Eugene's POV:

Our morning in the kingdom went by pretty quickly, we hadn't realized Rapunzel and I had already seen so much from last time we were here. I was already getting tired, but Rapunzel, being Rapunzel, hadn't shown any signs of weakness, she was still eagerly bouncing around shops, but that was one of the reasons I loved her so much. As I thought that, I clutched the ring in my pocket.

I bet your wondering when I got a ring. Well, while we were at breakfast awhile ago, I didn't see a bookstore, I saw a ring shop. I had been thinking of proposing to her for a long time, but it wasn't until I saw that ring shop that I realized that I wanted to do it soon. I still wasn't sure how I was gonna pop the question, but I knew I was gonna pop it!

Rapunzel came out of a shoe store after thanking the sales lady, "I'm done here if you want to go already." She said

"Okay" I replied, "Where do you want to go now?"

She pondered this for a second, "Well, since we've already seen the kingdom, why don't we explore the forest?"

"Great idea! Come on!"

We rode Max to the forest, but not too deep in, Blondie told him to wait outside the forest with Pascal while we walked the rest of the way. She obviously wanted to explore every inch of the forest, because we spent hours in just one area, you'd think a girl who lived in the forest for 18 years would be sick at the sight of trees, but not Rapunzel.

"Let's look around the rest of the forest, Blondie" I said when I realized she was just going in circles.

"Fine." She said skipping around the rest of the forest, I walked right behind her, yet somehow, she was still able to get out of my sight. As soon as I caught up to her she had frozen, like she was trying to hear something... or smell something...

"Do you smell that?" She asked me

I inhaled deeply, nothing, "No, what is it?"

"It smells like... smoke?"

I breathed in again, "Oh yeah, smell it a bit..."

She once again began bolting through forest, I ran with her until we reached a small cottage, with a chimney giving off smoke behind what I believe was the biggest tree in the forest.

"Woah..." Rapunzel said in complete awe, she began to walk towards the little house, before I grabbed her arm

"What are you doing?" I asked cautiously.

"Going to see the house." She said totally nonchalantly.

"Are you sure that's a smart idea?" I asked with my hand still on her arm.

She smirked, "Oh, Come on, Eugene! Things turned out pretty good for you the last time you entered a building in the middle of the woods..."

Well, I couldn't argue with that, so I let her go, still right on her tail to make sure she doesn't get hurt. She put her ear up against the window, "I hear footsteps inside..." she said excitedly, me on the other hand, I was still nervous.

"Come on!" she told me

Hesitantly, I walked beside her slowly putting my ear against the wall, I heard footsteps too, but they were faint and slow. Suddenly the door swung open.

"What do you think you're doing?" a female voice asked, and that was definitely not Rapunzel.