Chapter 14
Emma went downstairs quickly finding her both daughters in the living room, but something weird was going on.
She frowned as she analyzed the scene.
The TV was on but Lexa wasn't looking at its direction. Actually, It didn't have much to watch at all, she blinked a few times absorbing what she just had watched, it was on a documentary about the wild animal life in Australia. She looked at Lexa who seemed lost in her thoughts as she stared at her cell phone.
Her phone screen's off.
And then, at Luna who was sitting on the carpet, her legs crossed and her hands resting gently near her knees. Eyes closed, meditating.
That wasn't weird, Luna used to do it a lot... but in the mornings, on her room's balcony, where she could focus, not in the living room, at almost 2 am with the australian's wild animals as a background noise. She waved her head, still trying to understand that scene. She walked and sat beside Lexa, what seemed to take her daughter out of her thoughts.
"What happened?" Emma said, looking at Lexa's green eyes and then at Luna who opened her eyes at the sudden movement.
"Nothing" Lexa said, leaving her phone on the sofa at her empty side. Lexa felt Emma doing her face. That face she does when she knows they're lying. She used to tell them when they were kids that was her super power. Lexa let a small smile leave.
"I know you guys are not okay, don't even try"
Emma said, looking at Luna who had just opened her mouth to invent a story.
"Come here" she tilted her head, signing for Luna to go sit on her other side on the sofa, and the girl did. Emma waited for when one of the two girls started talking.
It wasn't so long when Lexa started with a sigh.
"There's a boy flirting with Clarke and" Emma nodded giving her time and assurance. The blonde always had an understanding of how her girls could feel, since the day they arrived she made sure they felt love and understood. She respected their time and made sure they understood she would be there for them, they're protected and there's no reason to be afraid. She did what she wished someone had done for her.
She understood what it was to foster a kid. She and Regina hadn't the best childhood but they created a beautiful, healthy environment, and they loved their daughters with all their being.
"It's bullshit, I just saw on Twitter he said he finally got the date" Lexa said sad "I lost my chance"
Emma leaned to give her a gentle kiss on the forehead, she had a small sad smile, she was proud of her for sharing. Every time they opened to them she could see they trusted them and she enjoyed this bond.
"I don't think you lost your chance"
"But she will go on a date with him" Luna gave a small smile she could see in Lexa's eye how much she liked Clarke but now they were shining as they got tears, Lexa didn't let them fall though. She sighed, that Blake boy…
"Kid, your chance should not lean on the fact no one will ever flirt with your girl, because they still do, I mean, did you see Regina?" Emma jokes lighting up the mood and her both daughters giggles.
"It should be on the everyday things, it's not something that happens like this" she slap her fingers "you've been friends with her a long time, your 'chance' is created every moment you spent with her, a random person shouldn't made you question this, but you're only going to get that if you let her know how you feel, she can't read your mind" Lexa nodded her head
They all turned their heads at the noise coming from the end of the stairs. Regina was standing there watching them. Luna smiled and waved for her to sit with her. Regina sat between Emma and Luna, and the curly girl leaned on her resting her head on her shoulder. They were all cuddling at the sofa now with Lexa being side hugged by Emma and Luna by Regina.
"And you, kid?" Luna lifted her head a bit so she could face Emma. She bit her lower lip, it felt so hard saying out loud.
"You were right, at the dinner" Luna started and Regina passed her hands softly through her hair. "well, not really, but I want it, I...like her, she is so smart, and funny and... beautiful"
She sighed and Emma smiled at her confession.
"And what's wrong?"
"She met me only a few weeks, because of an assignment and...I almost kissed her today"
"That is not...good?" Regina frowned at Luna.
"Well, yeah, I mean, I had been some time I like her but I never had the courage to talk to her, until now, well, I was kind of obligated… she is Clarke's best friend" she pointed at Lexa with that affirmation.
"Lexa talks a lot with her, because Clarke is always with her, and Lexa is always with Clarke, and she is always with her other best friend too, who is her ex and" she took a deep breath. She didn't know if they were understanding her, she was speaking fast as her thoughts were coming. "I wasn't thinking, I don't know if she likes me back, I never saw Raven talk to Clarke as Clarke talks about Lexa and…"
"Clarke talks about me?" Lexa said, lifting abruptly her head. Emma had to hold a smile with that reaction.
"Shhh I didn't finish, I just didn't kiss her because of the call" she raised her eyebrow gesticulating still mad at Lexa because of it "and I don't know if she would kiss me because…" she just nod with her shoulders and lift her gaze that her mother ending the sentence open. Regina took a deep breath.
"So you're saying that you like Raven, the girl who took you out tonight and stayed for dinner, you almost kissed her but didn't because she is friends with her ex?" Luna nodded and said "pretty much it" so low that almost got imperceptible.
"Okay, girls, look at me" she looked into her daughters green and brown eyes. "You both are amazing, beautiful and talented. You're funny, smart and the girl who'll date you will be lucky"
"If they like you, and I know they do, It's not a random boy or an ex that will change it, but the fact that they don't know you like them could." Emma finished what Regina started with a light smile, and a kind gaze. They stayed in a comfortable silence just cuddling for a moment. The siblings staring at a random point in the room while they absorb what their moms said.
"How do you know they like us?!"
"You just met them, tonight!"
"I know things, kids" Emma said, receiving doubting looks. She had a side smile just as Luna and Lexa had. It was funny how their daughters looked like Emma, Regina thought. Even if they weren't born from them they had the same side smile.
"Did I tell you what I did to date your mother?"
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After Emma's emotional speech, both Woods were feeling better.
But after Lexa unintentionally, even if Luna wasn't buying her innocence, exposes the fact Luna missed the chance to kiss Raven on the group chat, at the first opportunity she had the morning after, Echo demanded a code meeting. What ended with her house being invaded suddenly by the other four girls on the day after. Now they were all in Luna's room, mostly the girls on the king bed but Gaia, who was sitting on the desk's chair that she moved close to the bed, and turned it, sitting with her legs at each side and her arms crossed leaning at the chair's back. More gay impossible. However, by the way the girls were looking at her, Luna was starting to feel this wasn't a regular code meeting. And she knew why.
"So, you didn't say you liked Raven…" Echo started soft, her hand with a big ice cream cup. Luna just smiled embarrassed. They're probably mad by her lack of honesty. She was sitting on the middle of the bed, her knees touching her chest, at her right side were sitting Anya, leaned against the wall, a leg crossed on the bed as the other was touching her floor, laying with her head rested at a pillow on Anya's lap was Niylah, on the edge of the bed was Lexa laying twisted to her side leaning on Echo, who were laying at Luna's side normally, with lots of pillows below her head allowing her eat her ice cream. She could feel everyone's gaze into her but she couldn't read them, if they were hurt, mad or disappointed.
"What do you have to say on your defense?" Anya said, with the seriousity of a lawyer. Luna looked at her and rolled her eyes.
"You knew it!" She said confused to the blond, waving her head at the girl's smirk, that quickly had broken her accusatory face, fading as all the other girls turned to glare at Anya. Who just lifted her hands, defeated.
"Really?" Gaia said to Anya.
"God!" Echo murmured with the spoon stifling her words.
"Since when?" Lexa yelled.
"What?!" It was Nyilah's turn. All the girls left a shocked sentence out their mouths before turning back at Luna, in the middle of this weird meeting or accusations, who had her eyes squeezed at her sister's shocked expression.
"You knew too, stop pretending!" Luna yelled, pointing at her sister with her spoon after swallowing her ice cream, ending with Lexa's pretending surprise, making all the girls turn to Lexa equally shocked. The brunette just laughed nervously, as Echo shouted at her. Gaia just left the chair to lay on the bed too, in the wrongest way possible. She lays across the bed, her head on Nyilah's lap and her legs in Lexa. They frowned and waved their heads at Gaia's way to do things. It's when Luna noticed Nyilah trying to contain her laugh receiving a light slap on the forehead from Anya's hand that was before running through her blonde hair.
All the girls glanced at each other and Luna frowned. That's weird. That's suspicious.
"Oh naive Luna!" Echo said, which caused all girls to laugh. All them laughing their ass off at this sentence but Luna. She took the spoon of her mouth raising her eyebrow. What the fuck was happening. Her eyes stopped at Lexa that suddenly stopped laughing when she noticed her death look and started to choke.
"Can one of you dorks tell me what the fuck is happening?" Luna asked, glancing at each girl. Niylah had sat straight, cleaning her tears, making Gaia sit too but without moving her legs of Lexa. As they kept looking at each other with goofy smiles on their faces, Luna started to get pissed. She straightened her leg with a frustrated sigh. That's one of the moments when she notices her inner peace fade and her desire of ending the human race rises.
"Luna, we all knew" Echo said, focusing more on her ice cream than Luna's confused face.
"Gaia, move your gay ass" Lexa said taking the girl's legs from her, just to leave the room and turn back within seconds with chips.
"You knew what exactly?" Luna asked, they invaded her house and her bedroom suddenly and she hasn't really woken yet. Okay, that's almost three o'clock but it's sunday and after Emma's conversation ended almost 3 am she had spent a few hours too overwhelmed to get a clean head to sleep.
"I told Anya this week and Lexa knows there's a few days... but, I mean…" Luna started looking anywhere, thoughtful.
"You're a terrible liar!" Anya said laughing.
"I haven't lied!" Luna defended herself receiving questioning looks from every girl on her bed.
"Then, you're a terrible truth cover!" Lexa said, receiving a slap from Luna. She answered with a tongue out in a childish way.
"It's just written on your forehead, it isn't just worse as Lexa" Anya mocked, receiving a middle finger from the brunette, quickly changing her playful look for a deadly glare.
"We all know way before this week" Gaia said, stealing chips from Lexa's package. "Don't even try theater's extra class"
"Well, I just only found out this week" Nyilah said, shrugging and making Luna gesture at her nodding.
"Because you don't pay attention!!" Lexa said, making Niylah roll her eyes.
"Actually, don't even try to play poker okay?" Gaia completes her previous sentence petting on Luna's arms, like she says 'sorry'. Woods just waved her head and turned to Nyilah.
"This means you don't...have a crush on Raven?" She said pausing at every word, tilting her head confused. And with that everyone's eyes open turning to blonde, shouting every kind of surprised sound.
"What?! No!" She waved aggressively as a form to reinforce her statement, not that it was needed because she almost screamed. "Where the hell did you take it from?"
"You texted her and asked if she and Octavia were dating again!" Luna said gesturing as energetic as Niylah's previous sentence.
"Oh my god, is this jealous?" Gaia asked laughing, a hand covering her big shocked smile.
"I still can't believe 'Luna I don't attach Woods' is in love!" Echo screamed, joining Gaia at her laugh. It was funny or at least ironic seeing not just Luna in love but also jealous, she's been the non-committal of the group for ages. All these sentences were being said one after another, without much time to process it all, shootings everywhere almost making Luna's head 'ping pong' between the girls.
"So tell us about her" Anya said romantically, her chips package almost at the end. Luna could feel her cheeks turning red as the girls looked at her expectantly.
"She is amazing, Raven is the most beautiful soul I ever met. She is funny, and so smart! And she just has the smartest and funniest comments at the sassiest moments. And she is just... gorgeous. Her eyes are beautiful and then her smile…fuck, it just" Luna was saying lost on her thoughts not noticing the smiles in her friends faces. She waved her head at the 'ownt' leaving their mouths.
"Our baby is growing!" Gaia said to Echo, both exchanged a look before gaze at her parental-ish, Luna just smiled, these girls were insane, that's clear.
"WAIT!" All their sentences spoken at the same were stopped by Anya yell. "But Niylah, if you don't have a crush on Raven, why are you so interested in a certain couple?" Anya asked, accusatory. Her eyes squeezed as she could shoot lasers with it.
"Yeah, Niylah spit it out" Lexa said, putting wood on the fire. Those two liked to instigate a war, clearly.
"First, I was just curious about it…and no, I will not break the code, gosh!" Niylah said nervously.
"And how do you have her number?" Luna asked, an eyebrow raised, still shocked by the information Nyilah doesn't crush on Raven.
"We're in the robotics lab," she shrugged.
"Luna, this doesn't mean anything" Gaia started "I have Raven's number too" She shrugged receiving a frown. Lexa nodded with a "me too", but this she already knew, it was a peculiar discovery. This makes her glance at the other girls in shock. What?
"Everyone had Raven's phone all this time?" Luna asked and they all agreed.
"Wait, you're telling me that you all have her number, you're in her robotics class, you're her best friend's girlfriend-ish, you're the right arm of the cheerleaders' captain who happens to be her other best friend and you're the theater play's mate with Clarke as well?" She pointed at Nyilah, Lexa, Gaia and Anya, respectively. "And all this time…?" Luna stopped her sentence groaning at her useless friends. A flashback of her asking or begging Lexa for Raven's number right after the afternoon at the EP class, the afternoon when she thought Lexa was flirting with her, indeed, crossing on her head. She could have asked any other girl and not pass the humiliation that was asking to this little heartless being she calls sister.
"And you?"she turned to Echo, she was confused about Echo. She squeezed her eyes waiting for the girl's answer.
"I just have all the school's numbers" she shrugged, making Luna sink, her hand face palmed on her forehead as the girls laughed as background. Now that this insane team knew, she wondered if she was going to survive the next week.
After two days watching her friends closely, Luna was tired. Tired of stopping all her friends' attempts that possibly would end embarrassing her in front of Reyes. Two days of pushing Gaia down the hallway, avoiding the ones she knows she could be and making sure she wasn't letting her secret go. Two long days of cloaking Echo's mockings on the class with the brunette. Two long days of containing every slightest chance this crazy girls she called friends could take. Maybe she was a bit paranoid, but despite all this, her efforts made her make it until mid week.
Wednesday night arrived and Raven was extremely excited with this week's challenge. Clarke, Octavia and Raven were in the third store at the mall already and none of them found what they wanted.
They had to give their pairs a gift, not anything but whatever made them remember their pairs now that they knew each other. Raven wanted to find the perfect gift. Not because she had to add in this week's report why they bought the gift, but she wanted something special. She wanted something at Luna's level.
And that was a hard task.
Thanks to her best friends the long search was funny, to say at least.
"Look!" Octavia pointed to a t-shirt. Nah, that seemed impersonal, Blake thought, even though she knew Niylah loved that band. They looked at everything, every book, shoes, clothes. They saw some people from school, probably they're searching for their gift as well. This would take some time, Raven thought, sighing frustrated as they're on their way to the fourth store.
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"Are you going to buy everything?"
Anya asked Lexa with full arms. Maybe she'd exaggerate a bit again.
"It's not my fault if Clarke deserves the world" Lexa said, making Anya roll her eyes.
"Imagine the size of your report just to explain all this" Roan said, pointing at her. Maybe he is right but Lexa would never say it. She put everything back at its place. She needed the right thing not everything, even if she could buy it all in a blink.
She saw her sister groan behind her.
"Did you guys find anything?" Luna asked, checking the prateleira beside her.
"Not yet" Lincoln said, adjusting his hat. Gaia and Echo nodded denying and Niylah was too busy looking at something outside the store glass. Until this moment just Roan had found something and that's because he is too lazy and got paired together with a football player, and guess what he bought? The new uniform of the guy's team. Boring, Luna thought. She isn't going to rest until she finds it.
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She saw a few people exchange gifts in the hallway. That happened all week. And now, Friday morning, Raven was worried that Luna couldn't buy hers yet. Or maybe she was avoiding her after Saturday night. No, not maybe, she knew she was avoiding her, she saw Luna efforts to run a few times grabbing Echo or Gaia.
She was there when Niylah gave Octavia a few cupcakes telling her hints of where she would find her drummer sticks, what she helped saying Octavia's favorite flavor, she was easily conquered by the stomach, and when Lexa appeared in the cafeteria with a box full of Clarke's favorite candy and a sky blue small notebook under all that candy, with pages destined to watercolor paintings, that last part Clarke told her as well as 'she was so pretty today' and 'i love her so much'.
She was anxious to give her gift to Luna but she couldn't find the girl alone. When she wasn't at a different class she was sitting near her friends, with Roan and Lincoln at biology's class, or with Anya, Gaia, Echo and Niylah at chemistry class, or with Lexa, when she wasn't with all them or the majority of them. Anyway, she almost couldn't see her by the hallways and when she saw she was surrounded by her friends.
To not lie, she saw her alone, once. But while she was in her way Echo appeared and she didn't seem too well.
She really tried.
"Earth to Raven" she heard a recognized raspy voice behind her, making her smile unwittingly. She closed her locker before turns and found that gorgeous curls framing Luna's face.
"I thought you were avoiding me, what changed?" Raven said sassy as always. She had crossed arms in her chest but a playful side smile on her face.
"I got your gift yesterday" the brunette pondered for a bit, frozen at her position.
Raven just turned her back facing Woods, who thought she was going to receive a cold treatment but the brunette just opened her locker again to take a tiny box and gave it to Luna. Woods smiled before looking up and hesitantly took the box. Raven bit her lip as she saw Luna open the paper package. There was a rectangle box, 10x10x3 cm. Luna frowned when she didn't see the opening and Raven helped her sliding it open, just as a match box. Luna's smile that already adorned her face opened, she looked at the gift, at Raven and at the gift again. It was a beautiful necklace with a stone as a pendant.
"That's a... moonstone?" Luna smiled already knowing the answer, passing her finger at the pendant. She had a few crystal gems but not this one. Raven nodded happily at the grin on the other girl's face. Luna quickly put it on her neck and it seemed amazing with her outfit, as if she left home knowing she would use this necklace.
"I...saw you used a few crystals, I thought you would like it" Raven smiled shyly, touching Luna's nearest hand, where a lot of rings rested. Letting it go so quickly as she caught her own actions.
"I really love it!" Luna touched the pendant with the same hand, just to give it a use because suddenly she didn't know what to do with it. Moonstone is a powerful gem that can mean a lot of things with its diverse healing effects. It is a balancing gem, a birthstone, a lucky stone, its power can nourish, give passion, and with a lot of other things it can re-energize the mind and body and wash negativity away. Not that Raven thought Luna needed it for the last, she was the most positive person she knew. She didn't know much about spirituality, meditation and those stuff Luna talks about as she did, but she knew her energy was so bright and happy that it could be felt in her presence. She was like peace and laugh. Bright like a warm sunlight.
"It symbolizes new beginnings'' Raven said looking into her eyes. Luna tilted her head smiling. Trying to read in-between her line. That was one of the moments she just thinks about how touching her lips would be. She could feel herself getting anxious and remember what Emma told her. Right?
Right!
It's easy. So easy. Right…?
The bell rang making Luna close her eyes. No. Not again. Why do things keep ringing? Well, thanks universe, great timing, Luna thought sarcastic. She was almost believing her sister, it was her karma, there aren't other explanations.
"Wait!"
She screamed at the girl who started her way to her class. Luna opened her backpack quickly in a clumsy way and gave her a big box before leaning forward and placed a kiss at Raven's cheek. Quickly turning, running in the opposite direction, too busy thinking she couldn't get late at this class anymore, not noticing Raven still standing, smiling as she saw the player run hallway down.
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Soon as she gets in class she sits and waits. The teacher starts to write on the board. With his attention taken, Raven placed the box on her lap, gently opening the package that had stars and spaceships doodles carefully to avoid noise. She smiled when she pushed what was inside.
There was a thick astronomy book. She moved her fingers in the cover before she opened it. It was an image book with just a tiny explanation at the bottom of the page. She read the summary, using her index finger to help her pass through the constellation's names when she noticed.
There's something inside.
She easily opened the book on the page that is marked only to find a necklace as a marker. Raven gasped, her mouth opened before it was replaced by a huge smile. It was a silver necklace, it's pendant was a raven resting on a waxing crescent moon. The top of the moon was tied at the silver chain. It was extremely delicate. She noticed as she moved the pedant something shined inside of the raven, there were a few random sparkling spots. She repeated the moviment watching it shine a few times, admiring her gift, still surprised, it was so beautiful. She smiled remembering the game night, Luna 'flying' at the field.
Just then she realized, it wasn't random sparkling spots...
She gasped again, she paid so much attention to the pendant and her memories she didn't glance at the page. It was marked for a reason.
Definitely sparkling but not random, the book page Luna had marked was the Corvus constellation and Raven now could see the same pattern of the book on the raven's body.
She was amused, it was beautiful.
It was perfect.
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Soon she was at the astronomy lab, playing with her pencil anxiously. The room was dark as the teacher showed the class a PowerPoint presentation about something in the galaxy. Raven really tried to pay attention to what the teacher was saying or what she was supposed to do on her task but those star pictures made her think about the day she went stargazing with Luna. She remembered how she felt, how she was pretty, and how amazed she was by the moon. Her eyes hurt when the teacher turned the lights on without a warning. Maybe he did, she wasn't paying attention enough. She noticed how unintentionally her left hand reached her necklace and smiled.
She has to find Luna.
She didn't even get the chance to thank her gift.
She was enchanted by the universe, that's a fact, but she never gave the moon much thought. Sure, it's beautiful. Down here, all it phases, all it colors, and from up there, still.
She always thought it's insanely beautiful,i n physical and poetical ways. But she never thought much about the satellite, not muchly than facts, and her desire of being there someday. The moon is about 238,856 miles away from the Earth, at this distance it takes about three full days for astronauts to travel from the Earth’s surface to land on the Moon, an atmosphere is made up of gaseous layers that may include hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and others, but he moon isn’t surrounded by gases, which is why it does not have an atmosphere... Raven could think about it forever, the infinity of things she knew about the moon. The infinity of things she used to think first when she thought about the satellite.
All those things used to cross her mind first.
All that facts, scientifically knowledge, all first.
But not now. Not anymore.
The teacher gave Raven a paper, the homework. Recognizing this was the sign the class was over, she got on her feet, her material already packed twenty minutes ago, waiting for this moment. She left the room in an irrational hurry, not knowing where to go. She looked into the spots she thought the girl would be after running at the school entrance and seeing her car still parked, this teacher always dismissed them earlier and she loved him for that.
She ran to look at the field but no sign of her. She sighed turning back to leave. There was just one more place she could be. Her heart beat fast as she saw that unique hallway, before she entered the pool space she took a deep breath already seeing her at the pool. The girl was immersed moving through the water and didn't notice Raven get closer and sit at the edge of the pool. Luna wasn't swimming fast, her hair was loose and she wasn't wearing glasses, Raven just assumed it was her break time, or she was already dismissed too. She watched Luna calmly reach the edge she was at, smiling that cute smile of hers as she saw Raven sit in front of her, before she pushed herself out of the pool and sat beside her, carefully to not wet her.
"Hey" Raven said shyly. All her courage vanished at the moment Luna looked at her. Luna giggled and passed her hands brushing her hair out of her face.
"Hi" she answered side smiling, still looking at Raven. The latina froze. What was she thinking? Her mind seemed to have erased everything, even breath was hard. Why did she forget how to breathe?
"You're already using it, did you like it?" Luna said gently touching Raven's pendant. She was proud of this gift. She had a hard time trying to find anything in the mall. All her friends had bought their gifts but nothing seemed perfect. So, she went at the jewelry shopping and ordered the perfect thing. She created a concept, drew its design and chose the tiny details herself. She wanted exactly that. Despite the jewelry manager's scared look when she said he only had two days, he finished her order at time. It was thought about Raven from the moment she drew the paper until she chose to package.
Raven was about the freak, she had the smartest mind in that school but suddenly all her words disappeared when Luna touched the pendant on her neck. She felt the cold of her fingers recently left the pool brushing lightly on her chest. Luna had a side smile when she lifted her gaze to meet Raven's brown eyes. Her hand was still on the necklace, which made Raven lift her face a bit. Trying to control her breath, that now she was aware of, as her heart skipped a beat.
Our moon is the fifth largest of the 190+ moons orbiting planets in our solar system.
Luna slowly looked at her lips. She could hear her heart beating against her chest, just like the game day. When it was just her and the goalkeeper. She was about to lean in when someone walked by the hallway, on the other side of the glass, however, his fast and unseen movement scared them.
She didn't move tough, but felt the necklace fall as Raven moved away, sitting upright.
She was about to say something when Raven got up and stepped back. Abruptly, gesturing her hands. Luna got in her feet confused almost instantly. Was she running?
"I...hm, should go to the school gate, Clarke must be waiting for me" Raven said biting her lip. She turned back and walked with large steps without giving time to Luna to process what happened, or ask her to stay.
Luna just stood there and watched her go away.
Again.
She breathed deeply, feeling a sudden urge storm her mind and remembered what Emma told her. You now have three seconds to do what you want before the fear stops you.
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"Raven, wait!" She exhaled, as she noticed the latina stop still backing, with so much determination that was almost a gasp
She took another deep breath before walking with large, confident steps at the girl.
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She saw Raven turned with a confused but amazed look on her face, watching the girl get closer fast, and breath expectantly. Luna was going to kiss her.
Really.
It's happening. Her brain screamed.
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Raven watched Luna's confident side smile get closer and closer but something got wrong. She just had time to frown before trying to hold Luna who fell on her. Literally. She felt the floor leave her foot and when she blinked again she was laying on the floor, her but hurting. She looked at Luna lying on her side, her eyes closed for a half second, and then the girl sat with a hand on her head, probably she hit the floor at the fall.
It must have been hard taken by Luna's pain expression on her face. Raven eyes analyzed her with worry but a familiar noise filled her ears. Luna's laugh was loud. She had tried to kiss the girl, she tried to do a movie scene and slipped on the wet floor and took Raven with her.
Again.
She felt her cheeks hurt at embarrassment. Her mother, the biggest romantic, the woman who gave her the advice, almost the incarnation of Romeu, would laugh at her face. It's when she heard Raven's laugh filling the silence too. Her hand rested at her belly and her head lightly thrown back. Luna stopped laughing at some point to pass her hand to clean her tears, she never felt so embarrassed in her life.
Even that time she fell in the middle of the mall thanks to Echo. God.
She covered her cheeks as she felt it burning. Drowned by thousands of thoughts of how pathetic it was and how she could literally lose all her game around this brunette, she was surprised by a hand on her chin. She hesitantly took her hands that covered her face to see Raven with a grin. Raven's hand now held Luna's cheek and pushed her closer.
She only could feel Raven's breath against her lips before the touch.
Luna's eyes were open in surprise, she didn't see Raven coming and that surprise made her brain work hard to catch up. She took a second to realize what was happening and another second to feel connected to the rest of her body again, before kissing her back. A bit hesitant at first, but quickly placing her hand at Raven's neck, pushing her closer. The kiss started shy but got intensity as they found their synchrony and their rhythm.
Just enjoying the feeling.
The mind-blowing sensation caused by the feeling of relief, the feeling of having something wanted for so long.
Raven stopped the deep kiss with several shorter kisses, each time shorter until she just moved centimeters away, still holding Luna's cheek, just enough to face the girl. Luna delayed one more second to open her eyes, she was so lost in this feeling, it was like scoring ten times or winning a medal, but more intense. Way intenser.
Because it was exactly what it was. Intense.
She analyzed her view just to memorize every part of it. Raven's beautiful smile was huge right in front of her. She smiled uncontrollably, Raven was so beautiful. She bit her lower lip before the realization of still being on the floor hit them both simultaneously. They giggled as Luna got up first giving Raven a hand to help her. Immediately accepting, and quickly she is by her feet with Luna's hand on her waist. Raven didn't care if the girl was still soaked while feeling Luna's hands on her waist getting her as close as she can, both facing each other with silly smiles. She locked eyes with Luna, breaking the glare just to glance at the girl's full lips as she rubbed slowly her thumb at the girl's cheek.
She dove into another kiss, slower this time.
Enjoying the feeling already, but poorly, mentioned.
The indescribable sensation of finally.
The feeling of having Luna's hands squeezing her waist. The feeling of passing her hand on the girl's curls. Of those so desired lips on hers.
The moon is an astronomical body, whose gravitational acceleration is 1,62 meter per second squared, due to this…
Due to this…
She really couldn't remember anymore. Even forcing herself to think about the facts of the moon first, she couldn't. Just came Luna, Luna and more Luna. Luna and her stupid sexy side smile combined with that damn rounded sunglass,
Luna and her hair glowing as the sun touched it, Luna and her sweet laugh, she and her low voice. All that flashing fast at her head. She in her car, she celebrating her goal, she at the beach.
She. And only her.
Luna laying on the grass with her, watching the starry sky at the moonlight. She smiles between the kisses. This makes her think about something Luna said that night. She was feeling drowned, indeed.Taken by the influence of the moon.
She was moonstruck, by the literal weight.
She was hit forcibly and deliberately by the moon itself.
Completely taking her out of orbit. Unable to think or act normally. Affected by Luna, leaving her dazed in this love-stricken state.
Due to this…
She still couldn't remember the rest of the phrase and she didn't care, but she knew what being in a ⅙ of gravitational acceleration would feel like. At least theoretically. She was feeling it right here, right now. Would feel weightless. A floating state, flying-ish.
She smiled once more.
"You need to stop meeting me like this"