This is an updated version of chapter one, as there was some confusion with ages in the first. Ages will be further explained in the next few chapters :)

"Pleease Merida!"

The older girl groaned and rolled over in her bed, gaining a mouthful of her thick red curls as she did so. At the same time, a ton of blond hair poured down from the bunk above and landed only inches from her face, causing Merida to start backwards just as Rapunzel landed down next to her pile of stupendously long hair.

"Please?" the girl tried again.

Merida looked at her flat mate and best friend of 10 years standing before her. She wore a pink nightie that went down to the floor and hung loose on her tiny frame. It was trimmed with purple lace, and a pink bow sat in the centre of the neckline. Her massive green eyes gleamed at Merida from below several strands of golden hair, and Merida's blue bedside lamp caused them to glow like the bottom of the ocean as she chattered excitedly, not waiting for her friend's response.

"Jack seems really nice, we've skyped a few times," she was saying. "But because this is the first time I've actually met him in person, I thought I'd feel safer with you with me. He suggested a double date, and then told me about his friend Hiccup-"

"Hiccup!" Merida had shrieked with laughter. "Who in their right mind would call their son Hiccup? The poor child!" Merida snorted in a most unladylike manner, and then choked as she recovered from her fit of giggles. Tears streamed down her face as she looked back up at Rapunzel, who was just barely smiling.

"Punz, you know I don't like to date in February, never mind on actual Valentine's Day, aka MY BIRTHDAY. I thought we were going to go to the pandemonium club and spend the night there."

Rapunzel grinned at this. The smile seemed to light up the girls entire face, and her eyes glowed an even brighter green. She reached down and pulled Merida with surprising strength from the bed so she was standing upright. Even though Merida was 6 months older than the blonde, she was still an inch or so shorter, and had to look up as the other girl tentatively began to talk again.

"Well," she began sheepishly. "I thought the boys could come too?"

Merida pursed her lips, then sighed. Defeat was coming her way, she could see it on the horizon. She had walked in on one of Rapunzel and Jack's skype sessions before, and he seemed nice enough, although she was concerned about his age.

"How old are they?" she asked, answering a question with another question, a habit she knew infuriated her best friend.

A look of mild panic passed over Rapunzel's face, but she regally regained composure and plastered on a nonchalant smile.

"They're both 20," she said sweetly. "Jacks birthday was last January and Hiccup's is in May,"

Merida blanched. She'd never dated a boy older than her. She believed it gave them more power than she had, and that made her nervous, something the read head rarely ever was. To add to it all though, Jack was almost 2 years older than Rapunzel. Merida had always felt responsible for Rapunzel, and this was teetering on the edge of madness. But she owed Rapunzel after breaking her favourite hairbrush (hairbrushes were a vitality in their flat), and this seemed like the right thing to do.

With a sign, the shorter girl put her hands on her hips.

"Well," she said. "What should I wear?"

Rapunzel squealed and threw her arms around Merida, who groaned and shoved her off then made her way through to make breakfast.