Bella had nothing with her. Her phone and book were upstairs. Why was her sister doing this.
Bert looked in her room for a clue and found her library book. She would go no where without if. 'Bella dear were are you?' He had a bad feeling.
"Zane, come over know, I found Bella's bag and book. Something wrong." Bert told Zane on the phone.
Zane raced over, Betty was scared now she did not think this prank through very well. She could not just let Bella go and she could not keep her locked up.
"Babs help me." Betty said.
"What did you do?" Babs said.
"I locked Bella in the basement." Betty was shaking now.
Zane's voice boomed through the house. "What happened to my Bella.!!"
"You leave, stay with a friend. I'll let her out after you leave." Babs said.
Betty gave her Bella's phone and quickly went out the back door.
Babs ran into the living room with the phone. "I found her phone in the kitchen. She would not leave without this."
"She has to be here then." Bert said. "Search every room."
Babs then went to the basement and opened the door. "I found her, she was locked in the basement."
Bella came up, "Where is Betty?"
"I don't know." Babs said.
"How did you get locked in the basement?" Bert said.
"Betty did it. I want to kill her. I'm am so hungry now. And you why didn't you come you should of been looking for me." Bella said poking Zane.
"I got a message telling me you changed your mind." He said
She grabbed her phone and there was a message she did not send. "Betty is going to die."
Zane was happy to find her he pulled her into an embrace.
"I'll take care of Betty, Zane take Bella out to eat and then take her home with you." Their father said.
As they walk down the stairs with her things Zane says, "Don't leave me again. Bella I need you. Tomorrow we get married."
Bella froze. "No! You won't demand me to do anything! I am not someone who can be ordered around!"
He shook his head, 'I did it again. I forgot his patience again.'
"Sorry, remember I'm trying to be a better man. It just scared me so much to have you missing. I can't think without you."
"It's not fair to use me this way. I can't be the reason you have a heart. It's to much. I want be by someone's side not locked up away from the world." Bella had tears in her eyes.
"I'm Sorry." he lowered his head resting it on top of her head.
She pushed him away, "I'm Sorry!, I'm sorry! I am tired of hearing that come out of your mouth! I was scared down there by myself!" She then let out a sigh, "Why do they hate me?"
He got it now, it was not about him. It was about her sister. He pulled her into an embrace. She cried soaking his shirt.
He just let her cry and when she was done. He put her in the car. He ordered take out and took her home to eat.
They did not talk after that just stayed together. She took out her book to read.
◇◇◇♡♡♡◇◇◇ OH, IF I COULD BUT SHIVER! cont:
The next morning this youth went to the King, and said, "If you will allow me, I wish to watch three nights in the enchanted castle."
The King looked at him, and because his appearance pleased him, he said, "You may make three requests, but they must be inanimate things you ask for, and such as you can take with you into the castle."
So the youth asked for a fire, a lathe, and a cutting-board. The King let him take these things by day into the castle, and when it was evening the youth went in and made himself a bright fire in one of the rooms, and, placing his cutting-board and knife near it, he sat down upon his lathe.
"Ah, if I could but shiver!" said he. "But even here I shall never learn." At midnight he got up to stir the fire, and, as he poked it, there shrieked suddenly in one corner, "Miau, miau! how cold I am!"
"You simpleton!" he exclaimed, "what are you shrieking for? If you are so cold come and sit down by the fire and warm yourself!"
As he was speaking, two great black cats sprang up to him with an immense jump and sat down one on each side, looking at him quite wildly with their fiery eyes.
When they had warmed themselves for a little while they said, "Comrade, shall we have a game of cards?"
"Certainly," he replied; "but let me see your paws first."
So they stretched out their claws, and he said, "Ah, what long nails you have got; wait a bit, I must cut them off first"; and so saying he caught them up by the necks, and put them on his board and screwed their feet down.
"Since I have seen what you are about I have lost my relish for a game at cards," said he; and, instantly killing them, threw them away into the water.
But no sooner had he quieted these two and thought of sitting down again by his fire, than there came out of every hole and corner black cats and black dogs with glowing chains, continually more and more, so that he could not hide himself.
They howled fearfully, and jumped upon his fire, and scattered it about as if they would extinguish it. He looked on quietly for some time, but at last, getting angry, he took up his knife and called out, "Away with you, you vagabonds!" and chased them about until a part ran off, and the rest he killed and threw into the pond.
As soon as he returned he blew up the sparks of his fire again and warmed himself, and while he sat his eyes began to feel very heavy and he wished to go to sleep.
So looking around he saw a great bed in one corner, in which he lay down; but no sooner had he closed his eyes, than the bed began to move of itself and travelled all round the castle.
"Just so," said he, "only better still"; whereupon the bed galloped away as if six horses pulled it up and down steps and stairs, until at last, all at once, it overset, bottom upward, and lay upon him like a mountain; but up he got, threw pillows and mattresses into the air, and saying, "Now he who wishes may travel," laid himself down by the fire and slept till day broke.
In the morning the King came, and, seeing the youth lying on the ground, he thought that the spectres had killed him, and that he was dead; so he said, "It is a great misfortune that the finest men are thus killed"; but the youth, hearing this, sprang up, saying, "It is not come to that with me yet!"
The King was much astonished, but very glad, and asked him how he had fared. "Very well," replied he; "as one night has passed, so also may the other two." Soon after he met his landlord, who opened his eyes when he saw him.