Cherry and Atticus's Magical World

chapter 5

Mrs. Potts and Chip came with Cherry and Mo to see Belle and give her a drink to hopefully take her mind off things for a little while. Witherspoon flew in through the window with a letter in his talons. Mo and Cherry then shushed each other as they knew very well where the letter actually came from.

"A message for you Belle." Witherspoon said.

"Heavens!" Mrs. Potts looked surprised.

"WItherspoon has a message for you, Belle." Cherry translated the cooing pigeon.

"Oh, a letter?" Belle took it in surprise. "Who could it be from?"

"I haven't the foggiest." Mrs. Potts shook her head.

"Witherspoon," Cogsworth walked in with Lumiere. "It came from within the castle."

"Must be from zhe Master." Lumiere suggested.

"Maybe it's an apology letter." Patch said.

Belle opened up the letter and read it to herself. Once she finished, she gave a joyful smile to her friends. "It is from him!" she happily announced. "The trouble between us is over." she then stood up and went to go make up with the Beast.

"Nothing could go wrong." Patch smiled.

Meanwhile, in the Beast's room as he seemed to now be exercising with Atticus who told him that sometimes exercising and weight lifting helped get rid of some stress with that and meditating. Belle came into the room.

"Belle?" the Beast looked over.

"No, dont' say a word, it's my turn to speak," Belle said to him. "I'm here to apologize."

"You... Are....?" the Beast asked in surprise.

"Your graciousness has put me to shame," Belle replied. "I'm really sorry that it took me so long. I want you to know that I never meant to call you a fool, I'm the one who's been foolish, stubborn, and petty, I'm willing to forgive."

The Beast then smiled and held out his arms for her. "I'm so happy you came."

"Then you forgive me?" Belle took his paws.

"Of course." the Beast smiled back.

'Would you look at that? I was wrong, looks like Cherry's plan actually did work.' Atticus thought to himself while lifting up a weight.

That night, Belle and the Beast decided to sit by the fireplace. Belle was reading her Cinderella storybook while the Beast was eating, but he was being rather noisy during her reading, but she did her best to tune him out as she read about Cinderella making it to the ball thanks to help from her Fairy Godmother.

"He's being noisy now?" Patch whispered to Atticus as they secretly watched.

"Those nuts are a bit distracting..." Atticus had to admit. "Hopefully Belle doesn't mind."

Cogsworth and Lumiere also watched as they stood on top of the fireplace.

"Do you like it so far?" Belle asked the Beast as she took a break from the book for a moment.

"Yes, keep reading." the Beast replied.

Belle then continued until the crunching seemed to be getting louder.

"Okay, that's distracting." Patch said.

"If I eat with Cherry when she isn't, she gets testy," Atticus said to Patch. "It drives her crazy."

"I'm sorry, it's hard to read while you eat those." Belle closed her book.

"But they're my favorite." the Beast pouted.