While You Were Sleeping ~ My Beauty and the Beast

'While You Were Sleeping'🛌⚡️👀

'My Beauty and the Beast'👁👄🌹👿

'Art and Short Story by 'Me'✍️🖊✒️🖍📖

'The flashing and cracking of lightening, followed by the loud booms, and the continuous rumbling of thunder. The endless downpour of heavy rain, patters the roof of a nearby house, and one of its side windows. The only light on is the bathroom; no other lights on in the house, but the flashing of light on the walls and furniture in every room.

Bella, a young and beautiful woman, and the owner of the house, has had a long day, and is ready for bed and sleep. As she goes to bed, she wonders who has been sending her flowers to her home. Earlier in the day, when Bella arrived home from work, she noticed a bouquet of flowers at her front door, with a little message on a card stating,'While You Were Sleeping'...and no name as to who they were from. In a four month period, she has received four bouquets of flowers at her front door, and each and every time, the same message, and nothing else.

Not long in, Bella falls into a deep and dreaming sleep and a smile. Her dark bedroom flickers and flashes light about the walls and furniture, and the aroma from her fresh flowers given to her by a mysterious and secret admire. The lightening and thunder intensifies as the night moves on, and the rain never ending. The clock on a small bedside table passes five minutes past midnight, as Bella falls deeper into her sleep, and with her continuous smile of her mysterious admire is. And the flowers are not what you see in your every day neighbourhood garden, park or garden domain, they were from the wild itself; flowers of different natural colours, aromas, and wonder. But more so, where and who they came from.

From the first bouquet, to the fourth, they have all been placed on her front steps, and at the bottom centre of the front door with perfect presentation. Bella has never seen secret admirer, and knows not his name. For whatever reason, she shows no caution or fear as to whom sent her the flowers. Just the curious wonderment of as to who he was or what he looked like. Is he tall and handsome, short and fat, or rich or poor. She just wanted to know who he was. For now, an answer her secret and mysterious admire can answer alone.

Suddenly, two big bright flashes of lightening crack loudly outside Bella's bedroom window like large canon fire. As the lightening flashes brightly, standing outside her bedroom window, is an ominous, dark and tall silhouette, with glowing red eyes. The beast like form places its left hand on the glass pane, at the bottom of the window; with a gentle, silent touch, and stares into the window. The beast leans closer, and glances down upon the smiling, sleeping beauty he sees from his eyes. He so desperately wants to wake Bella and finally introduce himself to her. Of whom he truly loves, to live the rest of his life with, and would do whatever was necessary to protect her. His shadow is cast on the floor of the room; and yet, the beasts shadow does not appear on her. For the light and love in his heart, shines brightly upon Bella, not a dark shadow.

He, the beast, stands eight feet tall, of strong solid build, with a light coating of short  hair all over his body, and with two goat like horns and long pointy ears. He believes his beastly form would be too frightening to Bella, his face too hideous to look upon, and would have no feeling for such a demon, for such a beast. For the beast himself however, his greatest fear and hesitation, would be the courage to introduce himself to the woman, Bella, of whom he loves dearest. The night will come, when he will finally bare courage, to show himself to her, and forever be in the arms of his true love. For now, not this night, the night will come for when the time is right to him.

He glances down upon her beauty, as she remains deep in her peaceful sleep. With a deep, low toned voice, the beast replies:

'Oh my love, my life, my Bella.

For I truly love thee, and wish to share my love for thee, eternal.

To share my Kingdom of the Wild; the beasts, the birds, the realm itself.

I wish to show you from where I come from.

A Kingdom of beauty and peace, kindness and love.

A Kingdom of loyalty and trust, understanding and logic.

A Kingdom unknown to mankind, and never to suffer the harm they caused to their own lands.

A Kingdom of beautiful mountains, beautiful valleys and meadows, rivers and streams.

And the wondrous range of the most beautiful flowers the world has ever seen.

Flowers of which I bring as a gift to thee.

I gift I place upon thy abode, the gift I leave at your front door.

A gift, for the moment, can I only bring to thee at night.

A gift for you Bella, my beauty, my true and only love.

A gift to my Beauty, A gift from your Beast.

Goodnight my love, for I will leave you now to sleep in peace.

Goodnight my love, until I lay mine eyes upon thee in the night once more.

Goodnight my love, my life, my Queen.

Goodnight.'

The beast slowly turns, places a fifth bouquet of wild flowers at the front door, and leaves Bella and journeys home to his Kingdom of the Wild.

Love comes to us all, no matter who we are, or what form we may appear to have; we all will find the one we truly love. No matter how handsome or tall, short, fat or ugly, rich or poor. After all, love is a true form, and in this story, the forms of 'Beauty, and the Beast'.👁👄🌹👿

Ralph Maheno 01/06/2024.

ANYWHOOOO!...This was another one of those drawings I had time to do while I was at work doing night shift Traffic Control.🚦🥱 I did this Beauty and the Beast concept with black pen, permanent marker, and copic markers on paper (26/05/2024).✍️🖊✒️🖍

I also came up with this short story for this drawing a few days later.📖 I hope you like my drawing and back story  My Beautiful Peoplzzz.😘😉 And, as always Folks...'ONE LOVE ALL'🥰☮️💖😇