"What?!" Rapunzel yelled, causing Val to slap his hand over her mouth and shush her, again. "Sorry. I forgot." she wispered after he took his hand away from her mouth. She was standing now, out of his lap. She tryed to see his face peering in the darkness and asked him, "Why?"
He sighed, "I know, this all seems strange to you but my father asked me to ask you because he believes 'she is a very inteligent women and seems to be a fitting woman for the job.'" He laughed lightly althogh his voice sounded strange to Rapunzel.
"I didn't know your father even knew me, and why are you proposing to me right now. I mean, most people don't ask untill they're out of the school or at least in their last year, and your not." Rapunzel rambled on and flushed deeply as she felt his hands grab her arms and hold her a bit. "I understand if you realy want to..."
"Look, I know this is strange, so strange... But I need you to say yes. Otherwise I will have to marry Rose and I know you'll not like that." He cut into her rambling. He moved closer to her, wrapped his arms arpund her and set her in his lap again, and started to stroke her hair. "I know this isn't fair to you, but these are urgent times. I have to marry now. Right now..." He trailed off took his hands off her head, and turned his head away from her and grimaced a bit. Damn I'm so bad at this, She probably thinds that I don't even realy care about her, but I do... God I do... He thought in his head, he was brought back to reality at the sound of her voice.
"Okay... I will marry you..." Rapunzel said softly and a bit strained as if it were phisicly painfull to say those words. It was a bad decision for a princess to make, however Rapunzel wasn't a princess. This was an amazing expirience and opportunity for her, nothing like this would ever happen to her again. That's why she had to say yes.
"What? Realy? Are you sure? I mean.."
"Yes, I'm sure. You know that this is the best situation that could happen for me. Even though there will be a war. I know and understand the consequences of that." Rapunzel said matter-of-factly. She stood up, "Can we leave this dark closet now?" She asked him as she tried to find the door in the dark and tripped and fell on her face.
"Oh, god are you okay?" Val asked as he rann over to help her up.
"Yeah, nothing hurt but my pride." she said as she was helped up onto her fet again. "Just think, I got engaged and then fell fro you... Ha ha that's funny fell for you... Ha ha!" She laughed as she took his arm to escort her out of the closet.
"Ha ha your so funny." he said sarcasticly as he opened the door and led her back into the halls of his school.