A multiverses of YOU and I

Chapter 2: To give more than you can

Luna Astrid

"Hey Luna! Remember the trip to Rome. I've submitted our applications and I just got the answer back today itself. Insane! Right? Looks like you, me, Hunter, Isaac, Kristen are finally going to Rome! Gear your cameras up alright! Luna! Ill tell the others."

"Oh! Great! Aaron. I'm so glad to hear such wonderful news."

Luna looked at the photo on the nightstand besides her. She picked it up and brought it close to her heart, feeling her heart beat faster by the second, as she replayed her memories of their first meeting.

It had been a normal, chilly, autumn afternoon when she'd first meet him in the park.

She was a photographer by profession and she'd just graduated from Messiah College with a degree in Bachelor of Arts.

She'd been taking photographs of children playing in the park when her eyes caught a huge gray and paper white birch tree. And standing below the tree was him. He was busy on the phone, talking animatedly, his back towards her.

She had captured the moment on her camera. A photo of a business man, deep in serious conversation, under a huge beautiful gray and paper white birch tree in an autumn season.

It was beautiful.

She'd gone up to him, tapped him on the back and when he'd turned, pausing his conversation, removing the phone from his ear, she'd shown him the photo.

It'd been two years now.

Jeff had just asked Luna for her hand in marriage and she'd said yes.

She was engaged.

But wouldn't be after a few hours because of what she was going to hear next.

Luna carefully kept the photo back on her bedside table and went to sleep thinking, "Big day tomorrow!"

Tomorrow was her dress fitting day. She was going out with her fiancée, her soon to be mother-in-law to choose her wedding dress.

Luna was looking at herself in the mirror. She and the sales girl in the shop they had come to were busy admiring the wedding dress they'd finally selected after fitting and changing so many other dresses.

"This is the dress!" thought Luna excitedly as she grabbed her bag to take out her camera.

She'd always carried her camera with her. So that she could capture any moment on film. She then remembered that Jeff had taken the camera with him when his mother had pulled him aside to talk to him.

Jeff had said that she should temporarily stop taking pictures on her camera every now and then because she was not the wedding photographer for once. He'd had hired some other photographers for the wedding saying that she was just the bride and should not be taking pictures on her wedding day.

She had agreed with him.

She looked back at the door.

"What's taking them so long?" thought Luna as she made her way towards the door.

She reached for the doorknob and opened it to find no one outside.

"I'll just find my fiancée and mother-in-law. Ill be back!" said Luna to the sales girl.

"Were they in the lobby?" thought Luna as she walked down the hallway, descending the steps as she grabbed her dress with one hand and the other hand clutched her bouquet of flowers.

She saw them near the lobby. She quickly and hurriedly pulled her dress up as she walked, increasing her pace to get to where they were. She saw the camera around Jeff's neck. She suddenly stopped smiling when she saw the expression on Jeff's face. She looked at Jeff's mother who seemed to be angry for some reason.