Rapunzel stared out the window in her tower; she looked up at the sky and sighed. "I wish I were a cloud, and then I could just float away from my problems." She said to herself. She walked back into the middle of her room and sat on the worn and dirty rug on the floor Indian style and opened up her school book on how to tell a normal frog from a prince frog. "Ugh! I just don't get it what is the difference between a prince and a frog anyway?" she yelled at herself, insulting the male race in the process. She laid the book down and looked out her window again.
"Not much of a view, but it's better than nothing." She said. On your right you could see the tall soft wheat field of farmer Delor, on the right was a walkway through the forest to Pershire pond, and in front of you was a deep think forest that led to school.
"You promise me you'll never tell anyone? Val asked her, "Not a soul?" he went on.
"Yes I promise, just tell me!" Rapunzel answered.
"Okay, I want… to…Live up to my father." He said blushing.
"Ha! That's expected of you, I want to…"
Rapunzel was snapped out of her memory by the sound of cracking tree limbs. Her heart sped up its beating pattern, and she became short of breath. She knew it was him. She listed to the sound of his boots scraping against the stone of her tower. She went and sat down on the edge of her bed facing away from the window.
"Hey!" Val said cheerfully completely unaware of all that went on around him as he climbed through the little window in the wall. "So what are you studying today?" he teased her as he dropped his knapsack of books down next to her.
"How to tell a prince and frog from each other." She spat back a little rudely and she immediately regretted it. Why was she taking it out on Val he's innocent, he's just a stupid lovesick boy. "Sorry I just…" she trailed off and looked the other way.
"Okay… You're having a bad day, its okay I understand." He answered for her as he opened his knapsack and pulled out a large book. It looked old, the pages were yellow and it smelled musty.
"What's that?" she asked him. He opened it up to a certain page and started to read it.
"It's the book that I have to read and memorize for the rest of my life." He said as he read. "It's the book of chivalry." He finally answered.