Author's note
Hi guys I'm back, I'm sorry I didn't update for a lot of time but I was busy with my admission tests and application stuff for US Boarding Highs. Well, my hard work paid off, I'm now officially enrolled by Lawrenceville School in NJ and Milton Academy in MA.
Realization
Chapter II
Ella's POV
It was the best way, I couldn't let Char be ruined because of me. I thought resolutely as I plucked out the last petal out of the rose I now held in hand, tears flowing from my eyes freely and falling on the perfectly clean carpet, ruining it. He'll probably want to have nothing to do with me after his interview with Mandy, as the thought hit me, fresh tears came surging through my already blurred vision. My sorrow was at a point so great that I can endure it no longer. I fell back onto my mattress and let out sobs, shaking my body and my mind and shattering them to pieces, along with my fantasy of being married to Char. He will never want me, he will never want to have a cursed girl as his bride. As I thought, fresh tears started staining my eyes again.
Char's POV
I don't understand why Ella would push me out, if she loves me, she would try to overcome the problem with me together, not evading it. I thought as I went along to Mandy's room. But if, what if, what if Ella doesn't love me at all? What if she just thinks me as a good friend, not someone she could trust so much as to tell her secret? I asked myself. Then, I realized it, I froze mid-step and was suddenly saddened and angered at my own ridiculousness of presuming that Ella loved me. I turned sharply towards the door, pushed the fawning sisters and mother out of my way and jumped onto my horse without so much as a farewell.
Narrator's POV
Char walked out of the house with long, resolute strides. Ella watched him silently at her window, but he never turned back. What she had always feared has happened, and the smallest hope in her heart was dying. She climbed onto her bed, and sobbed into the mattress with a feeling of desperation. She thought herself as the most unfortunate person in the world at that moment. But alas, there was another person who was suffering a bigger agony at the same time. Clever readers, I think without my hint, you can easily figure out that the person was Char. He was even more in love with Ella than Ella with him, he not only lost his hope, but also thought himself as the most presumptuous human being in Kyrria. He rode with a brooding countenance, even his horse sensed it. Unknowingly, the horse led Char to the old castle. The sudden stop startled Char and he jumped back into reality. He was even more surprised when he found out that he was at the old castle, where he first thought to have caught a hint of Ella's love for him, but it turned out to be an illusion, a dream of his that could never come true. He jumped off the horse and strolled around with no purpose.
But when he came into the sight of the candle grove trees, he couldn't repress the urging in his mind to kneel down in front of the tree and make a wish, just as he did when he was a young boy of eleven. He recalled that he used to wish for a real adult horse to ride on his birthday, and next day he got his wish. He smiled in rememberance of the past, and kneeled down. Without thinking, he said," I wish to know if Ella loves me." When he realized what he had said, he regretted it immediately. One can only make three wishes come true in one's lifetime, and he has wasted one wish on such a thing. It seems that the fact Ella doesn't love him is stuck in Char's mind and he couldn't let it go. Just then, surprisingly, the candle grove tree spoke.
( Trees aren't supposed to speak, I know, I just can't resist the temptation of magical trees~ ~~~~Love from Pinery.)