Rupunzel's Endless Golden Hair

Rupunzel’s Endless Golden Hair

It had been a long time since we had seen anyone other the wicked looking enchantress. Rupunzel was the sweetest girl ever. She took really good care of me; she would brush me every day with her fingers so softly and swiftly I would wish to myself that she was the only person to ever touch me. The enchantress was so rough and mean. She was so scary looking, her hands were so rough and prickly. Her face was dark and she looked like a monster from a scary movie. She had dark green eyes, as green as grass and she had a big mole on her face it looked like someone had planted it in the middle of her face. Every night she would come to the tower and stand under the window and call
“Rupunzel, Rupunzel, Let your hair down!”
When I would hear her voice I would tremble. I knew she was going to pull and snag on me to make her way up. It felt like a million pounds as she pulled her way up to the tower window. Rupunzel would unfold me and let me down so that the enchantress could come up. She only came up for a few minutes and would tell Rupunzel to never look out the window, and never speak to anyone who comes through the woods and never try to get down or even think of escaping. She was so mean and with her evil wicked sounding voice would yell out her demands
“Rupunzel! Never speak to anyone, never look out the window, never do this and never do that!”
After she made all her demands clear she would push me down the window again and slide down. This happened everyday and would dread the night because that is when she would come.
Rupunzel spent her time weeping in the tower, she would sometimes sit and sing, she had a beautiful voice and made up songs about how she would one day find a way to escape. One afternoon, she sat close to the window and sadly sang her beautiful song. She heard someone walking in the forest down under. It sounded like maybe the wind was moving the leaves of trees, or was it someone under her window? She didn’t dare look down after all she was told to never look out the window. She went on singing her song. It was someone down under, it was the prince. He sat under the tower and listened to her as she sang. From that day on, he would come every day and sit and listen to Rupunzel sing. One day he stayed late and when he heard someone coming toward the tower he ran and hid by a tree. It was the wicked enchantress. She stood under the window and called
“Rupunzel, Rupunzel, Let your hair down”
So Rupunzel let me down, and the enchantress would pull and snag on me to make her way up to the tower. The prince was watching and I had seen him hiding behind the tree, but didn’t dare say a word. The enchantress came up yelled out her demands to Rupunzel and then made her way down. That night I asked Rupunzel to let me out of my bun, she kept me tied up until the enchantress would call her to let me down each night. She let me loose and I told her about the handsome young man I had seen by the tree. I told her he might be able to help us out and of course she was terrified of the idea and told me she wouldn’t dare look out the window. The night went by, and the second morning Rupunzel sat and sang, this time the prince came again. He waited a while and then he called
“Rupunzel, Rupunzel, Let your hair down”
Rupunzel knew the voice was different, but thought no one else knew of her in the tower and no one knew to tell her to let me down other that the wicked enchantress. So she let me down and this time it wasn’t her, but it was the handsome young man I had seen hiding behind the tree. He swiftly made his way up, and for the first time I didn’t feel the pulling and the snagging, it was painless as he went up. Rupunzel was surprised to see it wasn’t the wicked enchantress; it was a handsome young man, in a small panicky voice she asked
“Who are you, and why are you here?”
“I am the prince, I saw how she treats you, I am here to help you out”
She trembled and was a bit frightened after all she had never seen anyone but the enchantress.
Rupunzel don’t be frightened I said. This is the man I saw hiding by the tree. I felt like she had a feeling of relief, she sighed and asked him
“Why are you here?”
“I am here to help you out” in a louder tone of voice this time.
How could she trust him, she didn’t know who he was, but why should she stay what would the enchantress do if she ever found her. I didn’t know what to think at the moment. I had flying through my head like bees in a bee hive. I wanted to tell Rupunzel to leave but wanted to also leave the decision up to her. How could we get down, Rupunzel asked in a puzzled voice, she sounded confused. He pleaded with her to let him help and promised her he would take good care of her once she made her way down. Rupunzel agreed.
He said “tonight when she comes, do as you always would, let your endless golden hair down and let her up and tomorrow I will be back.”
He didn’t tell us how he would let us down, but we waited patiently until the next day. Before the sun went down he was there he had brought with him a long, never ending piece of silk cloth. I made my way down, so he could come up and give Rupunzel the piece of silk. He gradually made his way up and this time I felt like he was as light as air. He approached the window and told Rupunzel to use the piece of silk as she used me. He told her to tie it to the pole in the tower and let it down and slide down to the bottom of the tower. He went down first and waited for her at the bottom. She did as he told her and in a matter of less than a minute she swiftly slid down to find herself at the bottom of the tower.
I was afraid that since she didn’t need me anymore she might cut me off. I asked her quietly
“Rupunzel what will you do of me now, that you don’t need me anymore? “
“I will let you grow longer and more beautiful than ever, I will never let anyone pull on you again” she replied.
Her and the prince married, she made everyone happy with her beautiful voice, but her songs were now songs of happiness and hope, she never sang her old songs again. And we never heard anything of the evil enchantress.