Eddie: (Over the phone) “Luna, you’re going to be okay. I promise.” Luna: “I didn’t even like him that much. I feel so stupid!! Eddie, he said we could still be friends like he was the one who broke up with me, like he was glad it was over with.” “Oh, Nooo!! Luna, listen…” Luna hears without comprehending, instead her heart drowns, the sorrow over flows from her eyes, each tear numbing her a little more. His face, touch, laugh, still implanted in the center of her brain. Her mind wonders to moments with him, no longer worrying on accuracy, instead focusing on the intimacy it sew in them, now the memories humiliate her. Theo: “Getting you to like me was hard enough work. God. Just kidding” Luna: “Was it?” “I don’t know. It just happened.” …show more content…
That part wasn’t intentional, but it was really easy. It’s not complicated. I like talking to you, your brains, butt and everything in between. You make me feel happy and you feel like home” “When did you realize you loved me?” “The first weekend you drove down, I think. Or not long before that. Is it your turn yet?” “I wanted to stop talking to you, started to like you too much. Defense mechanism in action, I guess. You were unapologetically sweet and enthusiastic, unnerving. I didn’t know how to deal with you but I couldn’t bring myself to stop. I could tell you things, things I was sure would scare you but they didn’t seem to do so. You have this quality, I am never sure with you. It still scares me.” Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Enraged, her memory goes to moments after they broke up. Luna remembered staring intensely out the window, the only thing keeping her from crying, from Theo seeing how much it hurts her to leave him. They took the expressway, faster to reach her place. A sunset that filled her with dread, she looked at their end. She had not allowed him to comfort her, too painful now that it was over. (Music playing in the radio.) “She was a girl Soft but