Page 21 of Princess Takes Academy
“I want to see him. Please. Just let me use the tree to see him every once in a while.”
When I’m lonely. When I’m scared. When I’m hurt.
I need him. He’s my Blood.
My friend.
My only friend.
Auntie Shara shook her head. “I’m sorry, sweetheart. I can’t do that. Your parents asked me to lock the heart tree so that no one could use it to go anywhere except to my nest. You’re always welcome to come see me whenever you want, but the ways will be closed to any other location.”
“Let me see him!” I shrieked, uncaring of how childish I sounded. “He’s mine! You can’t just take him away like that! You can’t keep me from him!”
I flung myself at her. Punching. Kicking. Biting. A wild thing trying to escape. My rage choked me. I had to fight. I had to scream. Didn’t they understand how much he meant to me? How could they do this to me?
How couldshe?
I wanted her to fight back. Yell at me. Something.
But all she did was wrap her arms around me and hug me closer. Her power seeped into me, shining like soft moonlight. Softly, she sang some song to me that I’d never heard before. I didn’t understand the words. They were in a language I couldn’t understand.
Maybe if I had my power, I would have understood. Maybe if I had my Blood, I would have my power. If I had my unicorn.If…
Despair flooded me in a tidal wave that extinguished my anger and left me as hollow and empty as the heart tree.
Keras was gone.
My power was gone.
My unicorn was gone.
Taken from me.
I knew it was my own fault. And that hurt all the more. I had done this to myself.
I pulled away from her. I couldn’t bear her hug. The gentle words of her song. The soft, gentle, insistent power that whispered to me of patience and heartache. I didn’t want to wait to grow up. I didn’t want to be alone.
All I wanted was Keras, and she’d taken him from me.
I stomped out of the hole as firmly as my weak legs would allow. “I hate you, Shara Isador. I never want to see you again!”
