Oh my gosh
I would like to apologize to all the readers who have been waiting for like- forever for chapter nine!
My school had a one-month break and I slacked off.
And I basically did not do anything.
I had another story I had to work on, it was a project, that was one reason why I was temporarily busy…
love,
Author
PS. Sorry about last chapter, I sort of rushed.
THIS CHAPTER IS SO OOC I COULD KILL!
(kiddin') Cheers :).✌
The winding hallways of the castle was like a labyrinth for Rapunzel herself as she ran down it, regardless of her parents who told her not to do so.
Rapunzel looked down irritably at the tiny 'formal' shoes that apparently slowed her down and kicked them off, not caring where it landed.
She felt her resentment growing in tremendously huge amounts inside her, the letter clutched in her hand.
When she stopped in front of Eugene's door, Rapunzel discovered she had been clenching the paper so hard the crinkles had been imprinted into her hand.
The ink left a smudge on her palm, and there was no longer an L in the word LOVE.
Forget that, I'll wash it later, Rapunzel thought ruefully and flung the door open so hard she almost yanked off the doorknob.
Eugene pushed himself up with a jolt, and calmed when he saw that it was her.
"Hey, Blondie."
His mood grew concerned when he spotted the irate look on Rapunzel's face.
And the letter. His letter.
Rapunzel thrust the crumpled paper at Eugene's chest and demanded,
"What's the intention of this?"
Oh, so she found it.
OH MY GOD, SHE FOUND IT!
No wonder that morning…
Eugene pushed open the door to Fallon's room, another door that was unique because it didn't have a sun on it, instead a rose, the emblem of Calanthea carved in just for her.
"Hey,"
He greeted playfully waving two fingers, and Fallon spoke.
"Hi, Eugene,"
She flashed him her pearly whites, it was a flawless smile of hers.
"What are you doing?"
Eugene queried, curious when he saw a bunch of envelopes on the desk as Fallon sifted through it.
"Calanthean mail,"
Fallon responded, clearly annoyed with the work.
Speaking of mail… Eugene hadn't found a letter on his bed when he awoke.
"Hey, did you get my letter?"
He asked, baffled she hadn't said anything about it yet.
"Letter? You gave me an empty envelope."
Fallon smirked affectionately.
"Unless it's invisible and it was written in invisible ink,"
Empty envelope? Eugene was sure the letter was in there when he put it on her bed. Surely she didn't get the wrong idea-
"Is this some kind of prank, Eugene?"
"What? No! Of course not. Why would it be? I just must've dropped it,"
"Forget it, it's okay,"
Dropped it. What if someone found it? What if Rapunzel did?
Then oh, man… he'd be in trouble.
"Uh… "
Eugene decided to get it over with quickly and as nonchalant as possible.
"Wellfallonandmethoughtyoudidn'?"
He finished with a stifled grin on his face.
Rapunzel found this seriously unsettling.
"And so you lied?"
Eugene did not have anything to object to this.
He just didn't tell her all the details, did that count as lying?
"Blondie, look at me."
His hand took a gentle but firm hold on her shoulder.
Rapunzel turned around, a little bit alarmed and looked at him reluctantly.
"I would never, ever lie to you.
Fallon and I just thought you would get all bent out of shape when we talked and we came up with a solution.
I'm sorry if you don't like it. You're right, I was hiding from you."
Rapunzel thought this was a more satisfying sincere apology and brushed her lips against his for a split second, and looked into his hazel eyes.
"Just don't ever hide anything from me again, okay? It makes me sad to know you are."
For an instant Eugene had a blank look in his eyes, like he was unwilling to kiss her. Rapunzel did not know why.
"Be honest with me."
Almost immediately Eugene pulled back.
What was she going to ask him?
"What's going on between you and Fallon?"
Okay, that caught him completely off guard.
How should he respond?
The yelling earlier, Adeline knew, was coming from Eugene's room in the west hallway.
And it was coming from certain people.
One minute, it was quiet, Nathan and her in their study, when they thought they heard the words,
"Nothing! Nothing's going on! Do you not trust me?"
The voice was presumably Eugene's and it was clearly heard, since their room was almost directly below his.
Adeline sensed a pause and then Rapunzel's voice, if she wasn't mistaken, could be heard.
"You don't have to raise your voice! I'm just asking!"
There was a little bit of scuffling and then a loud slam of supposedly Eugene's door, and footsteps.
"You don't suppose-"
The Queen spoke with concern, her face flushed.
"Yes, Adeline, they're definitely fighting."
That was completely strange. Rapunzel and Eugene rarely fought before, unless it's about who loves the other more.
But this was something different than those ridiculous fall-outs.
"Nathan… do you notice the kids- conflict lately?"
Adeline noticed almost every day since Fallon arrived they barely spoke.
Other than quarreling, that is…
"Well… almost like a negative and positive sides of a magnet,"
said Adeline, trying her best to explain.
"One of them enters the room, and the other leaves almost instantly. Nathan, do you know the cause of this?"
Nathan simply shrugged and went right back to translating old Coronian into English.
Rapunzel just happened to bump into Fallon in the foyer.
Fallon scoffed in annoyance.
"Hey, watch where you're going!"
Her expression instantly changed when she saw it was Rapunzel.
"Oh, hello, princess! Where are you heading?"
Her sudden change of mood startled Rapunzel a bit at how someone could pretend to be somebody so nice so fast.
"Out. I'm heading out."
"Out where?"
Okay, this girl is seriously starting to annoy her.
"Outside, princess. Now if you'd please, you'd let me pass, thank you."
Rapunzel tried to push past, but to no avail.
"Excuse me?"
Fallon smirked.
"You forgot who I am, I see. I am Princess Fallon Gralanda, your highness Rapunzel."
Of course she hadn't forgotten. How conceited could one person be?
"Nice to meet you. Now let me go."
Fallon's eyebrow furrowed.
"You want to mess with me,"
The snob simply fluffed her hair and held Rapunzel fast with her free hand.
"No! I just want to get past!"
Fallon's sparkle in her eye told all.
She wasn't going to let her past.
"Hey, I've heard Eugene and you quarreled earlier, I'm sorry. I'll console him."
Certainly Rapunzel was infuriated.
"You're devious, Gralanda."
Rapunzel squinted at the stuck-up princess.
Fallon was not one bit agitated. She even looked impressed.
"Oh, I can be devious, princess. Much more devious,"
as she said it, she gripped a vase full of daisies from a nearby coffee table in her hand.
"You- wouldn't-"
Rapunzel let out a squeak. Surely she knew better.
"Oh, yes,"
And with that, down came the glass vase crashing to the floor in thousands of little shards.
Rapunzel watched on, unable to speak, as Fallon messed up her hair, screaming all the while, and down she came and her body lay among the remains of the vase.
"OWWW!"
Rapunzel noticed she had bitten her own bottom lip to make it bleed.
"What's going on down here?"
Eugene spotted Fallon on the floor and bent quickly to pick her up.
You didn't do that when I passed out, thought Rapunzel angrily.
Because he didn't care. Or so she thought.
"Why'd you do it?"
Everybody was now in the study, Fallon still fake-shuddering and wrapped with a blanket.
The King demanded, not even seeing that Rapunzel was already upset.
"I told you, I didn't!"
Fallon was seething.
"What did you think I did, throw a vase at myself and plummet my own self down to the floor and-"
"Fallon, let's just go to your room to recover, okay?"
Eugene was as concerned as Rapunzel was.
That was the exact truth. Except that it would be ridiculous to say it out loud.
"WHY, RAPUNZEL?" The King raised his voice, though it was clear he didn't mean to do so.
Well… saying some of the truth might settle him.
"She was being unpleasant!"
Now only the royal family was in the study, because the guards had stolen out of the room to let them settle the matter.
"Rapunzel, that certainly doesn't justify hurling a vase at her,"
Adeline looked disappointed. It was the last thing Rapunzel wanted.
"You know better. And that was my grandmother's vase."
Vases.
"Enough about the vase! Can't you listen to my side of the story?"
Adeline flinched a little and Rapunzel was almost guilty for being so forceful but they needed to hear it.
And she explained everything. About the fight, about when she needed some fresh air but Fallon was blocking the way, how she tried to get past. How Fallon threw the vase down to the floor.
It felt almost like it was Rapunzel's heart that was being hurled to the marble floor by Fallon.
Her heart that was no longer Eugene's.
Is this too short? I wrote it in one day.
ANYWAY…
Review replies for chapter eight:
review one: "Of course I won't break them up in the end! I had trouble writing this too. Thanks for reviewing."
review two: "I read your story and I love it! It's interesting how you use this ' instead of " this for the dialogue. Anyway I love it! I see it in a lot of books. Oh yeah. The sentences are supposed to be choppy, it's kinda like a, 'Eugene, I found out what you were hiding from me' chapter."
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