Writing Challenge: My Story Behind the Picture

• Posted by Luci

Desire

She was in my arm and we both were dancing, floating all over the dancing floor. There was no one but us. Me and her.  Her long red silky frock was flurrying with the swings of our movements, exposing her exposed beauty even more.  I was letting myself burned in the sweet heat of her charm making me draw her close. When I took a long swing holding her in my arm, I saw a reflection of me in one of the large mirrors hanging on the walls. I shuddered, that was an ugly skeleton draped in a long gown, my head was covered in a hood.  How could it be possible?  “I can’t be that ugly.  I am so handsome, so charming, that’s this beautiful girl attracted towards me and accepted my invitation to dance with me.  But how I have turned into a beast” I was thinking and dancing, dancing and thinking.  She was not aware of my transformation because her eyes were closed.  It seemed that she was also enjoying my nearness.  Then I saw in the mirror, she had also turned into an ugly skeleton, ugly and horrible.  I shuddered even more and released her from my grip, she was falling away from me with a shriek………………but that was my shriek, I found out while my eyes opened.   Oh, I fell asleep last night while watching “Beauty and the Beast”

I didn’t move, sitting still, was thinking, I might have seen the beast inside me, but why did she transform into one……………………………..