You Have To Be Bold, Darling!

AN: I hope you enjoy this story, Beauty and the Beast is my favourite Disney story, and I couldn't resist modernising it! I'm not sure how good this is, but hopefully you will like it1 if you do, please review and leave any comments or critics you may have! I appreciate anything you say for it might help improve my future chapters or stories!

Disclaimer: I do not own the story of Beauty and the Beast, or the characters, but I have incorporated them to suit my purpose, but they still belong to Disney!

Enjoy!

Watching her turn away alone was the hardest thing she'd had to do for a long time.

Annabelle and Maryssa were twins and they rarely left each other's sides for anything. But this time she decided that a brief separation was the best thing to do. They had both been invited to a mysterious party by Guy Thinek, a big headed, self-righteous, rude man. Apparently it was on the other side of the large forest bordering their small town. The sisters didn't particularly want to go to the party; in fact Annabelle was adamant that she was not going. Neither sister was ever in a group of friends at school, or really fitted in with the other villagers. They mainly stuck together, rather than trying to mingle with anyone else. They also lived not in the main town, like the majority of people, instead just up the hill at their fathers old garage, therefore receiving a lot of name calling like 'loner' or 'freak'.

But as the years went by, Annabelle had seemed to get more 'interesting' to other people, much to her disdain. She never accepted any offers of friendship from peers, especially from Guy Thinek. He was the most popular boy at their school, and he had asked her out so many times she had lost count. She couldn't believe that he hadn't got the message yet. It was a well-known fact that he had made a bet to be the one to take away her virginity. Well not if she could help it. She stayed as far away as possible from Guy, repulsed by his hideous manner and vanity. Instead, Annabelle and Maryssa stayed happy in each other's company at the garage. Maryssa would often tinker with old bits of car, occasionally charging people to fix their vehicles, while Annabelle read. She'd read anything she could get her hands on, loving getting immersed in a completely different, interesting world, compared to the drab one they lived in.

The twins were not identical. Annabelle was quite tall, with long brown hair that fell in waves around her shoulders, whereas Maryssa was much shorter; with very light blonde hair, of which she kept in a short pixie cut. Their only similarity was they both had big dark green eyes, with dark eyelashes. Their fashion sense was very different to other people, Annabelle liked to wear quite old-fashioned style shirt, and Maryssa always wore old clothes that she didn't mind getting oil on. This also set them apart from the others, but the girls didn't care.

The day of the party, Annabelle had been out buying some food from the Tesco Express for their dinner, Maryssa, her father and herself. Her mother had died when they were young, and their father was terminally ill, so the twins put a lot of effort into looking after him.

She'd been walking home with her favourite book in hand, The Hunger Games, when Guy, and his little follower Louis, had blocked her path.

"Guy!" Annabelle yelped as he grabbed her book and tossed it over her shoulder.

"Just doing you a favour, love! You have such a beautiful face, why hide it away inside one of those useless things?" he smirked and lifted her chin up with his right hand. Scoffing, Annabelle batted him away, and tried to reach for her book, but his huge body size was in the way.

"Come on Annabelle, show a little happiness! You are talking to the best looking man in town!"

"Yeah Annabelle come on!" repeated Louis, with a ridiculous grin plastered onto his face. Annabelle stared at him, before moving her eyes up to squint at Guys face beaming down at her.

"I wouldn't go that far. You could clean yourself up a bit. For one, take a shower. You smell like a skunks butt." Annabelle spoke through her teeth, before pushing past whilst he was still in shock, bending to pick up her book. She started to walk away as far as she could from the men. Louis was laughing at Guy, not used to seeing his idol get shown like that, but soon shut up when Guy gave him a very dirty look.

"Annabelle, wait!" Guy said, once he had recovered his composure. Slowly she turned around to face him, her jaw set. Guy started to advance towards her, until he was pretty much breathing down her throat. She could feel his piggish eyes leering at her breasts, making her feel itchy and uncomfortable.

"Tonight," he drawled, lifting an arm to grip hers. "I'm having a party, the other side of woods. Bring your sister." He squeezed her arm and winked. "Boy, are we going to have funnnn tonight!"

Pulling out of his grip, she swivelled around again and stalked away, but not before he could slap her bum, causing her to squeak in surprise, and walk faster. Eugh, she felt so disgusted by the guy, not sure what others saw in him at all.

As soon as she got home, Annabelle started to rant about Guy to Maryssa, who had never seemed particularly interested in Guy or Louis, probably because they had never hassled her.

"A party? Where?" she had exclaimed when her sister had mentioned it offhandedly.

"Other side of the woods. You don't really want to go do you?

"No, not particularly. But don't you think it could earn me some more money? If many people are driving through the woods in the dark, there's bound to be at least something I can fix, and charge a drunk driver quite a lot. They won't know any different in the morning!" Maryssa winked. Laughing, Annabelle nodded. She understood her sisters reasons to go, it would benefit all of them, but there was no way that she would go anywhere near the party, and she told her sister so.

"I don't blame you! Stay as far away as you can from that creep Guy!"

She smiled and nodded. She couldn't have just left their dad alone anyway!

To be honest, when Maryssa was ready to leave a couple of hours later, in a beautiful royal blue summer dress, with a light denim jacket over the top, very different to her normal attire, Annabelle did feel a little scared for her sister. She tended to be quite a reckless driver, for she knew she would be able to fix any damage, but driving in the dark forest alone was never a good mood. You didn't know who- or what- could be in there. But Maryssa promised her she would be careful, and drove off into the distance.

That ball of nerves still wouldn't go away though.