Belle

Prince to a Beast

  The boy stood proudly despite his age as the headmistress showed him into his elementary dorm. Hands clasped behind his back, he walked into the room with his straight nose in the air. 

The boy was stunning even at such a young age. With a pale face structured aristocratically, slightly long but neatly tied back auburn hair and the most beautiful pair of azure eyes the headmistress had ever seen before.

She was appreciative of her boss's son's appearance but his temperament was shameful to her. His arrival to her school was in an attempt to improve this, to teach him the manners and social skills that he so required and yet she still knew that to anger him was to anger his father unless she could achieve the upper hand. 

He knew this just as well as she did and planned to exploit this power entirely. She took a deep breath and set his bag down on his half of the room. 

"Your roommate will be arriving tomorrow" She informed him, smoothing her skirt nervously as his intense eyes met her. 

"Then move them, I want this room." He dismissed. 

She gritted her teeth "The student is also arriving on short notice and this is the only room we can move her to" She countered. 

His gaze narrowed. "I want this room. For all I care, kick her out" He argued, feeling his temper rising. 

"We can see to changing the arrangements but not on such short notice. May you please bear with me and put up with her for just a couple of days until she can be moved?" She inquired. 

And this was when he frowned. When he frowned his eyes squinted almost shut, hiding their beauty. The boy's hair was ruffled from him running his hands through it and his beautiful face wrinkled and morphed to become, well... ugly. 

"No. And if you were to force me I would have to inform my father" he snootily replied. She sharpened her gaze at the spoilt boy. He held all the power to have her fired in one phone call. She couldn't outright ruin his life but the headmistress herself had five children. All boys of his age or older who could torment him at her will. 

"You listen here little boy. You're facing a long time in this school where I can control everything. You won't do one act of kindness? I'll return the favour. My boys are going to ensure that you will never fit in here. Your time is going to be miserable and lonely and you can't tell your daddy about it because what's bullying if the whole school does it. What would your father even care anyway if you're being bullied. It shows weakness".

His face remained twisted into a scowl. 

"So you listen to me. You have until your senior graduation for me to inform your daddy of whether you should be allowed back into his family. That's a long time without seeing him, and if it gets to that point and you do not have one roommate who is there of their own free will, who actually enjoys your terrible company then I will make it so your family turn you away and you can be lonely for the rest of your life".

So with a sneer, she walks out of the room, leaving the boy all alone in a pit of confusion but most of all anger. 

For all the years he resided there, the scowl never once left his face.