#charmingstart

“Do you ever just get the feeling that you need to be fixed?”

--    Zoella sat in her chair perfectly still. Grey eyes took in their surroundings. A cafe. A dozen or so people. No one she knew and no one she cared to introduce herself to. A life lived in shadows was the only life she knew which meant that these faces would always remain strangers. She made up stories for them sometimes. Today she was in the middle of constructing a lone elderly woman’s past when someone sat down in the chair across from her. Lips made no move to let out a sound but her eyebrow quirked. The only sign that she was confused about why the other had sat down at her table.

“ Nah, that’s okay--- go on, ” Danny encouraged, leaning across the bar as he wiped the inside of a glass clean. “ I’m a bartender, I’m pretty sure listening to rants is hidden somewhere in my job description. ”

   Rapunzel smiled down at Inna and a sudden calm rushed over her. “The r-rumors are true. Y-yes.... Inna is mine. She is my daughter a-a-and I am her mother. Big news I suppose. A-although I guess I’ve gotten used to it all by now. I think th-the biggest shock will be how the town reacts. I-it’s not as if I’m a celebrity so why should they care?”