Coming Home
•LORENZO AND LUNA's MARITAL HOUSE•
Luna sat by the dining table as she swirled the wine in her glass. It was already morning and yet she just sat there since last night. Her face was blank as she silently stared at the wall before her. Lifting the glass to her lips, she takes a big gulp and finishes it. As she brought down the glass to pour another glass-full of wine, she comes to realize that the wine bottle has already been emptied.
In her drunken state, she stands and plops herself on the sofa to take a long needed nap. Before closing her eyes she smiles at the ceiling. "F*cking pathetic!" she breathes. A big smile forming on her face as Luna laughs hysterically for a bit before she dozes off to sleep. Her drunkenness getting the best of her.
As soon as Lorenzo's plane landed, he had rushed to his car and drove. Unfortunately, traffic was as slow as ever leaving Lorenzo stuck between cars. "Perfect! Just perfect!"
Taking out his phone, Lorenzo tries to contact Luna but to no avail, the call would not go through. As fear creeped into his heart, his thoughts went somewhere dark. He was thinking of the worst case scenarios that could possibly happen. His brain was starting to ache as his stress levels increased. Having nothing else to do, Lorenzo bangs his lead two times on the stirring wheel; praying to God that his wife was still alive and kicking.
As soon as he reached home, Lorenzo immediately ran inside calling Luna's name. As he continued to do so, a loud 'shh' sound came from the sofa. Recognizing the voice, he rushes there to find a drunk and napping Luna slightly snoring.
Seeing his wife safe in his eye-sight, Lorenzo heaves a heavy sigh. "Thank God!" he silently exclaims as he sits on the other side of the couch. The urge to touch his wife was so strong that he slowly reached out to touch her hand to check if she was real. Taking her hand in his, he squeezes it a bit and brings it to his lips to kiss. The action somewhat awakening Luna who shifted in her sleep.
After about a hour of just watching Luna sleep, Lorenzo finally gets up to get to the bottom of what happened.
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As a cool breeze of late night winds blew into the opened window, the cold wind tickled Luna's feet making her stir. As the wind continued to blow, Luna grumpily sat up. Looking around at the dark sala where her finished wine bottle and glass was still on the coffee table, Luna rubbed her eyes as she sat properly on the sofa to support her still half-asleep body.
Almost falling asleep again, Luna begins to doze off again when another cold breeze enters the sala making her irritated. Yawning, Luna stands up and loudly closes the window that could had rudely awaken her from her beauty sleep.
Looking up at the bright moon shining above the visible clouds in the dark sky of the night, Luna smiles and shakes her head as she couldn't help but notice the beauty of it. How it shined so brightly over her and yet it was so majestic that you couldn't just walk away from it. She sighed remembering the last time she really stopped to admire the beauty of such a huge but simple space rock rotating around the Earth as the Earth rotated around the Sun.
It had so much craters and yet it looked to perfect in the night sky.
Looking at it one last time, Luna turns around to leave when a voice makes itself present as it stood before her.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" Lorenzo commented as he too admire the most beautiful thing he had ever saw in his whole life.
Suddenly hearing a voice, Luna couldn't help but shriek in bloody murder making Lorenzo's smile fall with her unexpected yet not surprising reaction to his sudden appearance.
"It's just you..." she sighed making Lorenzo frown.
"Just me? You were you expecting? A thief? AGAIN?!" Lorenzo exclaimed not believing his wife had mistaken him as a thief AGAIN! 'Unbelievable!' He thought.
"Do I look or ever sound like a thief?!"
"Who knows? You could have been!" Luna defended herself as her hand was still on her heart making sure to make it calm down from her heart shaking shock just a moment ago.
"And besides! You shouldn't have done such unannounced talking in the dark when I am the most vulnerable — AGAIN! It's your fault and yours alone!"
"I give up!" Lorenzo throws his arms in the air knowing too well he would never win an argument against his wife. 'Better just shut up! Wouldn't want to be sleeping outside if ever'
Lorenzo sat on the couch tapping the seat beside him for Luna to sit beside him, "So what was the problem, did the Vellanueza's not accept our proposal? Was there something wrong?"
"Wait a minute," Luna says getting a folder from her work bag and giving it to Lorenzo.
"What's this? Our proposal?"
"Not quite," Luna lowers her head not wanting to see Lorenzo's impending look of disappointment. It would be a much bigger blow from what it has already been if she would be able to see the disappointment from her husband's face.
"...RAFAEL NELSON, CEO of RN buildings — it's our proposal but why does it have a different name?" Lorenzo looked up to face the lowed head of Luna trying very hard not to meet his gaze of shock and curiosity.
"That's what we need to find out... SORRY?" Luna awkwardly smiled waiting for Lorenzo's voice to condemn her for her carelessness that she had let such a matter happen right under her nose.
"Let me handle this. Get to bed, you need some more rest — go on..." Lorenzo walks up the stairs folder in hand, leaving Luna dumbfounded not knowing what to do.
'Was he not mad? Or what?' Luna didn't know how to understand his tone. Should she be happy he didn't lash out at her like she expected or should she fear what will happen tomorrow?
'Argh! Men!'
Stumping her foot on the floor, Luna walked up the stairs to go straight to bed like she was instructed. 'If he's mad then so be it! If he's not then who cares?! Should I care?'
Luna tossed and turned until the the night became darker and darker that her eyes couldn't stay open anymore and sent her to a deep dreamless slumber.