No Love Lost

Chapter 1

I met you on a Wednesday, my favorite day of the week. I came to the park to think, to be away from everything. To be free. And I truly felt the freedom I desired in the crisp cold air, the breeze dancing through my hair and the quiet of the beautiful evening. The sky blushed shyly for me, it's brightness giving way slowly to the navy stretch of twinkling stars. I thought I was alone, probably because I was so lost in my thoughts I couldn't comprehend my surroundings without leaving my fantasies suspended in the air to fend for themselves... Knowing that I have created them to be incapable of growing without me actively developing them. When I felt the damp of the drizzles I hadn't noticed I was pulled back to earth, in a park I thought was empty but that thought didn't remain for long because I saw you. A mad woman dancing in the rain, I didn't understand why you would do that, by yourself, on a cold autumn night in the middle of a deserted park. So I watched. Observed. And you didn't notice me at all because you were so lost and I wondered what fantasies you were creating that you couldn't leave behind to be bothered by the brewing storm that surrounded you. Until you tripped over a little rock, when you landed, as your body came in contact with the earth your smile remained, so faithful and dedicated to the high you seemed to be experiencing and this only made me more curious. I rushed toward you, to help you up and your smile broadened. You took my hand, rose to my height and just smiled, a wordless response that proved to be meaningful because I felt a smile of my own form in return without a second thought. As our eyes met I felt a cosmic interference I couldn't describe, I just knew the stars were whispering stories about us before this day and they overflowed with excitement at that very moment because your hands were in mine and our eyes were transfixed as if we were being hypnotized by the forces of nature who wanted this to happen for so long that this whole moment was merely an exhalation of a breath barely capable of being held any longer than till right this second.

I had no words for that moment if I were being honest with myself, I didn't think it needed words. The way the rain droplets raced down your brown dimpled cheeks, your soft plump lips participating in that contagious child-like grin. Your eyes shining as if they could smile without your lips... And then in a hushed tone I heard your soft voice for the very first time as a simple 'Hi' rolled off your tongue. I felt your hands leave mine before I reciprocated and you sat down, on the wet grass, in the rain, under the stars. I joined you, probably out of curiosity. You were so puzzling and enticing in that moment and I didn't even know your name. I would soon learn it was Sky. Limitless and unrelenting like the one above us you proved to be. When I told you my mother was an artist lost in too many worlds who thought of me being brought into existence as a loss of control, named me after the one thing that would never lose its power, she called me Luna because I was supposed to be her moon. Instead I was as fiery as the sun, uncontrollable, uncontained, unreachable. You thought it was beautiful that we were together eternally before we met, you the great expanse manipulated by whichever light was switched on, governed by the heavens to create storms and other times to instill harmony; and me, a nightlight for the lovers, designer of the tide. We shared our secrets on that Wednesday night as if we'd been trusted confidantes for lifetimes, maybe it was the way you looked at me with the capacity to understand all of me, maybe it was the way you felt so familiar that I too gained the same capacity for you. Or maybe it was because we were both liberated and open to all of it, it didn't matter honestly. All that mattered was the way it felt to dive that deep and explore what we'd never known without fear of drowning, because underwater in the sea of secrets, the liberated can breathe.

AN: this is my first story on Wattpad, I've been wanting to post for a while but I've felt a little anxious about it... Now that I have so much time on my hands I guess there are no more excuses.