Living isn’t just about loving someone. Living is enjoying what you have as you have it.

It was a lonely place. A place for the dark-hearted. It’s where I deserve to be, Maleficent told herself every time she arrived. For only someone with a heart as dark as mine could do something so evil to a girl with a heart as light as Aurora’s.

You and Sven and Sven. You’re my family. I like you and you like me and we all helped each other back there. So isn’t that family?

And Belle? She was an odd girl who liked to read.

Love is special, and anyone who gives you their heart is giving you a part of them.

Still, Mrs Potts wasn’t going to let the girl just leave – not if she could help it. And having lived with a stubborn individual for quite some time, she knew that sometimes the best way to make people do what they didn’t want to do was to give them the chance to do it on their own terms.

Olaf was a genius. This, she realized, watching the snowman struggle, was love. Olaf had been willing to put himself in danger because he didn’t want to see her get hurt. Love wasn’t the canned romantic declarations. That was nothing but fluff. That was what Hans had thrown at her and what she had mistaken for love. Pure, true love was what Olaf was showing her right now – sacrifice.

Blue eyes met brown, and them, as dawn broke the horizon, they leaned forward and kissed. It was a kiss Belle would never forget – One better than any in all the book she had read. It was a kiss full of apology, full of thankfulness, and full of deep, deep love. It was a kiss full of enchantment. And ad their lips met, that magic exploded from them to the rest of the castle.

What was wrong with her? Why did things like this keep happening to her? Love wasn’t supposed to hurt, yet it felt like all she knew when it came to love was pain. Every time she opened her heart, she just got burned. Or, in this case, frozen. And she was getting sick and tired of it.

Think of the place you’ve most wanted to see. First see it in your mind’s eye. Now feel it in your heart.