A/N: Hey there, everyone! It's me, MBAV fan66!

And it's time for some more Beauty And The Beast! Who's excited?! Lol!

So, Erica and Benny make their big appearance in this chapter. And we get to see some of that friendship that they share with Sarah. Not to mention, the two love birds also learn just who Sarah's secret friend, really is. ;)

I hope you enjoy it and don't be afraid to review. I really love getting reviews. :)

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Irtross3- Thank you for following me as an author! :)

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Story: Beauty And The Beast Part 5

Chapter 14: Sarah's Besties

Main Pairing: Sarah/Ethan


The next day, after breakfast Ethan did just what he said he would do. He showed Sarah the way back to the main path. She thanked him kindly before saying her goodbyes and heading on down the road, back to town.

Once she did finally make it back to town and home again, just like she thought, her father basically gave her the fifth degree about her whereabouts. So, she just told him how she had gotten lost and had wound up straying from the path due to not paying attention. She then told him about how she was chased by a pack of wolves, until a very kind stranger who lived in the woods came along and frighten them off.

He really flipped the, when she told him how she took up the guy on his offer to spend the night there at his place. She couldn't believe how over protective he was being right now, but with some reassurance Sarah managed to convince her father that she's fine and the guy was just being nice and friendly. After his mini little panic attack, he brought his daughter into a tight hug, just glad that she's alright and is home safe, finally.

She smiled warmly, as she hugged him back. It was clear that they both meant very much to each other.


For the rest of the day, Sarah had decided to spend it with her two best friends. She gave them the same story that she had given her father about what happened to her yesterday. Of course, she left out the part about the kind stranger being the Beast, or aka Ethan, to them and her father when she told him.

At first Erica and Benny were pretty frighten to hear Sarah's little tale, but were both happy to see her ok, just the same.

"So, tell me Sarah! Was the guy who rescued you hot?" inquired Erica intriguingly with a smirk, until she felt an elbow in the side. When she looked over to who did it, it was Benny with a frown on his face at her comment. "Oh, relax Benny!" she said with an eye roll, but then smiled at him. "Of course you're the only guy who I have eyes for, anyways! I was just asking for Sarah's benefit!" she reassured sweetly to him, pecking him on the cheek and making him blush.

"I know! But hey! It's in the boyfriend's job description to be a little bit jealous whenever his girlfriend thinks another guy is good looking." he commented back, mockingly with a smile.

Erica giggled. "You're so cute when you're jealous!" she cooed, leaning in to kiss him.

Sarah just rolled her eyes at her friends affection towards each other, right now. It kind of made her both want to gag a bit and feel slightly envious of them, at the same time. But she would never let them know that.

Then her thoughts began to drift off towards a certain someone, who she just met yesterday. She though about how polite he was and how very lonely he must be living in that really big place all by himself, like that. With no one to visit him and everyone being too afraid to even want to approach him. It made Sarah's heart ache a bit at the thought of it.

She was suddenly brought out of her thoughts, when she heard Erica speak again to her. "Sorry, Erica! What was it that you said earlier?" she asked a bit confused.

Erica smirked at her, as well as Benny. "Looks like this kind mysterious stranger, might of captured the fare Sarah's heart, now hasn't he?" she teased.

Sarah started to grow worried looking, as she denied the blonde's accusation. "No! I wasn't even thinking about them, Erica!"

The blonde just nodded her head slowly as she crossed her arms, still with her smug look on her face. "Hmm-hmm..." she hummed knowingly. Sarah just rolled her eyes at her annoyingly.

Benny chuckled at them, but then made a clearing his throat noise earning the two girls attention. "Don't look now, but...guess who's headed our way, guys." muttered Benny discreetly to the girls.

The two females looked over to notice that it was none other than Jesse Black, himself walking on up to them, looking as smug and as arrogant as ever.

"Great. Just what I don't need right now." muttered Sarah saractasically.

"Thanks goodness! My lovely dear Miss Fox is alright!" announced Jesse, sounding worried, which was probably mostly fake. He held his arms out to her and brought her into a hug. "You had me so worried Sarah! I'd hate to think what I'd do without you, my someday fiancee to be!" he added concernedly with a bit of glee in his voice.

As soon, as Sarah heard what he said she quickly, but kindly, pushed him away from her. She gave him this serious looking glare that said she meant business.

"Excuse me? Look! I've already told you this Jesse, but I am NOT marrying you! Like...EVER! So, get it through you thick skull! Ok?!" snapped Sarah frustratingly.

He just ignored her words and smirked at her. "You keep saying that, my dear Sarah, but I know that someday you'll come around and will say yes to being my wife. And until that day happens or until you marry another, then I'm not going to stop pursuing you, my sweet." replied Jesse smugly, grinning at her as he brought her hand up to his face and kissed it.

Revolted, Sarah yanked her hand away from him and gave him a look of disgust, as she thought now she had to really wash her hand really well to wash away the filth that was just put there by Jesse's lips.

"Why can't you just find some other girl, who actually likes you and ask her to marry you, instead of me?" asked Sarah irritatingly.

"Because my dear, sweet Sarah. You're the only one who dares even comes close to my own beauty in this town." he answered her arrogantly. "Can you just imagine what our children will look like? They will inherit our beauty and will look as if they were angels. Or gods even!" he added in cheerfully, thinking about it.

The idea of having kids with this jerk, gave Sarah the chills. Having kids with him would be the last thing that she'd ever want to do. She'd probably kill herself before that would ever happened.

"Anyways, I really am glad to see that you're safe, Sarah." spoke Jesse, suddenly. "I'll be seeing you around, my sweet." he winked at Sarah, which made her make a gagging face. He then turned towards Erica and flashed her a charming toothy smile. "And I'll be seeing you around too, my dear." Erica giggled like a little school girl.

Even though she already had a boyfriend, didn't mean she still didn't have her crushes, now did it? When Jesse looked at Benny, his smiling face turned sour. "Later, loser." was all Jesse said to him before walking away.

Benny glared daggers at the back of the guy's head, angrily. He really did hate that guy, but not as much as Sarah did. He kind of felt sorry for her, in having to deal with his crap all the time.

"Ugh!" sighed out Sarah in disgust and relief. "Boy, am I finally glad that he's gone." scoffed Sarah in relief. "I thought he'd never leave." she added in, sarcastically.

"I don't get you, Sarah Fox. I mean, Jesse Black is clearly into you and yet, you still reject him. Why?" questioned her blonde friend curiously.

"Do you blame her? I mean, just look at the guy Erica! He's so...so...SELFISH and is just a plain out asshole, if you ask me." butted in Benny, answering for Sarah. "Am I right, Sare?" he turned to face her for agreement, which she happily nodded to. He then turned his attention back to his girlfriend with a satisfied look. "See!" he boasted.

Erica just rolled her eyes at her boyfriend. "Whatever." she mumbled, making Sarah giggle at her two besties.

"Benny's right though." threw in Sarah. "Jesse's selfishness and arrogancy is exactly why I don't like him in the first place. I don't want to be with someone who's so rude and thinks that he's better than everyone else in the world." explained Sarah.

Erica looked at her strangely. "Then what kind of guy do you want, anyways?" she asked curiously with a raised brow.

Sarah brought a hand up to her chin as she thought about it carefully. "Well...I want him to be kind and nice to others. And is always willing to lend a helping hand, if needed..." she thought, trailing off some. "He has to have a dazingly and wonderful personality...and a warm and caring heart, too."

Suddenly, for some strange reason Sarah's thoughts had begun to drift off towards Ethan and how sweet and charming he was to her yesterday.

Erica saw the dreamy look that Sarah had and smirked knowingly at her. "Judging by the dreamy look that you have on your face right now, I'd say you've already done found your dream guy." she stated teasingly.

Snapping out of it, Sarah's body tensed at her statement. "W-what?!" she stuttered out nervously and confused, looking at her with wide eyes.

Benny caught on and joined in too. "I bet it's that guy who helped her out, yesterday in the woods." he implied mockingly with a smug grin. Erica's grin only grew as she nodded in agreement with her boyfriend.

Sarah was stunned and couldn't believe were her friends were getting at. Just because Ethan saved her life and was so kind and sweet to her, didn't mean that she was falling for the guy! Did it? She quickly shook the thought out of her head. No! It didn't! For one, she barely even knows the guy. Not to mention that he hardly even knows himself, as well.

Which then brought her back to her thoughts about him being there, living all alone by himself without a friend in the world. And him trying to solve the riddle on how to break his curse without any help from anybody.

Knowing that she couldn't tell them who the mystery stranger was that saved her life yesterday, Sarah decided to play it cool. Plus, they were totally wrong about her having feelings for Ethan, anyways.

"Look, guys! I'm not falling for some guy that I just met and hardly even know! Alright?!" she denied strongly to them.

But Erica and Benny only nodded their heads slowly at her with disbelieving looks on their faces, with their arms crossed as they hummed that all-knowing hum at her. Sarah just rolled her eyes again at the two, shaking her head as she gave up on the two and their silly accusations, and just walked off, leaving them behind with smug expressions on their faces.


A little bit later in the day, Sarah couldn't take her mind off of Ethan's predicament at all. He was all she could think about and it annoyed her to no end, too. So, she decided to go and visit the beast that lived in the abandon mansion.

At first she thought she was lost again, until she finally saw the huge building in her sights. She smiled to herself in victory and proceeded on up to the door.


Ethan was busy standing there in his own thoughts, staring at The Rose Of Fate and all of it's glory and beauty. Wondering if he'll ever solve the mystery of his curse in time. Ethan could feel his hope beginning to drain from him a little more each day.

Another one of it's precious petals had then began to fall, causing Ethan to sigh out in dispair.

He then suddenly perked his head back up in curiosity, as he heard a knock at the main door to the manor. "Who would even dare come and visit me, here? I thought that all the villagers where scared of me?" he wondered out loud, to himself.

Ethan left the room that held the red flower and went to go and answer the door.


When he did, and opened it he was amazed to find that it was Sarah, the young lady that he had helped yesterday, who was the one knocking and standing there at his doorstep with a smile and small blush on her face.

"S-Sarah?! W-what are you doing here?" he stuttered out in shock. "I didn't think that I'd ever see you here again?" he said, questioningly with a bit of confusion laced in his voice at her.

"N-n-not that I don't want to see you or anything! It's just that-!" rambled Ethan frantically, trying not to sound rude as too why she would ever come here again, in the first place when most people usually just stay away. But he stopped when he heard Sarah giggle at him.

"It's alright! I get it, Ethan!" she giggled with a smile. "I've actually came here because I thought that you could use the company." replied Sarah genuinely.

"Really? But why?" he asked curiously.

"I couldn't stop thinking about how lonely you must be living here all on your own, with no visitors ever. And how you could probably use a friend in your life, since everyone else fears you and I don't." she answered honestly, with a small frown.

Ethan didn't know what to say. So, instead he just stood there and stared at her in disbelief and awe. He couldn't believe that she actually wanted to be his friend. Getting over the initial shock of her response, Ethan let Sarah on in.


She stayed there for a few hours, just chatting and goofying off with Ethan. Ethan had even given her a tour of the outside garden.

Sarah showed Ethan how to get birds to eat right out of the palm of your hand, which once he tried it he was amazed by it. Sarah just stood there and laughed at him, especially when a bunch of the little birdies had decided to use Ethan as a perch.

The two had a good time together, which shockingly surprised Ethan. He never knew what it felt like to actually have company over for just the fun of it and what it meant to have a friend. Or at least, he didn't remember what it was like, anyways.

Sarah continued to sneak off to go and visit Ethan everyday, around the same time. And each day, she couldn't wait to see him for some strange reason. And by having Sarah there, visiting him everyday, had seemed to light something inside Ethan's heart that he hadn't felt before. He started to wonder if maybe...just maybe...it was...love?

And it wasn't just Ethan who was starting to feel that way, either. Sarah was feeling it too and was starting to wonder the same thing, as well.


Over the next few days, however, Sarah's two best friends had seemed to notice a change in their dear friend and how she always seemed to disppear around the same time, each day.

"Hey, Sare! Where ya goin'?" asked Erica, from nowhere it seems and startling Sarah as she was making her way towards the woods. Benny was standing there right beside his girlfriend, wondering the same thing, too.

"Geez! Erica! Benny! Don't sneak on up on me like that! Ok?!" scolded Sarah, slightly spooked as she jumped a little from Erica's sudden outburst to her. She placed a hand over her heart to try and calm herself from her mini scare, there for a second.

Erica just rolled her eyes at her, while Benny had more of an apologetic look on his face, as he mumbled a, "sorry Sarah" to her meekly.

Sarah smiled sweetly at his apology. "It's ok, Benny. I guess I was just caught up in my own thoughts to have noticed you guys coming, to begin with." she said politely to him, making him smile back.

"Speaking of thoughts, Sarah. Just what is on the mind of my favorite gal pal, that had her so distracted, anyways? Hmm?" teased Erica, knowingly. Sarah rolled her eyes at her annoyingly. "Or should I say...who, to be more pacific?" implied Erica slyly, with an accusing look.

"Not this again." complained Sarah annoyingly. "Look! I'm not seeing anybody, Erica! I'm going to visit a friend is all! And that's it!" exclaimed Sarah frustratingly, trying to prove her point.

"Yeah, right! Nobody, ever just goes and visits a 'friend' as much as you've been doing lately, Sarah. I mean, you seem to go and visit this mystery person of your's every freakin' day! And around the same time, too!" stated Erica strongly.

"She's right, you know Sarah." piped in Benny, agreeing with his girlfriend. "You have been seeing this person a lot lately. So, they obviously must mean something to you. Am I right?"

Sarah tried her hardest not to blush, as she tried to deny her feelings for Ethan. She didn't love him. He was only just a really good friend, was all. There was in no way possible she was falling for the guy. Or at least that's what she kept telling herself, though.

"How many times do I have to keep telling you guys this?! There are no romantic feelings between me and this guy, at all! Ok?! We're just friends!" defended Sarah strongly. "And I just visit him because he lives all by himself in the middle of nowhere, and I just that it be nice if maybe he had a bit of company to look forward to everyday, is all!" stressed Sarah frustratingly.

"Yeah! Keep telling yourself that, Sarah! But I know the look of love when I see it. And you are definitely smitten by this mystery man of your's, whoever he is, who has seem to have captured your heart." agrued back Erica.

"Ugh! You know what, Erica?! Just forget it!" exclaimed Sarah angrily, raising her voice some and throwing her hands up in the air, getting fed up with her female best friend's claims. "I'm out of here!" said Sarah, as she left, walking on past them and down the road.

Benny came up and stood beside Erica, both watching as Sarah just walked on down the road rather angrily. Erica narrowed her eyes at her suspiciously, as she watched her best friend go. She then grabbed Benny's arm and pulled him along.

"Come on, Benny!" she said, tugging him along behind her.

He had this look of worry on his face, knowing that look in his girlfriend's eyes. "Erica...Just where are we going?" he asked fearfully and in concern.

"Isn't it obvious! We're gonna follow her!" she answered determinedly, still dragging him along. "I want to know just who this mystery person really is! And just why it is that Sarah's been so secretive about him, too!"

Benny didn't say a word or try to stop her because he knew that once Erica was determined about something, that they're was no stopping her. So, why try and waste the effort, right? So, instead he just went with the flow. Even he didn't really want to. That and he is slightly scared of his girlfriend whenever you get on her bad side, which he'll never admit too willingly out loud to anybody, either.


Sarah never suspected a thing, when she finally did reach the hidden mansion in the woods. And just like always, she knocked on the door.

Erica and Benny were both hidden in the bushes, with a clear view of Sarah and the door in their sights. They waited there anxiously to see just who would answer the door. They already were blown away by the size of the msytery guy's house and now they were ready to see just what this guy looked like.

Minutes later, the door opened and they saw Sarah smile widely at whoever it was at the door. Then both Erica's and Benny's eyes went wide at the person who stepped over the threshold slightly to give Sarah a hug.

"No. Freaking. Way." said Benny slowly and carefully in disbelief. He said each word as it's own sentence.

Not being able to control her outburst and letting her shock cloud her thoughts, Erica suddenly jumped up out of her and Benny's hiding place in shock, startling the two who stood on the mansion's porch.

"Oh my god, Sarah! You've been seeing the Beast all this time?!" shouted Erica shockingly at them. Seeing as how their cover is now blown, Benny then stood up beside her too, looking rather embarrassed and surprised himself still.

"Erica! Benny! What the hell are you guys doing here?!" exclaimed Sarah in surprise, at the sight of her two besties standing there in the bushes, covered slightly in some twigs and leaves.


A/N: Uh oh! Busted! Lol!

Looks like Sarah's been found out by her friends. I wonder how things will go down now, that her two only friends know that the person who she's been seeing for days now, is actually the Beast?

So, this chapter turned out longer than I thought it would. I guess because of the Erica and Benny stuff that I added in, but I had to add some Erica and Benny moments from the two. Lol! :)

And what about Jesse's big entrance into the story? Didn't expect to see him in this chapter, didn't ya? Lol! And how arrogant is he, am I right? You can clearly see that Sarah hates him with a passion. And so does Benny, a little bit too but for different reasons, like how he always insults him.

So, that's it for now everybody. I how hope to see you all in the next chapter and part of Beauty And The Beast. Until then, see you all around! Bye! :)