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Belle slept blissfully in her bed with Odie in her lap as the sun rose over the horizon. Garfield himself was being awoken by his tiny alarm clock that had let him know it was time for breakfast. Garfield rose from under his sheets with a heavy yawn and stretch. "Ah let's see what's on the itinerary." Garfield talked to himself as he pulled out a notepad. "Let's see; breakfast, post-breakfast mid-morning nap, pick on Odie, lunch, post-lunch mid afternoon nap, pick on Odie again, dinner, pick on Odie some more, and sleep." Garfield concluded. "Oh wow, I got a busy schedule to keep; I guess it's time to get Belle up."

Garfield walked over to Belle's bed and leaped onto it and strolled up to her head. "Good morning Belle." Garfield said as he brushed some hair out of Belle's face. Belle's eyes fluttered open to see Garfield smiling face. "So sorry to disturb you, I know you have a very important social life to maintain, with reading your books and dreaming about unicorns, rainbows, leprechauns, fairies and other disgustingly cute fairytale clichés, but if I could trouble you to go downstairs and fix a humongous breakfast for me there pumpkin, I'll be more than happy to let you get back to sleep."

Belle, still groggy with sleep laden eyes rolled back over to get back to sleep. "Five more minutes Garfield." She drowsily said. And just as Belle was drifting back off to sleep.

BWAAAP! Went a bugle.

"Ahhhh!" Belle screamed and shot up in bed wide awake. As her vision cleared she could see Garfield holding a bugle and wearing Marine Corps Drill instructor cap.

"Rise and shine private Belle!" Garfield declared with salute. "It's time to serve your nation, yes it's time to make breakfast, with pancakes the size of Australia, with bacon, eggs, and toast, and coffee; Yes Belle coffee, we would not be the great country it is today without coffee, so do your patriotic duty Belle, and fix me breakfast!" And with that Garfield marched off leaving Odie on Belles lap.

Odie marched up to Belle and stared at her for a second with a dopy smile and then gave her long wet lick on her face and bounced off to the kitchen with a small chuckle. "Why can't I have normal pets like everyone else?" Belle asked herself with drool dripping off her face.

"Did breakfast meet with your satisfaction your royal highness?" Belle asked rather harshly to Garfield while she cleared the table of dishes.

Garfield gulped the last of his coffee with a satisfied smile. "It was quite filling, but those pancakes there; how about a little less pan and little more cake next time, okay honey?" Garfield shot back. "Well stomach, I think it's time for el nappo." Garfield said to his huge belly.

"Garfield I'm going to go read for a while, be nice to Odie." Belle commanded as she settled into a chair next to the table and opened her book.

"On second thought it's time to abuse the puppy." Garfield replied with an evil sneer. Garfield snuck up behind Odie with evil smile. Garfield reared his foot back to kick Odie right off the table when a knock at door broke his concentration.

"Who could that be?" Belle asked.

"Well Belle it could be a very sweet, sensitive, adventurous young man whose come to sweep you off your feet and take you on a lifetime of fun-filled adventure, or it could be an over-compensating slobbering meathead." Garfield added with sarcasm

Belle pulled down a homemade periscope Maurice had designed for their protection to see who it was. Her drawn out groan gave all the confirmation of who it was.

"It's Gaston isn't it?" Garfield rhetorically asked with a sarcastic grin. "This should be fun." he added with a sly grin.

Gaston let himself in. "Gaston what a pleasant surprise." Belle lied.

"Isn't it though?" Gaston asked conceitedly. "I'm just full of them."

"Like the fact that you can tie your own shoes?" Garfield mocked.

"You know Belle there isn't a girl in town who wouldn't want to be in your shoes, this is the day." Gaston paused to check his reflection in the mirror and then turned his attention back to Belle. "This is the day your dreams come true!" He continued.

Odie growled at Gaston as he approached the table. "Quiet mutt." Gaston muttered under his breath with a fierce glare.

"What do you know about my dreams Gaston!" Belle asked incredulously. "Plenty, here picture this." He declared as he sat himself down.

"Gaston we don't need to picture you in lederhosen, Ok?" Garfield said mockingly. Odie broke out in laughter.

Gaston eyed the pair with a very puzzled expression but turned his attention back to Belle. "A rustic hunting lodge, my latest kill, is roasting on an open fire." Gaston spoke as he took off his dirty boots with his feet that he rudely placed on Belles book. "My little wife is massaging my feet." Gaston continued.

"It's not enough for Gaston to annoy Belle but he has to torture her as well." Garfield said as he and Odie turned four shades of green as they got a whiff of the stench that emanated from Gaston's feet.

"While the little one's play on the floor with the dogs, we'll have six or seven." Gaston said only inches from Belle's face, who was holding her own nose at the smell of Gaston's feet.

"Dogs?" Belle asked through a nervous smile.

"No Belle! Strapping Boys like me!" Gaston boisterously exclaimed.

"Imagine that." Belle replied feigning interest hoping he would he get to the point of his story and leave.

"Do you know who that little wife would be?" Gaston rhetorically asked.

"Let me think." Belle answered dreading the answer to come.

"You Belle!"

"I think everybody reading this saw that one coming." Garfield said to the readers with smarmy expression.

"Gaston!" Belle exclaimed in mock surprise. "I'm speechless; I really don't know what to say." Belle said as she backed up to the door.

Feeling he had her cornered Gaston shoved a rocking chair out of his way and approached Belle very menacingly. "Say you will marry me." Gaston said in a low growl as he violated Belle's personal space.

"Uh oh" Garfield piped up. "I've seen 15 lifetime movie's that began just like this." Garfield said to the readers. He then turned to his loyal puppy friend who was grinding his teeth at the sight. "How about it pup, ready to spring into action?" Garfield asked.

"Yeah!" Odie barked enthusiastically.

Gaston leaned in for a kiss when he felt a tug on his pants. Looking down, Gaston saw Garfield holding a slip of paper. "What do you want?" Gaston snarled at the cat. Garfield calmly handed the paper to Gaston. It read Beware of unidentified flying splut. "What's a splut?" Gaston asked in an irritated tone.

Garfield put on a very sly smile and chuckled. "Odie show the man what a splut is." Garfield called out to the pup.

"Ta-Da!" Odie howled as he threw a cream pie from across and right into Gaston's face, making him fly backwards through the door that Belle managed to open quickly and go right into the mud-hole with the pigs.

Lefou began conducting the band without realizing Gaston had been rejected. Garfield and Odie came to the mud-hole with Gaston's boots. It was then that Lefou noticed Gaston's predicament. Gaston emerged from the muck to see Garfield and Odie holding his boots. "You forgot something." Garfield and Odie promptly smacked Gaston in the face with his boots knocking him senseless. "Have a nice day Gaston." Garfield said straightly as he and Odie walked away.

Lefou approached his master cautiously. "So how did it go?" he asked ignorantly. That was all it took to set Gaston off.

He angrily grabbed Lefou by his throat and brought him up to his face and declared. "I'll have Belle for my wife! Make no mistake about that!" and promptly threw his bumbling sidekick down and marched back to town in defeat.

Garfield and Odie were making their way up stairs as Belle emerged from the cottage. "Is he gone?" She asked looking down at her pets.

"He's sulking his way over the north 40." Garfield replied.

"Can you imagine he asked me to marry him?" Belle exclaimed disgusted. "Me, the wife of that boorish, brainless." She continued on as she threw feed to the chickens around the cottage followed by Garfield and Odie when she broke into song. "Madame Gaston! Can you see it?"

"Again with this?" Garfield asked annoyed to Odie. Odie merely shrugged his shoulders while Belle continued singing out her Frustrations.

"Madame Gaston! His little wife, ugh! No sir not me! I guarantee it!" She sang and danced around the barnyard while Garfield and Odie watched.

"Well it is Disney so I guess I better get used to it." Garfield conceded to Odie who barked in reply.

"I want much more than this provincial life!" Belle sang to Garfield whom she unexpectedly picked up in her arms to dance around with.

"Hey I don't do happy go lucky stuff remember." Garfield reiterated to Belle who couldn't understand.

Instead she ran up the hill behind the cottage, excitedly carrying an irritated Garfield in her arms with Odie running up behind them barking happily. "I want adventure in the great wide somewhere!" She sang as she held up Garfield to give him a better look at the great view of the river and mountains. "I want it more than I can tell" She sang on as she knelt down next to Odie with Garfield still in her arms. "And for once it might be grand, to have someone understand. I want so much more than they've got planned." Bell finished her song, giving Odie a scratch behind the ears which he greatly appreciated while holding a grumpy Garfield in her arms with whom she nuzzled her head against.

It was at this moment that Phillipe the Clydesdale came running out of the woods. "Phillipe!" cried Belle in surprise. "What are you doing here, where's Papa, were is he Phillipe?" Asked a frantic Belle.

"I told you he would get lost." Said a dispassionate Garfield. Belle picked up Garfield and Odie and quickly got on Phillipe.

"You have to take me to him Phillipe." Belle said.

"Hey! Can't you go by yourself and bring some cheeseburgers when you get back?" Garfield asked Belle as they rode off into the dark woods. "Odie what did we get ourselves into? Garfield asked his friend who could groan in response.

Thank you all for your patience. My semester is blessedly coming to an end so chapters and other stories should follow at much faster pace. So here is chapter 4. thanks for all your patience again and please read and review.