I stared up at the blazing violet sun which sat in-between the pastel shaded clouds, giving an aesthetically pleasing sight. Just thinking that everything must of happened for a reason me letting someone I never knew into my home that seems like a clueless stupid thing to do, it felt like everything didn't make sense, but it did.
I felt that familiar connection to Lu Jinyu as if I had known him for centuries just thinking about him gave me a weird mysterious feeling in my heart...
In addition to that, the fact he was from a different planet somewhere far away in possibly a different galaxy just made me feel excited to know and understand more, I was always a curious person but this was just beyond me just imagine if the world knew...
Lu Jinyu suddenly came and I shut those type of thoughts out of my mind I had a very unfiltered mind and seeing him I became even more curious as to whether he really had a diamond or if this was his original form.
Lu Jinyu came and sat down and for a second I honestly felt a sharp sense of familiarity that I never felt before.
"Irene I know this is probably a lot to take in but I just want to tell you that if you have any questions feel free to tell me, because I can tell that you're curious. Irene you know that you don't really hide your expressions and thoughts very well."
He chuckled softly, I felt a little embarrassed but honestly I was ready to shoot him with my questions. "Well where are you from?- I mean you don't have to tell me,but like yeah.."
Lu scrunched his face up for a couple seconds thinking then finally deciding to speak.
"Well I'm from a far away Planet called ________ it's a very beautiful planet full of things technology couldn't simple create, words from this planet couldn't describe ________."
I felt intrigued and curious he must if missed ________ very.... much?
Wait. What. I thought hard and seriously for a couple seconds what did he just say what planet was it... what it started with __
but no it doesn't but I just didn't know it felt like a blank space...
No matter how many times he repeated it I couldn't hear what he said he spoke but it was like a blank space filled his words and I couldn't hear anything...
"Well I have a different question, Lu Jinyu do you look different on your home planet and do you speak a type of language because I can't seem to understand-."
Lu Jinyu's face suddenly changed,
"Wait you can't understand what I said my planet was it's ________ wow you really can't...
Irene I guess there are some things your just not meant to know yet... and for your other question yes I do look different on _________... well my planet."
I was confused what did he mean by his planet what was the name and why wasn't I meant to know?
How did he truly look like why couldn't I know yet?
Why was everyone saying I'm not meant to know yet why were people around me saying confusing things I can't understand the more I racked my brain to think the more frustrating it got.
The next day I got ready for school like normal I sat through class ignoring Miss Dilica's sharp stares it was as if I was in my own world and no one could interrupt me. After class I went with my friends and sat I was sketching a crescent moon and a woman holding it with sharp crescent eyes and heart shaped lips.
Zaferia looked over my sketchbook.
"What in the world is that-?"
"Nothing!" I quickly hid my sketchbook laughing along with the rest of the group until Malkaya came and took me away, "Girl, I know what you were drawing and I advise you to rip that page out burn it then collect it's ashes because you know irre-burnable technology exists."
Irre-burnable - (To repair something that has been burnt to ashes to its original state.)
I nodded and ripped out the page stuffing it in my pocket. I sighed and went back to our table and told Zaferia that it was nothing reassuring her I mean not too many people knew how a crescent moon actually looked like. As I was going home with Julian he looked down as I went to him.
"Oh, Julian we live a hard life don't we everyday we are faced with more unbelievable suprises...Julian.."
Julian looked at me,
"Irene I quit the hover boarding team...I just find life so confusing why...why does everything about life seem like such a lie. I hate it. Why is mum why did she lie to us. Irene when you were with mum that day I heard you guys she's hiding something from us again. But of course.... course you didn't plan to tell me in the first place did you..."
I was honestly speechless I'd never seen him so confused and he loved hover boarding and frustrated I felt so bad I wish I could understand the answers to all your questions too Julian...I really wish I could too.
When we got home Julian went straight to his home not sparing me or mum a glance, mum looked at me with a perplexed expression. I just sighed and saw Lu Jinyu outside looking sad I went and sat down with him his white eyes were filled with bitterness and the air seemed to be rich with nostalgia as I reminisced about my dad and I sitting down here. Then I looked back to Lu Jinyu his silvery white hair shone in the sun. He opened his mouth to speak as his jaw tightened for a second before releasing.
"I have a sister called Arazia back in my... home she means the world to me and looked after me since I was young and I haven't seen her in person for more than a year, when we went to the VR wonderland I tried to see if I could connect to her. I know what you've heard about her in stories but none of them are even close to being true, sometimes I wonder what she would do if she was here."
I was once again stunned and confused Arazia the one that Zaferia told us about in her
story but how did she know about LuJinyu's sister everything was starting to link together slowly...
This meant that story wasn't just completely fictional I was going to ask about the story but Lu Jinyu seemed reluctant to talk any more and went inside.
I wondered why he would tell me this but not tell me about the true story, all I knew was that I was going to find out one way or another from him or Zaferia and where she heard that story from.
• • • •
It was dawn and I went inside, I stared at the sky for a bit I almost thought I saw a crescent moon for a second. No moon in the sky was crescent it simply didn't exist because because they were said to be dangerous plus there were several suns in our galaxy.
I first heard about in a story book my dad read to me years ago saying that there was a woman named Crescentia who rule over the moon and overlooked all the planets and if someone did a grave deed she would lock them up for eternity.
It was used back in the day to discipline children into being good kids. However later on the book was banned and there was a decree that all books in existence would be destroyed, if found with it one could face a death penalty...
I blinked and I saw it again a crescent moon in the sky beautiful and sharp almost like Crescentia was looking at me and smiling, but I blinked and it was gone.
It was as if that Crescent moon only existed inside my mind but something told me that somewhere Crescentia was looking down on all the planets and watching us.
Watching me.