I know people are going to ignore me and read anyway and get mad, but listen first. This is not a typical story and I gave all the characters different names. It's pretty much the life before Usagi and Mamoru or maybe even afterward. So just be warned.
"Tell me the truth, Shuuchtern."
"The truth," mutters the girl. Shuuchtern is her surname and Lunette is her given. She's never liked either of them much. They're odd names and yet there are three other girls in her class named Lunette and two Lunas. Lunette Shuuchtern (dubbed Lunette Sh-because-she's-quiet by her elementary school) has dark brown hair and dark brown eyes and yet she's blonde and blue-eyed. She wonders when she started seeing the blonde, but she thinks that it was when she realized the truth: Lunette was going to die. At seventeen, she's probably too old to be thinking about this, but she doesn't really even care.
The boy she's talking to is named Chikyu Gaius. She remembers that when she was younger she thought he was Japanese because of his name and his hair (and in spite of his dark blue eyes), but she later learned that his mother thought the name suited him. Lunette has grown up with Chikyu for years and she scarcely remembers talking to him at all but she hates him with a passion that surprises her. She reasoned that it's just because he'll live and she won't.
"Shuuchtern," he repeats warningly then sighs, "Lunette."
She laughs bitterly and says, "Chikyu, I'm dying."
Chikyu is stunned and responds without thinking, "Oh, what? Do you have cancer?" because it almost seems like she's joking or maybe he doesn't want to admit that she isn't.
"No disease yet," she says. "But every day I wake up I feel a new pain in my bones. I dunno, it could be bone cancer, but I don' really wanna go to a doctor. Y'know, maybe it's just my allergies or asthma or somethin' but I think I'll die young whether it be tomorrow or a year from now."
"What are you even talking about?" he asks.
Lunette sighs and lays back on the grass. Chikyu wants to reach out to her and help but he doesn't even know what she's talking about. He thinks that maybe she's seeing something he doesn't.
"I don't want to go to a doctor," she repeats more forcefully, enunciating every word. He waits for an explanation. "If I go to a doctor, I'll hafta tell my mom and they'll realize I'm gonna die and my mom and dad are gonna cry and then they'll tell my friends and my friends are gonna cry . . . . It's easier this way. I can just die one day and they won' have gone through premature grieving."
"Why are you telling me?" he asks. She has all those friends with weird names like her, Fiametta, Nixie, Laraine, and Acelynn.
"I have a feeling we'll meet again," replies Lunette cryptically and she turns to him and for a second he sees that blue-eyed blonde too.
"If you die," he begins, "I will too. Matter of fact, I'll go first."
She sits up at that. "No, don't. Live."
"I," he says and stops.
"I know," she says softly. "I'm gonna let it go for now. One day, I think I can beat everything."
And, in a way, whatever is wrong with her is kind of like Metallia and maybe this body isn't suited for fighting, but surely her next one will be. She wants her name to be something cute next time, but still connected to the moon because that's who she is.
She feels Chikyu's breath on her face as he leans over and he places his lips down and for a second, Lunette thinks that she wouldn't mind dying at that second.
True to his promise, Endymion's heart stops a second before Serenity's.
I know this made absolutely no sense, but I needed to write it. I used this as a chance to experiment with accents in writing. Well, don't be too mad about it.