I sit in my mini-library to read the fifth chapter of The Island of Us, in between of which the doorbell rang. I place my bookmark on the page I was reading and walk to the door.
"Um..." I wonder "Luna?" I'm not sure if it really is her, since the hat she is wearing is lowered to cover her face.
Luna frowns "Seriously?" she raises the brim of her cream colored hat with one hand. An artificial jasmine flower was attached to it's purple band and two ribbons droop from it "You do not know who I am?"
"I do!" I replied while nodding childishly "Come in" gesture towards the passageway making way for her "By the way-you were supposed to be in Canada your MBBS- how ended up in London?"
Luna pulls the suitcase handle and walks in after me "MBBS is over!"
"This early?"
"You're too busy to keep track of the time dearest cousin sister" She snaps her fingers as I turn around "Six years are over!" she showed five fingers as the other hand was clutching the trolley. I show my index finger to add the one to make it six.
Luna looks around-on the walls of the house and casually says "Your house is really beautiful"
I smile "Thanks!"
"Did you decorate it?"
"Me and Edward both" Credit goes to both of us. Even when most of the decorations were done by me. My back ached like hell after two days of standing on the ladder and leaning towards the top to hang the fern wall hangings, a few photo frames of nature and abstract art along with some frames of motivational quotes. Edward just hanged the dreamcatcher on the wall and presumed that he had done a lot of work.
She stops behind the giant painting of a bouquet with all sorts of colorful flowers and runs a few fingers across it "This is paint..." she seems amused by it and then she looks at me in a way which says that she needs an answer of a question. Seems like she just realized she never asked one "Who made this amazing painting?"
"I did!"
"And this one?!" she points another huge amazing painting in shock.
"Edward"
"And this one?!"
"Edward got it from some shop"
She then walks into the hall and then spotted the toy cars, mini airplanes and a toy train.
"Toys?" she asks awkwardly "Edward plays with those cars?"
"NO!" I roar "Those are Ray's toys. They come here every month so he leaves some of his toys here-" I cough again. I don't know why since a few weeks I've been getting coughs which won't go away, chest pain and I feel tired easily. I didn't really pay much attention to it though, as I presumed it'll go away gradually. But it's been continuing for weeks.
I feel cold hands slowly cupping my shoulders. It makes my body jerk and I turn around, to no surprise, it is Luna who seems frightened as if she had seen something unusual which was concerning. She asks with her low tones "Y-you don't talk to spirits don't you?"
I'm confused. And something streamed down my spine.
"What?"
"What's that?" she asks pointing at her front "It's moving back and...forth"
I turn and swallow hard on seeing a giant worm like figure moving back and forth with a few mumbles. It was right in front of the room which was occupied by Sam. A large textbook was kept open in front of it. To see it from a farther distance, it seemed like a giant earthworm is studying.
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RomanceEverything seemed to be sorted out. I thought my life would be full of tranquility again, until he went missing...