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Well, most stories start with once upon a time but this story begins with a tragedy. So let me paint thepaint the the scene for the curious eyes that read these words. In a little cottage on Woodburn Lane, a fire has sprung within that fire is a mother trying so desperately to reach her little girl but sadly the mother never reached her daughter but a mysterious man did and as he was about to lay the little one down at the steps of her three aunts he said to the little girl “my sweet Luna you’ll do great things just watch your flames” while he stared at the strange birthmark on her left hand…
It had been 11 years since the fire but worse it had been 11 years,71 days, and 12 hours of her living with her three aunts in Chicago, and Luna woke up to the sound of her air horn alarm going off as it always did for the past three years when she got the i-phone. Hence, she got out of bed, got dressed, shoved her books into her bag, checked herself in the mirror, and said to herself “Just a normal teenager” before walking outside to wait for the bus.
The bus usually took 45 minutes to arrive so she put her earbuds in and played Aerosmith's “don't cry” on a loop which brought back to when her uncle was still around but those days were gone.
The bus was coming around the corner when she pulled out her earbuds and realized that her best friend Thomas Anderson was talking to her so Luna asked “What?” and Thomas said, “Oh um I was just asking what you were doing this evening knowing it is your birthday and all.”
Luna against her will blushed and said “Nothing much, probably going to watch a scary movie because it's also Halloween”.
As the bus opened its doors, she hesitated but got on, sat next to a window, put her earbud back in, and played with some guns and roses.
Luna got off the bus around 7:15 and had around 15 minutes talking to friends but she didn’t have many friends so she took out her sketch pad and started to draw the dream she had the night before.
The dream was weird and unusual and so vivid it felt like a memory. It started with a fire sparking, and then the fire turned into people and they were laughing at a smaller fire that looked like.. Thomas. A
fter she finished drawing the dream she pulled out her earbuds just in time to hear a slam and a bunch of laughing which startled Luna so bad she jumped up and ran to the source of the noise when she got there she saw Thomas.
He was on the ground covered in hot chocolate Luna seeing this dropped her stuff and ran to him and for a moment their eyes met then Thomas got up and ran for it.
Luna didn't know why he ran and didn’t see Thomas for the rest of the day and it worried her so much next thing she knew she was on the bus headed home but while she was on the bus she looked at the weird birthmark on the palm of her left hand it was the only thing left of her mom.
When Luna got home her aunts were not there as always so she opened the cupboard, got some Roman packets and started to make dinner. While the water was heating up she decided to text Thomas to check on him. It went like this “Hey are you ok?” and about 25 seconds later he responded with “Yea Im ok its not like I just humiliated myself in front of the entire senior class.”
She could tell he was pretty frustrated with himself and decided to leave it be and continue cooking. As she did so she started to think of the dream she had the night before and what happened today…
After a while Luna got tired of thinking she’s going insane and of waiting for her aunts to come home and decided it was time to go to call it a night and as he got into bed she thought to herself “So much for a sweet 16” then she slowly feels into a deep sleep.