It wasn't always about hiding and keeping quiet. We did have fun every now and then. One time when I was watering my flower plants, she threw a water balloon at the back of my head. I started to spray her with the hose and then she turned the stream against me.
She didn't always have to stay in the house. Sometimes I'd take Luna for a walk or four wheeler ride (ATV). She loved riding on the ATV, but preferred to walk. One time we went for a ride and by the end of it, Luna was covered in a thick layer of dust. When walked, we would always walk through thick woods. It wasn't bad, even though we didn't usually walk on trials, we always just talked and looked around at the beautiful scenery. Luna always asked what kind of creatures she was seeing so one day I brought a book and started naming off the animals as best I could. She learned pretty fast what they looked like and what their names were. She was able to name every single the next time we went.
We would also do some sight-seeing as well. I'd drive around to all kinds of places in Montana, Washington, Idaho, and the Dakotas. I took her to Arches National Park for her birthday. I hid her in my backpack and she got to walk under and over the arches. I also took her to the plains of Montana. She liked the Buffalo, the mountain goat, and especially the horses and ponies.
One time I took her to Flathead lake during the winter. Sometimes I'd go there to go ice skating and make sure that the yurt my parents have there is still there and not collapsed. Mostly though to make sure that the tools weren't missing. There wasn't anybody there so we went down the lake. There was a public dock at the bottom of the hill and a small island too. With the low water levels and thick ice, e were able to walk out there. Luna slid around on the ice for a while and I joined her.
One day Luna picked out a book from my bookshelf. Harry Potter. She liked it and kept reading one book after the other. She mainly focused on the books about fantasy. She read Lord of The Rings and Hobbit in fifteen days. I hid away a couple of books that were a bit too graphic for her. She ended up reading most all of the books I had, even my Geronimo Stiltons. My mom made me read them as a kid and I liked them, and kept them. Her favorite book was The Kingdom of Fantasy, also G. Stilton. She read every book almost five times over, she finished the dictionary. Then she moved to online books. One time I had take car of my neighbors cat while she was away on vacation. I brought Luna that time and the first thing she did was look through the bookshelf. I went to the kitchen and fed the cat, when I came back to get her she just starting to read 50 Shades of Gray. Long story short, I told a list of things that shouldn't be read, and not question why.
Luna was a very fast learner so one I went on the computer a signed her up her up for ABC Mouse. Luna found it a bit stupid considering she had already learned most of the stuff it was teaching her. After a few months she was finally starting to learn all new things. She was already in 8th grade and was at the top of her class. She liked learning new things. Of course though not everything they taught. The three major topics were WWI, WWII, 911. It took her a few months to recover from all that she learned.
When she fully recovered from all the things she learned about, I decided to take her out for a ride. She never liked it when I buckled her in. She never liked being pushed up against the seat when she naturally sits leaning forward. I drove into town and stopped a store. I told Luna to wait in the car be hidden. I walked into the store and after ten minutes I walked carrying a box. I carefully set the box in the back seat and buckled the seat belt around it. Luna kept trying to unbuckle her seat belt and figure out what was in the box.
"I heard it peep!" She exclaimed many times. We finally got home and I took her inside and opened the box. "DUCKLINGS!" She yelled. "O-ooh! They're so cute!" She was bounding with joy. This was the happiest I have ever seen her, and the happiest I've ever been.
"You wanna name 'em?" Luna suddenly froze.
"I can name them?!" As if she couldn't get any happier. Her smile and joy rivals Pinkies.
The duck were now three months old and about half their maximum size. Their names were Moon and Sunny. You can imagine who named who. Luna absolutely adored them and so did Julli. They reminded my parents and my brother (me too) of the time dad came home with two baby ducks. They were name Sunny and Yoyo. The reason I named mine Sunny was because he was a lighter shade of yellow than Yoyo. Yoyo was mauled and we came home on Easter to find Sunny with a hole in his chest. I wanted to make sure that didn't happen again so I built a hen house for them. Luna fed them every day and they always cheered her up.
Luna always felt abandoned every time I left her in the house alone so I grabbed a box from my storage room and pulled out my old, blue Samsung slide phone. I remembered one time when Luna picked up my iPod. She could pick it up and move it anywhere, she just couldn't seam to do anything with it besides push the lock, volume and home buttons. I guess magic doesn't work for controlling electronics. This phone was an old one and not a touch screen. The next day when I went to work she called me at least twenty times. It was the funniest day of my life.
"DAD?!" She yelled at the phone.
"I told you not to yell. I can hear you just fine. And I told you to call me when something bad is happening, or if the family come over."
"I know, but it just feels so lonely without you. Can you come home? Please. Please, please, pleaeeeeese!" Luna pleaded.
"This is like the twentieth time you called. you gotta stop."
"Actually twenty-seven. Learn to count dad."
"I taught you how to count. You can't keep calling me every minute."
"Can't you just come home?"
"This how I pay for everything!"
"Plaeese! Plae-" I pulled out the battery and went back to work.