Moonlight by Aiden R. Ranks (good short books txt) 📖

Ryan as he drove away.
Walking inside was a big relieved, home finally? I made my way to the kitchen to get a drink of coffee. I have the biggest and uncontrollable addiction to coffee.
Making it was fun and easy and when I finished making it I began to walk to the living room where I saw two people sitting down on the couches. At first I thought it was Mike and Leo. But instead it was Mike and Simon.
I was shocked indeed to see him here, I wanted to talk to him at school but I never quite got the chance.
“Hey, Lewis long time no see, how you been these days” he said standing up to give me a hug.
I was somewhat shy.
It’s funny and nice in a way how in my family every time we say hi or bye to our uncles, aunts, cousins, grandparents and such we hug or kiss on the cheek.
“Hey Simon, what a surprise, it’s really nice to see you again” I said gazing at his size. Mike was right he had grown and he looked like a person no bully would want to mess with.
“I’ve been great, and you?”
“That’s great, and well as you can see, I’ve been hitting the gym. The football team sure puts you in great shape” he said sitting back down.
Just then mom walked in and saw me there standing up with my coffee.
“Hi honey, Simon is here” she said handing and invitation of some sort.
“Lewis, coffee again, that’s not good for you especially when you keep drinking it 24/7”
“Mom I haven’t drank coffee in, about three days” I said a little guilty.
“Anyways Simon has invited us to a football game” mom said with excitement.
“Make sure you guys come, it will be fun. Free drinks food and the game of course” said Simon standing up
“Now, I seriously have to get moving, I’ve been here for about an hour or two”
“Ok sweetie, tell your mom I said hi and you dad too.”
I felt a little guilty that I was gone all day when Simon had come over to visit us.
“Hey Lewis talk to you tomorrow ok” he said as he stood by the door.
“But how I haven’t seen you at school or at least I don’t think so.”
“You haven’t, but I do, quit day dreaming” he replied smiling. “Anyways I’ll talk to you later cousin” he said giving my mom a hug and saying goodbye to us.
“What did he mean day dreaming” said Mike.
I did not know what he meant by that, and how in the world did he see me at school if I never do. I went upstairs after Simon left and began practicing the sheet music Mr. Jensen had given me. I had it memorized a bit and I had gotten far on my intention to learning it. I drained the coffee down and headed for my bed, coffee, no matter what the situation is, always put me to sleep.
I spend the rest of my afternoon in my room lying on the bed. I was tired, just sleepy but I could not fall asleep. One reason I thought was that I was worried about that dream I had. My piano was on; automatically playing a lullaby that made me fall asleep. It might sound a little odd that at my age that would happen. But a lullaby always helps me fall asleep. I thought about practicing more but I had memorized enough for one day.
Piano music to me has always been a big part of my life. It always helps me relax when I’m stressing or feeling blue which I’m most of the time for the same reason that I always think about. I’m happy on the outside, but sad on the inside. I’ll admit that in my life I have had many relationships, I’ve kissed many lips in my life many of which I was feeling happy about.
But just like the rest, I end up losing the love battle. Love hurts in many ways and it’s probably the most harsh and difficult pain to endure, in my opinion.
There is something I fear in life, fear indeed, probably my most terrifying secret and it’s that reason for which I turn to piano music. The music takes all that negative thoughts away and gives me hope for my love life. I fear never to find the love of my life.
I have never fallen in love in my life but once. And sadly that person did not feel the same way about me. As I thought about my harsh past I began to slowly drift into a deep slumber. I was totally gone and I began having yet another dream.
This dream was different from the last one. I was sitting down on a bench gazing at a river in front of me. The beautiful nature sounds that surrounded the area were nice. Behind me there was a little trail and many trees and in the middle sat a park. The water seemed cool as it glittered with the sunlight. It was peaceful here and I loved the aroma. Never have I felt peace in my life like this. I heard a voice next to me say “This is nice” I looked around and could not identify whose voice it belonged to.
One thing for sure was that the voice brought a great amount of love to my soul. It was calm and brought joy to my life, it made me feel alive. It was that voice; I knew who it belonged to. I knew who that person was and I felt myself smiling. Now I could definitely see it, I could now see my problem and as I realized what was going on I became happy. I felt like telling everyone of my wonderful beautiful sensation I had started to feel. I felt a warm presence engulf me. I felt like someone was holding me from around my waist. I desperately tried to grab on to, I wanted to hold on the feeling it gave me, the light it brought along, the love I had. I never wanted it to end. But sadly, just like before and just like always it was too good to be true.
The full emotion of light slowly abandoned me and I was left alone and cold. My fear is all I could think about my fear oh no my fear has once again triumphed. I looked around trying to run away, trying to escape this horrible feeling. The feeling of denial and being abandoned never loved and never given a chance the only thing I could think about was my fear, will I ever find my one true love. None of the fake love falling on my life like rain, I was afraid to fall in love again I was afraid to windup down the painful road I did not want to lose again, but as much as it hurt to think about it, the fact was bare to see. I have fallen in love with Emily.
I woke up not as bad as I did the last dream I had but still I was sweating like crazy. I stretched and to my surprise I had slept through the entire night. It seemed like the night went by fast, I was somewhat relived to see the light of morning. I was ready for a new day.
When I got to school Ryan was eating breakfast on our little table by himself, he smiled as he saw me approach him.
“What’s up, morning.”
“Hey” I replied yawning.
“Are you not going to eat, you know the most important meal of the day is breakfast.” he said
“Not that hungry”
“Alright, you’re going to get hungry later and I’m going to say I told you so” he said smiling
Ryan smiled at me but then stared behind me with amazed eyes. I waved my around his shocked face.
“Hello” I said as I looked back.
To my surprise I was dazzled in the second I recognized Emily making her way with Daisy. She had dyed her hair. Now she had long strips of blondish color on her smooth black hair.
“Morning, Lewis, Ryan” she said placing her stuff on the table.
“Morning, Emily, you look magnificent” I muttered
“Ha, nice you look different but still very nice” said Ryan
Daisy sat next to me all though I was hoping for Emily to sit next to me.
“Hi” she said to me.
“Hey there” I replied still gazing at Emily.
“Seriously, you look very nice I like it” I said
“Thanks,” she said
Ryan looked at me and became really silent. He looked at me for a little while then began to smile as I noticed him looking at me.
“What?” I asked
“Nothing, nothing at all Lewis” he mocked
I had the feeling Ryan knew about my uncontrollable feelings. So I leaned over and whispered in his ear.
“Ok, I seriously need to talk to you.”
He leaned over and nodded.
“In gym, we can talk there” he said.
I nodded in agreement and looked up at Emily, I wanted this no doubt. Love is such a wonderful thing when both souls feel the same thing. But a devastating thing when one doesn’t agree with the other.
I did not speak much today, and Emily asked what was wrong. But of course I could not find such courage to tell her what was going on. Daisy was being very friendly to me. She was asking me a lot of questions and telling me many little stories which were a little nice.
It was now time to go to first period I wasn’t really looking forward to it. I was focused more on the things I wanted to tell Ryan. I thought maybe it would help telling someone about my situation. Besides I wanted to tell someone, I needed to.
The whole hour in first period was a killer, I was waiting insanely for it to end and I was happy when it did.
Running down the hall is a felony in this school, I got yelled at for running. Once I made it to gym I changed quickly and looked for Ryan, I felt anxious to tell someone so much.
“There you are, come I really need to tell you something” I said as we walked out to the field where we will be playing football. I began telling Ryan about my emotional situation.
“Alright so this is what’s going on,” I said focusing on the topic tensely.
Ryan nodded with delightfulness. “I love news, ha lay it on me” he said paying closely attention to my words.
I sighed and began my story.
“Ok so it’s like this it seems as though I have a major problem” I explained as Ryan nodded quietly.
“This might sound a little odd, but it’s true. Even though I just met Emily a few days ago, I have fallen in love with her,” I said a little awkward
To my surprise Ryan said
“Obvious I can easily tell, don’t worry I knew that already, the way you look at her. But hey don’t worry, it’s not a weird or odd thing ha it’s happened to me before actually” he said stroking my back.
“Really, I know it’s a little odd, definitely awkward though. I had this strange feeling when I first laid eyes on Emily, it’s hard to explain the feeling I felt. But now I can see