"WHEN THE STARS TWINKLE"
By: Animecutee13
CHAPTER 2: Never knew I needed a start of something new.
~Just in time, I'm so glad you have a one-track mind like me. You gave my life direction, a game show love connection.. –Hey soul sister
[Narrator]
Luna's words triggered a flashback from centuries ago, making Cam hold his breath at the quick revelation and realizations.. of who Luna really was.
[Cam]
"Cam.."
"Yes, almighty God?"
"I have created the sweet little child whom you will be watching over."
"Your wish is my command, your highness. I will be the guardian angel of the infant."
"Yes you shall. She is down at Egypt, residing in a stable right beside the northern part of the Nile River."
I bowed and kissed his hands, "I will be on my way to see the baby."
…
I flew down, my golden wings beating fluidly and dashing through the clouds. And in a few minutes, I was there. Silently and secretly gazing at the newborn baby. She was sure lovely and peaceful, wrapped around a white blanket in a nest of leaves and flowers. She had a golden glow to her skin and shimmering brown tiny waves under the moonlight. I watched over her for a long time. Putting more blankets around her, giving her milk.. Her parents were nowhere to be found. And so I went back into Heaven and came back the following day. The next day was the day.. I had accidentally fallen in love, and had accidentally.. fallen from Heaven.
Oh no. Oh freaking no. My heart sank at the view of the girl in front of me. She was the Egyptian baby I was assigned to during the times that I had fallen. Because I had fallen, she had no guardian angel. She even had no parents around her when I was still watching over her. She … died.
"That's.. a heart-breaking story." My voice cracked as I said those words. I felt crestfallen. I'm the reason she died. "You didn't get the chance to enjoy life."
"Unfortunately, yes." She looked down and with a sad smile, walked towards me. "After I died, I couldn't remember a thing. When I had my senses back.. I was already walking towards the light as a kid. I wasn't a baby any more. And a friend I have discovered, Cupid, was walking right beside me." Okay? There sure is going to be a shift of atmosphere here, from dramatic to comedic.
"Cupid? This guy?" I pointed, with a very flabbergasted look etched on my face, at the diaper wearing baby at the middle of the fountain. I think I just shit bricks. "I didn't even know he existed." I snickered as I crossed my arms, and lying them above my knees.
"Well, strangely and unexpectedly.. and thankfully, he was. He was kind to me and we both grew up together in the skies." She said with a soothing voice and put her hand on the edges of her dress and twisted it to squeeze out the remaining water.
Then suddenly her voice switched to a more unsure tone, "He told me how I died actually. " I felt a huge lump suddenly appear on my throat. "Cupid told me I died as a baby because my guardian angel had fallen from Heaven." She crossed her arms and turned her doll-like face to me, "You're indeed very lucky to still be alive and kicking right now, your guardian angel safely on your shoulders." Ouch. That really hurt me. No words came out of my mouth; I mean what would I tell her?
"God was around of course. He let me watch the world from up there, and I saw everyone and everything." She paused for a while. "Yet I was surprised, because I never saw you." I glanced up from my mission of picking up the quarters in the fountain and my eyes met her deep, alluring, sad, and questioning eyes.
"Well, you never know, maybe you just forgot my face." I mumbled as I flipped a coin and heads turned up.
"I wouldn't forget your face, Cam." She pursed her lips and frowned as if trying to recall a time when she saw me.
Aww. "Well don't sugarcoat it honey, just admit you already like me." I smirked at her confused face as I swept my hair back, beads of water trailing down my neck.
"I never said that." She narrowed her eyes that gleamed under the moonlight, "But I really want to express my gratitude to you.. for taking care of me." She bowed her head a bit causing her tresses to fall over her head, looking like a chocolate waterfall.
"You're welcome." I said in a hushed voice. Quiet enough that I was only talking to myself. I really felt my heart ache, of guilt and loneliness. Loneliness for myself, and guilt for this mysterious girl from my past. I don't know if I should be glad Heaven answered my prayers of sending down a girl that would actually make me feel like I matter. But what just ate me up was.. The fact that I had forgotten all about her, and decided to have fallen out of the sky. And how I just remembered her now, when she's all grown up and in front of me telling me a story about her death, in which I was pretty guilty about.
"Why do you look sad?" She questioned me, her brows furrowing and her eyes beseeching as her head tilted to the side, the view looked so damn cute I was left speechless. "Umm. I was just thinking of .. stuff." She just softly slid a strand of her brown locks behind her ear and looked up at the starry sky.
"I've been wondering, how the heck did I get down here anyway?" She scratched her head.
Busted.
How do I tell her how she got down here? "Uhh, I actually saw you stuck in a tree, over there." I motioned at the nearby park with dozens of trees.
"Oh." Her face was blank as she examined her body for any scratches. Well. Nothing happened for about five minutes.
And my thoughts were lingering, about if I should tell her I'm an angel? A fallen one? NO. She might get mad. Freak out. Or even assume correctly, that I was the stupid, selfish, handsome, hot guardian angel that abandoned her. I stole a glance at her, she was peacefully sticking her feet in the fountain, twirling and causing ripples.
Then realization hit me hard again, if she had died, not even experiencing the good parts of life... "So. Everything that had happened these past hour or so, were all your firsts?" I said with a baffled look on my face. I had given her a lot already. Seriously, I did not know so don't accuse me, readers, of being mean to the little girl.
"Yes. Quite a lot have already happened, huh?" She mustered up a dazzling smile that was framed perfectly by the chocolate locks cascading on the side of her cheeks, eyes lighting up. "Thanks for that. It was quite a good start for my life here on Earth." Looks like she had no regrets. Sweet.
I have a feeling.. I can't actually explain this feeling but. It's like she .. was somehow destined to everything that had happened. Including the dying. The momentarily falling. The Ta-dah, Cam-has-come-to-save-you-moment. The magical firsts. The first few heartbeats of her teenage heart. And everything else. I don't really give a crap about this destiny shit but.. After a few moments of actually spending time with her, it's like this.. destiny had been there all along. Like, as much as I'd hate to admit, Luce had always chosen Daniel, how Daniel, no matter how far he went, Luce kept popping over where he was like some sprouting weed. Like how her tattoo was the moon, and how mine was the sun.
I coughed, sort of embarrassed how I'd been going strong on her already. "Shall we go?" I hopped up, offering a hand to her, she nodded and took it placing her cold hand on my warm ones. And we were outta there.
[Narrator]
The fallen angel and the century old mystery girl were both walking under the glowing streetlights, their contrasting tones, both shimmering under the star and moon's presence. Gusts of winds kept blowing from time to time, making the wet cloth cling to their bodies; making them shiver and their teeth clatter.
"W-where are we going?" Luna asked, her body buried deep inside the coat, but still quivering of cold.
"Are you still cold? Hold on." Cam abruptly went through the lawn of some person's house and started darting around the clothesline, grabbing all of the necessary clothes needed.
"C-cam! W-what are you doing? That's not n-nice. Nor r-right." She pouted as her forehead creased with worry, her hands shaking as she reached over to him.
"Here, change into these before you catch a cold." He breathed when he reached her, his cool breath brushing away the stray hair in her face.
"B-but that's not ours-s." She protested, he brought his fore finger to her lips and shushed her. Her heart skipped a beat, luckily he wouldn't notice.
"Don't be a smartass. They won't notice." He smiled devilishly and started putting on his coat and ushered her into a corner where she could change. Gave her the Victoria's Secret undergarments, the gray cotton sweater, some black jogging pants, and some flipflops. He turned around and whistled to himself as he waited. He was only wearing his coat over his toned body, the black pants that covered his long and lean legs, and some black keds on his feet.
"Thank you again." Luna stepped out of the shadows and bit her lip as she gave him a small smile.
"Warm enough?" He turned around and was awestruck with how beautiful she looked even though she was wearing the most common of clothes. "Wow. Never imagined you'd look good in sweats. But you get an A+." She giggled and ran towards him. He offered his arm for her to cling on, and she took it without any hesitations. They looked like star-crossed lovers when one would first take a look at them as they casted the same couple shadow on the wall they walked beside.
[Luna]
Again. He was so kind to me. I really don't know why, but from what I've watched before.. If I were just a passerby, and I saw us walking down the street, I'd think we were like a couple or something. It felt nice to be with a guy. I mean, from staring from up there and watching everyone holding hands, hugging, and kissing. It just makes me feel very lonely, not being to hug a thing, but the clouds. Moreover, not getting to taste the sweetness life has brought to everyone in the world. The simplest things even like playing tag or.. the feeling of sand massaging your feet. Sigh. I'm very grateful to have this chance to walk on Earth again. I looked at the man beside me, his pale face looking very serene and enchanting, making my heart speed up. How his edgy hair swayed with the wind, how his muscled arm was so warm that the heat radiated all over my body, how his scent was so comforting, they should make a Cam flavored air freshener. He noticed I was looking, and I blushed and bit my lip.
"It's almost morning. Do you want to get something to eat?" He gave me a crooked smile that made me gulp so hard I swear he might have heard it.
"Sure." I blinked at the pink skies; they were just pitch black hours ago but now, it seemed like a new beginning of a day. It was my first time seeing the sunrise in a different view or perspective. From up there it seemed like I was staring down at an old painting. I smiled. But from down here, it seemed like a colossal- pinkish purplish reddish orangey ball was peeking and saying hello, its fire spreading and stretching, burning brightly across the sky. "It's beautiful." I let go of his arm and took a few steps ahead, we were walking along an empty street. The street lights now off. And the wind blowing pieces of old newspapers everywhere. The crack of dawn had arrived.
[Narrator]
"I know. But it gets kind of old when you always see it." Cam sighed and put his hands in his pockets as he walked towards her. But I fancy sunrises more than sunsets, he thought.
Sunsets marked the end of a day, a wonderful or miserable happening. It always symbolized the end of something, he thought bitterly. Like how Luce ended things for him. How he had accidentally ended Luna's life. How everything and everyone just left him. How everything just ended for him. But now when he saw the sunrise, the sun beginning to float up the sky, he saw it as the start of something new. Though it wasn't always a good start for him in his past few centuries scouting around the world searching and yearning for Luce, he had somehow felt again, maybe this time.. this start wouldn't end up so bad.
He secretly smiled to himself as he put his left arm around Luna's narrow shoulders, making her look up, her aquamarine flecked charcoal eyes searching his deep green mesmerizing ones. "I'm hungry." She suddenly groaned as scrunched up her nose and laughed. Cam raised his brows, amused and smirked. "Okay." He said with a rather husky tone, "Don't eat me alive. Please."
Luna rolled her eyes and they walked along the road, crossing a narrow wooden bridge that led to another park, but this time there was an outlet full of little shops and fast food restaurants.
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