Chapter 3
"And one two three, one two three…" the dance instructor droned on as Rapunzel glided around the floor perfectly instep with Val. Ella was fairing well, and Snow was doing just as good. Rose was on the other hand was a terrible dancer, and her partner was becoming very aggravated with her.
"I'm getting a little dizzy now." Val said to Rapunzel as he twirled her around again. He pretended to be sick as he brought her back into his arms again.
"Ha! You're getting dizzy. What about me, you know the one who has to twirl around all the time?" Rapunzel said to him. Val smiled as the music stopped.
"What are you doing? You're not even in time with the music!" The instructor yelled at Rose. "Everyone take a break, except you Miss Rose and Mister George." Rapunzel and Val stepped outside and sat on the edge of the fountain.
"Whew!" Rapunzel said exhausted as she lay down on the ledge her head landing in Val's lap. Val laughed and looked down at her.
"Hey! I bet we could help Rose learn how to dance after school, and then maybe she wouldn't be so embarrassed." Val suggested. He looked at Rapunzel again and once again noticed how different she was. He realized that she was a girl.
He had always known of course but he had never felt about her that way before. And he suddenly got very conscious of it and pulled her out of his lap and laid her on his shoulder.
"What? Are suddenly really shy or something?" Rapunzel asked him. "I mean hello, we sleep together sometimes." This was true, some nights when Val had a lot on his mind he would crawl out his window and up in hers and sleep with her, not sexually just so that they could talk. She never seemed to mind although, he always became very afraid of her mother finding out and turning him into a toad or something.
Rapunzel leaned over so she could see his eyes and seen a flicker of embarrassment on his face along with burning cheeks. She turned away and hid her own embarrassment. Things like this were happening more and more often now, the moments when a hint of sexual tension flickered between them.
Deep inside she knew that one day she would be married to a village man and have nine kids, and he would be in his castle with his gorgeous bride and their one child. She knew that one day they would have to go separate ways and get married and have their children. If it were possible she would marry him if she could, but her being a normal girl and him a prince made that impossible.
"Never mind." Rapunzel said. She saw Rose walk out the door embarrassed and she turned away from her friend. She knew what was going to happen; Val would get up and walk towards her and console her and say everything was all right and blah blah blah. It made her sick, and mad. She was hurt that every time she was around Val just left Rapunzel to fawn over Rose, as if she needed it!
Every boy that had ever seen Rose fawned over her. Surely she could live a few seconds without Val doing it too.
Every time Rapunzel was near Rose the more she disliked her. It was getting dangerously close to hate, she thought to herself. Snow and Ella came over to Rapunzel and giggled.
"Did you see the look he gave her when he got the chance to leave?" Ella asked her friends. She went on answering her own question. "He gave her a look that I just wish I could have." She said. Ella and Snow also shared the same relationship towards Rose that Rapunzel did.
And at that moment something happened inside of Rapunzel that had never happened before. It was like something snapped, and Rapunzel denied it to her friends and to everyone else. But she knew, she knew that there was no going back to the times she was so innocent and used to do all the things she did. She felt a small tear roll down her cheek and felt a strong force of hatred towards Rose. She felt pain.