The Beauty And Her Beast

INTRODUCTION

This story- although a fairy-tale- doesn’t begin with once upon a time nor does it end in happily ever after. No, our story begins in a small town- not too far from here- where an ambitious young girl called Arabella lives with her widowed father, Abraham. Arabella doesn’t come from a large or rich family, it is just her and her alcoholic father that live in the small two-bedroom townhouse in the middle of the small, yet quaint township of Redwood.Arabella’s mother passed away when she was but a baby, though her father never told her the exact story behind it. He brought Arabella to Redwood shortly after, and began their new life. When Arabella was seven years old, she began to notice her father’s strange behaviour and that he spent an awful lot of his time at the local tavern, drowning his sorrows at the bar.At the age of ten, Arabella had her first experience with the cruelty that her father had bottled up inside of him. That night, she push