Chapter 3: The Accident

Belle and I were still on our walk outside the castle. We were almost three miles away from the castle, and we were holding hands down the trail. Belle was smiling and she said, "I think we chose the perfect day to walk around. It is not raining or anything. It's nice outside." I said in agreement, "Yep. I just wanted to get you out of the castle because I feel like you are always in there and it may be annoying…" She giggled and said, "Oh no, it's not annoying. Now that I live with you and I actually love you, it's not annoying." I asked almost laughing, "Are you telling the truth?" She stammered, "Uh… yeah. I am totally telling the truth." I asked almost laughing, "Are you?" She laughed, "Yes, I am!" I said chuckling, "Okay…" She giggled and then I looked away.

Suddenly, I picked her up and she screamed. We were laughing and I "pinned" her down on the ground. She laughed, "Let me go! Let me go!" I laughed, "Are you telling the truth?" She said, "Adam, I'm telling you! I am telling the truth!" I laughed and said, "I doubt it. I'm going to make you talk." I looked at the sky in thought, and she was giggling. I said smirking, "I'm going to divorce you if you don't tell me the truth." I was just joking, and she gasped and said, "You wouldn't! You love me too much!" I said, "So? I would still divorce you!" I could tell that she was lying. I leaned down and kissed her. We were smiling and I asked, "Now, are you telling me the truth?" Belle said, "Okay, fine. It is a little annoying being in your castle all the time. I love going outside and wandering around." I smiled and so did she. I said, "Thank you." I picked her up and stood her up. We were still smiling and then I felt water dripping on me.

I wiped the water, and Belle said, "Oh no, it's raining." I looked at her, and then I heard thunder. I said, "Okay, we have to go." Belle asked, "You're telling me that we are going to run three miles?" I said, "Well, we can walk quickly." We both looked up at the sky, and then Belle said, "Okay. Let's hurry." We weren't holding hands, and then we started quickly walking. As we walked, it started pouring, and the thunder got stronger. Gosh, I bet we haven't even walked a mile, but then I spotted lightning. Belle said, "No! There's lightning!" I said, "Okay, we have to run now!" She nodded and then we started sprinting to the castle. For a girl, Belle was fast, and she stayed right next to me. The rain got even heavier and darker clouds rolled in.

About two miles down, ten minutes past (yes, we are really fast), we were getting exhausted. We stopped to catch our breath. A lightning bolt struck, and Belle screamed. She ran to me, and she wrapped her arms around me. We were both breathing heavily, and she said, "We have one mile left. We can do it." I kissed her head and I said, "Okay. Let's go do this." We were soaked and tired; I just wanted to go get dry and go to sleep. I said, "We can make it." Then, we started running even faster since we were almost back. Belle was behind me this time because she was more tired than me. I knew she was behind me because I heard her breathing. I kept running even faster, and then I saw the gate to my castle. I opened it really quickly and continued to run to the door. I hope Belle survived the running because holy cow, we ran three miles.

When I reached the door, I opened the door and yelled, "Belle! The door's op-." When I turned around, Belle wasn't there… not in sight… I panicked, "Belle?! Belle?! Where are you?!" I ran outside to find her… hopefully she's okay. I was really getting worried now because I could not find her. I searched around the outside of my castle yelling, "Belle?! Belle?! Answer me! Where are you?!" I searched for five minutes… still no sight of her. I was about to cry because I couldn't find her. I felt tears coming up my eyes; when I looked over at the gate, it was still open… I said, "Oh no. She's outside of the gate!" I ran outside of the gate, and searched all around. I kept yelling her name… and then I looked about a half mile from my castle. Still, no sign of her; when I looked to my right, I saw a body… in the trees…

I said, "Oh my…" I ran over to the body, and turned it over… it was Belle! I started crying, and she wasn't moving or anything! I cried, "Belle! Wake up! Answer me!" I laid her head in my hand and she wouldn't wake up. I said, "I'm going to help you! You're going to wake up!" I picked her up and carried her to my castle. I slammed the door when I reached the inside of my castle. I laid her on the floor, and Belle would not wake up. I started crying even harder; was she dead?! I cried, "Belle! Please wake up! Please! Don't leave me!" I went mouth to mouth on her and then I performed CPR on her.

Lumiere and Cogsworth came down stairs and they saw me. Lumiere asked in concern, "Master, what's wrong with Belle?!" I cried, "She's not waking up! I found her outside like this!" I continued to perform CPR and both of them said in concern, "Oh no!" I tried so hard to wake her up. After fifteen minutes of trying to revive her, she finally woke up! I smiled and I said, "Yes! You're alive! Thank goodness! I thought you were dead!" She was slowly opening and closing her eyes. I kissed her for a long time, and when we separated, she asked, "What happened? Why am I on the floor?" I stood her up and I kept smiling. I said, "I don't know what happened to you. We were on our walk, and it started raining. We ran here, and you weren't behind me. I found you in the trees, and you were not moving or anything." She asked, "You saved me, I guess?" I said, "Yes. I am so elated that you woke up! I thought you were dead!" She smiled a little and asked, "Okay, who are you?"

My smile faded immediately; I asked in a sad tone, "What? What do you mean?" She asked, "Who are you? I'm afraid I don't know you." My heart broke into a thousand pieces. Hearing her ask that shocked me. I said, "I'm Adam, your husband. Do you remember now? Look at your left finger." She looked at the ring on her finger, and she said, "Oh. I guess I am married to you… someone I don't know." I felt tears coming up me again. The thousand pieces of my heart broke into millions of pieces now. I said, "Look, Belle, I am married to you! We are husband and wife! I have a ring on my finger! Look!" I showed her my ring, and she asked, "Are you sure? I don't remember buying anyone a ring." I felt tears streaming down my face. I asked, "What happened to you? Why don't you remember anything? You don't even remember the person you love so much, which is me!" I looked over and saw all my servants watching us with tears falling down their faces.

She gave me a confused look and said, "All I know right now is that my name is Belle, and you're Adam. I don't remember marrying anyone. I don't remember falling in love." My heart was officially gone because it shattered like five times. She stopped holding my hand and she walked upstairs. She stopped halfway and asked, "Where's the bathroom?" I pointed upstairs and sadly said, "Upstairs… on the third floor. In our bedroom." She said, "Whatever. I'll find it." When she was out of sight, all my servants looked at me. Mrs. Potts said, "I'm so sorry, sir."

I said while crying, "I think she lost her memory… she probably got struck by lightning… now she doesn't remember me… or love me…"