Heal Me With Your Love

Heal Me With Your Love ~ 2

Twenty years ago...

"Get down from there this instant or you'll fall!"

"Who are you to order me around?! You're not my brother!"

"Do you want to break your neck? I swear to God Skyelar, I will climb up there to get you!"

Skye frowned and pouted.

Why is this teenage boy angry at me again? Every time he sees me, he was always acting so... What was that word that described the giant in Jack and the beanstalk? Ah yes, big and mean!

A.D. was protective of her but her big brother never commanded her not to climb this tree. It was a special tree, the black locust tree which her family during one of the winter holidays brought all the way from Hungary four months before her mom gave birth to her. Her Papa and A.D. planted it exclusively for her. That's why the tree was called Skyelar's Haven.

"I'm going to count to three. One.. two..."

In her anger, Skye jumped down from the tree but her calculations were poor. Her foot got stuck on one of the tree's large trunks and she fell nastily instead.

The young man caught her as she fell. His body protected her from landing hard on the ground.

Skye whimpered in pain. Her left foot got twisted and sprained.

"Skye!"

A.D. saw her fall. He and his other friends run towards their direction. They just arrived after skate boarding at their mansion's front lawn.

"Let me go!" Skye wailed, sniffling. Pushing at her oppressor's chest. Her face smeared with tears, dust and dirt.

The boy let her go abruptly only after he steadied her.

"What happened?", A.D. asked, brushing off the dirt from the back of her pink barbie shirt. His face awashed with worry.

"She climbed the tree again."

Glaring at the boy for telling on her, she screamed at him.

"That's my tree. I own it!"

"Skye...", A.D. said in a gentle tone, he reprimanded her for screaming at his friend.

Skye wailed. Ashamed for several eyes were staring at her, who were silently amused at her demise.

"Come now, I'll carry you and take you inside. You have a small scrape on your elbow. Teresa's going to get angry at you if she'll see that."

Skye's baby blue eyes grew big. Their nanny's going to be crazy mad at her again. This was the third blunder she did for today.

"Hey guys, you can eat the snacks Lily brought near the poolside. I'll join you in a while. Anyway, thanks man for catching her."

The teenage boy nodded.

A.D. carried his little sister and headed towards the glass door leading to one of their living rooms.

"Don't thank him! He's mean to me!"

"He's not mean, he's our friend."

"He's a mean, big old friend of yours. He's not my friend." Skye pouted, sulking for her brother's defending her big enemy. She stuck her tongue out at his so-called friend and A.D. chuckled.

"Why do you dislike my friends?"

"He's your only friend I dislike."

"Leo is a good guy. You'll get yourself to like him soon."

"Never, never. Ever, ever!", Skye declared.

She peeked from her brother's shoulder and glared at the boy who caught her.