- Meeting The Parents
Rapunzel felt that finally meeting her parents was so strange. Standing all alone on the balcony overlooking the kingdom and the water. So much water. She could see so far, further then she had ever had before. Pascal was comforting her and she was worrying her long blonde hair piling it next to her. Her hands were shaking too much to have any success trying to braid it herself, like those little girls had, was it only yesterday?
She was going to meet her real parents! She thought she should be happy, why was she terrified? Why did she want to run back to Mother? Though she wasn't sure if she could find her by herself, there were so many twists and turns. She felt so lost and staying still was the only thing she could do, because she had no where she could go. She wasn't even sure which way the tower was from here.
The door creaked behind her and she turned. She saw two persons come through into the light. A woman with dark hair and big green eyes came down first. There were slow drifting steps to those eyes, the ones that stared back from her mirror, but this was no mirror, but the person who gave birth to her, who brought her into this world. Did she love her? All she could see was terror in those eyes, like she felt in herself right now. Was this real in the warm, bright sunshine?
There was warmth near her cheek and then a touch, the wonderful warmth of touch, and a smile that said this was really real. A breathe neither knew they were holding released and then closeness, a hug that encompassed her world. Then that other person was there too and she was completely surrounded by love, but it wasn't the same as the hugs Mother gave her, they were hugging her, really hugging her, and not just her hair.
"We love you so much," said the woman who was Rapunzel's real mother.
"I love you more."
"Come, let's go inside and sit and talk, there is so much to tell," said the person who Rapunzel understood to be her father.
Rapunzel bit her lip, it wasn't finished, and they didn't know.