My Big Brother

This story starts like any other. It starts with a girl with a great passion and fire. It ends with a girl who just completed her lifelong dream. Would you like to know what happened to this girl? Well, let's start from the very beginning. There was a baby born in the woods. Her mother and father named her Skyler because of the sky and the beauty it held. They all lived happily in a small hut in the woods. Skyler also had a big brother named Miles. Miles and Skyler ran through the woods, over the logs and under the branches through the breezy air. It always felt so magical soaring through the sky when they jumped into the pond. Skyler and Miles always had the funnest of times playing fighting with wooden swords and jumping from log to log. In the Summer sometimes they would even make a log bridge across the pond and balance across it. Skyler always thought it was amazing and so much fun, but after they got older, they stopped doing all those things. Miles had his own friends in the town and afterall, they were boys and they were mostly all his age. Skyler was at least 3 years away from him. One day, while the parents were all sitting around the fire inside, Skyler overheard them talking about sending Miles to the boarding school in the big cities. She ran to her room and shut the door so quickly you could hear it from outside. The little girl slid her back against the door and slowly slid down. Skyler folded her arms over her knees and put her head softly down as she cried. After about 5 minutes of deeply sobbing, she heard knocking on the door.

Skyler answered “who is it?” as she sniffed her nose.

“It’s me, Miles,” the soft voice said. “Can I come in?”

“yeah.” she replied, still crying a bit.

“Do you wanna talk?”

She really didn’t feel like talking, so she told him that she would rather not and he understood, so he just sat next to her for a while. When she was finally ready to talk, she said, “okay, we can talk now.”

“So what's bothering you?” he asked

“Mother and father were talking about sending you away to a boarding school. I don’t want to leave. What am I going to do without you? I love you so much and i just, i just, i couldn't!!!”

“Hey, it's okay. We always knew I was going to go sometime. I love you too Skyler, but you're going to do just fine without me. We could always write letters to each other. We can hang out too. Maybe we’ll go to eat or to the beach. I'll tell you what”, continued Miles, “I'll take you to that big ferris wheel place once every year and we can catch up on lost times.”

“Really!?” yelled Skyler with excitement. I’ve always wanted to go on the ferris wheel in the cities, but it's just always been too far away.

The two siblings got up from the ground as Miles wiped Skylers tears away. She always had that small sparkle in her eyes. They walked into the kitchen together and talked everything over with their parents. With all the mixed emotions, Miles promised to take Skyler on the ferris wheel in the next week when he was going to move his things. She went to sleep and the next morning was so excited but also sad. They left two days later for the boarding school. When they had almost arrived, they stopped at the ferris wheel and Skyler jumped in so quickly with Miles. They went up up up. She felt so amazing and it reminded her of old times and how it is going to be from now on. They could see the whole city from on top. Miles looked at skyler and she could see he was about to cry too. Skyler breathed in a large breath of air and released it. Time just seemed to slow down. Skyler had done the very thing she had wanted to do for so long and she had done it with her favorite and only big brother. As she hugged him tight on the ferris wheel, she whispered in a low voice, “I love you big brother.”