Book I of The Power Within Series: The Power Within

Chapter 11: Falling for you

I felt something hit my butt, thinking it was one of my sisters I shooed them away. I was extremely cranky right now, that fight with Aqua, plus my bed felt as rough as tree bark.

"Fuego!" someone yelled

"Five more minutes." I mumbled like I always do in the morning.

"Fuego!" they yelled again

I groaned, whoever this was disturbing my ten hours of sleep was about to be a world full of pain

"What?!" I huffed

I stretched my arms out, and felt something behind me. A tree? I looked down at the ground, and my eyes widen.

"Fuego, over here!" a familiar voice called me to my left side.

I looked over and saw Tyler Johnson standing behind a fence, then I noticed that I was in someone's tree in their front yard.

"Johnson? How did I get up here?" I whispered, I'm guessing it's still early in the morning.

"I don't know, but stay there I'll get you down." he said and started climbing the fence

"Okay." I leaned around the tree trying to reach for a lower branch, gabbing a hold of a branch above me. I heard snapping a second later, and then fell out of the tree"Aah!"

I landed on something, when I opened my eyes Tyler's arms were wrapped around me.

"You okay?" he asked, removing a strand of hair from my face.

I nodded unable to speak. He helped me to my feet, I brushed the dirt and grass from my backside, when he wasn't looking, and followed him.

"Where are we going?" I asked

"My house, it's right over here." he pointed to a huge mansion across the street, it's like twice as big as my house. It's looks to be about four- five hundred thousand max.

"Whoa." I breathed

As I sat on the couch, waiting for Tyler to come back out of the kitchen with coffee, his three little sisters wouldn't stop looking at me.

"Hi." I eventually said

"You're pretty." one said "Are you Tyler's girlfriend?"

"Thank you, but no I am not."

"Do you wanna be?" the other asked

I started to smile uncontrollably, when Tyler came back out with two mugs in his hands.

"Renee, Quinn, Sonny, leave Fuego alone." he ordered handing me a mug "We can go in the den for more privacy."

"Sure." I nodded

"Wait isn't Fuego that girl you had a crush on?" Renee asked, the other girls giggled

I looked at him, and he gave me a nervous smile.

"I asked my mom to sell them." he was referring to his sisters "No luck."

I laughed. Tyler lead me to the den, it looked like a man cave more than a den, a pool table in the the middle of the room, a flat screen t.v, and a Foosball table. We sat on the love seat in front of the t.v.

"So what were you doing sleeping in a tree?" he asked

"Um...I'm not sure." I shrugged, taking a sip of coffee "I really don't remember anything that happened last night, except-"

"Except what?"

"Aqua and I got in a fight." I took a sip of coffee again

"About what?"