Hey guys, sorry it took so long to update. Tests, what can you do?

"Wait, I can't go to dinner dressed like THIS!" Jade exclaimed right outside the dining hall. "Let me change real quick. I wish I was wearing something drier and more formal." A flash of sparkles. She was now in a lovely, sea-blue dress that went down to the floor and had beautiful, long sleeves that came to a gentle point at the beginning of the middle finger, her hair was brushed to a silky smoothness and fell neatly down to her hips, two parts of hair on either side of the front had been fastened together at the back of her head. Her jewelry was a nice pair of, what else, jade earrings and a gold necklace with a jade locket attached. "Much, much better!" she said, twirling around in front of a mirror to see how she looked.

"You look marvelous, mademoiselle." Lumiere said as she twirled, he was standing on the table near the mirror. She jumped a little, and then giggled.

"Oh, it's just you, Lumiere! I thought that a ghost was talking to me!" Jade said as she bent down to talk to Lumiere. "How are you this evening?" she asked.

"Right as rain, and you?" Lumiere responded. Jade stood up.

"Okay, I've just run away from my dad, found a portal that lead first to London, and then here. And I got drenched in rain. No biggie." She shrugged. Lumiere looked shocked.

"No biggie? That sounds like a big biggie!" Lumiere exclaimed.

Belle looked worried. "Why did you run away, Jade?"

"My dad, he's making me do all these lessons on how to be a proper princess and I HATE them! But today, I snapped. Professor Whatzisface was getting all in my face about how I wasn't sitting right or I wasn't holding the teapot right. I said 'Yeah, well maybe I'll just put this tea where it belongs!' and I dumped the entire teapot on his head, but it was iced tea, so it didn't burn him. But I ran and locked the door to my room, dad threatened to put Gemm in a stable and I flew off on carpet. The rest is hard to explain." Jade explained as they took their seats at the long table. She gasped in awe. "Your master doesn't skimp on elegance, does he, Lumiere?"

"The master prefers extravagance." Lumiere motioned around the dining hall. Jade looked around at the breath-taking beauty.

"I want to stay here." She said breathlessly. "Much more beautiful than Agrabah or London!" Belle looked at Jade with concern.

"Why? You have such a wonderful life in Agrabah. You have everything you ever want." Belle asked. Jade's face fell.

"That all comes at a price, etiquette lessons." She stuck out her tongue in disgust. "You have to be kept against your will in one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen!"

"And that's a good thing?" Belle looked confused.

"Of course. I personally think Beast is sweet and caring." Jade stared at the door where the Beast would soon be arriving. "And besides, I think HE likes YOU." She said, pointing first to the door, then to Belle. Belle looked shocked.

"B-b-but I'm just a bookworm! A geek!" She looked around the hall. "Why would he ever like me?"

"You are not, you hear me? N-O-T a bookworm or a geek!" Jade exclaimed. Belle sighed. The Beast entered, his eyes fell towards Jade, slumped forward in her seat, elbows on the table, and head on top of her hands. She looked up at Beast. "Hello, Beast, is it?"

"That is what I am known by, yes." He nodded. "But I trust the two of you enough for you to call me Eric." He took his seat at the head of the table. Jade slightly blushed.

"Well, Eric, thank you for allowing me to stay in your abode. It is extravagant in every way." Jade thanked Eric. Alan rolled his eyes. Those etiquette lessons were paying off.

"You're most welcome, Princess Jade." Eric said, taking some soup.

The rest of dinner went very well. Eric and Jade went back in forth, giving each other compliments. Alan felt that he was going to puke if they kept that up. He left the table and went to the guest bedroom as soon as Eric brought up the subject of how her hair looked.

TIME WARP! THE NEXT DAY…

"Alan! Alan! Come on! I was just making a good impression! Alan, come back!" Jade called as Alan stormed out of the library. She flopped down on the couch dressed in cozy silk azure pajamas. She put her face in her hands. "I am so stupid. I shouldn't've responded when Eric complemented my hair. That's probably what set him off. I wish he knew what I was trying to do."

"Love is very tricky, no?" Lumiere asked as he hopped up beside Jade on the end table, she looked over at the little candelabrum.

"You're there whenever I need you, aren't you?" She asked, laughing a little. Lumiere smiled.

"I am just here at the right times." Lumiere shrugged. Jade laughed.

"I wish you were a human, at least for today. Then I would totally ask you out, right in front of Alan, just to make him jealous! Then he would try to get me back and then we could talk, and-WOAH!" she fell over sideways a young man with blonde hair was suddenly sitting on the table. He had the same looks as Lumiere and was wearing a gold suit. "WOW! You look so handsome! C'mon, we have to go find Alan and then you can ask me out to make him jealous!" She grabbed Lumiere's hand and pulled him into the main hall, where Alan was sitting on the stairs. She secretly wished to be wearing a nice day dress and was soon wearing the same outfit she had first shown u in France wearing. She faced Lumiere "Okay, I'll say 'You wanted to talk to me?' and you'll say something nice about how I look, I'll say thanks and then you'll ask me out on a date." She whispered as she and Lumiere moved to the foot of the stairs. Lumiere nodded and stood a good two feet across from her.

"Jade." He said in the most romantic voice he could.

"Yes," she nodded and swayed back and forth slowly.

"You are wearing a very lovely dress this morning, I must say." Lumiere said stepping closer and taking her hand, he kissed it gently. Alan looked up. "And I was wondering if you would like to have dinner with me this evening."

"No!" Alan shouted as he hurtled down the staircase. Jade looked down so her hair would cover her smile up. "You can't go out with him! I-I-I love you more than he does! He's only known you for what, FIVE minutes? And I've known you since you were thirteen! I want you to go to dinner with me not-not-not sorry, what's your name?"

"Lumiere," Jade giggled. Alan looked shocked. "And yes, I will go to dinner with you. Thank you Lumiere, but you're not my type."

"That's okay, I like one of the feather-dusters more, anyway." Lumiere said as he resumed his candelabrum form. As he hopped off, Alan gave Jade a kiss on the cheek.

"I was wondering when you would do that." Jade said sweetly. But the moment was ruined as there was a commotion from outside the main door.