1 Apples

"Beatrice, this is your fiancé Leon Hanson. Go and greet him sweetie" she heard her mother spoke as she hid behind her dress.

A head poked out on the side of the dress, a five year old girl looking out with nervousness showed in her round purple eyes. She stepped forward and gave a bow handling the helm of her small dress, "hello, I am Beatrice."

She looked up to a boy standing next to Auntie Blair who visited her often. He wore a nice fitting suit with his hair slicked back except a bang drooping on his forehead. He didn't look any older as she did and wasn't scary or intimidating like the adults she once saw either. Beatrice approached the tall boy with a smile, "will you be my friend?"

The boy didn't answer, only looking at her because she resemble a puppy that one of his maids has.

Beatrice tilt her head in confusion because he didn't answer. She then ask, "will you play with me?"

The boy didn't speak or smile, his face remained neutral as he nodded his head to answer her question.

With the boy's signal, Beatrice grasp his hand and led him to the wide and beautiful garden in her family's back yard. The boy watched the little girl walked in front of him with her tiny legs towards an apple tree, while still holding onto his hands.

"Do you want an apple? Bea can climb trees!" He heard the girl said.

Before he could answer, the little girl let go of his hands and started to climb the tree. Her dress kept getting stuck to the barks of the tree, but she still got up there regardless. Beatrice sat on a branch and grabbed an apple then tossing it down to Leon, who's staring up at her.

He caught the apple, but didn't look away from the girl sitting on top of the tree. She looked like a fairy as the sun shines on her milky fair face and black long hair. "You should get down" he finally spoke.

The girl heard his voice that had a hint of nervousness in them, "I climb trees a lot so I am a scholar at climbing trees! I never fall!"

Beatrice grabbed another apple and threw it to Leon, then made her way down. Her soft and small hands grabbed onto the barks of the tree and her feet stabilizing her position. Halfway down a bark pierced her palm making her startled, slipping from the tree with her body dropping in the air.

"AHHHHH" Beatrice screamed at the top of her lungs.

THUD!

Beatrice, who have her eyes shut, thought the fall didn't hurt at all. She slowly opened her eyes to see herself sitting on top of Leon's back.

"Can you get off?" Leon asked.

Beatrice stood up, her eyes starts tearing up "I am sorry, I hurt you."

Dusting off the dirt, Leon looked at the girl who's whimpering as she tried her best to hold in her tears. He didn't know what to do, he never made someone cried before. How can he console her?

Then he saw her hand dripping with blood. Leon immediately grabbed her hand and inspect her wound, fortunately it wasn't too deep. He took out a handkerchief and wrapped it around her palm and tying it.

He then took the two apples on the ground and picked it up. Leon dusted off the dirt on her white dress, holding out an apple he said, "I am alright, let's go treat your wound and clean these apples. It's dirty."

She looked up at her hand being wrapped in a pale blue cotton handkerchief. Beatrice held his hand on her uninvited hand then they walk back into the mansion.

Making their way back into the parlor room, the two ladies sitting there gasped. "Beatrice, what happened? Why are your dress stained in dirt? What happened to her hand?"

"I showed him the garden, then I climbed a tree to get some apples... but then I slipped and hurt him" Beatrice explained as she starts tearing up again. Her mother came to her wiping away her tears, "I told you not to climb those trees."

"I am sorry" Beatrice apologized while the lady sitting on the couch tried her best to restrain her laughter. Bea was too cute and with her son looking like a mess, this scene was too much for Auntie Blair.

"Alright, give me your apples. I will clean and slice them since you personally went and fetched it yourself. Butler Sains, please get the medical kit it seems like Beatrice got pricked by climbing the tree again" her mother took the apples from her and Leon.

The butler went and came back with a white box, then tend his Young Miss's wound while the maids sliced the two apples.

"What about this?" Beatrice pointed at the bloodied handkerchief.

"I will wash it and give it back to you Young Miss" the butler answered as he took it away.

The two children enjoyed their apples slices while the two ladies continued to talk until the door slammed opened, "Beatrice I am back!!"

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