I am sorry this is late. I have been working on Chloe trying to get it done with. I also had writers block. I got the unrated tcm now Yay I am happy now lol. My beta that was working on the 1st two chs she don't want to work on it because she hates gore so I will try my best to make it good to read. I hope you like it. I may use lines from the 2003 and 2006 movies for the whole story. I am sorry for the cliff hanger. I will try and update it soon.

Beauty and the Beast

Ch 3 they meet

{Tabitha's pov}

We all got packed up from the hotel. We got our bags in the van and turned in our cards. Right now we are eating some food before we leave. I was sitting next to Rick and Heather with Sarah next to Rick and Sean. We all were looking at a map of Texas. We were planning on going through Dallas to camp out for a night or two then go to the capital Austin to look at all of what they have which is a lot. We plan to stay there for at least two weeks then go down to Corpus Christi and swim in the Gulf of Mexico then after that I have no clue we haven't thought of what to do after that.

I just sat there eating and looking at the map. Heather, Sean, Sarah and Rick were just talking about when we get in Dallas. Rick and Sean love to hike. Sarah and Heather love to swim. I really don't like to go hiking at all. I will be watching our stuff when they go. I will be either swimming or fishing. Heather and Sarah don't like to fish. They hate to bait their hook or to touch the fish. Their more on the girly side I am a little bit both of a tomboy and a girly. I hate make up or dresses. I got done with my bacon and eggs. I got up when they were done and throw our trash away and we headed to the van. I sat in the back again. Heather and Sean were in the middle and Rick was driving and Sarah was in the front.

Rick drove for two or three hours when we stopped at a rest area, so we could walk around for a while. Heather, Sean, and Sarah all went off leaving Rick and me at the van. This rest area looking like so many that we have stopped at. Rick is the only one that will drive mostly because it's his van and he doesn't trust anyone to drive it.

"Are you ok?" I looked at Rick. His long black hair was in a mess like always to go with his bright green eyes. I am more of a blue eyed person but, green fit him.

"Yeah I am ok." I always had a crush on Rick but, Sarah got to him first. I never told her I liked him. She asked me before they stared to date but, being me; a very shy person and I would have felt guilty if I told her I liked him. It's hard seeing them together but, I guess that's the price for not saying anything.

"Are you sure there's nothing else wrong?" I looked at him heart racing in my chest. I wanted to so much just kiss him but, he is with my best friend.

"Yes, for the hundredth time." He still didn't take my answer but, he smiled. I then saw Heather, Sean and Sarah coming back from their walk. Heather was a quit girl. She is Sarah's sister. She has Dark brown hair almost black with brown eyes. Sarah has jet black hair with brown eyes. Sean was Rick's brother. Sean had jet back hair with hazel eyes. I have long dirty blond hair that goes just below my shoulders with hazel eyes that have blue in them. They change colors to what I wear. If I wear blue then they turn blue. If I have a green or brown they turn to hazel. And they also change to gray with blue in it. That's what they stay mostly it just all differs on the shaded of the colors for my eyes to change. I sometimes wear my hair in a ponytail or wear it in the emo cut. That's where you have your bangs in your eyes on one side. I put it on my right side of my face but, my bangs are long not the short. I am a very shy person.

I smiled at them when they came to the van. I came on this trip because Sarah wanted me to but, it was hard because of this crush I have fro Rick. Even though I wanted to just not see Rick and Sarah together I wanted to have a good time, because after all Sarah was like a sister to me. So even though it tore my heart and brought tears to my eyes I needed to try and have a good time.

"I will be back soon." Rick said walking to the big brick building. I went back to my seat and took out my mp3 to listen to when we got on the road. Sarah got in the middle seat looking back at me.

"Hey." She said. I looked from my bag and zipped it up and looked at her.

"Hey Sarah." I said with a smile.

"I can't wait until we get to Dallas."

"Me either. This van is so full."

"Yeah it is." I looked at out the window and Rick was coming back to the van.

"Are we all ready? We have at least another hour to go." I sighted and put on my seat belt and put the head phones in my ears. Rick put the van in drive and drove the van to the park we were going to stay for a night or two. I watched the trees and other cars go by. It felt like we were going for an hour when Rick took an exit that wasn't our exit. I took off the head phones.

"Hey Rick, this isn't our exit." He looked in the review mirror at me.

"I know I wanted to just see the back roads."

"O okay." I said unsure if it was a good idea to go on old back roads. He turned right at the end of the exit and we were off to who knows where. The city was to the back of us getting smaller and smaller. I looked out the window at the trees which were fading away. We were on this road for an hour or two. The road turned to dirt and the houses turned to farm land.

"Do you know where we are?" Sarah asked.

"No I don't. I thought it would go to the back roads of were the camp would be."

"Hey there's a gas station up the road." Heather said. Rick pulled into the store's little lot and parked there. We all got out of the car. The gas station looked like a rundown old place. The walls were white and the paint was pulling off. The gas pumps where old time ones. It looked like no one works there. Sarah, Heather and I went to the door. Sarah opened the door and a bell went off. We all walked in and see this old lady behind the counter smoking. The store walls had all kinds of old black and white pictures. It also had a deer head just other odds things on the walls.

"Y'all have some beautiful things in here ma'am." Sarah said. The old lady just sigh laughed like ok. "Hey ma'am, do you know how far we are from Dallas or Austin?"

"Austin is only an hour or two away from here." The old lady said. Sarah walked over to her and pulled out the map that was in her back pocket and opened it up and showed the old lady.

"Where are we at now?" the old lady moved her glasses to see the map better and pointed to the name of the county they were in. Sarah looked at were show pointed to. "So we are in Travis County. Thanks."

"No problem." She said. We went out of the store. We walked to the van and Sarah showed Rick where to go. We were off again. It felt like we were only on the road for about ten minutes when the van slowed down. Rick was able to pull off the road before it died. Rick then popped the hood and got out of the van to look to see why it stopped. Sean, Heather and Sarah got out of the van to see what was happening. I stayed in the van because it was a little better inside the van then out in the hot sun. I have on a black shirt and pair of dark jeans on, and with my hair down. I then saw Sarah coming to slide the door open.

"What's wrong with the van?" I asked her when she slide the door opened.

"Rick doesn't know."

"What are we going to do, now?" I asked.

"Well Sean, Heather and I are going to go hike and see if we can get any help."

"Can I go with you guys?"

"Sure." I got out of the car. "Hey what if we go back the store, to see if that old lady can help us?" They looked at me.

"She's right. What if we walk there and ask the old lady." Sarah said.

"Ok let's go." Sean said.

"Be careful." Rick said. We walked back to the store in the out sun. We made it to the store in about 20 minutes. We went into the store and Sarah went to talk to the old lady again.

"I am sorry, but our van broke down. Do you know of anyone who can fix it?" the old lady looked like she was in deep thought.

"Either the sheriff or my brother is good with cars but, the phone is out right now. So I can't call them."

"Then do you think we can walk there?"

"Yeah you can walk there. I will send you to my brother's house. I would take you there but I have no car. Ok when you go out the door you go to the back of the story and then about ten minutes or so you will end up next to a patch of woods. Go through the woods and walk about five minutes then you will see a huge old white house. That will be it. when you get to the house tell Monty that his sister Luda sent you guys there."

"Thanks." Sarah said and we went out of the store and followed were the old lady said to go. Like she said it took us about ten minutes to get to the woods. I didn't want to go into the woods. It was dark and I don't do dark but, at least the sun wouldn't be burning us. We ended the woods. I looked up at the trees when we were in the woods. The sunshine though the tree branches. It was so pretty how the light came down in the lines like it was. We had to watch out because there were huge rocks on the ground. We got out of the woods and we saw the huge house.

"Man when she said it was huge I didn't think it would be that huge that you could see it from here." Sarah said. We all chucked and stared walking to it. We finally got to the house. We walked around to the front of the house and Sarah stared to knock on the screen door. "Hello, anyone home?"

"What do you want?" An old guy's voice called from inside.

"Are you Monty?"

"Who wants to know?"

"Your sister Luda sent us here to see if you could help us." We saw this old guy coming to the door. He opened the door and looked at all of us.

"Come on in and you can tell me what it is." When we were in the house I saw there was a set of stairs on the right side. There was at the end of the hallway I saw a sling greenish door. He led us to the left to the living room. We all for sat on the couch and he took a chair and looked at us. "So how can I help you four?" Sarah looked at us then back at Monty.

"Our van broke down and we need help to get it running. We don't know what's wrong with it."

"That's too bad. Before I go take a look at it do you want something to drink?" we looked at each other.

"Thank." Sarah said. Monty got up and walked to the kitchen. Sarah and Heather went into the kitchen two to help him. I walked to the door and opened it. Monty looked at me.

"Can I use the restroom?"

"Yes. It's upstairs when you get up the stairs it at the end of the hallway."

"Thank you." I walked out of the living room and walked to the stairs. I walked up the stairs and walked to the bathroom. I shut the door. I looked around the bathroom. It was small. There was a dirty tub. The whole bathroom was dirty. I walked to the mirror and looked at myself. I then washed some of my sweat off my arms and back of my neck. When I was done I opened the door. I walked down the steps and went into the living room. When I ended the living room I didn't see Sean there. I then went to the kitchen door and opened it a little to see. I didn't see anyone in the kitchen. I went to go back to the living room when I heard Monty talking to someone.

"There's one more upstairs." Then I heard to sets of feet walking by the living room to get upstairs. When I thought I heard them go upstairs I walked to the living room door and looked out. When I didn't see them I walked to the screen door and went to open it when I heard a chainsaw. I jumped and looked upstairs. I opened the door trying to make it not make a sound but it made a little noise and I heard the person with the chainsaw walking down the hallway. I then ran out the door it made a loud noise when it shut. I saw the guy that had the chainsaw. He was huge that's all I saw and I took off running. I ran to the woods. That old lady set us up. I can't go to the store. Then I thought of Rick.