Chapter 2: High School AU - RumBelle. Gold is the kind of guy who doesn't belong in the Library.


Gold was not the kind of teenage who was known to go into the Library. He was one that would have gotten beat up every day if he didn't have such great connections all around and was known to have at least one piece of blackmail on every student. He was the boy who walked with a permanent limp because the one and only time that he was ever beaten up was in middle school. The boys who were responsible were never heard from again. No one dared messed with him again.

So as Gold strolled into the Library, Belle French wasn't the only one who stared at him. He waked with squared shoulders and chin held high as he went and asked the Librarian where a book on war for his history class was and went to go and seek it out as she stuttered out the location.

Belle couldn't help but be jealous that she wasn't the one telling him where to go. She had always wanted to talk to him, but she had never gotten a chance. Gold was always surrounded by goonies and other guys who were known to be the bullies of the school.

Gold came out of the back shelves of the Library, a look of impatience crossing his features as he didn't have a book in his hands. Belle ducked her face behind the book she was reading, trying not to make it seem like she was staring at him.

The librarian looked shaken at best, as she frantically looked around at the other students. Eventually her eyes landed on Belle, and the librarian pointed at her. Belle almost dropped her book as Gold started to make his way over to her.

"I need that book," he announced as he finally reached her small desk. Belle's heart beat frantically, but she held her ground, clutching her book tighter.

"I'm reading it right now," Belle told him, meeting his eyes with her own. She had never seen someone with such golden eyes before, they almost looked like honey. She had to force herself not to get lost in them.

"Didn't you hear me dearie? I need that book." Gold held out his hand, obviously expecting her to just hand it over. She gave him a dissatisfied look.

"Well, you are just out of luck then aren't you?" she teased. For a moment, he went stiff, and Belle panicked internally, but then his shoulders sagged and he gave her a half grin.

"I'll give. What do you want?" he asked, eye brow raised. Belle thought for a moment, he would probably give her anything she wanted right now, and surprisingly, her mind was blank. But then she smiled, the perfect idea forming in her mind.

"I'll give you the book, if at every lunch you come and spend it with me and tell me about yourself," she said with a smile.

Gold stared at her for a moment, with the smile and the book held out with him, and he just couldn't resist the small smile tugging at the corner of his lips.

"You have got yourself a deal, dearie."

Maybe Gold could be the kind of guy that goes to the Library, as long as she was there.


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