MOONCHILD

It was a morning like any other day. The sun shined upon earth like it was the most natural thing to do. With the soft sunlight shining upon all creatures, their slumber was finally coming to an end.

Someone among them was still deep in sleep when music started playing beside her. It was meant to wake her from her sleep. And the song went like this-

"Nobody ever knows~

Nobody ever sees;

I left my soul

Back there now I'm too weak.

Most nights I pray for you to come home

Praying to the Lord

Praying for my soul

Now please don't go

Most nights I hardly slee.."*click*"

With the familiar music coming to a stop, someone's harsh voice could be heard throughout the room.

"Argh...I hate this ringtone already...I'll have to change it as soon as possible." A girl in her early teenage groaned turning off the alarm. She had dark skin and looked a little chubby. "If I keep using my favourite songs as alarm tones, I'm pretty sure I won't have any left soon." she sighed scrolling through her phone and changing her alarm tone again. For her getting up from bed was probably the hardest thing to do among everything. After a lot of effort, she finally stood up and prepared herself for school, which included freshening up and getting ready. After that, she came downstairs, where breakfast was already served for her. After filling her stomach, she bade goodbye to her parents as she left for school. She is in middle school, and is considered one of the best students of her class. After school she comes straight home. Then a continuous routine of lunch, bath, rest, study, dinner continues. Other's may call it boring or monotonous, but for her, it was considered normal.

This is Aidan, a teenager who lives with her parents and a cute younger sister.

-----------LifeGoesOn----------

Aidan, nowadays, is having a very irritating problem.Everyday she wakes up at 2.00 in the morning, exactly at 2.00 AM,not 2 minutes later or sooner.It's like,in some odd way, a alarm clock got inside of her body.That invisible clock starts beeping kind of three minutes before 2.00 AM and stops when she is awakened.

It'd be normal if she could sleep after sometime of her waking but no,she can't sleep untill it's 5.00 in the morning. Horrible,right?

It's too tough to spend three hours at that time of night.Her final exam was over,thesis was also completed.What will she do for these three hours?

Three hours is not a short time.Ten thousands eight hundreds seconds. By this time light crosses 10800×300000 kilometres.Earth rounds 45° across it's orbit in this three hours!

But this doesn't bother her anymore.

Winter has started already, snow flecks are falling outside.She gets down from her bed, goes to downstairs,makes a cup of coffee, her favourite MacCoffee, then comes to her room and sits on her reading table.

In front of her table there is a huge window and luckily there is a lamp post just before her window on the road also.So,it's needless to say that she gets a beautiful late night snow falling view from there.

Aidan started utilising this time.She loves reading books.So sleepless creepy period of nights gave the opportunity to read her most favourite author well-known Zaim Orland's books.

She has a crush on him.Not only his writings were good also his outlook was so stunning that she couldn't help her falling in love with him.She never felt this type of feeling towards anyone.

But the irony of fate,he lives in the opposite side of earth from her.There is no way she can meet him.Let alone meeting him,he doesn't even know someone named Aidan exists in this planet. Heart breaking.This is the feeling Aidan feels whenever she thinks maybe she won't be able to even see him in her lifetime.HUH..!

Days were passing.

One a night of full moon,that black haired girl woke up in her usual 2 AM wake up time,unusual for common people.

That day while making her coffee, she split some hot coffee in her feet and burnt herself.

Nevermind,she came to her room and sat in front of that window with a book in her hand 'Love in Himalayas' by Zaim Orland.

Smooth snow,soothing moonlit everything was heavenly.This one is one of her most favourite books.She did read this book couple of times,though she neven felt boredom reading this.How can she be bored? This book refects her situation, love towards someone who doesn't know about other one's existence but ironically they meet one another.

After a while,she felt like she was showering in some healing force, falling from the moon.As she looked at the moon,she was so mesmerised by the beauty of full moon and moonlit at once that couldn't move her eyes from that shining beauty.

And when she went to bed once again for that day,that burn mark and pain were gone.