A/N: This is an english essay I wrote a few weeks ago. The assignment was to write a modernized version of Beauty and the Beast based on how you thought their personalitys would be in present time. Short, but it was a limited amount of words.
Disclaimer: Npoe. me no own B&tB. Nope.
SELFCAUSED TEARS
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a fanfic by Andvilyawen
Beauty Bell was crying. Not because of her loss, her heart had already gone numb from that pain, but from the blaming looks that never left her relatives eyes. Silently she saw them disappear, one by one, each after leaving a bouquet of flowers on the newly-dug grave. The last ones to walk the path back to the world of the living was the two police officers she met the day her memories were recorded and thrown away in one of the thousands of boxes making the polices' crime archive. Deciding the world was too rough at the moment for her liking, she imagined herself from above, somewhere over the clouds where the church claimed her father was waiting for her. She studied her imaginary self critical, making a note never to wear black again; it made her skin look sick. Although, she deserved a pat on the shoulder for work well done, Beauty was the perfect sorrowful, grieving daughter that only a few days earlier had to witness the tragedy that was her fathers' murder. The only item not fitting in the image was a bleached, simple envelope resting in her left hand.
As the picture hit her eye, Beauty bid farewell to the stars, letting the white piece of paper be the center of her attention. A few unsteady hand moves later and the inside were presented to the world. Two letters addressed to her was properly folded in there, both written by hand. Slowly reaching for the papers her heart broke for the thousandth time. Trying to ignore the breathtaking ache Beauty concentrated on the words of the first note.
"Why aren't you answering any of my letters? I want to start all over again, you know that.
I am so sorry, I don't know why I did it, but if you take me back I swear I'll never do it again! Answer this letter, now!
Tell me you regret leaving me, because you are mine and no one elses'!"
She had found it on her front porch three weeks earlier, when he in her mind still was sane. The tears started flowing more and more forcefully when Beauty unfolded the second paper.
"You forced me to do this! Come to the old barn, the red one, tomorrow at noon. I have a plan on how we can be together, just you and me! We are leaving by plane two days from now, alone. Don't be scared, I did this for us! You made me! Don't tell anyone, or I'll kill him. As I will if you don't turn up. I love you."
She didn't do as instructed, and now she paid the price. She alone was responsible for what had happened, she knew that just like everybody else. That fact just made the tears more harmful. But she would never, ever, give up her life for someone else. She was selfish, yes, but so she had always been. Beauty Bell had always been living in a dream world, where she was the center of everything.
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