Perilous Fates

1: Long Hair Day?

The brunette slowly opened her eyes with a smile on her face.

"Morning, Pascal."

Her brows furrowed when she realized that her best friend was not in the bed with her.

"Pascal? Where are you?" She shouted, waiting for any sign that her friend was in the room but nothing came.

She quickly sat up, her heart beating fast. It can't be. Pascal can't be gone. She refused to believe that her friend left her again.

She recalled the past events on her mind. She can't remember anything they fought about. Was it because she didn't gave him that berry or was it because—

She snapped out of her thoughts when her eyes landed on the mirror, her reflection visible in it. She stood up with wide eyes.

"What happened to my hair?"

Her hair was still on it's original brown color but it's length reacher her waist. How can this happened? Yesterday, her hair was just above her neck. It couldn't possibly have grown this long at one night.

She tried to pull her hair, thinking it was a wig. — "Ouch!" — No. It's definitely not a wig.

Is this some kind of a prank? Her mind wandered to her friends. Did Eugene did this with Varian's help? Maybe that's why Pascal is gone because he's part of the prank! She quickly shook her head. No. She knew that Eugene is not the type of person who would prank her like this. She trust him.

The door opened it it revealed Nigel, her father's Royal Advisor.

"Princess, your parents requested your presence at the throne room," he said politely and bowed his head.

Rapunzel jumped and turned to him. "Thank heavens that you're here, Nigel! Do you know what happened to my hair and have you seen—"

"Your hair? There's nothing wrong about it, your highness. It was always like that, wasn't it?" He asked, his eyebrows furrowing.

Rapunzel let out a laugh. "No. My hair was shorter than this." She raised her hand and motioned him the length of her hair yesterday. "Like this."

The dark-haired man shook his head and gave the woman a confused look. "What are you talking about, your highness? Your hair has always been that long." He shook his head. "Nevermind that now. Your parents wanted to see you, you better go and fix yourself."

"But have you seen–"

"Goodbye, your highness." He closed the door.

The brunette let out a sighed and sat on the bed. She raised her hand and touched her long hair. "What is happening?" She have a really bad feeling about this.

She just found herself walking at the castle hallways, her eyes roaming around in any sign of Pascal. She decided to ask Eugene after she talked to her parents.

Everything just seemed so... weird.

She opened the door of the throne room and saw her parents sitting. She quickly took a series of steps towards them.

"Mom, Dad, you called me?"

"Oh, yes." Her father gave her a bright smile.

"We're here to tell you about your engagement with Prince Edison," her mother stated.

Her eyes widened in horror and took a step back. "W-what are you talking about?" She asked. "Who's Prince Edison? And Eugene is the one I'm engage to! And Pascal— he's missing!"

The Queen and King furrowed their eyebrows. "What are you talking about? Who is Eugene?" Her father asked.

"Who's Pascal?" Asked Queen Ariana.

"Mom, Dad, what do you mean that you don't know who Eugene and Pascal is?"

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I've made some changes in this chapter.