Super short, but just needed to get this out there.
It had been months since that night and each day, Beauty's memory slowly started to ease it's way out of his mind. He would think of her on occasion, but without any clue to who she was or where he could find her, he knew it was all he had left.
Slowly but surely, he brought himself back to the life he had known before her, before the stranger took a a hold of his life without even sharing her name. He worked hard, he went out, he had fun. He was actually able to be happy and had hope that maybe he would find what he was missing elsewhere. That he would find love elsewhere.
His hopes became reality when he met Tanya. She was beautiful, intelligent and everything he could ask for in a woman. She started working as a nurse at his hospital about two months or so after that night. It took him awhile to stop resisting the pull he felt to her, to get over the feeling of guilt he felt when time with Tanya started to replace memories of Beauty, but he did, for the most part.
Each day with her had feelings stirring in him he had never felt before. He loved her, knew he did, and 8 months after dating, he proposed. She moved in quickly after that and they made a home together. She was perfect...
But sometimes, as he laid in bed at night he'd look over to see the flash of blonde hair and have a sinking feeling when he realized that maybe this was all wrong. The blonde hair was wrong, the scent was wrong, the feeling of her skin was wrong...
The fact that it wasn't her was wrong.
Bella looked down in the bassinet, fully captivated by the little person laying in it. Her baby. Her baby.
Pink chubby cheeks, parted lips and a head full of auburn hair. He was beautiful. He was hers. And his.
She looked over to the clock on the nightstand and wasn't at all surprised when she saw it was nearing four in the morning already. She found she spent most of her nights like this, staring down at the perfect creature who laid sleeping beside her, thinking about how their life would be. She wondered if it would bother him that he didn't have a father, wondered if she would be enough for him. She wondered if he would ever ask about him and thought about what she'd say when he did.
She never wanted him to resent her for the choices that she made and she hoped he wouldn't.
Bad choices or not, they gave Bella him.
A little glimpse into the future... next one will be what has happened in the last couple of months. Also, coming up soon is Stranger and Beauty's reunion... ;D
See ya soon