NoahWe both fell asleep on the couch. And for the first time in my life, I dreamt about a future with a family I had always wanted. I saw two little girls with golden hair run towards me as I stood by a beach. They were calling me father and as I picked them up they placed kisses on my cheeks. “Father, look at mother!” they chorused happily. I turned to where their cute little fingers were pointed and I saw Rapunzel. She was their mother. I smiled as this was what my subconscious had wished for since the very first day we met. I started to smile but my smile soon died down as my eyes landed on her hair. They were not long anymore. They looked chopped and they stopped right under her chin. It didn’t take from her beauty but it made her look strange. I started opening my mouth to speak but I slipped out of the dream as a loud voice filled the night air.“Rapunzel, let down your hair!” the voice said. It was her mother. She had said the very same thing when she came home earlier. But
RapunzelMy heart was beating so fast I thought it would jump out of my body. I turned to stare at Noah but he had his eyes narrowed at the door like he was planning on attacking my mother. He didn’t like the way my mother locked me up and used my hair that much I could tell from his questions but she was my mother and I couldn’t change that.“Rapunzel, I am waiting don’t make me break this door!” my mother snapped and I jerked out of my thoughts.I opened my mouth to speak but my throat was dried. I had to swallow hard on my saliva to be able to bring out even a gasp as panic slowly slipped into my bones. I ran to the door and held it.“Mo –mother!” I called with a stammer.“Rapunzel open this door!” she screamed.I turned to stare at Noah with pleading eyes. He had to leave the center of the room before I could open the door or there would be trouble –more trouble than either of us bargained for. We stayed this way for less than two seconds but it felt like an entire hour had passed
NoahRapunzel and I kept caressing one another until she fell asleep. On the other hand, I couldn’t sleep. What she had told me today and what I had witnessed with her mother made me start looking at the situation with another mindset. The princess of our land was said to be very beautiful before she got kidnapped by an old wicked witch and ever since then, no one had been able to see her. The princess had magical healing powers too and all who touched her found this healing. The people of the town, celebrated her birthday every year and that was why candles were lit up in the sky to appease her innocent soul.But as Rapunzel spoke of her story, I started thinking of the possibility of her being our lost princess. I would have to look at the picture of the castle clearly again to be able to tell. For the princess was really little when she got kidnapped.Which then, brought me to my plans. I would have to take Rapunzel to the palace. The queen would have to see her and confirm if she
RapunzelAs Noah held me, I couldn’t stop thinking of what my mother had said to me. It meant she had another way of accessing the castle all this while but she had chosen to use my hair without considering if it would hurt me or not –not like it used to hurt terribly but I expected her to care at least."We need to leave early," Noah whispered to me. “You have been sitting here for too long. You will get cold,” he added.I had become numb. My mother really broke my heart. She refused to even recognize that today was my birthday. I was hurt beyond reason and if it wasn’t for Noah’s presence here I would have been the most miserable. She didn’t even stay home with me. She had left me on my birthday-“Rapunzel, I have so much to show you in the city, we need to leave now!” Noah insisted and in turn to look at him. He was such a good person. Mother had lied to me. The people outside the castle weren’t cruel or wicked. She was the wicked one!I got up from the bathroom floor and smiled at
NoahAs we drew closer to the exit, a sudden fear tore through me. It was the kind of fear that made you shake from your core to your skin. My heart started beating and my legs became heavy. I couldn’t move. I was looking at the entrance but I couldn’t get to it anymore. It dawn on me that leaving the safe walls of this castle meant my relationship with Rapunzel was going to be tested. She might even find out about what had actually brought me to the castle. The men following after me might catch up with me. I might end up complicating Rapunzel’s life.What was I thinking when I accepted to take her out of the castle so soon?Those guards might have already printed out my pictures and other identification for people to see. I stole the lost princess’s crown! The entire city would be looking out for me.My eyes strained on Rapunzel as she rushed to the door. I was already thinking of how to make her turn around. We could view the lights from her bedroom. I would make love to her and sh
NoahMy eyes never stopped looking out for the guards as we moved deeper into the town. As soon as I saw a group of people staring down at a black and white picture on the wall, I knew without a doubt that it was me. We had to leave the streets especially now that the sun was up. In the dark it would be easier to slip around.As soon as we got to the fountain were parents let their kids play for it was just opposite the city guard office. People considered it to be the safest place in town. I decided to leave Rapunzel there pending the time I found us a place to stay. Moving around the motels with her didn’t seem like a very good idea to me. I would have to go alone and find a place and then bring her along.“Wait for me here,” I said as we got closer to the fountain were a couple of little girls were playing.She stared up at me and the smile on her face seem to die down. “Where are you going?” she asked.“I need to secure a good place for us and food,” I explained as fast as I could
Chapter Twelve: RapunzelI watched as Noah walked deeper into the forest. I wasn’t scared of being left alone, rather I was excited. Everything looked so beautiful. Nothing could harm me in a place like this. The more I looked around the more I became convinced that my mother was just selfishly keeping me in the castle. Nothing wrong could happen to anyone out here –I thought to myself.The tree log felt so smooth under my fingers, none of the chairs in the castle could compare. The trees overhead looked so majestic yet they seemed to bow before me as I stared at them. Just then a yellow butterfly came flying and I reached my hand to it. Butterflies came to the castle once in a while but this one was different. It had the brightest shade of yellow I had ever seen even in my many books. It landed on my forefinger and I smiled sweetly at it. It felt like we could communicate. It was telling me beautiful tales and I was listening –even though I couldn’t understand.But then it flew away
Rapunzel“I’ll see you, girls, at the festival! Bye!” I called out to the girls as Noah led me away from them. “Bye-Bye!” the girls chorused as they all smiled sweetly at me. I noticed as their eyes focused on my hair as I turned to leave.Everyone was intrigued by my hair. They all wanted to touch it. At first, I was shy, but the more they came closer the calmer I felt. It felt like that was my purpose and a sense of fulfillment took over me and even as Noah pulled me alongside him, I kept staring back at the little crowd behind us wishing it never stopped.I wanted to ask Noah so many things as we moved through the streets. Naturally, I felt he was going too fast but I stayed quiet. Since he said we were going somewhere we could rest, I would ask him all the questions there. I still felt like he was afraid of something. He kept watching our backs like some monster would appear and take us back to the castle long after we had left the fountain and the little crowd that had come to t
“Mish! Get your ass down, dinner is ready,” my younger sister, Evelyn, shouted from downstairs. I came back from school three hours ago and I’ve been on my bed sulking and constantly resisting the urge to scream at the top of my voice.Mrs. Shantel and Mr. Brett? How long has that been going on under my nose? I stalked Mr. Brett well enough to have known. I sat up swiftly and stretched my hand to pick my phone from my nightstand. Impatiently, I logged into Instagram.Pfft, of course I’m not on Instagram. I logged in with my sister’s account. Being bullied offline is only the much I can bear, thank you very much.It didn’t take me much time to get to Mr. Brett’s profile. I stared at his relationship status and it stared back at me. It was boldly written SINGLE. Just to be sure, I wore my glasses and glanced hard at it. It still remained SINGLE. I searched for Mrs. Shantel’s profile and found out that she was married.“Then why the hell were you fucking someone not your husband!!” I scr
It was the early hours of Monday morning, 6:00am to be precise, and I was already in the cobwebby school basement, tucked away in the only neat corner. Of course, the neat corner of the basement, which I had turned into my niche, was cleaned up by me. You must definitely be wondering what kind of psycho cleans up the school basement to spend her mornings and what for! Well, to cut the long story short, it was my only means of survival. If I wanted to get through my remaining days in high school, then I had to do this. This was me doing what I did best, hiding away from my sworn enemy, traitor, rival, tormentor, give it all the name you could think of. Synonymous to those names is Kelly Parker. Kelly is the Queen bee of Beverly High. I hate her with all my heart, but she’s beautiful. Breathing-taking kind of beautiful, I’m not going to lie. I just hate her the more for that, because why should she be so perfect? Of course, she is the head cheerleader and she is dating Bruce Paschal,
Ariel's POV For two days after that, I waited for the man to show himself. It was almost like he purposely ignored me. When I realized that he wouldn't show himself unless something drastic happened, I waited for the guard that brought my food -food I refused to eat since I've been held in here- to appear. The moment he rounded the corner that led to my cell, I yanked off the pendant from my neck. I went instantly invisible. When the guard reached the cell and saw no one, the tray containing the food fell off his hands, and he let out a scream. Two more guards rushed in, probably thinking I managed to subdued their colleague. When they saw what he saw, they all trembled out of shock. "Report the incident to prince Eric right now!" One of the guards yelled to the other one that came in with him. That one nodded and rushed off to deliver the message. The guard turned to the one that brought me the food, looking at him in a suspicious way. "Did you let her off?" He asked."What the he
Ariel's POVIt felt like my ears just deceived me. I blinked once, then twice. I looked at the man who had just finished pleasuring me -the tingles and soreness between my legs were the testament of that fact- like he was out of his mind. And perhaps he was. Otherwise, why would he sprout such nonsense about arresting me? And that too for what? For stealing? Me?I looked at him and shook my head. Sure that I heard him wrong. I waited for him to take his words back, but he didn't. When a minute or two passed with nothing from him to refute his words, I lifted up my tied hands and tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention. The eyes he turned on me were so cold and stony, I shivered."Are you serious about arresting me?" I inquired from him. The river made a ripple effect and I was reminded of the fact that I was gone for too long. If I didn't return back to my room as soon as possible, there was every possibility that my father would find out about my disappearance. It that happen
Eric's POV "The real thing I have here could do a better job than that toy!" I shouted at her from the shadows. I watched as the toy fell from her hand because of the shock she experienced."Wh-who is th-there?" She sounded as scared as she felt. I saw her looking around in the darkness, probably thinking of where to hide from the predator that sneaked up on her. My first thought was to let her suffer a sudden heart attack, just as she had done for me. That would be the easiest revenge I could take on her. But my tratious body refused to comply with that act. How could it? Somehow, I found the courage to get out of the palace after three days of hiding in my room. My courage wasn't bold enough to leave during the day when I could feel all eyes on me, so I did it by night. I was already angry when I found myself walking to this place rather than anywhere else. I was even about to turn around when I heard someone moan my name softly. I traced the voice and I saw the same girl moaning
Ariel's POVFor three days after I returned to the house, I couldn't help but think about how I would be able to get my Dada to release me from the home imprisonment he kept me in. Even as I paced to and fro the length of the room I was in, no idea came to me. I balked at how it was becoming increasingly hard to think straight these days. Each time I sat down to think, only the thought of Eric and what he would do to me came. I would spend hours and hours fantasising about the man. By the time I realize that I needed to think of a way to get out of the mess I was in in order to actually see him, I would start thinking of an escape plan. Barely five minutes into the deep thinking, I would find myself thinking about Eric again... just like I currently was.I was floating on top of my bed. My hands were on my breasts and I kept culling and squeezing them the same way I saw Eric did that day at the beach. I moaned as I imagined it was his hands playing with my breasts instead of mine. St
Eric's POVAs mother continued to hold me, she patted my back softly with her hand. I knew I was displaying a moment of weakness to the queen, but at the stage where I currently was, none of all those palace rules mattered to me. I just wanted someone to show me that I wouldn't go crazy because of a certain human.Was she even hunan? Someone that could play with another's person's feelings like that didn't deserve to be regarded as a human. "She's a selfish, cunning, and the most heartless person I've ever seen!" I bursted out, unable to contain my contempt for the woman.My mum didn't say anything and just continued to pat me like she was already doing. The outburst, however, gave in to the anger I had been trying to rein in ever since I woke up that morning and found out about that girl's betrayal."How could she have deceived me like that?" I let out again.To me, she was stupid. If she wasn't, she would have realized that I was already infatuated with her. She could have easily d
Eric's POVI didn't know what to make of the situation that happened just a few minutes ago. Ever since I collapsed on my bed, I found it extremely hard to get up. How could I when it felt like my world was crumbling down beside me?I found it hard to believe within myself that the same girl I trusted enough to bring into the palace. The same girl I was so worried about I didn't want her to spend an entire night outside during the cold. The very same girl we spent the same night on the same bed, pleasuring each other to stupor. I couldn't believe that the same girl had thought nothing wrong about betraying me.How could I have been so draft? How could I have let her deceive me just like that? Why didn't I see beneath the fake skin she was wearing to the real one? Now that I thought about it, her excuse of getting lost while with her friends seemed flimsy. Heck, everything about her felt and sounded completely fake. I was sure that the reason she approached me in the first instance wa
CHAPTER THIRTEENARIEL'S POV Sebastian sat across me with an intense look in his eyes. I reckoned I would have the same look if someone sat me down to tell the exact story I was telling him at the moment.It happened to me yet somehow I found it unbelievable. It just felt like the kind of shit that should only be possible in movies. Poorly scripted movies."So you opened the door to the right-"I nodded. "I opened it."He leaned in closer to me almost as if he wanted to merge with me. His eyes bulged out in their socket and his teeth clattered. Goosebumps appeared all over my skin as I remembered how I felt in the dark corridor turning the door knob."I could have swore he was behind me- breathing just behind me." I said as I controlled the impulse to cringe.Sebastian gasped. "Was he there?"I shook my head. He wasn't there when I turned around but the presence didn't go away. It stuck with me even as the door opened."What did you find inside?" Flounder asked speaking for the first