Well, here's my first Disney fanfiction. Here goes nothing
She wakes up on a typical Monday morning. She sings to pass the time.
"7:00 am, the usual morning line up: start on the chores, sweep 'till the floor's all clean, polish and wax, do laundry, mop, and shine up. Sweep again, and by then, its like 7:15. And so I'll read a book, or maybe two, or three. I'll add a few new paintings to my gallery. Ill play guitar and knit and cook and basically just wonder when will my life begin."
She is just ten. Mother Gothel says that she's old enough to take care of herself now and went took the day's walk to town for supplies. And she gave her chores so she has something to do all day. Repunzel finds herself lonely, though. She has never been by herself like this. Well, not since Mother Gothel went to the seaside for those white shells to make paint.
Just as she is finishing polishing the silverware and is starting to put it away, there's a knock on the window. She looks over, rather confused and hops down from her stool, her golden hair dragging on the floor behind her. She pulls open the shutters. On the other side of the glass is a girl dressed in boys clothes. And she's covered in dirt. To the point where its hard to tell what her hair color is.
The girl has chocolate brown eyes and dark matted hair. Her skin is a sunkissed caramel color.
Repunzel blinks in surprise. And her heart starts to beat faster with fear. "H-how did you find this place?" She asks, taking several steps back.
The girl climbs in the window.
"You're not supposed to be here!" Repunzel says, grabbing the broom from where it was leaning nearby, pointing the business end at her like a weapon.
The mystery girl frowns. "I'm not gonna hurt ya.." she says reaching out with her left hand.
"That's what a ruffian would say!" Repunzel says, whacking it with the broom.
The mystery girl tilts her head in confusion as she pulls her hand bacj. "I'm no ruffian! I'm Dralina!" She says pointing her thumb at her chest. Repunzel relaxes a little, lowering the broomstick.
"Are gonna try and steal my hair?" She asks, suspicious still.
Dralina looks confused again. "What would I want with your hair? That sounds nutty." she says, crossing her arms.
Repunzel, stands there for a minute, trying to decide if she believes her or not. "Well, if you dont want my hair, what do you want?" She asks, setting the broom back.
"Well, I was a'splorin' and I was followin' this creek and it led me here." She says shrugging. "I heard you guys havin' a row and I overheard her tellin' you that you wasn't allowed outside. So I waited to see if she would leave. Been watching this place for a couple of days now. So here I am."
Repunzel blinks in surprised. "Well, why did you come up here?" She asks.
"You looked lonely. I thought that you could use a friend.." Dralina says.
Repunzel sighs. "Well, you would have to leave before Mother comes home... And we have to be smart about if you eat my food." She says. She throws her arms up, spinning and motioning around. "Welcome to my house. This is our main area. We have laundry hanging up there." She points at the rafters where the clothes line is.
There are all sorts of undergarments and towels hanging currently.
Dralina giggles. "Nice undies, Blondie." She says, mock punching Repunzel on the shoulder.
"Hey! Be nice to my undies!" Repunzel pouts, her cheeks getting a little red.
Dralina giggles more. "Do you got a room?" She asks.
Repunzel nods and leads her up the stairs towards her room.
"Whoa, its pretty in here! Much nicer than my room. I share with my little brother." Dralina says, looking around. She spies a small flower painted on the wall that looks like it was done with finger paints. "Did you paint this?" She asks.
Repunzel walks over. "Yeah. It was just a practice flower. Mother says I can paint the walls but it has to be beautiful or she'll paint it back over." She says pointing to the new-looking patches of cream colored paint higher up on the wall.
"What's your family like?" Repunzel asks.
"Well, I got two older brothers, a little brother, a Mama and a Pa. My Pa is a woodworker. He makes stuff out of wood and sells it to people. Sometimes its art and sometimes its stuff like boxes. My Mama is a seamstress. She makes clothes in a real mean rich lady's shop. My oldest brother is married and lives in the capitol. My second oldest brother is learning the stuff my Pa knows. And my Mama takes my little brother to work with her so I can just do whatever I want." Dralina says.
"What's it like having brothers?" Repunzel asks. "I dont have brothers or sisters."
"Well, when everyones home, its loud. And my older brothers like to fight." She aays shrugging.
"What's your father like? I don't have one of those either." Repunzel asks.
"Well, he's so annoying. And embarrassing. He keeps trying to tell me that I'll marry this kid Felix one day. And in public." She says sticking her tongue out in disgust.
"Gross." Repunzel says.
Dralina giggles. "What do you do for fun around here?" She asks.
"Paint, candlemaking, knitting, I play chess... And quite a few other things.." Repunzel says. "And Mother brought back some playing cards the last time she went to market."
Dralina nods. "How does your mama get in and out of here?" She asks.
"Rope and pulley." Repunzel says. "But its going out. Who knows how long it will keep working."
Dralina nods. "Wanna go outside and play?" She asks.
Repunzel freezes and shakes her head. "Mother says I can't go outside. She says the outside world is dangerous for little girls." She says.
Dralina nods. "Well, yeah, its dangerous. But it aint hard to learn the things you gotta know about the oustside world. There are certain things you gotta know about certain things to stay out of trouble." She says. "Like, you always gotta avoid kids that's bigger than you, or they'll be comin' for anything you got in your pockets."
Repunzel bites her lip. "Really? Other kids are mean?" She asks softly.
"Some of them are. Especially if they're worse off than you." She says, sitting up on Repunzel's bed.
"Worse off?" Repunzel asks.
Dralina sighs. "Sometimes kids don't have parents to take care of them. Or their parents don't have good jobs and can't feed 'em good."
"Oh.. Well that's not good." Repunzel says.
"Not a lot you can do for them." Dralina says, swinging her legs slowly. "They just got a lot more worries then kids with parents do."
"Oh.." Repunzel says, looking down.
"Let's not talk about that anymore. Let's do something!" Dralina says a bright smile spreading on her face.
"Do you know how to play Go Fish?" Repunzel asks, going over to her toy chest and lifting the lid.
"No. My parents don't have playing cards." Dralina says, hopping off the bed to follow her. "We can play dolls since you have more than one."
Repunzel nods and pulls out her two dolls. One was blonde with hazel eyes like her and the other had pale blonde hair with clear blue eyes.
She also pulls out a black stuffed horse with a blue cloth sewn to its back and a sandy colored stuffed house with a pink hat with daisies on it attached to its head. She hands the black horse and the pale blonde doll to her new friend.
"So why are you covered in dirt?" Repunzel asks. "Do you not have clean clothes to wear?"
Dralina looks down at the clothes she's wearing, lifting her leg to inspect her shoes too. "Well, I didn't even notice." She says shrugging.
"I can make you a bath if you want, but I dont have anything for you to wear."
Dralina scrunches up her face in disgust. "Ew! I dont like taking baths." She says.
"Well you're gonna have to.. it be a real problem to have to clean up after you've been here. I have to sweep again.." Repunzel says frowning. "Next time at least get most of it off of you before you get here."
Dralina smiles brightly. "So I can come back." She says, not really a question.
Repunzel gets all flustered. "Whatever, just make sure that Mother doesn't see you." She says pouting.
"Why? Why can't you have a friend?" Dralina asks, tilting her head to the side.
"Well, its a secret..." Repunzel says, absently touching her hair.
Dralina frowns. "Its alright. We don't gotta talk about it..." She says.
Repunzel smiles a little. "Ok." She says and they play games until the sun starts to touch the treetops.
Dralina frowns. "I have to leave now, don't I?" She says.
Repunzel nods.
Dralina gives her friend a hug and climbs out the window. Repunzel watches, worried that her new friend might slip. But, she doesnt. She makes it safely to the bottom. Dralina waves and runs towards the entrance of the little clearing. Repunzel sighs and starts cleaning up, anxiously awaiting for her mother to get home.