Let This Dream End Tonight

Nightmare

"You will do as I say, when I say, and not argue with me. Or else you will be punished," Prince Adam's smirking look cut through Belle like a dagger.

This couldn't be her life now, it just couldn't. Any minute now she would wake up from this nightmare and go back to whatever life she truly lived. She couldn't be trapped here, in this cell called a bedroom, in this hell called a castle. Trapped here with the devil himself, Prince Adam. Anyone kind enough to rule over a little village and help everyone always has a dark side to him, a side he lets no one see but the people he already has under his control.

"I refuse to be your pet," Belle spits at him with a look determination that's only met with a look of amusement from Prince Adam.

"You will do as I say or you will be punished, severely. Do you not understand simple English?," the prince asks holding back a fit of angered laughter.

"I will do as I want to. You do not rule over me. I will not be your pet to play your stupid, horrible games with," Belle shrieks when her words result in a hard slap across the face.

In the mirror across the room she can see her cheek has Prince Adam's handprint engraved into it. The mark was surely going to bruise over time. Belle tastes something metallic in her mouth. She can't see any clear signs of injury in her reflection, she must of bit her tongue when she was hit. This hit didn't make her cower as it should have, it only angered her more.

"Now, let's go back to stage one, who is your ruler?," the prince says clasping his hands together behind his back.

"King Ranger is my ruler, you are not," Belle glowers at the prince.

"You make me laugh, of course I'm ruler. I will always be the ruler of this silly little village," Prince Adam laughs out loud.

"As soon as I escape I'm going to tell your father everything that has happening. Then I'll tell the village what you have done to me, that you shall not be trusted," Belle announces.

"Good luck getting free. This room is on the tenth floor and the window and door are both locked and bolted shut. You have a better chance of killing herself than escaping," the prince laughs more.

"You really are a monster, a beast in human form," Belle's voice wavers as she attempts to not cry.

"I am not monster, I'm simply doing this because I have the authority to do so. I can imprison anyone I want at any time, innocent or not," the prince turns his back to Belle.

He walks out of the room, his black riding cloak flowing behind him. He locks the door behind him, leaving Belle without anything to eat for the second day. Belle's stomach growls loudly and she winces. It felt like a creature was eating her from the inside out. Prince Adam had threatened to starve her to near death if she didn't just submit to him, but Belle kept refusing. She didn't want to force herself to listen to a monster like him. His kind of her level are tortured in cells in the royal dungeons. His kind are insane kidnappers who are given power at too young of an age. He should never have been given the village to rule.

He's the youngest of six, yet he's the only one who rules his own village. Only because he's manipulated so many people in trusting him and handing him the keys to what should be kept locked away from his grasp. No one knew him that way, though, he was just the perfect prince to everyone else. How many other girls had Prince Adam kidnapped before her? If her had, where were they all? The thought made her tremble just to think about the unimaginable things that the prince could do to kill her. She couldn't do anything but keep refusing him, and eventually, it would kill her.

All she could do was listen to him, to submit to him. So she lays down on the king sized bed in the middle of the bed and fall asleep covered up in the warm comforter. Maybe this life wasn't as bad as she thought it was in the beginning. She would have to get used to this new lifestyle if she wanted to survive.