Obsius

11

Time had pasts quickly. Years by years and we can see the earth is getting older too and so as Luna Blackwood. She had growth into a beautiful young woman.

Her long wavy grey hair flow through her shoulder and shine brightly under the sunlight and her eyes are silver as usual but with more light in her eyes and her skin is pale but with a little flesh pink on her cheeks and freckles that makes her look even more matured than before.

She was gardening a flower in her backyard, Max as usual do his job as a farmer or maybe riding his horse out of nowhere while Lily was cooking in her kitchen.

Then she heard a knocked on the door and Lily open to greet whoever guest that was coming to visit.

"Good morning Mrs. Lehmann."

By the voice of the guest that coming, she assumed that the voice belongs to Ollie.

"Good morning Ollie. So nice to see you. You're looking for Luna, right?" He just grinned and just scratching his head.

Lily already used to Ollie always came by to the house just looking for Luna.

"Hai Lulu, are you ready for today?" He said excited about today.

He started to call me Lulu after I told him about my sister three years ago. What so excited about today is because today we will go to London with Ollie's father, James Steiner.

He said that he need to attend to one of the meeting about his business trip to China and Ollie really want to follow him to London and see the city. And so his father allowed him and he invited Luna as well. Luna was agreed just because Ollie was pressing on coming with him too.

Ollie had a very neat hazelnut hair with still beautiful olive green eyes. His body had become more muscular and strong and he even more taller than her now. He was once a young and goofy boy had now become a very tall and handsome man now but he was still limping but Luna doesn't care even though people still make fun of him.

Luna was getting ready by wearing a simple baby blue dress with a black lace around her neck and her sleeves reach to her elbows and her skirt reach to below her knees. she's look like a pale doll or like the main character from the story of Alice in the Wonderland. We when into the automobile that was running by the steamed powered and went to London together.

After more than thirty minutes, we're arrived at London. Automobiles and wagons were everywhere on the roads and people were busy roaming around the city. Steamed and smoke are everywhere and pollute the air. Then we're stopped in the front of the building and Mr. Steiner getting out from the automobile and so as Ollie and Luna.

"Okay you two. Don't make any trouble while I've gone and please take care of each other. We will meet here at three."

"Alright father."

"We will Mr. Steiner."

"Oh and Ollie, take of her." Ollie just nodded to him with a smile.

Once Mr. Steiner went inside the building, both of them went into the town and explore the place and the people there. We were walking around the town while looking at the people running rushing, the market and a stall. The building had been re-build into new one and it was so different than she knew before. She remembers the alley there were full of dead body before and the building collapsed all over the place.

"I remember that alley." I say to him.

Then he looked at the alley that I was looking at and then stare back at me.

"There were a lot of dead people bury under the collapsed building there and that building wasn't here before the war too."

"Luna, I didn't-" Before he can speak any further, I interrupt him.

"It's okay Ollie. I'm alright. It's just sometimes I can't help to remember about my past."

I just give him the warm smile to show him that Im okay and pretend to feel excited to explore the town. Then I saw a bakery there that wasn't there before.

"Ollie let's go to that bakery. It smell delicious."

I grabbed his arm and dragged him to the bakery. Ollie seemed delighted and just chuckled at my childish behaviour. We went inside the bakery and we can smell the aroma of warm bread coming out from the stove and a beautiful and decorative cakes and cookies.

We buy some breads and cookies and have some tea together. We smile and laugh together with the story and jokes we shared until there is one old man came to our table.

"Luna is that really you?" Said the old man.

"I'm sorry. Do I know you?"

"It's me Lionel Ross. I'm your father's friend. Look at you, you had grown beautiful just like your mother but quite so different than I remember for the last time I saw you."

"Uncle Lionel? I remember you. You always come and visit us and bring us present." I stand and hug him and he laugh and so happy to see the people you know before.

"Where are your parent and your sister?"

"They die in the war." When he heard that, his happy face turned to sorrow.

"Oh, my! I'm so sorry to hear that my dear. I know there was a war but I never knew they would make it but apparently I was wrong. I'm so sorry dear. This is all my fault and you live alone for all this year."

"I'm not alone Uncle Lionel instead I had Max and Lily. They take care of me and adopt me as their daughter and I had Ollie, my best friend here."

"Hello sir. I'm Ollie Steiner."

"Lionel Ross. Very delighted to meet you."

And so Luna told Lionel everything about her and how her family die. Lionel was so feeling guilty for leaving us especially me when he knew that I was all alone.

According to him, he was in the military and try to soothe things over. He had told me that my father was about to leaving the town but he refused because there was secret that her father keeping away from him and why he still stay there when he knew there would be a war.

And that's make her wondered, what could her father keeping a secret from his best friend and why would her family leave the town earlier if he knew there would a war that was coming before?