Moon's Light

New Old Memories

Luna can't tell if she's sleeping or if that vampire going through her portal was the final push needed for it to kill her. Whatever it is, she's suspended in a dark and quiet space surrounded by nothingness. She can't move or make a sound, she can only float along with nothing but the thoughts in her mind.

She wishes she at least knew if she were still alive or not so she won't have to remain in fear. All she can remember is yelling and then everything faded to nothing. Did Jungkook or one of the other guys kill the vampire? Did the vampire manage to run off with her somehow? What if she's left in the house dead along with her parents?

Suddenly the view around her changes. The black abyss has turned into her parents' house. Not in present day, but it's how the house was when she was much younger. Strangely she's able to walk around as if she had been transported back in time. She steps inside and finds her younger self on the floor of the living room playing with an assortment of toys.

"Hey," she whispers to her younger self but there's no response. "Am I a ghost?"

Her younger self gets up after a moment and runs through her to her parents room.

"Ok I'm definitely a ghost or something," she mumbles following her younger self.

Suddenly she remembers this day. She was 5 years old and this was the day she overheard her mom crying about "Luna" but not her. That was the day her mom told her about her best friend Luna who she was named after.

"My Luna," her mom's voice can be heard through the door where 5 year old Luna stands listening a bit before entering the room. "What can I do? How do I protect her from the same fate? How do I protect her when I'm not even sure what he looks like? How did you not know what he was? I need you, Luna."

"I'm right here, mommy," young Luna says finally entering the room. "What's wrong?" She asks noticing her mom's tears.

"Oh nothing, honey," her mom says wiping her her face and pulling Luna into her lap on the bed. "I was just thinking about my best friend Luna."

"Your best friend has the same name as me?"

"Yeah," her mom says softly. "I named you after her."

"Really? Why?"

"I loved her like she was my sister, so when you were born...she passed away. I wanted to name you after her to keep her memory alive."

"Oh," young Luna says not fully understanding.

She understands it now though. The many times her mom would tell her that she reminds her of her best friend more and more. But something she hadn't thought much of before was what her mom was saying before she ran into the room. What did she mean by "How did you not know what he was?" as if there were a previous relationship with the vampire who did this.

She was confused before but now she's even more confused. If her birth mom already knew the vampire then what was the nature of their relationship? Why did it end with him killing her and her birth father? More importantly, what happened to him after? Is he still out there somewhere?

Suddenly the room around her disappears and she finds herself in the middle of another memory. She's 7 years old and sitting in the emergency room. This was the day her eye turned red out of the blue. She had gotten into a disagreement with one of the girls in her class for a reason she can't even remember. All Luna knows is she got upset and started yelling at the girl. In her tirade, her eye somehow turned red and scared the girl into crying to the teacher. The teacher thought Luna had hit the girl until she noticed her eye. Luna was sent directly to the nurse where her parents were called to come pick her up.