Good Night Luna

by Scribe Scribbles


chapter 16: Birthaversary

~Five years later~

The early morning sun was shining through the curtains. I turned over to my right and saw Luna with her angle blue eyes and heart-melting smile. Her cyan eyes gleamed like jewels.
"Morning dad." Luna said in a soothing tone. "It's the 28th." I smiled back half awake. It was my Birthday, or Birthaversary. "You know, It's kinda funny how about a minute before you wake up, your eyes open halfway." I gave soft chuckle.
"Hell have you been you been doin while I was asleep?" She was up to something of course.
"Oh, not much." Luna gave a soft giggle.
"Smart-ass."
"Like father, like daughter."
"To-shay." I got up, got dressed and went down stairs where a stack of pancakes were waiting for me. There was note on top of the stack. I walked over and read the note.

Happy Birthday Daddy
~Love Luna~

I laughed. I always found it funny whenever Luna called me 'Daddy'. I pored some raspberry syrup on the stack and grabbed a fork. When I turned around and saw Luna with her same loving smile. She was levitating a tiny box. I went into the living room and sat down on the couch. Luna sat down next to me spreading her front hooves on my lap. When I finished the pancakes, Luna levitated the box in front of me. I grabbed it and started unwrapping. Inside the box was a necklace. It was a thin black rope with a caged rock attached at the bottom.
"It's a diamond." Luna said. I took a closer look at the rock. It was a small somewhat clear stone about the size of my pinkie nail. I put it on. I walked out to grab the news paper and came back in. The title read "Possible Alien sighting". I showed Luna the paper and she just giggled. "I guess the guy in the car did see me." I smiled and went into the basement to watch some TV and Skype with Julli.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNCLE!" Julli yelled through Skype.
"Nice to see you too. How's your job treatin you?" Julli got a degree in animation. Her currant job was her dream job. Working at Hasbro Studios. Specifically MLP.
"Good. I don't get to do much though. I gotta work up to get where I want to be." Julli and Luna talked for next ten minutes until John walked in to wish me a happy birthday.
"Happy Birthday Lane. How's it going over there?" He said trying to be enthusiastic.
"Good." I replied.
"What's that around your neck? When did you get that?" He noticed the necklace.
"I sent it to him." Julli covered.
"Why didn't you tell me?" John asked.
"Well that would ruin the game." John rolled his eyes. The way Julli and I covered up for meeting Luna was that we were playing a covert ops game of secret agent. It was actually very fun. Luna would give us clues as to where she hid little surprises around the house.
Luna and I sat down and watched some TV. Luna rested her head on my lap and I braided her hair. Luna's hair was very long and went down to her knees. I liked Luna's hair long. I always combed it, braided it, combed it.... Luna was able to turn her hair into her starry night sky hair from MLP. I didn't really like her hair like that, I preferred her natural hair. I would usually braid her hair into multiple small braids, then braid those braids together and so forth.
We watched some Big Bang Theory and went out. I opened the garage door and looked around at the rock wall that was now over grown with the blue Bougainvillea flowers. I got them for two reasons. A: I like blue, and B: Because they're blue they kind of camouflage Luna whenever she walks outside. Luna sat in the passenger seat with her headphones on. One thing that got difficult over the years was the more Luna grew, the harder it was to hide her. I didn't worry about seeing her in the jeep though cause I went out years ago and got the window tinted. I backed the car out of the garage and then got out to close the garage door.
I closed the door and got back in the jeep. I drove the jeep onto the main highway. We went on our usual routine around the island. Luna and I always drove around the island every day. There was barely a time when we were stuck in the house all day. We tried to go to the painted church, but of course there were tourists. Green Sands Beach was still a hot-spot for tourists. The only time when we were able visit some places was late at night. Luna wanted to see the lava flow, but that was always the biggest attraction on the island, and I wasn't going to take her at night where I can't see a thing.
We sat down at the house and ate our dinner. We played some COD multiplier. Luna let me win the first time. I never liked it when my brother killed me in COD, but with Luna I didn't care, it was just a game.
"Dad." Luna said looking a little guilty. "I know how hard it is for you being a vegan and I-" Luna knew how hard it was to suddenly switch to vegan and she always felt a little guilty, especially since we're on an island and the most popular thing to eat was fish.
"Luna I've told you before, I don't mind it. If you don't eat meat, I don't either. End of story." I pulled Luna into a warm hug and she hugged me back.
"I love you dad."
"I love you too, Luna." I kissed her on the forehead.