She loved her tower. She really did. It was warm and welcoming, and beautiful. Decorated with her paintings, frozen tics in time, each, in their own way, telling her life's stories. Some showed her as a child, carefree, short haired, and happy. Others were of older versions of herself, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen years old, still carefree, still happy. Higher on the walls, ages sixteen, seventeen, no longer a little girl, but a young woman, ready to be free, to dance and run around, outside. Outside where the floating lights were, waiting for her, just for her. She turned her attention to the latest painting, of those beautiful lanterns, and sighed. Her dream had come true, and now, she was off to see her new one.
It was hard to leave, it really was. Gothel may have been considered evil by most, but she was the only family Rapunzel had even known. They both loved each other as a mother and daughter would. She may have just been used her entire life, but still, Gothel must have loved her, right? You couldn't raise a child and not love it, could you?
She knew she had to leave. Down below, he was waiting. Faintly, she could see him waiting for her to follow him, come away with him, away from her past, and from all the horror she'd just experienced.
"Rapunzel!" He yelled, squinting to see her. "What's wrong? Come on! Before the sun starts to set!"
He was right. They needed to leave now.
"Good bye tower." She whispered, taking on last look at the small round room where she had spent the last eighteen years of her life.
She was off now. Leaving the confinement of her tower. To see the world, to meet her family, to be loved and to be free.
A tear rolled down her face. Her life with Gothel was all she ever knew and now it was gone. Dead and gone. Nothing before the last few days seemed to matter, and for some reason, Rapunzel accepted this.
She flung the powerless brown hair over a hook above the window, and made the plung. The life of the girl from the tower was gone, and Princess Rapunzel's was just beginning.
Well, this originally started as a short story entry for a contest, but someone pointed out that it reminded them of Tangled. I changed it a little bit to fit Tangled specifically, rather than the original fairy tale. Hope you liked it! If not, sorry I wasted your time. But if you did, thanks:)