So I want to say thank you to my first reader WAEGirl (hi, You are awesome: D)

. As a symbol of gratitude I decided to upload more chapters today. Right now I've written at least 19 chapters, but they might need some modifications yet later so that's why I will upload just the ones that are already ready to be published.

Chapter 4. Better than the best

Ever since Derek had arrived to Arendelle everything had been so different from home.

It felt strange to go sleep late without his brother Franz warning him he would lose his eyesight by so much reading. It felt weird her mother would not startle him from behind holding a comb in order to arrange his hair. And it felt strange to him, that his sister's Liana would not ask him for a bedtime story.

But what felt even stranger, was the fact that he hadn't had so much fun ever since his aunt Rosemary had lost her glasses when he was five. Derek laughed at the memory. That time, his aunt had confounded a pig from the stables instead of her fat husband uncle Oleg. She had given a kiss to the poor animal who in return had kicked her directly to the mud.

"What are you laughing at?"

Derek came to reality when he heard that voice. Princess Elsa's voice.

"Nothing just something I remembered."

The girl in front of him rolled her eyes.

"So? Who goes first?" he asked.

"You can go first." Said another voice. It was Princess' Anna.

"Okay. I'm ready." He said as the blond Princess handed him the book.

The Queen of Arendelle had suggested the game to them at breakfast that day. She had said, she used to play that game when she was a little girl. And so here they were.

He put the book over his head and started walking. The rules were simple but the game itself was quite difficult. All you had to do was walk as straight as possible and keep your balance. The person to reach the farthest place without dropping the book wins. Simple.

"Simple my as…"

"FREDERIK!" had yelled both the King and Queen of Arendelle at the table.

"Asparagus." his father had corrected.

Derek knew what her father would really say. He was already used to his sailor vocabulary. And if he hadn't been educated by his mother he would also be yelling the same curse as his father. The game was difficult but still the Prince was enjoying it. Arendelle was indeed a weird place, but fun.

Ever since they had played hide and seek about two days ago, they had been playing games in the afternoon before dinner. He never used to play that much with his own brother and sister but with the Princesses of Arendelle it felt different. Princess Anna was the definition of fun and innocence. Her older sister, Princess Elsa was, well she was difficult to define.

Derek couldn't put into words how Princess Elsa was. She was polite and graceful. She was quiet most of the time but she would always look happy around her younger sister. But, she also had the ability to upset him somehow.

Ever since he met her, he had found her very mysterious. She got upset when he'd declared the party had been boring. Which it was. She had been very annoying when they played hide and seek too. He felt he was the best at that game but she turned out to be pretty good too. So he had started to hurry to find her quicker. But as soon at that would happen she would beat his time and find him faster. And she had been so stubborn when she decided to hide in his spot. That place under the green sofa was his spot.

And then they had ended up laughing. Laughing, for Odin's sake.

So since that day, it was no strange that they had started to compete in almost everything. What seemed to be a game for Princess Anna, it meant something very different for him and most probably for Princess Elsa too. It meant war.

She would always try to beat him. And so did him.

This time I'm going to beat her. I'll reach the wall. You'll see. Almost there.

He laughed imagining her defeated face and…

POOF!

A deaf sound made him stop.

What was that?

"Prince Derek. Your book fell!" said Princess Anna in a singing tone.

Derek looked down. In front of his feet remained the book entitled "The Enchanted Chants of Andalasya by Nancy Tremaine" with the cover of a forest and a squirrel.

Derek then noticed where he was standing. He had advanced at least three quarters of the room. At least twenty steps were missing to reach the other side of the room.

Oh well, it's actually not that bad. I bet she can't reach this far.

He was beaming proudly.

"My turn!" yelled Princess Anna as she put "The Importance of the Second Breakfast by Kili and Fili" over her head with at the same width of Derek's book. The three of them had agreed to use similar books to avoid cheating. At least Princess Elsa's suggestion proved that she wanted to play fairly against him.

Princess Anna started walking in a fast pace. To the Prince surprise she managed to reach very far until her excitement made her jump and her book fell open showing a drawing of a small man with pointy ears setting the table.

"Good job Anna" congratulated her older sister. "Pity you didn't pass Prince Derek. I was hoping for it."

Derek's gaze met the blond girl's face. She was not showing many emotions so he couldn't decipher if she was teasing him or not. But he still felt the urge to snap at her.

"Let's see if you can be the best" he dared her.

Princess Elsa frowned at him but didn't say a word. She straightened her back and took her book without looking at it. She put it over her head and started to walk.

The moment she started to walk she looked like another person. She was pacing not as fast as her younger sister but not as slow either. She resembled her mother, the Queen of Arendelle.

She passed her sister not without turning to look at her and giving her a gentle smile. The book remained balanced over her head.

After that she kept walking until she was standing at the same level of him.

She turned to him slightly. She didn't gave him that gentle smile she had gave to her sister. But she did smile at him, which surprised the Prince. It was a small smile; almost an imperceptible turn of her lips.

Derek felt something weird in his stomach as she smiled at him.

Then as soon as she did that, she took one big step ahead of the Prince. And …

POMF!

Her copy of "Genovia's Manual of the Good Manners by Violet Mia Renaldi" hit the floor.

"You see, I do not need to be the best." Said Princess Elsa as she picked her book and turned to look at him. "I just need to be better."