she ran off. But if we're going to something in class today I'm going to talk to her again."

"Just don't go too far Anna." Rapunzel said.

"I won't know let's talk about something else."

"Okay, could you tell us what songs you're going to sing tonight."

The new project that Mrs. Pots gave them was for someone and a partner to sing a duet in the music booth. What they were supposed to was choose a song and them make it there own by changing the melody, the key the song was, the speed, and whatever they could do to make the song there own. In her mind Elsa was terrified if Anna was going to choose her or not so she just sat there and waited. Sure enough the even more excited red head sat next to her and asked. "So do you want be partners again."

A million different replies went through her head before she said. "Why do you want to be even want to be partners." God I'm fucking this up so bad. Come on get a grip.

"Because Elsa, I think it'll be fun to share more time together." That word alone nearly made Elsa cry again but she held it in. "It would help crack open that shell of yours too." Elsa was staring at the ground in order to not look at the Anna's warm and kind smile.

"Fine." She said.

"Great, now I hope you're going to help choose the song better than last time. And by the way if I made you feel uncomfortable or mad for making you answer, I'm sorry." She said as she moved her head, trying to look into Elsa's eyes.

You don't have to be. What I saw in your eyes was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. "It's fine." Elsa was trying so hard to give Anna a chance but her walls were built really high and it would take a lot for here just to even look at Anna.

"Okay. So, do you have any song in mind that we could work on."

Yet again another million replies went off in her head but the only thing that came out was, "Not really." Her voice was so low Anna had a hard time hearing her. "What do you want to sing." Good that's a start.

"I could think of a billion things to sing but I would be rambling on and then class would be over." She said with a giggle. "It's okay if you don't know. Just say what comes to mind." Elsa couldn't have been more nervous.

Why is it this hard to just answer a simple question? What comes to mind? She was staring at the floor so intently that Anna thought Elsa was ignoring her again. "Please don't ignore me Elsa. If you want me to leave you only have to ask." The way those words hit Elsa made her look up and stare at Anna for the first time.

Please don't go. She wished she could have said the words but her lips didn't move. Tears started to form around her eyes. Anna tried to take Elsa's to try and calm her but Elsa brought her arm to her chest as she felt Anna's fingers touch hers.

"What's wrong Elsa?" Anna was really confused at the way the blonde was reacting. She didn't know what her comforting words were doing to Elsa. Trying to hold her hand was not helping either.

Elsa was trying to find the words she wanted to say but nothing was coming to her mind. The fear was building up inside of her. FUCK. This is ridiculous. Conceal ,don't feel. Just say something. She went to talk but nothing came out. Anna confused at the way Elsa was looking at her.

"Elsa is everything okay? I can go if I'm making you uncomfortable."

"Okay." WHAT! No, say something before she leaves. She looked away from Anna and said, "Leave." You fucking dumbass! God why did I just that. Anna was getting up to leave and before she left she said:

"Sorry Elsa. Maybe some other time Okay?" She was smiling but Elsa just looked at the wall.

She's leaving and the only thing she wanted was to pick a song. Just like last time but now I screwed everything up royally. Can't I just be normal. Before Anna could leave Mrs. Pots came over.

"Ladies I hope everything is going okay."

"It's going just fine Mrs. Pots, I was just going get a water from my bag." Anna replied.

"Okay. I hope you girls come up with something amazing. The way you two have analyzed the songs over the past few day's have made me really excited to hear what the two of you can do to make a song your own."

"Thank you, and trust me you won't be disappointed." She smiled at her and Mrs. Pots returned the a smile.

"Excellent, keep up the good work." She left the two of them and walked over to another group. Anna sat down next to Elsa again and looked at her wondering what was going through her head.

"Well I guess we have our work cut out for us." Anna said trying to get some kind of response from Elsa.

The blonde kept her head down. In her head she was ecstatic that Anna was going to stay but at the same time it was terrifying that she would have to actually talk to someone. She looked back at Anna who was still trying to read her. Just say something that isn't stupid. Open your mouth and talk to her. Is it that hard. She went to say something and yet again nothing came out. Mad at herself she looked away from Anna and put her head in her hands. Why, why for Christ's sake is this so difficult. Today I was going to make a change.

"Hey Elsa, I know that I can be annoying sometimes but Mrs. Pots is really excited to see us work together and I don't want to disappoint her, and I don't think you want to either."

Elsa didn't want to disappoint her either. SAY SOMETHING, "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Louder. The first time was muffled by her hands and Anna hadn't heard it. She brought her hands away from her face and said again "Smells Like Teen Spirit." She looked at the red head, who nearly fellow over with excitement.

"Wow. That's so cool. I didn't know someone like you would listen to them. Uh wait I mean you don't look like the person to listen to grudge. No wait uh, everyone likes Nirvana." Anna couldn't believe that they were going to a Nirvana song. The next part, though, would prove more than difficult. She calmed herself and said, "Elsa I know that this is going to be a challenge but I hope we can work on this together, and maybe after be friends."

Yes please. Please God. Elsa was still looking at Anna. A smile spread across her face and Elsa just looked at her. Those beautiful emerald eyes, and that smile. We could be more than, NO, just friends and tonight hopefully Hans can change this for me. These stupid feelings for Anna and girls in general. Maybe I should tell Hans ... tell him ... that I ... love him. She knew that this could be what she needs, but at the same time she knew it wasn't true.

5:00 p.m.

After Kristoff had dropped her off at the restaurant and walking inside, Anna nearly screamed with joy and excitement. She saw that the stage was completely cleared off. Her Baby Grand Piano was set up right in the middle of it a microphone attached to it. Her mother had come out of the back when she heard Anna yell "Oh my god!"

"I knew you would say that." She was nearly tackled as Anna raced over to hug her.

"This is amazing. How did you...where did.. who... uh. This is amazing." She hugged her mother tighter.

"I'm glad your so excited." She whispered in her daughter's ear. "I love you so much and so did he."

"I love you too mom'

They released each other and Anna clocked in for the day and went to work for a few hours. She was now standing, more like pacing around, her mothers office in the back of the restaurant. Her mother thought she would take the time to come up with the songs she wanted to play and avoid the stress of waitressing tables before going on. She was above ecstatic and beyond happy. Her chance to shine was two hours away and she could hardly wait, literally. Every second that went by Anna would look at the clock and wish it would move faster. Minutes felt like hours. By the time it was 5:15 Anna felt she had been in that office for days. Come Anna get it together. She stopped pacing and sat down at the desk in the office. She tried thinking about the day that had just gone by.

The door opened and Anna immediately said, "Is it 7:15?" A larger smile was forming on her face.

"Oh ma chérie, a little excited are we." A tall and skinny gentlemen entered the room. Anna loved the French accent he had. It was just so enticing and cool.

Her smile faded a bit as she looked over to see that it was still only 5:20. "More than excited Lumiere. This is going to be the first time in forever that I can sing in front of people."

"Well then, It is magnifique that you can have this moment. You know I used to be singer myself you know." He said winking at her.

"No you weren't." Said rolling her eyes with a smile.

"You don't believe me ma chérie. Well, my greeting..."

"Be our guest." She said laughing.

"Yes cher. It was part of a dance routine." He started dancing around the room and Anna was laughing so much her stomach began to hurt. "You still don't believe me."

"No but that dance was hilarious." Anna was still trying to collect herself.

"I'll I have to keep working on then." He was opening the door and before he left he said, "Au revior et good luck."

"Thank you Lumiere." She gave him warm smile as he left.

A few seconds later the door opened again and a tall and husky man came in. "Hoo Hoo. It's nice to see Anna. Nervous you are maybe?"

"Me nervous Oaken. I think you're talking to the wrong girl." She said giving him hug.

"How silly of me, yes?" As they parted from there hug he added, "I can't be out of the kitchen too long, but I want to wish you luck and to have fun out there."

"Thank you Oaken, is there anyone else coming in."

"Not now unfortunately. We are very busy, Kai and Gerda are clearing and seating tables nonstop, and your friends are very busy also. Olaf will come out and wish you luck before you go, yes."

Anna heard her mothers voice calling for Oaken. "Okay, better get back in the kitchen sounds like your needed."

"Yes indeed. I'll see you later, hoo hoo." He waved and closed the door.

She looked over at the clock, 5:32. Come on time, MOVE FASTER. She began pacing around the room wondering what she could and would sing. She sat down at the desk again this time looking at the contents on it. As she looked around, a picture of her and her father was on the desk in a small picture frame. It was just the two of them smiling at the camera and making funny faces. Looking closer at the picture she noticed the familiar color of the walls of the restaurant. They were wearing painters out fits. She realized it was one of the days she helped out to make the stage. As she stared at the picture a flow of memories of her and her father came into her mind. Tears welled up in her eyes and she brought the picture close to her, hugging it but not too much to crack the frame.

Though it has been two years, she and her mother still missed him a lot. Today is not just a my day to shine, it's the day my father will be the proudest of me. She looked at the picture again and said, "I love you dad. You were always proud of me. Now I will prove why." She looked at the clock again, 5:49. "Well maybe not now, but eventually." She let out a small laugh, knowing that her would be laughing with her.