Luna was already sleeping by the time Joana and Andre
arrived.
“She stole your thing huh” Joana said
He answered with a finger over his lips and shushed
the two who just arrived. Cold wind swept in and Matthew let out a huge yawn,
still mildly annoyed that his afternoon nap was bothered.
Offered a beer, Matthew declined as he does not drink
alcoholic beverages and continued sipping on his minute maid.
“She’s a real piece of work” Andre said while pointing
his beer bottle at the sleeping Luna.
“What should we do though? We can’t intoxicate her
every time this happens”
“She won’t break up with her that’s for sure”
“It’s none of our business though”
“They made it that way when they keep breaking up my
naps”
As the three friends were laughing, they contemplated
on what would happen if someone from Luna’s girlfriend camp would see Luna
resting on Matthew’s shoulder.
“I could be sleeping right now” Matthew thought to
himself as Luna snuggles up on his arm and starts snoring.
The night is slowly embracing the bar and the two
stopped after two drinks as it was pointless if Luna would just sleep on them.
They tried waking up Luna so that they could walk her to Joana’s dorm where
they reside.
“She’s not waking up”
“Who’s gonna carry her?”
“Well she’s clinging on to you now I mean”
Matthew turned his back on Luna and grabbed her legs
from behind. He asked the two to watch his back. Joana is lamenting on how Luna
did not even drink with them while Andre is worried over the exam tomorrow.
After laying Luna on her bed, Joana made a hand sign
of thank you and told the two boys to leave. But as Andre reached the door,
Luna sat up and grabbed Matthew’s shirt
much to the shock of him.
Half-awake Luna grasped on Matthew’s shirt harder ever
second and looked up at him.
“I’m scared”
He could not think of what he would say as Luna looked
at him with her doe eyes with her hair messed up. She would not let go of him
even as the two protested to do so. Joana slowly brushes and pats her back and
her grip loosens. They have no idea if she’s awake of not.
Hugging her from behind, Joana lowered her head down
as she wept on Luna’s shoulder and the latter barely holding on to Matthew. He knelt
down and held her hand.
“You’ll be fine” He said while clenching onto her hand
while slowly letting it go.
Andre was supposed to do the same but Luna just
straight up smacked his face. She felt asleep again and the two boys went out
as Joana composes herself and fixes up Luna.
The next few days came about with not much happening. Luna
and her girlfriend wasn’t talking much but much to the dismay of the trio, they
got back together. Since their friend believed people deserves a second chance,
which is odd because it’s like the fourth now.
“Please leave me alone” Matthew said as he was napping
and saw Joana and Andre about to sit beside him.
“We missed you too” Joana said “Now let’s talk about-“
Matthew cuts her off
“About what? Them? Let’s give up, we did our best. It’s
the fourth time anyway we did what we could, let Luna experience everything
over and over again til she get sick of it”
“So we let her be?! Let her be broken each time it
happens? Do you know how absurd you sound right now?”
Trying to diffuse the situation, Andre got in between
them
Matthew looked straight to Joana’s eyes “She was the
one who entered that relationship, she decided that she wants that feeling over
and over again so why should we interfere?”
“Because she’s our friend” Joana’s voice slowly
raising
“And we respect her enough to make the decisions
herself, if she hurts herself again we’ll be there for her if she’s happy we’ll
celebrate. Joana, let’s respect her that she knows what she’s doing. The best
thing we can do is be there for her, meddling is another discussion”
“I know that” her voice cracked “it just pains me to
see her like that every single time and we can’t do anything about it”
“But we are doing something; we’re being there for her”
Andre decided to butt in
“As much as I want to say that Matthew’s just being
lazy, he’s right. Luna is her own woman and we can’t really dictate her, what
to do or else we’re the ones who would be alienated”
Joana held her head down and looked outside the
library. It was Luna and her girlfriend, Luna greeted with a big smile and wave,
while her girlfriend decided to do the same as if nothing happened. The two
boys looked at them, smiling and nodding while they held Joana’s head down as
she was ready to make a scorned impression
The tension and atmosphere between the three got
heavier as things were going back in the same cycle hey hated
Little did they know that tomorrow will be a turning
point for them
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