Hi, my name is Luna Reed I’m eighteen. I live in Washington State in a small town called Paranorma. And as the name suggest a lot of weird things happen around here so if someone happens to go missing it’s pretty normal for something like that to happen and no one really cares because they haven’t found anyone who has ever disappeared. I go to a tiny high school that was built in the town so long ago that it doesn’t have a name. So we call it The Junkyard, because it really smells there and is in terrible condition. The ceilings leak and there is mold in all the bathrooms. The food is really nasty too not that anyone ever eats it. My best friend is Jack Ripper; we’ve known each other for as long as I can remember. And we got along really well because both of us where the weird kids at our school. We never talked to anyone but ourselves and when we did talk to each other it was in this really cool language that Jack taught me. The school was tiny so there are only about 150 of us and three class rooms, with only three teachers and the janitor. And today is my last day of high school; we finally get to move on with our lives. And forget our crappy school, oh and I forgot to mention my parents both died when I was 14 so Jack let me stay at his house it was just the two of us in an old house in the woods. Because Jacks parents thought he was too strange to be around so one day while he was at school they just left leaving everything behind. It’s not so bad we have money to buy food, because some weirdo keeps dropping it on our porch every week and they give us $1,000 dollars every Sunday. We don’t question it but the first time it happened Jack seemed to know that it was coming. But I didn’t think about it too much. But I always felt like he was hiding something. But I had to trust him he was my boyfriend after all; yeah sorry I forgot to mention that as well there is a lot I still have to tell you. But all I wanted to think about was getting through this last day. But in all honesty it was harder than I thought it would be.
I woke up the dim sunlight shining through the blinds. I groaned as the alarm went off; I covered my head with my pillow and grumbled. “Jack turn it off….” I hissed, punching him in the shoulder. He sat up and sighed “You’re such a lazy ass you know that right?” He stretched and stood his green gaze piercing the back of my head. I looked up at him looking into his eyes “But you will always love me, because you know you’re the only one that will put up with my shit.” I smiled slightly giggling. He turned off the alarm clock and tackled me on the bed; I squeaked “Get off you fatty you’re crushing me.” I tried to get him off of me but he was too heavy and I gave up. He eventually got off of me and went to go get dressed. He was wearing what he always wore black pants with a white as snow hoodie, and his black boots. His black hair was fluffy before he combed it, and I giggled watching him. “It’s your turn princess.” He told me and I finally got up “Alright, alright give me an hour and you better have breakfast ready when I’m done.” I told him and disappeared into the bathroom. I ended up taking a long hot shower, and when I was done with that I put on my black pants dark blue hoodie and my black boots. I brushed my dark brown hair and smiled looking into the mirror, my blue eyes sparkled. “Alright this is your last day Lulu to prove that you’re not just some weirdo. But even if you fail you still and always will have Jack.” I whispered to myself, and walked out of the bathroom. When I walked into the hallway I caught a whiff of Jacks amazing pancakes. “Hey Lu, you want eggs with your pancakes?” Jack called out. “Yeah, sure that sounds good. I think I’ll have some toast too.” I smiled putting bread in the toaster. Jack had his sleeves rolled up and his pale arms showed, I smiled. We were both very pale, but that didn’t really matter. We never got sun here in Washington anyways, but he was the only person I knew who had almost white to grey skin. I remember when we were younger his skin was almost white, but I guess over time your skin darkens. The toaster dinged and I put one piece on my plate and the other on Jack’s, while he put the eggs and the pancakes on the plates. I grabbed the orange juice container, and took a drink from it. I handed Jack the mild carton and he took a big gulp from it, grabbing my plate I went to go grab my school bag. Not that I needed it there was nothing in it for school I had what I thought was necessary. My phone, a couple of books my white hoodie that Jack got me for my birthday last year, and a laptop. When I got back I was finished with my eggs and my toast and I started on the pancakes Jack was in the back of the house sitting on a chair hood pulled over his head waiting for me to finish. I took a quick drink of orange juice and I walked outside. “Hey, are you ready to go?” I asked. Jack looked at me as if to say something but he just nodded and stood up grabbing his black gym bag. I watched him walk ahead of me I knew something was bothering him he had been acting strange the past few weeks, and I worried about him. But whenever I asked him about it he would shrug me off and say that it’s nothing. But I knew that whatever he was worried about was something the both of us couldn’t ignore.
I shook my head and noticed I was far behind Jack I heard a snap and turned around, I thought I saw a figure but it disappeared I turned back around and raced to catch up with Jack. Once I did I grabbed hold of his hand and I squeezed it tightly and he squeezed back. Walking along the dirt path it started to drizzle, so we both put our hoods up.
About fifteen minutes later we got to the school, I put my hood down and sighed once we got inside. We got our passes to skip classes and we were out of there. We had already done all our preparations for collage so we hung out in the courtyard for the day. We found our best spot to sit in the shade and talk. So I took this chance to ask Jack what was bothering him and this time I would get a real answer. “Hey Jack I’ve noticed recently that you’ve been acting a little strange. Is something wrong? And please tell me because if you say it’s nothing I know your lying because you always say that its nothing.” I spoke looking straight into his green eyes. He looked at me with the most sincere face that I had ever seen and said one sentence. “Do you trust me?” He asked I was surprised at his answer but I quickly nodded my head. “Of course I do.” I told him. He smiled back at me “Then that is all you need to know for now.” He took hold of my hand and squeezed it tightly. I sighed if I tried to pry anymore he would get mad so I said nothing else. When it was lunchtime we shared lemonade and we had some strawberries and cucumber and ranch sandwiches witch I made the night before. Some people stared at us but one look from Jack sent then running. The whole time she where just sitting there my head in his lap my eyes closed I thought of what the future would bring. We would live in our little house in the forest for the rest of our lives and have no one else but each other. Kids where a maybe, I wasn’t big on taking care of others. I guess I had dozed off because before I knew it Jack was waking me up. It was time to go home. I stood and stretched following Jack home. But there was one thing I wanted to do first. I walked up to the group of the so called popular girl and said in English: “Your all stupid and will be sluts when you get out of collage I hope you know I have no sympathy for any of you so go die in a hole.” Two of them started to cry and the others were so scared that they ran away. There was a big rumor going around that I could curse people so they feared me as much as they did Jack. I walked back over to Jack and took hold of his hand and we walked home together. I was happy, we no longer had to do what others wanted us to do we could do whatever we wanted. And that is exactly what I wanted to do. But Jack had different plans.
(Dear god I hope you all like this this part took me forever to wite XD I have others coming out soon so expect a new story later this week.)
