Tree of Love (Part II)

Tree of Love

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wo months have passed. The Fallen Angel started to feel comfortable by looking after her. However, in the beginning of the second month since he left, the girl did not come out from her house. At first, he thought that she was overslept, but as the day progressing, the Fallen Angel decided to check her house.

He was very shocked to see the girl lying unconscious in the floor. Her face was pale and her temperature was so high. The Fallen Angel took her to the bed and tried to look for a doctor in the village. However, his effort was in vain, the village has no doctor.

He returned to the girl’s house and discovered the girl’s heat was increasing. Her face was getting paler and her body is getting weaker. The Fallen Angel was very terrified that the girl condition would be worse. He did not even know what happened to the girl, what disease is it and what will happen to her. His knowledge had been stripped from him since he felt into the Earth.

He went outside the house and fell on his knee. He clenched his hands and prayed to God for His mercy to safe the girl’s life. This is the first time he worshipped God since he casted away from heaven for his arrogance. He bowed to God and started to cry despite the Fallen Angel inability to feel emotion. He threw away all of his dignity just to save the girl.

God Almighty heard His Fallen Angel praying. Since His mercy is infinite, he returned the Fallen Angel’s knowledge so that the Fallen Angel could do something. However, God has a plan for the girl and His Fallen Angel. He had restored the Fallen Angel long lost altruistic and now he had given the Fallen Angel chance to repent.

Realising his knowledge had returned to him, the Fallen Angel rushed to the girl’s room to examine her condition. He knew what he should do to ease the girl’s pain. He did anything he could do to comfort her, and it was success as the girl started to regain consciousness. However as the proverb once said that it is better to know nothing, the Fallen Angel was shocked to discover that the girl was suffering an incurable disease cause by a deathly virus.

He was petrified to realise the painful fact. He was shocked by the fact than an Angel could not safe a girl’s life. He started to curse his inability and once again went outside the house to pray. He fell on his knee and bowed to God once again. He prayed but no answer came. He started to felt desperate and hopeless before suddenly his vast knowledge inspired him to do something. However he is not sure to do it, thus he walked to a nearby hill and sat there.

He glanced to the lonely dark sky of the night. Thinking of her was tearing his heart apart gradually. Though the joy of the knowledge which had been returned to him filling the corner of his heart, he was very unhappy. Driven by his emotion the Fallen Angel started to cry a tear of blood despite his inability to feel.

He made up his mind before the darkness overwhelming the earth. His heart was filled with no doubt but unconditional love for the girl. Nothing is worth enough compared to the smile of the girl. The Fallen Angel walked back into the house. He knew what he wanted and what to do.

The girl was lying fragilely in her bed when the Fallen Angel entered her house. She realised the Fallen Angel’ presence and murmured, “Is it you, Mr. Traveler?” Suddenly she smiled and the Fallen Angel would never forget that smile, the most beautiful smile he had ever seen. “Please don’t leave me again,” her voice is getting slower and weaker. “Please stay here, you are the only one I have, Mr. Traveler.” She coughed in agony before spoiled another words, “It may sounds egoist, yet my heart is beating faster and faster, it pounds me,” she coughed again. “Stop talking, you should rest,” the Fallen Angel finally spoke gently. “I love you, Mr. Traveler,” the girl confessed with all of her remaining strength.

The Fallen Angel smiled, “Do you believe in Angel?” he asked.

“I do!” she replied, “You are my Angel.”

“I am not your Angel. I left you and abandoned you. I am your Fallen Angel.”

The girl tried very hard just to spoke another words, “Please! Stop saying that!” she coughed severely “You are my Angel. I can’t live without you, I..!” The Angel put his finger on the girl’s lips. “Utter not a single syllable,” he kissed the girl and said, “I do love you too.” He laid his finger on the girl’s forehead and tried to make her sleep. “Please don’t!” the girl tried to stay awake, but her vision is fading. “El sueño de mi amor, I will continue to live in your heart.” The Fallen Angel hypnotized the girl and after he spoke, the girl fell asleep.

The Fallen Angel stood before the girl. He casted a spell and his wings appeared on his back. The wings are not black like the one which he had when he fell into the earth. It was transformed into elegant pure white wings. The wings had countless feathers, none of them are despoiled. He cried once again for the last time and kneeled in front of the girl’s bed. He prayed to God and gave all of his life force to the girl. His wings started to shatter slowly as the feathers fell to the ground and vanish. Suddenly, the moonlight shined brightly through the window of the house to the praying Fallen Angel and the sleeping girl. Things happened very quick as the overwhelming darkness ended and dawn came into the earth.

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Two years had passed since that night. The night when the beauty of love risen. The night when love pledged itself in the tiny little house near the border of the village.

During that night, the Fallen Angel left nothing except one tiny little feather in the girl’s forehead. The Fallen Angel is nowhere to be seen after that night.

The day after that night, the girl buried the Fallen Angel last feather in the soil in front of her house. The next day an enormous apple tree grew and shaded the girl’s house. The tree produced an apple which will never decompose.

The tree grew for the girl and for the villagers so they will live a better life. Since the day the tree grew, the villagers suffered for hunger no more. The sacrifice of the Fallen Angel has brought a new life to the village and to the girl.

Now, the girl lives a happy life in the village. She is not lonely anymore as she has gotten closer to the villagers and she knows that the Fallen Angel is always with her. The Fallen Angel never leaves her and always stays on her side. He always lives on the girl’s heart.

The End