The Beast

Prologue

"So this is what it feels like being happy", she whispered in awe, touching plants as she walked around silently, almost reverently. It was almost as if her happiness had taken control of her.

The boy, turned man, whom she had loved since she was nothing but a kid, had professed his love for her and had asked her for her hand in marriage.

She smiled and ran through the fields, passing her hand through the flowers. It was the happiest day of her life. She had gotten her soulmate. She thought what she had was nothing but a one-sided thing, but turns out she was wrong. Patrick was the best thing, or person that had ever happened to her.

She smiled as she pictured his face in her mind again, sighing softly. She never wanted to lose this feeling.

"Baby...", a voice whispered.

She frowned. The voice was familiar but she could not place it. She inched closer. She felt bad for eavesdropping on what sounded like a very intimate moment but she wanted to know who the voice belonged to. She was just too curious.

"Babe, relax. Just let yourself feel", the voice said, seductively, making a gasp come from the person he was speaking to.

The girl inched closer and what she saw left her shell shocked. The man she was in love with, the man she was promised to, was with another woman, whispering sweet nothings into her neck.

She stood there watching the woman gasp and moan as the man pleasured her. Tears pooled in the girl's traitorous eyes.

She turned hastily and ran off, not caring where she was going to. She found a tree stump and sat on it, before weeping quietly, soundless gasps escaping her mouth and painful sobs racking her petite frame.

Soon enough, she fell asleep, forgetting completely the warnings of the others. Do not venture into the deepest parts of the forest.

She slept on, oblivious to the gentle hands lifting her and taking her to a place unknown, a place she would come to love and dread equally.