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Walking with the moon

May 16, 2023
By carleehewitt SILVER, Effingham, Kansas
carleehewitt SILVER, Effingham, Kansas
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I took the moon for a walk last night. It was the most beautiful walk ever. I held his hand in his gorgeous pale light, and he stared at me like I was his earth. In a way I am, I am his everything and he is mine. As we were walking through the park, we saw beautiful, unnatural things that no one had ever seen before such as Prunus cerasus, Camellia japonica, and multiple different kinds of amazing  roses. We were walking through a bed of flowers when he picked up an Ipomoea Alba and gave it to me at the same time I picked up a white rose and gave it to him. We walked for a little bit more and I stumbled over a moss covered tree root from a Southern Live Oak tree. It was a beautiful tree, it truly was, but I was staring at the tree  too deeply and was so mesmerized by its beauty that I wasn't focusing on my footing on the stony path and almost fell over the roots. But he caught me. He would never let anything happen to me, that's why I love him, among other reasons like how honest he is, ambitious, thoughtful, and considerate he is. How affectionate and energetic he is, how beautiful, gentle and silly. Everything about him is so alluring. Looking at him is like taking a look into heaven's gates itself. I wish I could read minds, because I really want to know what he's thinking about me. I could only imagine what he wants from this world, with me, or with anything. 

People don't normally describe moons but he needs to be described from top to bottom. He has fluffy dirty blonde hair with blond highlights in it from the sun bleaching it, beautiful dark livid eye color that feels like I'm drowning in pools of water. His jawline and collarbone protrude a little from his muscles circling his arms, stomach, and legs. His arms are long enough to comfort me when I'm sad or to just hug me when he feels like it. If you hug him, you feel like you're an ant in this big world because he is so tall, and he is always dressed nice and has good manners around people and doesn't act differently around his friends when he is with me. He's always loyal and tells the truth, and he also knows when to stop talking and when he has crossed a line. That's my moon, and his name is Matthew.

 


I took the earth for a walk last night. It was the most beautiful walk ever. I held her hand in my pale light, and I stared at her like she was my earth. In a way she is, I am her everything and she is my everything. As we were walking through the park, we saw beautiful, unnatural things that no one had ever seen before such as Prunus cerasus, Camellia japonica, and multiple different kinds of amazing  roses. We were walking through a bed of flowers when  she picked up a white rose and gave it to me, after she handed it to me, I picked up an Ipomoea Alba and gave it to her.We walked for a little bit more and she stumbled over a moss covered tree root from a Southern Live Oak tree. It was a beautiful tree, it truly was, but I guess she  was staring at the tree  too deeply and was so mesmerized by its beauty that she  wasn't focusing on her footing on the stony path and almost fell over the roots. But I caught her. I wouldn't let anything happen to her. I love her so much. That's why she loves me, among other reasons like how, according to her, I'm ambitious, thoughtful, and how considerate I am as well. How affectionate and energetic I am, how beautiful, gentle and silly. Everything about me is so alluring to her. She thinks looking at me is like taking a look into heaven's gates itself. I wish I could read minds, because I really want to know what she's thinking about me. I could only imagine what she wants from this world, with me, or with anything. 

She really is beautiful, she has long, dirty blonde hair like mine, that goes all the way down to the middle of her butt, and she always puts it up in really cute styles. Her eyes are also a darker blue-gray color like my eyes. She is short but that's ok because I like shorter girls. She is also a year younger than me, but that's also ok because that's normal. She's really shy and introverted around strangers, but not around me and her friends. Around us she's like a cat on crack, but I like that. I think it's cute. And she has a silly personality which always makes me laugh.I really truly do like her. She's not perfect but she will do, and she is mine. That's my Earth and her name is Auralia.

 

 

As the earth and the moon finished their palely moonlit walk in the extremely gorgeous garden, the earth and the moon spoke to each other in hushed, whispering tones. 

“I love you.” Auralia whispered to her Moon

“I love you more.” Matthew whispered to his Sun.

“No, that's not possible, I love you more than anything. You're my Earth Lia.”

“No, I'm betting I love you more.”

“You just lost a bet”

They finished their conversation and parted ways, The Earth went her way down the right path and the Moon went his way down the left path.

 


The next day.

I can't find Matthew anywhere. I've looked everywhere, inside all of his classrooms and the cafeteria, even inside of the teachers lounge. Me and him were supposed to meet in the commons but that was the first place i looked after school and he wasn't there. Maybe he thought I meant tomorrow. Then I hear giggling and then a door closes and I don't hear it anymore. I check all the rooms surrounding me, the only thing I don't check is the gender neutral bathrooms. I go to find them and when I do the giggles get louder and louder as I get closer and closer to the door. I open the door and the quiet talking and the giggling get the loudest. I look under the stall doors and the biggest stall on the end closest to the farthest wall. There is a pair of pale, baby pink high top Air Force Ones, and a pair of Nike Vapor Maxs. I know who both of those pairs of shoes belong to and I know now all I have to do is turn around and leave the bathroom and hold back my tears.

 


Grace is beautiful, And as my Auralia may not be perfect, she is a whole lot better than Grace though, because i don't want to date a girl who has blonde shoulder length, box dyed hair, and annoying as f*ck. She also flirts with every single guy in the school anc acts like a stuck up rich b*tch. Auralia and I have money but we don't act snobby about it, but Grace just dragged me into the gender neutral bathrooms and now she's taking her too long fake nails painted bright pink and tracing Auralia's favorite tattoo with it. I hate her so much. She's talking but I'm not really listening, all I can think about is Lia. 

“Are you a Magnet, because you sure are attracting me. Haha, isn't that one so funny? You should tell me the picture one..”

I know what the picture one is and I'm not using it with her. She giggles her high pitched giggle and I hear the door swing open and footsteps walk in. Grace giggles some more while sending her minty breath my way and I hear a sniffle and then I hear footsteps again and the door swings open. If that's who I think it was, I am at a major loss and I have no clue what to do with myself.

 


As Auralia, or Lia as Matthew likes to call her, and Matthew, or Mat as Auralia likes to call him part ways, neither of them know what to do, Lia wants to just sit in her room and cry all day, everyday. And Mat wants to talk to Lia and explain what happened.


The author's comments:

This is based on true events, its also for a grade for my creative writing class. Please comment and like it.


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