Fairy Tale Retold 6 - Rapunzel Let Down by Regina Doman

Author:Regina Doman
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Chesterton Press
Published: 2013-03-19T04:00:00+00:00

Raphaela dyed her hair before she went to the crisis pregnancy center. After saying goodbye to Mandy and Tricia, she had gone to the drugstore and bought a bottle of bleach and a package of hair dye. Then she went to a cheap motel for the night.

There she figured out how to make herself into a bleach-blond. It took a bit of doing. The bleach was irritating to her skin, and her attempt to dye her eyebrows didn’t quite work the way it was supposed to. She did manage to get her hair a fairly white-green, and then dyed it blond with the most ‘long lasting’ formula of hair dye she could find.

It was late at night by the time she finished, and she thought she did look quite different. When she had been at the medical school, she had usually worn her hair up and forward over her eyes. Now she pulled it back tightly, and thought that she didn’t quite look like herself. Hopefully she looked old enough to pass for eighteen. She was about to make a new first impression, and she wanted to make sure that the first impression was of someone quite unlike her real self.

On the television in the motel, she clicked through the news channels for several hours, and every time an update came up about the trial of Senator McCaffrey’s son, she sat, transfixed. Most of the footage was of the Senator going into the courtroom, looking older and grayer than when she had seen him at the party. There were plenty of photo montages of Hermes while the newscaster rattled off the backstory—school photos, photos from political rallies, candid shots of him and his dad. This was Hermes in his previous life. His school pictures showed him looking cocky, grinning and arrogant. There was one from an anti-abortion rally where he was leaning on a sign that said “Save Yourself For Marriage.” But he was leaning to the side talking to some girls with a smile that was almost a sneer. There was another shot of his dad slapping him on the back and they were both laughing, but even that didn’t seem like nice laughter.

She might have believed the photos more if she hadn’t seen him yesterday. The boy on the bench hadn’t seemed arrogant or sinister. She couldn’t forget the dark look of pain in his eyes.

Then the TV showed a clip of him being quickly herded into the courtroom from the jail. His face was gaunt, and he was wearing dark glasses. She supposed it was what all celebrities did when they were in disgrace.

She was supposed to be testifying at his trial right now, testifying against him, so that he would be going to prison for a long time. But suppose, she thought, suppose I got up on the stand and told them the truth? It might help him.

But if she came back into the open…her hands started shaking, and she rubbed her stomach again. No, she couldn’t risk having them killed.

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