“Honey. Please let me back in the house. I told him about the vacation, so could I come back now”

As I stared out the window watching my father yell out for my mother's attention while Ralph silently stood beside him waiting for an order, I couldn’t help but feel sorry for him.

But I decided to move on to something more important.

“My day off from work,” I said as I jumped on my chair and turned on my console ready to start my closet hermit life, until the ruler of the domain walked in and forced open my blinds,

“Why don’t you go outside for the day, you’re always inside on your days off”. Instead of backtracking her words and saying never mind you must be tired, she shoved me out the house and sent me eye-to-eye with my father.

Before he could’ve said a word toward me I quickly walked away and waited at a nearby bus stop.

As I mindlessly stood there staring down at my phone I felt someone’s presence beside me. I slowly raised my head to be stunned by the beauty of the woman that stood there.

Her light skin with red spots, brown hair that reached her neck blew in the wind. I quickly turned and acted as if I weren’t staring at her, but to my fears she noticed me and looked at me with a smile.

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My body went limp, just having enough thought process and energy to stand upright. That subtle incident activated the overthinking part of my brain.

Was she being nice, or does she like me? What could that smile mean, so much to think about in so little time. Should I talk to her or is that pushing it?

Before I could get a word out, she turned back around and looked at me.

“Do you have a girlfriend?”

“Ah, am, yes… No, I mean no”

She gave a confused look but laughed it off in the end smiling at me once more.

“Can I have your number then?”

I was stunned, frozen by the amount of events flying my way. I gathered my remaining strength and handed her my phone for her to put the contact info. She took it out of my hand and typed in her contact info.

“My names, Ava. Nice to meet you…?”

“Right, ah, my name it’s, Luna”

The look of shock gathered upon her face. It took me a while to understand my mistake until I finally corrected it.

“I mean it’s Lucas. It's nice to meet you, Ava”

She gave out a sigh as if I was already stressing her out. We began talking about the things we like and started getting to know each other until the bus finally arrived.

“Well, I’ll see you later Luna Cole”

She said walking onto the bus as I gave her a slight wave.

It wasn’t until the bus drove off that I started thinking once again, did I remember I needed to take the same bus…

“Hey, ah Ralph could you come pick me up”