20. I Think You’re Too Serious.

I sighed as I stared down at the thick forest beneath me. Thinking back on it, my life had seriously changed in the past couple days. I always knew about the thing with Orion, but I figured I’d deal with it when I was forced to. Should I consider myself a freak now that I’d sprouted wings and gotten superpowers? I didn’t feel that’d be right. I was born like this. I just grew up somewhere… different. I kind of missed my old life, my parents, my friends… OK, so maybe Orion was pretty much the only friend that hadn’t moved away or anything, but still. And as far as the whole “crisis” here went, it was pretty lame for a world threatening situation. I couldn’t tell right now if my life was awesome or sucked. But like most times I start thinking, I jammed the thoughts as far back in my mind as possible and continued on like nothing happened.





“You know, Cassie, you really should think before you say something.” Orion sighed as he walked through the forest with her.

“Well, gee. My bad. I kinda thought when guys smile and say they love someone, they wouldn’t mind telling people.” She said, followed by Orion glaring and an awkward silence. “OK, so I didn’t think.” She grumbled.

“Uh huh. That’s something new,” he rolled his eyes. “You do realize that we need to find her since SOMEONE,” he glared icily again, “opened their mouth and scared her off.”

“I didn’t scare her off; she seemed perfectly fine when she left.” Cassie gestured with an arm in the direction Luna had gone.

“Yeah, well, she’s not fine. Luna ALWAYS plays it cool then takes off to think about stuff, and sometime wayyy later when she’s all alone, she’ll have a mini-meltdown. She doesn’t like to worry people and, honestly, I think you’d start freaking out if she cried.”

“I would not! ...Stop glaring at me like that. How would you know Luna so well, I’m her sister! You’re just--” she mentally sifted through words, clenching and unclenching her fists as if to actually grab a word from thin air.

“A bodyguard, peasant, guy?”

“YES! That one!” She pointed repeatedly at him while he just stared back. “Well, all of those actually.”

“I grew up with Luna, therefore I fluently speak Luna language, verbal and nonverbal.”

“Well, that’s not fair!” Cassie flung he arms up and cried out, exasperated.

“Life’s not fair, Cassie.” Orion grinned then flew upwards, piercing through the trees, his eyes scanning for Luna over the horizon.