┌─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ───┐
𝑴𝑶𝑶𝑵𝑳𝑰𝑮𝑯𝑻:
𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒕
└─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ───┘

     𝑬𝑽𝑬𝑹𝒀 𝑭𝑹𝑰𝑫𝑨𝒀 𝑨𝑵𝑫 𝑺𝑨𝑻𝑼𝑹𝑫𝑨𝒀 𝑬𝑽𝑬𝑵𝑰𝑵𝑮 at La Casa was specifically reserved for a movie night. Honestly, it was the best thing about the place. Asset 18 adored movie night, it was closest thing to a family or a normal life.

It had only been a mere two weeks since Millicent had outed the girl's true identity to her entire class, and she hadn't stopped thinking about it since. The other girls were a lot more bothered by it than she originally thought, gaining her the name "Sham". No one sat near her during movie night anymore, she had been kicked out of her usual seat at the very front and booted to the back where she was concealed by shadows and out of sight. The runt of the litter.

     That particular night was Beauty and the Beast. It was a class favourite, how could it not be? Enchanted roses, magic spells, a beautiful princess, a cursed prince and talking objects. But there was one thing that Asset 18 seemed to appreciate more than the other girls. While they pranced around their sleeping hall wishing to be the beauty in the yellow dress after the night came to an end, she simply admired from her cell and thought of the prince in disguise.

     In an odd way, she felt connected to him, almost as if they were the same person; misunderstood monsters. She wasn't an idiot, she knew that what they did at La Casa was wrong (the movies had taught her that, arguably La Casa's one mistake). She knew if the rest of the world ever found out about what happened within those four walls then there would be a bullet between her eyes in under 10 minutes.

     Asset 18, much like the beast, had always desired change ever since the day they were cursed with the lifestyle they had. Even at the age of 7, she had decided she didn't want to die the way she was expected to (or not to, she guessed). The girl wasn't prepared to dedicate her entire life to the programme that took so many. Unfortunately for her, she was doomed to a life without a happily ever after. There was no enchanted rose or kind hearted person there to save her, she simply had to ... rot. Waste away in the very universe that had yet do give back to her.

One thing she did know, was that she would rather die than give into the very damsel in distress act that was shown on the screen every Friday evening. It was the one thing she enjoyed the most about Belle; her fearlessness, the unwillingness to be saved but the willingness to save. Maybe she would save the love of her life one day, that was if she ever had one, of course. She doubted she ever would, it was hard if the business she was in. She couldn't think of many people who would jump at the chance to marry a murderer (expect, let's say. . . Adolf Hitler?).

     Perhaps she was naive to think she didn't need saving from her cruel world, perhaps she needed to take a back seat as the Beast instead of being Belle. Maybe her Belle was out there, waiting. . . maybe he would save her one day. But the likeliness of that happening? Little to none.

     For who could ever learn to love a Beast?

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𝐆𝐈𝐆𝐈 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐒. 💎💧❄️
( 𝚃 𝙸 𝙽 𝙺 𝙴 𝚁 𝙱 𝙴 𝙸 𝙸 𝙴 )
this is just a filler chapter but i don't hate it lol