Rapunzel's POV
After thanking each of the girl's I began to walk back to walk to Eugene who looked like he was being picked on by Max. They immediately broke apart when I approached them with guilty looks on thier faces, I just rolled my eyes at them.
"So where do you want to go?" Eugene asked, breaking the silence.
"Um..." I stuggled for an answer because the truth was I didn't know where there was to go.
"Oh yeah sorry, I forgot first time out of the tower." he realized, blushing a bit looking embaressed and averting his gaze from me to the floor. Max gave him a look that said 'Quit blushing!' which Eugene scowled at him for.
I was about to say thats okay when I heard a voice calling from behind me. "Um...excuse me, pretty lady? Down here!" I turned around to see the youngest of the red haired sisters calling for my attention.
"Yes. What is it?" I asked bending down to her eye level, Eugene soon followed and so did Max and Pascal to my surprise.
"Er...we were just wondering...if we could maybe braid your hair again tommorow?" she asked nervously with a hopeful smile.
"Oh, um..." how was I going to explain this to them, especialy after they seemed so nervous about asking. "I...i'm not going to be around tommorow, sorry, I have to go back home and I don't think i'll be coming back." I explained guiltily, I knew I wasn't going to come back so why I told them that just made me feel worse.
"Oh ok." is all she could say as her face fell.
"I'm so sorry, I wish I could stay but..." my voice trailed off, it was probably best I didn't tell them why.
"That's okay. We'll still have eachothers hair to braid." the oldest sister pointed out, trying to be reasuring. That made me feel even worse, that I had left it down to her to make them happy again.
As they began to walk away I stood up and faced Eugene and Max who both had expressions that read sadness and confusion.
"What?" I asked them trying to make them stop staring at me like that. Surely they weren't getting upset of me going home were they? It meant Max could chase Eugene till he was bored of it (which I doubt he will be) and Eugene would get his satchel back and do whatever he intended to do with it. No, the idea of Eugene caring about me was taken out of my head when Mother came to try and take me away last night, she may not have been right about the world (or what i've seen so far) but she was right about Eugene, he was only here for his satchel as soon as he has that he'll be gone and i'll be home.
"Your not really going back are you?" Eugene asked with an expression that was a mix of confusion, shock and...concern?
"Of course I am, I can't stay out here..." my voice trailed off again probably because I didn't know what to say.
"After everything you've seen your really going to go back to an iscolated tower?" Eugene more or less stated then asked.
"I don't really have a choice I can't stay out here, I don't know anyone or have anywhere to go." I pointed out.
He opened his mouth to say something, then closed it, then began to speak again "Still, anywhere is better then there, surely." 'why is he all of a sudden trying to stop me from going home?' I couldn't help but think.
"Look this isn't about just me okay. I need to get home to my Mother, she need's me, i'm not about to go and abandon her." if only he knew the truth, that she came back and knows I left the tower, if I don't go back willingly she'll only come for me.
And with that he let out a sigh of defeat making me think I won this discussion.
Eugene's POV
Geesh this girl was stubborn. And completely selfless, she was willing to be locked up her whole life to help this psycho Mother of hers! No I can't let her, I WON'T let her! It's not fair, she hasn't done anything wrong to deserve this imprisoment. I was going to tell her she could come with me, that going back to the tower wasn't her only option but found I couldn't pluck up the courage to tell her how I feel. Yes, for once I am admitting that 1. I am too nervous to tell someone I love them and 2. Admitting that I love Rapunzel, happy now?
I went back to the matter at hand, taking Rapunzel around the village. As I began to think of what to do I was interupted by a growl from my stomach. I had forgotten till now that I hadn't eaten in quite some time. That probably means Rapunzel will be the same, we've been together for the last 24 hours.
"Hey Blondie, are you hungry yet?" I asked her. She gave me her attention for a split second, nodding in agreement before looking around taking in more of her surroundings.
I couldn't help but smile and laugh at this, the slightest thing amazed her, take the bunting with the sun symbol of Corana that was hung around the village for example. She gave each flag her full attention until she found something else to look at.
Coming back to reality, I looked around for a food cart. My eyes met a one selling all sorts of breads and cheese's.
"How'd you feel about bread and cheese for breakfast Blondie?" I turned to look at her, she seemed to be daydreaming (or 'lost in thought' as she called it) looking further into the streets. "Uh, hello, Blondie are you in there?" I asked sarcasticaly waving my hand infront of her face, that brought her back.
"Yeah sounds great." She answered the question I almost forgot I asked.
So with that I began to que up and count the amount of money I had. I still had quite a bit left over from my last heist, stealing jewelry from the finest jewelry shop in Corana, I ended up stealing alot more then I expected, but that was probably because the shop owner was as blind as a bat and didn't notice when the most expensive ring had been ripped off it's stand and into my satchel.
Rapunzel's POV
I stood behind Eugene as he bought our breakfast, he was taking out the money he needed to buy us it yes, buy. He had enough sense to know that if he even attempted to steal something Max would send him straight to the guards.
As I looked around I noticed a mural that was attracting a group of peoples attention. Not really thinking I began to walk over to it, when I got a closer look I realized the painting was of 2 adults, presumably the parents of the baby that was being held in thier arms. I spotted the crowns they were wearing 'They must be the King and Queen' I thought. Then that must be the Lost Princess I realized looking down at the baby. She was so young, why would anyone kidnap her? What made her so special and precious that she had to be kidnapped? I gave the mural a confused look before I heard music playing behind me and began to follow it.
Eugene's POV
After I bought the bread and cheese I turned round to give Rapunzel her bagguete, but she wasn't there! Luckily I didn't have to look too far to see her dancing whilst a small orchestra played behind her. She stuck out like a sore thumb to me, compared to the rest of the villagers. I watched as her thick braid flew through the air as she twirled around, she then walked up to a little boy asking him to dance with her which he didn't hesitate in saying 'yes' to. They danced in circles and as I began to walk towards them they began to pull other people in, before we new it, half the square were in the middle dancing.
It started of as them linking arms whilst Rapunzel and the little boy led them in a circle (dancing over what happened to be the sun symbol made out of white paint on the floor) but as more people joined in it turned into a slight more ballroom dancing type were they linked arms, spun in a circle then moved onto the next person and did the same. I folded my arms over my chest and watched impressed at the amount of people Blondie got to join in!
Rapunzel soon ended up dancing in my direction, she waved her arm as to say 'Come join in!' to which I raised my arm and politely declined.
Though I hadn't noticed that fleabag come up behind me so when I declined he gave a disaproving grunt and shoved me towards an oncoming dancer who grabbed my hand and pulled me into the dance, however not before I could give Max an annoyed look and me see him and the frog laugh in delight.
It took a while for me to learn the dance but before I knew it I was dancing like everyone else. I kept looking for Rapunzel and when I did find her she was far away from me. I tried to hold back my annoyance but she was the only person I actualy wanted to dance with.
After a few minutes I managed to slip out of the dance but made sure I stood where I could keep an eye on Max incase he tried to push me in again.
I looked through the crowd for Rapunzel and eventualy spotted her. She noticed me too and began to slide out of the crowd.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to keep you waiting." she stated as she approached us. Why was she apoligizing? She was just having fun.
"It's ok you don't need to apoligize, it's your birthday after all!" I told her.
She gave me a look that was a cross between shock and confusion.
"What's that look for?" I asked her.
"How did you know it was my birthday?" she asked back.
"You told me, well really you told Max. Why didn't you tell me before?" I answered then asked.
"I didn't really think it was important for you to know." she answered plainly.
WHAT! It's her birthday and she thought I shouldn't have known!
Dropping the subject, I began to look around for something to buy as a birthday pressent for her. I noticed a little boy waving some sort of purple cloth around and shouting things like "You won't find them anywhere else!" as I looked closer I noticed that on his hat was the same purple cloth with the Corana sun symbol in the middle of it. He also had a few of them with small sticks connected to them slotted in his hat.
'Perfect!' I thought with a satisfied grin on my face. I took Rapunzel's hand in mine and directed her over to the boy. Her skin was so soft and her touch was so gentle, I felt the butterflies in my stomach again.
When we reached the boy she gently pulled her hand out of mine and the butterflies feeling was gone.
"Would you like to buy a flag Sir?" the little boy asked.
"Yes please." I replied, taking out a single gold coin, I handed it to the boy whilst he passed me one of the flags.
I then turned round to Rapunzel and handed her the flag, she gasped in amazement as she took it from me. She then turned on her heal and held it up so it was eye level with all the bunting with the same symbol on, I bent so that my head was hovering between her shoulder and cheek and my hand rested on her waist. I felt her tense up at this but she then relaxed a bit more.
"Thank you so much Eugene!" she exclaimed.
"Your welcome, consider it a birthday pressent." I told her.
That made this amazing smile cross her face and i'm sure my heart skipped a beat. She was so beautiful, so kind and considerate, why can't I just tell her I love her?
It wasn't until we started walking again that I realized I still had my arm around her waist. She must have just realized too because she then pulled out of my grip and once again the amazing feeling I got whenever we touched was gone.
Authors Note:
Sorry about the sudden ending but I need to wrap it up, post this (cos' I haven't in a while) and get to bed.
