Rapunzel

(Day 106A)

RAPUNZEL-Part 2

            I wake up with a scratchy sensation all over my body. I open my eyes and can't see anything, then the events that led up to this catch up to me. I rip off the blindfold and confirm my suspicions: I am surrounded by straw. The guys who kidnapped my father and I walk through the door.

            There are three of them but the blonde one in the middle was the obviously leader. Even so, the tall brunette on his left caught my attention. He looks... familiar.

            "Look who's awake, boys," Blondie says tauntingly. He turns to me. "Here's the deal. We know your secret and we wanna use it. Spin all this straw into gold before sun up tomorrow and we won't kill your dad."

            He clicks on the TV I just noticed was pinned to the wall. What flickers onto the screen was the only that had scared me into screaming since my brother's disappearing: My father chained up in a room at gun point. Tears stream down my face.

            "Choose wisely, Rapunzel," Blondie sneers.

            "It's Rumpelstilksken, low-life," I can't help but correct him.

            He frowns and brings a walkie-talkie to his mouth. "Shot one," he commands into it.

            I hear a gunshot from the TV. The bullet hadn't hit father, only grazed his ear. I keep my mouth shut. Blondie leads the way out with the redhead I just noticed close behind. The tall one stops at the door, though. I can't tell if the look in his eye is sympathy or scrutiny. Redhead pulls him away before I get the chance.

            Late into the night, I obviously hadn't spun anything and had yet to find a way out. But the door opens slowly and the tall brunette walks in.

            "What do you want?" I glare at him.

            He pulls out a gun-shaped object from his jacket.

            "Woah, woah! I'll spin the gold! I promise!"

            "Hey, relax this isn't a gun. It's an atomic transformer. This will turn the straw to gold." He demonstrates and I watch silently as he spins all the straw in the room to gold.

            "Wow, why don't you tell your brothers about this?" I as, running my hands through the piles of stringy gold.

            "They are NOT my brothers," he said grumpily. "When my mother died, they took me in and said they'd help me find my way home. But, once they found out I'm good with a computer and I can find anyone On he blink of an eye, they wouldn't let me go.

"I came up with this a few months ago but I know they'll only use it in greed. So I've been throwing them on a goose chase ever since. Once I found you, another fake, I thought they'd finally give up on this pointless search. I didn't know they would take this this far. I'm sorry."

            "How long have you been with them?"

            "11 years."

I gasp. Could it be? August?

I don't get a chance to test my theory because that's when Blondie and his sidekick came in and they love the fact that I can actually do this. (Not.)

This sequence went on for a few more days with the brunette coming in every night to spin the straw, and turns out, he is August!

Soon enough, Blondie, the jerk, decides they have enough gold. He agrees he would give us what we originally wanted: money to find August (now money to send us both to college).

He said he'd let us go, until one night everything changes. Again.

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Previously: I Have a Secret-Part 2
Next: Rapunzel-Part 3(Final Part)

(*I've got a double update! 'Cause I feel like :P (Or because I didn't space this out correctly; one of the two...)

Date Published: 16.8.15