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Chapter 9Rapunzel
The next three weeks is hell what with them being filled with fighting between Mother and me. We would go back and forth any time that we would see each other. It felt like World War III. I almost expected her to take out Weapons of Mass Destruction and blow up the whole block.
A blue jay out my window distracts me from my train of thought and I stare into its innocent black eyes. He chirps, cocks his head, and flies off. I'm left wondering why.
Of course, I get my answer in the next three seconds, when a snowball comes flying into my windowpane. I jump six feet and nearly fall off the bed.
A second comes flying after. I walk to the window carefully and I pull it up. Quite a shocker when a third snowball hits me, spraying me with cold. I gasp and hold my breath, my eyes shut tight.
"I'm sorry!" I hear down below me. I open an eye and there is Jack standing in the snow, his blue sweatshirt standing out among the white crystals.
I brush the snow off, "Well, hello to you too."
Jack looks up apologetically, "I had a feeling that throwing snowballs was safer than falling off vines and cracking my head open."
I laugh because it sounds so funny. On the other hand, maybe because I am sleep deprived from Mother's constant shouting.
As soon as I think of that, my face darkens and Jack sees because he stops laughing and moves closer to the house.
"What's wrong?" He asks.
I glare inwardly at my easy-to-read emotions and spit out, "Nothing."
Jack smirks, "No, really." I don't answer. "Listen, I read that when a woman says 'Nothing' to a question, that she wants to tell you." I hide a giggle, but remain stoic. Jack puts a hand on the vines. "Don't make me climb up there and bust my own head open." I full out laugh but I do not answer.
"I have to go," I say. Mother starts shouting again and I turn, not wanting to be in this house.
Jack starts climbing, but I shut the window and lock it, drowning out his aggravated, "Rapunzel!" I leave the room so that I do not see Jack's angry gaze.
Jack
I sit in the vines, waiting to see Rapunzel's sunshiny face appear. Five minutes roll by. Ten minutes loll. Fifteen minutes feel like eternity. Thirty is longer than infinite. In the end, I pull myself to the roof where frost coats the surface. I keep my feet on the gutter so I do not slide off.
Darkness falls and I see the lights go on in Rapunzel's room, the aura of light contrasting onto the snow. Music goes on and I hear a sigh through the many layers of the roof. I carefully maneuver myself to the edge of the roof and dangle my head across the window.
I let go of the gutter with one hand and tap the glass. Rapunzel gasps and turns to the window. When she sees it is me, she throws up the windowpane and looks at me.
"You will not stop, will you Frost?" Her hair swishes as she shakes her head.
I smirk, the blood rushing to my face, "Depends on how much I'm motivated."
Rapunzel chuckles and bites a lip, "You look pretty motivated."
"I am." I push myself up so that I am lying on my stomach. Rapunzel pokes her face up and grabs my hand.
With a little, "One… two… three," She hoists herself up and sits next to me. We stare at the stars, which look bright against the dark skies. The moon is a crescent tonight.
Rapunzel shivers and I lay an arm around her shoulders. She tenses then relaxes as if thinking, 'What the hell.'
Rapunzel shivers again, "You are really cold."
"That's what sitting outside on a frosty roof in the middle of winter will do to you," I smirk and look at the blonde.
Her golden hair rests against my chest. I lay back so that we are in a lying position, her head across my stomach. We stare off into the stars, both immersed in our own worlds.
A screechy scream comes form directly below us, "Rapunzel, get down here now!" The girl's brow wrinkles and she sighs.
"Okay, no more stalling, what's wrong?" I smile almost maliciously.
Rapunzel sighs, "Well, Mother thinks that you're a juvenile delinquent and prior to her household laws, I happen to be doing something illegal."
"What is illegal?"
She smiles mischievously, "Be with you."
I smile along with her and she straightens her back and sits upright next to me.
I lean closer to her and she looks at me, "Then looks like you're going to the Gothel house prison."
She crinkles her brow, "Why-?" I cut off her voice with a kiss. She seems shocked at first but then wraps her arms around my neck like a vise. Her lips are warm opposed to my ice-cold ones and Rapunzel pulls away, her eyes wide.
I sit back, "Yup, prison it is."
Rapunzel
Jack sits back, "Yup, prison it is." And all of a sudden, I do not care. I don't care about Mother's wrath, I don't care about the consequences, and I certainly don't care about her lying to me all my life. All I care about is Jack, in this moment, right now.
I smile at Jack's beautiful blue eyes, "I think I'm going to be leveled up to the Electric Chair." I lean forward into Jack's arms, shivering at his cold lips and chilly arms. I feel small pricks of ice on the back of my arms and I know it's snowing. It is possibly like one of those dramatic points in a movie when the whole audience, opposed to a few sleeping guys, go "Aawww!"
Only I don't care if the whole world is watching, I'm with Jack, in his arms, in his kisses, and that's all that matters.
We break apart when our lungs begin to cave from lack of oxygen and we smile at each other. Suddenly, an idea occurs to me, Jack was my first kiss! I feel giddy and floaty, if that is even a word. I feel shivers up my spine, but it's not from cold, it's from love.
Jack laughs into the snow-filled air, ending the lovely silence between us, "That was not a first timer kiss." The comment feels so mood crushing that I take a minute to reply.
"My first kiss was even better," I say, mischievously.
A flash of hurt crosses Jack's features but it is masked by a smile, "Oh yeah? Who?"
I quirk a brow, "Well he's tall, smart, funny, clever, a heart breaker, and definitely egotistical."
Jack smirks, "He sounds like a jerk."
I smile evilly, "Well, you'd think that you'd be kinder to yourself, what with the egotistical-ness." Jack stops and laughs. I smile at him, but the mood gets, one again, crushed by Mother, screaming for me to come downstairs.
I sigh, jumping back to not wanting to be here. I f only wishing on stars could work. Then every wish in the world could be completed and everyone could be happy.
I stare at a red, blinking star in the sky, "I wish I could meet them," I whisper. I could meet them, Mother would be gone and everything would be right.
"Who?" Jack whispers.
"My parents," I breathe back, still staring at the lonely star. The star is like me, lonely in the sky, where it stands, nothing near it for it to see.
Jack leans back and smiles, "I've been thinking about that."
I look away from the star, "Oh?"
"How would you like…?" He accents each word, "To go to Corona and meet them?"
Jack
The small blonde girl stares at first, with confusion clearly on her face. Then it seems to dawn on her.
Rapunzel wraps her arms around my neck and pushes me over so that I'm lying on my back, "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" I laugh as we slide a bit to the edge.
She finally pulls away, her eyes shining bright with excitement, "How will this work?" I look at her like, 'Huh?' She rolls her eyes, "It would take a lot of money to get gas money, food money, and if it takes more than a day then a hotel room." She blushes a bit when she says this. "You also need to figure out a route to this place, obviously."
I scoff, "Well with you here, I'll be lucky not to end up in the ocean."
"Also, when can we do this?" Rapunzel tucks a hair behind her ear, her huge green eyes looking through mine. "We can't just up and leave."
I tap my head, "Well Christmas break is coming and Manny, coincidentally, has a business trip until the twenty-third. The real question is you."
Her eyes widen, "Me?"
"How are you going to be able to leave without your 'Mother' calling the cops?" I quota "mother" on purpose. Rapunzel looks down cast.
"We've kind of been fighting lately," She bites her lip. I feel a flash of guilt.
She seems to shake herself, "But a have an idea, though it's a little bit messy." She moves to the vines. "Come on before you get hypothermia." She flashes a little smile and I return it, gladly.
Before I make it past her window, she says, "Also if you hear bloodcurdling screams, feel free to call the cops." I wait for her to laugh or smile, but nope, she looks dead serious. I nod and make the rest of the way down the vines.
When I reach the sidewalk, she calls out my name. I turn and she waves before I copy. Then I walk across the road and walk into the silent, Manny-less house.
Hola people! I am so sorry that this is so late :(. I have been busy lately with my job. Yeah… horses are not cheep. So how will Jack and Rapunzel get to Corona? Put your comments down because I have no clue… I am joking…not really. Well I swear on my life this time that I will get this done by Thursday 12:00 pm that I will get this done (I mean New York City time zone). So bye!