NoahAs we drew closer to the exit, a sudden fear tore through me. It was the kind of fear that made you shake from your core to your skin. My heart started beating and my legs became heavy. I couldn’t move. I was looking at the entrance but I couldn’t get to it anymore. It dawn on me that leaving the safe walls of this castle meant my relationship with Rapunzel was going to be tested. She might even find out about what had actually brought me to the castle. The men following after me might catch up with me. I might end up complicating Rapunzel’s life.What was I thinking when I accepted to take her out of the castle so soon?Those guards might have already printed out my pictures and other identification for people to see. I stole the lost princess’s crown! The entire city would be looking out for me.My eyes strained on Rapunzel as she rushed to the door. I was already thinking of how to make her turn around. We could view the lights from her bedroom. I would make love to her and sh
NoahMy eyes never stopped looking out for the guards as we moved deeper into the town. As soon as I saw a group of people staring down at a black and white picture on the wall, I knew without a doubt that it was me. We had to leave the streets especially now that the sun was up. In the dark it would be easier to slip around.As soon as we got to the fountain were parents let their kids play for it was just opposite the city guard office. People considered it to be the safest place in town. I decided to leave Rapunzel there pending the time I found us a place to stay. Moving around the motels with her didn’t seem like a very good idea to me. I would have to go alone and find a place and then bring her along.“Wait for me here,” I said as we got closer to the fountain were a couple of little girls were playing.She stared up at me and the smile on her face seem to die down. “Where are you going?” she asked.“I need to secure a good place for us and food,” I explained as fast as I could
Chapter Twelve: RapunzelI watched as Noah walked deeper into the forest. I wasn’t scared of being left alone, rather I was excited. Everything looked so beautiful. Nothing could harm me in a place like this. The more I looked around the more I became convinced that my mother was just selfishly keeping me in the castle. Nothing wrong could happen to anyone out here –I thought to myself.The tree log felt so smooth under my fingers, none of the chairs in the castle could compare. The trees overhead looked so majestic yet they seemed to bow before me as I stared at them. Just then a yellow butterfly came flying and I reached my hand to it. Butterflies came to the castle once in a while but this one was different. It had the brightest shade of yellow I had ever seen even in my many books. It landed on my forefinger and I smiled sweetly at it. It felt like we could communicate. It was telling me beautiful tales and I was listening –even though I couldn’t understand.But then it flew away
Rapunzel“I’ll see you, girls, at the festival! Bye!” I called out to the girls as Noah led me away from them. “Bye-Bye!” the girls chorused as they all smiled sweetly at me. I noticed as their eyes focused on my hair as I turned to leave.Everyone was intrigued by my hair. They all wanted to touch it. At first, I was shy, but the more they came closer the calmer I felt. It felt like that was my purpose and a sense of fulfillment took over me and even as Noah pulled me alongside him, I kept staring back at the little crowd behind us wishing it never stopped.I wanted to ask Noah so many things as we moved through the streets. Naturally, I felt he was going too fast but I stayed quiet. Since he said we were going somewhere we could rest, I would ask him all the questions there. I still felt like he was afraid of something. He kept watching our backs like some monster would appear and take us back to the castle long after we had left the fountain and the little crowd that had come to t
RapunzelDid mother lie to me? –I wondered in my head.“Rapunzel… I don’t want you to put things in your head. I just want you to be happy,” Noah said as he rubbed my upper arm. He was trying to calm me but all I felt was the impending signs of panic.It felt like a bomb of questions had just gone off in my head. No matter how hard I tried to understand the situation, another came up and it became another entanglement of issues. I was having a headache. I leaned on Noah and he gladly comforted me. I was confused beyond doubt about my own existence. Who was I? Did my mother lie to me? If the world outside was really that dangerous, how come she was always outside and not inside with me?Why did she lock me up while she went out as she pleased? Who was my father?All the times I had tried asking her about this, it was either she got really angry with me or she started crying. She had never truly given me and answer about who my father was.What if the Queen never died and the King is my
NoahI walked out of the room not just to get her food but to also be able to get a hold of myself. Ever since Laura had mentioned the possibility of Rapunzel being the missing princess I wasn’t myself anymore. My mind was going through denial. My heart refused to accept the signs that had always been there for me to see. Right from the very first day, I set my eyes on her I knew I had seen her somewhere. I thought her face was very familiar and I should know her. At the time, I couldn’t pinpoint where I had seen those bright blue eyes and such a shade of golden hair… but now I knew where I saw it.It was in the palace.The day I had gone to the palace to steal the crown from the guards, I had seen a picture of the princess for the first time, and for the first time, and I believed that she had indeed existed. Before that theft, I use to refuse to accept the story of the missing princess. I used to be certain that she had died. Maybe she also got poisoned like her mother or worst may
RapunzelThe sun was going down and the sky was golden as Noah held my hand and we made our way across the streets to where the ceremony was supposed to take place. My heart was fluttering with so much excitement, I couldn’t even bring myself to ask questions. I wanted to close my eyes and appear magically there. The lights have intrigued me all my life. It was like a magnetic pull that called unto me. In fact on nights when my mother left me all alone in the castle on my birthdays, the lights gave me comfort.“We are close,” Noah whispered as we took a bend I remembered taking during the day –it was the path that led to the river.I could already hear the murmurs of the people that already gathered there and I shuffled my legs faster. I could see the sparkles of light already forming in the distance and I felt my heart skip a beat as my excitement increased to a thousand folds.“They are about to start,” Noah said as we got to the river bank where the people were gathered watching as
NoahOur lips moved in sync in a dance of passion. I felt the emptiness in my heart fill up and I got taken over by emotion. I didn’t want to admit this earlier but I had fallen in love with Rapunzel from the very first day I met her. I couldn’t survive without her. If the King took her away, what would become of me?She broke away from the kiss and held my cheeks in her warm hands as her blue eyes searched my face, “Are you okay,” she asked in a small voice.I wanted to tell her to forget about it. I wanted to tell her that I was fine and all was well but I couldn’t bring myself to lie. My heart was shaking. This seemed like my last time with her. I broke."Please don't leave me," I whispered brokenly. Her eyes narrowed as she tried to understand what I was saying, yet all I could say was, "Please don't leave me."She cradled me in her arms offering me the assurance that I needed. She was there with me and that was all that mattered at that point.“I won’t ever leave you,” she said a