Locked in a lifelong rivalry, Lena and Theo go way back - but do they really know each other?
When Theo goes to college, leaving Elena, his best friend's annoying sister he grew up with, behind at his home town, he thinks that she will never be in...
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"Happy birthdayyyyy, I can't wait to give you my present" Isa always texts me at midnight and then calls me in the morning of my birthday, every year.
"Thank youuuu, can't wait to spend the day with you."
This is my first birthday away from home. Not gonna lie, I'm feeling a bit sad but it's okay because I'm in my dream city, spending the day with my best friend and going out at night with the people I love the most.
"Soooo, any birthday wishes from Theo?" she always has to bring him up, doesn't she?
"Would you stop that already?" I roll my eyes as if she can see them through the phone. "He probably doesn't even know it's my birthday today"
"You didn't invite him to come tonight?"
"Why would I? It's going to be just us, Nora and the friendgroup. Since Oliver and Gigi aren't going, I thought it didn't make sense to invite Theo."
The real reason is that I haven't talked with Theo since the whole trauma dump moment and I don't know how to approach him. I don't want things to be weird between us and besides, I would usually not invite him anyway so I decided to keep my plan.
"Hm okay, whatever. Are they having lunch with us?"
"Oli and Gigi? Yeah, they're getting ready and I would be too if you could just let me hang up this phone"
"Ugh okay, bye. See you in an hour, don't be late."
"Never"
"More like always"
Oliver knocks on my door.
"Hey, this just came in the mail for you."
"What is it?"
"I have no idea, open it and you'll find out."
As Oliver is leaving the room, I open the box and take out the card.
"Happy 20th birthday Elena, have the best one."
It's not signed, weird. Without giving it any other thought, I look down and see the actual present. I can't help but gasp.
"Holy shit, what?" I say, almost in a whisper. I could actually cry.
In the box in front of me is a necklace. It's not any necklace, it's a tangled necklace. It has the sun that's all over the floating lights in the movie.
I have actual tears in my eyes when putting it on. It's perfect. I just wish I knew who it was from. Probably my parents or Enzo, I'll call them later and thank them for it.
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"I told you not to be late and what did you do?" Isa's pissed
"I'm not even that late and you can't get mad at me, it's my birthday."
"Me and Oliver have the perfect gift for you now that you're talking about that..." Gigi announces.
"What is it?" I shake the box she gives me "Can I open it now?"
"Of course you can." Oli replies.
I open the box and it's a watch.
"So funny, a watch because I'm always late." The watch is pretty though. It's exactly in the style I like.
"Hey, is that what came in the mail?" Oliver asks pointing at my necklace.
"Yeah, it's pretty isn't it?"
"And it's from tangled, whoever gave that to you knows you very well." Isa says.
"I think it was Enzo or my parents, I'll try and find out later."
"Hm, I'm sorry to ruin your expectations but it was none of them." Oliver clarifies. "I have their presents right here, they left them in the house when they came over last week." And so, he hands me the presents.
Before opening them, I can't help but wonder who the hell knows me so well that they would give me this.
Tangled is my favourite movie ever. I know it's an animated movie, childish even, but I love it like no other. Rapunzel's personality makes mine feel valid, she makes me feel like it's okay to be creative and talk a lot. That movie is also where my love for stars started. I love watching the sky. My dream is watching floating lanterns like the ones in the film but I know that's hard to find so, it's mostly fiction. The fact is, no one but my family and my closest friends know how much I love tangled and how comforting it is for me. I watch it a million times a year and never get tired so, that's saying something. Whoever gave me this necklace deserves the biggest hug in the world because I'm not ever taking it off.
I just need to find out who the fuck it was...
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AUTHOR'S NOTE
Sooo, this was a much smaller chapter than usual but I didn't think there was any point in continuing it considering the part I'm writing about next.
What did we think of this? I honestly really liked this tangled idea so I've decided to make the movie a bigger part in the book.
Sorry for only making it Lena's pov again and not even making Theo a part of this one (as in having interactions with Lena, because he was mentioned and talked about a lot more than it shows...).
I truly feel the ideas flowing out of me and I'm so proud of it. Keep in mind this is a wattpad story written by a (now) 17 year old so, no this is not a published book, don't expect perfect grammar or content that makes total sense.
Also, again, I can't finish this without asking you to please tell me if you find any grammar or spelling mistakes and leave if you're not enjoying my book.
Anyways, thank you for sticking around, I appreciate every single one of you that takes time to read ALLURINGLY.
