Beauty and the Beast

Andy couldn’t explain it to the guys. How he wanted her to live. Something inside of him wanted her to live. How would he even start the conversation of him seeing her before? He kept it to himself. He felt horrible although keeping her in the basement. They all carried out their night as normal. Only now they felt they had a servant.

“We should give her like an outfit or something.” Jake laughed.

“A sexy little skirt and a bra.” Ashley chimed in.

“Maybe we should give her a better place to sleep. Less of a reason for her to murder us in our sleep.” Andy said. He kept his gaze to his hands as he sat on the couch in the foyer.

CC gasped and quickly sat next to Andy. “You like her don’t you?!” He squealed.

“What?” Andy asked looking to CC with almost disgust.

“This could be a good thing!” Jake commented.

Then everyone but Jinxx and Andy laughed. “You think she’s going to fall for him after we killed her friend and locked her in a basement?” Jinxx commented making them all laugh again.

“I suppose not.” Ashley said grabbing a wine glass and filling it with wine. “We do have extra rooms though. Not a big one but we could give her something a little closer to her work place.”

“Why can’t we just kill her again?” Jinxx asked.

“Because Andy saw a reason not to.” Jake said.

“And have you seen this place? We need a fucking maid.” CC laughed.

Soon they were all sitting discussing what they should do with the girl. They had come to a vote and sent Andy to retrieve her. On his way he stopped by the orchid and picked a bright red apple. He rinsed it in their working well and continued. He took out a large chain of keys and unlocked the door leading into the basement. He opened both of the doors wide and stepped inside.

The girl was huddled on the cot. She looked up with red puffy eyes to Andy. He sighed, looked down at the apple and walked closer to her.

“Here.” He threw it into her lap.

She looked down at the apple and brushed it onto the floor. Andy took a deep breath and tried to keep his calm. “Why are you taunting me?” She asked.

“You know I picked that just for you.” Andy said. She looked back to him with anger in her eyes. She turned away again and let more tears fall. She clutched her knees tighter to her chest and wiped away a tear with her shoulder. “What’s your name?” He asked walking closer to her. She sniffed softly but stayed silent. “My name’s Andy.” She looked to him, the anger had left, but tears were still there. “I want to give you a better room to stay in. Will you follow me?”

She nodded and left out of the basement with him. They walked slowly. She kept her arms close to her chest. Andy would look over every now and then to see that she was shivering. She sighed and took of his coat and wrapped it around her shoulders. He could see out of the corner of his eyes that she looked at him.

“Kenna.” She said. He looked down at her questioningly. “My name is Kenna.”

Andy smiled, “hi Kenna.”

She looked back in front of her as they continued their walk. They reached the castle. She looked all around her in awe. Obviously she had never seen anything like it before. Much like the reaction he gave when he stumbled upon this place many years ago.

Andy opened to large wooden doors and his home was open to her. She looked in more awe. He placed a hand on the small of her back and led her inside. He took both of her coats off for her and hung them on a coat stand beside the door. All three fire places were lit on the bottom floor so it was quite warm.

The rest of the guys came to greet her. Each of them saying their names. Then Jinxx started. “You don’t need to know my name. You are only here as a servant. You will cook and clean for us. You are not our friend. Nor will we treat you as such.” Jinxx looked around then continued. “At least I won’t.” He left into the hall and traveled up the stairs.

Kenna looked down. “This place is huge, I’m supposed to clean all of it?” She asked.

“We’ll give you a tour of what you have to clean and don’t have to clean.” CC said.

“Mainly the main floor and the kitchen. Bedrooms are off limits as to every room on the second and third floors” Ashley added.

Kenna nodded and looked to the stair case around the corner. “You’re room will be on the second floor but in no way are you allowed anywhere else besides those two areas.” Andy said, still standing beside her.

“Since it’s late we’ll give you the tour tomorrow.” Jake said.

“I’ll show you your room?” Andy suggested resting his hand on her shoulder.

Kenna nodded and walked with him to the stair case. The last door down the hall hasn’t been opened in a long time. Andy turned the handle and opened the creaking door. Kenna seemed impressed. She stepped inside.

“You will stay here until dawn. Then your work begins.” Andy closed and locked the door.

He felt bad when he heard her try to turn the handle. But every house had rules. And liking her was not one of them.

Notes

I'm thinking about moving this story into first person. What do you guys think?