Your Savior

Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Helena

After Maria and I's conversation, I went back to the room to unpack my things because once Summer arrives, I will surely not have time. I will have to be around her until she falls asleep.

I don't understand how someone could blame a child who had nothing to do with everything that happened. It was an accident and it was not her fault.

But not everyone thinks like that. Like my mother, for example. She didn't like me, and instead of giving her love to her daughter, she chose to stay with a pig who not only hurt me but started to abuse me and her. She even blamed me for what he did instead of defending me and taking my side.

Now I met a little girl suffering the same thing I did. She lost her mother, and her father doesn't want her—the only person who should be giving her all the love she deserves. But I want to give her the love she lacks. I don't really know what it feels like to have fatherly or motherly love, but I know how hard it is to grow up without one and what to do to prevent Summer from feeling that.

We are two people who need love, and I feel like we can get along and give each other love and try to fill the empty space inside us.

I was almost done unpacking my things when I heard voices coming from the dining room, and I heard a little girl's voice. I left my room and went to greet little Summer to start our bonding.

"Summer, you know you can't jump on the sofa."

"But I like it, Maria. I've been sitting the whole day, and I want to play now."

I slowly approached and saw an energetic five-year-old girl with brown hair. Her back turned to me, and she couldn't see me.

"This is a little Summer."

"Yes, this is a little naughty."

"Does she always come home with this energy?"

"Yes. She'll be like this until it's time for her to sleep. It's hard to turn it down."

"Summer, my love, come here. I would like you to meet someone."

"I don't want to see anyone, and if the bossy man sends another babysitter, I will just make her leave as well."

She talked as she continued to jump on the sofa, but she refused to look at us, so I decided to show myself instead.

"Hi, Summer. How are you?"

She wasn't looking at me at first and kept on jumping. I called her again, and she finally looked at me. I saw a little girl with blue eyes, with a mischievous smile on her lips, but I could see sadness in her eyes.

"Hi, Summer. I am Helena."

"The new nanny your father hired for you."

I sat down on the sofa and looked at me for a long time.

"Don't you want to sit beside me?"

"I don't like nannies. They are all annoying, and they just want to be in charge."

"If you sit beside me, I will tell you a secret."

"I don't want secrets."

"You don't want it? Because I love it. You don't have to tell me anything.

She stayed in her position while looking at Maria, then she looked at me for a long time again until she slowly approached me and sat beside me.

"Will you tell me what the secret is?"

"Do you want to know what my secret is?"

"Yes. I want to."

"I am not here to be your nanny. I am here to be your friend."

"Friend? But you are not a child like me."

"You don't want me to be your friend because I'm not the same age? Aw, that's sad. I'll just look for other little girls who want to be my friend because you don't want to."

"Will you leave because I don't want to be your friend?"

"I will. Do you know the story of Cinderella?"

"Hmm. I know!"

"So you remember the fairy godmother?"

"I do."

"So, I have a fairy godmother, and she told me that there is a little girl who needs a friend. She's alone, and she wants a friend to play with, talk to, watch a movie with, go to the park, and do a lot of things together. But because you don't want me to be your friend, I need to tell my fairy godmother and ask her to take me to another house of a little girl who wants to be my friend."

She keeps looking at me, and I see her little eyes shining with different emotions than the one she had when she came. She scooted closer to me and looked at me with intense blue eyes.

"Promise me that you will really be my friend, and you will not be like the others who just bully me, not play with me and read me bedtime stories before I sleep. Do you watch school theater?"

"If you want me to be your friend, I will."

"Will you not leave me like mommy and granny?"

"I won't leave, my love. I want to be your friend forever."

"So I want you to be my friend! I miss Grandma a lot. I didn't want her to become a little star; I wanted her to stay with me. I don't want the bossy man. Grandma told me that someday he will like me, but I don't believe her."

"Do you want him to like you?"

"Yes, I want to! All my friends at school talk about their parents—how they play with them, talk to them, walk with them—but he never did any of those with me. He doesn't even want me talking to him."

"Look, Summer, I don't know your father much, but once I get to know him, I will show him the most beautiful and unbelievable girl I have met, but for that, you need to help me and be a beautiful girl."

"I will help you, I promise. You are different from the others he sent. I like you."

"And I like you too. Now, what do you think about taking a bath? Then you can show me your room and tell me what games you like to play."

"Will you stay in the shower with me? Will you braid my hair?"

"Of course, I will! I told you I'm your friend, didn't I? And friends always help each other."

I was shocked by a sudden, tight hug. She wrapped her little arms around my waist, and I saw how she struggled. She just wants a little love and attention.

I know how hard it feels to not have love, and I will do everything to make the little girl happy and not angry with the world. I know that deep inside Sean, he will see a beautiful, loving, and happy little girl, and he just needs to love her the way she deserves. And I am here to help her melt his cold heart and show him that losing his wife is fate's fault. She stayed here to do her mission, and when she left the little one to give him joy and show him that even if she was not physically in this world anymore, she would remain in their hearts. The girl is here to be his joy and for him to remember her. I just hope I can show him that loving his child cannot forget his loved one.