Beauty and the Beast (CAMREN CONVERTED)

Mrs Griffin?!/The Beast

Lauren's POV

I was currently hooking Gracie up on the wagon, while Papa got the music box ready for the market. "So, what can I bring you from the market?" Papa asked. "A rose. Like the one in the painting." I answered. "You ask for that every year!" He exclaimed. "And every year you bring it," I replied to him. "Then I shall bring you another." He said, cupping my chin. "You have my word." He added.

"Goodbye, Papa," I said to him. "Goodbye, Lauren." He replied. "I'll see you tomorrow!" I said to him. "Right, tomorrow with the rose." He replied. "Stay safe," I said as he had already vanished from my sight.

Time Skip

Narrator's POV

"What are you doing?" A little girl asks as she was folding her laundry. "The laundry," Lauren replied to the little girl.

"Come! Come!" Lauren gestured for the girl to join her. The church bell tolls as time went by quickly. "The bluebird..." Lauren said as she was teaching the little girl how to read.

"That flies..." The little girl read. "over the dark..." She read. "wood." She finishes the sentence in the book perfectly.

"That was amazing!" Lauren praised the little girl as the little girl smiled at herself, feeling confident that she had read it perfectly aloud.

"What on earth are you doing?" The headmaster asked Lauren. "Teaching another girl to read?" He said, "Isn't one enough." He stated. "We have to do something." A random woman said.

Time Skip (again)

"You are the wildest—most gorgeous thing that I have ever seen," Ty said to himself as he admires his reflection in the mirror.

"Nobody deserves you—" He said. "But at least I know our children will be beautiful." He added. "Am I catching you at a bad time?" Luis asked as he appeared beside the green-eyed man.

"What is it, Keaton?" Ty asked the chocolate-eyed boy. "A certain damsel is in distress," Luis replied. "Ah. It's hero time." Ty said as he adjusts his coat, then went to where Lauren had been.

"Lauren! I heard you had trouble with the Headmaster." Ty said as he followed behind her. "He never liked me either." He added. "Can I give you a little advice about the villagers though?" He asked her.

"They're never going to trust the kind of change you're trying to bring." He said as he just stepped in Lauren's crops and had just appeared in front of her. "All I wanted was to teach a child to read," Lauren said to him.

"The only children you should concern yourself with are—" Ty said, gesturing between the both of them. "Your own." He said. "I'm—not ready to have children," Lauren stated as she went around Ty.

"Maybe you haven't met the right man," Ty said. "It's a small village, Ty. I've met them all." Lauren said to him. "Well, maybe you should take another look," Ty said to her. "Some of us have changed." He added.

"Ty—we could never make each other happy." She said to the dark-haired man. "No one can change that much." She added as she walked back towards her house.

"Oh, Lauren." He said to her. Do you know what happens to spinsters in this village after their fathers die?" He asked her, showing her a woman asking for coins.

"They beg for scraps, like poor Chelsea." He said. "This is our world, Lauren." He said. "For simple folk like us, it doesn't get any better." He added, grabbing at the ends of her long skirt.

"I might be a farm girl," Lauren replied while tugging her skirt back. "But, I'm not simple—and I'm never going to marry you, Ty." She added while grabbing the front door of her home. "I'm sorry!" She said to him, closing the door.