Beauty & The Beast

Seven

Raising her hands into the air up high as she stretched, Elena groaned and clenched her eyes tight together. She opened her eyes with them widening when she realised where she was. She was back home in her bedroom. She propped herself up onto her hands as she looked around the room confused.

"Did last night happened?" She thought, "Or did I just dream it?"

She looked around the room with her attention being drawn towards her PJ shorts noticing the dirt mark streaked down her shorts and on her leg. She smiled realising that it did actually happen, she had spent the night with Isaac and he actually brought her back after she fell asleep on his shoulder. She dropped her hands as she lay back down on the bed now with the back of her head resting on the bed, her long, brunette hair sprawled across the pillow cases, she looked up at the ceiling with a giant smile on her face.

Knock, knock.

Her head turned towards the door, "Come in," she called as she tried to hide her smile. The door opened with her father popping his head around the door.

"You ready to start the day?" He asked her.

"Yeah," she nodded as she pushed herself up into a sitting position, "What do you have planned for today?"

"I need to go out of town and grab some stuff for the farm," he told her, "I need you to tend to the horses and go out and grab some food, looks like the fridge is running low, with me being out of town I didn't get a chance to grab some groceries."

"It's okay," she told him, "I'll get them. I wasn't sure if you wanted anything else so that's why I didn't go." She planted her feet down on the floor, pushing herself up to her feet making her way towards the back of the door to grab her robe. His eyes were drawn towards the dirt on her leg and shorts with a frown appearing on his face.

"Where did you get that?" He asked her as he pointed to the dirt stain on her leg and shorts.

She looked down at her leg before returning her eyes up to him, "Oh," she shrugged her shoulders and lied, "I went out last night to see the horses before I went to bed, as I was going out I slipped on the grass and I hit a dirt patch. I meant to wash it off when I came back inside but I was beat and I just crashed. Next thing I remember was waking up this morning and seeing the dirt on my leg. I was gonna go in the shower when you knocked on the door, that's when I woke up."

"You fell?" He asked her not convinced, "I just don't understand if you were tired that you went out and spent some time with the horses?"

"Yeah," she lied, "You know how much I love them, especially Phillipe. Why don't you believe me? I don't know anybody other than Caroline in this town and you've seen Caroline, she would never do something that involved being dirty, now would she?"

"I just don't want you lying to me," he said to her.

"I'm not," she lied convincingly knowing that she had to keep Isaac a secret from everybody, even her own father.

"Okay," he nodded his head convinced, "Fine, I believe you." She smiled and walked over to him, leaning up to him she kissed him softly on the cheek as she brushed passed him and walked towards the bathroom, she closed the door behind her and pressed her back against the door, she closed her eyes and exhaled quietly with relief. "This is so hard," she thought to herself, "I hate lying to him and keeping secrets from him."

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Isaac, who wore a tight, white v-neck t-shirt that hugged his muscular, toned body with a pair of tight denim jeans with the cuffs folded over, finished off with a pair of black hi-tops. He jogged down the stairs with a smile appearing on his face as he thought about what happened the night before. As he reached the bottom of the stairs he noticed the staff of the house trying not to stare at him, he shook his head and smirked knowing that it was because of his parents that they would look at him that way. He headed towards the front door, as he reached down to the doorknob he stopped in mid reach by the sound of his mothers angry voice.