Luna's Tenebris

Part III Flos

The birds sang a glorious melody that woke me up from my slumber. I opened my eyes slowly to see him still in the couch. A smile carved on my face as I remembered the way he kissed my hand the night before. My heart rate tripled its pace as I saw him lay asleep there with the sunlight that was coming from the window next to him. He shone like an angel. Perfectly still. The sound of the bed spring woke him up as I was about to get up to put a blanket over him.

“Good morning, my Lady,” he said while rubbing his eyes.

“Good morning to you too,” I was trying to get off the bed and stand but it seemed like I hadn’t heal fully from the drop.

“Do you need help? Should I call the nurse?”, his face showed only signs of worries.

I shook my head and said, “Never mind, it’s okay. I can do this.”

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My phone rang, it was Kate again. She panicked when she knew that I was admitted to the hospital. She was around the area and decided to visit me since no relative of mine were around. She was like family to me. We grew up together in a small town a few kilometres from where I live now. I had nobody else now…

Arthur stood up as soon as I hung up the call.

“Where are you going?” it came out more like a shout.

“I should be going now since your friend will come over soon.”

“I think it would be good for me to pay for your deeds, how about dinner?”

“Dinner? Miss Vasiliev, don’t worry on paying my deeds since I did what I thought was wise.”

Disappointments washed over me when words pierced my heart like a thousand needles. It must have shown on my face, he must’ve had noticed.

“Saturday, around 7pm. I’ll pick you up, my lady” he handed over his card to me.

Weird as it was, the card had the same symbol as his tattoo. What does this symbol represent?

I’d seen it before. I was sure of it.

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Kate entered the room minutes after Alex went away. Kate was holding something in her hand, a box. I recognize that box straightaway, it was decorated with pictures of flowers, red and pink roses. It was back when we were a child that Kate’s mother brought us to go to the town for grocery shopping. Kate and I were strolling around the decoration aisle when we found this beautiful box. Kate’s mother was reluctant to buy it for us at first, she changed her mind after a few minutes of annoyance from both her friend’s daughter and hers. We used it to store ‘precious’ items; mostly junks that we found from strolling in the woods.

Kate sat down near my bed and opened the box. This was part of my childhood that I will always cherish, although my past was still blurry to me, I could still recall good memories that came by. I lost my parents when I was 5. Kate’s mother was a good friend of my mother so she took me in and treated me as her own. She started acting weird when I was 15. She mentioned that I was a curse and that I should’ve died along with my parents. She was then put into a mental institute for delusional disorder when I was 16. I could still recall what she said when she was dragged away by two men dressed in white, “The darkness is after you Luna, they came for me and they will come for you!” Kate and I had to move in with her uncle, not long after I turned 18, Kate’s mother killed herself in her room by hanging herself. That was the day that both Kate and I had to toughen ourselves up and be strong independent young women.

Remembering all those bad memories, I didn’t want to see what was inside the box. That was until…..