Choco covered: So many people reviewed saying they wanted an epilogue so here it is! To be bluntly honest I had to force myself to stop being lazy and write -_-

Oh yeah! And for those Vocaloid fans I found a song that kind of relates to this story (In my opinion), but I really love it. I actually listened to it when I was updating the last chapter.

It's Teto Kasane's Mischievous Function, so cute :3

Now I hope you enjoy the epilogue of Tangled.

Beep!

My sleep clouded eyes snapped open in irritation as a sharp clicking erupted near my ears awaking me from my dream haze. Pausing for a moment after grunting about the light, I waited. . . . It didn't return so I assumed it was my dream and closed my eyes once more.

Beep!

My eye's slowly opened once more scowling as I grew more agitated. I waved my hand randomly in the air and turned my head away from the strangely loud sound of beeping to continue my sleep.

. . . Beep! Beep!

. . . BeepBeepBeepBeepBeep!

"Shut up!" I yelled finally shooting my head up to destroy the persistent noise at full anger.

I looked around myself in my room in a state of confusion, I checked in front of me where I was just sleeping on my laptops keyboard while on chat. I touched my face lightly and winced at the probably red marks that was let from the letters that were my make shift pillow.

Beep!

'Are you still there?'

Oh the mystery of the clicking is solved, I guess when I fell unconscious I left the other person pretty confused, but in my defense they should have just logged off. I said goodnight to whomever and shut down my laptop getting ready for bed. What time was it? I looked at my clock that flashed the dull red number of 10:04

I yawned almost immediately and pulled off my covers to get into the warmth and comfort of my bed. My eyelids felt heavy as lead as I nearly passed out when my head hit the pillow, getting so close to unconsciousness. I thought about the day's events while I tossed and turned smiling remembering all that happened- hiding in the bush to avoid the mountain of questions from Amu and Yaya, the hair tangling, the rumors, and my apparent memory loss.

But one specific event seemed to fast forward and reply more than necessary-The poem and the after math.

My face began to heat up remembering the kiss. No God dammit! I'm Rima! I. DON'T. BLUSH. Or at least I shouldn't.

"Aaarrrggh!" I mumbled turning over. There was no way I was going to fall asleep with the day's events dancing behind my lids. In such case I considered it lucky when the sound of rocks scratching against my window echoed like in a horror movie.

I nearly jumped a foot in the air but I smiled despite the unexpected surprise. I was glad for it.

It gave me something interesting to do.

So, grinning I threw off my covers that provided the somewhat non existing heat and uncomfortable thoughts and walked over to the window, opening it when the rocks ceased, only to see the one person who wouldn't leave my mind.

"You know, it worries me deeply when you come to my house in the middle of the night." I said leaning on the windowpane with a smug expression and crossed arms.

Nagihiko smiled innocently. "Oh, I only fallowed you home." He sarcastically said casually dismissing it, "But I have a surprise for you. Come down."

I raised my eyebrow in curiosity at his bluntness.

"No." I huffed turning to leave back to my bed that seemed considerable more boring than it did a few moments ago. Except, when I was about to jump onto my mattress again I felt someone grab my shoulder; that part was certainly interesting.

"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your long hair~" He whispered in my ear sending shivers down my spine. I spun around so fast my curls whipped him in the face and I almost fell backwards.

"HOW THE HELL DO YOU DO THAT?" I yelled with eyes wide and on the verge of a heart attack (For two different reasons, but he doesn't need a bigger ego). His eyes gleamed with excitement and mischief as he smiled trying his best to look innocent.

"Years of practice." He purred.

I wasn't sure whether to be frightened or teaming with laughter, so I met halfway and raised my eyebrow with a grin.

"So you want me to sneak out? With you? The creeper who shows up at my window at night?" I chuckled lightly at how odd my description sounded, and how true it was.

Nagihiko smiled warmly then bowed low to me as if I were royalty, now raising to my eye level and holding out his hand with a wink.

"Then consider me your prince charming for the night."

And sadly, I could almost feel the sparkles emanating off us both (accompanied by my almost blush) that almost made me want to gag. Good news though, I didn't, and I hesitantly took his hand as he lead me to the window slowly. With a foot already on bottom of the frame and my hand still in his as I stood next to him nervously Nagihiko glanced at me with an 'are you ready?' look. I nodded half-heartily before he whipped his head back around to face outside and practically leaped out into the darkness of night like a lunatic.

The drop from my second story window was short but that didn't stop the wind from whipping and pulling my hair along with stealing away my muffled screams. See, just before we (he) jumped out the window Nagihiko had clamped a hand over my mouth to not, oh I don't know, wake my parents from the dead with my terrified screams of protest. Mainly what halted my over active vocal cords was that when we landed, we didn't break anything. And then I realized we were in a bush . . . On a mattress.

"This is the weirdest Valentine's day ever!" I said sprawled out with hair in my face. Nagihiko started laughing and got up, the chuckles racking his body.

"Weird is always the best part of days like this, it's not all the time you get attached to someone who then proceeds to get amnesia." He said holding out his hand.

Rolling my eyes I accepted his outstretched hand and pulled myself off the ground. "I guess, I mean it's not every day you can show the jerks what for." I said shrugging. It was probably best not to get used to doing that, either.

Connecting my fingers with his, Nagihiko started walking toward the darkness that concealed the neighboring street across mine. The darkness seemed twice as ominious as we got nearer and after stepping into the trees that conceled us, it felt as if the midnight had swallowed us both inside it. I raised my eyebrows nervously while my house faded into a soft light behind us.

"Where are you taking me?" I questioned starting to pull away slightly. He merely tightened his grip while pulling me back closer to him and smiled into the night.

"Somewhere special."

He said nothing else as we walked away.

~~~~~~~Some~~~~Where~~~Special~~~~~~~~~

It seemed to me that we'd been walking for miles when we finally saw a clearing in the trees as well as heard the sound of voices and water moving lazily along a stream. It sounded almost enchanting what with my exhaustion creating a fog in my head and the familiarity of the giggling voices, not to mention the time of night and the fact that the stream was the perfect background noise.

"Ah, they're here!"

"'Sup."

"Oh it's just them."

A chorus of voices greeted us, some cheerily, some lazily, before Nagihiko dropped me on the ground. After about twenty minutes of our walk I made him carry me, so I guess after walking with me for so long he got as tired as I felt.

Yawning, I looked around the odd moonlit scene before us with curiosity, only to find out it was probably from a dream of mine because the view was amazing. It wasn't even looking over anything, unless you counted silver stream trickling along below the lush green grass that together created a circle shaped clearing inside the towering pines. Because if you didn't count it, you must be blind.

"Where. . . Did you find this place?" I practically whispered.

"Well actually, I found this place when I got lost in the forest." Someone answered beside me.

I whipped around quizzically to face the band of people who are my friends sitting leisurely by the stream, dipping their toes in the water.

"Glad you noticed us." Amu smiled.

"Yeah, it's really pretty huh? It was certainly worth the half hour I spent trying to find my way back." Kukai continued, looking rather smug and not at all concerned that he was lost in the woods at one time.

"It's hard to imagine you found something this gorgeous." Utau added.

Scrunching my eyebrow together I stared at them with confusion. "Why are you all here?" I blurted.

"Well Nagihiko," Ikuto said nodding to him. "Thought this might be a fun Valentines treat or something."

"Yep." Said boy answered, walking forward to the edge of the stream before turning back to smile at me.

"So happy Valentine's day."

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"Happy Valentine's day!" Amu voiced loudly in my ear causing me to have a mini seizure and fall off my seat.

"Ugghhh. . ." I groaned rubbing my eyes in disamusment on the floor. "What year is it?"

Amu shoke her head at me; as she pulled me up by my shoulders and helped me back to my seat with a groan, she sighed.

"It's about time you're up, you were sleeping all class." She said, her eyes furrowed with worry.

I blinked rapidly to clear my head of my recent dream. "Oh, sorry." I mumbled.

Amu tisked as she started to walk towards the door, no doubt to hide before the fan boys attacked with their affection, when she stopped short suddenly.

"Oh yeah! Nagihiko's looking for you." She added before finally skipping out the door.

I stared after her in a daze; my thoughts muddled from my recent sleep, and moved my hands slowly to my head. I ran my fingers through my hair, twirled it around, felt my scalp.

It didn't feel like I was recently attached to an annoying Asian boy, nor did it seem like I had fallen off a hill.

"Hey, Rima." Nagihiko greeted walking in with a warm smile.

"Oh, hey." I said trying to hide my speedy heart beat. He must think it's weird that I'm not being sarcastic or rude since it was just a dream, and as guessed his eyes lined with worry almost instantly.

"Are you tired?" He put up a playful smirk. "Well, probably not, you were sound asleep awhile ago. Oh, hey! I have a surprise."

I smiled half heartily in return trying to remember what happened before I fell into unconsciousness. Nagihiko started digging in his pockets for said surprise as a flicker of a memory came to mind.

"Ah, here it is."

And then before my eyes was a shinning silver stream and lush green grass. On a bracelet.

I smiled widely, or at least as widely as I could let myself be seen.

"Happy anniversary." He whispered.

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