Every Little Part Of Me

Beauty and Beast

Chapter two

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“Ugh, what time is it?” I hear Belle ask, or I should say yell from the room. I just smiled sipping on my tea while sitting on a stool by the kitchen counter. I just stare at her when she walks into the kitchen to get her usual coffee she drinks on the morning. I swear that girl is addicted.

“Morning beauty, where’s the beast?” I said, laughing at my own joke. She grunts in response and points at me I guess trying to say I was the beast.

“Whats got you up so early, throwing those horrible jokes around?” I frown.

“First of all, they’re not horrible,” she scoffs, I ignore her and keep going, “Second, mother nature dropped in,” she makes and ew face, “and third, it's not early, it's like 3 in the afternoon.” She flips me off and I kiss her finger.

I jump off the stool, and turn to her, “come on, I need to stock up on supplies since I will probably not leave my room this week, and you need something to keep the beast tamed.” She grunts again, takes her coffee and walks back into her room. I laugh and shake my head.

A bit later she comes out dressed and in a better mood. I chuckle. “Come on beast, I’d like to be home before you turn all hairy and way more moody.” She says to me and we both leave the apartment.

Before we got to the stairs, since the elevator is out of order,we hear yells, something along the lines of Hey! There they are!

I turn to look at Belle and her to me, we laugh and we start running down the stairs like maniacs. Shortly after we heard footsteps after us, we tried to keep going but I had to stop because a stupid cramp hit me which made me double over, from my crouched position I looked up at Belle, “Belle, go on, without me.” She looked down at me with a straight face and I grinned at her.

“You’re so dramatic.” She says and I grin even bigger.

“It’s okay, you love me.” I say cockily. She just rolls her eyes. I groaned again, since the cramp did not want to leave. So I laid myself down on the floor not caring if it was dirty, it just hurt a lot. I had closed my eyes so I only heard footsteps stop in front of us and voices.

“Hey, we need to talk- what's wrong with her.” I recognized the voice as Justins. I felt Belle crouch down and lay her hand on my shoulder.

“Ama, Amara, are they that bad?” She asks, she was talking about my cramps so I nodded.

“Yes, they haven’t been this bad in a while, I don’t know why.” I said in a strained voice.

“That’s probably why, come on, you can’t go out like this.” Not wanting to argue with her, I let her help me up. I stood good for a bit, opening my eyes I saw Justin, Kevin, and Luke looking at me.

“Are you okay sweetie?” Kevin asks.

“Not really, mother nature stopped by for the week.” He made an ew face.

“Exactly my thoughts.” Belle said, while the other two looked confused as hell. Belle started ushering me back up the stairs which weren’t a lot since we didn’t really make it far.

When we got to our floor, I doubled over in pain again. I tried to walk but couldn’t so I stopped and almost had to crawl to a wall to lean on it. Belle stopped and crouched again in front of where I was leaning in the wall. She touched my forehead and said something about having a fever caused by how bad the cramps were.

Someone said something and I felt strong arms pick me up, I gasped at the shock that went through my body. I closed my eyes and snuggled closer to the person's chest.

More walking, a door opening and closing, more walking, another door opening, then I felt something cool touch my skin that made me shiver and also made me want to cover myself in a blanket, so I looked for one, when I found it I covered myself only to have it ripped off of me. I made some noise and opened my eyes only to find Luke looking down at me with an expression I couldn't read. Maybe, humor?

“Luke, what are you doing in my bedroom?” I questioned.

“I had to carry you in here because you couldn’t walk.” He explained and I just nodded.

“Why is it so cold in here?” I shivered again and tried to pull the blanket on me but Luke grabbed it and put it far from me, making me pout.

“You have a fever so no covering yourself.” He said with a smile. I frowned which added to my pout.

“Then why are you smiling?” I asked, crossing my arms over my chest as best as I could.

“Because,” he leaned in closer to me, “you are too cute.” He whispered, looking down to my lips that were still in a pout. I pulled in my bottom lip with my teeth but Luke frowned at the action and went to pull it away from my teeth with his thumb by grabbing my chin. We sat there, him leaning over me for a bit until we heard a cough, we both looked over at the door to find Belle standing there looking at us. Luke stood up straight and I leaned back against the headboard. Luke excused himself but before he could leave I called out.

“Hey Luke, thank you for your um help.” He turned to me and nodded, giving me a small smile which I returned then he left. Belle walked in and sat on the bed. She smiled at me but thankfully didn’t bring what just happened.

“How you feeling Ama?” She asks setting her hand on my knee. I gave her a small smile.

“Still with the bad cramps, it's kind of scaring me but hopefully they leave.” She nods, pats my knee and stands up.

“Okay, well I still need to go get those supplies if I want to keep my beast a beauty.” She says with a smile. Tears pricked my eyes and her smile quickly turns upside down.

“Oh sweetie, I almost forgot how emotional you can get with everything.” She says, hugging me tight.

“I’m sorry, now go get me my food peasant.” I say gently pushing her towards the door. She turned with a scowl on her face which in return I laughed at which made her smile.

“There you go, I hate having you so emotional.” She laughed and left but shortly comes back in with Luke.

“He’s staying here while I go to the store with Justin, Kevin is in the living room taking over the TV.” She tells me. I nod and she leaves me with Luke. I hear the door open and close a bit after.

“So, um, you don’t really need to stay in here, you can go out to the living room with Kevin.” I told Luke.

“Nah, I’m good in here, either way if I go out there with Kevin, he’ll kick me back in here.” He said with a small chuckle. I gave a small laugh and nodded an okay. He sat down on the bean bag chair I had in the corner of my room.

“How you feeling?” He asked. I froze because I wasn’t really expecting that.

“Um, fine I guess, still cold.” I said with a laugh. He smiled.

“I’m going to try and get some sleep, I’m a bit tired.” I said but then remembered that I didn’t really tell Belle what I wanted. I grabbed my phone and called her.

“Amara, I know what to get you so don’t freak out, get some sleep.” She said before I could get a word in.

“Thanks Beauty, love you.” I said.

“Love you too Beast.” I could hear the laugh in her words. Then she hung up.

I put my phone back on the little side table and looked over at Luke. He was still sitting there, but he was leaning back staring at the ceiling. I caught myself smiling and felt the redness traveling up my neck. I shook my head and laid down, fighting the urge to pull the blanket over me and feel asleep.

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