Summary: Eugene and Rapunzel have been living together in the castle for almost a year now when Rapunzel's father throws a ball and invites all the princes from every kingdom of the world in hopes of Rapunzel finally choose the man she is to marry. Will Eugene be able figure out his feelings for and let Rapunzel know or will Rapunzel choose another to marry?

So this story kinda started more as a drabble about how Eugene finally pops the question and I thought of making it a one-shot. But I decided to go with chapters cause that would be one of the longest one-shot ever! This is based off of the line where Eugene says "After years and years of asking and asking and asking, I finally said yes." I just decided to make it just a year cause who knows if Eugene was just being funny when he said "years and years." Any way enjoy! Please review! I want feed back so I can be a better writer!

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"It's a pleasure to finally meet you, Princess Rapunzel."

Eugene rolled his eyes as the fiftieth prince greeted the princess today. All of them seemed to say the exact same thing. They had been in the audience hall almost all day greeting these princes and he was about the punch the next prince to tell Rapunzel that she was the "most beautiful princess he had ever seen in any country."

Why did they all have to be the same self-centered, egotistical, rich bastards with the worst pickup lines on the face of the earth? Not to mention that most of them only got a girl because they had money or that they were from a foreign country.

Eugene looked towards Rapunzel. How could she put up with greeting all the princes who were only here because of some ball her father was holding? Despite his hatred for the princes that came flocking in and out of the audience hall, he had to be nice towards them or who knows what the king would do to him.

As he was watching Rapunzel, he couldn't help but noticing just how beautiful she looked sitting on her throne, wearing a stunning sunflower yellow dress that she had made just the day before. Her short brown hair, now reaching her shoulders, shone brightly in the sunlight that streamed in through the high windows of the hall. He smiled as he thought how far she had come in almost a year.

A year ago she was just a normal eighteen-year-old girl. She lived in a secluded tower hidden from everyone and knew nothing about the world or her own heritage. She had never once left the tower for fear of the world and because of her hair. Her long golden blonde hair could heal anyone and stretched a whopping seventy feet, which was the reason that Mother Gothel kept her cooped up there. But that was all before he met her; before he climbed into her tower and before they went on their crazy adventure.

If he had never come to that tower what would life be like now for her? Would she have ever left that tower or ever figure out who she really was? Would he still be on the run from everyone and anyone?

"Eugene?"

"Huh?" Eugene's head snapped up and standing in front of him was Rapunzel.

"You okay?" She said tilting her head to the side slightly.

"What you talking about Blondie?" He said with a confused look on his face.

"Well you just looked really concerned about something. I thought something was wrong."

He chuckled a little bit and noticing her confused look said, "I'm fine. Just got lost in thought about how great I am." He gave her one of his dashing smiles.

She laughed and pushed his arm. "Oh stop teasing me."

"What I can't tease you now that you're all mighty princess?"

Her checks turned a little pink at his comment. "That's not what I meant and you know it!" She pouted at him playfully as she walked towards the doors of the audience hall. "So now that we're done here, what do you want to do?"

"Anything is good with me as long as we don't have to entertain all those snobby princes anymore." Eugene made a face which caused Rapunzel to laugh.

"How about we go for a boat ride around the lake? That way we can be alone for a while. Sound good?"

Eugene smiled at her again. He loved it when he could be alone with her. Especially when they hadn't had any time alone together in a while, in this case since the princes had started arriving.

"Sounds great to me, anything to get me out of this castle and away from the royalty here."

"They really aren't that bad, Eugene." She said as they walked out into the court yard of the castle. "Your just jealous because they are getting more attention then you are."

"I am not jealous of those stuffy rich snobs."

But when she turned to look at him she noticed him turning slightly pink. "Of course you're not jealous."

Together they walked down to the docks. They rented a small row boat in which they boarded and rowed out into the middle of the lake. There was silence between them as they sat there enjoying the quiet serene landscape. It was a long time before either of them spoke.

"Eugene?"

"Yeah, Blondie?"

"Would you dance with me at the ball tomorrow night?"

Eugene looked at her, slightly surprised. "Well…..I….um…."

"I understand if you don't want to, but I was…."

Eugene interrupted her. "I'd love to, your majesty."

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Next chapter should be up sometime over the weekend and I will meet this deadline!