Anna would be lying if she said that she wasn't jealous of her sister Elsa. Elsa was after all the best figure skater in the country, Anna had practically grew up in arenas watching her sister do pirouette after pirouette. Elsa was the picture of perfection, of sophisticated grace. Anna's only friends were the snowmen she made from the snow that the Zamboni collected from the ice.

It wasn't like she hadn't tried figure skating herself, she just wasn't any good. Her trainer had told her that she was too clumsy. Her parents weren't really disappointed in her, it's just that Elsa needed more support and attention than she did. That was fine though, really it was fine.

Though Anna still craved being able to go to a friend's house, but her parents could never bring her because Elsa had a meet to go to or a competition somewhere foreign and far away.

But, when she was almost 17 and Elsa was practicing with her partner Weasle, who was a short stubby man who could barely skate. She decided to wander around the arena. They were in the Southern Isles home of the Kings, it was the largest arena in the country with six individual ice rinks inside, two indoor soccer fields and a weight room located beside a small restaurant on the top floor.

To say the least it was huge, and crawling with so many hot hockey players that she thought she might faint and with Elsa competition lasting another five days maybe she could finally have a small romance even if she was a six hour plane ride from home. So she walked through the large smelly and oh so gorgeous group of boys. After a few hits and shoves she arrive at a door that said: Ice 3.

To get away from the overly large hockey players that only seemed interested in the preppy figure skaters in skirts that were way to short, seriously it's really cold in the stands. So Anna was obviously wearing a green summer dress and a light purple jacket.

So she opened the doors, which were way too heavy, and looked at the ice and was horrified. There in the middle of the rink were two guys with their helmets thrown off and their fists in midair punching each other senseless.

The first of the two had blond hair with a few droplets of what Anna could only assume was blood in it. He was huge, at least 6'3" and man was he muscular. Then he got punched right on his nose, Anna heard his nose crunch under the other man's fist.

And he was hot. He had an A on his shirt, which she knew stood for assistant captain, and he had sideburns that only a forty year old man could grow. He was smiling, a few teeth were missing, and he had a black eye and some blood trickling down the side of his face. To put it simply, Anna was smitten with him at the first sight.

The whistle blew and the refs pulled the two of them apart, rather roughly and the red-head, sideburns guy was roughly shoved into the penalty box. The penalty box that happened to be about 10 feet away from her, so she bolted to the side of ice and tapped on the glass that separated her from the guy on the other side of the glass. She found him so oddly attractive with blood covering his face and when he looked over at her with ice covering his eye and he smiled at her with a few missing teeth.

She smiled at him as well and just some general staring. Less then two minutes later a loud buzzer sounded as they still awkwardly smiled at each other. The team captain opened the door, shoved a helmet on sideburns, grabbed the ice from his hand and threw it against the glass towards her. She was a little startled to say the least. She stood there and watched him skate onto the ice.

She didn't go to sit down, she just stood there beside the glass and kept her eyes glued to the one with the sideburns, man was he good, from what she could tell. He took the puck away from the other team, intercepted passes and got two goals. Well two more goals as everyone on the right side of the rink stood up and started throwing their hats onto the ice. She asked what that meant and some woman said that he got a hat trick, which basically means he got three goals. She asked what the figure skating equivalent would be and the woman scoffed and walked away.

She knew the basics to hockey but she didn't know if getting a hat trick was impressive or not, was it like doing a quadruple rotation with a perfect landing and then going straight into a double axel toe jump?

Soon enough the game was over and both team shook hands and then stood in line to, well she didn't know, receive some type of award. An MVP or something or another. When it was sideburns teams turn to receive an award a loud booming voice almost shook her out of her seat.

"Would Anna Arundel come to the front of the arena please, your parents are looking for you."

That wasn't what she expected and as much as she knew she should bolt to the front of the arena before her parents did something crazy like leave without her, she had to stay and know who won that award. She looked at sideburns again, only to discover that he was looking right back at her with his charming smile.

One of the refs skated over to him and gave him a small golden trophy and shook his hand. Did he win the award? She was giddy as she looked at him and he smiled back at her. She wasn't imagining things she was sure of it.

Then they skated off the ice and she heard the booming voice call out to her again.

"Would Anna Arundel, please come to the front of the building immediately."

Ohhh, she was in trouble now, so she ran out of the arena and made her way to the front of the building. Her parent were waiting rather impatiently in the car Elsa was sitting in the back seat, her posture perfect as usual, but she had tears in the corner of her eyes and a long red scratch on the side of her face. Anna stepped into the car cautiously.

"Elsa… are you ok? What happened?"

Elsa and her didn't speak much and weren't very close after Elsa really got into figure skating. She was still worried thought, she still loved her sister with all of her heart.

"Weasle failed his jump and brought his blades up to my beautiful daughters face and now she has to compete with a scarred face and a new partner! I knew we shouldn't have trusted Weasle! He… he… well he's a weasel!"

Her father was in a bit of a rage, somehow she knew that Elsa wouldn't answer her. She looked down at her feet and started braiding her hair.

"Thankfully one of the male participants in the singles is willing to pair up with Elsa as long as they remain partners for as long as they can stand each other, which will be forever."

Her father looked at her with narrowed eyes, she knew he wasn't mad at her, just mad. Then he turned and gave Elsa the same look, but she wasn't paying any attention to them.

"So we're going to meet them tonight. So you have to wear your nice dress and you have to be on your best behavior! They are a prestigious family here in the Southern Iles. They have, and get this girls, twelve Olympic gold medalist in the last generation!"

Anna knew that her father wasn't talking to her when she said girls, so she tuned him out and looked at Elsa, she didn't look happy at the news, but at least she wasn't crying anymore. She was frowning thought.

"Elsa?"

Elsa looked over at her and forced a small smile.

"Aren't you excited to be partnered with someone who comes from a long line of Olympic gold medalist?"

"Yes, of course. I'm sure he'll be much better and hopefully taller than Weasle."

Anna let a small giggle escape and Elsa giggled a little as well. Anna remembered something, she dipped into her pocket and pulled out a few chocolates. She held her hand out to Elsa and she smiled and grabbed at piece and popped it into her mouth. Their father was glaring at her in the mirror.

"Elsa, sweetheart you shouldn't eat junk food while we're away at a competition."

She dropped her hand and place it in her lap and just as Anna thought that she was breaking down her sister walls after all these years, they were built back up even higher than before.

Anna sighed and as the car pulled up to the hotel she whipped out her key card and walked into the hotel without even waiting for her family.