Beauty & The Beast (L.T)

Chapter 8

Louis's Pov

After Victoria let go of the hug she immediately went over to one of the floor to ceiling book case's and starting scanning for anything that interest's her. She looks so beautiful. I clear my throat so that I stop staring at her and she turns to look at me. "So what type of books do you enjoy reading?" I ask her.

"Well it depends on my mood at the time, but I do love a book with action but also some romance. If a book can capture me with just the first sentence then I'll read it. I don't have a particular genre of books that I tend to favorite." With that she goes back to exploring. I just watch and listen whenever she speaks, we must have spent a few hours in here because next thing I knew we were being called to dinner.

Once we made it to the dining room no one else was there, just two table settings and two chairs that were sat across from each other, the lighting was also very dim. There was only candle light around us. "Does this seem a little sketchy to you Victoria?"

"Now that you mention it, it kind of does. I wonder what going on?"

"I'm not sure but I'm going to find out , wait here." I went into the kitchen and seen all of the guys in there talking. "What's going on  in here?" At the sound of my voice they all stopped what they were doing and the  room became silent and they turned to look at me. " Louis you know it's time you tell her what happens when the moon is full, before we all turn and freak her out. So we decided to set up a nice calming dinner for you two." Liam said. " I suppose you're right, I need to tell her about the curse on us, if I want her to trust me." With that I turn around and head back to the  dining room and see her sitting at one of the place settings. I go and take my seat in front of her. "So did you figure out what's going on and where everyone else is?"

"Victoria there's something I need to explain to you." I look up to her and see she's listening to me intently. "What do you need to explain?"

"Have you heard of the curse of the beast in Doncaster?"

"Yes, but what does that have do with you and everyone here?"

"In order for me to do this I have to start from the beginning, it's a long story."

"Well I'm not going anywhere."

"It all started 10 years ago when I made the biggest mistake of my life. You see Victoria we are all in a gang and I was the leader of that gang I was nicked name the Prince of Beasts.  We were ruthless in all our dealings. I didn't care for anyone else except for myself. One day as we were on our way to pick up a delivery from one of our suppliers an old beggar  had stepped in front of me asking for a few pounds to get something to eat, I became enraged and because I was a proud man I pushed the beggar aside and they fell. As I was walking away I saw this bright light from the corner of my eye. Turns out the beggar was an entrantress. She said because I had no compassion or love for anyone else that my gang and I would suffer for the rest of our lives and during a full moon we will become beasts with no sense of compassion. She cast us away in this castle, though there was a way to break the curse. If I could learn to care for someone and they in turn could learn to care for me then the curse would break. But there is a time limit to this, if I cant learn to love some one by the time I"m 30, we are forever stuck like this."

"W-Why are you telling me this?"

"Because in a few days there will be a full moon and we all are going to turn into beasts, over the years we have learn to control ourselves while in our beast forms but it is getting harder to control it, we- no I wanted to let you know beforehand so that we don't frighten you. Victoria are you ok?"

Victoria"s Pov

I  can't believe what Louis has just told me. They are all cursed, yet I'm not scared instead I feel sad for them all. I have this gut wrenching feeling that somehow I'm supposed to help them but how? I'm not sure what I think of this. There's no way to stop this curse. Yet I do feel something for Louis. I've been ignoring it but I can't help but feel like we were meant for each other. What am I going to do?

"Y-yea I'm fine, it's just a lot to take in. How much longer do you have until this is permanent?"

"Only a few more years but I feel it's getting rather difficult to resist the urges that come from being a beast."

Louis and I just stare at each other for awhile. I'm not sure what I can do for them. Just hearing this makes my heart ache. Since being here even just for a couple of days but I can't seem to hate any of them. Every time I'm with Louis I get these butterflies in my stomach and I'm not sure why. I'm confused on how I feel about any of this so I just push these weird feelings to the back of my mind for now. After a couple more minutes of just staring we eventually start eating the dinner that was prepared for us. I steal a glance here and there of Louis  when he isn't paying attention to me, and I can't help but admire his facial features. He really does have such beautiful eyes and his jaw line could cut glass, then I make my way to his lips that look so soft, I wonder what they feel like. I shake my head and try to rid of any thoughts of him kissing me. what is happening to me?

"Victoria, are you all right?" Louis breaks me from my train of thought, I look down to my lap and try to hide the blush on my face. Did he just catch me staring at him? I get an answer once I finally look up and see a trace of a smirk on his face indicating he caught me looking at him.

"Yea I'm fine, this food is delicious by the way." I try to change the subject thankfully he doesn't question it and agrees with me, and that's how the rest of the night went with us chatting about nothing and everything .

Authors Note

I'm sooooooooo sorry that this took so long I thought I published it but I guess it never did. again sooo sorry don't hurt  me!!! I will for now on try to do better on the updates. I hope everyone had a good winter break. I met up with family that I haven't seen in years. Anywho's I shall see you lovely people again soon.