Hey there! Another chapter done! Ah, and I must say, I just LOVE the new Beauty and the Beast movie! It was perfect! I love that they put things about the original story, and the musical. And the new songs... I still fell shivers every time I hear "Evermore" and "How does a Moment Last Forever".

You know what I'm going to do? At the end of each chapter, I'm going to write some curiosities about the films of Beauty and the Beast (some of you may have heard somewhere, but ...)

Transformers prime doesn't belongs to me.

The bell at Jasper's school rang, signaling the end of classes. All the students left the classrooms, just wanting to enjoy the rest of the day. The young Miko Nakadai among them. Her two friends, Jack Darby and Raf Esquivel had already gone with theirs autobot partners. Bulkhead had sent her a message a few minutes ago, that he would still take some minutes to come, so she decided to take the opportunity to stop by a store and buy new strings for her guitar.

In the corridors of the school, Miko noticed that many were looking at her and whispering. Not low enough for her not to listen; "Look at that girl! What a freak!", "I agree. She wants to please who, with those clothes and that hair?"; "It's that girl, Nakadai! I have to stay away from her, or the teachers will think I'm buying her drugs!", "Freak!"

If it were any other day, Miko would have jumped into the fray. But today she was tired and wanted to avoid detention anyway. The payback could wait, now she just rolled her eyes and leave.

This was one of the things Miko really didn't like in a small town like Jasper: just because she dressed and behaved differently, people looked at her with suspicious and fear. In her hometown, Tokyo, despite all the rules and repression, being a big city, no one really cared how she dressed (after all, there were young girls who dressed even more exaggeratedly than she did). And as long as at school she wore her uniform correctly, got good grades and did not get into (much) trouble, the teachers would leave her alone.

While in Jasper, they thought she was a drug user, a delinquent or even a slut. "Did Jack and Raf think that about me before we met?" She thought sadly, "I really hope not!"

She finally arrived at the store. The attendant was a boy around the age of 20. Miko confess that she liked to talk to him, perhaps because he knew so much about music or because he also dressed in a different style than most people of the city: jeans with rips, T-shirts with witty phrases (today's shirt said, "Every idea I have, gets me in trouble.") and used a piercing in the nose. When Miko first met him, she felt a crush on him, which eventually came to ended (mainly because she discovered he had a boyfriend).

"Hello, Miko! What can I do for you today?" He greeted.

"I need new strings for my guitar."

"Again? Wow, you must be using her a lot." He commented.

"If I had a guitar and did not use it, I would be the worst person in the world," she pointed out.

"True," he agreed with a laugh, "By the way, where have you been during the day? I never see you in town."

"Oh, not much, I joined a science club. It's been really cool," said using the excuse Jack had invented.

"Oh really? I never thought you were the type for science."

"I am Japanese! We breathe science!" teased. They both laughed. Miko paid for the strings and left saying goodbye to the boy.

While walking, Miko noticed that even on the street, most people tried to stay as far as possible from her. Some pretended to ignore her while some rare exceptions gave a polite nod. But she could still hear the word "weird" being addressed to her. That was when a horn a distracted. Thinking it was Bulkhead, she turned happily, but her face closed when saw it was just Vince, honking and winking at her. "Do you want a ride, babe? There's plenty of space for both of us."

"Wow, Vince, I have an answer for you. It's right on the tip of the tongue. Let me see... ah yes, fuck off!" began to speak tenderly, but ended with a growl.

"Did you say 'fuck'?" He asked, smiling seductively. Miko growled, rolled the eyes and decided to go to another way that the boy could not follow with the car. But she still heard him shout at her. "There's still time for you to change your mind!"

"Yeah, right... like that would happen," growled mentally. When she heard another horn, she was about to give a nasty response, but then saw who it was this time, and a smile covered her face. Bulkhead had arrived. Happy, Miko ran to her friend.

"Hi Miko. Did you have a good day at school?"

"Awful, as always! I couldn't wait to ended! And how was it with you?"

"Fortunately not much has happened. These last fights the Decepticons have acted in a strange way. Optimus is worried."

"Hmm? What do you mean by, 'strange'?" asked.

"It's hard to say, but they seem extremely tense. And when Megatron joins the fight, there are days he fights like a wild beast and there are other days he seems to be having a Pit of a headache," the Wrecker explained. "And now I'm remembering that Optimus say to us, to not say nothing to you three, because he doesn't want you to be worried."

"Don't worry, Bulk. My lips are sealed," she replied with a wink. Then the two did not say anything important, they just listened rock on the radio until they reached the base. There, June Darby, Jack's mother was also there.

"Hello, Miko! How was school?" The nurse asked

"Same, as always." she shrugged, sitting down on the couch. "But I warn you, if anyone has been saying things about me; it was not me!" warned.

"Oh? I heard you broke a few hearts today." The older woman chuckled.

"Oh! Yeah, well, except for the exaggeration in the 'breaking hearts' part, yes that happened." Miko confirmed starting to straighten the strings of her guitar.

"What?! Why did not you tell me anything?" Bulkhead asked in surprise.

"It's just that there was nothing to say. Some guy asked me on a date and I said no. That's it," she said with a shrug.

"Who was?" Jack asked curiously.

"Vince."

"Vince? But I thought he already had a girlfriend." Raf said.

"No, he does not have a 'girlfriend'. He has 'girls he likes to show off, like trophies, for everyone to thinks he is a huge playboy'," Miko replied with disgust.

"That's repulsive!" Ratchet spoke for the first time since she arrived. Everyone had to agree

"Oh, I'm so sorry, Miko." June apologized. "I didn't know it was that bad."

"Nah, never mind. Can we talk about something else?" And to her relief, everyone did it, returning to their activities. In those hours, Miko thanked so much for the day that she decided to follow Arcee and end up meeting the Autobots. Thanks to them, she felt like home.

I try to show in this chapter how Miko feels among the people in the town and how others sees her. I live in a relatively small city and I confess it is not very easy.

Now about the curiosity: Someone besides me, noticed that when the sorceress puts the spell on the prince, she says "If he learned to love another and earn their love in return before the last petal fall, the spell would be broken". The sorceress said "another", she did not specify gender or age. That means the prince could fall in love with a guy. Or even more interesting, if by chance a lost child somehow arrive at the castle and end up knowing the Beast/Prince, if the two create a father and daughtera bond this would also be love.

Anybody also noted this? Comments!