A ray of sunlight came through my window, magically managing to hit me in my eyes. I grumbled and rolled over, shoving my face into my pillow, trying to get a few more minutes of sleep before everyone in the castle woke up. Even though it was barely seven, I could hear the castle waking up; the guards greeting the maids, the maids coming to wake me up. Just as that thought raced through my head, jarring knock came from my door.
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"Princess Anna? Are you up yet?" the door asked.
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I propped myself up on one arm as I tried to rub the sleep out of my eyes. "Yes, yes I am."
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"Good, now, the queen wants you down in the dining room in fifteen minutes or else, she said, and I quote, 'she will come up and drag you down whether you're ready or not. So you'd best be getting ready."
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The queen! I remembered that I had a sister who was not locked in her room all the time. Even now, just a week after the last ship had left from wherever it came from, I could hardly believe that I had a sister.
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Before the maid's footsteps had reversed I was out of bed and running toward my closet. I pulled open the doors and grabbed the first dress I saw. I threw it on my bed as I ran over to my bathroom. As I turned on the shower, I thought about if she would really come and get me. Then I remembered that she was my sister.
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The warm water of the shower was a blessing to my body, but I had no time to relax in the pleasure. As soon as I got out, I looked over at my clock.
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"How is it possible for fifteen minutes to pass that fast?" I muttered. It seemed like only a few minutes had past.
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When I ran over to my bed, I could hear footsteps coming up the stairs.
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"Anna! You'd better be ready by the time I get in there, or else..."
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As she barged in the door, I tried to turn and face her, which resulted in me getting tangled in my dress, and landing flat on my face.
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As I tried to untangle myself, I heard my sister give a very un-queenly giggle.
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"What's so funny?" I asked, a bit miffed that I couldn't move at all.
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She broke into a fit of snickers. "You were putting it on backwards!" Elsa exclaimed.
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Looking down, I could see that she was mostly right. I didn't just have it on backwards, I had my hand through the head, and my leg going through the arm!
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"This wouldn't have happened if you'd have let me get up at my own time," I grumped, "and nobody can put on a dress in less than ten minutes."
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"Well, a princess needs to be up earlier than noon," she scolded, "and I could leave you there and you wouldn't be up for a while. Now let me help you with that dress."
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She pulled me up and started getting me out of my mangled dress. I felt a shiver of cool air go across my body as my dress fell away from me. I felt suddenly self-conscious as I stood in front of my sister in nothing but my underwear. My sister seemed not to care, though.
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"You really need to be less dependent on people," she commented as she helped me into my dress. "We could have been doing important things instead of me having to dress you."
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"Can we just finish this up? I believe you have other things to do," I pointed out.
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"Do you not like being with your sister?" She asked, "And the correct term is WE have other things to do."
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Wait, what?
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It turns out that a princess needs to be present at all the meetings that a queen wants her to attend, and my sister wanted me to attend to almost all of them. The advisors started with taxes, then moved on to economic growth, capital punishment, gross domestic product, and the list kept going. Around the time when they were talking about population I leaned back and rested my eyes. I could hear them express some concern about me sleeping, but Elsa told them that I was fine. I was seriously considering falling asleep in my chair when I heard something that made me listen.
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"Ok. I think she's completely asleep. We can now talk about the important things." It was Elsa.
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"Yes, my queen."
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"What is the main problem that you would like to talk about? That you wanted to wait until Anna was sleeping to bring up."
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"Well, it seems that some people are questioning the loyalty of princess Anna. It seems like they think that Anna is still loyal to Hans."
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Oh, man. Elsa's gonna flip.
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"What?! Where did you get that information!?"
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"I just received it from one of my guards. He apparently heard it from some of the market people. They still think princess Anna is still engaged to Hans."
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"This is preposterous! She threw herself in front of his sword, for crying out loud! The next person who is heard saying that should be used as an example. Tell it to the guards. A week in the dungeon should keep them from thinking about slandering royalty. And anyways, she already has her heart on Kristoff."
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"Of course, my queen."
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I never knew my sister could become so pissed off. Anyway, it was nice to know that my sister would always have my back.
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"And also, make sure Anna never hears about this."
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"Of course. And there is one last thing that you would permit me to bring up."
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"What is it?"
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"Well, it seems like there is a rumor that you and the princess are, well involved with each other."381Please respect copyright.PENANAFdCUlMLwfM