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Not long, she found herself running outside in bare feet while her eyes still leaking of tears every now and then. She even ignored the coldness that dawn brought to her wholeness even her hair let down to her shoulders were sometimes blocking her view.
Then she halted only when she saw him in one corner, having his back leaned on the lamp post while he turned his head towards her direction, uncrossed his arms across his chest. He was frowning to her while running down his eyes from her wholeness.
Panting as well as tear stricken, Luna pinned her lips firmly since she didn't want to cry out loud again.
"It's cold out here. Are you kidding me?" He hissed.
"I'm s-scared." She said in a stutter. She bit her lower lips when was shiver was threatening to come.
"Yeah. That's why I left." He pointed out.
"Not to you. Please don't leave me alone in the house." Luna's lips trembled that she bit it again before she looked down and wiped her tears away.
Nimrod on the other hand, studied her briefly to where he stood by before he walked towards her. When he was in front of her, she looked at him with a messed up face with all her tears this time.
"I'm gonna carry you home since you wear nothing on your feet before you marathon your way up here." he said to her.
Luna looked down to her feet and chuckled at that even with teary eyes. "I look stupid." she said.
"You are. Now put your arm around my neck." he said, bending down to pick her up off the ground.
Finding herself being carried in bridal style, Luna looked up the dark sky this time.
"What did you dream about?" he asked while his eyes directed to their path.
Luna heaved a heavy sigh, still shaken at her dreams. "Those men..."
Nimrod nodded, didn't want to voice out what was on his thoughts before she came.
"Were you in my room all the time?"
"Yeah. Open the door for me." He said when they were in front of her house while Luna reached to stir the door open. Getting inside, he gently let her down the floor while they shared stares once again. "Stop being scared. No one's gonna hurt you."
Luna only nodded to him while she didn't flinch when he reached out to her temple with his thump.
"I'm taking it away. Allow me." he asked.
"What?" she regarded him in confusion.
"The bad memory." he immediately supplied.
Luna slowly lifted her hand to her temple and grabbed his hand from there.
"It's alright, Nimrod. It's part of humanity to experience happy things as well as sad things. I will get over this." she said.
"It's making you suffer." he obviously had all the intention to take it away from her. He can and there was no reason why he won't extend such mercy to her.
"I know, right?" Luna chuckled. "I guess I need to do more happy things to overwhelm the sad things?"
"It's official. You are weird." Nimrod said while guiding her up to the stairs to her room.
"Maybe." Luna said.
"Now. Wash up first before you go back to sleep. It's still so early." He said while pushing her gently to her room. "I'll be in the living."
Luna nodded while he turned away from her but he stopped and looked at her again.
"Please don't look for your cat while you're sleeping. You're compelling me to turn into one again."
She raised her brows at him."Did I?"
"Yeah." he answered. "Snuggle on your pillows instead."
Luna pinned her mouth in embarrassment while she ushered Nimrod walking down the stairs into the living space with her eyes. She then closed the door after and went to the bathroom to wash herself first.
"I'm crazy but I like my cat's warm.,"Luna mumbled over herself
Upon hearing that the door closed, he turned his head in there, staring at it for a long time before he looked down to his hands and mumbled something under his breath. A tiny light appeared once again before it flew out the house.
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Morning came and Luna found herself slowly tracing her way out her room. She sniffed a delicious smelling food being cooked in the kitchen.
"You're cooking?" Luna appeared in the counter behind Nimrod .
"I got tired of waiting for you to wake up and I'm hungry."
"Sorry. I feel so tired." she said while noticing just now what he was wearing. "Hey, is that my grandpa's?"
Nimrod looked down to his clothes right now and nodded. "I need to blend it. Aren't you attending school?"
Luna let a small cheerful face while she studied his wholeness briefly. Even in grandpa's clothes, he still looked handsome. Maybe it contributed to his alien genes?
"You look good on it." she complimented. "And yeah, I'm attending school today."
"Aren't you late?"
"No. My class starts at ten." she said reaching to get some juice in the cooler and get one glass. She walked to the table and poured the melon juice on the glass.
Not a while, Nimrod placed a scrambled eggs and some bacon to her plate. Scooping the hot rice on the cooker, she placed one to Nimrod's too.
"Are aliens like you, know how to cook human food?"
"First, stop calling me an alien. To me you're an alien too. Second, stop asking stupid question and hurry up in eating unless you want to ditch school."
Luna frowned at him while she picked her chopsticks and began eating. "You're so snippety."
"Hurry up smidgen." Nimrod said instead.
"I'm not small."
"You are to me. Eat properly. You look like a smidgen peanut."
"I want my cat back."
"Yeah, about that. You need to find another one."
Luna grumbled under her breath and glared at him across the table. "Grouchy snippety alien you are."
"Smidgen alien you are." Nimrod shot back too.
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