Brave Bold Belle (ft. Liam Payne)

Chapter 10 - The Call

“Are you for real? The dress is absolutely gorgeous and elegant. It doesn’t matter what kind of movie, it’s still a premier. And didn’t you want to stand out?”

“Not because you look like a wannabe bride! The media needs to see I’m dating a hot chick, not some wedding obsessed girl.”

“It doesn’t look like a wedding dress! Have you even seen one? And it doesn’t even matter what you think, I’m the one who’s gonna wear it and I love it.”

“Absolutely no. You won’t wear that if you go with me. If you love it you can keep it for when you get married, I don’t care, just go a buy something appropriate for the premiere. Something sexy. I dunno, some short and tight thing, you know, like any other girl would wear,” he suggests and my eyes widen.

“You’re impossible,” I mutter. “What do you want? The media to think you’re dating a slut? If that’s what you want why don’t you hire a hooker instead? I thought you wanted a girlfriend to go to this premiere, not just a whore.”

I hate that he tries to reduce me to that, to a mere accessory for him to walk down that stupid red carpet. I hate that he thinks he can decide what I wear or that he can treat me like this. I know I was hired to date him, but I never agreed to be humiliated like this. And this is only over a dress for a premiere, what’s next?

“I just don’t want my girlfriend to look like a weirdo in the premiere. Is that a crime?”

“You have no idea and I can’t even deal with you anymore. I’ll wear the dress that day and you’ll see it was the right choice. If I have to go with you to that, I want to at least feel comfortable so stop complaining because you can’t control me!”

And without going any further, I hang up and make sure to turn off my phone because I don’t want to talk to him again.

There’s a difference between hiring someone and owning someone. And he wasn’t even the one who hired me! It was his label and Havi represents them, she’s the one in charge of me and if she approves of the dress, then my boss approves of the dress. Liam is not the boss of me and he can’t dictate what I wear. He can’t think he can control me because he’s just my pretend boyfriend.

Ugh, I think that I have to deal with him six months and my stomach hurts. I have to put up six months with situations like this one. Thinking about that makes me want to go to the label right now and ask them to spare me the torture.

Why couldn’t he just be really shy so he needed help to get a girlfriend? Why couldn’t he be gay? I would rather deal with being someone’s beard instead of a jerk who just couldn’t bother to look for a girlfriend himself. He doesn’t even care if he has feelings for her or not, he just wants someone to show off.

I take the dress from my bed and put it back in the bag and hang it in my wardrobe. Then I just lie on my bed with my face buried in my pillow, still too pissed with Liam, pissed with myself for accepting this deal and overall, pissed that I still have six months to go. This is just starting and I’m already done with it.

He’s a complete beast!

I’m starting to believe my mother cursed me the day she decided to name me Isabelle so she could call me Belle, just like her favourite princess. Because now I’m stuck up with this beast for my father’s sake and believe me, this situation sucks. Do you want to know why? Because in the fairy tale the beast is ugly outside as a punishment for they way he behaved. Liam is not being punished, he’s still gorgeous outside so he has no motivation to improve his attitude, which is what’s horrid. The Beast wants to be human again and that’s why he tries to fall in love, to improve, but Liam doesn’t have that pressure on him. No witch will come to test him and punish him for being rude and I’m already trapped with him.

This version of the fairy tale sucks so bad!

Why do I have to be trapped in this twisted version? Even if he falls in love with me or something crazy like that, love is not magic, it won’t fix him or something like that. The whole cliché of ‘fixing’ the other person is nothing but bullshit. If you love someone, why would you want to change that person? If you change them then it means you never really loved that person but what you built in your mind of him or her, that fantasy of what that person could be, meaning something that wasn’t real. I can’t fall in love with a fantasy and there’s no way I could fall in love with Liam as he is right now. Love won’t fix him because no matter how it happened, he is this way now. Plus, love is no magic spell that can change a person or conquer it all. That’s just a lie that society has put into everyone’s mind. Love can only be a motivation to do something, but it’s not love what produces the change, it’s always you. You, because you want to change to be better for that other person. You, only you can change, no one else. And I see no way in which Liam would want to change, especially not for someone as plain as me, someone he didn’t even pick.

Then what can I do? This is not The Beauty and the Beast, this is real life and whether I want it or no, I have to deal with this beast for six months. Unless I want to jump off a bridge, I need to find a way.

Liam Payne is basically rude, obnoxious, immature, selfish and inconsiderate. I don’t love him and he doesn’t love me, I’m sure we don’t even like each other so there’s no motivation for him to want to change. But I can teach him, I could train him or something to be, at least, a bearable person. It’s not changing him, it’s controlling certain behaviours that are socially unacceptable. He’s a person who has to deal with public, his fans and the media, hence he needs to be nice or at least polite. I could teach him some manners.

My mother might have chosen the worse princess to name me after, and the worst fairy tale to wish for, but she did teach me manners. She was a lady and I’m sure she could make of Liam a gentleman in no time. I surely can do the same, even if I have to go all Pavlov on him.

That’s it. If this is some twisted version of The Beauty and the Beast, then I shall be Belle but without falling in love. I’ll have to make him human again, and by human I mean a nice boy that won’t make me want to kill him or kill myself.

Yes.

I can do that, I can teach him and take this whole situation by the horns. Not because I was hired for this I have to take all the crap Liam throws at me. I can react, I can try to make things better for myself. I’m sure that if I do this, the label will be very grateful.

I’ve been told that Liam used to be a good guy and although I think that part of him is long gone, maybe there’re still some ashes and I can reach them. He’ll never be the guy he used to be, but he might become less of a jerk.

I have to at least try.

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