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Chapter 21

Happy

As soon as the recess bell rang, everyone scrambled out and into the playground, Moon slowly followed, her thoughts still keeping her away from anyone around her. She still didn't know what kind of surprise awaited her.

Moon sat on a stone bench placed in front of the wall; she still wore her backpack, why? For no reason. She watched her classmates making friends with each other, kids playing tag, girls playing rope, big boys playing basketball, big girls sitting in a group talking to each other, and many others. Everyone seemed to have fun, they all looked happy, that encouraged Moon. She stood up, took a deep breath and wore the nicest heartfelt smile she could manage, and walked a little around the school yard, looking for someone particular, she was looking for Sarah.

After a while, she finally found her surrounded by a huge number of girls chatting endlessly with her under a small tree, no surprise, she was important after all. Moon had to feel sorry for her though, they looked exactly like a bunch of bees gathering pollen from a Magnolia flower. The picture was so accurate, the magnolia flower is one of the most beautiful flowers with the loveliest smell, which attracts a huge amount of bees, and it has a lot of pollen for them.

Moon suddenly started to feel nervous again and was about to turn around and leave, but a thought came up in her mind. She came and wanted to talk to me, no one stopped her. Now I want to go and talk to her and no one is going to stop me either. Moon thought to herself in determination, took a deep breath, drowned all of her nervousness and doubts, and slowly started to walk towards the group with a smile on.

The girls noticed her coming and they all stopped talking at once then looked at her, she looked back with a smile, Sarah smiled back. Moon felt happy and a grin crept to her shining face, but she instantly got goose bumps and that smile faded away as the other girls' cold, emotionless eyes glared at her. Moon stood there for a second, and then decided to keep walking, but in a slower pace, she was still a little far away. The girls abruptly turned around and started to whisper to each other, unfortunately, they suck at keeping their voices down, thus Moon could hear every word. She knew they were talking about her but she tried not to show it.

"Hey, it's that girl." Whispered a girl with short red haired.

"The one that zoned out?" asked a blonde with curly hair that reached to her shoulders.

"Did you see the way the teacher looked at her?" asked a girl with brown hair tied in a short ponytail.

"She's got to be a bad person." The red haired girl said confidently.

"Keep away from her." Warned another girl with red hair, hers was slightly longer and tied in a ponytail.

"Look at those weird black eyes, she's scary." Said the brown haired girl.

"I…let's get away from here girls, lets play somewhere else." Said the blonde shivering.

"Yeah, she's coming straight at us." Said the girl with the red ponytail.

"Let's stay as far away from her as possible." Said the short red haired girl. Apparently she has a sense of leadership or something. Thought Moon.

"I think she looks very nice." Sarah finally joined the conversation, shocking everyone. Moon smiled inwardly, she was taking baby steps to listen to the whole conversation. The rest of the girls gaped at her in shock.

"Are you CRAZY? Just look at her." Hissed the short red haired girl.

"Yeah, come on Sarah. I'd rather play with mud than with her." Added the girl with the red ponytail. Sisters or twins, definitely. Thought Moon.

"What makes you think she's so bad?" asked Sarah. Moon stopped so she could hear that particular answer. Unfortunately they grabbed Sarah and ran away without answering it. Moon looked down at her feet, disappointed, she went and sat down under the tree and watched Sarah and her new friends play around the slides, laughing and having fun. Moon hugged her knees and kept watching, she smiled from time to time as she tried to imagine how fun it would be if she could join them, suddenly Sarah looked at her from her place near the far away seesaw, Moon still didn't give up, she smiled shyly and waved at her, and to her surprise, Sarah waved back with a wider smile, then turned back to playing with her new friends.

Moon relaxed and rested her head on the tree's trunk, took a deep breath and exhaled with a huge soft sigh and closed her eyes. The cool breeze kept passing by, taking away all the tension away with it. So what if her friends don't like me? As long as I know that someone does, then I guess its fine. We'll be friends very soon; I can feel it, if not today then tomorrow. Moon thought with a wide smile. She suddenly heard a rustle from the leaves above and a familiar voice.

"Mom?" she asked in a low whisper unsure. No reply.

"It can't be mom. When I asked Shira about her she told me that she stayed at home." Moon thought as she pulled out her copybook from her bag which she placed next to her. I'm not doing anything. Might as well finish this. She thought and started writing.

"How did it go?" Shira asked excitedly as usual, almost jumping.

"She almost caught me sneaking." Breathed Kanil.

"Never mind that! Just tell meeee." Shira pleaded, still jumping. Kanil sighed in an annoyed way.

"It seems there is a nice girl who does want to make friends with Nataly, the only problem is…"

"YAY! Moon got a new friend." Shira started jumping around excitedly.

"I haven't finished yet!" shouted Kanil, totally annoyed.

"Okay, okay, what's the problem? You said she wants to be friends with her. What else?" Shira had calmed down.

"It's the girl's friends who won't let her." Explained Kanil.

"Now that's just stupid. Why would they do that?" Pouted Shira and crossed her arms over her chest then let herself fall on the kitchen couch. Kanil sighed.

"I've already told you this morning."

-Flashback-

"Why? No one is as kind as you are. I'm sure they will all love you right away." Shira said softly to Moon, it was in these moments that Moon felt safer than ever.

"You're just saying that." Moon grumbled under her breath. Kanil whispered something inaudible into Shira's ear when Moon wasn't looking, Shira whispered something in return.

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"Don't say things that might not be true." Whispered Kanil.

"You never know." Replied Shira after thinking shortly.

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-End of flashback-

"No, you only told me not to get her hopes up too high." Shira said tonelessly.

"That's because you finished the conversation before it started." Kanil said emotionlessly as she sat beside Shira.

"So what's the reason again?" Shira asked taking a deep breath.

"The simplest way to say it is that she's a shaman. There are more details, of course." Said Kanil.

"I'm listening."

"Well, as the last member of the Qui Tong family, she's probably wanted dead by anyone who knows her last name."

"I worked on that."

"I know, and I really appreciate it."

"What else?"

"Can't think of anything."

"That's it?"

"No…"

"Then say something."

"I will, just give me a second."

"Okay."

"..."

"Well?"

"Nothing yet."

"Well, whatever the reasons are, I taught Moon to never give up on anything she really wants. So if she really wants to be friends with that girl and vice versa, then they will, in time, nothing would stop them." Shira said standing up with a smile. The whole conversation was emotionless, just like its topic.

"Hey, you're that Qui Tong girl, right?" Moon heard a voice say. She looked up and saw three smiling boys coming at her.

"Hi, we're third graders. Mind if we have a chat?" said the boy standing in the middle.

Thunder: Moon's surprise will appear in the next chapter.

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