"What will it be next?" A fuming Rose ranted to her friends. "God, that girl makes me look worse and worse!" She went on. She had left the area that they had been sewing in and pulled her friends with her into the hallway.

"Girl, you need to get over it."

"Seriously, he dumped you already. You need to get over it."

Rose whipped around and faced her friends. Her heart sank, she knew that now everyone would hate her and think that she was a terrible person if she tried to do anything at all that had to do with Rapunzel, and they would think that she was scheming. They didn't understand, her friends had never experienced anything like this before and they probably never would. Rejection and heartache was something that they wouldn't have to undergo. Their parents spoiled them senseless, and their boyfriends were nuts about them and did the same as their parents, they even used to complain about their family and boyfriends being too clingy. Rose used to complain with them too but not anymore.

"Never mind, you just go back with the others... I'll be fine, i just need some alone time." Rose said shooing her friends away.

They left her and went back inside to complain about the things they would have to do because of Rapunzel. Rose was turning around to go to the room she shared with her friends to think about her predicament, when she turned the corner she found Rapunzel and Val. She knew that they hadn't seen her yet so she stayed to watch them.

"Rose sure wouldn't have done that, I'll tell you." Val said laying soft sweet kisses on Rapunzel's neck, Causing her to to giggle at the tickling touch.

"Stop that, it tickles." Rapunzel said, laughing. "What if your parents come out of that door and see us like this?" She scolded him while reaching her arms up to wrap around his neck.

"They aren't going to care, they like you... Besides you are mine now." Val said leaning his head down and touching their foreheads together.

"Really? You think they like me?" Rapunzel asked Val hopefully, she had known him since childhood of course but had never met his parents, they didn't even know that they were friends. Not even now, as she was engaged to him, they of course knew that he had known her somehow but they just figured it was connections from school, not that they had shared a secret friendship since they were seven years old.

Rapunzel had always thought about what his parents would think about her, but never had the chance to ever present herself to them and see if they liked her. When she went through her unwanted phase of life she had thought that Val was ashamed of her, since he had never shown her to his parents. But of course when she confronted him about this he had a definite answer to her accusation.

"What? You seriously think that I'm ashamed of you? Are you serious? Really?" Val asked Rapunzel as he held her by her shoulders and looked dead strait into her eyes, trying to make sense of what was coming out of the mouth of his strong, independent best friend.

"Yes I'm serious, I may not be as feminine as Rose is but I do have feelings you know." Rapunzel said staring Val right back into his eyes. He had never told anyone about Rapunzel before, and he didn't really acknowledge her at school either. There had to be a reason, and this was before Rose even came into the equation. The most reasonable answer would have to be that he was ashamed of her. It wasn't that far of a stretch to think that a person would be ashamed of me. Rapunzel thought to herself.

I'm not pretty, I'm just plain, I have whitish-blond hair, but it's so flat and she really didn't have any nice clothes or anything either. Her witch-mother did give her pretty good clothes considering that she was a witch and all, but It was pure luck that she hadn't been figured out for not being a real princess yet. Compared to all the other girls in the school, Rapunzel was actually kind of ugly, and her grades weren't the kind to brag about either.

"Rapunzel, that is the craziest, dumbest thing I have ever heard. I am most absolutely NOT ashamed of you... The only reason that I haven't talked about you to people is because I care about you, I want you to stay safe without fear... You are like family to me, hell you are family to me." Val said lowering his grip on Rapunzel's shoulders and reaching out to her, enveloping her in a hug. "I would never do that to you, I'm closer to you than my parents, than my friends, than Rose." He whispered into her ear making her tighten her grip on him as she held on to him.

Rapunzel was put back into present day as she felt Val's lips on her forehead, gently kissing her. She giggled, "Well, that certainly makes me feel better." Rapunzel told him smiling over her achievement of having his parents like her.

Rose had watched the couple talk sweetly to each other and gently kiss one another for almost thirty minutes before she went ahead and went to walk to her room the long way so she wouldn't have to be seen by the two. She was feeling kind of happier actually, well at least I know that he knows what he's getting into... This may be not as bad as I thought, after all I'm not engaged to the boy that's going off to war, right?