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// Chapter 7-Madness 
// Story: My Little Luna 
// by Maximille De Lis 
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From better to worse, a saying I regret hearing from time to time. These words make a party into a funeral in a flash. As time passes, the world starts to change and us along with it. The way you talk to people, the people you’re with, and how corrupt it makes you think. These things happened to an unfortunate soul who happened to be with me, Luna. She started acting all weird and grudged around me, which I thought of as her going through her teenage phases. She also started not eating what I gave her, but what she took out of the fridge or pantries. I would only see her from time to time, as if she was avoiding me. I started from there that something was going on, so I started to investigate the problem.
When she left for her afternoon flight, I went into her room. I didn’t open any tabs, to make sure she didn’t know I was on her computer. I brought up the history and saw that there were a lot of chats in it. I kept looking around until I found out what it was. I nearly choked when I saw the print, not believing she would ever find those words in her computer. I closed out the history, turned off the computer, and sat down to relax. How in the world did she come across that? Then it hit me, the chat rooms. I can’t stop her from going on there, otherwise she would be suspicious. So I improvised, I turned off all the power to the house. I spent the next hour in darkness, when the door flung open. It was Luna, but she looked mad, more mad than usual. I didn’t talk to her, even when she asked me why the power was out. I just looked off into space, trying to avoid conversation. She just walked past me, into her room and shut the door. Not a couple minutes later, she came back out. This is where problems started. She started yelling at me, not about the power, but about what I planned to avoid, My Little Pony.

“Why didn’t you tell me the truth? Why didn’t you say I was a cartoon? Why….”

“I DIDN’T WANT TO HURT YOU!”

This was the first time I raised my voice at her, thus it was a surprise to her as it was to me. She started to tear up, and then ran out the door. I hated myself, for what I kept from her. From trying to keep her locked up in my cage; to keep her all to myself. When she was gone for 2 days, I started worrying. I had all the “what ifs” in my head, which wasn’t helping my case. I started looking for her. She knows that she couldn’t be found by others, so it would have to be near the house. I looked around throughout the day till it was night, then I found her. She was sitting on top of a mountain of rocks we both called the sky charter, which was where we sat when looking at the night sky. I sat next to her, not saying a word. We didn’t speak for the longest time. So I decided to talk first.

“I brought us some food.”

“Why didn’t you tell me before?”

“Because I was afraid this moment would come.”

“Would that mean I shouldn’t be here?”

That sentence hit me like a train. I, for once, didn’t know the answer to that. Would she have to go?

“I…..I don’t know, I hope you do stay, your what keeps me in line.”

This made her feel a lot better; I could see it in her eyes. It was 10:00 p.m., it was getting late. She ate the dinner I brought, and then we decided to sleep under the stars.

“Goodnight Luna, hope you sleep well.”

“Goodnight dad, I love you.”

This was the first time I heard her say that in my life. It made me feel better, that I am a father. It made me forget all that happened that week. All things that were ever bad.