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Walking towards the diner, Luna and Nimrod didn't notice the diner crew looking at them when they got finally inside.
"Unnie, we saw the news." Jen was the one on the door while behind her were Jestine, Kisa and Prim.
"Are you alright?" Kisa approached her as well as Prim.
Jestine on the other hand, had her attention behind Luna .
"Please come this way sir."she said.
Nimrod only regarded Jestine in boredom. "I'm not a customer and she's late. Are you done here, Luna?"
Luna's nose wrinkled briefly before she turned to Nimrod. "Yeah, yeah, yeah. You impatient person."
"Oh. He's the childhood friend?" Jestine inquired.
Luna turned to them. "I'm alright now girls. I'm just dropping briefly."
"Please take care, unnie-ah." Jen said as well as the girls.
"Thanks. I'm leaving. Tell John I will be in the office in the afternoon." Luna said and turned back outside the diner.
"Hey Luna!" Il Woo came running towards her direction .
"Woonie shi."
"I thought I could find you here." he said while noticing the ' childhood friend ' beside Luna . "Let's go?"
"Yeah." Luna turned to Nimrod. "I'm going. What are you gonna do today?"
"I'm going to look for it." Nimrod just said.
Luna's brows raised and inside her mind, she thought he was going to look for the archaic stones. When Nimrod subtly nodded, she knew he reads her mind.
"Okay. Let's go Woonie-shi."
Walking away from the place, Woonie saw the guy walking in the direction opposite to theirs.
"I didn't know you have childhood friend, Luna." He said.
"Like I say, I have childhood friend in some provinces. Count Lilooh for example."
"Lilooh lived around this area before she transferred into another place." Woonie pointed.
"Yeah well." Luna dismissed as she sat to the bench while waiting for the bus, not really wanting to lie any further to Woonie.
"And he's living in your house. Will he stay for long?" he asked.
Luna tilted her head to Woonie, "I feel like being interrogated just now."
"Well, I'm just asking and I'm actually jealous."
Luna smiled at that. "So this is what's all about?"
"Yeah."
"Relax dude." She just said.
Returning back to the house, Nimrod made sure that the barrier was strong enough to conceal his manipulation. Looking up to the ceiling with his eyes glinted briefly, he then mumbled ancient spells under his breath before there appeared a map drawn into the floor. He then saw three archaic stones around the area, some were in far places and the rest were hidden to something he can't seem to unearth. Locating the first three around the area, he noted its location before he left the place again.
A cat had exited out Luna's place, heading towards the part of the neighborhood where thick parts of forest left untouched by the some estate developer.
***
When Luna reached home at five pm, she wondered why the house seemed to be quite. Upon checking in, it was indeed empty inside.
Placing the groceries in the kitchen counter, Luna checked her grandparents' room to look for Nimrod.
"I'm home!" she called out loudly but no one was answering. She thought maybe Nimrod was still searching for those stones around. Dismissing it, she went to wash up first on her room before she had gone down to prepare for the dinner.
It was already past seven in the evening but Nimrod hadn't arrived just yet that she went ahead and ate her dinner instead. After her dinner, she went into the living room to kill some time while working on the evaluation of sales that John gave her a while ago in the diner's office.
Past eight, nine, then eleven but Nimrod was still no show around that time. Putting the sheet she finished in working on, Luna turned off the television , deciding to ran up to her room to rest for the night.
Just before she can closed her door, her eyes went into the main entrance of the house, expecting him to come home but it didn't. She collapsed to her bed , watching the moon on her ceiling .
"Have you return home?" she asked in thin air while wondering if he already reached home after he found those stones he was saying. If he ever did, she was yet again back to being alone. Honestly, she got used to having company now, even by the form of a cat. Should she be considering getting a pet for real? There were actually lots of dogs and cats in the rescue center in need for new owners. She can get two cats and two dogs. It will be one fun household then. By mere thought, she smiled.
She might do it after either graduation or having finish for the diner's expansion. It will be fun. So fun to have pets.
Without meaning to, Luna fell asleep at those wonderful imaginations.
A loud crash in the kitchen had suddenly woken up Luna from her slumber. Her eyes widened and her heart accelerated when she thought that there might seemed to be a robber who got inside her house. She immediately looked for her phone around before she cursed under her breath, realizing that she left it beside her calculator in the table at the living room. Instead of self mulling around for being one complacent woman, she looked for something to defend her if ever that robber will get inside her room. Running towards her drawer, she saw scissor in there and had it ready and clutched across her chest while she felt shaken .
Staying in the corner of the door while waiting, she caught a sight on her clock in the head table placed across the bed side.
2:33 A.M.
But all her sleepiness was gone as she anticipated for another heart stopping action. She didn't like being put into this kind of situation again and should be considering into moving somewhere where there were actually neighbors near who can hear her scream when trouble like this will come.