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// Chapter 8- The Letter 
// Story: My Little Luna 
// by Maximille De Lis 
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Weeks after the little skirmish, she decided that she doesn’t feel like being on the computer. I kept it in the basement, for safe keeping. After that, she wanted a telescope. I gave her the best one we could afford, which you could see almost anything clearly. Every week, we would bring it out it so we would look at stars together. She would normally look at the other planets, admiring their beauty as I did when I first saw them. We bond more and more every day, improving our father- daughter relationship. Time passed, and we both were a growing team. As we did go through the months, she started to mature further more. She was now about as tall as me, her eyes became full of color, and her hair started to flow. My parents died recently, and I had gone through a tough time with it. 
Time passes, and now she is 16 years of age. Coming home from a field study I saw a mail truck come by our house, stop, and then leave. As soon as I saw it pass I ran inside to check on Luna. She said she was in her room watching TV and never knew that the mail truck came by. That was good, that means no one saw her. But one thing still remained, what was in the mail? I never gave anyone my address, not even my parents. I went outside and opened the mailbox, to see a letter. It wasn’t addressed by anyone, just my address. I opened the letter, and started reading it.

Dear whoever the residency is,

You have something that doesn’t belong to you. I want you to give her to me.
For if you don’t, there will be consequences.

C

This wasn’t any ordinary letter, in fact it was blackmail. Who was it who sent it? How do they know I have Luna? Why are they doing this now? It was making me terrified, and angry at the same time. I needed to protect her, now that we were in danger of who this person is. I went inside to tell Luna about what I just read. She was about as scared as I was, and we knew that it was going to be dangerous. We stayed in the house, no matter what.