AN: I'm currently living with my grandpa in a small town in Illinois, a destination I've been chasing for several years ever since I fell in with the local theatre scene. Good to be back! I've got auditions tonight, they're doing She Loves Me (which had a revival last year starring Eugene himself, Zachary Levi). I certainly hope I can get back in.

There's no Internet at my grandpa's house, so when I need to do something that requires a computer, I have to go down to the local college and hang around in the library. Now that I'm really living there on a permanent basis, I'm gonna get my hands on a wi-fi thingy sooner or later, but for the time being, well, there's my explanation for why my updates might not be as flawlessly daily as they were the first time around. Well, what do I mean "might be"? I'm already three days behind schedule.

Anyway, today I'm uploading everything up to Day 20 so I can update by phone every day. Things got hectic and I haven't actually finished writing Book Two like I had planned to do by October, so, fingers crossed that I can catch up.

Oh boy, is it that time already? Yeah, it's time for this subplot. Here's hoping it goes over okay, because it's gonna be around for a long time. It's my attempt at something of an anime-style plot, the kind that treats something as relatable even though it's really not.

I have to retroactively admit there's not really a whole lot going on in Book Two, not enough to fill a book, anyway, but if we can get through it then Book Three onward is gonna be so awesome and epic.

Day 15, Part 4

Late that night, Rapunzel gently opened the door to Anna's bedroom, shutting herself in as quickly as possible, and crept toward the bed.

"Um… Anna?" she whispered.

"Rapunzel?" Anna exclaimed, sitting bolt upright. "Oh my gosh, you scared me. What's wrong? Are you okay?"

Rapunzel took a moment to answer, rubbing her arms uncomfortably. "I think I made a mistake when I said Eugene should go home. I'm not used to sleeping alone. I don't… I don't think I can do it. Do you mind if I…?"

"Oh," Anna gasped. "Oh, of course. There's always room for you here." She scooted to the side, and patted the other half of her bed. "What's mine is yours, cousin. Just another of our fun little sleepovers."

Rapunzel chuckled and sat on the bed. "Yup, another sleepover is right. Hehe, you're all about making me feel like a little kid, aren't you?"

"Nah, I really do act like this pretty much all the time."

"Ah. Well, even better. Goodnight, Anna."

"Night."

Rapunzel pulled off her nightgown in the pitch darkness, setting it atop Anna's dresser before gently slipping under the covers.

"Whee!" Anna chirped.

She fidgeted a bit, eventually reaching out to touch Rapunzel, running her hand up and down her arm before pulling her into a hug, which she quickly broke, leaping back in alarm.

"Eep!" Anna exclaimed. "I'm so sorry! Are… are you naked?"

"Oops," Rapunzel said casually. "Yes, I am, sorry. Force of habit. Eugene and I sleep naked. I'll just, uh, slip my nightdress back on…"

"No, it's okay," said Anna. "If that's what makes you comfortable."

"Er… well, actually, I'm not comfortable being naked if you're not, that's just awkward…"

"Say no more." Anna quickly squirmed out of her own nightdress, tossing it aside before settling deeply into the sheets. "Ahhhh… ooh, this is actually kind of nice."

"It is, I really like it," Rapunzel said cheerfully. "Well… goodnight, cousin. Let's get some sleep, then."

"Okay," said Anna. "I, um… I kind of roll around a little bit… but I do mostly favor one side of the bed, so you should be fine."

"All right."

Anna rolled over, first to one side, then the others, rolling closer to Rapunzel, reaching out to her once again. Rapunzel turned her head, and was surprised to find Anna's face close enough to her own for their lips to meet.

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The two of them lay flat on their backs in Anna's bed, staring at the dark ceiling they couldn't see in absolute horror.

"Okay… so, that just happened," Anna squeaked.

"Yeah," Rapunzel agreed shakily.

They were silent.

"We were half-asleep," said Anna. "Doesn't count."

"No, no, of course it doesn't."

They were silent again.

"We're not… first cousins, are we?" Anna asked.

"What?" Rapunzel said blankly. "No… no, we are. Your mother and my mother were sisters. We're first cousins."

"Shoot," Anna said darkly. "That's bad."

"It doesn't especially matter how closely related we are, Anna."

"Well, sure it does," Anna said. "Because if we were second cousins, that's not so much incest as, you know, playing the field."

"No, I get what you're saying, it just doesn't matter," said Rapunzel. "We are… taken women. My husband just left this morning, and you and your boyfriend, well…"

"Well, it's… it's not that bad," Anna said desperately. "We just made out, that's all. That's not so… that's it."

"And felt each other up," Rapunzel said pointedly.

"Okay, and felt each other up a little bit," Anna admitted. "But that's just… you know… that's just boobs, there's nothing really inherently sexual about boobs, when you think about it…"

"There's nothing inherently sexual about necks, either," said Rapunzel, starting to sound deranged, "but you seemed to be pretty into it while you were sucking the hell out of mine."

"Oh, God," Anna said in terror. "Did I give you a hickey? Ohhhh God, everyone's gonna see that and they'll find out and we'll be ostracized from polite society forever…"

"No one is going to find out about this!" Rapunzel said firmly. "It never happened, okay? Tomorrow, we're gonna wake up, and we'll just be everybody's favorite fun cousins again. Okay?"

"Okay," Anna agreed. "Well… I'm glad you don't think this has ruined our friendship, at any rate. I still… I still need to learn how to go all the way with Kristoff, and I don't think I could do it without your help."

Rapunzel gently took Anna's hand. "It's my pleasure. Don't worry about this, okay? We didn't mean for it to happen. It didn't happen. It's over. Let's just move on now."

Anna sighed in relief. "Of course. Yes, let's… do that. You're the best cousin ever."

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AN: I'll… let you form your own opinions about the subject matter here before I discuss it. It's just something I wanted to experiment with a bit, a subject that's actually going to last through multiple future story arcs, so… I hope it doesn't go over horribly, I guess.

Day 15 is one of only two days in Book Two to be divided into more than one chapter. Time flies by in this episode of their lives much more quickly than the previous two weeks…