2 - The wish

2022

"Nashira, how long will you help others?". Asked Nashira's ex-boyfriend. A good and tall boy who matched good with her. She turned twenty-three a month ago. She studied and worked. It was very focused on books. e worked in a large library where she kept only ancient, mysterious, fantasy, mythological books. Her half-length hair was just below her arms. Her hazel eyes matched her wild brown hair. She was always smiling. Curious and beautiful.

Nashira: Please Beino, just tonight. Look, I just want to work late tonight. What do you say?- she replied to him with her persuasive eyes.

Beino: You will wake up early in the morning. Mrs. Llara has chosen the place where you will work. You will be a very good guardian of people in need.- he said.

Nashira: So I have to leave this job I'm doing?" she asked and he nodded. She approached him looking him straight in the eyes. He seemed calm. The job I was going to get was a very difficult job, far away from him where I would rarely have contact with him, and he as a dear man of mine...

"But I have to tell you something before you leave," - he adds. I looked into his heavenly eyes and it was as if I was instantly lost in his eyes. They seemed to bring something new, but I wasn't there.

"I don't believe that I will be able to continue working with you in one place. It is very difficult, I wanted to be alone with you until today, without talking. Because I thought about it a long time ago, but believe that now you have a good chance in life."

I nodded and gave him a smile. I still felt the same way about him. My love had not disappeared from him, without thinking and remembering how harsh he had been with me. I took the book I was reading from the table and left there, taking my bag.

"You don't want to stay late?"- Beino asked.

I stopped at the door step listening to his words and did not turn my head back but continued my steps. I started walking a long time ago. I walked from where I didn't want to look. I was very close to my place.

A beautiful and cold lake. I sat there standing with the book in front of me on the side of everything in life. I wasn't looking at anything sideways.

Next to me was a dog with a woman. My eyes dropped from the sound of the lake to the sound of the book flipping. I was reading a nice fantasy. It is the only place where I have listened to my mind. I was very close to finishing the book, and I fell to the end.

"What you are reading is true. There are many ghosts that exist today. Good and bad." - was the voice of the woman who was dressed in coffee and was feeding the dog with her hands.

"Excuse me?" I asked her. She looked up at me and looked too old to believe she had the strength to stand alone by the lake.

"The red moon is tonight. With God's will. It will happen."- I smiled slightly from her words and got up from where I was sitting shaking my dress. As soon as I sat down to put down the book, when I got up to greet the lady, she was gone. I was looking around but nothing. Woah! How strange she was. I shook my head starting to walk down the street of my house until my cell phone was falling in my hand.

"Hello" - I answered and it was the voice of Llara, the one who has stood behind me always.

"I will meet you tonight at your house. You will not believe the amount of money!", - she said excitedly. I was near the door of the house. I ran a little faster and tiredly opened the door.

I went in thinking to myself how to claim my life. I had spent so many years changing time. I went from being a hairdresser to a waitress. From waitress to cook. From the kitchen to the store, from the store to the library. And from the library now as a cleaner. Nobody feels good about time. Like me.

Happy when I saw Llara sitting on the couch, I approached her and hugged her. She was a positive person of my life. Mom and Dad aren't here. They just travel. While I have to deal with everything.

"Two thousand Euros Nashira. Any ideas? A stranger on the street offered me and then I thought of you. Isn't incredible?" - she spoke as if she had never seen such a salary before. I put her a cold drink to cool off. To refresh her materialistic mind and her weakness.

I sat down taking her card from her hand. A work address was written there. An address I had not seen before.

"And who was the one who proposed this job? Isn't it strange?"- I asked her confused. She nods, taking a cold drink. Lying on her pillow, she begins to speak from my side.

"NO! Go to the interview tomorrow and that's it!" - I folded my arms in response to her command, I turned my head from the window she was looking at. It was the full moon. Suddenly I remembered that woman who said to make a wish. It seemed very strange to me, but also funny.

"You know what an old lady said today? It's the Red Moon. Make a wish."

I started laughing along with Llara who got up fom the pillow directly with me. She raised her eyebrows teasingly.

"Ehh. Make a wish."- she said sarcastically and I started to think turning my head to the full moon. I seemed to be thinking too much. If only I wanted something like that to happen.

"Let's say Beino must disappear from my heart. And someone else replace him. Either-or. I want to live in another century. Something I haven't seen before." - Llara just shook her head and her fingers tightened as if she had.

"It's said, it's done!" she replied.