๐ง:"Training Wheels" by Melanie Martinez. "The Secret Garden" au
I love everything you do...
You, a girl who lives in India with your parents, who doesn't give you love or attention and affection.
Due to a cholera epidemic, your parents died, and, 6 months after, you, a girl who's apathetic, spoiled, willful, who doesn't know how to love and don't have friends, left to England to live with your uncle in the mansion Masselthwaite, a labirinthic and scary mansion with more than 100 rooms.
Scared and displaced, you start to explore the house and its hugeness. You become friends with the old gardener, who happens to have a grandson the same age as you. Lucerys. Or better, Luke.
He's everything you aren't. Loved, kindhearted, patient... You guys are really different, but so alike at the same time.
You were in one of the gardens of the big mansion, teaching the boy how to ride a bike, which was incredibly difficult even if the bicycle had training wheels you had to put so he wouldn't fall. You were carrying band-aids with you, for when his soft hands hit the jagged ground.
"I don't like this very much, miss..." He said softly as he tried to balance himself in the bike.