The Sun and the Moon by Alexzandria Jade Ussery (portable ebook reader .txt) 📕

I was 6 when I first saw him. My mother and I were going home in the dark. It was raining hard. She couldn’t see out the windshield and a dog ran in front of us as we came across a bridge. She swerved to avoid hitting it and we plunged into the black water. The truck began to fill with water. I got out of my seatbelt in a matter of seconds. My mom fumbled to get out of her’s, and started to panic as she realize she was trapped with no way to get her or me out of the truck before we would drown. She told me she loved me in the last seconds of her life. I didn’t have time to think about what had just happened. I had to get out of there quickly.

I thought I was going to die the water. I banged steadily on the window. I tried to roll down the window but it was stuck. I was running out of oxygen quickly. In what I thought was the last few seconds of my life I stared out the window. The last of my hopes of getting free from the grip of the icy waters evaporated. My vision blurred into blackness as I began to slip into unconsciousness. The last thing I saw was someone swimming toward me as the last of my oxygen left me in little air bubbles.

My dad died one week later. My brother was with him. It was exactly like how my mom died, only during the day. I asked him what had happened in the waters. He told me a story exactly like mine but he saw a woman and I saw a man.

We have been living with our grandma for the past 9 years. I still remember that night like it was yesterday even though everyone keeps telling me and my brother, Cyrus, that we couldn’t possibly remember. We were too young, so everyone keeps saying. But I don’t believe them. When someone watches their parents die, it’s something that you will remember no matter how young you are. When we told people about the man and woman they thought that the people were figments of our imaginations. That we probably just imagined our parents coming to save us. It’s still a mystery of how we ended up out of the water. Everyone keeps trying to tell us we floated out of the trucks. Yet Cyrus and I know there was no possible way of getting out of those trucks from the inside.

I think about what happened everyday while I get ready for school. I think my brother does to he just doesn’t admit it. We never found out who it was that saved us that day and I don’t think we will, because if they wanted to be found they would have stayed that day, instead they left us on the bank for someone else to find.

“Luci. Hurry up or we will miss the bus,”

Cyrus called up the stairs to me.
“Coming Cy.”

My room is the attic. Most people would be creeped out to have the attic as a bedroom, but not me. I feel safe for some reason. It’s small yet spacious. The best room I could ask for. And on the plus side I get to decorate however I want to!!!Cy, Cyrus fir short, is the only one who calls me Luci, short for Luciana. That’s because those were the nicknames our parents gave us. I hurried down the stairs meeting Cy at the front door. We raced to catch the bus, like always, and we barely made it.

“Luci.”

Cy called to me.
“Yea”

“Are you ready to face the wolves?”

he asked me.
“Not in a million years.”

Together we stepped onto the bus and faced the ride to hell straight on.

What is hell? Hell would be high school. Cy and I go to Abilene High School. We went to one of two schools in my hometown. There is nothing worse than going to school in boring Abilene. And don’t get me started on the “wolves” they are basically anyone who wants to be like Cy and me or date us. Everyone has forgotten about what happened to our parents and that was the only thing keeping us from being popular.

I’m not saying we are absolutely gorgeous or anything. We have pimples and bad hair days like everyone else, but when most of the people at your school are nerds. It is really easy to become popular even if you are just an “Average Joe”.

Girls practically throw themselves at Cyrus because he has the whole tall, dark, handsome, and mysterious look going for him, basically every girl’s dream guy. He can sing and play guitar, he is captain of the football team, and every girl wants to go out with him. Cy says that all the guys in the locker room drool over me. I’ve got long dark hair, “a perfect tan” (according to the football team), long legs but I’m not to tall, and a “perfect body” (again according to the football team). The musical talent runs in the family, I’m good at writing and art, and basically down to earth.

*****

Once school starts Cy and I don’t see each other until lunch. That’s when we first saw them. Twins. One girl and one boy. They looked almost like us but with a more mature air to them. They sat alone in the corner.

“Hey Luci?”

Cy asked.
“Yea?”
“Do you get the feeling that we know them?”

he asked.
“Yea. Are you getting that feeling to?”
“Yep.”

He answered.
“But how could we know them?”
“I don’t know but I think it’s time to find out. Don’t you?”

he answered as he got up and walked over to their table.

I scrambled out of my seat to catch up to him.

“Hi. My name is Cyrus.”

Cy said to them.
“I’m Luciana”

At first they didn’t say anything and exchanged a sideways glance. I already got the impression that I would not like them. Eventually the boy was the first to speak.

“Hi. I’m Iah and this is my sister Eliana.”

Iah said.

Iah wasn’t bad looking. He had strong features, a sharp jaw, and high cheek bones. He had dark jet black hair that was cut short close to his head at the bottom and longer at the top. His black v-neck was stretched across his broad shoulders, his pecks and six-pack visible under his shirt, and he had a nice tan. He looked like he was really tall. Eliana was really pretty. Her hair was the same color as Iah’s and it was in a pixie cut. She had a nice tan and a good body.
She could put me to shame.

“It is nice to meet you two.”
“Right back at you”

Iah said.

Just then the bell rang for 5th period. We only have 7. Cyrus got up quickly and said bye, then practically ran out of the cafeteria. Eliana slowly got up and whispered something into Iah’s ear the gracefully walked out into the hall. It was only me and Iah left at the table.

“So Luciana, can I walk you to your next class?” Iah asked me.
“I would love that.”

Publication Date: 05-13-2012

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Dedication:
This series is dedicated to Rene Benneth Medina. Who stayed faithful during hard times and believed in me when no one else did.