CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
(chapter title – In My Life)

The following afternoon, Luna wiped a hand across her brow as she worked in her garden. She stood up and went to the garden gate.

"How strange, this feeling that my life's begun at last
This change, can people really fall in love so fast?
What's the matter with you, Luna?
Have you been too much on your own?
So many things unclear
So many things unknown

In my life
There are so many questions and answers
That somehow seem wrong
In my life
There are times when I catch in the silence
The sigh of a faraway song
And it sings
Of a world that I long to see
Out of reach
Just a whisper away
Waiting for me!

Does he know I'm alive?
Do I know if he's real?
Did he see what I saw?
Does he feel what I feel?

In my life
I'm no longer alone
Now the love in my life
Is so near
Find me now
Find me here." Luna sang as she pulled weeds. Usually, the groundskeeper did the weed pulling, but he was out sick, so Luna volunteered. She didn't mind getting dirty. Sirius came out into the garden and took a seat next to Luna.

"Dear Luna,
You're such a lonely child
How pensive, how sad you seem to be
Believe me, were it within my power
I'd fill each passing hour
How quiet it must be, I can see
With only me for company." Sirius sang to his daughter, kissing her cheek. Luna was now a stunning beauty of eighteen and looked more like Penny with each passing day.

"There's so little I know
That I'm longing to know
Of the child that I was
In a time long ago
There's so little you say
Of the life you have known
Why you keep to yourself
Why we're always alone
So dark, so dark and deep
The secrets that you keep

In my life
I have all that I want
You are loving and gentle and good
But Papa, dear Papa
In your eyes I am just like the child
Who was lost in the wood." Luna sang as she went inside.

"No more words
No more words, it's a time that is dead
There are words
That are better unheard, better unsaid!" Sirius told his daughter, following her into the house.

"In my life
I'm no longer a child and I yearn
For the truth that you know
Of the years…years ago!" Luna sang.

"You will learn. Merlin gives truth to us all. In our time. In our turn." Sirius told Luna, going to his bedroom and closed the door. Luna sighed and went back out to the garden.

Harry and Ginny are making their way up the stone pathway. Harry is acting like a little boy in a candy store.

"In my life
She has burst like the music of angels
The light of the sun
And my life seems to stop
As if something is over
And something has scarcely begun
Ginerva – you're the friend who has brought me here
Thanks to you, I'm one with Merlin
And heaven is near!
And I soar through a world, that is new
That is free!" Harry sang, spinning around in a circle. He took Ginny's hands in his and spun her around, too.

Luna looked up from her reading when she heard noises outside the gate.

"Every word that he says is a dagger in me!
In my life
There's been no one like him anywhere
Anywhere, where he is…
If he asked…I'd be his!" Ginny sang to herself. She watched painfully as Harry went to the garden gate and saw the lovely vision sitting there, reading.

"In my life
There is someone who touches my life." Harry and Ginny sang in unison.

"Waiting near." Harry said, reaching through the iron gates. The girl saw him, put her book down and went over to him. He felt his heart race as she looked into his green eyes.

"Waiting here." Ginny said, feeling tears in her eyes. She knew that the boy from her childhood was in love, but it wasn't with her.