"Where do you want me to take you?" Gold asked after about fifteen minutes of driving in a random direction.

Belle looked down at her hands that were folded on her lap on the pool of golden material that she was encased in. "I don't know" she mumbled "I can't go home" she mumbled "Gaston will be there and dad will be with him" she explained, Gaston had moved himself into her apartment as soon as they were engaged as she refused to move in with him in his uptown apartment.

"Crap" Belle mumbled before cradling her head in her hands.

"Everything okay?" Gold asked her, worried that he might have to take a left turn to the hospital.

Belle looked at him with a guilty expression on her face "I understand if you want to make me get out the minute I tell you this…but my purse is back at the apartment" she explained with a slight cringe.

"oh" Gold nodded "It'll have to be an IOU then" he almost grumbled. She'd half thought that he'd refuse to take the money like a decent person he seemed to be, but she guessed wrong.

"You can pull over here" Belle told him "I can walk to my friends" she admitted. Not liking this guys all of a sudden cold shoulder. Could someone really be so greedy over money.

He did as she said and pulled up at the side of the road. "Thank you for letting me get away, I'll send you the IOU as soon as possible" she told him before getting out of the car, her dressing getting caught on the door, she gave the gold satiny material a harsh tug which followed by a ripping sound.

She didn't care though, she shut the door behind her and began to walk down the road as she heard him pull away. For a small moment she thought that there was something in the mystery man but she guess she was wrong, she'd been wrong about Gaston maybe she was wrong about every guy.

Gold couldn't help but look as the woman as she walked away from the car. He hadn't meant to be so harsh. Milah was the only woman he'd been around in the last couple of years and so it just came natural that he was harsh. Now though he watched as the most beautiful women in the world walked down the street. The setting sun making her look a vision in Gold.

Her talking about how she had nowhere to go reminded him like a knife in the heart that he didn't have anything either, Milah was given the house as she had custody of Bae. He too had nowhere to go.

Before he'd even thought it through he pulled up beside the women in the golden dress. She stopped in her tracks and turned to face him as he opened the door off the car once again "Do you just….Just wanna get out of here?" he asked.

Belle looked at him with a shocked expression "Where would we go?" she asked him.

Gold gave the young women an almost cocky grin before a shrug of his shoulders, "Anywhere" he admitted. To be honest he hadn't even thought beyond trying to persuade the beautiful women back into the car as creepy as it all sounded.

"So I go with you and….We just drive around for a while?" she asked him, her fingers playing with the large skirt of her gold dress.

"Yes" Gold nodded. He didn't have anything better to do, no job, no family, Nothing. Right now driving to the end of the world with a complete stranger just sounded like the perfect way to spend the rest of his life.

A smile graced her beautiful face, this man was a mystery. A mystery she really wanted to uncover. There was a mystery man in front of her offering an adventure. He seemed trust worthy enough for her to see no reason as to not go with him.

"Okay" she told him with a small smile before re approaching the car, sure that what she was about to do was insane but she had no other choice, it was go with a stranger or face the consequences of her now uncertain future.

She slipped carefully into the car shoving her dress in around her, she made a mental note to get rid of the dress the first chance she got. Once she'd put her seat belt on Gold started the car and they began their journey.

They drove for a while in silence. Belle resumed her position of staring out of the window watching as they drove further and further from town and joined the hustle and bustle of the motor way. Meanwhile Gold kept his eyes on the road, though every now and then he turned to look at the women beside him.

"Gold" he spoke after a while.

Belle turned to the man beside her, her cheeks reddened in a little embarrassment "Oh I know, not exactly the traditional white" she pulled at the pool of golden material around her "It was designed by some famous women or something. It's supposed to be modern and elegant " she began to mumble.

Gold couldn't help but chuckle "I meant my name. it's Gold… Robert Gold" he admitted before quickly looking her up and down "Though the dress is unusual yes but very beautiful on you" he admitted.

"Bright flame" Belle mumbled in response, her voice almost dreamy

"I'm sorry, what?" he asked her, his eyes still on the road.

The beauty cleared her throat before answering "Robert….It's Scottish, it means bright flame" she explained before turning once more to look out of the window. "Belle" she told him.

"Belle French" she continued as she turned to face him.

"Beautiful" Gold grinned, he couldn't help but note how fitting her name really was. She was definitely the most beautiful women he'd ever seen. Why she'd put her faith in an ugly monster like him.

They drove for a few more miles in silence, both feeling a little awkward. Belle began to feel uncomfortable in her dress. She looked around and noticed that they were in the middle of a motor way with no service station for miles so she had nowhere to buy clothes any time soon, but she was becoming hot in the layers of gold silk.

She turned in her chair to look into the back seat, she noticed a duffle bag that was open a little and showed some sort of shirt she also noticed that on the back seat sat a bottle of unopened whisky . Belle put her arm through the narrow gap between the chair and door but her elbow got stuck and she just couldn't reach the bag.

Getting frustrated the beauty undid her belt and then turned to kneel on the chair. Gold saw the action out of the corner of his eye, it made him swerved the car which was followed with the sound of car horns.

"What are you doing? Put your seat belt back on!" he almost yelled at her as he looked from her to the road and back to her again.

"Got it" Belle squealed gleefully before plopping herself back in the passenger seat, the half open duffle bag now sat on her lap. "Why do you have a bag full of enough clothes for a suit. An expensive one at that?" she asked him as she pulled out the powder blue Armani dress shirt.

"In emergency…..Why are you going through my stuff?" he asked her.

"I need to get out of this dress" she confessed as she pulled out a pair of black slacks. She then began to untie the ribbons at the back of the dress that Gaston's mother had helped tie mere hours ago.

"Woah Woah woah" Gold almost scolded her as she began to get undressed beside him "There's a lay bye coming up, you can change when I pull over" he suggested.

"Thank you" Belle gave him a weak smile. She supposed that it would be highly inappropriate to get change with a stranger beside her. Perhaps he was much more a decent man than she thought he was.

A Few moments later He stood by the bonnet of his car, deciding to give Belle a little bit of privacy. He watched as the other cars passed them by. Gold ran a hand through his hair and tugged on the strands almost painfully. What was he doing? Practically kidnapping a pretty young women! No She'd gone with him voluntarily. He'd offered her a way out of her situation and she'd taken it.

God it was times like this he wished he hadn't quit smoking or quit drinking. He slammed his hands on the bonnet of the car.

"You okay?" He turned to find that Belle was wearing his black slacks and powdered blue shirt. The clothes were only a little baggy as Gold was a very slight man.

"I'm fine" He grumbled before looking her up and down, he couldn't help but think Armani had never looked better on any one. The pale blue of the shirt really brought out the intense colour of her eyes.

"Thank you for letting me wear your clothes" she gave him a small smile.

"It's no matter" he assured her as they both got back into the car. The Gold dress had now been shoved into the back seat of the car. "We'll stop tomorrow and get some more clothes" he suggested.

"And some food for the road perhaps?" Belle suggested as she did up her belt.

"Yes" Gold nodded before continuing "It's getting dark let's see if we can find a hotel" he suggested. Belle stifled a yawn and nodded as he began to drive away finding a gap in the traffic.

"If we have no luck with the hotel we can always use the gold dress as a tent" she suggested making them both laugh. Perhaps the road trip of sorts wouldn't be as awkward as first thought.

…..

Hope you like this chapter! Any suggestions on road trip activity/stops you wanna see, I have a few ideas and the end sorted but would love in put from you guys.