Willa

Once I got home, I immediately ran up to my room and took a nap. It was going to be a long night, and we all knew it. Not that I had anything to do the next day, but if being a Keeper was going to wreck my sleep schedule, the least I could do is try to get sleep whenever I could.

When I woke up, it was 7:30 p.m. "What...?" I whispered to myself when I saw the clock. I had been asleep for like nine hours. It was hard for me to get six hours of sleep on a normal night, what with homework and then extra credit and then stress. 

Excited about my new found overload of energy, I hopped out of bed and yanked open the doors to my closet. I shifted hanger after hanger until I found a few outfits that I might be willing to wear. One of them was black yoga pants with coral long sleeved shirt, the next was dark wash jeans with a yellow, silk, short sleeved shirt and the last was gray yoga pants with a black long sleeved shirt. I chose the last one for 'camouflage' purposes. Unless I was in Small World. All dark in Small World made one stick out like a sore thumb. 

My phone started going off rapidly. I opened it, seeing that I had received twenty text messages in the last sixty seconds. I scanned through for the important ones.

Philby

So, what time to cross over?

Finn

What time does DHS close? 

Charlie

9:30 

Philby

So cross over at 11?

Finn

Why so late?

Philby

Is there EMH tonight? 

Maybeck

No, that was the A.M. EMH is at MK tonight I think...

To: KK (group)

But why are we trusting info from Maydork...?

I smirked at my wits.

Mandy

Oohh, burnnnn.

Maybeck

Mandy, don't even get us started on you and Lawrence over there... ;)

Finn

Maydork, don't even get us started on you and Charlene over there... ;)

To: KK (group)

Roasted!

Philby 

Seriously, crossover time???

Jess

What is going on???

Mandy

Come upstairs I'll explain.

Finn

Since there's no EMH (trusting Maybeck, don't make me regret it) we should be good an hour after close at 10:30. Agreed.

To: KK (group) 

Agreed.

I turned that conversation on do not disturb, trusting that they wouldn't change plans while I made the group chat silent. My stomach started growling. I hadn't had anything to eat all day. I raced downstairs, where my mom was waiting with a load of questions.

"Where were you this morning? Why have you slept all day? Are you hungry? Do you want something to eat?" She dumped all these questions on me.

"I went out to eat with friends; because I was tired; I am; yes, please." I answered all of her queries all at once. 

"Well, c'mon then." Mom motioned for me to follow her to the kitchen. I sat down at one of the bar stools as she cut me up some fruit and cheese. After about five minutes, I had a hearty plate of grapes, crackers, and cheese in front of me. 

"Thank you," I said through mouthfuls of food.

"Chew with your mouth closed." Mom instructed and handed me a glass of water, which I downed gratefully. After I had eaten, I hung out in the living room with everyone else until 10:00, when I went upstairs to sleep.

Once I had gotten all snuggled into my bed, I opened my phone again to see that I had gotten forty text messages. The most important caught my eye instantaneously. 

Philby

Crossing in 10. 

I took a deep breath and willed myself to sleep. For most people focusing on sleeping doesn't help much, but it works for me. 4 minutes was my record time for falling asleep. It wasn't a deep sleep or anything, but you just need to doze off for crossing over to work. At least, with Philby's override code that sets the sensitivity for the deepness of sleep needed to cross over. That kid could set it up so I could be daydreaming and cross over. I asked for him to do it one time when I had managed to get a week ahead of my schoolwork so I could spend an hour at Disney during calculus, but he said I needed to 'learn'. Psh, as if. 

My mind started to settle, and the only thing I was thinking of was sleep. As I drifted off deeper and deeper, my body got lighter and lighter until I was lifted up onto a cloud of sleep. 

_______

I woke up right smack dab in the middle of the Streets of America. Sitting up I took in my surroundings and realized that I was in front of 'Youse Guys Moychendyse'. I laughed to myself. That name had always given me quite the giggle, especially when I was younger and didn't think words could be spelled any other way, even for humorous purposes. Oh Disney, how you teach us the wonderful light of laughter. Oohh, that sounded profound. I thought to myself. 

"Willa!" I heard my name being called from somewhere along the street. My eyes scanned the storefronts until I saw Amanda waving from in front of the "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" playground. Not wanting to be alone any longer, I raced across the street towards Amanda. 

"Boo!" Finn jumped out from behind the corner and scared me half to death. I screamed at the top of my lungs and just kept on screaming. 

"Shhh..." Amanda pulled me into a hug and smoothed my hair, trying to get me to calm down. Although I did see her high five Finn, who was laughing so hard I didn't think he would ever stop. Thankfully, I stopped screaming and he stopped laughing. 

"Ahhh!" I heard a scream come from inside the playground.

"That sounded awfully familiar..." I trailed off as Finn, Amanda and I walked into the playground. We came to see Charlene sitting in one of the climbing nets all tangled up. 

"What happened?" Amanda asked while trying to stifle a laugh.

"I like, crossed over in midair!" Charlene growled while trying to untangle her wrists from the net. 

"Glitch in the system." Philby walked up behind us. 

"Can you like fix it???" Charlene grumbled, giving Philby a death glare.

"I mean, I could, but... This is hilarious..." Philby smirked, which jutted her chin out at. 

"Anyway, where's Maybeck and Jess?" I asked.

"Jess was having trouble falling asleep, and Maybeck is, well..." We all looked up to where Charlene was pointing to, which just happened to be Maybeck standing atop one of the giant Play Dough containers in the playground. 

"Uh..." Philby murmured.

"You'd better fix this." I heard Charlene growl in his ear.

"How do I get down from here...?" Maybeck looked down and his eyes widened. I looked over to Philby, who was scanning the area for an escape route for Maybeck.

"I got it!" Philby's face lit up as he walked towards Maybeck. "Can you hear me?" Philby yelled up.

"Dude, it's dead silent, I can hear you. Back up a little." Maybeck gave him a little 'back up' hand gesture.

"Oh." Philby took a few big steps backward and looked back towards Maybeck. "Better?" He asked.

"Much." Maybeck replied. "Now how to I get down from here?!" 

"Okay, so. You'll have to get from there to there," Philby pointed to the Play Dough to the top of one of the play structures. "And then jump from that to that." He pointed first at the play structure, and then to one of the top of the netting cages, which was a net. "From there you should be able to jump, it's only like five feet."

Maybeck took a deep sigh. "Okay..." He trailed off, and then took a leap of faith to the top of the play structure. His legs bent at a perfect 90 degree angle as he leaped off of that and onto the net, where he magically stuck the landing. With a smirk, Maybeck jumped off the net and landed feet first on the ground which was more like six or seven feet below him, and finished with an imitation of one of Charlene's gymnastics finishes. We all went from a slow scientist clap to thunderous applause. 

"Thank you, thank you." Maybeck bowed like a maestro that had just finished conducting the hardest Beethoven masterpiece ever created.

"Shhh!" Jess, who had just magically appeared, shushed us. 

"What?" Maybeck loudly whispered, but Charlene clamped her hand over his mouth. 

"Can you hear that?" Jess asked. We all looked at her like she had grown a second head. 

"No..." Amanda trailed off.

"Listen." My ears perked up when I heard a faint sound of knocking on a door. But no, not just any knock. It was the "Frozen" knock. We all gasped simultaneously. 

"C'mon!" Charlene motioned for us to follow her and ran off out of the playground and turned right towards Star Tours. We all followed, but struggled to keep up. I tried to keep my breathing at a minimum so I could hear the music. The song was no longer Do You Wanna Build a Snowman, but had changed to For the First Time in Forever. We dashed past Star Tours and were now charging head on to where American Idol Experience used to be, but was now occupied by For the First Time in Forever: A Frozen Sing-Along Celebration. By the time we reached the blue building, the first piano solo of Let It Go was softly playing through the speakers. 

Quietly, we all slipped through the Fast Pass Plus entrance and into the doors on the left side of the waiting area. When I walked inside, I was amazed. It was snowing! And not the fake Streets of America snow during the Osborne lights, or the fake snow used in the show, but real live snow! And in Florida too. I took a quick glace at the other Keepers, who's eyes were also glazed over in amazement. In front of us onstage was Elsa, blasting ice across the stage with ease. From her palms shot real ice! On top of that, her dress was stunning. Opposite to that of Katniss Everdeen's, the blue fabric shimmered like ice when she twirled. I felt like a little girl, wanting to be in Elsa's place, wearing that dress. Ice started to form on the walls and instead of the projected flags turning blue like during the show, the real tangible flags that were hung froze over when they were struck by Elsa's magic. 

The last few bars of the song rang out, and Anna and Kristoff came out on ice skates, genuinely enjoying the ice instead of actors pretending to enjoy the soap. Anna laughed and threw some of the snow at Kristoff, who's nose turned red from the sudden cold. Elsa laughed and with a whip of her finger she formed a little heart arch over Kristoff and Anna, who acted annoyed but you could tell enjoyed it. Their laughing ceased when they saw us staring like a bunch of creepy stalker people. 

Elsa was the first to speak up. "What brings you all here to the kingdom of Arendelle?" 

"You're not working for Prince Hans of the Southern Isles, are you?" Anna gave us an unsure glance.

"No," Finn laughed. "We're the Keepers of the Kingdom. The Kingdom Keepers, if you will." I laughed at Finn's attempt to talk formally in front of a queen. And a princess and a Kristoff, I suppose. 

"Kingdom Keepers...?" Kristoff asked.

"Oh, oh! I wanna join!" Anna started waving her hand around like a school girl waiting to be called on. 

"Nope, just us." Maybeck smirked, to which Charlene elbowed him.

"Interesting. Well, you're welcome here, but what brings you here?" Elsa asked again.

"Well, we heard the music and just couldn't resist!" Charlene said. They all smiled.

"I'm glad to hear that. What can we help you with?" Elsa offered. 

"Wow, that's a long list." Philby muttered and rubbed the back of his neck.

"Name the first task!" Anna smiled encouragingly. 

"Hm... Have you guys experience any other unwanted interruptions?" Finn started, probably looking for some OT insight. 

"What do you mean?" Elsa asked.

"Remember the other night when those walking broom things came in?" Anna suggested to her sister. We all stopped breathing.

"Uh, Anna, I don't think they like those..." Kristoff trailed off.

"Wh-what did they do?" Finn asked, not really wanting the answer.

Elsa groaned, irritated. "Where do I even start? I was practicing making all these beautiful ice sculptures, some of them were real works of art, and those darned broomsticks came in and melted them with this green goo! I was so sad." She frowned. Anna came over and gave her a quick hug. 

"Did they do anything... Threatening?" Philby asked.

"Well, they did pretend to tip one of the buckets at me, but the goo never quite tipped over the edge, to my relief." Anna said.

"Oh. Don't touch it if they ever do that again..." I warned. 

"Why?" Elsa asked me. I felt the urge to curtsy before talking to her.

"Let's just say they don't just ruin ice..." I hoped she would connect the dots. With the expression she was giving me, I had a feeling she did.

"That's horrible! Someone should take those buckets away." Anna stomped her foot for emphasis, which happened to be right were Kristoff's curly toed shoe was. He immediately jerked his leg up to his chest and started rubbing his foot. "I'm sorry!" Anna exclaimed and turned her attention away from us and to Kristoff's foot. 

"Anyway," Jess tried to get us back on track.

"Just let us know if anything strange happens again." Finn instructed.

"How can we contact you?" Elsa asked.

"Do you know Wayne Kresky?" Finn knew the answer, but it's always best to double check.

"That kind old man? Yes, he's been here before. Shall I contact him with any concerns?" Elsa inquired.

"Yeah, that's best." I told her.

"Well, it's been nothing but a pleasure!" Elsa smiled, giving us the cue that it was okay to leave.

"For us as well!" Amanda spoke for all of us. We smiled before walking out the door.

"Until next time!" Elsa waved goodbye.

"Bye!" Kristoff and Anna said and waved in unison.

Walking out of the the theater, I noticed beautiful ice patterns on the doors. I smiled, touching them. They were the purest ice I've ever felt. With a smile on my face, I walked outside into the warm Florida air. 

Hi friends!!! This was a long one!! Did you all enjoy it as much as i enjoyed writing it? I hope so :)

What did you guys think of my little Maybeck action scene. What about the scaring Willa one? I loved writing the Frozen one. 

You're probably wondering how I know the parks so well. Now, no one say I'm crazy, but I live up in the midwest and have been to Disney 23ish (idk, it's probably more lol) times in my 14 years, but didn't start until I was four. And I'm proud to say we are going for like the 24th or 25th time this spring break! So excited!!!

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