Today was the night, Rapunzel was finally turning fourteen and the floating lights were going to make their appearance once again; like they always do on the night of her birth. Slowly creeping out of her bed, the long golden blonde haired girl tiptoed out of her room and past her mother's open door. With her hair dragging behind her, the green eyed girl listened carefully for the even breathing that indicated that her mother was asleep. Once hearing that peaceful breathing, Rapunzel continued onward, careful that her hair didn't bump into anything and accidentally woke her mother.
Once Rapunzel was sure she was safely out of hearing distance, she let out a small sigh of relief before descending down the sturdy wooden steps that led to the tower's main area. With the light of the moon guiding the way, the fourteen year old walked excitedly towards the open window, barely able to contain her excitement as she pulled one of the plush chairs over and place in right before the window. Taking a seat in the chair, Rapunzel placed her elbows against the wooden bottom frame of the window and leaned forward, careful not to lean too far out. After waiting a few minutes, the first light started to float across the sky before multiple lights followed, lighting the sky with its bright orange-y lights.
Rapunzel let out a happy sigh as she continued to look at the lights with a dreamy smile on her lips. A flash of bright silver caught Rapunzel's eyes, making her stumble out of her previous position. Scrambling to her feet, Rapunzel peered out further until her upper half was almost completely out of her window. Looking all around, Rapunzel almost gave up until a loud boastful laugh caught her attention towards the lights. Looking up, Rapunzel almost let out a small shriek before catching herself. With her hands placed tightly over her mouth, Rapunzel looked at the laughing teen with wide eyes. With only a deep blue hoodie and calf-length trousers, the silver haired male was floating in the air casually, a long wooden hook shaped staff held loosely in his right hand.
Peering out of the window further, Rapunzel tried to catch a better glimpse of the boy, slightly fascinated with the sort of grace the boy held. Rapunzel's hand twitched slightly, silently wishing for her paints that were up in her room. Before she could try and catch herself, Rapunzel leaned a bit too far out and felt the air rush past her face as she started to fall out of the tall stone built tower. Unable to contain herself, Rapunzel let out a loud scream, catching the boy's attention in the process. Seeing the dark ground rush towards her, Rapunzel shut her eyes tightly, too frightened to do anything. Rapunzel hoped that the fall wouldn't knock her out and that the fall wouldn't kill her in the process because even though she really disliked healing herself with her magical hair, she always had that if things were really life threatening. That thought was cut short as a pair of arms wrapped around her waist and the speed around her slowed until she was floating in mid-air. Opening her eyes slowly, green eyes met with frantic blue.
"Hey, you alright?" The frantic urgency that once filled the blue eyes started to fade to gleeful delight once Rapunzel nodded slowly, her eyes flickering to her surroundings.
"Some fall, huh? I think next time you should avoid doing that when you look out your window," the silver haired teen chuckled before floating upward towards the ledge of the window. Out of reflex, Rapunzel wrapped her arms around the teen's torso tightly, unsure of the situation she found herself in.
"Hey now, not too tight," the teen choked out before Rapunzel loosened her hold slightly. Once the two reached the window, the blue eyed teen placed Rapunzel on the ledge of the window, careful that she wouldn't fall once more before slowly backing away.
"Wait," Rapunzel protested, her hand shot out quickly, which caused her to lose her balance slightly. Carefully taking hold of her hand, the blue eyed teen eased the unbalanced Rapunzel into a more stable position before dropping his hand, but remained within reaching distance.
"You really need to be careful, you know. Why don't you tie yourself to something, or you could try using your long locks for something," the teen said, gesturing to the bounds and bounds of golden hair that pooled behind her.
"What do you mean?" Rapunzel asked, unsure as to what the floating pale faced boy meant. With a cheeky grin, the boy started to beam at Rapunzel with a childlike energy.
"I once saw this girl have her hair braided and accidently hit this kid and gave him a bruise. Now I'm not saying you try hitting people with your hair or anything, but the braid reminding me of a whip or at least rope. Since you have so much, you probably won't feel it as much as if you had short hair. You could use your hair as a whip like in those movies," Rapunzel couldn't help but smile at the boy's uncontained glee that was in a way, almost contagious because Rapunzel couldn't help but started talking in an excited chatter with the mysterious teen.
"Yeah, getting around the tower would be so much easier if I could do that," Rapunzel said, a wide smile spreading across her face as she started to fiddle around with a couple strands of her hair.
"You'd be a force to reckon with if you could do that," the teen said before floating onto his stomach, "Like some sort of superhero." Rapunzel laughed at this.
"Maybe if I got out of my tower," Rapunzel said without any heat, causing the teen before her to frown slightly.
"Hey kid, are you held here against your will or something? I could get you out you know, we could have some real fun instead of just sitting here doing nothing." Rapunzel shook her head no before swinging her legs back and forth.
"No, mother just doesn't want me to go outside where anyone can harm me. She says that there's some bad men out there that might want to take me away from her," Rapunzel said, practically quoting her mother.
"You've seriously never been out of this tower before?" Rapunzel shook her head no again, feeling a bit embarrassed of the fact.
"Well geez, you are really missing out, kid. You really need to get out, see the world and whatever. How much fun can you have in here?" Rapunzel opened her mouth to protest, but couldn't think of much to do in the confinements of her tower.
"Well, there's painting, and mother is teaching me how to bake, plus she's brought back so many books from her last outing, so I can learn something from them." The boy let out a fake yawn, which earned him a frown.
"Okay okay, yeah, those could be fun too, I guess, but are you ever going to try and go outside? Rapunzel pursed her lips together as she thought this over. She did want to go out and see the world, but she also didn't want to disappoint her mother, so she decided a bit of compromise.
"Well maybe later, when I'm older." The teen perked up at this slight compromise Rapunzel had created for herself.
"How much older? Never too soon to go out and have some fun." Rapunzel gave some more thought to this before asking the teen before her a question.
"Well, how old are you? I'll go when I reach your age," Rapunzel said with a bit of hesitancy. The teen groaned at Rapunzel's question before flipping onto his back and into a more comfortable position.
"I'm a bit older than I look, kid. By the time you reach my age, you'd be here for more than a century."
"Well then, how old do you look?"
"You tell me." Rapunzel huffed out angrily, a bit frustrated with the teen's answer.
"How am I suppose to know? I haven't even left my tower and only mother and I live here." The teen gave a bit of a laugh at this before turning back onto his stomach.
"Alright alright, I guess I'd be about eighteen if we're going by appearance." Looking up at the teen, Rapunzel nodded slightly.
"So when I'm eighteen, I'll go and leave my tower," Rapunzel mumbled, both hesitant and excited for the day.
"Great! You promise?" Rapunzel froze slightly at the teen's words, promises were a very big deal to the fourteen year old, once she promised something, she could never go back on it.
"I...promise," Rapunzel heard herself say before a gust of wind brushed over her face.
"Whoops, gotta go soon. Running late apparently. Hey, do you mind taking care of this little guy, he somehow clung onto me when I was making my rounds. Don't think he appreciates the cold very much." In the boy's hand was a vibrant green chameleon, barely bigger than the boy's thumb. Rapunzel couldn't help but coo at the tiny green chameleon; looking up at the teen, Rapunzel nodded excitedly with her hands cupped out and ready for the chameleon.
"Alright, gotta go now. You take care, kid. No more falling out of towers, okay." Rapunzel nodded, barely able to contain her glee as she petted the baby chameleon with her pointer finger. Before the teen could fly away, Rapunzel snapped her head up and called to the boy.
"Hey! I forgot to ask for your name!"
"It's Jack Frost!" the boy replied back before taking to the skies.
"Nice to meet you, Jack! I'm Rapunzel!" Jack turned back towards the blonde haired girl and gave one final wave before letting the wind take him towards their next destination; a wide grin spread across Jack's pale face, showing off his pearly whites as final words escaped past his lips before he was completely out of sight.
"She can see me."
JACKUNZEL WEEK! Just something to show my support to one of the cutest couples I came across. Prompt 1. Leave me a thought before you go. I own nothing; Rise of the Guardians belongs to dreamworks and Tangled belongs to Disney.