"You smell like strawberries."
"Well you taste like Watermelon."
"How convenient for the both of us."
Luna Coulee can't seem to stay for a long time.
Harry Styles can't seem to stay away.
//Luna Coulee meets Harry Styles at sixteen years old. Alth...
A lot changes in three years. The good and the bad either melt away or grow and get you where you are. Sometimes they fuse together; the good and bad become indistinguishable. But, it only gets you to where you are now in life. The bad: my parents divorced last year. But, the good: they are much happier without the weight of their marriage. The bad: because of that, I was struggling with love. The good: I felt accomplished being on my own and not having the weight of anyone else.
Sitting in Cafe de Flore, I had a cup of coffee, my headphones in, and my journal out, writing whatever came to mind. A text from my phone caught my attention; coming from my roommate Josie who was asking me where I was. In response, I text her my location before shutting my phone off and continuing to write.
I met Josie before I moved to Paris. She grew up in London; raised in a city just like me. She truly introduced me to Paris life, one I thought I knew after coming every so often with my parents but was immediately wrong. She showed me the inside and out of the city, introducing me to the friends she had here, showing me the small bookstore only a few streets down from our dorms, and making Paris feel like my true home in only a few days. I was happy here. I could easily forget New York, my room that looked out onto the city was now replaced by the window that looked out to the Eiffel Tower. As if the changing of the city represented the changing of my life.
I was a Music Journalism major, studying journalism and music production at the same time which to all, was unknowingly influenced by the famous boyband One Direction. It was funny how all 5 of the boys' numbers still sat in my phone, untouched for three years. I hadn't reached out and neither had they; which I didn't mind, heck I didn't think about it after a while. Even if I did try to reach out, I wasn't sure if I wanted them to answer. What would I even say? Hi, it's that girl you knew for like 3 days all those years ago? It just seemed unnecessary.
I felt unnecessary.
But, no hard feelings towards them. I was happy. Happy with my new friends, my new life; and I'm sure they were all happy too with their life. Occasionally I would see some headline about them which only made me laugh, remembering the small, socially awkward boys that would read with me or talk about the future.
We had no idea the path to our future would look so different than we thought.
"Lunaaaa!" A girl's voice rang outside my earbuds. I look up to see Josie sitting down at the chair across from me. I take off my earbuds and close my journal. In her hand was a blueberry muffin for us to share. She picked it apart, giving the blueberries to her and the muffin to me. It was something we did, Josie was big on eating very healthy while I on the other hand had a love for comfort foods. But, that's what made us perfect roommates. Because of our aligned differences, we were able to watch out for each other.
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"So babes how was your day?" She asked me. I smiled at the pet name before taking a bite of my muffin.
