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My life—it’s changed in ways I didn’t imagine. In ways I didn’t want. With my fics. With Donnelly. We can’t be together. Not yet. Maybe never.
“He didn’t do anything except want to be with me!” I shout with everything inside my heart, my throat searing and scratched.
“I know you said we’re written in the stars,” Luna whispers, her eyes on mine again. “But what does that mean for right now? The more I try to understand, the more confused I get. Like we’re just us but less than us, than what we were yesterday?”
I don’t want to lose you, Luna. I don’t want her to fall in love with someone else. I don’t want her to leave me.
She has a hand on Orion’s furry belly, and she gives me the saddest smile I’ve ever seen. “I’m really glad we’re still friends.” I hate this so much. “Me too, sad alien.”
Even though my palm isn’t clean, even though she knows we shouldn’t—she’s still holding my hand. I encase mine around hers. For a moment. Before we have to let go.
“Lo knows I can’t have my family thinking I’m in love with her.” “Love?” Eliot’s grin has exploded. He buttons his slacks with an amused, delighted laugh. Tom is grinning now too. He told my best friends he’s trying to date me. That he loves me. It’s sinking in, and I feel my smile mushroom. Donnelly shares the grin. “You think I would do all of this just for a girl I sort of like?” “This is beautiful,” Eliot says, “and tragic all at the same time.”
“Your worry looks angry,” I say. His blue eyes rest gently on mine. “‘Cause you’re looking at jealousy.”
“I’m the hero of your story.” His voice drops to the same hushed sound as mine. “I don’t know if anyone has ever placed me there, but one of the things I’m most scared of is disappointing you.”
“It’ll be the last kiss.” I hate these words as soon as I release them. Pain cinches his face and gaze.
Cause you don’t deserve to be in pain while I deal with my family, and that’s what being physically away from each other is starting to be.” Painful.
“I can’t lose you,” Lo sobs. “You’re okay. Come on, love. You’re okay. Wake up. Please, wake up. Lily…Lily.”
“You and I are the same. We keep our issues to ourselves because letting other people see ‘em makes them bigger than they have to be. Gives power to them. Makes them feel more unbeatable than they are. It’s easier to just keep that stuff here.” He touches his hand to his heart.
We share a lethal attraction, and I’ve never fully understood Romeo and Juliet till I found a love I’d rather die inside than live without. Remember me.
We’re laughing, and I tell her, “I’m ready. Take me to your planet.” More softly, she says, “I forgot the way.” It tunnels through me, and we gaze into one another, searching. Quieter, she whispers, “I’m lost with no map.”
“I wanna do all the amazing things in this world.” The tail-end is too quiet to catch, but I’m hoping she said, with you. Please let it be with me.
“I know you loved me, Luna.” He spins back to me. “I just don’t know if you’ll ever love me again.”
I don’t look away from him. “I can’t know everything you’ve been for her, but you’ve only been good to me,” I whisper. “And I might not be exactly who she was, but I’m not trying to become her for you.”
@StaleBread89: Never heard of a LunaQuinn. Luna and Donnelly are the better match. No contest. #Lunnelly
“My heart is a chasm of everything I know and love, and it will always be filled with you.” I can’t look away from her. “I love you, Luna. I love you so bad, not having you just hurts.”
“Will you give me that?” Luna suddenly asks, her voice pitching a little with nerves. She’s hanging onto my belt loops. “And I know it’s a big thing to give. Yourself. But I just really want to experience every possible thing with you.” She adds more strongly, “I choose you, Donnelly. I want you. I’m falling in love with you.”
