I’m still sitting there with the watch in my hand when I see a shadow at the door. Oh no. This person can’t see my tears. It’s most likely one of the boy’s and I don’t want any of them to see me at my weakest. I frantically try to wipe all the tears away from my face. In the window I can see my reflection. I look like a total wreck. There is no possible way I could disguise my emotions.
So they don’t get suspicious, I stand up and make a giant leap for my 'bed'. This way I can pretend I am asleep. Genius Luna, Genius. Usually, I’m amazing at activities like this. I mean I jump out of windows and climb trees all the time. But this time I feel something is going to go wrong because I feel pressured and I can't handle pressure. My instinct was right, instead of succeeding, I trip on my foot and fall flat on my face. I hear a chuckle coming from the door. Great. At least, even in humiliation I’m sarcastic. However, that's not the worst part, my pain was excruciating. Then I watched everything go black around me and my vision became limited. I felt extremely dizzy. That's the last thing that I felt and then I went unconscious.
“Hey, wake up”. I’m so confused. Who’s talking to me? Is it Bruno? Am I dead? Why don't I open my eyes. Duh. I mentally laugh. I'm an idiot.
“How are you feeling”? The same voice says calm and gives me a sense of reassurance. They are sitting next to me, slightly leaning over. It must be Ryder. So at least I still have my memory, since I remember him.
“Um, I think I’m okay”. I sit up carefully. He frowns and pushes me back down again, gently.
"No, you need to lay down. By the way that was a pretty awesome fall you had back then." I laugh.
"You saw?" I bury my head in my hands in embarrassment.
"I almost feel bad for laughing." He pulls my hands away from my head and stares into my eyes. He has beautiful blue eyes.
"I found something that belongs to you."
"Oh yeah, show me". I look around.
"I don't know where it went."
"Is this it?" He pulls out the watch. I nod.
He puts it away just as fast. “We will save this story for another time”. I just nod because I would say the same thing. I can understand.
"Can I have one last look at it?" I want to be reminded of my happy family one last time.
"I guess If you really want to..." I pout and give him puppy dog eyes. "Okay fine, just this once." He holds it in his hand and stares at it for a few seconds before handing it over. I swear I could see some tears building up in his eyes, but it wasn't long enough for me to really notice.
I take a deep breath in and out. Then I open the locket. But instead of the happiness I felt before, when I first opened it, I felt betrayal and depression. I dropped the bracelet immediately and broke down into tears. I know I always need to look tough in front of everyone except Bruno, but this time I couldn’t hold it in. I rolled onto my side and fell into a ball. The tears fell onto Ryder's clothes, but in the moment I didn't care and nor did he. I just hope that he understands.
He lies next to me and is way too strong for me, so pulls my hands away from my face. Then he inspects it. I close my eyes. Just imagine you are by yourself Luna, let your emotions out. Then everything will get better. This made me cry harder. It couldn't get better. I had figured this out when my dad left and the mood of Susan changed.
Suddenly I felt warmth rush through me. I opened my eyes again and look at my arms. Ignoring that fact that his face was so close to mine, I noticed Ryder had given me his jacket and had his arms around me in a strong embrace. I want to thank him but I can’t speak through the tears.
I think he understood as he kissed me on the forehead and said "It's okay, you don't need to thank me." A small smile appears on my face. He notices. "Everything will be okay, I’m here and there is nothing to worry about. Not anymore." His words brought me back to reality. He was right, I have already been at my worst and things can only get better from here. This may have been the first time I was serious. I wipe my face.
“You promise?” I sniffle.
“I swear” And he smiles that big cheesy smile he had in the locket. The watch! As I remember I pick up the bracelet and close the locket, without looking at the photo. Thank the lord it didn’t break.
“Ryder, can I ask you a question?” I think this would be a good time to ask him about that photo.
“Sure as long as it’s not too personal.” Well that ruins my question. Um.. well now I have to say something. I know!
“How long were you watching me?” This I generally wanted to know.
“Lets just say, I’ve noticed that you can be pretty lazy when you’re tired.” He laughs between every few words.
“So you saw the whole breakdown, I’m sorry you had to see that” My cheeks went a bright red. The second time on the same day, wow.
“Nah, don’t worry about it”. How is Ryder so relaxed about everything? By now I couldn’t resist the urge to get close to him and now our noses were touching. “I brought you something”. Should I be worried about what he has for me?
“Um. What is it?” By now, he was starting to realise how close we are and it must be getting awkward because he moves back a little.
“How could you forget. I went out to get you food, silly” How could I forget? The whole scene must have distracted me a little. “Except they ran out of salad.”
“Sure they did.” I roll my eyes.
“They did. Don’t you trust me?”
“Uh, no, not really”. I laugh.
“Okay, whatever, but now you get nothing since you can’t even trust me.” He rolls away from me and immediately I feel cold. He throws the meat patty to Bruno. Then he leaves, hopefully to get my salad.
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Here is the new chapter I promised thee. I told you it would be on Sunday. *Bows* Thank you, thank you. Sorry for any silly mistakes.
Until next time, over and out! BYES >_<
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Fiksi Remaja"Sometimes you just have to look back at life and admire the all great things you have done. That is until you realise your name is Luna Teale Valencia and you have done no great things. Then you discover how boring life really is and are forced u...