As Nanette trudged through the snow that had settled there in the early evening she began to wonder where she was going to go when her home was gone, but the warmth of the tavern and the smell of beer stopped her thoughts. She immediately noticed Gabrielle sitting with Danielle, a new girl whose name was something like Brutto, and Augusta. After she got her drink, she started over to them glad to have an innocent reason to go back and see Augusta.

"Bonjour," Nanette said with a sorrowful tone.

"What's wrong?" Gabrielle said with genuine concern in her voice.

"Nothing I'm just not very happy," Nanette said trying to hide the majority of her distress

"All right…if you're sure," Gabrielle said hesitantly, one good thing about Gabrielle was that she wasn't nosey. "Oh did you hear?" she asked in excitement.

"Hear what?" Nanette said looking at her trying to ignore Augusta starting at Gabrielle.

"Gaston…he asked Belle to marry him," Danielle cut in.

"What…why?" Nanette said completely distracted between this odd news and the beer.

"Who knows but get this, she turned him down!" Gabrielle said excited by this fresh piece of gossip.

Just then Lefou yelled to the crowd. Everyone turned around to see Lefou just as he started talk about Gaston, obviously trying to cheer him up, but within seconds Juliette, Émilie, and Catherine started to hug him. Lefou dragged him away and kept up the stream of praises and then started to get the rest of the tavern to help. They kept up there cheers and praise, listing achievements and strengths Gaston had. Finally the commotion died down and most people started a conversation again.

"Well that was fun, we really needed to swell Gaston's head," Gabrielle said sarcastically. Gabrielle had hated Gaston ever since he had cheated on Renée with Odette. Renée was a good friend of hers but she had never had the courage to tell her what Gaston had done. The most she did was to persuade her to break up with him.

"Oh well he'll never get belle anyway," Nanette said after a swig of her third drink.

Just then there was a yell from the door. As she turned, Nanette heard Maurice's voice shouting something about someone taking Belle.

"Who!" Nanette asked as the Alcohol in her system made her voice exceptionally loud.

"A beast!" Maurice yelled to the room at large. One second passed as everyone started at him and then everyone began to laugh. He bellowed something angrily but no one heard it over the tumultuous laughter. After a few minutes the hilarity calmed down and everyone began to talk again.

"Well, now we know he's crazy," Brutto said still chuckling.

"But he's always good for a laugh," Augusta said speaking for the first time.

"Yeah," Nanette said dreamily, feeling a little reckless between her sorrow and the fourth drink she had just gotten.

"Um…Nanette I think you should go home and get some rest," Gabrielle said gently as Nanette took a huge gulp of her beer. "Would you like me to walk you home?"

"No, no, it's alright I can get home on my own," Nanette said slurring her words.

"Alright," she said unsure.

"I'll be fine," Nanette insisted bulging out her blood shot eyes as an attempt of emphasis. She got up and walked towards the door but when she got there she found her way blocked by Odette coming in. "Move out of the way," Nanette growled

"Sorry how about you do that, oh but you might need help, you never can do anything alone," Odette said with cold anger. Just then Nanette took a swing at her head with her half empty mug. Odette quickly ducked but the Alcohol inside the mug tipped all over her head.

"Sorry," Nanette said snarling at her. Odette got back up rubbing the beer out of her eyes. As Nanette pushed past her Odette pulled her back and took a swing at her. After all the drinks of the night her reflexes were slowed and so she took the majority of the blow in the stomach. Nanette breathed in with a sharp gasp, and dropped the now empty mug.

"Oh wasn't that fun," by this point everyone had turned to see what was happening but before her friends could get up and help Odette had given another blow but this time to the head, and that did it. Nanette fell to the floor unconscious after the final blow. At the exact moment Nanette hit the floor every little conflict between everyone in the bar exploded out into fights.

Gabrielle, Danielle and Augusta ran towards her yelling at Odette across the tangle of random battles. Augusta got there first; he ran to her and pushed her away from Nanette who she had begun to kick after her anger had over whelmed her. Gabrielle and Danielle grabbed the unconscious girl and dragged her out of the bar and to her shop.