What Once Was Mine

Chapter 1

As I stepped into the light, I looked behind me at what I was leaving behind. The tower, my room that I spent 18 years of my life, and my true love laying on the tile floor in a puddle of blood. I was also leaving behind my safety, and I was now entering a world of the unknown. Without my hair, Eugene, moth-I mean Gothel, I don't know what was out there for me. I guess I would go to the palace and see if the queen recognized me. Hopefully they will accept me, or I'm on my own.
My dress, shriveled and torn at the ends, drug on behind me. I felt the grass between my toes as I stepped out of the tower. The feeling the grass gave me the first time I escaped my tower was freedom. Now, it feels like it's wrapping around my toes, anchoring me to the ground. My eyes, puffy and red, looked glanced at my feet, just to make sure I wasn't actually anchored. Once I realized it was just my emotions messing with me, I starting walking towards the fern covered hole in the rock. That was my way out. I glanced back over my shoulder at my tower once I was almost to the exit, sobbed once, and turned my back to the skyscraper. I parted the fern covering the exit and stepped out. Birds were chirping in the clearing right outside the exit. They sounded so happy, but if only they knew what was back in my tower. Even their chirps would be silent.
As I made my way through the forest towards what I hopped was the palace, memories started flowing through my head. I saw the big oak, where I wrapped my long hair around a branch and swung around while Eugene watched and laughed. I also saw the log where I sat and healed Eguene's hand and he found out about my hair.
Suddenly, my knees became week. I shriveled to the ground. My sobs muffled the sound of the chirping birds, and the whole world faded away.
"Why-did-this-happen-to-me." I said in short breaths between my sobs. I leaned against the log and cried non stop for an hour. I was out of energy, since the last time I ate was at the cuddly duckling........with Eugene. That was almost 9 hours ago. I was out of breath, and out of tears, but I kept crying dry sobs. After about an hour and a half...I think...I became dizzy. I was still crying when everything went black.