twisted fairy tale short story

Part 1

once upon a time there live prince Jake, a cunning and honourable young man. Growing up was different for Jake as he didn't get to have fun, he was groomed to be the king... that was until both his mother and his father died suddenly from a carriage accident... or so he was told by his uncle Edgar when he was 10. Jake found it hard to cope with the loss of both his parents but especially his mother as she was kind and caring and was his best friend. After this the young prince started to suddenly change as though he was cursed whenever he had an extreme emotional reaction his face would distort into that of a fox. this meant that Jake had found it hard to express emotions without being judged by others. 

Each night young Jake would wander the halls weeping for his life to go back to the way it was and for someone to love him. As Jake grew older he found his curse easier to cope with and he started to venture out of the castle into the dark woods beside it. Jake used these walk as a excuse to let his emotions out and to show his fox face, finding a comfortable clearing Jake would sit down with a fairy tale book normally beauty and the beast he found it fascinating that a normal girl could find the best in the hideous beast it gave him hope that maybe one day he could find the belle to his beast. 

Each day he would pass the same path on his way back to the castle but today was different as there was a young girl with beautiful brown curly locks of hair on the path holding her leg with her hood up so the prince couldn't really see the young girls face "hello?" said the prince "are you ok?" the young girly hid her face even more into her knee away from the prince "y..yes i'm just fine" the young girl said however the prince was not convinced as he could hear the pain in her voice and was wondering why she was hiding her face "please let me help you i only live a minute down this path and after that you can go if you want but you are in pain i can hear and that cut looks bad" the price said softly walking slowly over to the young lady "i'll be fine it's not that bad" the girl said before she looked once again at the cut on her calf before falling backwards onto the floor fainting. The prince rushed to her side seeing her face for the first time the prince was stunned as he marvelled in her shear beauty her pale skin and her plump pink lips. Noticing he was staring he slowly place one arm under the girls legs and the other under her back to support her he lifted the girl off of the ground and started walking back to the castle.

When he arrived his guard Charles saw the young maiden in the princes arms and immediately opened the castle doors and followed the prince asking many questions most of which the prince answered with 'i don't know' the prince got the one of the guest bedrooms and laid the girl down "Charlie can you call for the doctor whilst i clean her cut please" the prince ask and Charles shuffled away to call the royal doctor, Jake then went to the attached bathroom wetting some paper towels and going back to the girl slowly dabbing the cut on her leg the young girl slowly stirred when she noticed Jake in front of her she jump ducking her head into her chest "it's ok i'm just cleaning your cut and a doctors on the way to make sure nothing is twisted or broken" the prince softly stated "no it's not necessary i'm fine" the girl said "really because you fainted when you looked at your cut just lay back and let me clean it" the prince said starting to get a little annoyed of the girls incessant need to run away from him. The girl didn't reply instead laid back with her arms over her face trying to calm her breathing. 

Once her breaths became even she sat up and looked at him dead in the eyes "why are you helping me you don't know me i could be an axe wielding murderer for all you know?" she questioned raising an eyebrow "three reasons, number one considering you fainted at the site of your cut imma guess you don't like blood two i'm a nice guy and three if you tried anything i'm sure Charlie and the others would probably stop you" Jake said matter of factly chuckling  "who's Charlie?" the girl asked "oh he's my friend" the prince said slowly "oh by the way my name's Jacob but no one calls me that just Jake is fine whats yours?" the girl looked surprised "oh i'm Annabella but please call me Annie, Anna or something like that" the princes eyes widened slightly "can i call you belle?" the prince asked sheepishly Annabella's eyes widened "u..mmm s..sure no one's really called me that since my nonna passed" she replied with a reminiscent smile on her face. "oh i'm sorry i can call you Annie instead i didn't mean to dig up the past" the prince replied his dark fringe falling in front of his green eyes "no it's fine i kinda like it" belle smiled sheepishly blushing