Chapter 2

The next day, Prince Charming just couldn't get Giselle off of his mind. Oh he still loved his wife Cinderella, but Giselle with her strawberry blond hair and doe-eyed stare along with her innocence was someone that he just couldn't forget.

Quietly he saddled his horse and rode into the woods, straight to Giselle's cottage, where he could hear her singing. When Giselle looked out the window and noticed Charming, she bounded out of the house and ran up to him, yelling "You're here! You're here! Oh I knew you would come! Hi!" then gave him a hug.

"Oh hello Giselle! Ha ha, quite the greeting!" Charming laughed then peeled her off.

"Oh Char yesterday when we were chatting, I started to wonder about you." Giselle commented.

"Really? What do you want to know?" Charming answered with a question.

"I want to know all about you. What makes you tick?" she asked.

"Well I'm a prince, have been my whole life. I've been married for almost five years now to my wife Cindy. Cindy's something else herself, sings to animals and so forth much like you do, and is quite handy in the kitchen too. She was lucky that I was able to help her out of that situation with her step mother right before we married." Charming explained.

"Oh she sounds lovely!" Giselle gasped.

"Oh yes she is, although we sometimes have our issues too. One of which is that we haven't produced an heir yet..." Charming sighed.

"An heir what's that?" Giselle asked innocently.

"Oh you are so young and innocent...well lets just say its something that my wife and I are having issues with." Charming sighed dejectedly.

"That's too bad and so sad...Oh I know you should sing to her!" Giselle gasped.

"Sing to her?" he asked.

"Oh yes, sing to her a sweet ballad that tells of your affection, then you'll know for sure." Giselle started to sing, as she danced around in a circle.

"Well if you think it would work?" he replied.

"Oh yes a ballad would be lovely indeed." Giselle said as she knelt down beside him. Then she asked "Why were you staring at me?"

"Oh your dancing reminds me of a mythical wood sprite. You're such a wild little thing, keep on dancing if you like. Though I just realized that you are barefoot and don't have any shoes. That's funny, especially considering how I'd met my wife..." he said as she got up and began to dance again.

"Oh why does that matter? I like being barefoot." Giselle laughed as she danced around.

"Yes you're right, I guess it shouldn't. It shouldn't matter what size shoe someone wears or what her voice sounds like, as a deciding factor about someone." he trailed off in thought.

"Ah you're getting somewhere now, Char." Giselle said as she continued to dance.

"Hmm, Giselle would you like to learn how we dance at the palace?" Charming interrupted.

"Oh of course! What do I do?" she asked as she stopped dancing.

Prince Charming stood up, went over to her, took her hand and instructed her "Okay, to be a real princess you must learn to waltz. The waltz is fairly easy, you just stand like this and put your one hand here and your other there..."

"Like this?"

"Yes good job. Okay just follow me, One-two-three-one-two-three, yeah there you're getting it..." he said as he led her through a waltz and hummed a simple tune.

"He he this is fun...oops sorry about stepping on your foot.." Giselle giggled and followed his lead.

"Oh ha ha that's fine. Perhaps it is good you're barefoot, so that when you step on my toes it doesn't hurt so much." Charming chuckled.

"Hmm, this is fun...but why can't we go faster, like this..." Giselle said as she led him in a quick polka-like folk dance.

She led through her dance a bit, until Charming started getting a bit out of breath, then he replied "Oh ho Giselle! Ha ha quite the dance! You'll have to show me how this one's done on your own." Then collapsed on the ground a stared up at her.

Giselle just laughed and proceeded to dance in the tall grass in the sun. She then fell down and picked flowers which she wove into her hair, and they proceeded to walk and talk awhile longer, until it was time for Charming to leave. At their parting, Giselle patted his hand and looked up at him, saying "Remember what I said about the ballad, and good luck."

"Okay Giselle I'll remember. Until later..." Charming said as he rode away.

"Goodbye Char, until later!" Giselle called as she waved.