One little word couldn't do much damage, was what Victoria always assumed. But she was wrong. Very wrong.

From the moment the two met, Princess Rapunzel and Prince Eugene did not like each other. With each summer that they spend together, they only grow to hate each other more. Their lives are perfectly fine as they go about despising each other. Until the two learn of their arranged marriage. Life was going to be just perfect married to your sworn enemy.

Her soul aches every time she lies. There are no tears, but the ones she feels in her heart, mourning after all these years for Tony. Snippets of Maria and her daughter's lives as she grows to accept Tony's death and tell her daughter the Shakespearian tragedy of her father.